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Important Is,s'ues Await Bishops' Consideration WASHINGTON (NC) - The U. S. bishops will meet here Nov. 13-17 to consider' issues ranging from the implement,aNon of the recent Vatican decrees on minor orders to Catholic partici· pation In the United States bi· centennial observance in 1976.

About 250 prelates from across the country also will con· sider budgets and plans for their organizations, the Na'tional Con· ference of Catholic Bishops and the United States Catholic Conference 'and select officials to fill open positions in both groups.

The bishops' meert:ing, to be held in the Marriot Twin Bridges Motor Hotel, WIllI be the last of their twice-yearly general meet-

CHD ColI«,ction Sunday, Nov. 19

ings. Beginning next year, they will meet as a group only once.

At the November meeting, the bishops will .consider proposals on Pastoral Research and Practices. They also will hear a progress report on the diaconate in t-he U. S. from ,the NCCB Committee on the Permanent Diaconate.

A pastoral letter on Catholic education, ent'itled "To Teach as Jesus Did," will be presented to the bishops for voting. If approved, ,the document will be the first ooHective pastoral issued by the U. S. prelates since 1968.

The bishops also will be asked 'to approve 'a plan for the continuing education of' priests prepared by the NCCB's Committee on Priestly Formation. In addi-tion, they will consider a proposal to create a permanent NCCB Committee on Priestly Life and Ministry and a stafflevel secretarIat to work with the panel. The proposal has been developed by 'an ad hoc committee on priestly 'life and ministry established by the bishops last year to 'implement their study on the priesthood.

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WASHINGTON (NC) - Cardinal John Krol, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops has urged his fellow bishops to continue their support of the NCCB's Campaign for Human Development.

"The campaign -is more than just another collection," the Philadelphia archbishop said in _ a letter to all U. S. bishops. "It is primarily an education progmm which reminds us aU that nearly 36 million of our brothers and sisters have an income below the national standard of the poverty level."

BY ROBERT LEIGH Pointing out that the CHD colMost Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, lection will be held on Sunday, S.T.D., Bishop of the Diocese Nov. 19, Cardinal KroI urged the will be principal concelebrant of bishops' "to provide the enthu- a Mass of Thanksgiving to be ofsiasm and motivatinl~ force to . fered at 10:30 on Sunday mornpersuade your priests, and peo- ing in St. John the Baptist ple that the 1972 campaign is Church, New Bedford to comtruly a work of religion in which memorate the 100th anniversary we can all share." of the parish.

"Though the collection is an The church has the distinct10n annual event," the cardinal said, of being the first Portuguese "the work of challenging con- Catholic Church in' the United sciences and changing attitudes States and stands as the Mother must be part of preaching the Church for the Portuguese peoGospel 'in season and out of ple everywhere in the nation. season.' '..

St. John''S was founded in The Campaign for Human De- 1871. Although it was planned velopment is an annual appeal to to have the celebration last year, raise funds for self··help anti- extensive renovations to the inpoverty programs. The campaign 'terior of the structure at County office also conducts an educa- and Wing Streets caused posttional program about the causes ponement of the event until this and solutions of domestic pov- year when work on the $150,000 erty. refurbishing project was comThe Campaign recei.ved nearly pleted. $16 million in its first two apWl1ile the blessi,ngs of Alpeals. mighty God have fallen over St.

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. The newly formed on-going Respect for Life committee of the Diocese of Fall River met at the library of St. Michael School on Oct. 24. The appointed priests, representing the var.ied social and family life 'agencies of the Fall River Diocese, the Priests Sen-ate, the education programs and the different geographical areas, discussed at some length the many issues t-hat were raised' by the recent observance of the Respect for Life week promulgated by the American bishops.

The Bishop's request for a unified diocesan .program that' would actively promote the absolute value of human life at every stage .from conceprtion to natural death was the ma'in topic of the committee's deliberations.

The assembled priests were . unanimous to reaffirm the moral stance of the Joint Statement of the Catholic Bishops of Massachusetts, issued last February, and to commit themselves anew to a pro-life philosophy by means of the following 'statement given in committee: "Conceived human life at whatever stage or state is a sacred and inviolable giftfrom God, and is to be respected and reverenced by all men at all times-from .the very first - instant of .its natural beginning until its natural conclusion.

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Pro-Life Stand

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RALLY AGAINST ''WAR'': Ronald Lentz of St. Paul, Minn., carries his son, Christopher, 2~, at what was called a "Rally against the War on Women and Children" on the steps of the Minnesota Capitol. Several hundred persons took part in the event to show their support for protection against liberalized abortion laws. NC Photo.

Out. of" ·the -Mouths' of Babes • • • If I were President ...

"I'd make everybody love everybody."

"I'd make the people stop fighting and make all the burglars stop going into othel: peoples' houses."

"I'd never cheat the people."

"I'd make the people happy and make sure they have enough food and dresses and make people stop fighting and

make them all friends. I would let ileople be peace-ly and lov,e each other."

"I'd never lie to people and I would always tell them the truth."

"I'd stop the war."

"I'd put an ad in the paper saying the people shouldn't fight each other and they should. try to make friends. And love each other. That's why I want to be

John's, it has not escaped its trials and ,tribulations. On Sunday

morning, June 7, 1908, the first church at Pleasant and Wing Streets was ravaged by fire with a re!,ultant loss, estimated at $25,000..

The fire broke out in the sanctuary aaid had a good start by the time firemen arrived and a second alarm was sounded.

It was well into the morning before the fire was brought under conrt:rol. By then, flames had heavily damaged the interior and a section of the roof had collapsed.

The then curate at St. John's, Rev. Joaquim Cardoza, and other volwntee.rs r.aced against the' flames to bring' out vestments.

Left without a place of worship, members of the parish used the basement of St. James Church until temporary l'epairs could be made to the ruined structure.

The church continued in use until a new church at County and Wing Streets was completed.

President of the United States."

These spont'aneousand unrehearsed answers were made by four small children when questioned by Father Wrobleski, director and producer of a "TeleSPOT" of the Franciscan Communication Center in Los Angeles.

Next Tuesday is Election Day. Vote for whomever you will' but vote.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of FcJlIRiver-Thurs., Nov. 2, 1972

Vatican Catechetical Directory Called 'Document of Our Times'

"The Brother as Prayer," a day of recoliection for Brothers in the New England area, will be held Saturday, Nov. 18, at St. John's Prep, Danvers. This day is being sponsored by the National Assembly of Religious Brothers in New England as a spiritual service and asa means of informing them of the National Assembly.

The program will include conferences by Rev. Thomas M. Cosken, O.P., of Providence Col· lege and Brother Damian Carrall, C.P., editor of the "Brothers' Newsletter"; a period for Broth· ers from the various New England areas to meet and discuss their involvement with N.A:R.B.; ·and a con-celebrated Mass with Most Rev. Jeremiah F. Minihan, Auxiliary Bishop of Boston, as principal concelebrant and homilist. .

N.A.R.B. is an organization formed last spring, whose purpose is to provide an opportunity for Brothers tirom . different groups to band together for spiritual intensification and a deepened 'understanding of. spiritual life, community life and the apostolate of religious Brothers.

LOUISv.ILLE (NC)-The Vati- religion, is viewed by the direccan's General Catechetical Di- tory as a "pastoral activity of. rectory is "very much a docu- the Church," Father Marthaler ment of our times," according to said, and catechesis "must be a ·Frimciscan educator from the' coordinated" with every dimenCatl).olic University of America. sion of the Church, induding the When the directory was issued · 'liturgy, ecumenism, evangelism last year some labeled it "a re- and missionary action. actionary document from Rome" Adult Instruction that would attempt to "set everything right," Father Berard MarFather Marthaler said the thaler told the Kentucky-Tennes- "concern for catechesis of adults . see R~ligious Education Con- runs in page after page" -in the . gress here. directory and that the directory Actually, the priest said, the calls adult instruction the "chief directory is "sensitive to the form of catechesis." plurality of needs" in the Adult catechesis includes edu·' Church, and "steers a middle cation of parents and "special course." catechesis when one takes a new He noted that the directory , job, enters military life" or goes draws from ,the documents of the through a change of "social Se<:ond Vatican Council, papal status." encyclicals and the works of six Other occasions for. "special international catechetical meetare times of crisis catechesis," ings held in the 1960s.

Catechesis, or the teaching of in the ,country and duril!g a national election, Father Marthaler said.

Adult religiou~ instruction, Father Marthaler said, "cannot be reduced to a s.eries of conferences and sermons." Nor does it HONORARY CO-CHAIRMEN: Edward F.. Kennedy, mean offering more formalTaunton, diocesan president of the Society of St. Vincent · courses of study.

Brother Jeremiah J. McGrath, Satisfaction de Paul, and Mrs. James H. Quirk, of South Yarmouth, "We must find new ways to MIC, former member of Sacred The best is good enough.

Heart Parish, Fall River, is New speak to the times," the priest diocesan president of the Council of Catholic Women, are -German Proverb England Coordinator for the asserted. "We have to find honorary co..chairmen of the 18th annual Bishop's Charity National Assembly of Religious ways" to aid adults in' under- Ball, set for the night of January 12. Their organizations Brothers. In ,this post, he will co- standing their fait~ and their are co-sponsors of the Ball. ordinate meetings and other ac- own lives.

D. D. Wilfred C. tivities for the 850 Brothers serving in the area.

Sullivan Driscoll Brother McGrath is Assistant FUNERAL HOME Director of the Marian Minor Seminary in ·Stockbridge, and as~bgr. Gomes ~amEtsHeads of Vincentians . 206 WINTER STREET sistant Director of Vocations for The National Center of Reli- .

Arid DICCW'as C,o-Chairmen for Event FALL RIVER, MASS. the Marian Farthers. gious Education-CGD has anBorn in Fall River on- May 28, nounced plans for January pub672-3381 The honomry chairmen of the tee, St. Vincent de Paul Confer-.

1947, he entered the Marian lication of a .digest for adult 18th annual Bishop's Oharity ences and af/iliates of the Novitiate after years of study · religious education as a contin- Ball Were named today by Rev. Council of Catholic Women are in Fall River primary and sec- uation' in expanded form of Msgr. Anthony M. Go~es, dioc- urged to enroll persons and ondary schools.

FOCUS '72, wn-ich has been 'esan director of the Ball. Th is groups for listing in the Charity O'ROURKE He pronounced his first vows edited by the Division of Adult social and charitable event bene- Ball souvenir booklet. The listFuneral Home on July 16, 1968 and 'continued Education of the USCC. This fits exceptional and underprivi- ings are under six categories 571 Second Street his studies in the WashJngton, project is the latest mqve by the leged children in the southeast- with each category entitling the D. C. -area. Since 1970 he has National Center of Religious. em area of Massachusetts, re- donor to tickets for the Ban. 'Fall River, Mass. been associated with the Stock- Education-CCD toward full-scale gardless of race; color or creed.· Further in'formation is available 679-6072 bridge seminary' and is involved adult religious education follow·· MICHAEL J. McMAHON Proceeds help suppprt four from the Bishop's Charity Ban in various communi,ty and paro- ing the reorganization of the schools for the exceptional and Headquarters,410 Highland Ave., Regi~tered Embalmer chial projects.

Department of Education at the four summer camps f00he un- Fall River, Tel; 676-8943.

Licensed Funeral Director United States Cath9lic Confer-- derprivileged and exceptional. ence.

Name C[)-Chairmen Necrology The new publication will be Edward F. Kennedy,' St. J))NOV. 11 called FOCUS ON ADULTS/A sej)h's parish, Taunton; wJU .

I Rev. A. Gomez da S.i\va Neves, Digest. It will condense timely serve as honorary co-~hairm'a.n . Funeral Home FUNERAL HOME, INC. 1910, Pastor, St. John Baptist, articles in the field of adult re- as president c.f the Sbciety of R. Marcel Roy - G Lamone Roy 550 Locust Street New Bedford. ligious education and will. be of St. Vincent de Paul of the dioRoger LaFrance interest to all who are concerned cese, one of the co-sponsors of Fall River, Mass.

NOV. 12 FUNERAL DIRECTORS its development, especially with the charitable event.

Mrs. James Rev. James H. Looby, 1924, 672-2391 at the grassroots level. Mary H. Quirk, St. Pius X parish, 15 Irvington Ct. I Pastor, Sacred Heart, Taunton.

Rose E. Sullivan -its executive edPerkins.

Ryan, dioce~an presSouth Yarmouth, New Bedford Rev. Bernard Boylan, 1925, Jeffrey E. Sullivan itor, will work closely with a ident of the Council of' Cathol:ic 995-5166 Pastor, St. Joseph, Fall /River. board of consultants, consisting Women, . is co· chairman. She is . NOV. 13 'of experts in adu\.t education and in her second term as president Rev. Louis J. Deady, 1924, experienced promoters in the of the organization.

Founder, St. -Louis, Fall River. field throughout the country. :Members of the Ball CommitNOV. 14 .

Rev. Franois J. Duffy, 1940, Vincentians to Meet Founder, St. Mary, So. DartThe monthly meeting of the mouth. ,) Fall River Particular Council of SERVING ALL FAITHS NOV. IS' the Society of St. Vincent de Rev. .Daniel E. Doran, Pasto'r, Paul will be held Wednesday 1943, Immaculate Conception, night, Nov. 8 at St. Stanislaus Doane' Heal 'Ames IIiCORPORATED Church, Rockland. Street, Fall North Easton.

Rev. Thomas. F. LaRoche, River. Mass will be celebrated at FUNERAL ~r 1939, Assistant, Sacred Hear~, 7:15 and the meeting will follow' SI:RVIC~ in the school hall. The unit's Taunton. annual corporate communion.

Sumner James Waring, Inc./Thomas J. Ashton & Son, Inc. will be held at 8 o'clock Mass HY ANN IS 775·0~84 CITY LOCATIONS Suhday, morning, Dec.' 3 at St.· THE ANCHOR 178 Winter St.l466 North Main St.. Fall River South Yarrllouth 39~2201 Anne's Church, South Main Second CI,ss Postage Paid at Fall River.

SUBURBAN LOCATION Mass. Published every Thursday at 410 Harwich Ilort' 4_3~~O5.9~ Street, Fall River. Breakfast and Highland Avenue, Fall River, Mass. 02722 189 Gardners Neck Road, Swansea, a general meeting will follow by the catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall River. Subsqlption price by mail, postpaid Mass'. $4.00 per ye.r. .

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bm It:·;::::~. ~~"~~~"",,*~:,~~,-,", MARK CENTURY OF SERVICE: Parishioners of St. John Baptist Church, New Bedford, prepare to celebrate centennial of service to city.

Left, view of church exterior; center, Frank Martin, chairman ~f observ-

Christ of Gospel Priest's T10pic For the third session of the program of the diocese, Fathet: James Haddad spoke Ito a capacity crowd at St. Julie Billiart's parish in North, Dartmouth l~st Thursday evening.

Speaking on "Jesus'," Father Haddad, head of the continuing education program of the Ar¢hdiocese of Boston, began by st'ating that "... all truth is a laborious process, taking a long time ... Jesus Christ seems far too remote for the modern man and today's personalism stresses 'Who is He?' " "Jesus Christ is humanity fulfilled," the speaker continued, "We must be able to meet Jesus in the here ·and the now in faith, not what but who." conti~uing education

People of the Book To more than 250 priests, reIigiousand, lay catechists of the diocese, Father Hadad emphasized that all must be "men and women of the Book. A basic understanding of thEl Word of God must make a difference in our lives." Using St. Mark's gospel, the priest traced the life of Jesus through this earliest of the evangelic writings. A question period followed his talk.

Tonight Rev. Michael Fahey, S.J. of the Weston College faculty will continue the education series wi.th a lecture on "Ecclesiology: the Church as People of God and Saving Institution."

This fourth progr·am in the series will begin at 7:~10 a,t St. Julie Billiart's church hall, Slocum Road, North Dartmouth.

Mission Elpicopacy The first Asian Bishop was consecrated in 1923 and the first African in 1939. Today there are 147 African Bishops and 141 Asian Bishops. Of the African metropolitan sees, 84 per cent are held by African Archbishops, and in Asia the corresponding figure is 86 per cent.

ance and parish trustee, with Rev. Manuel Ferreira, pastor; right, Joseph Motta, trustee; Mrs. Manuel Soares, Stephen Avila, organist.

St. John Baptist Church Enters New Century Continued from Page One towards the centennial celebration has been meeting weekly to plan the formal events.

Bishop Daniel A Cronin will be the principal concelebr,ant at a special Mass at ·10:30 AM. Sunday, Nov. 5. Many former curates are expected to attend. . The Bishop is scheduled to ·participate ina reception at the, Kennedy Center, following Mas~.

On Sunday, Nov. 26 parishioners will gather at White's 'Restaurant in Westport for a celebration banqut:t.

The committee on the celebmtion is headed by Frank M. Martin. Jesse V. Santos Jr. and Fernando P. Cruze are co-chairmen.

Heading the program book committee is Joseph M. Martin; ticket chairman is Edward Dutra, program committee. chairman is Henry Pimental and- decorations committee chairman is Lillian Motta.

Now that the first 100 years is behind the church, what lies ahead? The present pastor, Rev. Manuel P. Ferreira, recently took the helm of the church from the late Msgr. John A Silvia.

Under his direction, St. John's has been very active among the immigrants it serves, especially in the field of education. Father Ferreira stresses its importance to those arriving in this country.

St. John's retains its special . relationship to the Portuguese people. Both the 7:30' AM. and noon Masses on Sundays are in Portuguese.

Father Ferreira was named pastor of the church in February, 1971. Before that, he was administrator of the parish.

In his charge are the .5,400 persons who attend Mass faithfully at the church.

When redecoration of the interior was undertaken, Father Ferreira made sure that the church still relJ,jiined reminders of St. John and his impact on the life of Christ.

On either side of the main altar are paintings depicting the Last Supper and the Sermon on the Mount.

Emblazoned across the main archway of the altar is St. John's exhortation to "Behold the Lamb of God.'" Behind the altar is a panelled wall. Running the length of this panel are eight waved lines designed to resemble the water of Baptism as used by the saint.

An eight-foot tall crucifix, on order from Germany will be placed in front of the panel and behind the altar which is made

of hand-crafted Italian marble.

"J1he communion rail has been taken down to remove all barriers between Christ and man.

St. John's will remain active.

The continual tide of immigrants streaming to this shore means the church will for the foreseeable, future be an active and viable force in the community.

And while' new arrivals will find many strange things in a new land, they will find too that their church will help through the adjustment period in keeping alive their deep, abiding faith in Almighty God.

Father Rivers Composes Memorial To Archbishop Paul F. Leibold 01NCINNATI (NC)-Moved by "gratitude and admiration," Father Clarence J. Rivers has written a hymn ·in memory of the late Archbishop Paul F. Leibold of Cincinnati.

Father Rivers, a priest of the archdiocese and a well-known litrgical composer, calls the composition "Wit~ess to C!trist:" The words of the piece are those of the archbishop, taken from the sermon he preached at his linstaHation ceremony in Cincinnati in' October•. 1969.

"I'am come to fill my office' as a witness of Christ before all men; And the Christ I know from the gospels is a meek and humble Christ who came to serve, not to he served. And who taught by word and example of his life a very simple yet most profound lesson of.life."

Those words of the archbishop and his faithfulness to them throughout his ministry moved Father Rivers to compose what he terms simply "a kind of memorial."

Father Rivers remembers Archbishop Leibold as a man who "listened when I -had something to say." And the ear he gave Father Rivers and all -the priests of the archdiocese was one marked by its "charity and

humility," Father Rivers feels.

In the introductory dedication Fat-her Rivers refers to Archbishop Leibold "as "always a friend of the black Catholic movement within the Church," recalling specifically his early recognition and support of the Black Catholic Caucus.

Friend of Blacks "He had faith in us even when he did not fully understand (because' no white man could) the black unity movement inside and outside the Church," Father R,ivers recalls. He saw it as an organization of Catholics "and showed faith in us and concern for us' that was unusual in its expression."

"No bishop before or since made such a firm stand nor one as . publicly and coherently expressed as Archbishop Leibold did in behalf of the black Catholic movement," he says.

Father Rivers "thank you" is written for piano or organ with the possible addition of guitar, bass and percussion. It was performed publicly for the first time in New Orleans at a national music and worship workshop this past Summer.

Archbishop Leibold died last June I at the age of 57.

Tea Welcomes New Workers New religious education coordinators for the Fall River Diocese were welcomed at a tea at the CCD Center Library, Highland Avenue, Fall River, followed by a session on goals and priorities conducted by Rev. Ronald A. Tosti, diocesan director of religious education, together with Sister Della Ann Chartrand, OLVM and Sister Antoinette OueleHte, SUSC, both of the diocesan office, and Sister Barbara Riley, RSM of Immaculate Conception parish, Nort-h Easton.

The majority of the 34 full time coordinators working in 27 parishes of the diocese were present for the meeting, part of an ongoing enrichment program offered by -the diocesan CCD center.

New Coordinators New coordinators include Sister Gertrude Margaret, SUSC of Immaculate Conception, Taunton; Sister Catherine Dufault, RSM of St. Paul's Parish, Taunton; Sister Jeanette Gignac, CSC of St. Mary's Parish in North Attleboro; Sister Joan Callahan, SFCC of Our LacJy of the Cape Parish, Brewster; Sister Maria Lauren, MSBT of St. Francis Xavier Parish in Hyannis; Sister Cora Marie, MSBT of Our Lady of Victory Parish, Centerville; and Sister Anna Sylvester, RSM of St. Mary's Parish, Taunton.

The committee making arrangements ·f.or the tea was headed by Miss Sarah C. Halligan.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., Nov. 2, 1972

Role of the Intellectuals Is Constantly Shifting - Dr. Edward Shils, Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago, is a renowned specialist on the role of intellectuals in modern society. In August of this year the University of Chicago Press published an impressive collection of the principal speak) and again-presto-libessays he has written on this eral intellectuals began to say subject during the past unwontedly nice things about quarter of a century (The him. Ditto for his aggressive Intellectuals and The Powers, $12.50). In one of these essays ("Intellectuals and the Center of Society in the United States")

opposition to Phase II of the Administration's economic game plan. Again he enjoyed, however briefly, a period of popularity among the intellectuals.

Change pf QOpinion The bubble ,burst, however, in By July of this year when, Meany declined to take sides in' the MSGR. Presidential campaign. Once. agaIn-and quite predictably" of GEORGE G. course-he was written off as an "aged, contented, and somnamHIGGINS bulent" has-been.

So it goes. So long as Meany says and does what his liberal Professor Shils remarks that critics want him to say and do, "The ... culture of intellectuals they seem to forget all about his BISHOPS CARRY STATUE: In a rare occurrence in the United States, four bishops in the West, particularly in mod- his age and are even willing ,to nice things about his leaderern times, has included a marked say shi;>. But let him ignore their carry the 'Pilg:rim Virgin Statue of Fatima into the National Shrine for the Second Andistrust, and even abhorrence, of advice and, before you can say" nual Rosary Pilgrimage October 28. In the front row are Archbishop Thomas J. McDonthe nonintellectual elites in poliJack Robinson, he is once again' ough, left, of Louisvi~le, Ky.· and Bishop Thomas J. Mardaga of Wilmington, Del. Betics and economics."

Like all generalizations, this treated ~ith "distrust, and even hind them are Bishops William 'G. Connare of Greensburg, Pa., and Andrew J. McDonald' " Little Rock" Ark. Photo. ' one, I am sure, is open to ques- abhorrence." , This little scenario is not a tion, or, at the very least, is subject to notable exceptions. More- figment of my own imagination: over the role of inteHectuals in It comes right out of the reviews American society has changed I have seem' thus far of Joseph over the course of the years and Goulden's new biography of The study, in a section en- level, rejecting the $4,137 a year' Meany (~eany, At1)e,neum, New WASHINGTON (NC) oj- The , is constantly In flux.

Nevertheless there is still a York, $12,95). 'One . reviewer" U. S, bishops' Campaign for titled, ,"The Government's Provo level used by the Office of Ecogood bit of truth in Shil's basic writing in :the Oct. '22 issue of Human Development (CHD) has erty Index is Inadequate,': ~oted nomic .opportunity, the Social proposition, as witness the The New York Times Book Re- issued a, survey .of poverty in that. the, number of p'qor p~ople Security Administration, and the "marKed distrust, and even ab- v"iew, admits that iea~lier thi~ whieh it dispi.r:es government in the' couritry depends on the AgHcultu'reli,Department: ,. ",' If the Bureau of Labor Stati!i:'; horrence" of the organized labor, year (because of 'his encounter statistics on the number of poor level at which' a mini'mum sta.na-· movement on the part of some with the President' in Miami)·' and criticizes' government meth- ard of living was unrealistic; The tic's level 'is' used, there aie '70-$0 .standard, said the organization, million poor people in the coun(not all, but far too many) Meany "enjoyed ... an unwonted ods of aiding thE' poor. ' alfocated only $1 per day' for try, and the CHD said, "a conpopu)alrity among liberals." The American intellectuals. same reviewer has 'decided, howThe 40-page "Poverty Profile" • food for ead) family member" servative estimate of the number Unions Resurrection Professor John Kenneth Gal- e~er, that the rest of the year whi<:h is being distributed to adding: "The only diet possible of poor persons is about 36 braith-the always brillliant, but (because Meany opted to play it all U. S. dioceses in conpectiQn for that cost" is a diet using million." sometimes sup~rcilious Harvard his own. way'in the Presidential with the CHD collection ~ov. 19, food from the pepartment of economist and the would-be campaign) 'has been. a period of says that there are about '36 mil- Agriculture'~ food commodity Haste conscience of the 'Democratic "stupefying ineffectiveness ... a lion poor in the United 'States. program.

Impatience never commanded By contrast, said the CHD, Party-is only one of many lib· performance of blunder and bob- The government puts the num-Chapin success. ber at 25.6 million. the President's own Commission eral intellectuals who delight in ble which has reduced Meany to In addition, H,e CHD charges on Income Maintenance said in talking down to the trade ~nion, a' position of embittered impo, that the government views pov- .1969 that the minimum standard movement from, the, Olympian tence~" The same man who was some- erty "as somehow temPorary" o,f living for an urban family of heights of academia. ;!

As far back as April, 1967, thing' of a hero to the liberals and that it ignorE!s povertY's root four should be $5,145 annuallyGalbraith, in his inaugural ad- earler this year is now' said to causes and o:ffers solutions . about half of the average family dress as President of Americans be fighting a !Iosing battle (be- whic:h are "inadequate and su- income for the United States for 1972. for Democratic Action, called tween his private and public life). 'perficial."

Also, said the, CHD,the Bulabor's leadership "aged, con- For some people, facing' this I There's 11 convenient reau of Labor StatisticS chooses tented, and deeply somnambu- st~uggle we are told, "the inevitalocations in' Attleboro. $6,960 a year as the low-~ncome lent ..." One might have thought ble defeat may still appear as a My purpose if I all this is not Falls, Mansfield, North that he was talking about the- tmgedy; for others, -like Meany to d,efend GeorgE' Meany against Attleboro, North Dighton, ADA itself which, though hardly in 1972, it is revealed as farce;" his liberal intellectual critics.

North Easton, Norton, out of its organizational teens, In other words, the hero of the 'Like the rest of liS poor ~ortals, Raynham, and Taunton, was even then clearly on the Haynsworth-Carswell struggle he is undoubtedl:1 open tq Iegiti- skids and was beginning to show and the man who forced a show- mate criticism on a number of unmistakable, if premature, signs down with ;the President in Mi- ,different scores. In any' event, of advancing old age. ami, is, in reality, n'othing but a he i:> well able to take care of Three years later, writing in clown. How's that for intellectu- himself in this r'~gard. the July 1970 issue of Harpers, al self-assurance?

Professor Galbraith was still Dissent: Denounce , I am simply trying to' suggest harping on the same theme-as Another reviewer, writing in that many of the liberal irttellecusual, rather sarcastically. Union ,the Oct. 23' issue of the daily tuals Who are MW cutting him leadership was "gereatric"-and New York Times, is almost up into small pieces would unso on and so forth. equally harsh in his treatment of doubtedly be praising his leaderFALL RIVER MEMBER F 0 Ie All of a sudden, however, and Meany. We are told quite apo- ship ,if only hE' had followed quite unexpectedly, the wheel of dictically that he is "currently their advke in the political arena. fortune began to turn. George making a shambles of his proud- In spite of the fact tha,t their DAUGHTERS OF S1. PAUL-comblne a life of Meany, the ,"gereatric" leader of est achievement, the gigantic adviee was demonstrabl~ bad prayer and llction. Bringers of the Gaspe' Mesa' "somnambulent" labor move- centralized machine for lobbying four years 'ago, ,all wo~ld be sage to souls everywhere by means of personal ment, led the fight against 'and political action into which forgiven if he had endorsed their contact: Pauline MiSSionaries labor In 30 Nations.

Haynsworth and Carswell and- he has reshaped the merged favo:rite candidate in 1972. And Members witness to Chnst in a unique missionpropagation of the printed Word of ';od. The presto - his intellectual critics labor federation." We are also I don't necessarily mean George Sisters write. illustrate Print and bind their own began to have s~cond thoughts inf.ormed that, under his leader- McGovern. In point of fact, one publications and diffuse them among people of· about his lea'dership. Subse- ship (or lack of the same), "the 'Of his critics is currently ~nifing all creeds, races and culture~, Young girls. J4-23 quently, in Miami Beach, he took idealism that once made labor him because he (allegedly) kept Interested in this" vital MISSIOn may write to: REV. MOTHER SUPERIOR on the President of the United a so'urce of inspiration to youth Senator Muskie from gett,ing the 50 St. Paul's Ave.. Boston Mass. 02130 States (hand-to-hand, so to has drained away."

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Court Aplproves Leasing Catholic School Facilities WASHINGTON (NC) - The U. S. Supreme Court,. by a 7-2 vote has allowed a Nebraska school district to lease fadl.ities in a Catholic high school for an education program financed by the state.

Justices William O. Douglas and Thurgood Marshall, court liberals, said in their dissent from the majority opinion that the ruling contradicted past decisions and failed to abide by the First Amendment dictum of separation of church and state.

Justice William J. 'Brennan Jr., who genera.lIy sides with Justices Douglas and Marshall, contended in his remarks that the program would be operated without any' religious involvement.

The Hartington, Neb" school district had applied to state education officials for financial aid in instructing students in remedial reading and mathematics.

The school district leased facilities from Cedar Catholic High School for ,the program's olasses, ,which would be attended by public and nonpublic school students. No religious pictuTes or articles would be in the classrooms.'

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Opposes Priests In Schools

NOTEWORTHY GATHERING IN CAmEDRAL RECTORY: On his first officiai visit to the United Methodist Churches of the area, B.ishop Edward G. Carroll, Bishop of the Southern New England ConferencJ of the United Methodist Church paid a courtesy call on the .Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D. in St. Mary's Cathedral Rectory. Present at the Cathedral visit on Monday were: Rev. Robert MacFarlane of the United Methodist Church Westport Point; Mrs. Carroll and Bishop Carroll, Bishop Cronin, Rev. and Mrs. Dal~ White of East Greenwich, R.I., district superintendent of the United Methodist Churches; Rev. John J. Oliveira, secretary to Bishop Cronin.

Aid to Students State officials declined to undertake the project. Local school officials secured approval for the program from the Nebraska Supreme Court, provoking an appellJ1 to the U. S. Supreme Court by the state board of education.

Paul V. O'HaTa, executive director of the Nebraslta Catholic Conference, acknowledged he had not yet read the U. S. Supreme Court'·s decision, but said "it appears that it wiH do away with some of the discrimination relative to providing services to private school children.

"The court has' in the past distinguished between aid to nonpublic school students or their parents and aid to nonpublic schools. Their decision apparently reaffirms that such a distinction is valid," he !iaid.

Scout A'wards Silver Beaver and Silver Fawn awards were presented to adults active in Church-sponsored Cub and Boy Scout units at the first annual recognition dinner of the Moby nick Boy Scout Council.

Honored were Vito V. Gerardi, institutional representative of Pack and Troop '17, St. John's Church, New Bedford; Joseph F. Cyr, Troop 40, St. Michael's Church, Swansea, also recipient of the Pelican and St. George awards for his work with the Catholic Committee on Scouting; Blanche Souza, Den Mother, Pack 11, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church,' New Bedford, also recipient of the Pelican award; Agnes Boudreau, Den 'Mother, St. Anne's Church, Fall River, also recipient of the Pelican award.

Translations At present the Catholic Church is ,involved in 117 common Bible translation projects with Protestants-52 in Africa, 43 in Asia, 13 in Europe, and nine in Latin America.

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Soviet Religious Leaders to Vis,it U.S. NEW YORK (NC) - When seven religious leaders from the Sov·iet Union land here Nov. 12, it will mark a first in interfaith relations between U. S. and Soviet groups.

Led by Russian Orthodox Metropolitan 'Nikodim of Leningrad and Novgorod, the group will also include high-ranking representatives of Sov,iet Jews, Catholics, Lutherans, Baptists and Moslems.

The visit is sponsored by the Appeal of Conscience Foundation (ACF), an interfaith group founded in 1965 to promote in-

ternational interreligious relationships. Since 1966 the ACF has sent a delegation to the Soviet Union' every year, to establish ,international contacts among religious leaders and discuss "issues of mutual concern" with Soviet government and religious leaders.

But this .is the first time the Soviets have reciprocated. "This visit ·is the culmination of many years of negotiations with the Soviet government and religious leadership," said Rabbi Arthur Schneier, president of the ACF. "The fact that they're being

Share ResQurces Archbishop Urges All Religious Cooperate For World Justice, Peace RACINE (NC) - Eastern 'and are looking, people are groping.

Western religions must share There must be a blend of humantheir unique resources in a joint ization and the quest for God. effort for world justice and But people want ,to see this genpeace, according to a Catholic uinely happening. archbishop from India.

"We must put soul in society "From a religious standpoint, today to make a better world this must be more than ecumen- for everybody. The whole misism," Archbishop Angelo Fernan- sion of the Church is one big des of New Delhi said, "We need thrust in this direction." the force of all.- religions workArchbishop Fernandes said th,e ing together for justice and world's religious leaders must peace. have more concern than provid"We must create a moral re- ing aid ,to those in need. They sponsibility and ;111 atmosphere must be partners in development, of hope and love before a revolu- a mutuality, he added. tion of hate take:; over. In other "If we want peace, we must words, we must deliver the work for justice," the speaker goods." declared.

The archbishop noted that alCiting a meeting of the -Vatithough the Judeo-Christian tra- can Commission for Justice and ditions encompass about one- Peace which he attended a week' fourth of humanity, it must work earlier, Archbishop Fernandes with persons of other faiths. felt that its efforts so far have "It has been noticed that peonot reached the grass roots level pie from the Judeo-Christian of bishops' conferences and tradition are socially sensitive; 'Church groups in countries 'while those from Eastern ttadi- throughout the world. He betions have greater religious sen- Iieves little will be done to lmsitivity," he said. prove the brotherhood of man "We can't think of working to-, until efforts of religious leaders gcther if we're in pieces. People involve the masses.

PARIS (NC}-The French National Teachers' Union criticized .French Comnmnist party leader Georges Marchais for backing down from his original opposition to allowing priests to teach in nationalized schools.

Marchais, the assistant secretary general of the Communist pal"ty, had originally said that if a coalition of leftist parties came to power, private schools would be nationalized and priests could not teach in the schools that were made public. Then, responding to the protests that this position aroused, Marchais said that priesDs could teach in nationalized sohools prov,ided that they did not appear as "conse· crated representatives" of the Church.

An article in the teachers' unlion's magazine, The Free School, repl'ied: "We don't see how one can hope for such behavior from men whose vocation is precisely the propagation of their religious fa.ith, with the school as a meaIliS." lIt would be strange, the magazine said, if the first step of a leftist coalition on coming to power were ,to satisfy a segment of the electorate opposed to its principles.

allowed to come is quite signif.i- Organ Recital cant/' said Jesuit Father Thurs- At St. Anne's ton Davis, former editor of the At 4 o'clock on Sunday, Nov. Jesuit weekly America and vice- 5, pavid Carrier will present an president of the ACF. He added organ recital a't St. Anne's that the Soviet government is Church in Fall River. Among the paying the round ·trip plane fare works to be performed will be for the delegation. ·those of de Grigny, Frank, Father Davis told NC News Vivaldi-Bach, Ala'in, Durufle and that the ACF hopes to "expose Messiaen. them to the v,itality of religious l\1r. Carrier" Music Director at life over here" and show them St. Mary's Cathedral, has studied "the f.reedom with which our at the New England Conservapeople meet." tory of'Music with Miss Yuko Although the exact itinerary Hayashi and has recently refor the delegation has not been turned from a European tour as released, NC News learned that Organist with the New England it will include a trip to Washing- Conservatory Chorus. David has ton which coincides with the also given many recitals ·in this annual meeting of the National area and throughout New En· Conference of Catholic Bishops . gland.

(NCCB) there. It was not certa,in, however, whether~ the two groups would meet.

The visit, limited to the New York-Washil}gton area because of time, will include rounds of Over 35 Years talks with U. S. religious and of Satisfied Service government 'leaders 'and visits to Master Plumber 7023 Reg. various church institutions and JOSEPH RAPOSA, JR. church-run colleges, including 806 NO. MAIN STREET Georgetown University and UnFall River 675-7497 ion Theological Seminary.

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In recent years there has been well-founded concern over the env~ronment and the way in which it is being abused by individuals and communities and businesses. At long last efforts are being mounted to use, not abuse, the e~rth and air and water around us and to hand these . over in good condition to an upcoming generation.,

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A simplistic' view of the ecology problem is the one that has sometimes been voice'd-that the population of the world should be reduced so that fewer persons will make demands upon the environment. This is the old argument that if there are five heads but only three hats then cut off two heads. It is the fallacious view that the earth and air and water are substances that can be exhausted and never brought back again. And that is not the case.

The further arglVTIent is alleged that the critical need of this and future ages is that of energy. And it is put forth that there is an energy crisis.

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There are at present in the world vast fossil fuel reserves in the Middle East, Venezuel~, Indonesia, Alaska, Canada and Siberia that are just beginning to be explored, let alone tapped and used in any great measure.

And there are alternate sources of energy to draw onoil shale, for example, and solar heat and nuclear power from fusion. There is the great field of geothermal energythe fact that the earth has incredible _heat that can be utilized i.f harnessed by man's imagination and ingenuity . and technic~l skill.

The choice is for man either to limit the world around himself to the boundaries of his own smallness or to look \out and let his vision and spirit and energies be challenged by all the universe has to offer.

Changes "Without change there would be no life, no growth in the Church, any more than in any other living thing we know." This statement made by the Bishops of Ireland ,in a recent pastoral letter assured Catholics that there must be change as a, proof of the vitality of the Church.

But they also added that "change in the Church cannot reach the point where the Church ceases to be itself:" , There is a change, the bishops noted, in which something altogether new and different comes into being and this cannot be the change in the Church since the Church can never become other' than what Christ founded; its essential nature can never disappear, nothing alien to its chara~ter can ever change it. . , This Is 'what people want to be reassured ab~ut. They , know, or should know and accept, that ceremonies and ritual and approaches can and do and must change. They know that there are changes in culture that the Ghufch must rise up to meet, that there are changes in language in the light of which the Church must put forth her teachings, that there are changes in emphases, change in social attitudes.

But there must never be the substitution of a purely humanistic program or a man-centered message for the Gospel of Christ.

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Urges Continued from Page One II)f society must m*ke up fOJ" this failure, and t~ke. all necessary steps to saf~guard the walue and dignity of the life II)f the threatened human member. The answer to the gmat tragedy M unwanted humun life ,is nllt the b~rbaric and totalitarian decision that would decree OJ: allow its wantOil destructioll, but the positive response that wo~ld acthe failure of tively overcome '. .'

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gift.'· The .priests' committee took notice of the frequeIit, well.. financed 'and often camouflaged, under the euphl!mistic 1l'mguage of double talk, efforts to under· mine the very foundllition of our society-the inalienable right to, life of each illdividual; human being. How far the pas$ive ac· ceptance of these anti-life views, . will carry us, no ope really knows. At present, the main 'thrust of their propagan<~a cam· paign seems to be ,the ~reation of that dangerous moral climate of leniency that would tolerate, and actively seE,k for utilitarian reasons such as health, e¢onomic advantage, freedom from embar· 'rassment,' or pe::sonal ineonven. ience, the elimination of /the in· nocent human Ufe of the pre· born ,child. Carried out to its -logical conclusion the passive acceptance of this barbaric principle would endanger all' human life. To live would no lopger be ,the right of any human being since life would be only worthy of the pl'ice tag society might

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HONOLULU (NC)-President Nixon won the mock presidential election at Che.minade ,College here with a land:;lide 63 per cent of the vote. A total of 381 students, 41 per cent of the day school enrollment at the Catholic school, voted.

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The Respect for Life committee fel,t very strongly, that the rejection ()f all anti-life views, and the decision to _uphold the absolute and unconditional right to life ()f every human being, the pre-born and the infant, the young and the old, the maimed and the healthy, is the moral obligation- of every legislator.

There is no middle ground between 'life and death, and no room for compromise on the defense of all innocent human life.

Every genuine experiment. in true democracy must be pluralistic enough to include the right to life of its most defenseless member-the unborn child.

All voters are to be aware of their responsibility to protect all 'innocent human life and to use the powel'ful weapon of their vote to do so. At present, many are actively and successfully promoting the abortion propaganda that would deny the right to life of the unborn child, and many, more a,re passively failing to resist their evil intent. Election time ,is the very opportunity for all - voters to realize fully that "aU that is needed for evil to triumph is for I'tood men and women ,to do nothing."

Members of the On~Going Respect for .Life Committee are: Rev. Joseph Oliveira, coordinator 'of the program; Rev. Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, 'collaborator in the program; Rev. Msgr. Alfred J. Gendreau, Rev. Msgr. Robert L. 'Stanton, Very Rev. Henry T. Munr-oe, Rev. Msgr. John E. Boyd.

Also, Rev. John J. Regan, Rev. Patrick J. O'Neill, Rev. Ronald A. Tosti, Rev. 'Phomas F. Daley, Rev. John J. Murphy, Rev. FeUdan Plichta, OFM Conv.

Rev. Bento R. Fraga, Rev. Philip A. Davignon, Rev. John F. Andrews, Rev. Thomas L. Rita, secretary of the committee; Rev. Michael G. Methot and Rev. Michael R. Nagle.

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Continued from Page One A position paper on "Youth and the Church," prepared by 'Bishop William D. Borders' of Orlando, Fla., will be presented to the bishops by the USCC Education Committee. "f.he paper urges the Church to "develop a ,realistic ecclesial atmosphere congenial to the life style of youth."

'Phe USCC's Committee on Sodal Development will offer the bishops a proposal to set up' a committee ItO plan Catholic participation ,in the 1976 bicentennial celebrations. The proposal urges creation of a national conference on justice in the world: "f.he social develop~ent panel also will propose a statement on current problems in rural Hfe in ,the U. S. intended to mark the ,50th anniversary next year of the National Catholic Ruml Life Conference.

Finally, ,the USCC Communications Committee will report on a plan being developed by the National Catholic News Service ,to establish a nationwide teletype networJt between itself and diocesan newspapers.

Elections Scheduled Besides considering committee proposals, the bishops are scheduled to vote on the 1973 budgets of the NCCB and USCC and the problems and plans of the various units of the two organizations.

In addition, the bishops wm be choosing a new cha,irman of the USOC Education Committee and members of that committee and ,the panels on communications, heaIth affairs, a!1d social - development. . -The bishops meeting will be' open ,to accredit~ representative sof the news media and elected clerkal and lay observers.

However, the prelates' executive sessi,ons wjJJ be closed.

Next year, the bishops w,ill meet collectively only once, in November, a,nd ,there will be 12 regional meetings of bishops dur-lng the Spring.

Reaffirms Support For Celibacy NASHVILLE (NC) - Bishop Joseph A. ,Durick of Nashville issued a statement reaffirming support for priestly celibacy after a -lay organization distributed letters and questionnaries here dealing with .the issue.

The prelate, whose comments were made to the diocesan paper, The Tennessee Register, did not mention the group by name, The Concerned Catholics, but suggested its material obscured "the other more pressing needs of the Church" by placing excessive stress on celibacy as "in itself a central point of crisis ,in priestly life today."

Concerned Catholics, formed last w-lner, distributed the letters and questionnaires to some Catholics in Nashville at the beginning of October. The letters indicated the group's support for permitting formers priests who have married to return to some formal activities within the Church. The questionnaries apparently were designed to determine the opinions of those polled on such possible work for former priests.

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Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum, national director of the AJC's Interreligious Affairs Department, said Vatican II made it possible for Catholic scholars to develop a theology respecting Judaism for its own value rather than V'iewing Jews only as potential converts.

The rabbi made his comments on his radio show on a local station just a week after the tenth anniversary of the opening of Vatican II. He said "Vatkan Council II still deserves to be called an historic milestone, a. decisive turning point toward a new and better future between Catholics and Jews."

Respect Vital Faith Before the council, he said, "bigots were able to cloak their hatred of Jews with the mantle of the teaching a.uthority of the Catholic Church. They can no longer do that because Vatican Council II decisively repudiated anti-Semitism."

Rabbi Tanenbaum also remarked that "during the past 1,900 years, many Christians looked upon Juda.ism as a desiccated religion, and upon Jews simply as candidates for conversion. Vatican Council II has made it possible for dozens of Catholic scholars to begin developing a 1)heology of Judaism that respects this vital faith in its own terms as a permanent source of truth and value to its adherents."

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AT NECOPS CONFERENCE: Attending the Sixth Annual New England Conference of Priests' Senates held in Augusta, Me., last week, were the following from the Diocese of Fall River: seated, Rev. Joseph L. Powers, Bishop Cronin, and Rev. George W. Coleman, president ·of the Fall River Senate of Priests, Standing: Rev. Thomas C. Lopes, treasurer of the Fall River Senate; Rev. Robert Brennan, CSC, Rev. Arthur T. de Mello, Rev. Edward C. Duffy arid Very Rev. Thomas J. Harrington, diocesan chancellor:

Tax Credit· Law Exp,cted by Mid-1973 Lynch said that four groups MINNEAPOLIS (NC)-A federal tax credit' plan of aid to of tax experts-constant "Houseparents of nonpUblic school stu- watchers" and neutrals on the dents may be law as early as tax credit proposals-also premid-1973, according to an offi- . dict rapid action.

It now appears the 'presidencial of a national non-public tial election outcome will not school coalition.

Robert Lynch, head of Parents affect tax credit legislation, for Non-Public education, cited Lynch said, in an interview here. election-year pressures and the Citing President Nixon's public "fantastic response" of parents stand in support of non-public school aid, Lynch said his office as reasons for his optismism. has growing assurances that Sen. George· McGovern will shortly' "take a public stand that we can find totally acceptable."

'Halfway Home' ering it at the elbow and sending As things now stand, Lynch, it clattering to the floor. who serves on the board of It is not' certain whether the directors of CREDIT (Citizens thumb and fingers were broken Relief for Education by Income

by Toth or in the fall to the floor, Tax), predicts: but they are severed from the The influential House Ways hand, which in turn is severed and Means Committee will reat· the wrist., port out in 'short order a tax The area just off the chapel credit bill for House action. . where technicians have carefully The full House of Representasegregated the marble pieces tives will approve a tax credit looks not unlike some macabre bill within the next five weeks. medical school lab.

The Senate, likewise, will approve the measure by mid-1973.

Hammer Blows It cannot act this year because A perfectly formed nose rests of the press of other. business, in a blue plastic box alongside he said.

"I wiU be very disappointed if another box of fingers and a thumb, its nail delicately 'mani- we are not halfway home by the cured. On the same table a end of the 92nd Congress," cupped left hand, replete with Lynch told members of the Minnatural folds of skin and finely traced "lifelines," reaches ouL Work in vain for fingers that are not Labor is a pleasure in itself. there. .

-Manlius Across the way, alongside chemical bottles, a scale and a dentist's drill with brush attached, the left arm-from elbow to wrist-rests on a pad of cotton.

-Here along the Madonna's sleeve the hammer blows are visible, their ugliness contrasting with the cross-section of severed 273 CENTRAL AVE•. marble, white as crystal snow.

A woode,n platform on metal 992-6216 scaffolding rings the Pieta, affording the techl)icians a walkNEW BEDFORD around view of t.he entire masterpiece.

Pieta Work Area Resembles Medi~al School Laboratory VATICAN CI1Y (NC)-There is no doubt that Laszlo Toth did a' first-class job of marrng into grotesqueness one of the world's tenderest figures when he struck 15 hammer blows at Michelangela's famed statue in St. Peter's Basilica last May.· , Newsmen' in Romt1' were recently given a close-up look at the damaged Pieta. Vatican technicians said they are confident they can patch ~the masterpiece to near perfection by Christmastime.

According to one technician, Toth, a Hungarian emigre, intend to decapitate the Madonna because he' did not believe she was the mother of Christ but an intruder. ' This accounts for the four blows on the crown of the statue's head, three of them the size of a quarter, the fourth more the size of a dime._ Apparently realizing the head and neck- were t.oo solid for his feeble hammer, Toth crashed chunks from th,e' veil over the Madonria's hairline, hit the statue directly in the left eye, knocking off the lid, slammed off the nose and pock-marked the cheek with two tiny gouges the size of bee-. bees.

Then, before st.artled onlookers could wrestle him into submission, Toth clattered his hammer onto the Madonna's left arm, sev-

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Final Form Citing "success beyond our wildest dreams" in CREDIT's six-month history, he said House members "definitely will have to take a public position on the issue of tax credits before the election."

Lynch said it is impossible to predict at this time the final form of the bill likely to get out of committee. However; the bill co-sponsored by Rep. Wilbur Mills (D-Ark.) and Rep. Hugh L. Carey (D-N. Y.) appears to have the most support, he said. Mills is chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, which must initiate all tax-related legislation.

The Public and Private Assistance Act (H.F. 16141), provides ~ tax credit of up to $200 for each elementary and secopdary non-public school student. The measure also includes $3.25 billion in public school aid to re-. duce school districts' reliance on property taxes.

JEFFERSON CITY (NC)-The bishops of Missouri have appealed to the U. S. Commissioner of Education to take steps to insure that nonpublic school children may use services to which they are entitled by federal' -legislation.

In a letter to Commissioner Sidney Marland, Bishop Michael F. McAuliffe of Jefferson City, executive chairman of the Mis~ souri Catholic Conference, maintained that state regulations have prevented nonpublic school students from utilizing adequately the Lincoln University Reading Diagnostic Clinic in Jefferson City and the Jenning Learning Disability Laboratory.

Nonpublic school children are entitled to use the facilities un· der Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. State regulations, however, require that nonpublic school children use the Lincoln University facility only outside regular school hours.

Because some of the children -live in rural areas 25 to 30 miles from the clinic, Bishop McAuliffe said, they have to make repeated trips to ,take advantage of the facilities. In some cases, he said, this means travelling "up to 350 miles just to receive a diagnosis which normally takes a public school child, who can attend during regular school hours, a day and a half to complete."

Report Progress In Ecumenism GLASGOW (NC) - The most significant development in the Christian unity movement in Scotland .is the increasing dia~ logue between Catholic priests and Protestant ministers, according to a report prepared by ,the Scottish Catholic bishops' ecumenical commission.

There is a need for leadership from the parish clergy and for practical guidance.

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'CINCINNATI. (NC) - The administrator of the Cincinnati archdiocese urged voters to support a mass. transpor:tation issue on the Nov. 7 ballot.

What do you think the women will be wearing was a frequent- question that invariably got one answer, and a definite one at that. If formal wear was going to' be worn, the hostess would specify it, informal attire meant skirts and sweaters or slacks and sweaters. Very often the beautiful woman to begin with certainly didn't hurt, yet her outlatter type I of· gathering fit, while in good taste, was not would see a smattering of the set costume that we have

short but smart wool dresses but always there was a certain amount of uniformity.

Today, forget it. The hostess

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hesitates even to suggest any longer, generally out of sheer desperat,ion she wHl answer "Anything" and she really does mean it. That is she means any .thing within the bounds of good taste but then generally a hostess knows her guests well enough to know whether they can be given carte blanche on dress,

The purchase of the present bus system by the city of Cincinnati would aid the poor, the elderly, students and working people, Msgr. August J. Kramer, interim head of the archdiocese, said in a statement supporting the transit proposal.

learned to expect from former years. ·Even wedding parties are "doing their own thing," .

"The citizens of a major city such as Cincinnati ought to have a dependable transit system with reasonable fares and offering good . service," Msgr. Kramer said.

Different, Unusual . The spectators <l,t the weddin~ were as individually dressed as the bride's mother and while f;!ach was different and unusual all were very Iovely. A few Velvet suits were quite chic, one especially caught my eye because it was Ii bealltiful shade of deep emerald green textured velvet.

The dress part was slender and simple with the bodice of a contrasting material in a much lighter shade of green. Some guests topped plaid floor length' skirts with velvet jackets and frilly blouses.

Very formal gowns were also very much in evidence, chiffon, crepe and silk, all with softly flowing skirts. and . deep cut necklines - very feminine and quite lovely. '

PlLAN BALL: Mer:nbers of Catholic Women's Club of New lBedford plan annual ball, set for Saturday, Nov. 4, and one of major ev~nts on club calendar. Seated, Mrs. Henry J. Fanning Jr.; standing, from left, Mrs. Carl D. Fontes, Mrs. David F. Considine.

"Such transit facilities, especiiilly needed by working men and women, the poor, senior citizens and .students, are not present today in our community.

Those of us who no longer ride street buses as much as we did in years past perhaps do not realize how inadequate the present transit system is in Cinoinnati and how high priced ,the . fares are."

Msgr. Kramer has headed the archdiocese since the death last June 1 qf Archbishop Paul Leibold.

'D,ecisi~ri A,ppealed ArizomJ Judge Rulles State's Abortion Law Unconstitutional

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'f.UCSON (NC) - The Arizona said that to his knowledge no Women Priests law has been declared case considered or pending beabortion MANCHESTER (NC) - "We .The other evening we went to unconstitutional in a ruling that fore the U. S. Supreme Court' must overcome olir jealousy and' the theatre in Boston and if anysays "a fetus is not· a person ... has been on a ruling ~ a state accept; women pr.iests," the wife one 'had attempted to describe and does not have·constitutional- court. They have all been ap~ of an Anglican bishop said in a the one particular type of dressity protected rights." pealed from federal courts. This parish magazine here in England. ing that was predominant, she Th,e ruling by Superior Court might be the first one involving would have been hard put. One "The trouble is that neither Judge Jack Mallks held that the a decision' made by a state court, outfit did stand out slightly men nor women like to see a law, which permits abolition only if it goes all the way to the U. S. more than any other and that Oppose Ratification woman. succeed at something when a mother's life is in dan- Supreme Court. was a long skirt worn with a they cannot do themselves, such violates both the rights of ger, Another point which has not layered top and perhaps a blazer Of Rights Amendment woman and of doctors. been brought out, according to as preaching a sermon," said or cape. ' RICHMOND (NC)-The DiocJudge Marks said that the law Vinson, is the fact that wrongful Mrs. Helen Wickham, wife of That. same weekend a wedding esan Council of Catholic Women vIolates lJ"ights (If marital' and death suits have been won in the Anglican bishop of Middlewas on the agenda and again the here has told the Virginia Com- sexual priv'aoy and the r-ight of some states in behalf of unborn ton wr.iting on "Women as dress was anything but uniform. mission on the Status of Women the doctor "to practice mEldicine babies. For example, ,a pregnant Priests" ·in the October edition Even the mother-of-the-bride that it is opposed to ratification ina manner that permits him to . woman involved in a traff'ic ac- of St. Philip's parish magazine. didn't look like our accepted idea' . of the women's rights amend- fulfill his profe ssionaI ethical cident,' who then aborts, and "Both will accept this from of this member of the wedding. ' ment .to the U. S. Constitution. obligation to his. patient." !, the baby dies, can win damages another. man, but not from a She was stunningly attired in De:>pite his ruling, :Judge against the person responsible Mrs. J.ohn B. Flannery, a woman. long orange chiffon. with a council official, expressed the or- Marks allowed the law to ~emain for the accident. short orange and. gold Chanel ganization's view at a public in effect until the st'ate C9urt of "What's the difference," Vin"But women priests would not jacket. The fuct that she's a very hearing here by the commission. Appeals rules on the case. The son said, "between death in an be. amateurs, they would be auto accident caused by negli- . trained,' Hke women doctors are Mrs. Flan'nery said that her appeal will be heard Nov. 28.

Bishop Francis J. Green of gence, and death by a knife used trained, and we accept them group supports equal right!! for Confusion in Michigan Tucson said: "VeIY frankly, it is in an abortion?" " without jealousy." women.

Over Abortion Question "However, we seek rejection most disturbing to me ~at a LANSING (NC)-A series of by the Virginia General Assem- judge would rule that a law procourt rulings and a referendum bly of the proposed equal rights ,tecting life is contrary to the question have thrown the abor- amendment to the Constitution ConsHtution."

"The fact that we talk about tion issue in Michigan into ,a of the United States on the state of confusion that perplexes grounds that it is not needed and abortion should not blind us to even the experts. that It is potentially 'harmful," the reality that what we're really . DISPENSING OPTICIAN she said. "Any problems involv- talking about is ;:he destr~ction On Oct. 20 the Michigan Su- ing women can be handled by of an innocent life," Bishop Complete Optical Service I preme Court set aside a lower court action and individual laws. Green said.

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Dennis DeConcini, Pima CounFALL RIVER thorities to prosecute violators date good:'laws that are now on ty Attorney-elect" said hE; was For Appointnients of the state's tough abortion law. the books 'and which protect surprfised and disappointeq.

The court said it would rule later women, the' home and the' Right t(J, Life Call 678-0412 on the constitutionality of the family."

"I think there's more to it than law. just the constitutional que~tion," DeConcini said. "There'~ the On Nov: 7, however, voters in Rocco Sacci Leaves question of ;the right to life. I the state wHl decide whether to would prefer that the legislature accept a const:itutional amend-' Catholic Relief Post make such a drastic would ment that provides that a woman NEW YORK (NC)-Rocco A. change in the law as that, and can obtain an abortion on de- Sacci, has left his post as direcnot the courts." mand up to the 20th week of tor of information for Catholic The law had been chall~nged pregnancy. ' Relief Services, to- become direc- . by Planned Parenthood of TucDOMESTIC & HEAVY _DUTY OIL BURNERS The question now prominent tor of publicfty for the Public son and 10 doctor:;. PimaCpunty in legal circles is:' Will the. Relations S,?ciety of America.

Sales - Sel'Yice - I nsfallafion and the state of Arizona, the devoters' decision take legal preceThe Public Relations Society fendants in the' suit, have apMAIN OFFICE - 10 DURFEE STREET, FALL RIVER dence over a later state Supreme of America provides continuing pealed the decision.

CQ.urt.r.uling,..or, w.ill,. the .cour.t.:._educ.ational._ser.vices· for .. public.

John U. Vinson, attorney for ruling decide the issue? relations personnel. the unborn involved in the suit, Hard Put-

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THE ANCHORThurs., Nov. 2, 1972

Pieta Rebuilding Ready to Beg i n

My husband, Dan, and I just attended the annual meeting of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, in Miami.

Dan had been asked to speak on the topic of public relations at one of the sessions because he is both an active St. Vincent de Paul member, and a professional those awaiting trial, held in bail $500 or less.

PR and advertising man. of No one with a serious offense Years ago, when the So- has. such minimal bail. A typical

ciety was first founded, the Vincentians worked anonymously.

They went about caring _for the poor, wi,thout letting anyone

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Imow who they were. There was good reason for this. Towns were so small that everyone knew everyone else. If the Vincentians visited a family, others would know there' was a problem, and gossip would start.

So they worked! quietly, preserving the dignity of those they helped, doing their works of charity without any fanfare.

But times have changed. Instead of simply taking food baskets to the poor, ,their work has evolved to new dimensions. They help eligible families to receive' public assistance, find jobs for the unemployed, provide furnitture for those who can't afford it.

Community Should Know They help the aged, the homeless, the destitute, the handicap, the forgotten .. But to do all this, in today's society, mor-e than ever, ,they need to let the community know what they are doing.

For example, one of their new programs is providing bail for people awaiting trial on minor charges. These pE:ople are held in jail simply becaus-e they are poor and cann{)t afford even the low bail set in such cases.

It is important for the public to be informed about this program to prevent rumors that the Vincentians are freeing thieves, rapists, and murderers.

The program releases only

Church Women United Elect Sister Tobin NEW YORK (NC) - Sister Mary Luke Tobin, an ecumenist active in many religious groups, has been elected director of citizens action of the national staff of Church Women United.

Sister Tobin, who is also national co-chairman of Clergy and LaiJty Concerned, and head of the peace and justice committee of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, was chosen for her new post by the executive committee of the New Yorkbased CWU at its Detroit meeting.

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He's held in jail, awaiting trial, just because he's poor.

When two teenagers are picked up on misdemeanor charges, even though the evidence against each is exactly the same, the one whose father has a few hundred . dollars in the bank can get right out. But if the other is poor, he goes to jail, sometimes .foe months, awaiting trial.

So the Society of St. Vincent de Paul has trie!! to help them.

But because ,this work can be misunderstood, it is important that the Vincentians get stories on television and in the pap~rs so people will know the truth about their work.

MARK 60th ANNIVERSARY: Mr. and Mrs. Joseph .Therriault of Madonna Manor, North Attleboro, mark 60th wedding anniversary. Observance included Mass celebrated by their oldest son, Rev. Edgar Therriault, Waltham. At re'ception following Mass a taped greeting from another son, Rev. Herman Therriault, a missioner in the South Pacific, was played. The couple have eight other children, including Sister Bernadette, a Daughter of Wisdom stationed in 'Vincention Image' Ozone Park, N.Y., Miss Ida Therriault, an Attleboro teacher; Since the meeting was sched- .and Eugent Therriault, also of Attleboro. Other children uled for Miami, we decided to reside in Canada, Maine, Connecticut and Chelmsford and arrive at the convention hotel North Reading, Mass.

VATICAN CITY (NC)-Vatican technicians will use ordinary transparent tape, a home-made glue and so-called miracle plastics to reassemble Michelangelo's famed Pieta of the grieving Madonna and dead Christ which a Hungarian emigre damaged last May with 15 hammer blows.

Deocclecio Redig de Campos, director of the Vatican Museums and Monuments and chief of the restoration team, told a news conference Oct. 19 that the pa'instaking job of replacing more than 50 fragments and rebuilding the shattered arm of the Madonno is ready to begin.

He said that the precautions the Vatican will take to protect the Pieta once it is placed on public view around Christmastime are still under discussion, but that a plexiglass wall, alarms and closed-circuit television are possibilities.

There is also some discussion of moving the Pieta from the altar near the main entrance to St. Peter's Basilica to a more populated area of the Church, but no definite plan has been agreed on, he said.

- Redig de Campos said that the experimentation with p1'astics has produced a composition of marble that matches perfectly the ofiginal color of the marble.

"Our marble is so perfect that I would say it is 98 per cent similar and cannot be distinguished from the original," the artisan said.

a few days early. Another group -the United Pentecostal Association-was just concluding a week-long convention. Those -Essence wonderful people have a great It is not what he has, or even Religious Life Experiencing Grave Crisis, deal of enthusiasm for their what he does which expresses work, and their members neither the worth of a man, but what he Cardinal Danielou Asserts drink nor smoke. is. ':"-Amiel VATICAN CITY (NC) - The the Gospel" as expressed in the We were the only people in the hotel dining room having a crisis in the life of the Church's various constitutions of Relicocktail before dinner. The cock- Religious is so grave that "one gious congregations and orders tail waitress served us, and we cannot talk of renewal but of and an updating of these constioverheard our waiter say to her, decadence," Cardinal Jean Dani- tutions to meet the needs of the "Boy, this non-drinking Pente- ielou said in an interview on times. costal group is killing your busi- Vatican Radio.

The cardinal listed three errors ness."

The French Jesuit theologian of interpretation of the council's She winked at him, "Don't you was intervjewed the same day he teachings on the life of Reliworry, honey. I'll make it up read the first report on the gen- gious: secularization, a "false next week. I happen to know eral state of Religious life at the concept" of freedom and a "misthat on Thursday, we've got 500 plenary session of the Vatican's taken concept of the evolution of Catholics coming in here .. and Congregation for Religious. man and of the Church." ,those people really know how to The council did state that The cardinal ha's been a stout drink!"

Dan commented, "So much for defender of priestly celibacy and "human values must be consid. the papacy, and his ideas seem ered seriously" Cardinal Dari'The Vincentian Image' "! to coincide closely with those ielou said, but it did not hold IDEAL LAUNDRY of Pope Paul VI, who made the "that we are immersed in a sec-· Mass Text Combines Jesuit priest a cardinal in 1969. ularized world in which the re373 New Boston Road ligious dimension cannot have a latin and English· The crisis in Religious life, the role as a component part of Fall River 678-5677 HARTFORD (NC) - A Mass cardinal said, shows itself in civilization. that attempts to "c{)mbine the every field. The evangelical beauty and s{)lemnity of Latin councils (poverty, chastity and •••••••••••••••••••••••• + ••••••••••••••••••••• 'with the familiarity of the ver- '!> obedience) are no longer considnacular" has been developed by ered asa consecration to God Announcing . • . a layman here. but are seen from a sociological The Mass uses English for the and psychological point of view.

Liturgy of the Word, including "There js the concern not to FOR the Gospel and, Epistle, and appear bourgeois, but on the inLatin for the Canon, an unusual dividual level poverty is no longMT. ST. RITA HEALTH CENTRE format that is allowed by Church er practiced. Group dynamics is authorities but seldom, if ever, substituted .for religious obediSisters of Mercy used, according to Frank M.· ence, and under the pretext of Haggerty, author of the new reacting against formalism all NOVEMBER 10, 1972 at 7:00 P.M. text. regularity of a life of prayer is AT "People have always needed abandoned."

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Bishop of Little Rock Broadens Role of Clergy, Laity in Diocese

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of fall River-Thurs., Nov. 2, 1972

LITILE ROCK (NC) - In his six weeks in office, Bishop Andrew J. McDonald has planned broadening the role of clergy and laity in the conduct of diocesan affairs.

Bishop McDonald spoke of his .plans in meetings with the Sistens' senate, diocesan deans, diocesan consultors, the priests' personnel board, and a conference.

"U this diocese stagnates, if it fails to develop and grow on the sacrifiices of the past, I am not going to assume'responsibility for this by myself, alone," he told the priests' conference.

"You ,share this responsibility with me."

He told the conference he

Protest Image On Malta Coins VALLETTA (NC)-The minting ,of new coins hearing the ,image of an anticlerJcal of the 1920s has created a controversy on Malta.

To mark independent Malta's ohangeover from the old British coinage of pounds, shillings and pence to the decimaI system, the . government of Premier Dom Mintoff and the religious order of the Knights of St. John have minted souvenir coins bear.ing the image of the politician Em,manuel Dimech.

would reactivate the priests' senate----which ceased to exist with bhe retirement,of Bishop Albert L. Fletcher-only along the organizational lines chosen by the priests themselves. He said the opinions of the priests on how the senate should be designed should be tabulated at the diocesan rabher than deanery or chancery level.

Ultimately, he said, he hoped the diocese's priests would work as a "presbytera'te" with each priest drawn into the administrationof the diocese.

Internal Financing At the meeting of the priests' personnel board, Bishop McDonald said the board must be expanded to give priests a greater voice ,in' its deliberations. It subsequently was decided to expand the board's membershipfrom three to six, with members, being chosen from all age groups among the pI'iests.

At the meeting with the deans, the btshop said he hoped to es, tabli'sh "internal financing" which would aJtiow pari'shes to borrow money from the diocese at interest rates lower than that available at banks.

Also at the meeting with the deans, Bishop McDonald said he hoped a diocesan pastoral council composed of clergymen, re" oJigious and laity would be established.

Open System In the 1920s Dimech 'was inIn addition, 'he told the dean~ volved i~ a battle against Church leaders and his followers sought he ,favored par,ish staff meetings to end .the Church's influence' between pastors and assistants on Malta. Their publications at which the subordinate priests tr.ied to dis'credit the clergy. could offer ideas and feel they Dimech never made peace with have a voice in pastoral affairs.

At the Sisters' senate meeting, the Church and died in Egypt after being - deported by the the prelate encouraged each nun British colonial administration, to share information on diocesan activities. Following this meeting which then ruled Ma'lta. and the others, :the bishop iliusOimeoh had been in obscurity trated his support for the free ,untJil the Maltese government exchange of information by havlast year nam~ a tunnel after ing !the minutes of all meetings him. duplicated and distributed to all· Letters to Maltese newspapers pl'iests and Sister'S and to laymen have criticized the Knights of associated witlh parish councils St. John for agreeing to put Dim- and school boards.

"It is only in this free and ech's, image on their coins. Tlie writers, maintain that as a reli- open system of oommunication gious order, the kn'ights were ,that 'we wJIl be able to WOI'k tomoraHy obliged to refuse the gether for 1Jhe good of souls and government's suggestion. They for the 'honor and glory of God," also criticize the government for he said. choosing Dimech, because he was imprisoned 'at one time for hanWEAR dling counterfeit currency.

The Church has not taken any public position' in the controveI'sy. Last year, however, Archbishop Miohael Gonzi of Malta refused to bless ,the tunnel named after Dimech, while he agreed to bless another tunnel at that 'time.

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Charismatic Movement Called 'Tidal Wave Sweeping Church' AUGUSTA (NC)-The charismatic movement is a "tidal wave of the Spirit sweeping over the Church today," according Ito a speaker at a conference here.

The movement "is not a revolution, for ,a revolution means a break with the past," Father Harold Cohen said. "It is not an evolution for evolution means a gradual process." ,In the movement, Father Coilen said, the Holy Spirit is giving new life to th,e Church, ,"but at the same time making

us appreciate the old more-in a deepe.', fuller manner."

Father Cohen described a deep spiritual docility toward -the leaders of il:he Church shown by participants in charismatic renewal. "The Spirit is with ~s," he said, '~in!li'sts on sound doctrine and calls for obediencethis is a sign of charismatic reo newal."

Father Cohen, a ohaplain at Loyola University in New Orleans, spoke at a regional charismatic renewal conference attended by 900 persons from 12 southeastern states and Puerto Rico.

Keynote speaker, James Byrne, the director of the Communica" tion Center for The Charismatic LOURDES (NC). - Ghristians Renewal, stressed the impormust face the fact that many tance of believing in Jesus Christ matters once consid~ private- and of being conscious of his have become poli.tical.,<\uestion's, presence in every event.

Bi'shop Gabriel Matagrin of Grenoble told the annual assembly of 'In Spirit of Love' the F·rench Bishops' Conference Christians must "look beyond here. to see Ohrist, to adore Him in "Politics has more and more in- every circumstance, in every refluence on daily Hfe," said Bish- lationship ... '," Byrne said. "If op Matagrin's report on faith Christ is to draw us beyond ourand politics, one of the principal selves, we must be open to Him. .topics of the meeting.

We must see the way Ghrist "Certain questions formerly not wants to lead us and share with considered political now enter us. In every situation, we must iVhe political field," the bishop realize il:hat God will show us the said. "Questions such as sexual- path to eternal life." ity, leisure or conflict, for exThe Chriistian must allWays ample, are passing out of the searah beneath the external, domain of the private. They are Byrne said, "to Ihear the word posed in political terms. From a of God not only by ear, but in cer-tain point of view they re- our hearts, for the word of God quire political soJutions."

-is active in the world today."

That is why, he said, the quesThe conference participants ,Nons posed by the relations be- were welcomed .to Augusta by tween faith and politics are more Bishop Gerard L. Frey. ">If the critical today than they were in world ever needed the guidance the past. of the Holy Spirit, it is D'OW," There is a political pluralism the Savannah bishop said. "It is 'among Catholics, he said. "From more important today than ever the extreme right to the extreme before that we live together in 'left, the whole gamut of political the spirit of love."

In remarks at the end of the opinions is found among the Sunday Mass, Bishop Michael J. Christian people."

Begley, of Charlotte, N. C., adThe bishop asked: "How is vised of the interest and support this pluralism, which results in 'Of the bishops of the Atlanta opposing Catholics to one anothprovince in the charismatic er, to be reconciled with the broth- renewal. erly communion of the children of God?" This pluralism, he said, is le~timate.

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Gibbons Medal WASHINGTON (NC)-Cardinal Patrick O'Boyle will be presented the Cardinal Gibbons Medal, the highest award of the Catholic University Alumni Association, at the group's annual awards banquet here Nov. The Washington archbishop is also chancellor of Catholic University.

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GOLDEN JUBILEE OF SEEKONK PARISH: Top: Bishop Cronin, who was principal concelebrant of the Mass of Thanksgiving at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church distributes Holy Communion with the pastor, Rev. William J. Shovelton. Middle: The Ordinary is joined by Father Shovelton; left and Rev. Paul E. Canuel, right, assistant pastor at Mt. Carmel 'as parishiloners are congratulated by the Bishop on the occasion of their golden jubilee. Bottom: No generation gap in the receiving line as the very young join in the celebration.

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Bleak Picture of Priesthood Presented to French Bishops

Maintains Parent Should See" Discuss Movies

. LOURDES (NC)-A report on priests' education presented to the annual meeting of the French Bishops' Conference here drew a bleak picture of the state of the priesthood in France today.

Preparation for the priestlY' ministry was one of the two prin. cipal topics for discussion at the meeting from Oct. 23 to 30. The other was "Politics, the Church and . the Faith," which has aroused considerable inter~st, among non-Catholics because of the legislative elections scheduled for next March.

In his opening address, how-

You can't be 'around young people long without one movie or another popping into the conversation. The movie is their novel, their magazine, their language and their culture. It's also where they go for dates if there isn't a game or if they arei n't interested in parking or life and marria,ge.

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a movie that touches him so mension youth often overlooks. deeply he asks his parents -to Why must youth inmoVlies have go and th~y do: Having seen . parents to blame for. their ;6wn nothing sin~e "Sound of Music," weaknesses? Isn't it a li,We imWl.mimw.WiKt'tmri&'f~U« mature to blame Mom al)d Dad's weakening relationship/f<>r their own poor performa}tce, weak values, or lack of y;'inciPleS? By Jewish friends/of ours used this trust with;their teenagers DOLORES when they saw "Goodbye Columbus" and we used it with young CURRAN CaJth'olJics who pointed to "Lovers and Other Stranger's", as proof that mattiage ruiI;ls love. "Okay," we said, "the parents' marriages were empty shams but what's they emerge -from the theatre, ,that got to do with the behavior eyes like fried eggs arid mouths of their grown children?" like zippers. They're torn beThe unspoken implication in tween being labelled obsolete' if so many oftthe~e films is that they express the'ir honest reac- somehow parents are to blame tl'on to their offspring and anger for all of their children's failures at him for suggesting th~y see a -even college age children! movie so contradictory to the . The implication has to be values they have tried to incul- challenged .and often when it· is, cate in him. They may even sus- the kids will say, "Yeah ... that's pect the has put them on the /true. I didn't think about that spot deliberately. part of it."

So hOw.d'o they react? On the , Parents who refuse to see way home, they discuss their movies their children are seeing dilemma, this despairing couple. are indulging in a bit of selfish· If they preteJ:1d they weren't horness, I'm afraid. I don't like' the rified, 'they're hypocritical," a gross distortion of' mimiageand . card-ina'! sin in their son's eyes. the eulogizing 'Of unmarriage on If they state their dismay over the screen but I'm not going to the 'state of the movies," their help my children by indulging son's reaction will be a what." in my preferences by not seeing can-you-expect shrug. He won't them. . suggest or discuss any more Rather than being threatened movies with them. and silenced by today's film fare, The experience wHl fade away. I'd like. to see ,today's parent~ They will refuse to attend any. use them as a basis f.or discusmore movies' and he will ,con- sion of issues like premanital sex, tinue to see them all. They just abortion, distribution of wealth, won't be discussing ·the ideas, behavior modification, and so,on, values, and lack 'Of values ·in'her- These films are a ready-made entin them, that's all. vehicle whic;:h too many of us ignore. We find it easier to con.Another Side And that's where ,the danger demn than discuss, and that lies, because we can't offset isn't helping our children at all.

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The happy marriage' is prac· tically non-existent in today's Repeats Opposition ' movies. Often m'arriage is de- To Abortion Law grading, used only .to show youth NEW YORK (NC)-In a state. the devastating effect it has on ment preceding the Alfred E. those foolish enough to get Smith dinner here, Cardinal Tel'caught. More ..often, it is used e~ce . Cooke reaffirmed his opp·as justificllltion for adultery or osition to New York State's abor-. an excuse for the failures of the tion law and indicated new efyouth themselves. forts would be made to repe~Ll The wise parent who sees the the law. movies his, children are seeing The cardinal made the remarks doesn't have to condone parents in a statement explaining why he like th'Ose in "l1he Graduate." He invited Gov. Nelson Rockerfeller, doesn't h'ave to defend· them, who vetoed a bill repealing the eilther. (When he does, he impli- . law last Summer, to the dinner.· cates hilllself by identifying with "Never has an invitation been them.) Rather, his attitude can construed as approval of a public be the same as 'his child's: dis- official's actions," the cardinal· gust at the shallQwnes's of their said. ~~ .. ~. '~~ ,-,' :. ....."..~t"., . .; \" .. '. -i~.L_\. \'. \ ..... r'V • • • . _', . ' • ~q " ,..17 .... v r.Y.v.1I",...".'= "'.W' W' ... 1:" W V" .. V

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ST. JOHN OF GOD, SOMERSET Mrs. Edward Machado, Women's Guild program chairman, has completed plans for an evening of recollection to be ·held at'La Salette Shrine Wednesday, Nov. 15. The program will include a folk Mass, a talk by Rev. Andre Patenaude, M.S.. and a coffee hour. Busses will leave at .6:30 P.M. from the ohurch grounds and members may bring friends. Reservations may be made with Mrs:" Frank Thomas and Mrs. Manuel No~ueira.

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ever, Cardinal Francois Marty of Paris, president of the bishops' conference, said that "if some people are hoping for earth-shaking stands to be taken, they will be disappointed." He stressed that the discussion of the Church and politics was not planned in view of the elections but was the result of research carried on in the French' Catholic Church at the request of some of the bishops' commissions since 1967.

The report on priestly education. presented by ~uxiliary Bishop Francois Fretelliere of Bordeaux emphasized in statistics the critical character of the state of the priesthood.

In 1963 there were 5,279 students in French major seminaries.

In 1971, there were only 2,840, a decrease of 47 per cent.

In eight years entries into the semiary declined from 917 to 354, a drop of 61 per cent.

Ordinations dropped from 573 tQ 237, a decrease of 58. per cent.

The number of deaths exceed-. ed1lhat of ordinations by 161 in 1965; and by' 465 in 1970.

A further 200 priests left the exercise of the ministry.

Thus, whereas there were 40,994 diocesan priests in Fl"llnce in 1965, there will be no more than 31,820 in 1975.

Bishop Fretelliere pointed to certain facts thlrt he said were correctives to the purely statistica1 analysis. The young, he said, are thinking about the priesthood, :but are waiting be· cause they reject it in its' present form.

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Mrs. John Synott and Mrs. Ina Lizotte will serye as hostess for LA PAZ' (NC) - Church and the program to be presented by government Jeaders here praised Fernandes Market at the regular a Marylmoll-sponsored effort to monthly meeting scheduled for '8 teach some 10,000 illIterates a on .Wednesday night, Nov. 8 year to read and writ~. in the all-purpose room of the Cardina-l Clemente Maurer of Center.

Sucre sai<l Maryknoll n'tissiQners' Mrs. Ann Ry,an and Mrs. Mary chain of radio schools has been Howard will be in charge of the "the main pillar in the bishops' card party scheduled for Tuespriorities for educati0t;l." day night, Nov. 14.

Bolivian Education Minister A one-day trip to New York -Jaime Tapia credited the radio sohools with "rescuing thousan~s is planned for Dec. 2 and interof Bolivjans from indifference . ested parties may contact Mrs.' and frustration" by teaching Paul Batchelder for further inf,ormation and reservations. , them' to read and write.

About 65 per cent of BoJiv.ia's five million people ove* 10 years of age are miter,ates.

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Urge Bishops Study Penance DETROIT (NC) -- Over 300 liturgists meeting here asked the bishops of the United States to make a comprehensive study of the sacrament of Penance from psychological, theological and liturgical viewpoints.

The action came ·in a series of rcsolutions adopted at the fifth annual meeting of the National Federation of Diocesan Liturgical Commissions.

Other resolutions adopted at the meeting included: U. S. bishops were urged to draw up a "service book for worship" or national hymnal for the United States.

The bishops were· asked to wa.it at least another three years before fixing a definite age for conferring the sacrament of Confirmation~

Lectors and leadcrs of worship should receive morc training.

For better concentration on the 'action at the altar, the eu· charistic prayers should be omit· ted frQm missalettes.

For similar reasons the prayers of the celebrant should be omit· tcd frQm parish bulletins.

Father Frederick McManus, director of the bishops' Committce on the Liturgy addressed the delegates on the "State of the Liturgy," making a strong plea for liturgical cate()hesis and prepara.tion for good celebration.

Archbishop Helps Refugee Family YORK (NC) - One of the Asian families expelled ~rom Uganda has moved into an apartment in the residence of Anglican Archbishop Frederick Coggan of York. ' The family - Muhammad Ali Fazal, 32, his wife, Pervin, 27, and their six-week·old daughter Irrun - arrived .in England in September with only $120 and has been staying at a camp at Stradishall. Someone at the camp merely told Fazal that if he was interested there' was a person who could give him a place to stay.

The family will live in a selfcontained apartment in the arch· bishop's residence, but has been taking their meals wJth Archbishop Coggan and hi.s wife.

The arrangement wiII be rentfree until Fazal finds a job and can set up a home for his family.

Fazal was born in IntUa of Indian parents and was graduated from Karachi University in Pakistan.

He taught mathematics, history and Islamic studies in Kampala, the capital of Uganda.

Litany of Praise For Missionaries VATICAN CITY (NC) - Missionaries of the world are brave and happy, Pope Paul told crowds gathered in S1. Peter's Square on Mission Sunday.

"Missionaries are volunteers without recompense, explorers without a name, martyrs without glory; but they are brave and happy and are not tuming back!" the Pope said.

In a Litany of praise woven' into his speech, the Pope called the missionaries "audacious prophets," "tireless pilgrims," "champions of spiritual hero· ism," ."courageous men and fearless women."

Youngest Jesuif.;College President Has Reputation for Getting Things Don~ MOBILE (NC)-For 33-year-. .. old Jesuit Father Paul S. Tipton it should have been no surprise to be named the youngest president in the 142-year history of Spring Hill College here.

In his Short career, Father Tipton has already established a reputation as a man who gets things done. Before his ordination to the priesthood in May, 1971, Father Tipton at one timc or another was: student at five different colleges and universities; manager of the Woodstock Singers, a nationally known group of singing seminari'ans; high sChool teacher; university professor; "chief mover" of a $21-million. low-income housing project, and staff aide to U. S. Rep. Richard C. White of Texas.

"He's a whirlwind," said Jesuit Father Robert Gafford, pastor of Sacred Heart Church in El Paso, Texas, who has known Father Tipton since 1966.

'Something New' Speaking of Father Tipton's two years in El Paso as a Jesuit scholastic, Father Gafford said, "He was something new to us.

He'd stop by the rectory for 15 minutes - a bite to eat and a quick conversation - and then he'd be off on some new project.

Once he decided he was going to do something, he'd tear out FATHER PAUL and get it done. No waiting tiII tomorrow for him!" returned to El Paso to teach Father Tipton joined the Jes· American history at the Univeruits in 1958. A native of Ala- sity of Texas campus there. bama, he had attended George-, '''It's unusual for a priest or town Prep, a Jesuit high'school in Rockville, Md. After 'a year at cleric to teach a secular subject the University of Virginia, he de- in a secular university down cided to become a Jesuit and !here," said Father Gafford. "He spent the next six years in the was a first, as far as I can reJesuit Schollisticate at Spring calL" HiII College, where he is now . Although he. wasn't officially president. with the campus ministry, he In 1964 he was moved to EI was soon dealing with students Paso to teach at the Jesuit High who had problems. 'The' stuhigh school there and take night dents at the university just took courses -in American history at to him," Father Gafford recalled. the University of Texas.

"He had' a way of telling you "He 'also ran the Sodality, exactly what he thought about founded a dramatic club, started you, and I guess they liked that." communications between Jesuit Congressional Aide High and the other high schools His work in the El Paso inner in the city, and started working ,with teenagers caught up in city also brought him into close contact with Rep. White's office drugs," Father Gafford said.

Aided Needy After a year's break at Gonzaga University in Seattle, Stress Develop'ment Wash., to finish up his requirements in philosophy studies,: he Of Rural Areas DACCA (NC) - The government of the new nation of Plan Eucharistic Bangladesh, which broke away Congress Funding from Pakistan last December, MELBOURNE (NC)-Archbish- plans to give priority to the deop James R. Knox of Melbourne velopment of electricity, health told a meeting of the Catholic services, housing, education and Press Association here that he communications in rural areas, would rather sell his home than an Irish priest said here. see the organizing committee of The priest, Holy Ghost Father the International Eucharistic Raymond Kennedy, field director Congress in debt when the con- of the Ir.ish aid organization Congress is over. It will be held here .cern, said that "any money the Feb. 18-25, 1973.

Pakistan government did spend Commenting on Archbishop in wh'at is now Bangladesh was Knox's statement, the congress's in the urban centers, principally executive director, Father Brian Dacca. The few initiatives that . Walsh, said he is sure that there were taken in the countryside will be no need to sell the arch- were due to outside influencebishop's residence to pay any WHO (World Health Organizadebts. tion), USAID (U. S. Agency for Father Walso said that every International"Development), FAO diocese in the state of Victoria (the UN's Food and Agriculture has agreed to support a $400,000 Organization, . . . Therefore 24 fund-raising drive for the con- years of cumulative neglect of gress initiated by the Knights of rural areas must be faced by the . government of this new nation." the Southern Cross.

S. TIPTON, S.J. there, and when he moved to Woodstock, Md., for theology studies he was asked to become _", a staff aide..

"Rep. White :asked me three or four times before I said yes," Father Tipton said. "For a year I was commuting daily from Woodstock to Washington.

"Then WOodstock College was moved up to New York, and I started cO'!1muting by planethree days in Washington every week and four in New York."

After his ordination in 1971, Father Tipton moved to the Jesuit residence at Georgetown University, continuing as a congressional aide, working in cam· pus ministry at Georgetown, and taking theology courses at Catholic University.

One of Father Tipton's accomplishments while a congressional staf.f aide was to get a $21-million federal project in El Paso rechanneled into lowcost housing .for the poor. " The young scholastic also got 'involved in the problems of the inner-city Mexican-Americans.

"He was always out getting clothes, food, furniture for some needy family," said Father Gafford. "He was blunt and straightforward, and he got. things done."

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Observe Mission Agency Founding WASHINGTON (NC) - The 350th anniversary of the founding of the Church's international mission agency will be marked by a National Mission Animation Conference here Nov. 13-16.

As part of the meeting, the U. S. bishops, who will be attending their. own national meeting here at the same time, will concelebratea Mass for the missions at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.

The Mass and conference will mark the 350th anniversary of the Vatican Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, formerly known as the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, and the 150th anniversary of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith.

Archbishop Sergio Pignedoli, president of ·the Society, and head of the congregation, will speak on the "Evangelization of Peoples."

Archbishop Humberto S. Medeiros of Boston will speak on the Global Vision of the Mission. ary Church," and Father Joseph M. Connors, director of the U. S. Mission Council, will speak on the "American Catholic Missionary Effort."

The "Theological Foundations for Mission Animation" will be discussed by Father Vincent M. Nugent of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith.

In addition to those talks at general sessions of the confer· ence, there will be nine concurrent sessions on a variety of aspects of the missions. The conference will be held at the Nationa-I Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.

Sign Agreement On Church Schools BAMAKO (NC)-The government of Mali and the Catholic bishops' conference of the country signed an agreement on education, undE..'1" which the government will pay 70 per cent of the salaries of teachers in Church schools.

Archbishop Luc Sangare of Bamako said the agreement was not a nationalization of Catholic schools. He said it was the integration of Church schools "into the national scholastic .system."

This means following government curriculums, submitting to state financial and pedagogical control, and respect for the secular nature of the state.

The Church still has to pay the remaining 30 per cent of salaries and ·is responsible for the construction ·and maintenance of school buildings.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., Nov., 2, 1972

Miss Alice Fahey Recalled As Teacher Without' Peer

By Joe and· Marilyn Roderick

ST. GEORGE, WESTPORT The W<lmen's Guild will sponsor a style show, "Portraits of Fashion," following a dinner at 7 Monday night, Nov. 6at Venus 'de Milo restaurant, Swansea. Cochairmen are Mrs. Ralph P. Souza and Mrs. David L. Buckley .

Jr. Mrs. Joseph O. Forand is chairman 'of a turkey whist scheduled f<>r 8 Saturday night, Nov. 11 at the school hall on Rte. 177, Westport.

Bingo is played every Wednesday night at 7, under sponsorship of the Holy Name Society. This and the style show and whist will benefit the parish school fund.

Booster tickets for the sch<lol will be available from captains or at the rectory beginning Sunday, Nov. 12. '

Recently a very dear friend of ours, Miss Alice Fahey, passed away. We call her a friend even though she was more than 30 years our senior. Our friendship wa~ not social but rather a meeting of minds. We taught together for a number of years at James Madison Morton Jun-' parlor and so forth and so on ...

Mr. Blair's description of a ior High School and I came mother's day was perfeCt but to know her during school when he had the heroine, Jean

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Favrot, 'run <lut of gas in the Miss Fahey was possessed of middle of heavy five o'clock one of those rare uncluttered , traffic and get out of the car and NAMED: New Rrovinc:ial minds which allowed fQr the new cry with her face buried in her while preserving the old which arms on its roof, II wondered how for the Western. Prpvince of she cherished. We talked a great a man could possibly have such the Oblate Fathers is Fr. deal ~bout poetry, I about the insight.

I have written before about Ronald Carignan, 40, CO-Ofnew' or modern poetry, she about the poetry of Lpngfellow, this problem 'of mother and dinatoi' of adult education Emily Dickinson and the Low- father ending' up as taxi drivers for' the Diocese of Oakland, ells, which she loved. She led me due to the surging social life of, Calif. A native -of Low1::!1l, to reread some of her favorite our young and our own self- he has been involved in a poets (they were not as dull as destructive drive to get a driver's variety of ministries includI had thought they were) and I license and I haven't yet f<lund a ing prison work, cQuns~lil1g, introduced her to some of my solution. and school administration: favorites (she was particularly Not Deprived taken with Anne Sexton).

Funny, I don't remember feelPeerless Teacher ,ing that I was a culturalIy deAs a teacher she was without prived youngster because I didn't peer. At first view she appeared belong to every organization CINCINNATI (NC}---The Curstrict and forbidding, but one open to ,the younger generation. quickly realized she treated' her In fact, either a good book or a siUo movement is "a splendid students with affection and good friend seemed to give me sign of hope" in an age of turwarmth. She appeared proud and a great deal more pleasure than moil, Bishop Edward fl.. McCaral<lof, yet was approachable and my own young seem to derive ,t:rty of Phoenix, Ariz" told a humble. Her students appreci- from their endless mobility. Cursillo celebration h$re.

I ated her and respecte.d her for Every afternoon is taken up with "[n the midst <If this polarizasome activity or lesson.

When what she did for them.. do they have a chance to dream tion of values and I attitu<:,es, Her approach to teaching En- or just THINK. Certainly not in thin:gs 'are happening in our society that make' our !times the glish was simple: give children , the car. the opportunity to learn and apWhile all the women I know 'age of hope," the bis~op said. ply the English' language. She have' the same complaint, most "The counter movetl).ent of the often used H.L. Mencken's dic- have not reached the point of Holy Spirit is growing. Writers tum: "To a man with an ear for getting out of the car and cryare making hope the main charverbal delicacies;-the man who ing when caught in rush hour acteristic <If today's theology ~LOd searches painfulIy for the perfect traffic (instead we just sit quietspirituality - and' the Cursillo word, and puts the way of say- ly -inside and either sob or seethe . movement is one of th~ splend,id ing a thing above the word said internalIy). signs of that hope."

-there is in writing the constant However, since we alI love our joy of sudden discovery, of hap~ children and want very much to "Under the pressu1e' of our py accident." give them the best of everything times," he continued, "many , Miss Fahey retired' a number (perhaps the best isn't always people are being driveh to redis-' of years ago but for many' years the best) we'lI continue using cover the reality of G&d in their to come when groups of school-, the car as a second home. Per- ow'n personal lives; th~y are ,exmates get together, I am sure haps when our children get mo- periencing an inner apxiety for that someone will say, "Remem- bile on their own one, of the local meaningful and creative and 'enber Miss Fahey? She was a great cab companies could use us as thusiastic sharing of their faith." teacher." ' part time help-think how exThe Cursillo movement inperienced we'll be. cludes a three-day retreat-like In the Kitchen Very often, after a hectic day weekend that combines lectures In the first chapter of a book we enjoy some quiet conversa- and religious services aimed at 1 have been reading, "The Arch- tion with friends. If you intend developing Christian a~tion -leadbishop" by Clair Blair Jr., I was' to serve hors d' oeuvres, here's ers.

I amazed to find a description of one of my fiavorites.

"As Cursillistas," he told his the heroine's, day that closely audience, "we are p~rt of the Shrimp Turnovers paralleled the hectic lives of movement of reawak~ning faith many of the women I knowand hope in God ,an,~, a deep Y2 pound cooked shrimp myself included. awareness of dependence on 1 teaspoon horseradish each other as part of' a revolu2 Tablespoons lemon juice . The Hstof errands in the fictionizing community.",' 1 Teaspoon prepared mustard tional woman's typical day had I Tablespoon chopped sweet included taking one child to a M<lreover, the CurslIIo mo've-, pickles ' birthday party, stopping at a ment can promote "the spirit of I !teaspoon salt drug store for, a present, finding understanding, of patience, of 3 Tablespoons mayonnaise out that she had forgotten her love and trust and harmony, in1 cup prepared pastry dough dulgence and forgiveness - the purse, returning home for said 1 pt. cream purse and then back to the drug spirit of reconciHatiori," Bisl:,op 1) Grind shrimp and combine McCarthy said; store. Her "tour of duty" continued as she picked up two other alI ingredients, except dough and I children at the Boys' 'Club, shop- cream, and blend 'into a paste.

Named to ~oard ped for new mitts and cleated (I do this in the blender) 2) Roll pastry very thin and SAN FRANCISCO (NC}-Gershoes for them, dr<lpped a bike off at the repair shop, picked up cut into 2 -inch circles. Place tea- ard E. Sherry, editor of the Monanother daughter at the beauty spoon of filling in center of each itor, the archdiocesan newspaper circle 'and moisten edge~ with here, has been named a member cold water; fold over and press of the Doard of Governors of the Occasion edges together with fork. Prick. Korthern California branch of the Small opportunities are often top and brush with cream. Bake National Conference of Christhe beginning of great enter- in a 475 degree oven for 12 or tians and Jews. Sherry is also a prises.

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OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP, NEW BEDFORD The parish society will sponsor a cake sale on Saturday, Nov. 4 at the Outlet in the Dartmouth Mall.

Inaddi-toin to the cakes, Golakikiand Pierogi will also be on sale. _ The~committee for the affair is headed by Mrs, Edward Tracz, president of the society. '

'ST. MARGARET, ~UZZARDS BAY SS. Margaret-Mary Guild members saw a demonstratiqn of Christmas wreath making at their meeting last night. Mrs. James Doherty of Onset presented the program.

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ST. PATRICK, SOMERSET The Women's Guild will sponsor a turkey whist Saturday night, Nov. 11 in the lower church of St. Thomas More.

Awards will include five complete turkey dinners.

The CCD Board will meet at 8 Wednesday night, Nov. 8 ~n Fisher House.

The Adult Educa,tion committee will meet at 8 tonight in the Fisher House. All interested in joining the committee are asked to attend.

Parishioners are asked to C<lntribute green s'tamps this Sunday in a drive to obtain equipment for the CCD Center.

Publicity chairmen of parish organizations are asked to submit news items for this column' to T~e Anchor, P, O. Box 7, Fall River 02722. Name of city or town should be included, as well are full dates of all actiVities, Please send news of future rather than past events,

H.OLY ROSARY, FALL RIVER The date for th~ annual Mass for deceased members of the Women's guild has been changed from Monday evening to 8:30 on Saturday morning, Nov. 4.

A triduum will be conducted at 7 o'clock tonight. Friday night and Saturday night f<>r the souls in Purgatory.

The Thanksgiving Turkey Flingo will be held on Monday ,evening, Nov. 13. CYO members are handling the: tickets and the Women's Guild is in charge of chance books.

OUR LADY' OF ANGELS, FALL RIVER Holy Name Society members will attend 8' A.M. Mass Sunday, Nov. 5. Breakfast will follow , in the church hall.· Also scheduled for the hall is , a turkey whist party at 7 P.M. Saturday, Nov. 11.

Children of Mary will sponsor a cake saie following aJI. Masses the weekend of Nov. '11 and 12.

The union will re~eive corporate Communion at 9 A.M. Mass Sunday, Nov. 26. 'Breakfast and ,a meeting will follow.

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ST. JOSEPH, ATILEBORO Rev. John J. Smith, Diocesan Director of Vocations, will address members of the Knights of the Altar and their fathers at 7:15 on Satur-day night, Nov. 4 in the school haH. Father Smith will spea,k 'at the 6:30 Mass on Saturday night and the 9:15 and 10:30 Masses on Sunday morning as the parish conducts a week f<lr "Vocations 'to the Religious Life."

HOLY CROSS, SOUTH EASTON The parish will hold its fifth annual !'iolly Fair from 10 to 7 Saturday, Nov. 11 in the church 'haH on Purchase Street. Attrac.lions will .include a raffle, Santa Claus" free Qaby ;sitting and booths featuring needlework, knitted items, baked goods, Christmas decorations and toys.

C<>-chairmen are Mrs. William Kempf, Mrs. Joseph Techiera and Mrs. Lawrence Thomas.

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Such ends as abortion have their roots in careless or agressive or selfish sexuality. But they can be' conquered only if man's sexual nature is seen to be, like all God's creation, good, honourable, beautiful and in a profound' way responsible for much of the art, poetry and cre- man sexuality can also be the point for more positive ative activity of which hu- starting teaching on the value of marman beings are capable. Not riage. Dr. Samuel' Johnson called

.for nothing do great Christian mystics compare the love between two spouses with the mystical union of the soul with God.

By BARBARA WARD

it "the queen of friendships" and there is in fact nothing more inspiring than the ideal and the achievembent of two human beings living together and loving each other through all the vicissitudes of life-young love, the birth and rearing of children,' middle age, the coming of grandchildren, old age with its pains and comforts, the whole perspective· of existence fully lived and fully shared.

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The greatest of Christian poets, Dante, declares in his Vita Nuova that the vision of the beloved known as "falling in love" foreshadows the Beatific Vision in which every soul will be seem, transfigured by Divine Love.

Unfortunately, there is another tradition in Christianity-a very ancient and very dangerous tradition which comes not from the Bible but from Roman Stoics.

In this tradition, passion is evil becase it disturbs the rational mind and the root of sin itself is passion. From this it is not too difficult a step to the position that lust or concupiscence or sex or call it what you will is , the sin of sins and at the root of most of man's miseries. "Morality" is virtually only concerned with sexual morality and, all too often, in the main with female transgressions-as in such masterpieces as Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter.

Queen of Friendships The trouble with this heresy is that if you make something intrinsically bad, you cannot teach people to value it, to see how precious and beautiful it is and not to damage its possibilities of profound creativeness and self-surrender by cheap promiscuity. If sex is "wicked," then it is very easy to connect it with ugly thrills and vicious instincts. Only if i.t is seen as great, life-giving and profoundly creative, is it worth making the effort to avoid the carnal encounters and cheap pleasures which such encounters bring.

You cannot "cheapen" what is bad in the first place. Sexual morality, to he effective, has to be based on preserving, in all its fullness and beauty, God's most wonderful gift for expressing the highest love between human beings.

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Human beings deserve 'and need this kind of faithful friendship. It is the supreme human relationship. We need as Christians far more positive teaching about the depth and beauty of married love and perhaps less emphasis on the aberrations of sex. So much is negative. So much instruction is against, not for. A balance here needs to be redressed.

And, naturally, with this positive teaching should go an appeal to Christian conscience, particuularly among the rich, to remember that growing millions of fellow humans have virtually no opportunity for decent married life. Crowded in tarpaper shacks, without water, without work, without pr.ivacy or decency, how is the "queen of friendships" to be achieved? The miracle is what self-sacrifice there is. The shame is that so much is demanded.

And this imbalance is part of a wider one. There are critics of the Christian religion who accuse Christians of being obsessed with sexual sins in part because to a.ttack them does not incur the hostility of the established order. After all, there are three evangelical vows. The man or woman, stripping the soul for action in our troubled world, vows not only chastity but poverty and ob,edience. In other words, greed and power are put aside.

Deepest Evils But how little we tend to hear, say, of uncontrolled speculation, argue the critics, about the ills, of short-changing customers, or cheating employees. How little we hear about national arrogance, about 'the' state's claim to total sovereignty. How relatively little is done to. remind Chris,tians of the need for non-violent solutions to conflicts of power or to urge them to look for new non-violent answers.

In short, abused sex is attacked because its ,sins tend to be private. But the vast public violations of greed and power are again and again glossed over; even the most terrible of all invasions of our humanity, all-out war which destroys men, women and children, born and unborn, and deprives whole communi'ties of their basic right to life.

Here are the deepest evils. Here must lie the priority in Christian teaching.

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Opposition to Abortion Grows in Britain LOS ANGELES (NC) - The more people find out about the abortion business, the more they are revolted by it, Mrs. Jill Knight, member of the Brit,ish Parliament, told the second ProLife convention here.

About 1,000 persons attended the convention. They represented .·a score of grass roots pro-life organizations in California and several eastern and midwestern states.

Mrs. Knight was one of only 26 women members of Parliament to vote against abortion.

"My nation," she told the convention dinner, "now tends to begin clearly to change its mind on abortion."

The sheer numbers of abor· tions. are repelling, she said: 10,000 in 1967 and 140,000 now.

"Hospitals are very overcrowded and an awful lot of our doctors spend an awful IQt of time on abortions," she said.

"The Royal College of Gynecol-

Renewal in Spain Pleases P'ope Paul VATICAN CITY (NC) - The updating and renewal in the Church in Spain-which touched off a controversy in March was discussed by Pope Paul VI when he met six Spanish bishops recently.

The Pope' told the bishops: "With particular attention and interest we have followed the zeal of the Spanish Church in applying the norms and the spirit of the (Second Vatican) Council to concrete circumstances.

"The inevitable difficulties ought to spur you on with even greater zeal to overcome them with faith and fraternal union."

The Pope said that the "apostolic generosity and traditional vitality, of the Spanish Church" had consoled him greatly.

ogists recently pointed out that ,if you need an operation other than an abortion you're at the bottom of the queue. There was a case of two women who were made to wait who had early cancer of the cervix."

A nurse midwife used all her skiU to save a premature baby in a nursery, Mrs. Knight said, and then was ordered to "get rid" of a baby the same age aborted alive by hysterotomy "for no better reason than that the mother doesn't want it."

"Abortion is a filthy, horrible business and what right have we to expect nurses to do this horrible thing? What right have women to demand that doctors deny their vocation and carry out an abortion.

Rights of Women . "And don't give me this stuff that there is such a thing as an unwanted baby when. there are are thousands of couples who want to adopt a baby.

"It is utter nonsense to talk about the rights of women over

the rights of children, nurses, doctors and everyone else."

"The Br:itish public is shocked and ashamed to know that Britain is the abortion capital of the world," Mrs. Knight said.

She told the Pro Life convention that it was esssential to continue their pressure against abortionists because this pressure was more effective than could be measured.

"It's indicative of your effectiveness that pro~abortionists bother to picket you. You're making them nervous. This is the most important work of your life, even if you -live to a great age."

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Overcoming Skepticism "They had some arguments about their own religion and about a certain dead man named Jesus, whom Paul claims is alive" (Acts 25, 19).

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FR. QUENTIN QUESNELL, S.J.

Twenty centuries ago, a practical-minded' Roman governor summed up the first Christian _ preaching in those words. It was just an argument among Jewish fanatics about something sil\y· and impossible-the claim that a certain dead man had come to life.

Sometimes we feel very mod· ern in our religious skepticism.

But without much reason. There never was a time when people weren't. skeptical about resurrection. Not even when the dead man concerned was Christ our Lord.

It wasn't easy even (or the Lord's own apostles. They had seen him die. They didn't expect him back. When others told them that he was indeed alive, they refused to believe.

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John's gospel singles out the "doubting Thomas." Luke's gos·, pel tells of two of them walkil)g to Emmaus' after tJ:1e crucifixi9n..

Jesus joins them, but they .don't even recognize him. They talk·to him as to a complete strapger,' and they' s<!y of their. cruCified leader: "We have, hoped that he was the 'one who would' redeem " Israel."

Obviously, they implied, those hopes were vain, He's d~ad.

Some women ih~y knew were already ~elling . stories of angels who claimed he was alive-but they weren't putting much stock in the word of women. ' Hard to Believe The long ending of the gospel of Mark turns the theme of the apostles' disbelief into 'a kind of litany. Mary Magdalene saw the Lord and told the apostles, "but they would not believe it." Two of them walking in the country saw him, came back and told the rest, ."but they did not believe them." Afterward he' himself a.ppeared to them all as they sat at table, "and he upbraided them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those °who saw him after he had risen."

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The Power of His Resurrection "I'll never let it beat me ... 1'11 never let it beat me,.," These were Renee's first words to Dr. Welby on learning that she had a rare form of spinal meningitis.

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Renee was playing a role on a TV episode of "Dr. Marcus Welby, M.D." but her words ring true to life. I could not help but think of my former director, Monsignor Russell Neighbor. At age 50 he learned that he had an extremely rare form of a disease that attacks and destroys the central nervous system. Doctors gave him at most a year or two to live, during which time he would become progressively more incapacit'ated.

We watched him, worked with him, as he progressively lost the ability to move his fingers, then his hands, then his legs. I remember walking with him one evening when suddenly his legs gave out and he fell flat to the ground unable to raise himself up. His last weeks in the office were spent in a wheel chair.

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Without expressing Renee's words to Dr. Welby-"I'll never let it beat me"-Father Neighbor amazed us aLl by 'his confident struggle against the effects of his disease. When' the diagnosis was confirmed and his future predicted, he went out and bought a new car. It was his symbolic gesture of hope. ~nd courage.

Riddle of Sorrow The disease finally won out over his :body.He died totally helple.ss and incapacitated. But his spirit was never beaten. At times we noticed. fleeting signs of apparent sadness cloud his face, but a quick smile wiped away the. traces. He maintained an unShakable love of life-of music, of beautiful things, of his work, of children, of his friends -a very simple faith in Christ and the power of his resurrection.

Renee's TV struggle against the power of diminishment, Russ Neighbor's very real struggle against the forces of death, brings one up short against the mystery of the resurrection in human life. How is it that the human spirit can overcome the destructive. inroads of disease?

Why is it that even death cannot destroy man's spirit? What is the source of life found even in the shadows of death?

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rResurrection,,·SYlmbolized and Illuminated by Natural Life Fr. Eugene' J. Weitzel, C.S.V. Early last spring in Rome the beauty of the Pieta, t~¢ marble statue of the Madonna! cradling the crucified Jesus, was marred forever. The irreparabl~ damage occurred when a 33-yea~-0Id ma.n repeatedly struck the statue with a hammer.

The Pieta, a majestic, slightly n'arger-than-life sculpture by Michelangelo, is one of the world's most' famous an<1 treasu:red works of art. In fact, it is so valuable that when it was exhibited' 'at the New York' World's Fair in the mid-60's it was placed ·in a bulletproof stel~l ,case weighing six tons and insured for $10 million. Art expe:rts say the Pieta is priceless.

While the Pieta is a priceleHs work of art, its worth' is small when compared with t~e inestimable value of all forms of life, especially human life. Even the insignificant amoeba i's, in a sense, more valuable than the Pieta .or any other, wot;k of art beeause it is alive and: can reo produce itself. first of all, the Pieta is only an inanimate chunk of inarble-SPRlNq: Narcissus open into full blossoms in Spring. touched, of course, by a 'genius-- "Every time we experience Spring we see life renewedbut unlike the amoeba or the Devonish fish or the Simeon trees starting to leaf and plants beginning to bloom." NC monkey, or homo sapiens it can- Photo. not do any of the things that again, the reasonableness of salvation; just as the "natural living creatures can' do. these doctrines are more firmly resurrection" of earthly life conOrganic Creation established as we daily experi- stitutes the mystery of life in Secondly, life - the mode of ence the renewal of organic cre- heaven, and just as natural life existence and eminant activity ation-plants, animals, men. and death and Ufe again (the reo effected by the possession of a newal of life), especially as it Resurrection vital and energizing principle 'Just as the continual renewal concerns man, can not be underthat characterizes the organi c of natural life at all levels is an stood completely unless ponworld as opposed to the inor- essential part of Christ's act of Turn to Page Seventeen ganic-is' always more ivaluable than ' even a pricelesS objeet d'ars. This is true not only be, cause it reflects the -irrtage and likeness of God, but lalso because in its continua-l rJne\Val :it At lunch during a June retreat acceptance, consolidation of symbolizes and illhminates .... for priests of the Newark arch- gains made, continued growth Christ's resurrection and promise <1iocese, one young clerk asked" and a deepening of the interior to us of life after death.: Every time we .experience me what 1 thought about the renewal of the interior renewal Sp:ring we see life renewed. present state of the Church in called for by Vatican II. Notice 1 employed the terms Ev,ery time we ponder the the United States. I ha<1 no swift and ready response for him.

De"a" corner, not "the" corner, and , spawning ef fish: the nesting (If "relative" serenity. Certainly we birds, the birth of an animal, or ~-W1Th1WJ~.$ expect the Church in future' deceven more so, of a child, we are ades to encounter rocky areas reminded not only that ... Christ By like the stormy 1960's. Moreover, died for our sins, according t\>..... this space of serenity 1 predict the Scriptures, and that he was wHi unquestionably include buried, and ·that he rose again FR. JOSEPH M~ ) pockets of turbulence (so 'keep on the third day ..." (I Cor Hi: CHAMPLIN seat belts fastened) and perhaps 3-4), but 'also that "... 'we shaH, see an increasing hostility all indeed rise, but we shall not towards the Church from those aH be changed-in a moment, ill outside the fold. the twinkling of an eye, at the ;mw:ltmlmr~·; ·:·Ho~ :.

A rose-COlored, naive, simplislast trumpet, for the trumpet spite the fact that 41 trips over shall sound, and the d~ad shaH the past year have taken me tic, head-in-the-sand picture of rise incorruptible" (I C~r. 15:51 c from Manchester, N. H. to Los our troubled Church today? PosAngeles and from Napa, Calif. sibly. Friends and associates do 52). to Miami, I up to that point had Characterize me as a persistent ]f there can be a kind Iof "nat.ural resurrection" season after never pulled together those many optimist. Time and history will be the judges. , season through growth i and re- impressions.

Beacon of Hope prOduction, life and d~ath and.

After a few moments, howFather Frederick McManus, life again in .the plant and anima.! ever, 'I gave him this observa(man included) kingdomk, surely tion: I 'believe the Catholic my keen-minded former associthere must be a supernatura'] res- Church in America has turned a ate in Washington, gives little urrectiqn for man whereby his corner and is now entering upon credence to impressions and altemporal life is renew~d after a period of relative serenity. I ways prefers hard facts and scideath to, become immortaL think painful confrontation is entific data. My observation' enThough we cannot fully under- giving way to patient compro- joys the backing of neither. But stand how Christ rose from the mise. I feel we will witness in it can point for support to some dead and how we shall rise the Seventies a mature, mutual Turn to Page Eighteen

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Fourth Solzhenitsyn Novel Explains Defeat in Prussia

Resu rrection Continued from Page Sixteen dered in the lighht of Christ's life and death and resurrection so his salvific action cannot be fUlly appreciated except through the daily experience of renewed life.

Three novels of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Russian literary giant, have been available in English for some time. The first, A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, is short; the other two, Cancer Ward and The First Circle, are very long. Each of the three stingingly depicts con- its allies was undertaken with bravado' and in the stupid conditions n Russia under So- viction that it would be brief viet rule, and because of and triumphant. It proved to them Solzhenitsyn has been severely penalized by the Soviet authorities Now there comes to hand August 1914, translated by

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Michael Glenny (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 19 Union Square West, New York, N. Y. 10003. $10), which differs from the previous work put into English. For, one thing, as the title indicates, the narrative is l'llid in' a periOd ' previous to the Bolshevik Revolution. For another, although extremely lengthy, the book is not complete in itself, but the first part of a longer work, of which Solzhenitsyn says that its completion "may take as long as 20 years, and probably I will not live to finish it."

In August 1914, Solzhe'nitsyn is dealing with the outbreak of World War I and the short, disastrous Russian campaign, in Prussia. The time span is no more than two weeks, during which the battle of Tannenberg is precipitated, fought, and lost

by Russia. The author is concerned with showing how and why the terrible defeat came about.

The battle itself was waged over a huge area, and was complex and confused. Covering all of -it (or at least its key elements) and explaining its course and its issue is a stupendous task, one before which the most articulate military expert might well . quail. But Solzhenitsyn tackles it with aplomb and brings it off splendidly.

Stupid Conviction The rot of the superstructure of tsar.ist Russia is pitilessly. set out in Solzhenitsyn's pages, as well as the inevitability of some form of revolution. In 1914 the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5 was a recent memory, but hardly a salutary one. In that war the Russians had suffered an unexpected and humiliating defeat.

The incompetence of the government, and especiaHy of the military, had been exposed, and as a result, a revolution was attempted in 1905, only to be, brutally put down.

Reform, civic and military, had been initiated thereafter, but had 'petered out., Now, nine years later, war against Germany and

Force Confidence is a thing not to be produced by compulsion. Men cannot be forced into trust.

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In a word, life renewed enables us more dearly to perceive the three-fold purpose of the resurrection, namely, that:

be neither. , The reason was internal cor· ruptionand utter lack of preparation. For the most part, the military commanders were in· credibly inept. They owed their positions to favor and intrigue, without consideration' of their capability or record. Among them were cowards, 'dunderheads, liars. Honest and capable men seldom rose to influential levels, and when, by accident, they did so, they were stymied in combat by the lack of a plan, the absence of orders, and the selfserving on the part of the higherups.

1. Christ's passion and death alone did not save us for his resurrection is an integral part of the act of redemption ..." if Christ has not risen ... you are still in your sins" (I Cor. 15:17).

2. The passion, death, and resurrect,ion of Jesus not onty signified his supreme love and obedience to the Fathsr, but by his resurrection he was constituted the Son <:If God in power, giving justification to those who believe in him. "... if we believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead, who was delivered up for our sins, and rose again for our justification" (Rom. 4:24-25).

Ingenious Device Hence, as Solzhenitsyn shows, when the invasion of Prussia was decided upon, nothing was in readiness. Tens of thousands of quickly mustered, untrained, and ill-equipped men were sent, across the frontier without organization and intelligent leadership. Two Russian armies were to proceed on divergent courses, then come together 'to encircle, . cut' off, and reduce German ,forces and thus destroy the Germans' eastern front.

But everything went wrong, primarily for want,of communi. cations, but chiefly for want of clear-eyed and decisive supreme' command. Some units performed well, but their valor and gallantry went for nothing.

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THOUGHTFULNESS: A man comforts a little girl who sucks her thumb for security. "The power of Christ's Resurrection may be felt and shared in a thoughtful act toward someone who is lonely." NC Photo.

The Power of His Resurrection Continued from Page Sixteen and death grow meaningful" (Church in World, 22). In these words the Council focuses our attention on the core of Christian tradition.

The preaching of the Apostles after the Resurrection centered To give coherence to the jum· on the good news that "Jesus ble of events which added up to who was crucified has been ~atast.roph~, Solzh~nitsyn uses a? raised up by God to new life. mgenIous, If questIOnably plausI- _ Those who believe will share in ble, device. A colonel fr~~ gen- the power of his resurrection." eraI headquarters, Georgu Vora. tyntsev, is sent with a letter to No More Death General Samsonov, commander Ea<:h Sunday at Mass Cathoof 'the Second Army. That task, lics the world, over repeat this performed, Vorotyntsev then sets same good news ln the brief out, on his own initiative, to tra- formula: "Christ has died. Christ verse the battle area, visit unit is risen. Christ will come again." after unit, and get some first- This is the kernel of traditional hand idea of the progress of the Chr,istian faith. offensive.

We believe that Jesus Christ really did die. He experienced Deep Root of Faith life's diminishments fUJ11y-faAs he sees for himself the dis- tigue, failure, injustice, prejudice, integration of the Russian forces, hunger, pain, ins~urity, lonelihe struggles to coordinate the ness, suffering a'nd finally death. several groups which are either We believe that the Father working at cross·purposes or not raised him from death to new being used at all. He seeks thus life, thathe is alive, and is with to stem the rout. . us to bring us fulfillment of life.

He fails, and at the book's con- We believe finally that his com· clusion, he also fails to convince ing again wHI ultimately' trans· the high command that egregious form the whole of creation, over'blunders have been made, that coming evey power of evil, inmen' responsible for them must cluding death. "He shall wipe be replaced, and that an entirely away every tear from their eyes, different approach will have to and there shall be no more death be adopted if Russia is not to or mourning; crying out in pain" tumble into the abyss. ... (Rev 21:4).

Despite the sufferings which Hope Transforms the war and the resultant revoWe believe in the resurrection lution were to bring upon the Russian people, their hardihood as a past reality of Christ's life and power of endurance are con- as a present power in our lives vincingly established. If it is sug- and our world because of his gested that the state religionwas, presence with us, and as the not without superstition and cer-, future culmination of the power tainly was put to political uses, it of life over death. Such faith is also shown that in the common has led people -like Russ Neighpeople there was a deep root of bor to live cofidently in the face of disease. authentic faith.

The power of Christ's resurrection may be felt and shared in less dramatic ways than in the fight against' 'crippling disease or death itself. It may be experienced in a simple smile at the right moment, a thoughtful act toward someone who is lonely or ill, an encouraging word for a discouraged friend. Picking oneself up after failure, struggling aga,inst poverty, war and injustice, creating beauty in one's surroundings, sometimes just getting up in the morning to face a difficult day-all reveal something of the power of life over death, the resurrection power of Christ Jesus and his Spirit.

Renee, despite Dr. Welby's best efforts, never did walk again. Russ. Neighbor actually did die at the peak of his best years. But we know from watching Russ and other very real people symbolized by Renee, that life is stronger than death, that hope can transform the human spirit, that meaning can be found even in life's shadows.

"I'll never let it beat me," said Renee. Smiling, Russ bought a new car.

Many who share the power of Jesus' resurrection may not knew the source of their courage. Christians are blessed in knowing through faith that because Jesus died, rose again, and is with them through everything, they can take a firm stand against every power of diminishment and death. They can make St. Paul's words their own "I wish to know Christ and the power flowing from his resur· rection; likewise to know how to share in his sufferings by be- ' ing formed into the pattern of his death. Thus do I hope that I may arrive at the resurrection from the dead" (Phil 3:10-ll).

3. Through baptism the Christian shares in the total work of redemption, and also rises to a new life in Christ. "All of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death. By baptism into his death we were buried together with him, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might live 'a new life. For if we have been united with him by likeness to his death, so shall we ,be united with him by likeness to his resurrection." (Rom: 6:3-5).

We can even make a comparison in the fact that just as in the process of the natural renewal of life - some individual plants and animals and men die without having reproduced themselves and some species of plants and animals disappear-so men who have been unfaithful to God will not be rewarded with a renewed and glorious life in heaven. Yes, the daily experience of renewed life does symbolize and illuminate the mystery of Christ's passion, death, and resurrection, and of our own too.

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Continued from Page Sixteen in Galilee, where he is to give them his last blessing and his commission to preach· to all the world. They come to the mountain, see him, fall down in worship--"but some doubted."

It isn't the age we live in that makes the resurrection hard to believe. It never was easy. It was always an enormous contradiction of an inescapable reality.

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There are two explanations current for what has happened to the McGovern candidacy. The more popular is that of Mr. Reston and his colleagues in the press: McGovern badly miscalculated how much. change the American public wanted. Most people are well off and are elite that seized control of' the Democratic party at the conven· against unrest, protest, and tion needlessly and fool·ishly change. Or as David Murray threw away a good chance at·

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Catholic journalists have said, the ethn"ics have "made it" in American society and don't care about anyone else (leaving aside that there may be economic dis· crimination against Poles and Italians - which there' is, of course.)

This theme was re·echoed at a recent conference on "urb.an ministry," where one man reo marked, "We have learned the socia-l gospel, ,but we hl!:ven~t taught it to our. peopIe." And another said, "Our people hate the poor and we can't possibly change them"; and yet a third observed, "Catholics just don't give a hoot about other people's suffering." .

A writer in Newsweek noted that the Eagletori affair probably hurt McGovern because "-loyalty to friends" is highly valued in the "ethnic communities." Poor benighted ethnics! How can any. one possibly think that loyalty to friends is an important issue in the modern world?

Desires Change Arid Rick Casey, the corre· spondent for the National Cath· olic Reporter remarked in the middle of a balanced article on the so-called "Catholic. vote" that it would be a mistake to make too much of Professor James Wright's research findings which indicate that Catholics were more opposed to the war since the l;>eginning than were typical Americans. How can one make too much of a f.inding that flatly contradicts everything the elites-Catholic and otherwiseare saying is true of the ethnic population. .

There is a second modei, however, for evaluating the election.

According to this model the American population-and .particularly the Catholic ethnic <,:<>mponent of it - is not only ready for change. but deeply desires it. The tragedy of the pres- ent election is that American liberalism, intellectually and rhetoricaHy bankrupt as' it is, has succeeded in driving out of ·its camp precisely those who were most likely to support its cause.

By serving up the same old programs out of the past and by ignoring ~ or not understanding' -the very real problems of eth·. nic' middle America, the liberal

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Everybody dies. After death, victory and important soCial· everybody's body turns cold and change-right out the ~indow. hard and useless; then slowly -This model (and it must be faHs back throligh decay clear that it is one to which I toward dust and nothingriess. In subscribe) is not going to 'be fact, the people of Jesus' time popular, because it suggests that probably saw the realities of the Iib.erals and their chosen' death in their own homes and Christ f.igure are political idiots streets a lot more frequently of the first magnitud~so blind than we do. They knew that and stupid that they cannot even dead was dead. recognize potential allies.

If someone spok~ to them Six Items , . about a person's coming back to It will take time and careful life, they would probably ask the analysis to determine which same question we would: "All . model is more" accurate, a-lthough right, where is he? Show me." if mine ·is correct, I won't hold During forty days, Acts says, my breath until the editorial NEW REUGIOUS COORDINATORS MEET AT TEA:' Jesus did show himself to the writers of, say, The Common· apostles he had chosen, appearAt a tea sponsored by the -Religious Education Office on · ing to them and speaking to them weal admit it.

But let's look at some data Friday afternoon, new co-ordinators met with these already about the kingdom of God. But my colleagues have recently un· . serving in that capacity. New faces: Sr. Marie Loren, MSST. even during that short time he earthed. We are working with a of Our Lady of Victory Parish, Centerville; Sr. Antoinette, showed himself "not to all the scale of six political attitude people, but to. us who were items (including race, welfare, SUSC, resource assistant <ltthe Religious Education Office chosen by God as witnesses," as cold war, government interven· and Sr. Anne Sylvester, RSMof St. Mary's Parish, Taunton. Peter explains in Acts 10. tian in economic life) that have What about all the others who been asked since the early 1950s were to believe? What about the of repeated national samples. thousands across the world to Continued from Page Sixteer~ priests from the active minis· whom Paul and Peter and the The northern metropolitan pop· ulation was_d,ichotomized into a extensive and wide-ranging ex- try. Even here, .however, I see other apostles one day would "lib.eral" and "conservative" half periences on this writer's part. encouraging' signs. preach? How easy was it for Best Ad in the 1956 data. The distribution These cover 14 months of active them to' believe? . of the ethnics was the same as pastor~l work in the parish. fre· Above all, parish priests once Just about as easy as it is for everyone· else: half -on the :'lib.. qu.ent diocesan level cpmmittee more are recrutting. They seem us today. And just about as eral" side and half on the "con.. work and pre-Cana Conferences, less apologetic for their calling, hard. If it all depend~d <?.n ~ak~?g servative" side. In 1968 - the and above aU, numerous lectures 'inore s'uie Of themselves, past the the word of 'a few fanatical fortime of the famous backlash- to college students, religious sis- identity crisis of the sixties. The · .eigners, it would not have been 48 per cent of the' popu-lation fell ters, seminarians, priests and best vocation ad, obviously, and possible. Like the Roman govon the "liberal" side of the con· laity. .' better than the controversial ernor, peop:le would merely have tinuum: ,Even though bot\:l ex..

A~ter that convers~tion in Playboy one, -is a happy, hard- said: "Oh, it's some nonsense in tremes-4:hose "very liberal" and Dar1.lngton, N. J. I muJIed oVI~r working, holy priest. If my re- their own religion." "very conservative" on the hi:; question and my reply, seeJ'il:- marks in the previous section scale - had .increased, the in· ing practical instances from hold true for the entire country, . Then why did people believe? creases haq practically cancel- around the nation which would then .it will be only a matter of Why do they believe today? The led each other out as far as the both illustrate and prove my time before young men in great- first answer to that is always, assertion. One could add ,to the er quantity opt for the priest- because of the grace of,God in average was concerned. ,. their hearts..

Moved to Left items which follow. Nevertheless, hood.

The finding is so contrary to they do, I trust, show: that my In Phoe'nix, Ariz., Bishop McAccep~ Grace' the conventional wisdom that. br:ight beacon of hope for· the Church rests 'on a sound founda- Carthy is understandably pleased mos~ '1ibera-l jnteIaectuals will Grace opens men's eyes to the discard it as incredible. But ·it is tion. When so many continue to with a development which may fact that life and death are really true just the same. It may take sound its death knoll and walk be a barometer of things to come in God's hands; that if God my colleagues and I a long time around super serious or sad, we throughout the na,tion. several wants to he can raise the dead. to figure out what has happened, all need .. reassuring .eviden<:e men, either in their upper years It opens men's hearts to the conbut no matter what anyone' says that the Holy Spirit i~ indeed of collegiate study or actual viction . that our God is indeed ' gradu,ates, have in the past year the kind of God who would do about the"ethnic backlash," the with us.

Holy Spirit Present entered the seminary. Perhaps that. He promised and he will Catholic population moved very.

I. The testimony of priests; this delayed maturation of the fulfill. It makes men willing to notably to the left between 1956 and 1968. And in a few more The 130 priests gathered for religious vocation seed could acknowledge that when, God months we will be· able to say their annual. retreat I)ot only well be a trend for the 70's. I actually did do this, he would whether .this long run socia,1 made the inquiry; they substanThe future situation with nuns begin where men might least ex.trend has been reversed. (My tiated my claim. They r~present- remains, for me, not so clear. .pect it:-wJth someone whom guess is that even if there is ed all age groups ·and every at- However, one major superior men had judged and condemned some movement away from the' titude. Yet several cOmmented whose .community, like' many, and put to death for going be"liberal" end of the continuum, how this year they seemed hap- has . been absolutely decimated yond their own narrow religious the ethnics will still be .consid· pier, less bitter, more settled, by departures and a decline in standards. erablyto the "left" of the north· cheerful: Young and ol? mixed; . applicants, believes .they h~ve hit .Whether· or .not we can believe progressives and conservatives . bottom and are now 01) the up- · today depends on the same sort ern metropolitan average.)

So, even though they may n,ot. ate together, talked about the.ir surge. She sees this botjl. in ,of grace taking effect in us. call themselves '"liberal''' any priestly -lives, exchanged quit.e . terms Qf numbers and, more' ~ig­ Whether or not we let it do so more, the ethnics are stiU very con.trary concepts and still . nificantly, ina settling of the shows what -kind of people we "liberal'; indeed as far' as polit- walked away smiling aQd laugh- restlessness so pervasive in con- are. ical issues are concerned, more ing without rancour of any sort. vents over the past decade. Hav2. Vocation picture~ Msg:r. 'ing suffered a radical reevaIuaso now than they used to be.

Thl;lt non-Catholic journalists Colin MacDonald, head of the tionof their external habits, life like Mr. Reston would not know U. S. bishops' office :stu4ying the style and purposes, they could this is hardly surprising. But priesthood, told a Serra Interna- be getting down at this time to what about the Catholic urban . tional convention, that he had the less spectacular, but very esministrY types who so enthusi- in his travels discovered a "re- sential inner renewal.

Complete Line 'asticaHy denounce their own. newed sense of hope alld contiNext week I wiJ.I out\.ine a people? Why don't they know deuce among the clergy}' At the lengthy· list of further signs Building Materials what's going on? same time he sketched ;the real which indicate to me the Church 118 ALDEN RD. FAIRHAVEN .

Arid that is a very intere.sting dedine in religious vocations is entering a new, quieter, resur· 993-2611 question. . and the heavy departure (If rection 'period in its history.

'The Church Has Turned A Corner

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• THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., Nov. 2, 1972

:SCHOOLBOY SPORTS

Abigail McCarthy Speaks at SHA, Discusses Religion in Political Life ,

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Nantucket Battles Apponequet For Mayflower League Crown Nantucket High School and Apponequet Regional will meet face to face Saturday afternoon in a Mayflower League game that should decide the eight team circuit championship. The Whalers, upset last weekend, must win in order to keep pace with the lads from Lakeville. Ap-' a definite title threat. The Islanders wil host Provincetown Satponquet, unbeaten in five' urday. P-town defeated Manloop starts" will be out to chester 32-12 in its last contest. capture the titre in this its first campa,ign in the Mayflower conference. ' The Lakers rolled over Southeastern Regional Vocational Saturday last. by ~l 34-0 count, while the favored Whalers were being upended by their arch I"ival Martha's Vineyard 26-6. Nantucket enters the con- <> test with a 5-1 loop record and cannot afford another setback if it hopes to stay in the pennant chase.

Martha's Vineyard upped its record to 3-1 in the league last Saturday and now is considered

The three looal contingents in the league presently hold dow~ the second, third and fourth positions in standin&s behind Apponequet. West Bridgewater is fifth, Southeast Regional of Easton, Blue Hill Regional from Canton and Manchester are al1 tied for sixth place.

For the second week in a row Division II teams will pair off against Division III clubs in the Southeastern Massachusetts Conference. In"last week's games the second division schools accounted for four victories ,in the six games played.

Coyle "eam to Beat in Division I Race Coach Jim Lanagan's Division III leader toppled second Division pacesetter Bishop Stang High of Dartmouth 21-20 while Norton defeated Dighton-Rehoboth 28-13.

In other interdivisional games played last Saturday Fairhaven, Seekonk, Bourne and -DennisYarmouth all turned back their D.ivision III opponents.

Fairhaven edged Case High of 'Swansea 21-20, Seekonk shut out Old Rochester of Mattapoisett 22-0, Bourne beat New Bedford Vocational 32-14 and DennisYarmouth defeated Diman Regional Vocational of Fall River

Saturdiay and now will probably not be decided until Thanksgiving morning.

The alrea's only previously unbeaten club, Attleboro, was jolted by Msgr. Coyle.~Bishop Cas· , .sidy last Saturday 13-8. Coach Jim Cassidy's Blue Bombardiers who entertain Dantmouth this weekend, in their last Confer· ence game of the season will have to rely on someone else if a "share of the title is to come to Attleboro.

As of now the title belongs to the Warriors from Taunton who lead the circuit with a 4-0 record. Coach 'PauL Therrien's club 404.·7. will host ·Lawrence High of FalSaturday's docket lists See- mouth Saturday. The ever dan· konk at Case, Fairhaven at Old gerous CHppers are 1-4 in the Rochester, Dennis-Yarmouth at loop. Falmouth lost to Dart· Norton, Stang' at New Bedford mouth 28-6 Saturday last.

Vooational and Dinian at Coyle will complete its schedDighton-Rehoboth, Wareham and ule with games against Somerset Bourne are not scheduled for and croSstown rival Taunton. As action this week. of this writing both clubs have The Conference's Division I only a single victory against title picture was repainted last Conference opposition.

D-Y, Coylie, and Wareham League Titlists Somerset gained its ' first stable last. league triumph last Saturday by Mike Conley won the individdefeating Taunton 22-8. The Blue ual championship by covering Raiders will play, host to Barn- the 2.8 mile course in 13:04. Con" stable this weekE!oo. Barnstable ley has also won the Catholic downed Bishop Fl~ehran of Attie- Memorial Meet this season and boro 25-6 in its last outing. Fee- is considered one of the best han and 'Paunton meet in AttIe- runners in the Commonwealth bore Saturday. by his coach Steve Newman.

Coyle-Cassidy won the Divi. The Southeastern Massac~us~tts Confe~ence c:rowned Its sion II N,Ue by beating Dighton· f.Irst champIOns thIS week as Rehoboth in its meet held in member schools competed in New Bedford. Bishop Stang and Dhllisional Conference Cross Dartmouth earned the third and County Meets. . fourth place ~inishes respectively yompetitiO'll was held at three while Taunton and Case placed different sites, but with the fifth and sixth. same purpose-to crown Cross Wareham gained the Division County Divisional Champions..

In Falmouth Dennis-Yarmouth nI trophy by edging Bishop Conoutdistanced .. runner-up Fal- . nolly High of Fall River 43-44. mouuth gain the top divJsion Third place was won by Diman, honors. Third place went to At- Westport finished fourth with Ueboro, fourth to Seekonk. Som- Old Rochester and Norton next erset f,i,nished fifth and Barn- in order.

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GREET MRS. McCARTHY: Library aides at Sacred Hearts Academy, Fall River, greet Mrs. Eugene McCarthy, wife of former candidate for presidential nomination, as she prepares to address academy book fair. From left, Sheila.McGow~n, Nicole Choui.nard.

Seated with Mrs. McCarthy, Sister Eugenia Margaret, SUSC, libranan and book faIr coordinator. strong "back to the land" move- Church is worldwide. It cannot ment. She noted that Father Vir- respond to American and EuroDo Christianity and politics gil Michel, a Benedictine monk pean desires only. The thought mix? More and more today, the of St. John's Abbey, had been an of a' female priesthood might be answer is yes, but the situation innovator in seeking ways of re- more difficult to accept in the was not so clear: in the 1940's, Christianizing society.

Orient and AfrJca than in our when Eugene McCarthy entered So strong was the Benedictine part of the world. But everything political life. Yet his motivation influence on Abigail and Eugene these days c,omes much faster was religious, as his wife made McCarthy that they became Ob- than we expect." clear in an address last week to lates of St. Benedict just before She spoke with approval of a book fair audience at Sacred leaving Minnesota for Washing- the new flexibility in Catholic Hearts Academy, Fall River. She ton. "It must be the first time thinking. "There is no longer the recounted the influence on him in history that a congressman idea that if you disagree you of his student and faculty days of the United States has been a must leave. You can have-differat St. John's University, College- Benedictine," commented a ent feelings." ville, Minn., during which he friend.

'Women Together' realized the ·importance of liturMrs. McCarthy said she is Coming to present times,. Mrs. gical awareness wedded to social McCarthy noted at a press con- working on a book tentatively action. His later contributions in ference that she felt ordination titled "Women Together." It will the political arena, she indi- of women as priests "is just a discuss the days in which cated, -had their roots in his early matter of time." . women have -come ,together formation.

- "I'm emboldened to say ,that," throughout history, from the Her comments came in the she remarked, "since it was also fourth century to the present. course of discussion. of her auto- said by a leader of the Confer~ She is a summer and occasionbiography, "Pdvate Faces/Public' ence of Major Super-iors of al winter visitor to Chatham, Places," the publication of Women. And I was also heart- where she has a house, and she which, she said, was "like having ened to note that the National spoke w,ith pleasure of attenda baby. You don't know how Conference of Catholic Women ing Holy Redeemer, the Cape your 'child is going to grow and protested the recent statement community's beautiful parish affect other people anid you from the Vatican that women church. don't know how your own life were not to assume official roles From Fall River she returned will change as a result." in worship. Immediately a clari- to Washington, where she was For example, she said, she had fication of the ruling was issued, scheduled to speak at the Smithexpected that "Washington crit· indicating th'at what Js now be- sonian Institution. She then travics" would seize upon her ac- ing done could be continued." eled to Boston to address sevcounts of trips to Rome and She pointed out that the eral political rallies.

Latin America piade by herself and her husband for the Ken... nedy administration, but that she had "experienced no repercussions so far."

Far more interest, she noted, INC. has been evinced in' the early part of her book, which discusses at length the Midwest Catholicism of the 1940',s and 1950's, " far in advance of Eastern thinking in ·its ability to recognize ob~ . jectively the need of the Church for internal reform.

'Back to Land She also said that today's young people have been glad to ~ 363 SECOND ST. FALL RIVER, MASS. realize that as far back as 30 years ago the Church had a ~~ • • w • • w ~.~w~w~ww.

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San Diego Bishop Offers Catholic Press Guidelines SAN DIEGO (NC) - Bishop Leo T. Maher of San Diego has told editors of Catholic newspapers in the western United States that "in 'all too many in. -stances" the Catholic press "is, crowding out the real, substantial reportable incidents with stories of mere human failings."

The prelate, addressing ,the Catholic Press Association's Pacific Regional Conference here, said editors should' "be fair to both sides of a contrioverted question and keep their personal opinions on ,the editorial pages, not in the news columns." ,Bishop Maher spoke at a Mass at which he and 'seven priests concelebrated ' during the regional meeting, attended by editors and staff members of 17 Catholic weeklies in five western states and hosted by the &luthern Cross; San Diego diocesan weekly. The meeting also, included panel discussions and award ceremonies.

In his talk, Bishop Maher said he would be a "Spiro Agnew" and point out alleged abuses in ,the Catholic press. . ' '''An editor should keep personal gripes, opinions, views, even his conscientious judgments to ,his editorial page. Let him never pick choose the news to satisfy and promote his own personal prejudices; let him be fair to both sides of a controverted question; let him realize the paper or magazine is'not his personal property to do with as he fancy well pleases."

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