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Name Diocesan Leaders Bishop's Ball Chairmen The honorary chairmen of the 20th annual Bishop's Charity Ball of the Fall River Diocese were named today by Rev. Msgr.

Anthony M. Gomes, diocesan director of the Ball. This' social and charitable event benefits the underprivileged and exceptional children of every race, color and creed in the southeastern area of Massachusetts. The proceeds from the Ball help to support the four schools for the exceptional children and four summer camps for underprivileged and exceptional children. These facilities and institutions are under the supervision of the Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., Bishop of Fall River in whose honor the Ball is dedicated.

Mr. Stanley A. McLean of Our Lady of Victory parish, Centerville on the Cape, will serve as honorary chairman, representing the Society of St. Vincent de Paul of the diocese, one of the co-sponsors of this charitable event. Mr. McLean is president of the Particular Council of the

Society of St. Vincent de Paul of the Cape and Islands area.

Mrs. Richard M., Paulson of the Immaculate Conception parish of Taunton, was named as cochairman, representing the Dioc':san Council of Catholic Women, the other sponsor of the Ball. Mrs. Paulson is in her second term as president of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women.

Members of the Ball Commit路 tee, the conference of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul and the affiliates of the Council of Catholic Women are' urged to send the names of persons or groups for listing in the Charity Ball Booklet. The listings are under six categories with each category entitling the donor to tickets for the Ball. Persons or organizations wishing to help the exceptional and underprivileged children may do so by contacting Bishop's Charity BaH headquarters, 410 Highland Ave., FaH River, Mass. 02722, Tel. 676-8943..

CACE SPEAKERS: The San Diego harbor is in the background as speakers for the Chief Administrators of Catholic Education convention meet. From left are, Fr. John Meyer, president of the National Catholic Education Association; Robert Pickus, president of the World Without War Council; Sister Gwen McMahon, superintendent of Memphis (Tenn.) schools; Father Francis X. Barrett, executive secretary of NCEA's department of CACE; and Father Patrick O'Neill, president of CACE, and director of education for the Diocese of Fall River. NC Photo.

Pope, Bishops' Synod Speak For All Voiceless Vidims VATICAN CITY (NC)-Pope Paul VI and the 1974 Synod of Bishops have called in unison for the defense Of human rights, speaking for "the voiceless victims of injustice" everywhere.

The appeal was presented to the Synod of Bishops by Cardinal John ~rol of Philadelphia, who had been assigned to draw up a ,spec,ific statement on human rights that would be issued during the synod. Cardinal Krol, 'working with a number of other participants in the synod, sent the document-after seven dI'afts -to Pope Paul before presenting it to the full synod meeting.

The Pope decided that he not only approved the dO,cument. He also wanted it issued in his name "in union with the .bishops assembled, at the synod for the study of evangelization," Pope and bishops declared the promotion of human rights to be "required by the Gospel" and

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This Sunday; Nov. 3, is Cemetery Sunday, an annual observance sponsored at the beginning of the month of the Holy Souls by the National Catholic Cemetery Conference. Noting the occasion, Msgr. Charles Grahmann of San Antonio, Tex., president of the 'Conference, declares, "As Catholics visit the graves of their departed on this Sunday they again affirm their hope in eternal life."

Exceprts from his statement foHow: The Church treats with greatest reverence and honor the mortal remains of every body which has given the dignity of becoming a temple of the Holy Spirit.

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"central to' her (the Church's) ministry."

The 1,200-word document ad路 dressed itself to five specific areas of human rights: The right to life.

The right to eat.

Socio-economic rights.

Political-cultural rights.

Rights of reHgious liberty.

TechnicaHy the document is not a synodal statement, because it does not touch directly the primary subject of preaching the Gospel to the world today, which ,is the 'synod's theme.

But as the president-delegate Of the day, Cardinal Franz Koenig of Vienna, explained, the

document had been drawn up by participants in the present synod as a specific response to numeroUs reactions and urgings of many of the participants in the first weeks of the synod's current meeting.

The document took note of the fact that although the Church is essentiaHy concerned with spiritual salvation of mankind, the Church also is part of the "very consdences of' people" and shares "in their suffering when rights are denied and violated."

For this reason, the document dedared, "it is our desire to raise our voices on behalf of the voiceless victims of injustice."

Cardinal Decries Attacks On Marriage Teaching LOS ANGELES (NC) - The Church, in every age, faces the temptation, as Jesus did, to change its teaching about the permanence of marriage, and now the temptation comes even from those who should be the Church's teachers, Cardinal Timothy Manning of Los Angeles said here.

"Christ gave a simple unalterable answer to those who sought to trap him," the cardinal said.

"What God has joined, no law, no power, no human institution, no extent of time can sunder."

The cardinal spoke of 750 couples celebrating 25th, 50th and 75th anniversaries of marriage at a Mass and luncheon in Los Angeles Convention Center.

"That temptation presented to Christ is reproduced in the Church," Cardinal Manning said.

"In every age, but 'particularly in our age, the Church is tempted. She is presented humanistic values that say, "Why don't you'

change your attitude toward divorce or second marriage or premarital sex, toward living together without the solemnity of marriage?"

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ROME(NC) - Moves toward decentralization within the order of Capuchin Friars Minor were approved at an extraordinalry general chapter held recently in Rome.

The chapter 'was convened by the minister general, Father Pascal Rywalski, a'nd produced four documents dealing with pIuriformity, apostolic life, authority and obedience, and penance.

(Pluriformity has been described as a diversity of ways of living the Franciscan life.)

A major decision was'made by the majority of the 142 chapter Fathers present to create a special commission to facilitate the use of vernacular languages at the next chapter, which is sched· uled to meet in the spring of 1976 to elect a new minister general. Latin will no longer be the official language of the order.

Other decisions affec~ed the life of the provinces and'regions.

One modification stipulated that ,it was no longer always neces"sary to have the consent of the provincial chapter to erect or suppress religious houses. Another provided for the possibility of having vice provinces subj~ct directly to the minister general.

A highlight of the five-week chapter was an audience with Pope Paul VI who greeted them as old friends, after apologizing for being late due .to presiding over a Synod of Bishops assembly meeting.

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"So it is nec(;!ssary for the Church to articulate her G03pel over and over again," the cardinal said.

"That is what you are doing here today," he told the couples.

"You are here not merely because you love one ariother, 'not merely because you have an anniversary to celebrate. - Those are valid reasons, but they are not t~.z only reasons. You are here as a witness, a witnessing to our day and times, here and' now, of this profound theology of commitment in marriage."

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''This very night, I was thinking of th;e times, places and persons, religions and places of your order," the 'Pope told them.

"Anot"'er thing which toucr,~s our very peart as a man: you are the guardians of the cemetery in which arf:i buried all my closest family, my parents, relat.ives, etc.

And I know that the friars take devoted, i. good, pious care of these torpbs in Brescia, in the MonumeJ'!tal Cemetery opposite the Chur~h of the Sacred Heart" Pope Paul recalled how, as a boy. he had gone to this cemetery. often wit? his father. - . >

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VAT,rC~N CITY (NC)-If God is dead, then so is man, Pope Paul VI tbld.a. general audience Oct. 23.; , Analyzirtg man's lack of direction and teligious groping, Pope P'aul said:, I "If God be dead, how much more deaCJ is man. Why? Because God is I·ife. And if God should be 'diminished---<an impossible hypothesis-who would be even less~r? Those who live by this source. If the sun went out, what would be/the earth. If God went out 6f the life of man, man himself wbuld go out. He who thinks to I kill God only kiills man.", The Pope then cited the words of the 62n'd Psalm: "0 God, my . God, to thee, do I watch at break of day'." For thee' my soul hath thirst~d; for thee my fl'esh, o how m~ny ways: in a desert land, and I where there is no water; so in the sanctuary have I come before thee, to see thy power and! thy glory."

The Pope then 'referred to the problems df some young people I today.

Ne~ Springtime "We all! know," he said, "of certain dai'ly occurrences, until yesterday, I inconceivable, of youth, alm9st haphazardly gathered togetl:ter like a miserable flock of distraught birds ... at. testing to Ithe unhappiness of their empty ex,istence but murmuring a I~mentation expressing their innat~ de!Yke to live, to survive." I We hav~ to teach them t.o . ,:pray, the Rope said. . "We believers, we have before us a whole; other life, the bU~y, ant life Jf ecclesial· prayer, whether it be personal, community or litJrgical. If we know how to foHbw the road wisely, the goal carl be only ~ new spiroitual, morai and social springtime. : I

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HOUSTON (NC)-"U service is a missing dimension in our Catholic education, then that education is not only not Catholic, it is not re,a.lly education," a U. S. Catholic Conference education offic·iaI told a meeting. here.

'Speaking at a Galveston·Houston diocesan teachers' institute, the official, Xaverian Brother . Michael Warren, assistant director of the National Center of ReIig'ious Education - Confraternity of Christian Doctrine,. said that service must be part of Christian education because of the exam· pIe of Je!Yus. • "Jesus' ministry was quite the opposite of an an-house, denominational, or self-serving work," Brother Warren said. "He served the sinner, the heretic, the wretched wherever He found them; so much so that tongues wagged about the scandal of it all. His service was a stumbling ARCHmSHOP JOSEPH TAWIL

ReconciIiation Pilgrimag·e The La Salette Shrine has an· nounced that a Melkite Pilgrim· age of Reconciliation will ·be held at the Shrine in Attleboro, Massachusetts, on November 10, .

1974 at 2:30 P.M. The Most Reverend Joseph Tawil, Archbishop of Myra in Lyoia and Apostolic Exarchate for the Byzantine-Melkite Catholics in the United States will lead the pilgrims and be the main celebrant and guest homi1ist at a 3:00 P.M. concelebrated Mass at the Peoples' Chapel.

The occasion of the Pilgrimage is in keeping with ·Pope Paul's call to renewal and niconciliation for the up-coming Holy Year in 1975. Melkite' Catholics from the entire six state New England region will be' gathering to share this day with their Archbishops, their pastors and with each other.

Music for the day will be provided by the choir of St. Basil the Great Church, Central Falls, R. I., under the direction of Father Josepl1' Haggar. ,After Mass a social gathering and ,song fest will be held in the Shrine cafeteri'a where Archbishop Tawil will greet the Melkite pilgrims.

Merchants t~ Help New Jersey College JERSEY CITY (NC) - What's good for the downtown merchant will be good for St. Peter's College during a unique sales promo· tion in Hudson County Nov. 21-23.

The merchants are sponsoring a St. Peter's' College Sales Day promotion at that time to help the Jesuit-run institution match a $100,000 grant from the Kresge foundation for the new recreation life center.

During the promotion the college will receive a percentage of the income grossed by participating merchants. The college will' provide merchants with banners, posters, advertising and promotion material. In addition, student volunteers will be stationed in sbopping centers to inform shoppers of the fund drive.

block because it was so clear and unmistakable it 'couldn't' be igriored.

"Service is Jesus' way, as. can be clearly seen .in that moment when Jesus wanted to sum up His life and work. He took off His clothes, put on a towel and washed the feet of His disciples; Then then made verbaliy explicit that His way was the way of washing the feet of one's brother.

Jesus was the word that became act and deed ·and flesh. Our model must be the service 'of Jesus as shown in the Gospels; to the unlikely ones, to the most needy."

Brother W'arren said that service to others is necessary if Chri~tians are to be credible as followers of Jesus. 'He suggested an examination of conscience on "the believability of our commitment to service."

u.s. Official Denies Collusion Against Farm Workers Union WASHINGTON (NC) - The . opened by the FBI during the in-commissioner of the Immigration vestigation; 35 are under active and Naturalization Service (INS) processing, 42 relate to individhas denied union charges that his uals already convicted, and the agency is involved in collusion remainde~ wer~ ~Iosed ~ither bewith growers to import cheap iI- cause of InsuffiCient eVIdence or legal alien labor to break the the inability to determine the strike of the United- Farm Work· identity of the alleged offender. ers of America (UFW A).

Commissioner Leonard Chapman, testifying before a House Continued from Page One sub com mit tee investigating At the portal of the Church charges of corruption in the INS, the body is met by the priest . quoted, from a UFWA pamphlet with the cross and holy water. .which said: "To break our strike, He blesses the remains to reeall the growers, with" the complicity the day of baptism when the of the Immigration and Naturali- person put on' Christ and was. zation Service, are. importing clothed in .his glory. cheap, easy to control laborers The Church then celebrates from Mexico, the Philippines and the Paschal mystery of Christ to Arab countries." mark the victory of one her "Nothing could be farther from members over sin and death. the truth," Chapman said. "Our In 'her respect for the dwellenforcement of the immigration ing place of a soul sanctified by laws is limited only by the small being made a temple of the ·number of officers we have avail- Holy Spirit, the Church is solicable to carry out our responsibil- mark the victory of one of her ities and by inadequate funds to remains of her departed children. conduct our operations-not by To a Catholic it makes a difany agreements or by deliberate- ference where his body shall rest ly looking the other. way." until the angel summons it on The House Subcommittee on Judgment Day. His burial in Legal and Monetary Affairs ex- ground consecrated by the pressed sympathy with Chap- Church assures him of her can· "man's position a.nd immediately stant prayers. He knows that, requested President Gerald Ford although members of his family for $50 million to hire 2,200 may not always be present, the more INS officers. Previous re- Church is ever present by her quests for additional officers by prayers for her deceased sam; INS were cut down by Congress and daughters. and the Office of Management and Budget.

ALUMINUM The hearings were held to reWindows & Doors port on investigations of charges RAILINGS-DOOR HOODS-AND that an earlier investigation into GLASS REPAIRS AND SCREENS INS corruption had been covered MORRO'S up. Deputy Attorney General Lawrence Silberman, in charge ALUMINUM CO. Open Monday thru Thursday of the Justice Department inves5-7:30 p.m. tigation of the allegations, told Saturday from 9 to 3 p.m.

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MAGDALENA (NC) - 'President Gerald R. Ford, during his first foreign trip as President, laid a wreath on the tomb here in Mexico of Italian-born Jesuit missionary and explorer father Eusebio Francisco Kino, who spent 24 years among the Indians of Mexico and what is now the United States.

Before beginning talks, President Ford and Mexican President Luis Echeverria visited the church of Santa Maria Magdalena de Buquivaba and the U.S. President laid a wreath on the tomb of the missionary, who died in 1711 at the age of 66. Father ~ino had founded a mission here.

Born in Segno in the Italian Alps, Kino joined the Jesuits in 1665, studied in Germany and arrived in Mexico in 1681. In 1687, he was assigned as a misSTANG BOOSTERS: Gilbert Barboza, president of Boosters' Club of Bishop Stang sionary to a region what is now High School, North Dartmouth, leads meeting of organization, which provides support the northern part of the Mexican state of Sonora and Southern for school's scholarship and athletic programs. The unit will aid in preparations for Arizona.

Homecoming Day to be held in conjunction with Stang-Wareham football game SaturFounded· Missions day, Nov. 9.

He made more than 50 missionary journeys, varying in length from 50 to 1,000 miles, and founded many missions, including one near what is now BOSTON (NC)-Retired Arch- the intruder, who was identifred qualities are crucial in ChristianTucson, Ariz., and another near bishop Fulton J. Sheen said here as Craig M. Becker, 24, of Cali- ity. what is now Nogales, Ariz. that the Catholic Church in forni.a.

"Russia and China have Maps he drew of his explora· America "is shedding its old skin Archbishop Sheen, the retired picked up, not the Cross with tions, including some indicating and a new and stronger Church bishop of Rochester, N. Y., and Christ, but the Cross without for the first time that Lower Calwill soon emerge." former director for the U. S. So- Christ," he said. Those nations, ifornia was a peninsula, were not ' improved upon for more than a He spoke at a Mass marking ciety for the Propagation of the ne added, have taken '·'the qualicentury. the looth anniversary of St. Faith, cited a need for the reaf- ties that abounded among ChrisBecause he personally baptized James' church, an edifice serving firmation of fa·ith, a sense of tians once, and strengthened about 4,000 Indians of the South- Boston's Chinatown and the self-mortification and a commit- them... ment to the world's hungry.

"Only there is the commitwest and influenced many more, downtown area.

"There is little self-denial to- ment to a common purpose; only he has 'been called the founder Warning that "Christianity has day, no mortification," the arch- there is the commitment to a of Christianity in the Southwest lost the sense of self-denial and bishop said, noting that these common morality." and Arizona's foremost pioneer.

He taught the Indians improved mortification that symbolizes methods of stock breeding, irri- Christ on the Cross," the 79gation and farming ·and was re- year-old Archbishop predicted sponsible for the introduction of that, "despite the cowards leavTh;s' free booklet tells ranching into the river valleys of ing our churches and the lack of discipline in our lives," the southern Arizona; why every father Church "will soon have a great resurrection. "

Parents of children with learning disabilities, whether enrolled in parochial or public schools, are invited to attend a' film, "Early Recognition of Learning Disabilities," to be shown at 8 P.M. Wednesday, Nov. 6 at the United Way Building, 101 Rock St., Fall River.

The showing is sponsored by the Greater Fall...River Assn. for Children with Learning Disabilities. It will be followed by a discussion period at which local special needs educators will be present to answer questions.

Different Method Ass'ociation officials explain that a perceptually handicapped or learning disabled child is one whose intelligence is generally average or better but whose learning is impaired because his method of learning some things is different from that of the majority of children. Dyslexia and aphasia are two commonly known examples of specific learning disabilities. Prognosis for most learning disabled children is excellent if they are given the educational tools they need to help themselves.

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VATICAN (NC) - Thl\,only victor in the entire Watergate affair was liberty, according to the Vatican weekly magazine L'Osservatore della Domenica.

"In the almost unanimous opinion of observers, the Watergate case confirmed the organic strength of American democracy," the magazine reported in an article by Frederica Alessandrini.

Alessandr·ini, who is the Vatican's press spokesman' but writes regularly in L'Osservatore della Domenica in a personal capacity, asserted that the Watergate case reveals a "tenacious defense" of civic and human values such as liberty by American leaders.

He said: "As soon as Congress feels-or thinks that it fee1slimited or imposed upon in its prerogatives, it reacts with all its strength."

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He was interrupted by a heck'Ier who ran toward the pulpit shouting "you are a liar and a cheat."

Boston ,Police Lt. Michael O'Malley, assigned to protect Archbishop Sheen, apprehended

Seminary, College ~gree on p'rogram 'PROVIDENCE (NC)-The College of Our Lady of Providence Seminary and Providence College have completed an agreement under which students at the seminary will take their formal academic courses at Providence college and the seminary will cease operation of its college.

The seminary will remain as a center for the preparation of students for the diocesan priesthood. The seminarians will commute to Providence college and continue to live at the seminary, located in Warwick.

The agreement, which takes SEATT.LE (NC) - A regional effect in September 1975, is an communications center has gone . extension of a cooperative prointo operation here under the gram that has existed between sponsorship of the Catholic bish- the seminary and Providence colops and major superiors of men lege for many ye'ars, under which and women Religious .in the the college faculty has regularly northwest, including Alaska, taught classes at the seminary, fdaho, Montana, Oregon, and and seminarians' have taken certain courses at the college.

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Portend Victories ST. PAUL NC) - The outcome of November's general election in Minnesota looks very favorable to the pro-life movement, based on the results of the recent Democratic and Republi· can primaries, according to a Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life (MCCL) spokesman.

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The Departed' Catholics live on very familiar terms with death~r should. i We are reminded of· it from our e~rliest years, noLin any morbid way but realistically. Man is, compo~ed of body and soul and there will be separation of the two and the "- soul will live for all eternity. .

The 'spiritual condition of a person: at the moment of death is all important, so it remains the mpst important thing : at every moment of his life.

Catholics know the answers when death comeS. They feel pain and sorrow and anguish at tbe death of a loved one' and should. But they know that death ushers a person into the life for which he was created, a life, hopefully, with God. And so Catholics pray for their dead.:They have Masses offered for them, that the compassion of Jesus Christ may • wash away the frailties of a human life. I The month of November is traditiopally dedicated to the souls of the dead. Special emphasis lS placed OIl. those who have gone, departed 'relatives and :friends and those who have died and have no one to pray for them.

There is something particularly no~le about praying I for the dead.

It is a work of sheer mercy and lovei~ It is in giving of one's own merits for the benefit of others. It is the doing for others what they can no .longer do fOf themselves. .It is putting t~e. importance where it counts+-on the soul, on i the afterlIfe. I I

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The colleges once again are setting :up howl. They are pleading with the schools of the nati,on to send them handle simple students who can write a simple sentence and I figures. !

It is all very well to teach students the intricacies of a computer. But they should also be prep*red to deal with the corner variety store when they go to buy Ring-A-Dings at lunchtime.

Basics ~lways remain basics. And there can be no glossing . over these for the sake of the National Merit student. And even such a one has to knowhow to craW,1 before entering I into the long distance race. . All too often people like to take short cuts. There are no short cuts when it comes to the fundamentals of communication, in words .or in ·figures.

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Every follower of Christ can observe i~morro~' as his feast day. Not that he may assume that he il~ the.epitome or:. holiness and virtue. But this is what everyC~ristiill1 is called upon to be--:-a saint, one .wqo reproduce~ in :h!s,life the ~~li­ ness of Christ. .. ~'. ; . I, '. . .. .In baptism each Christian is given the hame' of Christ;· Each Christian is called on tO'let Christ live\ within himself.

Each C.h~stia~ must. strive with God's help Ito die to what~ ever wlthm hImself IS unworthy so that the\ Lord' may hold i full sway within him.

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Pope Terms Synod Positive But With Reservations VAT1,CAN CITY (NC)-Pope Papal "intervention," the Pope Paul VI told the wind-up session asserted, "cannot be reduced of the world Synod of Bishops only to extraordinary circumits month-long meeting had· been stances." "very positive,"· but he also Question of Single Desire stated objections to some arguHe added: "It is not a question ments presented at the synod on here of a dialectic of powers, but key themes. of a single desire, that of followIn his concluding address Oct. ing the will of the Lord with 26, Pope Paul said that some total love-everyone with the arguments, especially among contrbution of the faithful fulfillthose advanced in the synod's 12 . ment of his own role." small discussion groups needed' The Pope also spoke about the to be "better defined, nuanced, synod topic of "finding a better rounded out and subjected to expression of fa.ith to correspond further study."

The pope, who stood before to the racial, social and cultural the synod fathers to read his milieux," as he called it. He speech, said that the synod's called this cultural re-expression "great themes ... cannot- fail to a "necessary requirement" of \ render this episcopal synod a evangelization. But he warned very positive one." But he went against speaking of "diversified on. to point out four areas where theologies according to contihe felt further study is needed. nents and cultures." Some AfriThey are the Church's role in can 'delegates had referred to the human liberation, cultural adap- need . for developing African tation of the Christian message, Theologies.

The :Pope 'explained: "The consmall Christian communities and, .espeCially, autonomy for local tel}t of the· faith is either Catholic or· it is not ... Peter and churches.

With regard 'to th'e '''particular Paul did not transform it to churches" and their: relationship adapt it to the Jewish, Greek or with the Vatican, the Pope said: Roman world, but they watched "We sincerely rejoice at the in- vigilantly over its authenticity creasing vitality of the particular and over the truth of its single churches and of their evermore' message presented in a diversity manifest will assume all their of languages." proper responsibilities. At the The. Pope noted that· human same time we hope thatpropor- ,liberation was "rightly emphationate care will be taken so sized" at· the synod. But· he that, in the furthering of this warned: "The totality of ,salvaessential aspect of ecclesial real- - tion is not to be confused with ity, no harm will come to the one or another aspect of liberafirmness of the· 'communion' tion, and the good news must with other particular' churches preserve all of it originality: that and with the successor of Peter." of a God who saves us from sin (At the synod the term "par- and death and brings us to diticular church" was usually de- vine life. Hence, human advancefined as a national or interna- ment, social progress, etc., is tional conference of bishops. It not to be excessively emphacan also refer to a church of an sized on a temporal level to the detriment of the essential meanEastern rite.)

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VATICAN CITY (NC)-"We believe this to have been the hest of the synods so far," said the five American Latin-rite hishops at the end of thc 1974 world Synod of Bishops..

Thc following is the text of the statement issued by Cardinal John Krol of-.Philadelphia, president of thc' National Confercnce of Catholic Bishops, Cardinals John Carberry of ·St. Louis and John Dearden of Detroit, and Archbishops Joseph Bernardin of Cincinnati and John Quinn of Oklahoma City.: Reflection on Synod We believe this to have been the best of tb~ synods so far. Thc preparation was careful and thorough, the format was simple and well conceived, the exchange of views was candid and per-' cepjtive. It was truly a bishops' synod, in which bishops partie':rated fully in planning and implementation . . .

Commitment The plan of this synod did not call for the issuance of a 'lengthy document but rather for a series of pastoral propositions.

'The very richness of thc discussion created a practical problcm when it came time to draw together conclusions in this form.

While thc eventual outcome was satisfactory, the difficulty experienced in immediately producing the pastoral propositions in the form the bishops expected points to a need to evaluate the synod's internal procedures and perhaps develop new ones which will enable future synods to f1unction more smoothy. At the same time we share the view expressed by many that the deci· ·sion not to rush to publish a hastily composed doucment is a sign of the synod's growing mat~rity and sense of responsibility.

Journalists We are sensitive to the need for better public in(ormation procedures in future synods. The interests of the synod itself would be better served by making it possible for journalists to have easier, quicker and more direct access to accurate information.

The synod .. has·' made over whelmingly clear that the entirc Christian community snares' in the responsibility to bring the Gospel to all persons .by the witness of Christian living as well- as in words. We gladly accept the task of communicating this message to all the Catholic people of the United States, priests, Religious and laity. give .of. the work of· th.e Holy Spirit."

'But he added:' "This hope would be truly stunted if their ecclesial life, in the organic unity . of the single body of Christ, were to cease or be exempted from legitimate ecclesial authority or be left .to the arbitrary implse of indnviduals."

Again and again in his text the Pope stressed that the synod was a positive experience which altered the Church to "many healthy currents of thought." He praised the "spontaneity and the. sincerity" of the synod Fathers.

He explained, however, that in hi!i role as "overseer" of the Church he "cou·ld not allow false directions to be followed."

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Synod Bishops Relect Draft Proposals on EYangel~%ation VATICAN CITY (NC) - The world Synod of Bishops rejected Oct. 22 three-fourths of a 40page draft document on evangel· ization, leaving observers in the dark on what the final recommendations of the synod would be and what form they would take.

The document, drafted by a dozen synod officials and experts, was drawn from a mass of documentation created during three weeks of synod meetings. That documentation included ov.er 200 written and spoken speeches, plus reports of discussion groups on theological themes and pastoral ex!=eriences. All dealt with the synod theme, evangelization of the world today.

On Oct. 22, the synod sent the draft document, divided into four parts, back to the drafting group.

But it was not clear whether the group would try to rework the draft or come up with a new set of pr.oposals.

Some synod fathers reportedly felt that while the draft touched on areas of current concern, it did not clearly address specificproblems faced by an evangelizing Ch~rch today.

The drafting group includes Archbishop Joseph Bernardin of Cincinnati and the other four hishops who presented reports early in the synod from five world regions on experience.:; with evangelization.

Also on the group are the three ~'ynod presidents, two special

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synod secretaries and others who VATICAN CITY (oNC) - Pope have had key roles in th~ synod's Paul VI has established two new proceedings.

The one section of the draft Vatican commissions aimed at accepted ",in substance" by the improving relations between the synod attempts to develop "an . Catholic Church and two great integral picture of what evangel- non-Christian religions, Judaism ization consists in," according to and Islam.

The Vatican has had individ· one synod member. Included are subsections on the Church as lIal contacts with both the Jews sacrament of salvation, the Holy an::! the Moslems on a lower levSpirit's role· in evangelization, el of dialogue ever since the end Christ as the center of evangeli· of the second Vatican Council. zation, conversion and witness of However, the decision of the life and the importance of mass Pope to set up specific and sepmedia in the work of evangeliza- arate commissions to continue to improve and develop relations tion.

But even this section, accepted with the two other major monoby a wide majority, could be theistic re,ligions is considered as amended and revised if the a further step forward in the synod decides to keep working Church's effort to talk meaningfully with non-Christians. with the draft.

The commission for CatholicIn the days immediately preceding the presentation of the draft, the synod took time off from regular business to do some housekeeping. Participants synod council, which carries on the work of a synod after its final session and makes preparations for future synods.

The first council member elected (Oct. 19) was Archbishop Ber· nardin. He was the only synod participant to receive an absolute majority on the first ballot.

The new concilium is composed of three bisbops each from Europe, the Americas taken .as a whole, Africa and the combined regions of Australia, Oceania and Asia. The Pope will appoint the remaining three council members, presumably in the near future.

Jewish relations will link with the Vatican's Secretariat for Promoting -Christian Unity, while that for Catholic-Islamic relations will come under the Vatican Secretariat for Non-Christians.

Catholic-Jewish- relations have in the past been entrusted to the unity secretariat ever since the close of Vatican II. But both have been low-keyed in terms of the fact that the unity secretariat's primary mission is to seek reconciliation with other Christian churches, rather than to the development of the Catholic Jewish dialogue.

The Secretariat for Non-Christians has had in the post-conciliar years a.n increasing amount of

'contacts with a number of world religions, including Islam but also including the great religions of Asia.

In announcing the establishment of the two new commissions, the Vatican press office released two separate notes on the commissions giving a bit of the history of the continuing development of relations with both Judaism and Islam.

Referring to relations with the Jews, the note of the press office recalled that three meetings have been held since 1971 by the in· ternational liaison committee be· tween the Catholic Church and world Judaism-at Paris in 1971., Marseilles. France, in 1972, and Antwerp, Belgium, in 1973.

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Invite, Inform Parish Councils Urged to Promote Priestly Vocations DAYTON (NC) - Auxiliary Archbishop Nicholas T. Elko of Cincinnati has urged parish councils to launch "a vigorous campaign" for vocations" to the priesthood and to give. financial help to priestly candidates who need it.

Addressing the Dayton branch of the Serra Club, an organiza-

tion of lay persons who promote vocations to the priesthood, ,Archbishop Elko also sugges~ed that wealthy parishioners "might be happy to provide scholarships." .

The. decline o'f priestly voca· tions is a result, in part, of a weakening of the relationship between priest- and' parishioners, . the archbishop said:

Italy's Economic Plight Studied

"We are heartbroken," he said, . "when we see that many who have served so long have faiied to realize how appreciated they were by the very souls to whom they brought peace of mind and live faith."

Archbishop Elko suggested that each parish should, establish a vocation committee to seek out possible candidates for the priesthood and offer them an orientation course about the priesthood;

ROME (NC) - Italy's worri· some economic and social problems have come under close scrutiny by the Permanent Committee of the Italian Bishops' Conference.

Archbishop Guglielmo Motolese of Taranto, vice president of the conference, told a press conference that the bishops had been "especially concerned over the rising cost of living, galloping inflation and the threat of widespread unemployment."

He added: "We were particularly concerned, too, over the plight of those with fixed pensions, the sick, the persons in marginal positions. We discussed what could and should be done for them both concretely and on a moral level."

University Grant ST. LOUIS (NC) - Jesuit·run St. Louis University has received a $300.000 grant from Lilly Endowment, Inc., of Indianapolis for a research project in the teaching and theory of values.

"Just as scouts for football teams seek out outstanding players," he said, "a' parish coun· cil could systematically invite, interview and inform young men who might be interested in the priesthood."

If the parish committee finds a seriousness of purpose, he conparents . should be tinued, brought in' and members of the diocesan vocation staff notified.

"Surely the Providence of God· that promises us the continuance of the Church until the end of the world cannot fail to provide callings to the holy priesthood in order to bring holiness to the people," Archbishop Elko sai~l.

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The exhibit, planned for the world Synod of Bishops, 'and ar· ranged by the Vatican Museum, occupies the entrance hall of the new papal audience hall.

Jn opening the exhibit, Pope Paul said: "Now art-yes, also our own anguished 'and faltering and at the same time powerful modern art-is an incomparably effective means of 'evangelizing,' that is of making known to men the image and thought of JesUis Christ.

"As in the case of music; so pictorial art can offer a means of prime importance for this PUl~­ pose, especially for the people of our time. They are more susceptible to the language of the senses, to that of art especially, than to the language of the mind." ' The exhibit, which included paintings and sculpture, was taken from the V'8tic~n's GalIery Of Modern Religious Art. The Pope also referred to the "charisms of beauty and interior communication" inherent in the collection.

In addition to the exhibit of contemporary painting 'and sculpture, .the synod fathers also had an opportunity to attend a' specfal showing in Rome of the film vers,ion of the rock musical Jesus Christ Superstar.

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By Joseph and Marilyn Rod~rick Fluorescent light gardening continued: Certain plants do exceptionally well under lights. Great results can be had with African violets, begonias and gloxinias, to n~me just a few. African violets are especially ptoductive and the colors of the flowers are en. I hanced by the lights. Last teacher, . giv'ie to a friend as a token ~Ift ?r even add to anYear -we grew quite a few other gIft for a more personal and. they were excellent touch. Suchi a gift would be a sp~clmens. T~e same can be saId ~or most of the tuberous

delightful qookbook jus~ published by 'r~e League of Women begomas.

Voters of Greater Fall RiverMost plants make such heavy "Have a Litt-Ie Bite." gro"":'th that th.ey must be give?

For the ~a:st three years the as much nourIshment as POSSI- League has been responsible for ble. It is a .~ood idea to use. a hors d'oeuvr¢s at many area funcsoluble ferWlzer at least tWIce tionsand invariably members a 'month. I~ fact, I g?t into t~e would be a~ked for recipes for weeldy habIt of watermg heavIly' the tasty goOdies they produced. and fertiliz'ing.

Finally som~ of the women got Experimentation Needed together and decided to publish Placement and distance plants a cookbook! made up of these should be from the lights should requested re'cipes plus ~s many be determined by experience. I others as' thJ y could gather. The found out that African violets, finished book contains not 'only for-instance, do best about seven hors d'oeuv~e recipes, but caninches from the lights. Th,is re- apes and sm,all desserts. suIts in the flat rosette leaves Most of t~e recipes are quite which ma'kes the violet partie- different and' not the usual ones ularly attractive. Grown at a found in h~rs d'oeuvre· books. greater distance from the lights, Also you ca~ be sure that they the plants tend to reach up for are recipes that have been tried them, which gives them an un-. and approve~d by other active desirable form. . ' women, not Just dreamed up in Most house plants do very some editor'$ imagination!

Charmi~g Illustrations well under lights arid I would suggest that anyone interested From MedievaL Shrimp with purchase small pI~nts of a num- Butter Dip (,his recipe includes ber of varieties. These may be beer .and shel"ry for an exotic obtaiped at relatively little cost touch) to Cream 'Cheese Puffs, and experimented with as they from Queen :Esther Cookies to grow.

Chinese AlmJnd cakes, this tiny The only problem I have en- book has ov~r 60 recipes that countered in the use of lights is have brought raves from all in the maintenance of humidity. tasters.

I My plants are in the basement Not to be: overshadowed by which is very dry in the winter, the delicacie~ are the charmingso some adjustments have to be pen and ink drawings. that light made in order to keep the plants up the pages bf this book. These relatively moist. delicate but ;witty illustrations In the Kltch~n were drawn I by the League's We are always lookmg for that own artist, Mrs. Mary Friar, and special li.ttle gift we can tuck in they do add t6 the value of using a stockmg,' send to junior's' this recipe collection as a gift.

"Have a Little Bite" is availRelief Agency Urges able from M~S. Lucille Antaya, 520 New Boston Road, Fall River Sharing of Resources 02723.

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U. S. government to share the Deviled! Ham Puffs I cup wate~ nation's r~sources 'with star,Y.ing people around the world will be Y2 cup butter presented to 'President .Gerald 1 cup flour I Ford ,and Congress by the 4 eggs I World Hunger Action Coalition.

1 teospoon horseradish : The 'petitions'favor immediate % teaspoon: pepper increase .in food aid, building a 3.4 teaspooni onion saIt world f90d security system, and 1,6 cup sour, cream an urgent plea that the govern3 cans (4~ lounces each) dev'Ilnent assume' a position of leadBed ham. ership at the World Food Con1) Heat w~ter and butter to ference to be held' in early No- . ,rolling point. iStir in the flour. vember in Rome.

Stir vigorously over low .heat Catholic Relief Services (CRS), until mixture forms a ball (about ,the overseas aid agency of U. S. 1 min.). Remore from heat Catholics, . distributed the peti2) Beat in eggs all at one time Hons during the summer to par-.· until smooth *nd glossy. ishes, convents and Catholic col·' 3) Drop dopgh by spoonfuls leges and universities. onto ungreased baking sheet. ' CRS was one of the first or- Bake 25 minutks at 400 ganizations to join the World 4) Remove I from oven and Hunger Action Coalition. The place on rack away from drafts. coalition came into being in De5) Mix deviled ham, horseradcember, 1973 with' the goal of ish, pepper, onion, salt and sour making the American public cream. Chill. ! awar~ of the severity of the 6) Cut off :the tops of the world food crisis and to stirn- puffs and fill with a teaspoon of ulate public 'participation in the ham mixtJre. This make 6 ways to ameliorate the situation. dozen ap{)etizefs.

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Bristol, Pa. A long-time friend, Bishop Dennis V. Durning, 'here has received a pledge for a left, of Arusha, Tanzania, offered the Mass. The Holy, $750,000 endowment from ,the Ghost bishop is a Philadelphia native: Between Mrs. Mc- , Catholic Daughters of America Clafferty and the bishop is one of her daughters, Sister (CDA) to fund' a chair in AmerCatholic Chur-ch history.

John Baptist, a teacher at St. Mark-Ephrem School. NC ic-an "Through this program of Photo. study, thousands of persons will

St.' Louis Priest Named National Secretary Of Marriage Encounter ST. wms (NC)-Father. Edward J. Schramm has been appointed national secret,ary of Marriage Encounter by Cardinal John J. Carberry of St. Louis.

Father Schramm will serve as priest on a' three-member national secretary team with Ray and 'Norma Pawdoswski of St. Louis. The national headquarters of Marriage Encounter will be moved from New York to St. Louis.

Father Schramm will continue to serve as associate pastor at Notre Dame de Lourdes parish in Wellington, Mo. Marriage Encounter is a movemenf that has at its purpose "to make good marriages better and to renew the awareness of the couple's sacrament of Matrimony, and an awareness of the couple's importance to the :Church," Father Schramm said.

Father Schramm indicated that his primary function will be to work as' a leader in tile movement and work with the national board of 18 coordinators, across ': __~ ~:_:i.::..

the country. He will coordinate services in 'four major areas offered through Marriage Encounter: encounter week ends, team training, post week-end ~upport, and conventions.

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Give God A Break-Tell Him Go,od N!ews, Not Troubles There are times when I think my kids delight in bringing me bad n~ws. "Hey Mom! Johnny broke the lamp." . Of course it helps when that's followed by, "I'm sorry, Mom," from the guilty kid. But what J really like to hear is one of my kids saying, "Hey Mom, wanna hear your care and love for your children is like God's. Think how about something GOOD that you honor your own parents by happened today?" I wonder your care of their grandchildren. if God feels the same way. We go to Him with all our problems, all our sins -and faults. We apol· og,ize, and promise to try hard-

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cr, asking ~im for help. I'm sure He's pleased we do.

But I wonder if sometimes He'd like to hear, "Hey God, wanna know something GOOD that happened?"

So make a cup of coffee, sit down and take a few minutes, right now. Examine your conscience. and tell God just the good things.

How many times have you been reminded of God, been aware of His magnificence in an exquis,ite sunset, or a baby's smile?

You may not have specifically phrased it, but your awareness of beauty is praise of God. Aren't you pleased ... praised ... when by a look or a smile, someone sees beauty in something you have done?

Bits of Holiness How many bits. of holiness have you added to each day ... since they all are the Lord's?

What lightened your' spirit, warmed your hzart, what little incident brought you closer to God? What did you offer that helped someone else to be aware that God is in you?

If you are a parent, think how

Tremors Plague Victims Of Peru Earthquake UMA (NC) - Colonial-period churches and slums alike bear the marks of the earthquake that shattered Peru's southern coast early in October. Relief efforts were hampered by continued tremors of lesser intensity.

The earthquake, one of the strongest of the 20 recorded in Peru since 1940, left close to 50 dead and 100 injured. Thousands of families in Lima's poor-. er districts, and in the towns of Canete, Chincha, Pasco and lea were left homeless.

Church organizations have joined relief activities by the government and international agencies. Civil defense authorities said the string of tremors since tbe Oct. 3 earthquake impeded relocation and relief, and delayed estimates of damages or of the number of victims. ,Pope Paul VI offered a contribution to r-elief operations along with his prayers. Cardinal Juan Landazurj of Lima, then in Rome for the world Synod of Bishops addressed the synod on the disaster.

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Is your love for someone special growing? How often during each day do you think about that person fondly? How many things do you do that will spark t.he same affection in return?

How much have you g,iven .. .your time, your talents, your compassion, your help, your understanding, your guidance, your support to someone who needed you?

How many times have you spread the word-good newsabout your family and friends?

How often have you praised and complimented?

Has it ever made you feel· good to learn of someone else's good fortune?

How many times have you been conscious of your love of God? How is that love growing?

Is it similar to the love of a child, totally dependent?

Have you read this far ·and feel you haven;t enough good things to tell God about? Maybe you aren't being hone3t witb yourself. Start again. You are doing good things. God knows.

Learn to see them yourself.

Did you find you had some good news for God? That's great.

Think about the good things often. It does more good than dwelling on your faults, and I'm sure God would rather hear good news.

Give God a break today. He deserves it!

Schedule Nationwide Seminars for Women LOS ANGELES (NC)-Three national Catholic, Protestant and Jewish organizations will spon· sor a nationwide series of selfawareness seminars for women to begin in November, it was announced here.

The cooperating' organizations are Church Women United, a coordination group of Protestant and Eastern Orthodox women, the National Coalition of American Nuns, and the American Jewish Committee (AJC), a Jewish religious and civil rights or· ganization.

Explaining the project, .Ann Wolfe, program advisor to the AJC's national committee on the role of women, said: "Religious groups have been outspoken in criticizing some aspects of worn- . en's liberation, but no systematic interreligious program exists whereby Jewish, Protestant and Catholic women can affirm what they actually stand for in terms of their religious convictions as well as their roles in the family and society and as autonomous human beings.

"At a time when some women are breaking down age-old barriers by assertting their rights to become ministers and rabbis, many other women feel the need to explore and identify their relationship to their religious communities and the potentials for ministries of service as members of their congregations."

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TOP FUNDRAISERS: Top fund raisers among students at Taunton Catholic Middle School who conducted a successful drive in behalf of St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital are, from left, Cheryl Semas, Grade Six; Donna Aranjo, Grade Eight; Kathleen Goulet, Grade Seven. Total raised by Middle School students during one week campaign .was· $2,012. .

Bright Asp,ect NEW ORLEANS (NC) - Arch· bishop Philip M. Hannan of New Orleans was able to point out a bright aspect of the faUing Dow-Jones average on the New York Stock Exchange in a I:<lmily delivered to the Southern regional meeting of the Catholic Press Associatiop held here..

Speaking at a Mass for conference delegates, the archbishop said that time has shown that when there are financial crises 'and less wealth, people are more open to things of the spirit.

"As the Dow-Jones goes down," the archbishop said, "we have a greater opportunity to talk to people about t·hings of the spirit."

And the Catholic press, in every aspect, proclaims the Gospels, he added.

"The Catholic press gives a great deal of good example, not only in its news, but in what it has in its advertising. It would be possible to change the public standards of moralJity if daily newspapers would adopt the same attitude toward advertising that is found in the Catholic press."

School Sisters Reelect Superior General ROME (NC) - Mother Georgianne Segner was reelected superior general of the School Sisters of Notre Dame Oct. 24 at their l'5th general chapter here.

Mother Segner, 60, is a native of San Antonio, Tex. She will continue as superior general for another three-year term.

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And, the archbiship said, "if people don't get the message of Christ in the Catholic press, they won't get it at all."

John F. Fink, president of the Catholic Press Association reit-

School Property Price Reported $1 Million INDIANAPOLIS (NC) - The Sisters of Providence of St. Maryof-the-Woods, Ind., have sold 107 acres of the Ladywood-St. Agnes school property fer development into luxury residences and a shopping center.

The property was purchased by a group of businesmen headed

by Robert V. Welch for a report' ed $1 million.

"The sale concerns surplus property," Mother Mary Pius Regnier, superior general of thz Sisters, emphasized, "and does not affect in any way the educational existence and continuance of Ladywood-St. Agnes School."

Located on the city's east side, the private girls' school is a merger of Ladywood, a dayboarding school, and St. Agnes' Academy. Present enrollment is 428 students. About 32 acresincluding the present campushas been retained for the school and for expansion of facilities considered feasible in the future, according to Mother Mary Pius.

erated this idea in his president's report 'at the conference.

"With Catholic schools closing," he sai,d, "vocations declining, and Catholics questioning, responsible Church leaders know that the CathoHc press is more important than ever before.

"There is no way the Church can present its message as effectively, on a regular basis, to the largest number of people, at the lowest possible cost than through the Catholic press. '~It is simply impossible for anyone to adequately understand the Church's teachings and be informed about diocesan, national, and international Church news without reading diocesan or Catholic periodicals," Fink, who said that the Catho· lie press is healthy, with troublesome problems but with a bright future, is showing steady improvement both in the number of newspapers and periodicals, and in increasing circulations.

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Cardinal Says Secular ~ociety Means Christianity by C;:hoice VATICAN CITY (NC) -.Car· dinal John Dearden of Detroit told the Synod of ,Bishops here that the arrival ofa secular society "does not automatically. or' inevitably lead to the demIse, disappearance or irrelevance of religion.'"

The cardinal, one of four elected representatives of the U.S. bishOps at the synod, stressed the hopeful note that today's worldIy oriented society "does provide a new context and new challenges for ev~ngelization."

Noting that there has been a shift in recent centuries from reo ligiously dominated culture to "a society in which religion has a specific function but not a dominant cultural or political position," the Detroit cardinal stressed: "The specific and unique function of religion in a secul'arized 'society is to continue its ministry of presenting and probing ,the ultimate value questions of life ..."

Likewise, .religion today, he said, must "provide a framework of moral analysis and orientation in the fact of a range of personal and social ethical - issues being raised by the technology of secuJar societies."

The preaching of the Gospel today, he added, requires a personal, ecclesial and social response from· Christians.

"Personally, the emergence of a secular sqciety marks a passage from a' Christianity of culture to a Christianity of choice," he ,declared. ' Each act Of faIth IS a personal decision wHich must be reaffirmed in th~ face of competing interpretatiors:" The ChurSh, ",as the evangeliz!ng camrn,unity," must also demonstrate :"the value and vaIidity of fait~" in a secular cul.lure. .

Lastly, wh~t Cardinal Dearden called the ','community of the Church," must "demonstrate the social value lof faith by pa,rticipating in this process of social change throl,lgh the exercise of political responsibility and the use of the.mqdern means of com· munications.'"

Cardinal Dearden concluded: "Secularizatibn, properly understood, constitutes a call to evangelization, n6t an obstacle or a threat.' It demands that the Church, in ~eing fai,thful to its fundamental! mission, be fully aware of th~ conditions of itsministry tod~y. In many places, t1-.':s means accepting secularity as the context for the call to cori. version: then I bearing witness to Christ by· te:aching and life in such a mann'er ,that people and societies are Icalled beyond the secularity of their culture to the sanctity of the kingdom."

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Superior S'ees Impressive (\jrowth In Quality of 'Religious Li~e HAMILTON (NC)-The number of men and women in Religious life has declined dramatically in the past decade, but at the same time there has been an impressive growth in the quality of Religious life, according to Father Stephen Tutas, superior general of the 26'00-member society of Mary (Marianists).

He discussed the state of Religious life recently at his parents' home here in Ohio. .

The head of the Society of Mary of priests and Brothers, which has provinces in 28 countries, spends six months of the year living in Rome and the other six months visiting the provinces along with the four members of his administrative team.

Project Equality Marks Anniversary NEW YORK (NC) - The national board of Project Equality, marking the 10th anniversary of its founding, voted here to start issuing a "Performance Rating" listing of firms which have com· mitted themselves to act affirmatively in the equal employment of minorities and women.

At an awards dinner highlighting its three-day meeting here, the board paid tribute to an insurance company and several individuals, including Matthew Ahmann,. originators of the Project Equality concept, for contributions in the field.

"There's a need to go forth in terms. of our efforts," said Clyde Bishop, St. Louis vicepresident of the board. "The problem of equal employment opportunities is still not resolved."

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PROTESTING TIEXTBOOKS: The explosion of a stick of dynamite thrown through the window damaged this classroom at Midway Elementary Scho.ol in the upper Kanawha Valley of West Virginia. Another room in the school was slightly damaged by a firebomb earlier during the continuing protest against the use of new textbooks.

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ST. PAUL (NC) - After a year and a half of debate by legal experts, compromise wording of a proposed human life amendment (HLA) to the constitution banning abortion was approved recently by the board of direetors of the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) in Chicago, it was learned here. . "lam very hopeful that we no~ have a consensus,and I hope the proposal will be universally acceptable as an ideal for the type of legislation we are hoping for," said Darla St. Martin, newly elected NLRC director from Minnesota and vice-president of Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life.

NRLC President Kenneth Van Del' Hoef, Seattle, said: "The pro· posal which seems to be universally acceptable will form our base for the future. It should solidify the whole pro-life movement."

Tbe HLA proposal, which was approved by a vote of 30-8, was also found acceptable to those who had previously proposed amendments,according to Mrs. ·St. Martin.

"What 'impressed me was that the experts involved in the for.. mation of bills proposed by ·Sen. (James) 'Buckley (C-R.-N.Y.) and Rep. (Lawrence) Hogan (R-Md.) found the proposal the ideal,'" she said.

German Seminary Enrollment Up FRIEBURG (NC) - The Information Center on' Religious Vocations here reports that after a decade-long slump, the number of aspirants to the priesthood in Germany increased 18 per cent . last year.

The increase in vocations, after ebbing by about 15 per cent, emerged from a survey conducted by the German Bishops' Conference.

To questions in the survey about factors leading to more vocations, 30 per cent of theology students stressed "personal relationships between priest and the young" and "a truly Christian family environment."

West Germany has 20;000 diocesan priests, 6,000 Religious priests, 180 permanent deacons, 4,000 Brothers, 80,000 nuns and 4,000 laywomen devoted to teaching and pastoral work.

WASHINGTON (NC)-A group eral funds to the state of 'West of West Virginia' parents and Virginia until the books they opSuperior g~neral for the past clergymen who have been pro- pose are removed from the three years, ~Father Tutas said testing the use of school text- . schools. he believes in team leadership books they consider "anti'-reliIn ·September, protesters boyand in "wo~king with groups gious,. anti-American and very cotted schools for three weeks. rather than d,eciding for them." obscene" brought their campaign About 20 per cent of the 44,800 The adminis,trative team h~ to the nation's capital, Congress students in Kanawha County heads is no~ on its second and the White House. . . stayed home as their parents round of visits to each of the "Regardless of what pnice we picketed schools. At one point, provinces of ~he society.

10,000 miners walked off' the must pay, these books must go," Since the: Second Vatican said the Rev. Ezra Graley, pastor job in sup,ort of the protesting Council, said Father Tutas, Reli- of the Summit Ridge Church of parents and there were two gious have ~at down to talk .God in Sumerco, W.Va., who has shootings and several beatings. with and a!mong themselves been jailed twice for alleged vio· I • The books in question were about very basic questions in lation of an injunction banning removed fr.om classes in Septemtheir lives-who they are, what picketing at Kanawba County ber pending conclusion of a study is their comm(mity's work, what Board of Education. by an I8-member citizens group.

Religious life Iis. It has been a "As parents, we believe we Six members of the group have very difficult "rocess; but "it has have a constitutional right to resigned, claiming they received also been' very purifying," he review textbooks," Mr. Graley "pressures and ridicule" from the observed. i said, calling the books "anti-God, others.

People ma)\ still leave Reli- anti-religious. anti-Jesus Christ." gious life after searching for its Contending that "the board of meaning for ~hem, he said, but education has brought trash into they do so "with a real esteem our schools," Mr. Graley told of it" rather thlan with bitterness. a news conference at the HarNot only iamong Religious rirtgton Hotel here that the Unitthemselves but in the Church as ed States "is the greatest nation a whole, Religious life seems to on earth" .and he attributed that be more highly valued, he .said. greatness in part to "the books not only for its help in meeting that you and I studied."

There's a lot to Iike- about Fernandes Super Markets the needs of the Church but for He adqed: ''The books they Serviced Fish and Deli, Serviced In· store. Bake Shops, its witness value as well. have now will make us the most . ,Father Tuta~ said (he feels that degenerated mition on earth."

Luncheonettes, Convenie~t Customer Rest Rooms. Try us .• : Religious life i has 'made great Picket Schools You'll like us, tool strides in the !period' since VatMr. Graley, Ed Miller, Tim ican n, but that the Religious'. Hill, Mrs. Marilyn Hill, and Mrs. must continue, to ask: What is Sharon Cantrell met later with the best way to live the Gospel Roger Semerad, staff assistant today to reacH the people? to the President with the White No Religiou~, community can\ House Domestic Council, to exafford to go slow, he noted, add- press their views. ing that "any I'community that's They said they wanted to find • dynamic must also move as a out why criminal complaints recoherent group,."

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Conscience Law Now Effective In New Jersey TRENTON (NC) - A bill allowing medical personnel and hospitals to refuse to perform . abortions was signed into law recently' by New Jersey Gov. Brendan T. Byrne, who expressed some doubt about the constitutionality of certain sections of the bill.

Besides doctors and nurses, t1-.'z "right to conscience" law permits both religious and public hospitals to ban abortions.

The governor said at a news conference that a veto of the bill, which cleared -the legislature after debate late in July, "would frustrate the wishes of our citizens reflected by the legislature, and would not provide the defin路 itive answer the issue of right of conscience deserves." . While the bill was being processed in the legislature, the governor attempted to have public hospitals excluded from its provisions, but amendments to tbat effect were defeated.

Test to Come Despite his signing the bill, Byrne said: "I believe a person who wants an abortion today in New Jersey can get an abortion."

It is expected the first test of the new law will come shortly. A suit involving three New Jersey nonreligious hospitals is pending in State Superior Court.

The action of signing the "right to conscience" bill drew an immediate response from Stephen Nagler, executive director of the New Jersey chapter of the American Civil Liberties Vnion (ACLV).

"Signing a bill which is clearly unconstitutional undermines respect for law," Nagler said and promised 'a test of the law "before much time elapses."

Byrne said his signing tbe measure is "consistent with a commitment I made during the campaign: that it is the right of a doctor, nurse or hospital staff employee not to have to participate in the performance of an abortion when such participation would violate his personal or religious principles or conscience."

Asked if he did not think there was a "moral question" in denying persons constitutional rights to medical services, the governor replied: "The court will make that judgement."

Archbishop Sheen To Receive Award NEW YORK (NC)-Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, television and radi() commentator since the 1950s, will be presented the annual award of Morality in the Media dur'ing its ninth annual awards dinner scheduled for Nov. 11 here.

Among the many awards the archbishop has received are television's Emmy award and Look magazine's Television Award.

Archbishop Sheen, retired bishop of Rochester, N. Y., has also received the Freedoms Foundation Valley Forge Award for "outstanding achievement of the American way of life," and the Order of Lafayette Freedom Award "for distinguished leadership in combating Communism."

The archbishop currently has 芦 weekly television series on the P.ublic Broadcasting Service.

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Thurs., Oct. 31, 1974

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BREAD OF LIFE: Bread of Life Community holds Friday night meeting at St. Patrick's Church, Fall River. Reading Scripture is Rev. Maurice R. Jeffrey, group chaplain.

Seated at left are Rev. Mr. Bruce Neylon, deacon at St. Mar:y's Church, Mansfield, and Rev. Pierre Lachance, C.P., director of St. Anne's parochial school, Fall River. Some 200 attend meetings ,reguhlrly. '

Charismatic Movement Gains Strength In Diocese of Fall River

By PAT McGOWAN The night was cold but the spirit was warm at St. Patrick's Church, ,Fall R,iver, home of tbz Bread of Life Community, one of the most active Pentecostal prayer groups in the diocese.

Buoyed by approval of the local charismatic movement by Bishop Cronin and by his appointment of Rev. Cornelius J. O'Neill as diocesan director of such prayer' groups, some 200 Christians of all ages meet each Friday night at the Fall River church, opening themselves to the power of tbe Holy Spirit for more than three hours of prayer, music, celebration of Mass. instruction sessions and camaraderie.

There are at least eight to 10 such groups meeting regularly in the' diocese, said Father O'Neill, plus "probably many other small home gatherings."

He said that -Bishop Cronin's approval of the movement came at the last diocesan priests' retreat in the course of a prayer meeting conducted by Rev. Richard Sullivan, C.S.C., retreat master.

"The Bishop pointed out that Pope Paul had expressed 'joy and prayerful interest' in the charismatic renewal and said that two reports presented to the American bishops had characterized the movement as worthy of encouragement."

Father O'Neill will be present at an Eastern regional meeting of leaders in the CathoHc charismatic movement, to be held this weekend ,in Atlantic City, he said.

At St. Patrick's , At St. Patrick's, the Friday night meeting is by no means the only activity of the Bread of Life Community, said Steve Ferreira, 21, wbo with Don Sylvain leads the group.

A "core group" of about 40 people meets for study each Tuesday, he said, and a leaders' group of nine holds Saturday sessions to plan the Tuesday meetings. Add-itionally, there is a home prayer meeting on Monday nights-and a down-to-earth

corps' that gels together Saturday mornings to clean St. 'Patrick's lower church, where most activities take place.

Being formed by Mrs. Cora Sullivan is an ",interctssory prayer group," which hopes to set up a round the clock prayer scbzdule that would have at least one member of the community praying for the group at every, hour of the day and night.

Rev. Maurice R. Jeffrey of St. ,Patrick's Church is chaplain for the group, and among regular attendants are Rev. Mr. Bruce Neylon, deacon at St. Mary's Church, Mansfield, who uses his day off to attend the Friday meetings, and Rev. Pierre Lachance, O.P., director of St. Anne's parochial school in Fall River.

The newscomer to St. Patl1ick's is first impressed by tbe youthful members of the community.

Where teens in many parishes, if they're found at Mass at all, arrive late, stand in the back and leave early, these youngsters remain enthusiastic throughout a long evening of worship.

"This is why' I first came here,"路 said 'Father Lachance, "to see what ,it was that attracted the youngsters."

If you ask,Steve Ferreira about tbe attraction, his answer is simple: "The Holy Spirit."

He said that he was a drug addlet before he received' the "baptism of the Holy Spirit" two years ago. "I began attending meetings in Newport, but when I heard of the Fall River meetings I thought it would be easier to come here. The first few times there were only about 20 of us, but it has kept growing."

He said that baptism in the Spirit "transforms the daily life of people," citing a co-worker Wl:-::l said to him, "'I don't know what you've got that makes you so happy, but I'd like to have it."

Explanation Group An explanation session for newcomers is held weekly at St. Patrick's. At a recent Friday night meeting it was conducted

by Tony Botelho, age 26, and the inevit,able questions about

"speaking in tongues" were asked. Botelho said, as do most Pentecostals, that such unintelligible speaking is not the most important gift of the spirit but its possessors find it an aid to prayer. '~Sometimes:' t.,~ said, "people actually speak another language that they don't normally know.

And sometimes others in the group are granted the gift of interpreting what is being said.

But usually tongues are just another way to praise the Lord."

Botelho said that those who return to St. Patrick's after their first meeting are invited to join a seminar group lasting seven or eight weeks, at which the experienceof life in tbz Spirit is more fully explained. In the course of the sessions those who wish are prayed over that they may receive the baptism of the Spirit.

"Some people don't feel much -for others it's BOOM!" he said.

In any case the usual effect is a deepening of "life in the Lord."

About 100 members of the Bread of Life Community have experienced the baptism and have seriously committed tbemselves to the group, he stated.

"Many people who come to St. Patrick's tell us they've been praying to find such a place," said Botelho. He noted that people who feel a lack in their lives are the ones who come and stay.

"If people are alreday satisfied they tend not to stay," He added that many deep friendships have developed among group members and two marriages have taken place.

After each Friday night meeting at St: Patrick's, Kathy Eastman, the group's secretary, summarizes the thrust of the evening's prayer and p'raise in a sheet that is distributed the following week.

A recent summary declared: "The Lord wants us to realize that the Kingdom of God is within us. He wants us to accept his gift joyfully and completely."

St. Patrick's Christians have done tbat simple, difficult thing.

WASHINGTON (NC) - Archbishop William W. Baum of Washington has appealed to Catholics of the archdiocese to recognize the God-given dignity of those sentenced to prison and urged support for archdiocesan ('fforts to help prisoners and their families.

The archbisbop made his appe31 in a pastoral letter on criminal justice, released prior to Sunday, Oct. 27, which he has designate~ as Dismas Sunday, named after the thief to whom Jesus on the cr'oss promised entry into heaven.

After citing various aspects of the problem of criminal justice.

Archbishop Haum said: "Here in the archdiocese of Washington, . we have taken some small steps toward dealing with- one of the aspects of this problem: concern for the prisoner and his family.

Ample evidence exists which indicates a relationship between serious crime and repeaters.

There is, therefore, a need for more effective rehabilitation programs so that individuals leaving prison are sufficiently motiv路ated and provided with adequate educational, social, and economic opportunities to adjust in the community. In this way our crime rate would be lessened."

The archbishop referred to a report submitted to him last April after a six month study by tbe Archdiocesan Task Force on Justice and Corrections. To implement its recommendations, he said, "involvement of the entire community is essential."

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Anglicans Approve Joint Statement LONDON (NC) - Representatives of the Anglican clergy in England have voted unanimously to welcome the agreed statement on ministry and ordination drawn up last year by the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission of bishQps and theologians.

Meeting in the Convocat,ions of Canterbury and York-which together provide the episcopal and clerical membership of the Church of England's General Synod - clerical representatives unanimously adopted resolutions \velcoming the statement and commending it to the Church of England.

The meetings underlined the rapid development of ecumenical relations between Catholics and Anglicans.

"It is little short of a miracle that in so short a time we should have come so far," said the archdeacon of Canterbury, the Rev. Bernard Pawley, who was an observer at the Second Vatican Council as the representative of the archbishops of Canterbury and York in Rome.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-iT~urs. Oct. -31 ,.,1974

The Parish Parad.e· Publicity chairmen of parish organizations Ire liked to submit news items for }h!l~ column to The Anchor, P. O. Box 7, a River, 02722. Name of city or town should b. 'ncluded, as well as full dates of aII activities. Please send news of future rather than past events.

Two Books'Give Examples Of·· I rreconcilable Enmity

ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL, FALL RIVER In conjunction with prepara· tions for the Holy Year, Rev. Barry W.· Wall will show slides of Rome at· the 'Women's Guild meeting' scheduled for 8 P..M. Monday, Nov. 4 in the parIsh hall. Mrs. Michael Arruda heads the committee in charge ?f a coffee hour.

A Mass fot deceased guild members will be celebrated at 12:05 P.M. Saturday, Nov. 16.

Two examples of deep-rooted and. apparentl~ irrecon,~ ciiable enmity ar~ set forth in "Burundi: lfhe Tragtc Years

by Thomas Patrick Melady (Orbis Book~, Maryknoll, New York, 10545. 110 pages. Illustrated. $4.95) and "B~tween Enemies: A, Compassionate He also p~oposes that an inter., Dialogue Between an' Israeli national or~anization of private and an Arab" by Amos Elon individuals ~ should assume the and Sana, Hassan (Random responsibility of investigating

and pUblici~ing enormities like the genocic(e in Burundi. Aboul. this he seems '. too optimistic. h' Besides I dealing w.ith t c dreadful ev~nts of 1972, Mr. Me· lady gives a:n interesting acco~nt of Burundi's history, geography, By· is one of the poorest economy countries in th,e world), and also RT. REV. of the selfJhelp projects which he promoted during his ambasMSGR. sadorial tebure." These modest JOHN S. projects he: holds to be more helpful to, an underdeveloped KENNEDY country thart large money grants.

'BetWeen Enemies' Amos EI~n and Sana Hassan are respectively, an Israeli and Ambassador to Burundi, a small an' Egyptiarl. They met not in one-crop central African repub- the Middle East, but at Harvard, lic from January 1970 until late . when Ms. Hkssan attended a lecM~y 1972. He was an eyewitness lure given b~ Mr. Elon. She was of an attempted coup in April a Ph.D. can~idate at the univer" 1972 and its frightful conse- sity at that time. Mr. Elon is a quences. well-known lauthor; Ms. Hassan Diverse Elements is the daugh~er of a former ~gypThe population of Burundi is tian ambassador and the Wife of almost entirely made up of two a high Egyptian government i diverse elements, the Tutsis and official. the Hutus. The Hutus, a. s~ort, They agre:ed that Israelis a?~ dark stocky people, are about Arabs are almost completely Ig85 ~er cent of the population. norant ' each i of 'the other. They The tall, slender, lighter Tutsis, see each other in stereotypes. ' whose ancestors probably came But all is ~ot agreement as the from Ethiopia, are abou.t 14 per dialogue progresses. They differ, cent of the population. for example,' on the questjon of The Tutsis, although relatively Arab territoties occupied by the few, have long been the ruling_ Israelis after each of the' wars class: This was true while Bu- between the two peoples. Ms. rundi had colonial status, first Hassan accuses Israel of creepunder the Germans, later under ing annexation, 'and cites evthe Belgians. They retained their idence in sJpport of her view. advantage after independence Mr. Elon, 9n the other hand, was achieved in 1962, and again points to repeated Arab declaraafter a republic was declared in tions of an intention to wipe out 1966., -. Israel' and i~sists on the necesThe numerically predominant sity of secure borders. , .

Hutus have always resented their They go i~to the sore matter inferior condition, and have from of the Palestinian refugees, and time to time sought to over- the claims of the Palestinians to throw their masters, always un- a state andi territory of their ' successfully. Mr. Melady was on own As to th,eI refugees, Mr. Elon hand when still another attempt acknowledges that he is deeply was made in 1972. It t.oo failed. troubled ab6ut them, and Ms. Selective Genocide Hassan admfits that' the Arab ',Following it came what the states have Inot done for them former ambassador describes as what they cquld have done. selective genocide. The TutsisEach speaker dwell!? on what staged a rampage of slaughter , is happening! in his or her- own against the Hutus. The chief tar- country: the: changes which are get appeared to be the profes- occurring, t~e real meaning of slonal class and other educated dev.elopments which the outsider people. may easily rrlisinterpret.

It is now believed that between Ms. Hassan: would like a three80000 and 150,000 (out of a stage change: in the Arab world: po~ulation of three and a half the first, a ~ecognition that Ismillion) were killed, with another rael is here to stay; secondly, a 60,000 fleeing Burundi for refuge recognition t~at it would be imin neighboring countries, and a moral to war10n Israel; thi~dly~ a recognition of "Israel as mtrmtotal of 500,000 displaced.

The alienation of Tutsis and. ' sically a goOd with a positive Hutus is, of course, the villain of contribution to make for us and the piece. How can it be eUm- for all mankind." .

Mr. Elon, Ion the Palestinian inated? No very hopeful suggestions are at hand. Mr. Melady question, saY$: "Let's repartition believes that some such arrange- the country once again. Not as ment as prevailed between Greek between 1948-1967, when -we Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots were sealed oft from one another might be tried. But in the inter- by mine fields and barbed wire val between the writing of his and hate and l abysmal fears, but 'book and its publication, we on different premises in mutual have seen that arrangement recognition of national and terriblown sky-high. torial rishts <ind sovereignty."

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ORDINARY: Auxiliary Bishop Edward C. O'Leary of Portland Me., has been appointed to head that See.

Name Mansfield Award Winner' WASHINGTON (NC) - Sen. Mike Mansfield (D.-Mont.), rna· jority leader of the U.S. Senate. will be giyen the Cardinal Gibbons Medal, the highest award of the Catholic University of America {CUA) Alumni Association, at the university's homecoming ceremonies here Satl!rday.

Mansfield, 71, was elected to the U.S. House of' Representatives in 1942 and to the Senate 10 years later. Elected assis,tant majority leader in 1957, he served in that capacity .until 1961, when he was elected majority leader,' a position he has held longer than any other majority leader in the Senate's history.

A native of New York City, he was educated at the Montana School of Mines and Montana State University. After service in the Army, Navy and Marines, he worked as a miner and mining engineer before becoming a professor of history and political science at Montana State University.

Mansfield is married and has one daughter. .

The Cardinal Gibbons Medal, named after Cardinal James Gibbons of Baltimore (1834-1921), is presented each year to a person who, in the opinion of the alumni association's board of governors, ha~ given distinguished· service to the Catholic Church in the United States, or to the United States or to Catholic University.

Asks for increased Voter Registration BROOKLYoN (NC) - Bishop Francis 1. Mugavero of Brooklyn, noting that fewer than 25 per cent of the electorate voted in the' recent primaries, has called for increased voter reg· istration and for improved turnouts at the polls on election day, Nov.5.

In a letter to the 229 parishes in Brooklyn and Queens, he said that a recent votE,)r registration drive in those parishes "clearly demonstrated that there are a great many eligible voters who are not registered."

The drive was conducted in August by the Civic and Political Education Committees in 45 parishes. The committee enrolled 2,500 new voters.

HOLY ROSARY, FALL RIVER Seven new members were welcomed to the Women's Guild at its annual coffee social, at which student!! of Imbriglio Studios provide entertainment.

The unit announces an open meeting at th~ church hall Monday, Nov. 4. Plans for a harve~t supper and Christmas party \",vIII be discussed and members may bring friends. Entertainment will be by the Chapel Belles of First Baptist Church of Fall River, directed by Mr·s. Ruth Hathaway.

HOLY, CROSS, SOUTH EASTON The annual Holly Fair of the parish is slated for 10 A.M. to 5 P.M. Saturday, Nov. 9, at the church. Featured booths will offer knitted and' crocheted items, needlework, bake goods, Christmas decorations, boutique goods, toys and other children's items and there will also be a white elephant' table. Raffles will be held throughout the day, a snack bar will be open and children may be photographed' with Santa Claus from 1 o'clock on.

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WESTPORT A turkey whist will be sponsored at 8 P.M. Thursday, Nov. 7 by the Ladies' Guild at the parish, hall. Refreshments will be served.

ST. MATHIEU, FALL RIVER The parish council will hold its annual turkey whist 'at 8 P.M. Saturday, Nov. 2 in the church hall on St. Mary St. SACRED HEART, TAUNTON The Women's Guild will hold a mystery ride tonight and a cake sale following all Masses this weekend, with Corline L. Cronan and Jean Nunes in charge of arrangements for the I'atter event.

The parish council will hold its annual Thanksgiving whist Tuesday, Noy. 26.

ST. JOSEPH, NEW BEDFORD A whist announced for Tuesday,. Nov. 5 under sponsorship of the parish whist committee has been canceled due to Election Day.

New Testament CUZCO(NC) - A translation of the New Testament into the Quechua language spoken by descendants of the Incas in central Peru and Bolivia has been pub· Iished after two years of work involving not only translation but the casting of special type.

, SACRED HEART, FALL RIVER The monthly meeting of the Women's Guild is scheauled for 8 o'clock, Monday night, Nov. 5 and will feature a jewelry demonstration by Mrs. Lucille Noverca.

Mrs., James Dunse and Mrs. Thomas McVey, co-chairmen have annoLinced that refreshments will be served following the meeting.

Tickets for the meal. pie supper and dance scheduled for Saturday night, Nov. 16 may be obtained from either of the cochairmen, Mrs. Charles Mitchell and Mrs. James Roberts, or members of the Guild board.

There will be two servings: the first at 5 o'clock and the second at 7. Danc,ing will fol·low.

ST. JOSEPH, FALL RIVER 'A reception in honor of Rev. Msgr. George E. Sullivan, ~ho retired Sept. 11 after 13 years as pastor, will be held from 3 to 4:30 on Sunday afternoon, Nov. 3 in the Carroll School, Hood 5t.

General chairman of the affair is John Fitzgerald, assisted

by Miss Dorothy A. Jeff, J oh n E. Kiley, Mrs. Daniel.W. O'COIlnell and Alan Lavoie.

During his 49 years in the priesthood, Monsignor Sullivan has served in St. Patrick's, Falmouth; Holy Name, Fall River; St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River, Corpus Christi, Sandwich; St. Dominic's, Swansea.

HOLY NAME, FALL RIVER A Halloween 'party for, all children of the par,ish will begin at 6:30 tonight in the school.

The parish bazaar is set for Saturday, Nov. 23.

A Mass for deceased members of the Women's Guild will be celebrated at 5:15 P.M. Monday, Nov., 11, ST. ANN, RAYNHAM The Ladies' Guile! will meet at 8 P.M. Wednesday, Nov. 6 in the church hall. A travel film on South America will be shown and the hostess will be Miss Bernice Fountain. Mrs. Grace Small-, hover will' be in charge of refreshments.

The unit will sponsor a whist party at 8 tomorrow night in the hall, with Mrs. Ei'leen Alden and Mrs. Anna Keough as co-chairmen.

ST. JOHN, AlTLEBORO IBishop Feehan High School will be the scene of the annual harvest festival to be sponsored from 8 P.M. to 1 A.M. Satur· day, Nov. 23 by a parish com· mittee. Dancing will be to the music of the Four C's and buf.. fet refreshments will be avail.. able. Door prizes will be award.. ed. Tickets, which are Iimi~ed" are available from the rectory or from committee members.

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Judges Rule Obscenity Law Is Valid TRENTON (NC) - A threejudge federal court has ruled New Jersey's anti-obscenity law is valid and the state attorney .general's office -is seeking to coordinate enforcement of the statute to insure that consistent standards are applied throughout the state.

Fourteen montbs ago, another three-judge federal panel held the law -unconstitutional and banned prosecutions.

In the wake of the latest ruling, David Baime, chief of the arpellate section of the Division' of Criminal Justice, said all 21 county prosecutors in New Jersey had been invited to a meeting to discuss the status of the law and map out a strategy.

"We realize we have a dual obligation to enforce the statute and at the same time protect the First Amendment tJ'ights within constitutional limitations,". said Baime.

Baime said tbe meeting was to focus on establishing a communication system between the attorney general's office and the county prosecutors so that all law enforcement authorities can be informed of what criminal and civil actions are taking' place throughout the state.

Moreover, he said, the county prosecutors were to be advised to establish a communication procedure with local police chiefs to prevent ~ny potential abuses.

Reverse Ruling The meeting also was to take up the status of obscenity prosecutions that have been beld -in abevance for the past year as well 'as the proper procedures for obtaining search warrants and seizing material.

A federal court panel composed of U.S. District Court Judge George Barlow and U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals Judges Leonard I. Garth and Arlin M. Adams on Oct. 15 reversed a ruling by another three-member panel in 1973 holding the New Jersey statute unconstitutional.

This latest action was based on an appeal by the state attorney general's office made in August that the prosecution ban be lifted in the .wake of an action by the State Supreme Court designed to "salvage" the obscenity law.

Tbe State Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision last August, conceded that New Jersey's obscenity law does not meet the necessa,ry constitutional requirements and fails to describe adequately what types of literature and movies are obscene.

But rather than nunify the law. the court said oit would fill the gap by interpreting the stat· ute to be in line with the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court guidelines until such time as the legislature can amend the law.

Holy Union Nun Named President Of Religious Treasurers Regional- Unit Sister Mary Jean Au:!ette, SUSC, treasurer of the Immaculate Heart ,Province of the Religious of the Holy Union of the Sacred Hearts, with headquarters in Fall River, has been named president of Region One of 'the' Conference of Religious Treasurers (CORT), an organiza· tion formed in 1971 at the request of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious in order to assist major superiors of women's congregations in financial matters.

She will attend the organization's first national meeting, to be held in Cincinnati tomorrow through Sunday.

Right Direction At a regional meeting at Annhurst College, South Woodstock, Conn., some 75 general and provincial treasurers repreSlCnting 27 religious congregations from the six New England states heard an address by Dr. Bernard J. Kilbride of the University of Notre Dame.

His topic, "Social, Corporate Responsibility - Practi:::al Approaches," was in response to requests by the CORT membership for additional information on this subject as Ii fOllow-up to a May meeting at which the National Catholic Coalition for Responsible Investment provided

SISTER MARY JEAN speakers for a symposium on corporate responsibility.

The speaker gave practical advice on means which could be used or should be avoided in challenging corporations found to be sociilily irresponsible. "There is no such thing as a ~clean' corporation," he stated, "so it is better to start with a corporation going in the right direction than to spend time looking for a completely responsible corj:oration in which to invest."

The treasurers were told that "Corporate social responsibility issues continue to bloom; it is not merely a passing fad. A corporation which is not conscious

East Coast Relig~ous Education Conference Set for, February ,

WASHINGTON (NC) - The tb;rd annual East 'Coast Conference for Religious Education, scheduled for Feb. 21-23, 1975, here will feature a galaxy of familiar and prominent figures in the field of religious education.

Participants in the conference, whose theme is "R~conciliation and Renewal," will include Archbishop William D. Borders of Baltimore, chairman of the U.S. Catholic Co~ference (USCC) EdFather ucation Committee; Charles McDonald, director of the National Center of Religious Education-Confraternity of Christian Doctrine (CCD); Father Clarence Rivers, a black Cindnnati priest who is credited .with helping to revolutionize American Catbolic liturgical music; and Norbertine -Father Alfred A. McBride, director of the National Forum of Religious Educators, National Catholic Educational Association.

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Areas of discussion will include special education, the revised rite for Penance, the charismatic experience, prayer with adults, urban religious education, family religious education, children's liturgy, motivation in religious education and many others.

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of its publi::: obligations is not NEW YORK (NC) - The dia sound, long-term investment." rector of university relations for Dr. Kilbride figures to substan- Jesuit-run IFordham University tiate the fact that those engaged said that "in the immediate fuin socially responsible projects ture, there will be' no move" by were not suffering loss of prof- the university from its campus its as a result. . in the Bronx to suburban WestMoral Obligation chester.

He urged action on the part The official, Robert Brown, of religious treasurers in using commented on an earlier threat means at their command to by university president, Jesuit awaken public attention to the Father James C. Finlay, in a let· irresponsibility of some corpora- ter to Sen. James L. Buckley tions and' to prod the corpora(Cons., R'.·N.Y.), to "seriously tions themselves to initiate' reo consider" a move to Westchestrr forms. Comparing the situation unless the U.S. Postal Service to the tragic murder of Kitty sells land for use as a shopping Genovese in New York while 38 mall near the campus. neighbors watched an:! did "Father Finlay's position is nothing to come to her help, the . that the university would move nuns were told that they had the if conditions became intolerable," same moral obligation to act and Brown said, repeating a clarifi. that the same conditions were cation made by the priest that present: a critical need, prox· the 133-year-Old university is "a imity to the problem, capability long, long way from calling in of assisting, and last resort. the moving vans."

The religious treasurers v...ere The neigbl>orhood around the encouraged to make their con- university has been decaying in cern felt by written or personal recent years and the proposed communication with corporation shopping mall and cultural ceO'· executives. They were also ter, to be known as Fordham urged to seek sound: experienced Plaza, is viewed as a means of advice on voting their stock reversing that trend. The sixproxies, and to consider invest- acre mall site includes a threeing in corporations making ef- acre plot owned by the Postal forts to organize or implement Service. socially responsible programs.

The university had decided .or. Kilbride is chairman of the earlier to remain in its present location after receiving assurdcpartment of finance and business economics at the University ances that the Postal Service of Notre Dame's College of which had planned to build a Business Administration, a certi- trucking center on the site, fied public accountant, and a would sell the pro'perty for the mall developm'ent. chartered financial analyst.

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Bracero Program iRevival Would Hurt Farm Workers AFL-CIO president George MeanYI and United Farm Workers leader, Cesar Chavez, jointly: addressed a farm labor luncheon in Washington, D.C. or September 9. In reviewing the current status of the Ca~ifornia farm labor problem, they coinplained ' I that illegal aliens are being comparable to those offered to foreign workers. employed in ever increasing In prac~ice, however, these numbers to break the back conditions! or restrictions were of the Farm Workers Union. "If we could get the megals out of the grape fields, and if. we could get the illegals out of the lettuce

honored more in the breach than in the obs~rvance.

I 1ft makiJ?g this charge, I am not relying on hear-say or second-hand ~vidence. I served for several mqnths on a three-man committee appointed by the then Secretary lof Labor, the late By James P. Mitchell, to investigate the Bracer6 program. Our comMSGR. mittee found that the program'which guaranteed' the growers.

GEORGE G. at no administrative expense to HIGGINS themselves,: an unlimited supply of cheap and docile'labor-was having a di~astrous effect on the fields," Chavez stated, "the American labor force. Accordgrowers would have to come and ingly we r¢commended that the program bE; phased out as rapmeet with us in 24 hours."

'President Meany pointed out idly as possible. that more than 600,000 illegal Ea~ier, Cheaper When the program was teraliens were apprehended in 1973 in the Southwest alone, and the minated in! 1964, those growers estimates of the numbers who and other iemployers who had remain at large, taking' jobs benefitted from it predicted in away from' U. S. workers, run dire terms that it would' be fminto the millions. possible to! recruit an adequate The Congress is now consid· supply of American workers and I ering 'a number of bills aimed "that cons~quently the crops at solving this problem. Even if would rot on the ground one of these bills were to be throughout the entire Southwest. enacted, however, and even if That, was i 'obviously,' special it were to achieve its stated pleading on their part. What: purpose, that wouldn't necessar- ,they really! meant was that it: ily be the end of the matter. As was easier and cheaper for them President Meany noted in his to have the government recruit' joint appearance with Chavez, their, work~rs than to do their the government of Mexico, in own recruiting from the Amercooperation with influential par· ican labor f~rce, ties in the United States, is In other words, they knew a pushing very hard for the revival good thing Iwhen they saw it, of the so-called Bracero program' and they ha'ted to have it taken which, far from solving the ille- away from' them. Most of all, gal, alien problem, wouldactu- they dread~d t~e, prospec,t ,'of ally compound it. The: progrl,lm, having to' 'offer' higher wages being advocated by the govern· and better; conditions as the ment of Mexico would legalize only po!>sibl~ wa'y 'of recruiting the mass importation of braceros an 'adequat~ number of Amer(farm hands) under a, bilateral ,ica~, workers, Some of, them are contract or treaty between Mex· 'now: trying "to revive "the', Bra. ico anc~ the United States. cero program. Senator Eastland ,Actually we have, had ,two. : of Mississippi is their spokesman such programs in recent history" and stalking horse in the' Con'-one in the 1940sand another gress. .: 1" which ran from 1954 to 1964.

If Eastland and his cohorts :in Un,der, the latter progt~m' at, its the agricultural industry were to peak, more than 500,000 : con· succeed in reviving thisprograin, tract workers were brought into that: would;be' 'the end' of the this"country in one year alone. Farm Workers Union. Anti-UFW They were, recruited by the Sec- (and not ali growers are antiretary of Labor at the expense UFW) know this' better than of theU..S.Gover~ment. 'anyone else. I I have no way of kno~ing wh!lther or .not this is , DIsastrous Effect Theoretically;' workers were one of the reasons, they are not to be recruited under the pushing for the Bracero program.

Bracero program linless the De· In any eve~t, they cannot be partment of Labor could certify permitted to succeed in their that; , efforts to :revive a program *Sufficient: domestic workers whieh woul~ inevitably have a who were able, willing and qual" ' disastrous effect on the wages 'ified were' not available at the ,and working conditions of the time and place needed to per- American labor force. form the work for which such Meidco Ellger workers were being recruited.

While I have absolutely no '~The employment of such sympathy fo1" those growers who worker's would not' adversely are striving Ito revive the Braaffect ,the wages and working cero prograni, I can understand conditions of domestic agricul- why'the G0"iernment of Mexico tural workers: is willing, even eager, to oblige '~Reasonable efforts had been them. The Government of Mexmade to attract domestic work- ico, in pushih g for the Bracero ers at wages and standard hours program is 6bviously trying to of work and working conditions relieve its own unemployment I

HELP IN HONDURAS: Working in heavy rain, staff members unload for victims of Hurricane Fifi medical supplies at Hospital Leonardo Martinez V, in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. E. R. Squibb & Sons said it contributed nearly a ton of antibiotics, insulin , and analgesics, s,hipping them from New Brunswick, N.J., to Guatemala City and flying them to Honduras for distribution to hospitals and health care centers for disaster victims. NC Photo.

Good Works Need Sound 'Legal Backin~1 CHICAGO (NC) ~ For Catho-, lie institutions in the United States today, good works' are dead unless they ar,e accompanied by solid legal backing and administrative work.

That was the message of experts to Catholic hospital 'admin'istrators and lawyers at a 1974 regional legal institute sponsored here by the Catholic Hospital Association, (CHA) Oct. 21-22.

During the opening sessions at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel, George Reed,associate general counsel of the U.S. Catholic Con,ference (USCe) in Washington, ,and Eugene Hackler, a hospital

problem, which is very serious.

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gram as' a safety valve and is still hoping to persuade the U. S. Government to revive the program.

As of this writing, the official 'policy of our own government is that we will' not accede to Mexieo's request. This information was transmitted to the Government of Mexico several weeks ago in a 'formal communi· c'ation from, the State Depart· ment.

'I hope that the U. S. Government: will stick to its guns, even at the risk of offending the Government of Mexico. If the U. S. has an obligation to assist Mexico in solving its domestic economic problems, there must be a way of doing this, without cutting the ground out from under the Farm Workers Union and without undermining the wages and working conditions of American agricultural workers who, for) 00 years or more, have been among the most disadvantaged and most exploited workers in the American economy. (© 1974 by NC News Service)

and nursing home legal counsel from Olathe, Kan., briefed CHA member.s on current changes in local and federal tax policies that may affect charitable institutions.

Citing numerous court actions in recent years, both men warned hospitals to keep accurate records of "charity cases" and statistics of emergency room use, because those records would, be useful in any possible court ac· tion designed to relieve a hospital of its tax-exempt ,status.

substantial political activity, pbarmacy sales to off-street persons, ownership of 'land which holds productive enterprises that bring a profit, 'and adjacent office complexes for medical persons connected with the hospital that do not perform out-patiel')t ser· vices.

Hospital charters should re· flect a religious dimension," Reed said, and should also reflect charitable acts for the "advance. ment of religion." He added that hospitals should not turn away patients without a good rea'son Tax Status that can be clearly verified, and The legal counsels also' ademergency rooms should not ask vised administrators and h6spi.' for "deposits" before beginning tal lawyers to pay special attentreatment. ' tion to the legal definitions of ,Reed said charitable organiza"charity" in their particular. tions should make every effort, states. They also :urged hospitals as much as they are able, to give to avoid the situations that could free or "below-cost"', care to affect their tax status, such as needy 'persons. ' .

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How Jesus Reconciled

If we ·are going to talk about reconciliation between man and man we must look to the work of reconciliation that Jesus did in his own ministry. Jesus' work of reconciliation is so radical as to be almost shocking. At least it was shocking to many of his contemporaries. In order to ap-

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BRO. MICHAEL WARREN preciate Jesus' work of reconciliation, we must understand how sin and recovery from 'sin were understood by the Jew of his day.

According to exegete, Norma Perrin, the Jew of Jesus' time knew of three kinds of sinners: Jews, Gentile sinners, and Jews' who had made themselves like Gentiles. A Jew could repent and hope for the forgiveness of Yahweh; Gentile sinners were regarded as outside the possibility of God's mercy but the Jew who lived like a Gentile was a special case because for him penitence was almost entirely impossible.

Understanding these categories helps explain much of the shock

at Jesus' behavior in the company of sinners displayed by His contemporaries. Not only does Jesus forgive; He goes another whole step. He sits down and takes meals in their company.

He rubs elbows with the very people who were considered beyond the possibility of help.

These were the people like Zaccheus and Matthew those who collaborated with the Romans, collecting taxes from and defrauding their fellow Jews.

Good Shepherd Understanding - these categories also helps explain the radical parable of the Prodigal Son, who adopted a Gentile way of life in a foreign land, ending up with the despicable job of swineherd. For his behavior the Prodigal was open to the normal expectations of regarding the love and mercy of God by showing the possibility of repentence and forgiveness even in this desperate case. Jesus proclamation of reconciliation excluded no category of sinner. He sought out the ones who were the most lost and most hopeless.

What must be stressed in so many of the Gospel stories of forgiveness is that the sinners move not just to forgiveness but beyond it to table fellowship, to the breaking of bread with the Lord Himself. The same motif can be seen in the parable of Turn to Page Fourteen

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In the First Epistle of John there is a terrifyingly strong paragraph: "This is the message which you heard from the beginning that we should love on~ another, and not be like Cain, who was of the Evil One anri murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil anj his

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brother"s righteous. We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love our brothers and sisters. He who does ncit love remains in death.

Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

By this we know love, that (Jesus) laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sister:>.

But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes bis heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word of speech but in deed and in truth" (1 Jn 3:1118).

Parents, Teens, Home-Style Religion

By JAMES and MARY KENNY

the first time. In view of these tremendous changes, we must Surely one of the most par· regard the adolescent's self-cen· 'adoxical facts of life is that in teredness as a normal part of going out to others we find our- development. selves. Home life is disrupted by Service by Adolescents a thousand small things all go· On the other hand, most ad· ing wrong at once. Mom is jit- olescents feel great indignity tery and frustrated, aod gener- over injustice .and compassion ally unfit to live with. Precisely for pain, sorrow, loneliness. at this inopportune moment, the They can be extremely 'enthusifamily finds out that a neighbor astic about serving others, and needs help, emergency babysit· they may plant great careers -of ting, transportation somewhere. service to humanity. This enthuInevitably, the countless little siasm may often be sporadic an<;l problems a're forgotten, the fam- short-lived, but it is gloriously ily rallies to help the neighbor, there. and the previous upset at home, Adults know that efforts to instead of being compounded, go out to other people are freseems to disappear. quently unrewarded. They know Adolescents as well as adults that long and dedicated work experience this conflict: the de- often produces only modest sire, even need, to go out of gains. The adult is often either themselves and be' directed amused or irritated by the adoltoward their neighbors, and the escent's gradiose and short-lived nagging, trivial everyday events humanitarian im·pulses. that keep them focused on their Adults who guide adolescents own problems and needs. In -parents and teachers-need to some ways it is quite reasonable tolerate self-centeredness as a that adolescents should be ex· . normal part of development. 'At tremely self-centered.the same time they need to make Their bodies are developing at every effort to encourage and an astonishing rate. Their minds reward the adolescent's concern are being challenged in new and for others, however unpredict· more adult ways. Their social able this concern may be.

Family Discussion relationships are expanding in scope and importance. What One way parents might en"the group" thinks and does is courage adolescents in their con.all·important. Psychologists tell cern for others is through semius adolescents go through an formal family "religion" discusidentity crisis. "Who am I?" is 3. sions. In this sense "religion" question which faces them for Turn to Page Fourteen \ ' ..

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Recapitulation Thus far I have argued that reconciliation implies rupture: Oneness has been destroyed. I have argued that ultimately rupture has its origin in sin, finds its reconciliation in God's grace.

I have insisted, first, ·that the radical r.upture rends man from God. I have insisted second, that the schizophrenia of sin ruptures me within.

Third Rupture Now I shall discuss a third rupture that is the work of sin: I shall argue that sin severs man from man, human person from human person. And I shall insist that reconciliation, the destruction of sin, the restoration of oneness among God's children, is impossible unless love lays hold of us, unless we lay hold of God in love, lay hold of man in love. The -"two great command· ments of the law'" are really one: I cannot· love God if I hate my neighbor, and I will not love my neighbor as I should unless I love God' with all my mind and heart, with all my soul and ·strength.

Inhumanity of Sin First, then, sin severs man from man. You see, few sins are aimed directly at God. Rarely does a human being set up what he knows are false gods; rarely does he curse God in cold blood.

More often I sin by offending against the image of God: I sin against man. Most sins reflect the sin of Cain, who turned on his brother Abel and slew him.

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Most sins exemplify man's in· humanity to man.

Widespread Inhumanity Some of this inhumanity has taken place, on a scale so vast, on a canvas so broad, that you cannot grasp -it if you live or die outside it. I am' thinking of the gigantic inhumanities man has inflicted on man just in my lifetime. Take war and politics.

Two world wars: The first took 10 million lives, the second took 15 million in military personnel alone~ Two atomic bombs fashioneda new hell in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Nazi gas chambers exterminated six. million Jews.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's explosive book tells of 12 million Russias in any given year im, prisoned, tortured, or killed in the network of prison islands he calls the Gulag Archipelago.

The Spanish Civil War cost a million lives.

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Napalm converted Vietnam into family incinerators. Jlfine· and-a-half million refugee$ clogged the roads of East Pakis· tan.

Terrorist bombs maimed wom· en and children in Northern Ire· land, and a blockade threatened millions with starvation in Biaf· ra. All this 'and much more in my short span of living.

Inhumanity of Poverty Take poverty. Each ,night two out of every five human persons on this earth go to bed hungrytwo out of five. One third to one half of the human race suffers from nutritional deprivation. The United -States, with six per cent of the earth's population, controls 40 per. cent of the earth's wealth. The North Atlantic naTurn to Page ·Fourteen

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Continued from Page Thirteen If I am as honest as I want. tions, with 16 per cent of the my neighbo~ to be, I must look earth's peoples, controls, 80 per within, to :see if. the seeds of cent of the earth's wealth. war are PI~nted In ",lY. heart. J And if those figures seems abo dare not be less Christian than stract to you, here is how many Christ dem~nded when He said: years you could expect to iive "You have I heard that .it was if you grew up in certain other said to the men of old, 'You countries: Cambodia, 44; Kenya, shall not kip, and whoever kills 43; Burma, 42; Sudan, 40; Ghana, ,shall be liable to judgment.' But 39; Madagascar, 38; Libya, 37; I say to ypu that whoever is Cameroon 36' South Vietnam angry with !his brother shall be 35; Togo: 34;' Chad, 32; Syria: liable to ju~gment; whoever in30 to 40; Nepal, 25 to 40. suIts his brrther shall be liable And beneath these naked fig. to the counCil; and whoever says ures smolders a volcano of envy 'You fool!' ~hall be liable to the and resentment of frustration hell of fire" (Mt 5: 2 J -22). and hate. For if war is sinful be~o ,I Care? cause man does somethingGranted trat poverty and malsomething evil, poverty is sinful nutrition, i~fant mortality a~d because man does nothing. early old age, are complex- 1S. sues, far beyond the power of Inhumamty of Race anyone individual or group to Tak~ race: black and white resolve. It still. remains true that in South Africa, black and white . people are" dying as they are in the, Un!ted States. In our own because we ~re living as we are. "land of the free" I have seen Whole cities could live on the the subtle bloodless violence of garbage fro";' our dumps, on the white power-power that en- clothes we :wear once, on the ~Iaved' a whole race, condemned luxuries we Ihave made ne::essi· It to ghettos and the back of _a ties. We dare not lay the blame bus, forced it to study in shacks on' "the nation"; the nation is and work in toilets, forbade it "we the people." As with war, our sidewalks and our pews, so with po~erty, I must look barred it from ho~els and restau- into my 'hea~t and ask: Is 'somerants, from mOyie houses and , one in agony, across the street rest rooms. Not· because these or across th1e world, because I peop~e were ignorant or dirty or do not care I enough? penmless; only because they So too wi'th race, Never have .

I spoken har:shly to a black man; were bla~k.

And tHey won theIr freedom but never have I spoken harshly from us by their. ~Iood and our to an Ametican Indian either! law. , B e f o r e I ab;solve myself of all A court of law proved more my responsibility for the hatred powerfUl than the Sermon on that severs !white and black I the Mount. In consequence you must ask Jrtyself several qU~S­ have the black reaction: In large tions: Does: the company I en-, measure they despise us, hate joy-house, Ifood, job, money':-' us. So much so that a prom- stem in any 'way from America's inen,t ~Iack theologian has con- long history, of exploitation, of frol}ted white Christianity with injustice to la whole race? How these harsh words: "(We have) often have II taken the first step no use for a God who loves towards a black person, to, ea,se whites the same as blacks We his hunger nbt so much for food have had too much of white and drink ak for understanding love, the love that tells blacks and love-td lift a little of his to turn the other cheek and go loneliness, liis' feeling that he the second mile., What we need was not wa~ted? Do I share the is the divine love as expressed conviction. qf many Christia~s in Black Power, which is the that "the whole thing has gone power of black people to destroy too far," that "they" are ,getting their oppressors, here and now, far more thar they merit? Can I by any means at their disposal" say honestly I that I love them 'as " (James Cone, "A Black Theol- human persons fashioned by God ogy of Liberation" (Philadelphia: in His image and refashioned in Lippincott, 1970) .p. 132). ' the blood oflChrist?

Legacy of Cain : War, poverty, race-here is Saudi A1rabia Aids the legacy of Cain on national, Food Prol,' gram global, cosmic levels. But the rupture between man and man is ROME (Nq - Dr. Francisco not something that begins "out Aquino, executive director of the there" somewhere. Ir, as Isaiah World Food I Pro'gram, has welproclaimed, "peace is the fruit of corned Saudi iArabia's $50 million righteousness" (Is 32: 17),' if as cash pledge ito the program for the Second Vatican Council 1975-76 as "t/1e biggest cash contaught, "peace is likewise the tribution in I the program's_hisfruit of love" (Gaudium et spes, tory and the' second largest reno. 78), then war is the fruit of ceived so fat in total value for unrighteousness, of hate. But] the next tw01year period.... dare not lay that unrignteous.

The largest total pledge is the ness, that hate, solely at the $140 millioni in cash and comfeet of the enemy, only in the, modities pledged for 1975-76 by heart of the politician, blame it the United States. all on the dictators of our day.

Aquino wa'rned, however, that the Saudi A~abian pledge would only partially solve the pro,Bishop-Designate gram's pro~lems which have BOISE (NC)-Bishop-designate caus~d it to I freeze $86 million Nicholas E. Walsh, currently co- worth of projects in developing pastor of St. Mary's parish in countries dU~ing -the past seven Caldwell, Idaho, will be ordained months. At projected prices the a bishop on Oct. 28 in the Ca- new pledge ~ould buy and ship thedral of St. John the Evangel- about 200,000 tons of wheatif it were u~ed solely for that ist in Boise. ,Father Walsh was recently named by Pope Paul VI purpose over the next two years. as bishop of Yakima, Wash.

PEER GROUPS: Adolescents are developing at an astonishing rate. Their minds are being challenged in new and more adult ways. Their social relationships are expanding in scope and importance. What "the group" thinks and does is now all-important. Teenagers in their own special group join to listen to music. NC Photo.

Parents, Te'ens, Home-Style Religion Continued from Page Thirt~en means not the teaching of doctrine, but the exploring together of what it means to develop a relationship with God and with other people.

Sometimes parish classes in religious education are soundly disliked even when the teachers and program have been carefully chosen. The adolescent peer group dictates that it simply isn't "cool" to like religion class, and each member tries to outgripe the others.

Familygiscussions" on the 'other hand, take the young people out of this peer-group pres-' sure, so it becomes less necessary to complain. Moreover, while there are somethings (hat can be shared with peers and not with their parents, there are other things that can be discussed in the family that can't be discussed in a class situation.

These are not subjects of a personal nature which might embarrass the students. Rather, they are ser,ious questions which might puzzle the adolescent, questions about God, or religion, or Jesus. He will not bring these questions about God. or religion, or Jesus. He will not bring these questions up in class for fear of appearing, interested or stupid.

Both positions are- unacceptable in the peer group.

In holding family discussions, only children of high ,school or junior high school age should be included. Even six years is a wide spread in terms of experi~ ence and development. Success· ful discussions are unlikely if they include younger children. If there is strong fe~ling against parish programs of religious education, family djscussions might substitute. If parish religion programs are fairly well-liked, family discussions might serve as an, occasional supplement. It is a good idea to set regular times for family discussions. This indicates that, the parents consider them important and it prevents conflicts with the many other things adolescents have to do.

Sorrow Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

-St. Thomas More

Continued from Page Thirteen the Prodigal Son, who is the cepter of an extravagant dinner by the forgiving father. The rec· onciliation effected by Jesus is total. It goes beyond forgiveness to communion.

This brief glimpse at Jesus' ministry of healing and re~oncil­ iation in the Gospels must give us all pause. Jesus is showing us how it must be with those who would live according to His way.

His way was quite different from the accepted ways of His own day. If anything, it is even more radical in today's ·world., And yet, how can we presume to be followers of Jesus unless we make His way our way?

Signs of Reconciliation' Measured by Jesus' work of reconciliation, all of us fall short. We feel the flush of embarrassment when we start tak· ing inventory of our own attitudes toward reconciliation. The matter affects everybody. Leaders within the Church must sedously examine themselves on this matter. There are dioceses in the United States where laicized priests may not undertalte any ministry of any sort, not even as parish religious education directors. In industry this practice is called "blackballing." The Christian word for the practice should be "scandal." Measured by the reconciliation of Jesus, another recent scandal has been ~he charge of heresy glibly leveled at theologians and catechetical leaders.

On the other hand, there are many hopeful signs that reconciliation is being taken more and more seriously. The attention to prison reform and prison ministry-notable is the attention that women religious are giving in these areas-would seem to mark them as being committed to Jesus' way. The concern for the painful dilemmas of marriage separation and divorce and for not alienating from the Church divorced persons is still another hopeful sign. Jesus' way is not to put stumbling blocks in the path of anyone in the name of religion. Jesus' way is. to eat with the alienated and serve them at table or even wash their feet.

Jesus in His own life nimbly leaps over the barriers separating man from man. His work of reconciliation is done with real tact and gracefulness. The theme of reconciliation of the Holy Year challenges·all of us to "put on the' Lord Jesus" in this key area. His message is not an easy one. Hopefully, the ,Holy Year will be a s;gn, at all levels and strata of the Church, of the for· giveness of Christ ,in operation.

Topics at Di!!cussions What kind of topics can parents and adolescents discuss together; Any topic which leads both adults and children to a greater concern for others. The important attitude is that both patents and children are questioning and learn,ing together.

Contrary to some popular thinking, adolescents are ready and even eager to discuss right and wr.ong. Sin is a reality they accept. Discussion, however, must get away from the notion of "the big sin," the I-never-murderedanyone-s04'm-no-sinner mentality.

Discussion can focus 'instead on our "lukewarm living."

M01escent's value honesty and sincerity. For example, can I lead a comfortable middle-class life in America and still be a Christian? Does the hunger in the world today concern me?

How? Does giving up desserts have any point in helping world hunger? Does cutting down on meat consumption make any difference? ,Other topics can be suggested by the children or parents once the discussion idea catches on.

Some topics both adults and children might want to explore: What kind of people were the earliest Christians? What was important to them? What kind of a person was Jesus? How can I better know and understand Him as a person? How can I make· a meaningful confession nowadays? What do other religions believe and teach?

Avoid L~turing Preaching Discussions work best when Good preaching sounds reveille, they .don't turn into lectures. not taps.

Dogma is avoided. Answers are -Gillis not given. The family members discuss these practical matters with one another. They LISTEN to each one's opinion.

Most family values, we are SINCE 189,8 told, are transmitted from the earliest years through daily famSINCE 1941 ily living. However, as children reach adolescence, parents have WEB OFFSET a few short years to talk with SINCE 1967 them on an, adult level and to share their own questions, con· victions, and concerns about life.

Family discussions provide parents and children with a few precious opportunities for, such sharing.

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SCHOOLBOY SPORTS

Press for Gains

Within Church

IN THE DIOCESE

By PETER J. BARTEK Norton High Coach

Elu'sive Grid Champion'ship Within Reach for N.B. Yoke Trivia question: When was the last time a New Bedford Vocational High School football team won the league championship? Answer: In 1955 Voke won the Bristol County League title with a 7-0-1 record. In fact, the last Artisan team to post a winning season was the 1956 club. Now, vived Artisans. D·Y is coming some nineteen years later off a big win over Norton a week ago 42-19. Balance was the Vocational is on its way to key for the Dolphins in that another loop crown, Division III of the three year old Southeastern Massachusetts Conference.

Coach Jeff Riley's team is al· ready assured of a winning campaign as it enters Saturday's contest with a 5-1 overall record.

The Green and White's only loss was to Greater Lawrence who currently leads th'e pack in'Division IH in the state standings.

Vocational has four games remaining, all against Conference opponents. This Saturday Den· nis-Yarmouth will be in New Bedford to tangle with the re-

contest as they controlled the line of scrimmage throughout the game and had five d·ifferent players score.

The Rileymen came up with a superb effort against rival Bishop Stang High of Dartmoufh Saturday last to w'in 18-7. Voke knows D-Y will be one of the major obstacles that must be cleared if the dream of a championship is to continue. From Saturday through Thanksgiving morning each game is a "super· bowl game for Vocational.

Three Diocesan Schools Chase Fairhaven While the Artisans and Dol· phins do battle all other Division HI clubs wiH be engaged in nonleague contests. Dighton-Rehoboth who beat Diman Regional of Fall River Saturday I'ast takes on Fairhaven, Norton is at Cardinal Spellman High in Brock· ton, Diman plays Ashland, and the Old Rochester Bull Dogs from Mattapoisett meet Ware· ham in the Cranberry Bowl.

Coach Jim L'anagan's Fa·irhaven Blue Devils will have a little less pressure Saturday in their non-league match. A week ago the Devils played Case High of Swansea for first place in the Conference's Division H standings. When the dust cleared Fairhaven stood alone on the strength of its 13-6 victory., While the Blue Devils are lodged in the top spot, their position is anythil1g but secure.

Bishop Stang High and Bishop Feehan High are in second place with 2-1 records, Msgr. CoyleBishop Cassidy High of Taun-

ton is next with a 2-1-1 mark.

Fairhaven is 4-1.

But, something will give Saturday when diocesan rivals Fee. han and Coyle clash in Attieboro. The Paul O'Boy coached Shamrocks shocked crosstown rival Attleboro last Saturday, 12-0. The vi<;tory could provide the impetus needed to get by Coyle.

However, ,Coach Steve Winslow's Warriors pulled a bit of an upset of their own a week ago when they knocked off Wareham 23-0 in a big divisional game. With one loss and a tie in league play. Coyle can not afford another blemish if it hopes to stay in contention.

Likewise Bishop Stang must rebound against the Case Cardinals in Dartmouth Saturday to keep its pennant' hope alive.

Case still a contender in its own right is in a do or die position.

Coltch Joe Santos' club ,is 2-1-2 in loop pl'ay.

Taunton Needs a Little" Help From Friends Seekonk will be at Bourne in the remaining Division II game slated for Saturday. Bourne was idle a week ago when Seekonk tied Old Rocester 6-6.

A complete schedule of games is listed in Division I Saturday when Attleboro hosts New Bedford, Dartmouth is at Falmouth, Barnstable is in Fall River to meet Durfee and Somerset is at Taunton.

A week ago the I'arge school division teams took it on the chin as they ventured out of the loop to take on strong non· league opponents. Attleboro was tipped by Feehan, Durfee lost to a good Archbishop, Williams club from Braint,ree 12-6 and Dartmouth was beaten by Chicopee 28-24.

In the only league game played I'ast Saturday frontrunner Falmouth turned back upset

minded New Bedford 15-6.' The win was the sixth in a row this season for Coach Jack George's Clippers and fourth in the Conference.

Saturday Coach CarHn Lynch's Indians will t·ry to derail the Fal· mouth express. Dartmouth is 2-1-1 in the league and in real danger of being dethroned as defending champion. However the Indians would like nothing better than to halt Falmouth's win streak and prolong their own chances.

Taunton wou·ld also like to see Dartmouth topple the pacesetters so it could move into the lofty position. Coach Frank Almeida has his Tigers flying high. At 3-1 the ~auntonians are in second place in the divisional standings and in need of some help from their friends.

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AT AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: Archbishop Jean Jadot, apostolic delegate in the United States, meets with Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum and other leaders of the American Jewish Committee in New York. The archbishop urged that Jewish-Catholic dialogue on the issues of abortion and aid to private schools should be "fuller, deeper and more open." NC Photo.

Un'usual Operation FBI Issues AJert for Thief Preying On Rectories OHARLOTTE (NC)-The Fed· eral Bureau of Investigation 'has issued a nationwide alert for a "very well spoken" homicidal robber who has preyed on Catholic rectories in at least five states in recent weeks.

According to Special Agent Edward J. Krupinsky, whose office here is in charge of the case, the robber is William Rc;>wland Roberts, 37, six feet tall, tatooed and well dressed. He has bulging blue eyes. .

He has some 12 aliases, and usually travels in late model cars with a female accomplice.

The law enforcement agency has asked its 59 field offices to notify near-by diocesan chancery offices of Roberts' activities and jointly to prepare brochures with Catholic officials to be sent to Catholic parish priests.

Roberts' raids on rectories have been in North Carolina, West Virginia, Michigan, Connecticut and Massachusetts. He has additional crimes on his record.

His method of operation' is "very unusual," the agent said.

On Sept. 3, he tied the housekeeper to a bed at, St. Joseph's

rectory in Adrian, Mich., and sought to force the priest to cash a $1,000 check against church funds at a bank. The priest escaped.

During the foray,' he used a car bearing West Virginia license plate number IG 3818. This had been stolen previ'ously from a priest he had robbed and kidnapped.

While in Michigan, the man checked in at a motel as Jason Gray, of Wheeling, W.Va. He was reported by the FBI to have been foiled in another alleged rectory raid, in ,Manchester, Mass. It was similar to the Adrian one.

Roberts' record of crimes include murder, kidnapping and robbery, the FBI said. He 'changes frequently.

"We really don't know who she is," Agent Krupinsky said of his woman accomplice.

Psychoanalysis There are thousands ,of patients on their backs who would be made better if they were on their knees instead.

-Fulton Sheen

WASHINGTON (NC) - A No· vember gathering of delegates from 30 dioceses in the Northeast will relate evangelization efforts to the human development of Spanish-speakers in 12 states and the District of Columbia.

Two main subjects-theology of social justice and evangeliza· tion of the Span'ish·speakingwill serve as background for dis· cussions of grassroots projects already being implemented, ac· cording to organizers of the meeting.

Among these are an East Harlem housing project in New York City, a trade union movem~nt in Hartford, Conn., a rehabilitation program for prisoners dn WiI· liamsport, Pa., and youth and community development works in New York City, Philadelpiha and Rochester, N.Y. Preliminary reports of organizers indicate the combined Spanish-speaking population in 30 dioceses of the Northeast is about four million, most of them in New York and New Jersey. Delegates are holding local meetings fro~ Maine to Virginia to gather first hand information on needs and resources.

In stressing participation by local bishops and their delegates, Francisco piana, of the Division for the Spanish-Speaking of the U.S. Catholic Conference, said here that "these regional gath· erings seek to accomplish a com· mon awareness of the conditions among the Spanish speaking community."

Ordained at 77 MONTEVIDEO (NC) - Juan Jose Podesta, 77, a journalist who served as permanent deacon at a local parish, has been ordained a priest two months after the death of his wife. The Podestas had four children. He was an editorial writer for the Catholic daily EI Bien Publico.

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