Diocesan Churches to Mark Holiday • Special' Mass Laity Evidences Keen Interest In Today, throughout the United States, a completely American Mass will be offered for a truly religious observance of Thanksgiving Day. The ceremonies, or form of the Mass, will not be different from any other Mass but the text, especially prepared by the Bishops of the United States wilJ, be completely American-orientated. All Mass texts, including a special ,Preface, speak not only of thanking God for the favors obta.ined from Him but put this appreciation in the American scene. We thank God for America, its great ideals, its hertiage, itself. The idea of thanks runs in all the laity responses. For instance, the Introit or Entrance Hymn reads: "Give thanks to the Lord for He is good: His love is everlasting. Give thanks to the God of gods; His love is everlasting. Give thanks to the Lord of lords; His love is everlasting. Give thanks to the God of heaven; his love is everlasting." The Epistle is St. Paul's prayer of thanks to Almighty God for the gift of generous and truly dedicated Christians (l Cor. 1:4-9). The Gospel stresses the thanks we owe to God for
PRAYER Of the New Mass for Thanksgiving Day Let 'us pray. -
o God, you have fulfilled our founding fathers' faith in your divine providence by, making and' keeping us a land 7'ich 'hi the abundance of your creation. ' Freedom, justice, and universal brotherhood are for us our precious heritage, but for countless men, in our midst and all over the world, they are still only a dream. May we be faithful to share this heritage with the living and transmit it to a people still unborn: through Jesus Christ, Our Lord. Amen.
New No. Dartmouth Church To Adjoin Stang Property The newly established St. Julie Billiart Church in North Dartmouth will be located on a five-acre plot adjoining Bishop Stang High School. This announcement was made today by Rev. John F. Hogan who will serve' as the first pastor of the, newest diocesan parish. The diocese parishes, will attend Mass in the regional diocesan high has already procured the school auditorium until the conparish rectory which will be templated church is constructed. located in the DeMello family homestead at 494 Slocum Road. The laity, comprising members of four different New Bedfor, Dartmouth and Westport
Emphasizes Need To Aid Stranded Czech Refug'ees WASHINGTON (NC) An emergency appeal for help in resettling 1,000 Czech and Slovak refugee families now living in Austrian refugee camps has been made by the chairman of the Department of International Affairs, United States Catholic Conference. "It is an emergency and time is of the essence," says Auxiliary Bishop Edward E. Swanstrom of Turn to Page Six
St. Julie's parish is now made up of some who attended St. Mary's Church, South Dartmouth; St. George's Church in Westport; Holy Name and St. Lawrence parishes in New Bedford. Father Hogan also announced today that four Masses will be celebrated each Sunday morning for the convenience of his parishioners. They will be said at 8, 9, 10 and 11. "I feel certain that we can amply serve our people most comfortably with the four Masses in· the spacious school auditorium," Father Hogan asserted.
.Postponement Due to sickness and a shortage of priests, the contemplated establishment of a new parish at Cathedral Camp, East Freetown, has been temporarily postponed.
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the abundant benefits of a zealous work, the riches of this world in relation to the richness of an intimate relationship with the all provident God. (Luke 12:15-21.) The successes of this life are due primarily to Our Father in heaven the Offertory verse teaches us: "My soul, give thanks to the Lord; all ~y being, bless His Holy Name. Bless the Lord, 0 my soul, and forget not all His benefits; He pardons all your iniquities, He heals all your ills. He redeems _your life from destruction; He crowns yob with kindness and compassion, 'He fills your lifetime with good; your youth is renewed like the eagle's. Merciful and gracious is the Lord, slow to anger and abounding in kindness." Our American thanksgiving, to be truly religious, must be that which is reflected in the thanksgiving or post-communion prayer: "Thinking back on Your boundless generosity as we share this thanksgiving meal, 0 Lord, we cannot fail to be reminded of our shortcomings towards others. Let us share with generous hearts and open hands the fruits of the earth which you have given into our keeping, as we hope to share the fruits of eternal life. Through Christ our 'Lord. Amen."
New Mass Rites Will Blend Community, Private Prayer Pope Paul has been very alert to point out that the universal Mass rite is oriented toward both a sense of
community participation and an equal stress on private prayer. Price 10c $4.00 per Year So says Father John Rotelle, O.S.A., an American on the in© 1969 The Anchor ternational translation' team for liturgical texts as he discussed the new Mass and the process of Dioces~ translating the texts of the Mass, Sacraments and Breviary. There are five times in the new Mass where the congregation ceases participation to pray The intial reports on the an- privately. Yet, at the beginning nual Thanksgiving Clothing Drive of the Mass, the priest and people indicate that Catholics through- make their act of penance toout the Diocese do care for the gether; one lector reads the Episneedy in other parts of the tle, another the psalms, and anworld. other priest-beside the celeThe appeal opened last Sunday brant-reads the Gospel. These and will continue through the are all intended as involvement week. Parish collection points of the community. are open this week for the conThe offertory has been simvenience of donors planning on plified, the translator pointed giving children's clothing, work- out, as an offering of bread and men's clothes and shoes in good wine-the "fruit of man's handiwearable condition, blankets and ·work and, therefore, worthy warm clothing for the world's gifts of the community. needy: . The consecration remains as Clothes wilJ.. be taken by truck one of the four canons with to Long Island where they will which Americans are now familbe processed and baled for iar. The Holy Father has also shipment overseas. quoted the Vatican Council suggestion that duplication be deleted, that former practices of merit be reinstated and that the faithful be allowed greater participation. This accounts for the Vol. 13, No. 48, Nov. 27, 1969
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shorter offertory, the re-introduction of the handshake of peace and, in some countries, the taking of Communion in hand. Concerning the Communion practice, countries which requested the return to the ancient practice of having the communicant give himself Communion were allowed to do so. 1;he translations of the various texts for the Mass, the Sacraments and the Breviary are practically complete, the American priest observed. "The greatest job now lies with the respective episcopal conferences to take out texts for the liturgy and merge them into their cultures so that the most . benefit can be derived from them." He explained that the international translation commission does not make the changes but acts as a clearing house to receive the evaluations on proposed texts from the bishops, priests and laity from around the world. Father Rotelle further stressed that the commissiOn has followed the policy of working through the bishops to effectuate the best possible Latin text prior to any change in any of the Sacraments. "Once we arrive at an agreed text," Father Rotelle said, "then the episcopal conferences take over to accomplish two major tasks: The proper and acceptable Turn to Page Six
Catholic University The annual collection for the support of Catholic University of America in the nation's capital will be taken-
NORlH DARTMOUTH RECTORY: The DeMello home used as the rectory of the new St. Julie Brillart Parish.
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up at all Masses in the" Diocese of Fall River on Saturday evening and Sunday. The Pontifical university, which serves the laity as well as religious, is directed by the country's Catholic hierarchy. Bishop Connolly's letter, urging support for the District of Columbia university, is in the adjoining column.
Beloved in Chrnst, On the First Sunday in Advent, we of the Fall River Diocese, give to support the Catholic University in Washington. Eighty years ago, this school was founded for the higher education of the clergy. For that it had a promising amount of endowment. But with the demands of the years for training of teachers, school administrators, and specialists of various types great expansion in buildTurn to Page Six
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'Says Laymen Assocation's Goa I Termination of Catholic Schools
Conferencei Issues Suggestions For Easing Refugee Problem
SAGINAW (NC) - A Catholic , educator charged here that the National Association of' Laymen intends "not to improve Catholic school operation, but to terminate it." Father Olin J. Murdick, Cath, olic school head for the Saginaw diocese, said ,the NAL in opposing state aid to non·public schools "does not represent a significant number of Catholic laymen, nc;>r is it based on a cor· rect . understanding of parochial school operation." (The Association of Laymen in the Saginaw diocese has a .total membershop of 25-with an , estimated active membership of 14.) Father Murdick's observations on the NAL were made in the . Catholic Weekly, Saginaw diocesan newspaper; following publication of a story that the NAL had expressed opposition to state aid to parochial schools. The NAL statement had cited a Catholic split on the issue of state. aid to parochial schools, incomplete financial data suplied by Church officers,' and growing sentiment in favor of phasing out parochial schools. In his rebuttal to the NAL, Father Murdick asserted: "To say or to imply that the , 'financial data supplied, by Catholic officia!s' is 'incomplete' is very misleading if not false. "The uniform parish school accounting procedure which is now operative throughout all the dioceses of Michigan provides reasonably accurate cost figures, which information, contrary to NAL assertion, has been and 'is readily available to 'all interested persons. "To: ,say that '-Catholic, laity have been· consiste!1~ly rebuffed
in their attempts to secure meaningful and adequate financial data' is a grossly false and irresponsible statement unsupported by evidence. "The real intent of NAL is not to improve Catholic school operation, fiscally or otherwise, but to terminate it. This is evident from the statement issued in Cleveland last June (and iloted in the NAL story) which called for the discontinuation of all formal religious education programs," this in direct opposition to the Vatican Council II (decree on Christian education). and the vast majority of Catholic lay· men in the nation. Parents' Right "The NAL has changed from an attitude of 'phasing out poor schools and opening up ghetto schools' to an attitude of com· plete opposition to all 'formal religious education." "Although NAL leadership makes a great pretense of favoring 'democracy in the Church' it seems to have a hard time accepting democracy's corollary, tolerance of pluralism. "Parents have a right to choose the educational program which they feel is best for their children. The present effort of parents to secure state aid for non-public schools is based Qn the conviction that they shou.ld. have the freedom to exercise this right. CIA more significant and representative voice for laymen would be the more than 10,000 local Catholic boards of education now organized and operating throughout the land."
WASHINGTON (NF? - With ground fgor hope that, by comwords of en~ouragement from mon and comb~ed efforts, the world leaders, inch.lding Pope world refugee problem will· ultiPaul VI and President Nixon, mately be solved," the papal delegates to the National Con- letter, sent though the Vatican ference on World Refugee Prob- Secretary of State, said. lems thias~ed over, tije problems Man's Inhum.'anity of the world's more than 17 mil, lion refugees and prJduced four President Nixon, in a similar recommendations fori action. message to the cOJiference, \said . The suggesfions fere made that "for Americans,' the ch'alat busy sessions here. The par- lenge of the homeless refugees 'ticipants proposed: remains embodied ,in our history, An official white p~per by the prominent in 'our foreign policy, United States government set- and high in the: pj-i,ority' of our· ting fo.rth' fact~ ;md Ifigures re- collective conscience.'" ,', . ' He said "the. ciialhmg~ of> refgarding refugees in an attempt to' cre/lte greater, public aware- ugees is a world'problerp and it , i s in that form that, it must b'e' ness, of the situatiOn~ ,,',' . . faced." InvoIvemen t 0 f yo ng persons in the problems, sug esting that "It is a tragedy that we must conference agencies cooperate,' continue to identify the refugee to .send teams of yo~ng people 'problem' as a problem," former under 25 to major refugee areas Vice-President Hubert Humphrey next Summer, to report their re-' said in a message. to ,the deleactions and recommehdations to gates. ' BISHOP SWANSTROM the American peoplel . "No sooner is progress made Citizen participatiort, not only with one group of refugees than in refugee service prqgrams, but we find that there, is another also in action to impress upon body of people identifiable as government "the stark necessity 'refugees,''' he said, adding, of. stepped-up funds I and pro- "refugees from war, from politigrams to assist refugees." cal oppression, from social unLEWISBURG (NC) - Life in Spearheading of aI new and rest, from a variety of situations prison and in the seminary can continuous effort to ~ell the ,ref- that testify to man's inhumanity be hard, but there are compensatio,ns, Coadjutor Bishop Joseph ugee story to the puJ:)lic through to man." " T. Daley of Harrisburg told inthe mass media. I mates of the federal' penitentiary 'Hopeless !Evidence Protests Beatings here. in a lighthearted talk. I Auxiliary Bishop fdward E. Of Co~umbia Clergy Speaking at the sixth annual Swanstrom of New jYork, con'banquet of Christ the Prisoner WASHINGTON (NC)-An ecfer president, who. also is execuHoly Nam~ Society, he said:. tive director of Cat~olic Relief umenical group here has pro"I think that you men feel tested against the beatings and Services, told the delegates that "every tremor, in the political, arrest of four priests involved you're very unfortunate being in cultural, and relig1ousllifeof na- in the Golconda social refrom an institution. I can sympathize with that. I was in an institution tions produces men ~nd women in Colombia. ,Necrology In a letter to Colombia's Am- myself for aboutni~~ years. We and children who become, the . called it a seminary. It, was bassador ,to~ the ·iLS.; , Do~glas hopeless evidenceofl man's inDEt. is . ~bility to live in p~ace: either Botero, the executive committee strict. We probably had more Rev. Joseph L. "Cabral; 1959, . , . ;':. :, rules than' YQu . do here,"· the of the EcumeJ:1i<:ll1 Program, for with himsel~ or his, n~ighbor.'! 'Pastor, Our'Lady of the Angels, ,bishop recalled. '. ': Pope Paul, in a mes~age to the Inter-American" Communication Fall River. Scots Re-Examine and Action (EPICA) expressed "Men are pretty much, the delegates, expressed pis "lively , Rt. Rev. John H'. Hackett, its ~'indignation at the recerit ac- same no matter where they are," Basic Document, interest" in their deliberations. 1966, Chancellor of Fall River "The' warm cOllllborktion man- tion of Colombia officials inpris- he told the prisoners. "So I have Diocese from June 1966-DeGLAGOW (NC) The Church oning and beating four Catholic some feeling of what it is to be ifested among groupS of differof Scotland (Presbyterian), the na- cember 1966. 'ent faiths, of governrrlental, aca- priests: Rene Garcia, Manuel Al- deprived of liberty. tion's, largest Christial',l body (1.5 Vicente Mejia and Luis CurDEC. 8 "But do you know, now'that demic: civic, and other non-gov- zate, million members) is reexam!ning rea...· Rev. John F. Broderick, 1940, I'm on the outside, I sometimes the, 17th-century ernmental organizatibns, gives Westminster Pastor, St. Mary, South DartThe Golconda movement, wish I were back on the inside, . named for the resort town where because our society, as all of you Confession of Faith to see mouth. whether it accurately, reflects Asks Time to Draft its charter was signed in 1968 know, is very disturbed. We the beliefs' of Presbyterians in DEC~ II by 49' priests and one bishop, have ',one big war in Vietnam. Integration Plans Rev. Edward L. Killigrew, has been responsible for several , We have small wars in the Mid- modern, Scotland. The Confession, the historic 1959, Pastor, St. Kilian, New WASHINGTON, (N~) -'- T he protest demonstrations at Bo- dle East and Biafra, border skirJustice Department as asked gota,Medellin, Cali and other mishes between China and' Rus- doctrinal "standard" for English- Bedford. was Presbyterians that 33, Mississippi chool dis- Columbian cities. sia * .. *in here you're safe from speaking tricts, which were recently orthe product of the Westminster that." dered by the supreme Court to Bishop, Daley said he was at Assembly convoked by ParliaMass' Ordo DOLAN-SAXON desegregate at once! be first' the penitentiary to remind .that ment in June, 1643, to reform g!ven an oportunity t~ file tMir FRIDAY - Mass of, prec~ding everyone, at home, ,at war or in the Church of.England. own plans a~ to ho,w they intend ' , Sundll:Y' Iy Clliss. Green. The Confession presents a prison, must', have' spiritual to go about it.... 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WASHINGTON (NC) - Presic\ent Nixon, in proclaiming Thursday, Nov. 27, as Thanksgiving Day, said: "Today, despite our materIal wealth and wellwas a large banner emblazoned being, Americans face complex in two shades of green and purproblems unknown before in our ple waving a message aloft, nation's history." "Love never gives up." "In giving thanks today," the Vivid posters in psychedelic President said, "We express gratcolors and letters were hung in itude for past bounty, and we windows fronting the crowded also confidently face the /"Chal· street. Inside the gleaming modlenges confronting our own naern glass structure known as tion and the world because we Bible House, the American Bible k,now we can rely on strength Society was conducting its 51 st greater than ourselves." anniversary advisory council. "This year," the President con· The posters, small seals, and tinued, "let us E'specially seek stickers were all part of a camto rekindle in our respective paign of the so-called "staid and hearts and minds the spirit of conservative" 153-year-old or· first settlers who valued free· ganization to attract the interGOVERNORS VISIT POPE: Pope Paul VI talks with four U.S. governors at the Vatican. The our dom above all else, and who est of the modem generation. Pope's remarks to the governors included a plea for limitation of the arms race and .the use of The ABS, founded 'in 1816, is funds thus saved for "peaceful development." From left are Governors Frank licht of Rhode found much for which to be dedicated to the translation, pro- Island, James A. Rhodes of Ohio, Frank L. Farrar of South Dakota, and Calvin L. Rampton of thankful when material com.forts were meager." "We are, induction, and distribution of deed, a most fortunate people," Scripture without note or com- Utah. Gov. Claude R. Kirk of Florida, who also attended, is not shown. NC Photo. 'he asserted. ment. The President noted that the This year's meeting, attended first proclamation of a national by representatives of 74 Orthoday of Thanksgiving, by Presidox, Protestant, and Catholic dedent Abraham Lincoln on Oct. 6, nominations, discussed ways and 1863, "must have seemed strange means of keeping its purpose to many, coming as it did at a' alive and meaningful around the time of war and bitterness"-in world. the year of the Battle of GettsBy Winsome Munro Common Cause burg and other major battles in Dr. Robert T. Taylor, ABS reOn Friday, March 6, 1970 a bond of prayer spanning six continents will encircle the the War between the States. tiring general secretary, told the "Yet, Lincoln knew that the world. On this day, known as "World Day of Prayer," women in 130 countries will offer assembly: "It is not enough to act of thanksgiving should not distribute the Bible-it must be prayers in 75 languages and a thousand dialects. Protestant, Orthodox, and Roman Cath- be limited to times of peace and read intelligently-it can be a olic women will unite their witness round the theme, "Take Courage,"-"Moet Houden," prosperity," the President said. real confrontation with Jesus Lincoln, he added, "knew that it -"Stech Fest,"-"EsfuerazChrist." is precisely at those times of with 154 others of all races in a very highly developed, it takes Father Louis F. Hartman, te." It was chosen by the inhardship when men most need C.SS.R., executive director, Cath- terna'tional committee head- courage for women to set aside nationwide predawn swoop in to recognize that the source of the custom and prejudice that 1956 and charged with high olic Biblical Association of Amerall good constantly bestows His ica, gave benediction at the end ed by Miss Gudrun Diestel limit their potential' and to stand treason. Presumably she was in- blessings on mankind." of Germany. A housewife from to their true height and dignity. cluded for her par.t in organizing of the meeting and summed up Many notable women have al- a demonstration of 20,000 mostwith "thanks' for the spirit of Egypt, a social worker from Goes to Yugoslavia Christian brotherhood united in a Guyana, a church worker from ready led the way. One such ly African women from all over the Philippines, and a woman could not attend a World Day South Africa to protest' the proVATICAN CITY (NC)-John common cause." Father Hartman called atten- from the U. S. A. discovered a of Prayer gathering if she so posed extension to African Cardinal Wright, prefect of the tion to National Bible' Week and common bond of faith and wor- chose unless granted special women of the hated "pass laws" Congregation for the Clergy, has interfaith observance. ,~o encour- ship as they created the service government permission. This is which restrict freedom of move- left Rome to fly to ~pli~, Yugo63 year old Mrs. Helen Joseph, ment. The trial lasted four and slavia, to take part in dedication age bible' reading among all who for this year.. Women will "take courage" who has been under house ar- a half years and Mrs. Joseph ceremonies of a new "experiare' part of the Judeo·Christian as they pray for themselves and rest in South Africa for the past was in the witness-box for three mental" center in which Archculture. For the first time, the Catholic for one another. They will give seven years. She lives alone in weeks, nine full days of which bishop Franjo Franic of Split Biblical Association has joined courage as they join in a world· a cottage at 35 Fanny Avenue, were spent under cross-exami- and his clergy will live together. ABS and the Lavmen's National wide offering to be devoted to in a white suburb of Johannes- nation. The verdict was "not Intercontinental Mission .burg. guilty" and the accused were Bible Committee in sponsoring an National Bible Week Nov. 23 to Fund, serving six continents. Once her heme was a meeting discharged. They will celebrate courage as place for young and old, for 30. Silent Witness We pause to reflect on our Father Hartman hoped that they bring to mind women who African, Indian, colored and The accused had been granted Thanksgiving week this year will have ventured boldly on behalf white, for people of the broad bail, but before the end of the blessings, good ffortune, good really signal a renewal of interest of their fellow human beings. politcal spectrum known as the trial they were rearrested along health and happiness, and in the Bible. He also spoke enSouth AfriCan Liberation Move· with many others, following the New Awakening thank The Creator who made couragingly of the booklets and ment. Now she may receive no Courage is not usually consid-. visitors, attend no gatherings, Sharpville massacre of peaceful kits distributed by ABS to sethem possible. lected groups of Catholic popu- ered a peculiarly feminine vir- belong to no organization. She demonstrators in March 1960, lation, high schools, and colleges. tue. This accent comes fittingly, must report to the police daily. and the government declaration He said "the response was terif- however, at the opening of a She may not be quoted by any of a. state of emergency which decade which promises a new publication, may not set foot on lasted some months. Like her ie." awakening of women; a world·. any premises in which editing close fellow worker,. Mrs. Lilian Ngoyi, National President of the wide forward movement of or publishing takes place. Money Helps Federation of South African' women to realize their full poten'Pass Laws' Women, she was kept in solitary Money makes up in a measure tial and to take responsibility This last restriction did not confinement for 19 days. all other wants in men. for the future course of history. -Wycherley In -most societies, including the come, however, before Mrs. JoThe order of house arrest was seph had secretly mailed out to served on her after she had England, a few pages at a time made an 8,000 mile trip to visit at different mail boxes, a book tribesmen who had been banshe had written entitled "Tomor- ished to remote areas for their morrow's Sun: A Smuggled opposition to the apartheid sysJournal from South. Africa," tem. Helen Joseph was the first published in the U. S. by the to be restricted this way. Many John Day Co. others have followed, but most Latterly permission has been have found the imposition intolDioc~se granted to Mrs. Joseph to at- erable and have left the country tend church services on Sundays to become exiles. She remains, a silent witness to injustice, and and some holy days. a thorn in the sleeping conMrs. Joseph was first arrested APPOINTMENT science of white South Africa. As the South African governRev. Bernard R. Kelly, assistant at St. Francis Xavier The Provincial Chapter ment resorts to ever harsher Church, Hyannis, to be Chaplain of the Boy Scout program for the Cape Cod Area. OAK BROOK (NC)-Francis- measures to maintain its power, can Fathers of the Sacred Heart a witness such as hers calls for Appointment effective immediately. (St. Louis-Chicago) Province ever greater courage and resolve. . Fall River Savings Bank opened their triennial chapter at This she finds th'\'ough her faith in God. St. Joseph's Seminary here in 141 NO. MAIN On World Day of Prayer Illinois Tuesday. Superiors and FALL RIVER elected delegates represent 800 women throughout the world will draw on the same source as friars of 15 states, mostly in the 873 COUNTY Middle West,' according to Fa- each seeks courage to venture Bishop of Fall River. SOMERSET ther Callistus Smith, O.F.M. vis- in some way for the advance of itor general. the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.
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MONTCLAIR (NC) - Organ iz.ation has been completed by the Ancient Order of Hibernians of. special national committees in a drive for $1 million for the relief of 20,000 left homeless by violence and rioting in Northern Ireland. Michael L. Delahunty, AOH national president, said .regional meetings are being. held acr9ss the country for the campaign. , James A. Farley, former U.S, 'Postmaster General, and Archbishop 'thomas A. Boland of Newark are honorary chairmen: "It is fitting that the Ancient Order of Hibernians, the only nationwide organization of Irish Americans, should furnish the leadership in this relief program," Delahunty said. The AOH national board is establishing a committee in Northern Ireland under the Chair- , . manship of William· Cardinal Conway of Armagh, primate of all Ireland r 'to oversee the distribution of the' funds to all in need, regardless of religious belief. Delahunty said the Hibernians are not abandoning the aim of working for complete independence for the 32 countries of Ireland. "What we are doing," he stated, "is establishing a hierarchy of values. Our first concern must be the alleviation of suffering. Remember the 20,000 homeless-in need of the neces-' sities of life-food, clothing and shelter. This, then, must be our first concern,"
MIAMI (NC) - The; develop- relations and particularly bement of the prinicple of ~ollegial- tween the Roman Curia (the ity. comes down to a r~affirma: Church's central administrative tion of the primacy of the pope, apparatus) and the bishops. . as well as an affirmation of the Great Step Forward . ~" collegial authority of the bishops "And the Pope being present. working with the pope; and of listening to us, taking notes of their own authority in their par- everything we said, even remarks ticular churches, Archbishop criticil1 of the Roman Curia, and Marco McGrath, C.S.C., lof Paria- . 'obviously taking all this very rna said in an interview here. . seriouslY; further; the manner in Archbishop McGrath, i a mem- which he opened' the synod with ber of'the Second Vatican Coun- his beautiful address on the cil's. theological commission spirituality of the bishops workwhich drafted the coundil's Con- ing together for the Church, and stitution on the Church;' (Lumen· his final remarks in which he acGentium) and other key ,conciliar cepted in principle what we had documents, attended bo~h World been discussing and voted upon Synods of Bishops in Rpme. He -all this represented' a . great was one of the membersiselected. step forward in mutual confi/ to make reports to the second dence. . "And I think this is very imSynod, which convened there, Oct. 13 to 27.. ~ portant for the Church today. Prinelpl~ Re-,establl~hed bec.ause the'sign that Our Lord . The archbIshop s rem.ark came 'gave to His Church must be parAID REFUGEES: Pope Paul VI receives Msgr. John G. Nolan, 10 response to. a questu;1O as t~ ticularly emphasized now, name- president of the Pontifical Mission which has delivered $100,how the development o~ collegl- ly the sign of how we love one 000;000 in aid to refugees of Arab-Israeli wars. The Pontiff's ality will affect the authority of a~other and how we really try the ~ope.. . I.. to work together for the bene- . personal donations now' top $100,000. NC PhotQ.. ThIs prlOclple of ,co\leglahty fit of the Church of and all manauthority, he said, ledl to the kind. This must characterize "Vital. discussion. of thf better bishops. . e~rc,~se of authortty for pur own "We can discuss, we can disWASHINGTON. (NC) - The birth control, and the revision tl e. . I. agree, but there has to be evi- Nationa.1.Council of Catholic of the code of canon law. " The archb~sh,?p rela~ed. thIS dent the confidence and the love Men said it has commissioned Object of the studies is to better. e~erclse of a~t~o~lty ~o we have for one another in the Father Andrew M. Greeley, soci- evaluate the viewpoints of conthe. prlOclpl~ o~, sUbsldl~rt~y 10 communion of bishops for the major whIch,. he saId, the lo~a!l bIshop communion of the entire Church. ologist, to prepare a review re- cerned Catholics in and hIs clergy and hl~ people This I think' came through port on the council's survey Church events. "Priorities in Catholic EducaThe NCCM national consultwork out toget~er all qtat can, qUit~effectivelY." ants program, launched in 1967, tion." be done on theIr level, pnly reserving for essential a,uthority The survey is the fourth re- has 600 consultants at present, what the common good' of the Receives $250,000 search poll in the NCCM's na- but plans call for expansion to Church so requires. I tial consultants program during several thousand during 1970, Concentrate on Good "The development of I this in For New Institute the last two years. The other the NCCM stated. Both men and When we learn to give thanks, practice is what we will ~ontinue NOTRE DAME (NC) A surveys were on the U. S. bish- women serve as consultants. Father Greeley .is Ii member we are learning to concentrate to do in the future, nOw that $250,000 gift toward construc- ops' pastoral letter Human Life the principle has been so clearly tion of a new Institute for Ad- in Oui Day; Humanae Vitae, the National Opinion Research not on the bad things, but on re-established, and the' means vanced Religous Study building Pope Paul VI's encyclical on Council of the University of the good things in our lives. Chicago. . -Vanderbilt for discussion of its ap~lication has been made to the University have .been established," he of Notre Dame by Howard V. ! stated. oPhalin, retired chairman of the New From of Exercise board and chief executive officer "We need more intima'te com- of Field Enterprises Educational munication among the ibishops Corp. in Chicago. and with Rome--discussion and Father Theodore M. Hesburgh, consultation on major d~cisions, C.S.C., university president, said along with channels of niore fre- the institute is not designed as a quent exercise of collegial re- center for research in comparsponsibility," Archbishop Mc- ative religion but "as a home for Grath asserted. I scholars of the highest eminence He said he thought i'this is who are concerned with religion true today at all levelsl' in the in our time from a twofold ecu- •. Church. The exercise of author- menical point of view," ity, when it takes into consider"First, all serious religion's ation personal opinions ~nd the attitudes of groups, in decision- served by serious scholars will making, does not undo a4thority, be invited to share their conclubut it does give it a new form sions with us and others; and, of exercise which is mudh more second, the work of these theoeffective because of broader logical scholars will not be conconsultation, and therefore it ducted in isolation, but will be brought into fruitful dialogue merits broader acceptante." Questioned on the effeCt Pope with other university disciPaul's almost constant presence plines," Father Hesburgh said. at synod sessions' has' on its members, Archbishop rv,:cGrath Urge Organization replied: , "We cannot overestimate the value on confidence in all' human To .Assist Needy MILWAUKEE (NC)-An appeal to middle-income families to organize F~iends of Welfare Catho~ics' lE'iterest Rights groups in support of the SturlPri~e5) Rabbi poor has been issued by the MilPHILADELPHIA (NC>+-Rabbi waukee Archdiocesan Council on Henry Cohen expressed surprise Urban Lift. at the wide interest shown at St. The appeal was made in an Joseph's College in his course on IS-page· bi-monthly report of the the "theology of Judaism.• council and in an article "Crisis "It's just been amazing," said in Welfare" mail~d by CUL to the rabbi, whose normal [post is its members. Bofh were written at the Beth David Reform Con- by Father Dismas Becker, O.C,D., gregation in Wynnefield. ('I wish the council's program director. that some Jewish students I Recent cuts in the welfare teach would show as much inter- budget by the Wisconsin legislaest in Judaism as ,the Catholic ture reduce the basic allowance Everything from complete dinners to "goodies" for the kids students do." ; for an AFDC family (Aid to Famare a joy to prepare with modern, self-cleaning ,electric ranges. Rabbi Cohen is three' months ilies with Dependent Children); into the experimental course at repeals AFDC-U (Aid to Families See Your Dealer or the college. There wasl some with unemployed fathers not el· doubt when the course was igible for aid to dependent chiloffered whether the nee~ed 30 dren); and repeals AFDC-stepstudents would sign up 'for it. children (aid to needy stepchil· Dut the sign-ups exceeded the dren of mothers who have requota. ' married).
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Jersey Parental Complaints Stop Objectionable Movies
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NEWARK (NC)-Movies which once were supposed to be better than ever now have parents angrier than ever. And the anger appears to be getting results in the North Jersey area. Middlesex County Prosecutor Edward J. Doland has ...announced that he would join Essex County the owners," he said, "since the movies they show seem to imProsecutor Joseph P. Lori in pair the morals of the township seeking an injunction against that serious consideration will be . the showing ,of the film, "I Am Curious (Yellow)." Lori moved for the Superior Court injunction after his staff and the sheriff's office confiscated copies of the film at a northern New Jersey theater. They acted after police officials viewed the film because of protests received from various parents. Parents are encouraging the move of Passaic County Prosecutor John Thevos to bar the showing of the same film in that area. Distributors Flood Area Meanwhile, in nearby Millburn, the Township Committee warned the operators of a cinema that the theater's license might not be renewed if the quality of films . being shown doesn't pick up immediately. And in Union County, a theater will cut short the engagement of "De Sade" because of protests. Court action against "I Am Curious" is being conducted under state laws prohibiting the showing of 'obscene films. Superior Court Judge Nelson K. Mintz in Newark said he will view the film and take testimony before ruling on the injunction request. Police officials in Essex moved against the film a day after the first showing. In Middlesex, Prosecutor Dolan is attempting to forestall the opening of the film. And in Passaic, a theater withdrew the film pending the outcome of the court action. Licenses In Jeopardy Responding to complaints, the Livingston movie house announced that no one under 17 wiIl be admitted after 5 unless accompanied by an adult. A complaint against the ruling was lodged before the Township Council by a group of teenagers but another complaint was made by Maurice Dougherty on behalf of the Knights of Columbus. He noted the number of X-rated films shown at the theater. In Millburn, the Township Committee unanimously adopted a resolution condemning a cinema's film policy because a majority of the films being shown are "lewd, obscene and scandalous in nature." Parents Picket Mayor Ralph Batch said the committee acted because of the number of complaints it has reo ceived from parents and teenagers, as well. "Notification will be served on
Deliver Worksheet To Conference WASHINGTON (NC) - While the National Conference of Catholic Bishops worked on its own another worksheet, agenda, called the People's Agenda,' was delivered to NCCB president John Cardinal Dearden of Detroit. Father Robert Trisco, one of the bishops' press briefing officers, said there was no discussion of the "People's Agenda." The agenda, drawn up by 10 priests and laymen generally identified with the Church's left wing, ranges across topics such as Church priorities, racism, peace, poverty, democracy, worn路 en's rights, birth control, optional celibacy and divorce and remarriage.
given to the renewal of their license at the end of the year," adding: "We have chastised and admonished the theater owners," and their reply is that "good" movies don't receive .community support. The decision to withdraw "De Sade" in Union was announced by the RKO Stanley Warner or路 ganization in New York after the Township Committee condemned the film and parents set up a picket line around the theater. RKO officials declined to say whether they were influenced by the protests or whether the film was just doing badly at the box office.
Postpone Action On Constitution CINCINNATI (NC) - Father John Byrne, C.PP.S., provincial of the Cincinnati province of the Society of the Precious Blood, put it this way: "It is hoped that experimentation to allow for the changing scene in the Church and in America will be an ongoing thing." He was talking about the society's decision to wait for eight years of experimentation before considering submitting to the Holy See for final approval a new constitution and general statutes for the farflung society. The new constitution arid general statutes were drawn up at the sOciety's recent.general chapter convention in Rome. Father Byrne said the text of the chapter proceedings, published in English, "is flexible and open enough to allow for expanding renewal." "An enormous area of provincial autonomy" is reflected in the text, he said. "One-man decision is out! On the general level, the moderator in Rome shares his authority with the members of the general curia who, in most cases, will now enjoy deliberative voice. "It is up to each province to see to it that this happens likewise on the provincial level-deliberative voice in the council or senate," he continued.
Express Solidarity With Brazilians PARIS (NC) - Although disagreeing with the methods and activities of several Dominican monks arrested in Brazil on charges of aiding terrorists, a group of French Dominicans have stated that the action of the Brazilians "was prompted by conditions that truly defy the conscience of the believer." In a letter to Maurice Cardinal Roy, president of the Pontifical Commission for Justice and Peace, 13 prominent French Dominicans stated that "there are many in Brazil today bent on expressing the voice of the people, and for that reason they are either imprisoned or reduced to silence." The French group is concerned about "safeguarding the honor and the physical integrity" of these leaders, including the Dominicans.
DISTINGUISHED" SERVICE: Gold m'edals for "distinguished service to humanity" were awarded by Frc;mk Pace Jr. (center), president of the National Institute of Social Sciences, in New York City to these four internationally known achievers, from I~ft: former prime minister of Canada, Lester Pearson; author Barbara Ward; Astronaut Frank Borman, and Father Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., president of the University of Notre Dame and chairman of the U. S. Civil Rights Commission. NC
Welcome Statement on War Prisoners pOW's Wife Praises Bishops' Stand ALEXANDRIA (NC)-"It's very true and it's marvelously written," commented Mrs. Charles Parish about the U.S. Bishops' statement on prisoners of war, approved at the U. S. bishops' semi-annual meeting in Washington. 'Among other actions, the bishops commended the U. S. and other governments and international organizations for seeking humane treatment of prisoners of war, release of the names of captured personnel, exchange of the sick and wounded, impartial inspection of prisoner of路 war facilities, and regular communication with alI prisoners of war. Mrs. Parish, wife of a Navy lieutenant who has been a POW since July, 1968, is one of six wives who recently visited Paris and talked with the Hanoi delegation requesting release of the prisoners of war.' Still Waiting She said she and the other women felt encouraged when' they returned from Paris. But, it has been more than nine weeks since the first group of women met with Hanoi officials. "And I haven't heard anything," she added, her optimism obviously waning. The men from Hanoi had promised the women they would receive word at their home addresses. Brief Reply "But we asked how long it would be and they just repeated the same thing, that we would hear from them," she explained. Mrs. Parish said she didn't know how long she would wait before making another attempt to obtain her husband's freedom. She admitted it's not easy to
Taunton Blind Taunton Catholic Guild for the Blind will hold a Christmas party Tuesday, Dec. 16 at Tamarack restaurarit. At the November meeting Rev. Brian: Harrington, spiritual director,' spoke on new liturgiCal changes, gifts were awarded and refreshments served. '
find time for pursuing the matter, especialIy with children to care for. When asked to comment on 路the recent anti-war demonstrations in nearby Washington, Mrs. Parish stated firmly:- "We wrote to the New Mobilization Committee in October and asked them to remember these prisoners." She said the wives feared the prisoners' lives would -be endangered if alI U. S. troops are withdrawn from Vietnam as the demonstrators advocated. She said the reply to this request was a letter saying simply: "Thank you for your interest." But, she added, she was sur-
prised to get. even that much of an answer. Asked whether she would be in favor of ending the war if some provision could be made whereby alI prisoners were returned safe:y, she said, "Not necessarialy... She emphasized: "If this is alI in vain, if it's without reason, that would hurt me more than anything." "The knowing that the men sitting in the camps and those who have died would have been worthwhile" would cause less pain, Mrs. Paris explained, "than to have to say that this is alI in vain."
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Sisters' Commitment Pope Paul hast,old the Sisters of. the world that they must be "totally holy or be reduced to a joke.~' The Pope spok¢ of "interior renewal" and "exterior updating" and urged the Sisters to present to the world the very figure of Cl1rist. I
For this, of course, the Sisters must be totally and absolutely convinceJi that people have need of Christ and that they themselves have Him to present to others. Perhaps here i~ where a certain element of crisis 'I exists today. , Dedicated religipus are seeing the many and varied needs of the people around them: the hungry call out for food; the homeless ask a,place where they can live in dignity; the disenfranc~ised ask for equal opportunity, eco-' nomic or political; the troubled ask for competent and compassionate assistance. ' These needs are, real and are pressing. Sometimes religious ask if their ~hole commitment should not be as social works or psychologists or in governmental agendes. These positions would seem to be answering needs immediately. The life of' prayer and con!emplation and - the imparting of spiritual values seems a little removed from the actual present need. . There are religious who are trained in the fields of social work and counselling and so forth. These do reach out to those with immediate needs. But every Sister has, as her ultimate dedication, the spiritual, the imparting of Christ to people. Because Christ is the ultimate need of men, whether he knows it or not. If one accepts the truth that God is the Creator of man and his final de~tiny, that his life is a prelude to an eternity to come, that men have not here a lasting city, that the needs of the: body and the mind and the. emotions are important but tl1at the needs of' the,I'soul are paramount-if one accep~s all this then the pdority of 'values is established..Man'sbodily and intellectual and emotional needs must be met; ,but his spiritual needs must be ackn()~ledged and' met', also. And the one who teaches him about God and the things of God is se'rving him in a realistic way and is answering his p'resent and pressing' needs.
The worth of the spiritual, the eternal,' the unseen must never be down-'graded or questioned. And certainly never by religious who have made as their whole life's profession God and the 'things of God and the imparting of these by life and word and work to the. children of God., ,
The Sisters in t~eir projection of Christ by the holiness of their ·lives ha~e something of value that men want and need and must have. They are not "second class" helpers of the needy., They are not dealing in things that do not count.. They are not dabblers in the' unnecessary. They are projectors o~ Christ. And, as Pope Paul has said, they must dQ this or be reduced to a joke. .
. Poor Taste Jersey City Council Feels Firing of Nun Should Have Been Handled Better JERSEY CITY (NC)-The fir- taking over the supervision of ing of a nun as superintendent the shelter and facing a difficult of the children's emergency shel- task. brought about several bene. ter should have been handled bet- ficial changes. But the City Council did not ter. the city council here has offer to re-hire Sister Carmela. admitted. At the same time. the Council "I didn't ask to be·re-hired." she offered five recommendations for said. "My only concern was for the children." improvement of the shelter. Sister Carmela was earlier hon"Nottling happens without a good purpose." says Sister Car- ored by the Jersey Journal, d.aily mela Marie Christiano. the ousted newspaper here, as one of 12 outnun. "And I think these recom- standing women in Hudson mendations would never have County. The award lauded the been considered if I had not been. nun for her work at the shelter, which before her arrival was defired.' , ' "My real purpose has been ac· scribed in an official report as complished - to get something "reminiscent of Oliver Twist." done for the children." Sister Carmela noted. The Council publicly admitted that the firing of Sister Carmela Continued from Page One last Summer was in poor taste and admitted that the nun, in translation into the vernacular and the meticulous but meaningful catechesis for priests and Plan N~w Bedfo.rd people far in advance of the actual introduction of· any new liAuction· Saturday turgical action." Raymond' Woodhouse will diThe quiet liturgist gave the imrect the auction to be conducted pression that he felt the many for the benefit of Our Lady of hard years of work by the interPurgatory parish at 7 next Sat- national commission would 'best urday nig~t. Nov. 29. at the be recognized to the degree that Lebanese Center. corner of thecatechesis..:....education. trainState and Merrimac Streets. New ing. explanation - was pursued Bedford.. by the conferences and the local Over 500. items .will be auc- dioceses. tioned. A snack gar will be available. The general public is invited to the auction which will begin with an exhibition at 6.
Continued from Page One ings, laboratories and libraries had to be developed. But the greatest expense came with the opening of the Univer.. sity doors to students fresh out of high school, seeking to get their preparation for life and work under religious auspices. Thousands have been added in the past ten years. with every substantial addition sending the costs of running the university _ skyward. I It is for reasons such as these' that we are called on each year . to encourage and support our official university. The Diocese of Fall River has aways giver'! an honest. honorable account of it· self, whenever cducatipn at the highest level is concerned. What we give will not meet all bills. but we can do much in union . with Catholic people the whole land over to keep a university going that has always been characterized by top-level graduates. This year. the administration has been turned over to a Cath· olic layman. highly versed in the field of administration. He has already aroused the admiration of the academic world, and promises to improve where desirable, the caliber of teaching and the preparation of 6Ur youth to serve with competence the social. economic and religious needs of our . time. I urge you therefore to be generous and continue support for so vital a service as we have in the Catholic University of America. Thanking one and all for present and past generosity in sup· porting this significant· educational institution, and with a cordial blessing. I remain Faithfully yours in Christ, James L. Connolly Bishop of Fall River
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SACRED HEART, Rev. Thomas E. Clarke, S.J., NEW BEDFORD professor of systematic theology Fund raising committee mem- . ilt Woodstock College. Maryland. bers of the Home and School will speak to religious of the Association will sponsor a cake Northeast area at 2 on Saturday sale at Arlan's department afternoon. Dec. 6 in Sacred store Saturday, Dec. '20. Cakes Hearts Gymnatorium, Prospect· may be brought to Arlan's the St., Fall River. OFFICIAL " . NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER day of the sale or will be picked . Sponsored by the National Published weekly by The·Catholic Press'of the Diocese of Fall River up if Raymond Rainville or any Sisters Vocation Conference of association member is contacted. the Northeast Region. the confer410 Highland Avenue The association will meet at ence is under the chairmanship Fall River, Mass. 02722. 675·7151 . 7:30 Tuesday night, Dec. .2 in of Sr. Barbara Mary, SUSC of the Sacred Hearts Academy, Fall the church hall. r PUBLISHER River, and Sr. Mary Albertus, Moral Independence .RSM of Mt. St. Mary's ·Convent. Most Rev. James L. Connolly, D.O., PhD. i . . Property is desirable as the Fall'River is ticket chairman. GENERAL MANAGER ASST. GENERAL MANAGER' grpund work of moral indepenFather Clarke is associate' edidence.as a means of improving tor of America. The Way, and Rev. Msgr. Dani~! F. ,s~diioo,.M.A. . Rev. John P,. Driscoll the faculties and oLdoing good .of the dogma sections of Conto others and' as the' agent in cilium. He.is also ·the author MANAGING EDITOR. "II that distinguishes the ·civi- of "Word and Redeemer':,"ChrisHugh J. Golden, ll.B~ . fized milO from the sa·v",ge. . tology in the Fathers" . and ... , ,-C\?Qper "Christ and His Mission". ~Leary rless--'faIiRiver'
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CJ;ech Refugees. "Continued from Page One New York who has emphaSized the immediate need for guarantees of homes and jobs in order to bring the refugee families, already approved for admission to the U. S.• to this country by the first of the year. The urgency was also stressed by John E. McCarthy, director of the Division of Migration and Refugee Services which has helped bring 800 Czechoslovakian refugee families to this country in recent months. 'Deserve Our Help' "The U. S. Department of State. the Austrian government and Caritas·Zentrale. the Austrian Catholic charities organization. have been begging 1.000 reo settlement opportunities for families in the pipeline. approved and ready to come" McCarthy , declared. "These are people who have voted with their feet in favor of freedom." McCarthy added. "They deserve our help and they need it now if human tragedies , are to be averted." The church official said there has been no difficulty in obtaining sponsorship for Czechoslovakian refugees with family members and friends in this country, but. "the others ar.e stranded." The problem has been made worse. he noted, by a large influx of refugees into Austria in the last several months. The re. suit has been a major backlog of fam,ilies and individuals waiting in Austrian refugee camps for resettlement.
Value System . Today's value system considers .holding onto onc's money as important as holding on to one's -Knight sanity.
TV Sex Lessons Stir Controversy In England
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'Is Parmsh Dead?' Is Lecture Topic
LONDON (NC) The British Broadcasting Corporation has aroused a national controversy by announcing plans to televise frank sex education for children and a television feature on contraception. The sex education programs are designed specifically for eight and nine-year-olds and will be broadcast for school listening in January and televised for school and family viewing next June. With the radio script the BBC is offerIng schools an illustrated filmstrip to be shown at the same time in the classrooms. The filmstrips and the TV programs previewed by selected parents and pressmen deal simply and factually with the whole process of copulation and birth for animals and human beings. They were prepared at the request of the School Broadcasting Council, which advises the BBC and whose members are teachers, administrators of schools, colleges and universities, and other educational experts. The council, apparently echoing the beliefs of most teachers, thinks that children aged eight and nine need to be told the facts about sex; that the children are not getting much help from their parents in this direction, and that the ordinary primary school teachers themselves would prefer such information to be imparted through the BBC specialists. Birth Prevention The BBC has also announced a 20-minute program in its "Family Doctor" series dealing with contraception. This includes some discussion on the various methods of birth prevention and shows a young woman visiting a family planning clinic and being fitted' with a contraceptive device. Though the sex-for-schools programs have roused more comment-most of which favors the idea - the single birth control feature has met more opposition. The National Listeners' and Viewers' Association, a group which fights without much suc~ cess for improved television and radio standards, declared that if the family clinic visit episode is included in the contraception feature it would be "sensationalism for sensationalism's sake." In fact the opposition to the contraception ,feature is such that the BBC is now said to be considering cutting and amending it or even postponing it altogether. It is due to be screened during November.
Eight Reconvert , To Hindu Religion NEW DELHI (NC) - At least' eight Christians, including a clergyman, have become Hindus in differents parts of India in recent "reconversions" brought about by Vishwa Hindu .Parishad, a national organization that uses Christian evangelization methods. Three of the re-converts, two' of the~ women, were identified as former Catholics. The clergyman, the Rev. Alfred Daniel of Kanpur, is not listed in the In'dian Catholic directory and is presumed to have been a Protestant. One of the two former Catholic women promptly married a Jlindu office colleague and the other announced plans to wed a Hindu engi~r, shortly.
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The first of three lectures sponsored bySt. Patrick's School of Religion of Fall River will be held at 8 Sunday evening, November 30, in St. Patrick's School auditorium, Slade Street, Fall River. Rev. Dr. Davis, Associate Secretary of the Youth Department, World Council of Churches, Geneva, Switzerland, will discuss "Is the Parish Dead?" Mrs. Nicholas T. Tyrrell, coordinator of religious education for adults at St. Patrick's in announcing the event, stressed that,all area adults are invited to attend. "It is important," she said, "for us to get together now and discuss meaningful institutional change within the church. We must get over a false kind of fear which tells us that the institutional church cannot change. The institution does change; the mystery does not." World Council Staff
CHARITY BALL PLANNING: Edouard W. Lacroix of St. Dominic's parish, Swansea, president of the Fall River Particular Council of the St. Vincent de Paul Society, and Mrs. Robert Nedderman of the Sacred Heart parish. Fall River, chairman of the Bishops's Charity Ball ticket committee, finalize plans for the distribution of tickets.
Charity Ball to Honor Bishop Connolly Silver Anniversary' of Consecration The 15th annual Charity Ball on Friday evening, Jan. 9, 1970, to be held at the Lincoln Park Ballroom for the benefit of the exceptional and underprivileged children will be dedicated to His Excellency, James L. Connolly, Bishop of Fall River. ' This will give the opportunity to the many thousands of patrons of the Ball to honor in a special way the silver anniversary of the consecration of Bishop Connolly as Titular Bishop of Mylasa and Coadjutor Bishop of Fall River which took place at the Cathedral of St.' Paul, St. Paul, Minn., May 24, 1945. Bishop Connolly became the Ordinary of the Diocese in May, 1951, upon the death of Most Rev. James E. Cassidy. The theme of the Ball will be commemorative of the happy event of Bishop ConnOlly's 25 years in the episcopate. The color theme for, the Ball has been suggested by the Bishop's Coat of Arms. ' The Coat of Arms is based on the Arms of the Connolly family whose ancestors came from County Monaghan, Ireland. The original Connolly Arms display five escallop shells which are the heraldic indication for James, the baptismal name of Bishop Connolly. A fleur-de-lis has been substituted for the escallop shell in the fess point in honor of St. Louis, whose name Bishop Connolly also bears. The saltire in the shape of the Greek letter Chi is a liturgical symbol for Christ the Chief Shepherd. Silver and blue, colors of the Blessed Virgin Mary, are fittingly represented in' the Coat, of Arms since Bishop Connolly has chosen the motto "Auspice
Frugal People The most substantial people are the most frugal, and make the least show, and live at the ieast expense. -Moore
Maria" (With the Help of Mary). The colors incorporated in the Coat of Arms are silver, blue, green and gold. These are the colors to be used in the decorative scenario, of the ballroom. Keen Leadership Qishop Connolly has a great concern for the ne'edy and the aged with' many new facilities and expansion of existing buildings to care for t~e needy and the aged. An enormous expansion of the school program took place during Bishop ConnOlly's episcopate. Schools for the exceptional children, a chain of high schools throughout the diocese and many parochial schools were established. Family Life Bureau, CoJncil of Catholic Women, a Confraternity of Christian Doctrine organization in every. parish, and many ,oth,er church buildings and additi'ons to existing facilities are some of the material accomplishments. 'Spiritual betterment under Bishop Connolly has been manifold. He has always been a leader in implementing the Papal. instructions in his diocese. The establishment of The Anchor, the diocesan newspaper, was another of the firsts under Bishop Connolly's leadership. Originator of Ball Always showing a ·keen interest in children, Bishop Connolly founded schools for the exceptional child. There are now four - two in Fall River and one each in Hyannis and in Attleboro. T!le founding of the Catholic Boys Day Camp and Nazareth Camp for the exceptional and added facilities at the St. Vincent de Paul Health Camp for the underprivileged children have come about through Bishop ConnOlly's concern' for chil'dren. For this rea1?on, he originated the project: or an annual Charity .Dall whose proceeds help in
large measure the Nazareth Schools for the exceptional and the camps for the underprivileged. It is hoped that the co-sponsors of the Ball, Council of Catholic Women and Society of St. Vincent de Paul, with the Diocesan Ball coordinatir.g committee, will make the n5th annual Bishop's Charity Ball a bigger and better event fin honor of Bishop Connolly.
A priest of the Anglican Church, Dr. Davis is Australian by birth. He has held many pastoral and academic positions in his native country, as well as in the Anglican Church. He is a Doctor of Church History of Cambridge University, England, and has been on the staff of the World Council of Churches in Geneva since last Summer. Tickets for the lecture are available from Mrs..Tyrrell, from St. Patrick's Rectory, Fall River, or at the door. Other programs in February and May will consider "Women in Church and Society" and "Can Authority in ~he Church Really Be Shared?"
Genuine Man One is weary of hearing about the omnipotence of money. I will say rather that, for a genuine man, it is no evil to be poor. -Carlyle
With humility and g~atitude, we praise Almighty God and bless Him ... and thank Him for His goodness, His blessings and His benefits. May we strive to merit them in the future!
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It's Subtle Hinting Season As Christmas Appro,aches By :Marilyn Roderick
"What would you like your husbands to buy you for Christmas?" This was the question that I threw out for discussion at one of our recent· recess breaks. Answers came thick and fast and ranged from . the absurd-"A mink coat" anything other than their own . TV toy ads, perhaps you have a - to the, more senous mother,friend or sister he could "Something I would~'t buy . turn to for advice. for myself, yet something I ,Husbands should be advised would really enjoy." Husbands not to step out on a Christmas shopping spree without some might be sur-' prised to learn thought in mind about a suitable that appliances gift. Does she have a favorite fall very low hobby, is there an item of ape on their wives' panil she has been yearning Christmas lists. over, but hesitating ~o buy beFor some reacause it isn't a necessity, would son, even those she really be comfortable in that that are on the backless, strapless, sideless expensive side gown that looks terribly elegant take sec 0 n d in the store but would end up looking a ·bit· out of place in place to clothes on a woman's most wanted list. your family room (which' is "I don't care what he buys probably where she spends most me as long as it's clothes," an- of her leisure time). A little swered one of my fellow teach· wife-analysis is worth every bit ers. of extra effort that goes into it. Many of the others wanted to Who. knows, bette~ than you if be more selective, though, and she IS really yearmng for some· some even wanted a slight hand thing terribly chic and unnec· in choosing what they would - essary (such as that gown) just get. They felt that if they had to help her remember she's the a little choice in the matter girl that you married long years hubby wouldn't end up buying ago. Hinting Time that darling little outfit that the The men of the family still salesgirl loved. , Aforementioned outfit gener· have quite a few shopping days ally ends up 'hanging, in the between now and December' closet for the rest of the year 25th, so possibly it would be a while budget·stricken wife be- good idea for wives who have moans the fact, that she has a been gifted with sewing machines when ~ey don't like ,to very small wardrobe. sew, or mix·masters when they Not a Check resent mixing, to drop some . ~'What do you think, then, - subtle' hints. This may ,nQt be about a large check" I retorted, very honest but it certainly is "then you could pick out just better than having your husband sp~nd his hardearned money what you. wanted." on some item that will be rele· . "Oh, no;" all answered" because gated to the topmost shelf in women, being the contrary creayour kitchen or the back of your tures they are feel this is much clothes closet immediately after too impersonal. They want to feel that their husbands think Christmas. enough of them to go' through the trouble of picking some- Forms New Conservative thing out, even if they ,have to tag' along to guide him. Christian Action Council Of course if your children areCOLUMBUS (NC) - Bouncing growing up they certainly could back from a rebuff dealt by a help Dad pick out a present for church agency. he founded 28 Mom and many of therp would years ago, Dr. Carl' McIntire, be more conscious of what controversial preacher, disclosed mother needs and likes than the here in Ohio that he has founded man of the house. If yc!mr chil· a new national' conservative dren are too young to notice church group which will hold its 28th annual meeting in Wash· ington, D. C., April 9·10, 1970. Closes Case Inv~lvong The fundamentalist radio preacher 'from Collirigswood, Contract Dispute N. J., was dropped from the ex· MONTREAL (NC) -:. Loyola ecutive committee of the AmeriCollege has officially closed the can Council .of Christian case of a faculty member in- Churches at its 28th annual volved in a contract, dispute meeting here. The ACCC which resulted in a student sit-in. adopted a resolution condemning More than 150 students began Dr. McIntire for taking over the the sit·in, calling for "justice for council's relief committee withSanthanam"-Dr. S. A. Santha· out consent. Dr. MCIbtire denied nam, who has not been associ· the charge, but the resolution ated- with the college since last was adopted 40·to-16. June when his contract expjired. Leaving the convention, Dr. Santhanam apparently was McIntire, pastor of Bible Presbydisputing terms of a r~newar terian church in Collingswood, contract, but no details of the said he has formed the new Christian Action dispute have been mad!! public, American according to the school's infor- Council, a more militant conservative group. He said he already mation office. ' has 22 members pledged for' the The sit·in, 'Was brQken up new group, and expects to enlist about four hours later when the 500 more preachers and five milstudents were told that' Loyola's lion persons with fundamentalist president, 'Father Patrick J. beliefs. Malone, S.J., was offer,ing Santhanam $10,000 and a letter of AppHcation Lag recommendation. Santhanam, however, rejected the offer, and Mediocre men often have the the college announced ,that the most acquired knowledge. case was officially closed. -Bernard
NEW MEMIlERS: New members ore welcomed at tea held by Friends of St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River. From left, Mrs. Michael J. McMahon, president; Mrs. Luke J. Urban and Mrs. Yvonne Emond, new members; Mrs. Alfred J. Roy, president-elect.
Aid Progress Expert Says Education Key to· Easing Of Refugee Problems WASHINGTON (NC)-Educa· tion is the key to solving refu· gee problems in the Middle East, but finding the money to provide this education creates still another problem, according to an expert on refugee affairs in that part of the world. . "Education IS the one ticket a young refugee has to become self·sustaining,"· Dr. John Davis, president of American Near East Refugee Aid,. Inc., said in an ex. clusive interview with NC News Service. '
Davis said there are numerous self·supporting Palestinians throughout the world, but they are considered exiles. The Palestinians, Davis ex. plained, lost their country when the modern state of Israel was created'. The resulting. Arab. Israeli conflict is the source of the refugee problem.
PHILADELPHIA (NC)-A recording group of seven Medical Mission. Sisters, with headquarters here, visited Regis College, Weston, Saturday to conduct the first in a series of concerts that will take them through Canada, Wisconsin and Michi· gan. The inItial invitation for a tour of Canada was extended to Sister Miriam Therese Winter, who heads the group, by the Canadian Mennonite Association, whose members were familiar with the nun's recordings, "Joy is Like the Rain;" "I Know the Secret;" and "Knock, Knock." Plans call for the group to give concerts in Ontario, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. After Canada, the Sisters will travel to Detroit, where they will conduct a worship service for the General Assembly of the National Council of Churches of Christ, Dec. 2. Other appearances include programs in Ann Arbor, Mich;; Kenosha, Wis., and Racine, Wis. The tour will close in Milwau· kee, where the Sisters will give a concert at the Performing Arts Center, under the sponsorship of the Milwaukee archdiocesan religious education department.
Archdiocese Appoints Communications Chief DETROIT (NC) ~ John Card· inal Dearden of Detrotit has named William J. Coughlin, editor and broadcaster, to be director of the newly founded archdiocesan Office of Communica· tions. . His appointment completes the major part of a streamlining of the archdiocese's administrative str:ucture. He previously headed the archdiocese's Office of information. Coughlin's new responsibilities will include the Michigan Catho· lie, archdiocesan newspaper; the archdiocesan Office of Information; a new Speakers Bureau, plus directing a range of Church mass-communication media including more than 300 parish bulletins, a number of newsletters, magazines and pamphlets published for Catholics in the archdiocese. , He also will act as public reo lations counsel to the archdiocese.
Davis bluntly , says the "United States government is on a course which is actually driving the Middle East. to war." He said the Arabs and Israelis canHis one-year-old volunteer, _ not avoid the conflict. non-profit organization has dis· tributed more than $300,000 in scholarships to help young refu- . Denver Prelate Advisor gees obtain ·educations. . Of Physicians Guilds ANERA seeks money to conThe Forerunner WASHINGTON (NC)-Bishop tinue its aid program through George H. Guilfoyle, chairman Thc;>ught .precedes action as various, appeals' to individuals, induding large scale direct mail· of National Conference of Cath· lightning does thunder.-Heine olic Bishops Committee on ing~ Health Affairs, has announced Davis, who once headed the the appointment of Auxiliary :. United Nations Relief and Bishop George R. Evans of DenWorks, Agency 'for Palestine ver to be the episcopal advisor Refugees (UNWRA), said the to the National Federation of UN agency is facing an acute Catholic Physicians' Guilds. OIL COMPANY deficit. He pointed out that Bishop Evans was appointed UNWRA· has only $35 per refuto membership on the committee gee per year available. during the NCCB meeting here There are 2 Y2 million Pales· this month. Bishop Guilfoyle, in tinian refugees without a coun- making the announcement, try, .Qavis said, adding that noted Bishop Evans' interest and South • Sea Streets there are an additional one mil· knowledge in health matters and lion in the Gaza' Strip, which is that he is a former moderator occupied land. Tel. 49·81 of the Catholic Physicians' Guild . Hyannis of Denver.
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Diocese Increases Thanksgiving Masses LAFAYETTE (NC) - Bishop Maurice' Schexnayder gave priests of the Lafayette diocese permission to offer an additional Mass on Thanksgiving Day. The bishop noted that attendance at Thanksgiving Day Masses is increasing and granted the permission to encourage' even~ greater attendance. The new Mass for Thanksgiving' Day approved by the U. S. bishops' was recommended for the observance..
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Advent Season for Family To Take Look at Itself
Council Suggests Counsel Service
By Joseph and Marilyn Roderick
ST. PAUL (NC)-A psycho.logical counseling service for archdiocesan priests, Brothers and Sisters was proposed by the St. Paul and Minneapolis archdiocesan Sisters' Council at the annual Sisters' Institute here. It is the first formal proposal made by the council since it was formed about a year ago. "This is not necessarily our first priority as a group, but it does happen to be our first formal resolution," said Sister Maria Hill, a school principal and chairman of the council's pcrsonnel committee. Presenting the proposal, Sister Maria cited the growing number of nuns leaving religious communities, suggesting that early preventative counseling might have an effect En reversin~ this trend. The service would not, however, be limited to those thinking of leaving religious life. The service also could serve as part of the screening process before a person joins a religious community, she said. "Part of the problem is that many of those who leave slhouldn't have 'entered in the first place," she declared.
It seems unbelievable to me, but the season of Advent is nearly here. This has to be the greatest month of the year as far as Marilyn and I are concerned because it is truly the season at which the family seems to pull together and have a great time. So many things conspire to pudding, I find it a delightful and I intend to keep it make Advent a success: the custom on the Roderick's liturgical calweather turns cold and the endar.
children are in the house, the house has to be prepared for Christmas (which must bc a united effort), everyone is busy with shopping, money is at a premium, so outside entertainment is curtailed, and the children are full of anticipation of the great day ahead. As in the past we will celebrate Advent with a wreath which will be lit every night accompanied by prayers and an accounting of the day's actiVities. The children place straws for their good deeds in a crib which is being prepared for the Christ Child. Attention Turns Inward
This kind of activity turns the attention of the members of the family inward upon themselves and it is good to concentrate on each other at least once a year. Too often we manage to escape paying attention to each;. other in the press of activities we manage to become involved in, especially when the children are starting to get older and are going their separate ways. This year we are really looking forward to Jason's reaction to Advent and Christmas, since he is at the perfect age to participate in all our activities. At four years old, this whole periOd' should be one of great interest to him. Until now he has been passive observer of the holidays but he has shed his passivity and I expect that he will be the middle of everything that is going on (including the crib, the ornaments and the Advent wreath). In the Kitchen "Stir up Your power, we beseech You, Oh Lord, and come . . . !" Such is the call of the first Sunday of Advent, which falls on November 30th this year. Traditionally called Stir-up Sunday or Stirring up Sunday, this is the day that housewives are entreated to sail into the kitchen and mix up their fruit cake or plum pudding bat,ter. In our house there is no one particular cake that I make but rather I enjoy trying a new one each year. This contrariness I like to blame on the fact that I'm always searching for new recipes for the column, but actually it's because like that greener grass, I'm always 'sure that recipe on the other side of the fence will be the better one. Every member of the family is supposed to get into this cake or pudding batter and give it a good stir. If your house is anything like mine. this won't be too difficult because there's nothing they en,joy better than getting into my kitchen and giving .everything a stir. While the advocates of the more modern approach to Christian celebrations may object to starting Advent by making it a day to stir up fruitcake or plum
Sure Return The returns from hard work are like the income from a safe investment-the return may be modest but it is sure. -Feather
Old English Yule In many countries people prefer plum pudding to the traditional fruit cake but this is all a matter of personal choice. This year I would like to attempt to make a plum pudding also. This particular dish typifies for me the Old English Christmas of Dickens, replete with roast goose, mistletoe and the yule log. More than the mixing of the Christmas cakes and puddings I enjoy shopping for the ingredients. I do this shopping in one of the local specialty shops and there is nothing I find more exciting than picking and choosing 'among their wide assortments of emerald green cherries, bronzed ginger, and shimmery lemon-colored candied pineapple. The plum pudding recipe I'm planning to use is James Beard's 10 day plum pudding, and if it comes out as luscious as it sounds, next year look for it in the column after it has been tried and tasted by yours truly. If fruitcakes are your thing; this recipe is a delicious one. It's also easv and not frightfully expensive. Mrs. Foster has been baking this cake since she was a little girl and she even made it for her daughter's wedding. (She's Mrs. Anthony Foster of Holy Name Parish, Fall River.) Mrs. Foster's Fruit Cake I pound raisins, boxed or fresh 1 Y2 cups dark brown sugar ,I teaspoon allspice 1 teaspoon cinnamon 14 teaspoon nutmeg 1/3 cup white shortening 2 cups lukewarm water 1 teaspoon salt 1 % teaspoons baking powder 2 Y2 cups sifted flour I pound chopped fruits 14 pound candied cherries 2 cups walnuts broken up 1 teaspoon baking soda 1) Mix together the raisins, brown sugar, allspice, cinnamon, nutmeg, shortening, and lukewarm water. Put in a large pan and boil together for about 10 minutes. Set aside until completely cool. 2) Sift together the salt, baking powder and flour. 3) Add the dry ingredients to the cooled mixture, then' mix in by hand the 'chopped fruit, cherries and broken walnuts. 4) Finally add the baking soda that has been dissolved in a small amount of hot water. 5) Pour into a tube pan that has been lined with greased brown paper and bake in a 350· oven about one hour or until cake tests done. Mrs. Foster adds that this is one of the few fruitcakes that takes kindly to frosting. She uses a chocolate butter frosting on occasion.
In CCD Courses PHILADELPHIA (NC) - The Philadelphia archdioese's 'Confraternity of Christian Doctrine religious education program reached 47,875 of 80,760 Catholic children enrolled in public schools in 1968, Father Raymond J. Teller, archdiocesan CCD director, reported. The enrollment represents an increase of more than 7,000 over the previous year.
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LONG MAY IT WAVE: Flag that has traveled to Valley Forge and Independence Hall is raised by Boy Scouts Raymond Quintin and Gerard Dufour in ceremony at St. Joseph Church, New Bedford. Hundreds attended program, designed to rededicate participants to patriotic ideals.
Show of Patriotism Boy Scouts at St, Joseph's in New Bedford Dedicate Flagpole on Church Gro'unds
Georgetown Names Woman Vice-President WASHINGTON (NC) - Dr. Patricia Rueckel has been named by Georgetown University as vice-president for student development, which is believed to be the highest post ever held by a woman at a Jesuit institution of higher learning. Her appointment, effective Jan. 1, was announced by Father R. J. Henle, S. J., president, after consultation with student and faculty leaders. Dr. Rueckel has been at Georgetown as the first dean of women since 1961 and has taught as an assistant professor of psychology. She will succeed Dr. Philip A. Tripp, who resignel to accept a position at Ohio State University. As vice-president for student development, Dr. Rueckel will be responsible for directing student programs outside the formal. setting of the classroom.
In ceremonies designed to re- A.F. ret., pastor, preached on the kindle patriotism in participants, 'meaning of the flag. The banner was blessed by Boy Scouts of St. Joseph's parish, New Bedford; dedicated a new Rev. Roland Deschenes and a flagpole on the church grounds. commentary was given by Rev. The flag raised, ,for the occasion Roger Levesque, area Boy Scout had traveled to Independence chaplain. Following the pledge of Hall and Valley 'Forge and its allegiance, singing of the Nationhistory was related in a poem al Anthem and playing of Taps, composed by Boy Scout David an Eagle award was presented to Filochowski. Flag raisers were Scout Paul Cormier of St. Joseph Raymond Quintin and Gerard Troop 24. Dufour. Eagle Award Seminar to Discuss Over 600~ Boy Scouts, leaders International Issues and guests 'attended the flag proWASHINGTON (NC)-A semgram which was highlighted with inar on international issues, a special Mass celebrated by Rev. said to be "the first of its kind," Louis Bovin. During the Mass the is scheduled for Dec. 2-4 at the flag and a veteran's cap were offered as symbols of the p'artici- Washington Retreat Center here, pants' willingness to work for according to its sponsor, the liberty. Msgr. Henri Hamel, U.S. Division of World Justice and Peace, United States Catholic Conference. The meeting was arranged in India Court Stops Move response to a growing number Against Catholic Schools of requests from bishops, priests, MADRAS (NC)-The Madras and laity for information and state high court has quashed a programming for implementastate government move to whit- tion of the Church's social doctle down the right of Catholic trine on international affairs, tra'ining colleges to select candi- Msgr. Marvin Bordelon, World Justice and Peace director, said. dates for admission. The court said in its ruling on a petition filed by the Jesuitowned Christuraja training school of Palayamkottai that the constitutional right of minorities to Rt. 6 at The Narrows in establish and run educational institutions would become a mere illusion in the absence of freedom to choose students. The petition followed a government order prescribing the rules for admission and laying down the procedures' to be adopted for evaluating candidates at a pre-entry interview. The school' claimed that the rules were inconsistent: with the Madras Educational Rules, under which private' training in~titutions had a right to select candidates for admission.
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Urges Catholics .Renew Fa itt, In Christ MILWAUKEE (NC) Archbishop William E. Cous, ins has appealed to all Catholics of. the Milwau~ee archdiocese for an examination of conscience on attitudes toward faith; charity, social jostice and, poverty. In a pastoral letter, read at Sunday Masses, he emphasized the teachings of Christ and the Church as they apply to individuals in present-day conflict and change. Noting that every segment of society is affected by a breakdown in authority, the' archbishop said there are some who seem determined to destroy the world and the Church. "It (the Chur,ch) h~s 1?een criticized reviled and dismissed as being'irrevalent, sometimes by its own members," he stated, "Yet, our faith tells us that the Church is divinely' founded. In spite of our personal, dou~ts and misgivings, in spite of disedification and scandal, in spite of false teaching and open defiance in the, part of many, we must remember that Christ promised that He would be' with the Church all days, even to the end of the world. Few Dissidents "It is time for each of us to examine his conscience, to review his attitudes and to renew' his faith' and confidence in the Master's promise. I~ view of his commitment to us, any threat to the life of the Church exists because we have failed Christ, not because He is failing us." He said current conflicts have aroused bitterness, resentment and opposition on the part of many ,sincere and honest Catholics.. He cited civil rights welfare programs and "embarrassing publicity" . given to eposides in whieh members of the Church are involved. "Unfortunately." said Archbishop Cousins, "it is true that a few dissidents creatil1g a disturbance attract wide attention, while countless thousands of our Catholics spending tim~, energy and funds in promoting world peace or relieving poverty can go almost unnoticed." Direct Answer He urged Catholics not to ignore the fact that, Christ gave a definite command, when he told man to "love our neighbors as ourselves" without exceptions. "This is not merely anunpalatable social doctrine, the recent discovery of modern sociologists," he said. "In its essence, freed of all accidental consideration, this is Christ's direct answer to the question: "Am'I my brother'skeeper?' " He stressed that all people of God must apply the teachings of Christ not only in matters of faith and belief, but also in social justice, in relief of poverty, and in honest charity, regardless of the racial, ethnic or economic background of those involved. "Many of' our Catholic laity, together with priests and sisters, - are deeply concerned a,nd feel strongly about carrying out their obligation," he stated.
Great Enemy' Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable and others extremely difficult. '-Johnson
NEW YORK (NC)-En route to Paris to try to contact the peace talk delegation there, Bishop Peter' Pham Ngoc Chi 'of Danang .came to the United States to express the gratitude and appreciation of the Vietnamese people for American efforts and sacrifice in Vietnam. Bishop Chi, vice-president of the, Vietnamese Bishops' Conference, said the Vietnamese people are very hopeful about the outcome of the war. Most of the fighting, he said, occurs at night, and during the day, people go about their business almost as, though they were in New York.. The bishop was interviewed at Sacred Heart church in the Bronx. He went to Paris with Archbishop Paul Nguyen van Binh of Saigon, president of the 'bishops' conference. Agreeing with President Nixon's policy of "Vietnamizing" the war, Bishop Chi said that the Vietnamese people feel they are growing stronger and want to take the burden of the war from the Americans. According to Bishop Chi, it DEVELOPMENT: The extensive Rockefeller Report on the presidential mission to Latin America last Summer recognizes the role of Church-related' efforts in development, s,uch as removal of the was, ironically, the 1968 Tet ofpoor farm hillside favellas such as this to new housing cooperatives, such as the Maryknoll Fathers fensive that turned the tide against the communists. While have sponsored in Peru. NC Photo. they had the support of many southerners before Tet, the communists' methodical attack showed the people of the South that the communists were capable of mass murder. In addition to losing actual "Man is a social, learning, Pope Paul stated that it is the and potential supporters" the WASHINGTON (NC) - The concern of the Rockefeller Mis- creative: responsible and' self- duty of rich nations "to bring' communists proved that they sion to Latin America, whose re- aware creature, and he needs about a world that is more hu- were not invincible, because port was released recently, was much more (than material things) man toward all men, where all their most concenerated efforts not simply a matter of dollars' if he is to thrive, to become will be able to give and receive, had not brought about the de. without one group making prog- sired results. and projects to improve the life more fully himself." Such remarks, stemming from ress at the expense of the other," of the majority of the Latin American population. There was an honest, comprehensive look. at Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of also a constant' appeal for the conditions in those countries New York, who headed the presi- Prelates Elect bring to mind the basic tenets of dential mission, writes in his inrallying of spiritual resources. Bishop Medeiros The mission labored for, eight Pope Paul VI's encyclical Popu- troduction to the report: "We WASHINGTON (NC) - Three months, and made路 four .trips lorum Progressio: , went to visit neighbors and "In the design of God, every found brothers. . . . It is urgent cardinals, six archbishops and from May through July. It mterviewed some 3,000 spokesmen in man is called upon to develop that we acknowledge in all 22 bishops were elected at the 20 countries, and enlisted the and fulfill himself ... to seek to peoples the same capacities for semi-annual meeting of the U.S. 'active participation of some 100 do more, know more and have giving and sharing, that we bishops here to serve on the National Conference of Catholic U.S. leaders in politics, finance, more in order to be more," ascribe to ourselves," Bishops administrative commit-, education, communications, deGiving, Sharing tee, and on the United States velopment and world affairs. The Rockefeller report recog- Anglicans Back Aid Catholic Conference administraFrom the mission's report, one nizes that the aspirations of men tive board and departmental point stands out: everywhere "share one splendid committees. "The United States should bias: that no man be exploited 'or To Underdeveloped LONDON (NC) - Anglican Bishop Humberto S. Medeiros work with and for the people of degraded to enrich another and this hemisphere tQ assist them in that we work together so that leaders followed the example of of Brownsville, Texas, formerly the Catholic' bishops here by of Fall River, was elected to the enhancing the quality of their each can grow," urging the British government USCC committee on internationlives and to provide moral leadand the political parties to com- al affairs. ership as a force for freedom and mit at least one per cent of the justice in the Americas." Church Progresses Recall Encyclical country's gross income to help ,In the words of the report, the In ,Upper Volta the world's. underdeveloped "enhancing" of the existence of ROME (NC)-Although Cathol- countries. millions of Latin Americans isism in Africa's Upper Volta is A resolution to this effect was See Us means a' fuller life: progressing, with many new approved at the half-yearly "Opportunity for self-realiza- adult and infant baptisms and meeting of the Church AssemAbout tion comes immediately to mind the catechumenate expanding, , bly, the Anglican Church's "par-the chance to grow spiritually, there is much work to be done liament," here. the respect for human dignity in the education and maturation The assembly also agreed to and justice, the right to hope of the faith of converts, Paul ask the Church Commissioners, that life will get better, not Cardinal Zoungrana, W.F., of who administer the Anglican's worse. . . . Ougadougou said in an interview exten'sive and complicated finanhere. cial affairs as the established Reverses Dedsioi\l "An in-dep.th work is going on Church of the country,to recomWareham Falmouth in Catholic Action," he said, "to mend an increase in their investOn Black St8Jldefiil'Si , give 295路3800 548-3000 more maturity to our Chris- ments in developing countries. DUBUQUE (NC) - Msgr. Jus- tians." Similar work is being tice Driscoll, president of Loras done with the intellectual elite College announced a reversal of and with those in authority, he :!JIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII1I111~ 'his de~ision to suspend indefi- added. nitely 16 black students and said But all this work "requires a he has placed them on probation personnel that we do not have," instead. ' the cardinal continued. 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LOS ANGELES (NC)-Operation of parochial schools by the Los Angeles archdiocese is saving taxpayers in a four-county Apostolic Delegate in the United area some $101,123,890 this States addressed their semi-anyear. nual meeting. Figures released by the CaliArchbishop Luigi Raimondi, fornia State Department of Edwho' spoke at the invitation of ucation show that it costs an avthe National Conference of Cath. erage of $536.20 each pupil per olic Bishops meeting here, deyear in the public schools. The livered a 10-minute talk on colLos Angeles archdiocese has legiality and joined the bishops 130,000 elementary school pupils, for lunch. thereby relieving taxpayers of He left when the bishops con$69,706,QOO per year in elemenvened their afternoon session. tary school costs. "As a result of the Vatican Moreover, the 41,000 pupils in' council," he told the conference, Catholic high schools of the Los "a better insight has been gainAngeles archdiocese give taxed into the unity of the sacrapayers a saving of $31,417,890. mental and ministerial priest· This. is based on the costhood and _of the apostolic min$766.29-to educate each pupil ·istry, with and under the Pope, per year in public high schools who is the perpetual and visible <here. source and foundation of the unity of the bishops and of the Gov. Ronald Reagan, in promultitude of the faithful . . . claiming Private Education "A logical corollary of. this . Week, said "private education is principle is collegiality, a dynamo supported by other than public ic concept, rich in potential for funds, although the constituents the good of the Church, particuof private education pay their larly at this time." share of taxes supporting public Mutual Trust GIFTS TO POPE: When Pope Paul VI visited Uganda last July, he received many gifts which schools." Archbishop Raimondi noted have been put on display at the seminary of the Propaganda Fide College in. Rome, where stuthat Pope Paul, in his address dents from Africa usually live and study. When the exhibition was ready, Pope Paul came over to to the recent Synod of Bishops see the gifts and mingle with the students and their professors. NC Photo. Austral~an Catholics in Rome, had described collegialAid Maritime School ity "as a form of coresponsiSYDNEY (NC)-With derelict bility to be exercised in an atmosphere of unity and charity." war equipment recovered in the Quoting from Pope Paul's adSTANFORD (NC)-The presi· In a statement covering athlet- stating that no Negro of African British Solomon Islands, the New dress to the synod, the apostolic dent of Stanford University, cit- ics, debate and other forms of lineage may' have the right of South Wales Branch Foundation delegate said that collegiality de- ing alleged racial discrimination intercollegiate competition, Dr. priesthood, Dr. Pitzer said. for the Peoples of the South mands mutual trust in order not practiced Pacific has been conducting a by' the Mormon Pitzer said: "It is the policy of "So long as this policy re- school for the training of Melaonly to avoid "power rivalry or Church, has barr.ed any new Stanford University not to scheddifficulties for ordered and effec- commitments to intercollegiate ule events with institutions mains in effect, it is my opinion nesians in maritime skills. tive government within the competition with schools spon- which Australian Catholic Relief practice discrimination that it constitutes discrimination .Church, but rather as a mutual sored by that church. on the basis of race or national on the basis of race within the (ACR), the bishops' official. reinclination of Pope and episcoDr. Kenneth S. Pitzer said he origin, or which are affiliated meaning of the. ·guidelines estab- lief organization, has given pate for greater communion and was acting on recommendations with or sponsored by institutions lished by the Human Relations $5,000 from the 1969 Project organic collaboration." Commission." Compassion appeal to help the from the Stanford University which do so." The development of collegial- Human Relations Commission. replace worn-out Top officials of the Church of Pitzer emphasized that the foundation ity "can only augur well for the The ruling will not affect Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints, commission was not asked to World War TIl equipment with future·. of the Church and' enable Stanford's present contractural which sponsors Brigham Young assess whether discrimination new and modern ship-building her to face with added effective- commitment to two basketball machinery, to enlarge the workness the challenges to the sacred games with Brigham Young Uni- Universi,ty, have told Stanford was practiced at Brigham Young shop area so that bigger vessels University officers that the University and did not attempt ministry presented by contem- versity in December, 1970. can be repaired ~and built. Church currently has policies to do so. porary conditions," Archbishop Raimondi said. 'Love of Souls' "It is in this light that I like to see the signifiance of our meeting this morning." He praised "the splendid tradition of loyalty and fine cooperation of the American hierarchy with Holy See." "My close contacts with the hierarchy have made me aware of the high sense of responsibility with which they are discharging their onerous and difficult tasks, their sensitivity to the conditions and need of the • faithful, their unparalleled devotion to their duties, their selfless dedication and ardent love of the Church and souls." . Then the archbishop added: "It is only natural that this spirit is amply reflected in the clergy and the faithful. No doubt, this is what constitutes the vigor and strength of the Catholic Drawing inspiration and strength and vigor from the sacrifices and Church in. the United States." hardships endured by our Pilgrim forefathers, we pause to reflect upon Conference Names the bounty of blessings bestowed on us by God Almighty and offer our Associate Director humble prayers of thanksgiving for such consideration. AUSTIN (NC)-Father Robert Solano Flores, O.F.M., a native of Corpus Christi, has been named an associate director of the newly organized Texas ConA HAPPY, BLESSED THANKSGIVING ference of Churches, with specific responsibility for direction of the conference's Valley Service Project in the Rio Grande Valley. Father Flores, formerly Southwest regional director of the division for Spanish Speaking U. S. Clj.tholic Conference, has betn engaged actively in the Spanish-speaking apostolate for a number of years.
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Police Official, Psychiatrist· Offer Conflicting Views on Obscenity NEWARK (NC)-Two conflict· ing views on whether 'obscene material leads to overt anti-so· cial acts were disclosed here 'as the Legislative Commission to Study Obscenity and Depravity in Public, Media concluded a series of public hearings. , The diverse views were presented by Harry M~Connell, chief of detectives in the office of the Burlington County prosecutor, and Dr. Henry A., Davidson, an East Orange psyc~iatrist. McConnell contended' young people are affected by; pornographic material. The glorification of homosexuality, lesbianism, perversion and sex generally "could tilt any youngster in the formative stage," he said. "It's not too uncommon to see it happen," he added. McConnell showed the commission various materials alleged to be pornographic and confiscated by law enforcement officials. But he said police are handicapped in preventhlg the sale of such films and magazines because standards of obscenity have varied. He said there is a need for a central office that would keep abreast of developments in the field, informing police' on lower levels about the state of various laws already on the books, and advise on techniques of success· ful investigation apd prosecution in light of court decisions. Few obscenity cases go to trial, McConnell said, because of the absence of sufficient evidence that will hold up in court, and because those accused plead guilty, then get off with a fine and suspended sentence. 'Safety Valve' Dr. Davidson disagreed on the dangers presented by obscene literature. He said pornography IR attractive to the young only because it Is forbidden. He said It could function as a "safety valve" for' some who might otherwise commit anti·social acts, while it would have no effect on others. 9 He also said pornography is
frequently· the only source of sex education for young people and may have some social value as a result. "As long as society hides its sexual . activities from . the young," he said, "the need to read pornography will remain." He added that the young eventually outgrow the' need for such' material. ."Society," he declared, "has to decide whether sex by itself is shameful, undesirable and' evil. If it is, then any erotically stimulating book or picture must be viewed with alarm. \ "If, on the other hand, you take the position that sex is normal and healthy, then there would be no Il)ore objection to a sexually. stimulating book or picture than to one that tickles any other emotion," he said.
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BISHOP OF StOCKTON: Pope Paul VI has namE'd Bishop Merlin J. Guilfoyle, until nowauxiliary of San Francisco, to be Bishop of Stockton. NC Photo.
NEW YORK (NC) - Father Michael P. Walsh, S.J., president of Fordham University, said he does not endorse the view of some members of the university community who want to abolish such militant campus organizations as the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). He said there is a place for dissent - nonviolent dissentat Fordham University. But, he added, the rights of all who want to hold a peaceful discussion of the issues must be protected. . All was quiet on the Fordham' front as Father Walsh spoke. A surface calm, as least, had settled over the Bronx campus of the Jesuit university, scene of violent student demonstrations earlier in the week. Members, of an, SDS-connected group called the Committee to abolish R.O.T.C. had forewarned in The Ram, student newspaper,.. that they would occupy the administration building "as the best possible tactic" to force military training off 'campus. The next day some 45 students rushed into Father Walsh's office and forced him to leave. They then barricaded themselves into a wing of the building and placed guards at all entrances.
they will stage a demonstration to protest the six arrests. Later in the week, Fordham again braced itself for more demonstrations,- this time from a group of anti-SDS students. A group called the Committee to Abolish SDS marched to the administration b!Jilding and held a mass rally in the campus center to protest the violent tactics used by the SDS group. The anti-SDS activity among the Fordham student body reflected a growing concern from students at the Bronx campus over SDS use of violence. A student spokesman said many were angered by the severe beatings given security guards. He also said most students felt Fordham's RO.T.C. program, which is optional, should be allowed to remain on the campus.
Change Attitude On P'ublic Schools , LOURDES (NC) - The French bishops have abandoned their long-standing opposition to the attendance of Catholic children at public schools and have issued a statement recognizing parents' freedom of choice. For several years, this freedom of choice for parents has been recognized in fact, but in certain regions where religious practice is strong, Catholics sending their children to the public school were'" still objects of discrimination on the part of the clergy. Now the bishops have stated clearly: "By the choice of one school or another, parents bring into play their responsibility as Christians. Their decision taken in view of multiple factors requires serious' reflection in ,the· light of faith. Made in good con· science, this choice is legitimate and worthy of. respect."
TORONTO (NC)-The magazine of the United Church of Canada pulled up short of characterizing Canda's Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau as a dictator but said his action in establishVATICAN CITY (NC) - The ing Canada-Vatican diplomatic Vatican City daily has charged . Antl-SDS ties "was about as dictatoral as that Vietnam peace negotiations Although given several opporanyone can get." in Paris "are marking time" . The United Church's Observer, while ruin is 'piled on ruin and tunitie,s to leave peacefully, only: 11 decided to go. Others which has a 300,000 circulation, destruction upon destruction. vowing they would stay the in a strongly-worded editorial An unsigned, front-page edi- night, fought with campus posaid the Prime Minister made an torial in the Vatican City paper, "arbitrary decision" when he L'Osservatore Romano, lamented' lice who tried to arrest them. agreed to exchange ambassadors that neither side has heeded Later, to the sound of police sirens, most of them bolted to with the Holy See. ' Pope Paul VI's plea for an arms a rear window and ran off in It said before the decision was truce during negotiations. different directions. made, the Prime Minister reTaking its starting point from quested "an expression of Cana- the second series of demonstraSix of the occupiers who redian opinion" on' Canada-Vati- tions in the United' States, the mained were arrested and can ties. charged with criminal trespass, "His request was treated seri-' editorial declared: "These dem- . criminal mischief and assault. onstrations' are understandable if ously," the Observer stated. "He Six security guards were injured, received a restrained linden- one thinks of the sufferings of one seriously. He suffered the very long war,' of the blood lightened response, and he adbroken ribs, a ruptured kidney mits it was overwhelmingly that has been shed, of the re- and a punctured diaphragm. Name Texas Priest against the proposal the sources squandered on destrucMembers of the group inretion rather than on building, PM flouted the advice and went volved in the disturbances said Associate Director ahead to do what it now seems newing, of promoting, which is AUSTIN (NC)-Father George the ardent desire of all men of he intended to do all along." H. Sallaway, a priest of the goodwill." "We suggest that if he wishes Says Movie Rating Amarillo diocese, has been apThe editorial reflected closely to. make future arbitrary decipointed asociate director of the sions, but wants to give the im- the thinking and appeals of the System Failure newly organized Texas Conferpast two Holy Father over the pression of a democrat seeking WASHINGTON (NC) 7"" The ence ·of Churches. The appointadvice, he should not seek it from year in his efforts to bring both head of a chain of 75 theaters ment, effective Dec. 15, was an· responsible churchmen. Or if he sides· of the conflict to the con· declared the movie industry's nounced by Roy J. Cates: execuBIRMINGHAM (NC) - Negro does he should be told to fly ference table. It made particular' self-imposed rating system, now tive director. soldiers were urged by a white his kites elsewhere," the editorial note of his appeal for an arms a year old, is a failure. Father Sallaway becomes the truce and added: priest to refuse combat duty un- stated. Speaking before the National second Catholic priest to join "Unfortunately, there has been Theater less racial discrimination is elimboard of direc- the TCC staff. Appointment of no truce because so far there has tors here.Owners' inated in cemeteries. Walter Reade, head of Father Robert S. Flores of Cornot been an agreement by both the Water Reade theater chain Father Eugene Farrell, S.S.J., Organize to Lobby parties. The negotiations have ,said the system has brought o~ pus Christi and San Antonio as made the suggestion during a For World's P'oor been initiated, yes, but the Paris a rash of pornographic movies associate director to head the prayer vigil outside the gates of Valley Service Project in Elmwood Cemetery here honorEAST HILLS (NC)-Siphoning conference is marking time, and exhibitors all over the coun- TCC's the Rio Grande Valley was anmaintaining conditions .which ing a black GI who was killed in excess money from thiscountry have taken advantage of the nounced recently. combat last July in Vietnam. try's defense budget to the each party declare unacceptable situation. world's poor people is one of the in the hope, perhaps, that time He said the exhibitors, "hiding The black soldier, Bill Terry major goals of anew organiza- may grant, great advantages, Jr., is buried across town from tion formed here in New York either because of internal weak· behind the implied shield of the Elmwood in a cemetery for Ne- to lobby for the poor in develop- ening of the adversary or to X rating, have renounced personal responsibility for the films groes. He had expressed his wish ing nations. seize the most favorable occaSHEET METAL to be buried in Elmwood if he The League for Economic As- sion for new and decisive at- they choose and play." J. TESER, Prop. should die while serving in Viet- sistance Reade said newspapers, radio and Development tacks on .the battlefield." and TV stations have imposed a RESIDENTIAL nam. Elmwood can be seen from (LEAD) is based on an idea conform of advertising' and editorial the porch of Terry's childhood ceived by George R Gerardi, a INDUSTRIAL censorship as a result of. the rat,home. Long Island attorney. COMMERCIAL Asks ~estoration ing system by refusing to carTy But Elmwood' is reserved for Gerardi told NC News Service 253 Cedar St., New Bedford ads . and review pornographic white bodies. Father Farrell and that the United States' defense Of Instruction 993-3222 . five other area ministers led' posture has reached "triple overSTRASBOURG (NC) - Bishop movies. about 500 persons in prayer on kill" and that the nation now Arthur EIchinger of Strasbourg Veterans' Day, calling it a "Day . faces the "question of turning has asked for the restoration of of Contradiction." , . weapons into plowshares." religious instruction in the pubIn another part of the city at He admitted that national se- lic schools as required by law. The education law in the provthe same time, Father Farrell curity has first priority, but addtold NC News Service, the gov- ed that "we have becom neu- inces of Alsace (where' Strasernor of Alabama was leading rotic about this. Everything else, bourg is located) and, Moselle a patriotic crowd in the pledge has become very much second providse that the primary public at schools are to be confessional of allegiance, expressing "liberty fiddle." and that the teachers are to give and justice for all." religious instruction in them for Sense of Values "As long as there' is no room two and a half hours a week. in the cemeteries for the blacks," There is too much stress today Bishop EIchinger complained Father Farrell said, "let the on material things. I try to teach that "in many town primary whites fight. We have no inten- my children not so much the schools, it would seem that no tion to spill blood to keep white value of cents, but a sense of religious fOJ:mation is given any 11SWILUAM ST. NEW BEDFORD, MASS. America white." . values. . -Franklin more."
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'Working Vacation' Divine Word Missionell' Returns Home To Look for Teachers TECHNY (NC) - Father Leo Joerger, S.V.D., who hails from Mendota, IlL, is back in this country on vacation-his second in 17 years of missionary work in New Guinea. But this trip is a "working vacation," Father Joerger said at the Society of Divine Word headquarters here in I1Iinois. He related that before he left the Goroka diocese in New Guinea, he was told by Bishop John Cohill, S.V.D., who comes from Elizabeth, N. J.: "Enjoy your vacation, but get us some volunteer teachers." And that's what Father Joerger has been trying to do, mak- , ing side trips to various parts of the country from here. "Education has come a long
way in New Guinea," he said. "As the tools of the industrial revolution are bringing stone age people into the space age, almost everyone wants to go to school." He said the Goroka diocese is about the size of Vermont, with a population of 400,000, including 54,000 Catholics and 28,000 catechumens served by 25 priests and six Brothers of the Divine Word community, 19 Sisters of Mercy from Australia, and 26 lay missionaries.
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SIXTH CENTUR" RELIVED: Bill Verity, 43, of Fort Lauderdale crossed the Atlantic in the 20foot boat, in background, in a solo 11S-day voyage and landed at San Salvador, Bahamas. The boat, which Verity built himself is a replica of the sailing vessels which Verity believes Irish mgnks of the sixth century may have preceded Christopher Columbus. NC Photo.
Prelates Maintain Stand on Vietnam Cardinal Says Moral Elements Still Operative WASHINGTON (NC) - The Catholic bishops of the United States are not at the moment issuing a new statement on Vietnam, but are standing on what they have said on this subject in the' recent past. At a press conference held at the conclusion of the semiannual meeting of the U. S. bishops here, John Cardinal Dearden of Detroit was asked why the sessions had produced no new' statement on Vietnam. "As far 'as the' Vietnam issue isconcerlied," responded Cardinal Dearden, "we don't feel that we need to pass a moral judgment on a matter that is in great part political policy." The cardinal, as president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) and the United States Catholic .Conference (USCC), had presided over the bishops' deliberations. No New Dimensions "The moral elements that we addressed ourselves to in the past are still operative, they are still valid, and I think that what we said is still the basis on which we have to judge this." Cardinal Dearden noted that the bishops had spoken on "two or three occasions on the subject of the Vietnam war and southeast Asia generally," and he said he did not believe there are "any new elements to what we have already said." "The concern that was expressed for the prisoners of war was certainly a gesture of concern and we didn't consider it as narrowly related to the moral issues of the Vietnam war."
The cardinal pointed out that In their resolutions, the bishthe bishops spoke on this sub- ops also expressed their "grateject at a recent Spring meeting, Jul endorsement" of the then and added that "we don't feel President Lyndon. B. Johnson's that we have to express our- decision to limit the bombing of selves on issues that in a sense North Vietnam, and to seek ne· have not taken new dimensions gotiations toward, a political settlement in Vietnam. They since we last spoke of them." urged the governments involved Basically the Same in ·the conflict to "undertake The cardinal admitted that negotiations as early as possible "the nature of the protest is in good faith and to work with broader," but maintained· "the patience, mutual respect and issue is precisely the one we ad- understanding toward a just, dressed ourselv.es to." "It hasn't peaceful solution." . created a new issue on the mat-' ter," he added. "The issue is basically the same." At their semi-annual meeting in April, 1968, in St. Louis, the 3 Savings Plans bishops adopted resolutions exHome Financing pressing their full sppport of the "untiring efforts" of Pope Paul VI in the cause ~ of world peace, and their "sharing of his paternal compassion' for the victims of war everywhere ,~ <' *"
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U.S.-Born Clergy Get New Posts VATICAN CITY (NC)-Pope Paul VI has made two appointments affecting a U. S.-born bishop and priest stationed outside the United States. The Pope has elevated the prelature of San Juan de la Maguana in the Dominican Republic to a diocese and has made its prelate, Bishop Thomas F. Reilly, a bishop of the new diocese. The Pope has also named U.S. Passionist Father Reginald ArIiss to be prelate of Marbel in the Philippines.
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TORONTO (NC)-A Christian community within a Catholic school just doesn't "happen:" it grows slowly. This' growth demands "hard By Barbara Ward work" and "shared effort" We have talked in these ~olumns about the steps "towards" a common goal'" '" ,~ that might be taken at the leve~ of governme.nt ~o .ens~re and "against" the barriers that separate people from people. that some of the pressures of wa~t. ,and dlscnmmabon And, at the heart of this comand joblessness are taken off the poorest me~bers of somunity is Christ. ciety-and by the same to' This was; the message from , ,. This is one form of personal Father John J. Leibrecht, associken the pressures of msecur- response. It IS perhaps easier for ate superintendent of schools ity and fear.. removed from' the young to make it since they for the St. Louis, Mo. archdiothose who have only recent- are not yet engulfed in all the cese when he addressed the 18th Iy advanced beyond the poverty . gradations and awareness of " ann~al Christian Curriculum line. It is where these two status.and income;, They c~n~o,~ Conference here.. The event was groups meet, in patroDlze or be pate~nahst~c sponsored by the Ontario. E~glish hostility and because they -do not. brmg WIth Catholic Teachers ASSOCIatIon. distrust that vithem the whole weIght of an To encourage "a more vital olence 'and haestablished and successful way Christian community" in the' CHAPLAIN: Rev. Bernard R. school, Father Leibrecht sug-: tred take over of life. Kelly, assistant at St. Francis gested the faculty of each school whether it is in Other Ways Ahmedabad or But there are other ways. Xavier Church, 'Hyannis, has "think out" two questions: Belfast or the How do we .understand ourTake, for instance, the experi- been appointed chaplain of the 'ghettoes' of the ence over the last 15 years of a Boy.'Scout program. for the Cape selves and the stud~nts as a United, States. . residential area in the neighbor- Cod area. effectve immediately. Christian community? And it, is when What do we do, and how do hood of a university in a large public p~licy inwe encourage students to help mid-Western city. It had been creases employa mixed' area of occupation, create greater Christian comment, b u Ii d s with a predominance of white munity? more houses an raises houseowners and some academic Parents, Priests tional levels that some of the families. Black neighbors, some Then, Father Leibrecht said, TUY .HOA· (NC). United 'pressures abate. of them pushed from their old The British government has homes by new arrivals from the States Army and Air Force teachers should develop a plan not only sent troops to keep South, were beginning to move Catholic chaplains have helped to bring the "school as a -ChrisProtestants and Catholic apart the local Vietnamese priest build tian community" philosophy to . a new wing on an orphanage the students. This could be done in Northern Ireland. It has al- in.At this point, all too often m through general meetings, reliready pledged nearly $5 mill~on the city's history, real estate op- here. to combat unemployment whIch erators had moved in, estabThe prime mover in the proj- gion classes, youth groups. And rnns at over seven per cent of lished a few black families, ect was Father (Maj.) Gerard the students themselves should participate in this planning the work force. spread rumors of a "massive M. Brennan of the Burlington, phase. Vt. 'di.ocese, Catholic chaplain lP'ersonal Stake black invasion," bought up the Taking into consideration that, But we are not simply citizens homes' of frightened whites at 'the base here. Assisting him, community is "a doing thing," was Father (Capt.) Edward A. and' taxpayers. We are neigh- cheaply and then made a killing bors and human beings and chil- on renting houses for the black Lesko, .Army chaplain at. the, Father Leibrecht suggested that nearby Phu Hiep. Army airfIeld, dren of God. It is not enough to newcomers. and Father Paul Tran Van give a penny to' the innkeeper But in this case, a. group of P~an Sex Education to look after the wounded man homeowners forme4 themselves Thong, the local pastor. Present for the dedication ceremony was who "fell among thieves." The into an association, rallied the In ~l!'Ildi«:! Sch@ol good Samaritan pulled him o~t majority ,of their fellow citizens Father (Lt. Col.) Louis V. LeDoux of the Lafayette, La., dioBHOPAL (NC) - The Indian of 'the ditch, bound up hIS to' 'refuse to sell their houses, minister of state for health and wounds, put him on a mule .and welcomed the newcomers and cese the new base chaplain. ~ The orphanage was originally family planning has announced took him to the inn - actIOns established a district-wide which required personal contact agreement that a racial and. located at Mang Lang, north of that a course in "population dyand de'dlCation. The full dimen- e1ass balance would be kept in Tuy Hoa., In February, 1965, namics" will be included in the sions of Christian neighborliness the area. In fact, the agreement when the Viet Cong overran the country's school curricula from are not exhausted by voting for worked so well that people who . area. The orphanage's six Catho- the next academic year. The official, Dr. Sripati the provision of funds. There had to move out" whether white lic nuns, together, with 130 orphans and 30 old people were Chandrasekhar, told a press conis a personal stake as well. or black, would ring up' the asFor those who feel distlirbed sociation offices and, say: "I airlifted by, helicopter to Tuy ference here that the course will and discouraged about Amer- "have to sell- how is our bal- Hoa. There are now four Sisters be framed in such a way as to ica's future, it is important to ance? Do you want a black or looking after 175 orphan~, 31' give a basic' sex education that old people and four blind per- might help in arresting populapoint out that this sense of per: a white purchaser?" sons. They have lay Vietnamese tion growth. sonal' commitment is strong, esPerhaps this may seem a cer. pecially among younger people. tain distance - from the Samari- helpers. The press conference followed Engineering units at both the a meeting of the Central Family A recent survey showed that at tan and the man in the ditch. the beginning of the'60s, less Yet in a real and direct way, the Army and 'Air Force bases con- Planning Council, which also dethan 20,000 students were doing , organizers and members' of t~e tributed both advice and build- cided that a bill to legalize abordirect personal work among un- association worked to keep theIr ing materials. In addition, $7,500 tion should be introduced in the derprivileged or handicapped district a place where no one was collected at the chapels in Indian parliament session openthe two bases, as, well as from ing Nov. 17. minorities. need "fall among thieves" and Today, even when' we leave where the sense of welcome and the chaplains' friends in the U. S. Abortion would be allowed, he The priests concelebrated a , declared, in the case of concep- . aside the fully' organized two- neighborliness could be felt by year commitment of the Peace all the sons of man. One can Mass for peace and blessed the tionsoccurring as a result of the Corps, at least a quarter of a suspect that it would have been new wing., failure of contraceptives. million young people ,are. active- a place where our Lord, who ly tutoring backward children, liked mixed company, would Elect Provincial serving as hospital aides, organ- have been happy to go and dine. CHICAGO (NC)-Father ~an izing play groups and play iel L. Lowery, C.SS.R., has been camps, entertaining spastic chil. elected provincial of the St. Britain Maintains dren, visiting the lonely aged. Excavating , Louis Province of the RedemptoThese actions cross all the 'New Mass' Date, rist Fathers, headquartered here. lines of race and generation. ,Contractors LONDON (NC)""'7 The 'English Father'Lowery, 40, a native of They are quieter, than the more noticeable movements of pro- and Scottish hierarchies have de- St. Louis, succeeds Father Ray9 CROSS ST., FAIRHAVEN test. They' may even be over- cided to leave unchanged the mond J. Schmitt. Father Lowery . 992-4862 looked by, many Who worry date of Feb. 15, 1970, first Sim- earned a master's degree in soabout youth in our day; But they day in Lent, which they had al- ciology at Catholic University of entail real costs in. time and ready announced for the intro- America, Washington, where he devotion. They may also have a duction of the Missa Normativa later taught th~t subject. He also larger ultimate influence. -the "New Mass"-in the ver- studied in Rome for his doctorat'e in sacred theology. nacular. The announcement followed Oppose Mediation some confusion, here during the MEMPHIS,,(NC)-A half-page week over new instructions isadvertisement has appeared in sued by the Vatican Congregathe two Tennessee local daily tion for Divine Worship which newspapers attacking the T~n has' now allowed national. hiernessee Register, diocesan news- archies who. have' not conmleted ' Est; 1897 paper, for running an editorial their'translations and other prep365 NORTH FRONT STREET which advocated mediation in arations to, postpone its intro. the long-running strike at St. Jo- duction for up' to two· years. 2343 P.urchase Street NEW BEDFORD seph Hospital here. The ad in,But, here, as everywhere else, New Bedford 992-5534 eluded 1,000 names of .persons it will become obligatory in· 996-5661 identified as .Catholics., . November, 1971. I
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teachers articulate what is being done already in the sch?ol to . build Christian commumty. Build on this first, he suggested, rather than jump into new activities. Also involved in the project should be parents, parish priests and resource personnel in the community. Start Doing Father Leibrecht spelled out four criteria in the development 'of community: "First of all we've got to get off words e e e and start doing something," he said. "You just don't talk about community, you do community Q e e the group must be closely related to action as possible, since man's re~sons 'for coming together are baSIcally to cooperate in doing something, and not just because interaction is good in itself." . The community should also be "collegial"-that is the students should partiCipate in its planning and' implementation. And "no Christian community can be built up unless it has as its basis the center and celebration of the Holy Eucharist," he added. Finally, the community mu~t be "personalist," Father LeIbrecht asserted. "The sc~ool does not exist for its own sake." "It exists for the individual."
Plan Merton Center At Kentucky College LOUISVILLE (NC) - BeUarmine-Ursuline College here in Kentucky will form a Thomas Merton Studies Center to study the late Trappist monk's work. and influence. Msgr. Alfred F. Horrigan, president, said creation of the center will be part of .the school's' 10. year "academic blueprint" which inclu(jes a new library where the center will be housed. The center "is conceived not as a collection of material but as an educational agency" that will be reflected in the college's curriculum. The Frank J. Lewis Foundation of Miami has donated $50,000 w.ith the stipulation that it be matched by $150,000 in other gifts for the proposed center, Msgr. Horrigan said. Merton died last December when he was accidentally electrocuted in Bangkok, Thailand. He was 51. He lived,and worked in a monastery near Bardstown, Ky. Merton, authored several books, including his best selling autobiography, "The Seven Storey Mountain."
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St. Anthony High Week of Sharing Highlights Workings, Results Of Education Process Education w~s highlighted at St. Anthony High School, Bedfor~: this month, as the National Honor Society s.p~nsored. a Week. of Sharing." All clubs and classes,partlclpated In presentmg a week-long "happening" designed to demonstrate the work- seen at 8 Saturday night, Dec. 6 . mg~ and results of the edu- .It Diman Regional High auditocahon process. Art students, rium. They are Deborah Medeidirected by Sister Rita Burns ros, ~t. St..Mary senior; and New
prepared posters for the week, ClaudIa MessIer, Sacred Hearts while physics class members Academy. . were responsible for the audio Studen~ Co~ncJ1 members at equipment in the auditorium. Coyle HIgh In Taunton ,SPO?Special posters ,. were made by sored a, stude~t-teacher dar In SAH clubs, depicting their ac- cooperatIOn. wIth ~he National tivities. Participants in this Honor, SocIety, Wlt~ students project were the Bowling, Busi- preparJ~g and teac.hlng ~Ia~ses. ness, Junior and Senior Science, A,lan RIch was acting princIpal, Latin, Math, Stamp and Coin aIded by Mark Hanna as dean and Glee Clubs and the staff of of men. Ring Day Essa. The "Jolly .Juniors" of Holy To begin the week, parents received report cards, then were Family High, New Bedford, had guests of honor for a talent as- their day in the sun this month sembly, highlighted by a "Col- as they celebrated reception of lege. Bowl" program, with their school rings. The program DaVId Letendre as mc. Teams began with a morning Mass and were the Blue Waves and the blessing of the rings and conRed Barons and the Blues tinued at night with a party at emerged victorious with a score which guests of honor included of 300 to 290 for the Reds. For Bishop James Gerrard, Sister the occasion Conrad Fournier Mary Charles Francis, principal, ,and Peter Guillotte made repli- ,school chaplains and all faculty cas of the College Bowl Panels members. Folk singing, refreshused on television complete ments, record playing and a few with ringing bells and flashing words from Bishop Gerrard and Sister Charles Francis were on lights. the agenda. Folk Singers Mt. St. Mary juniors attended Next were heard "Ourselves" SAH's folk group, introduced by a performance of Macbeth at Christine Boisvert. Their songs Rindge Technical High School included I Face Mankind, Why, in Cambridge; and also at the Peace and The Cruel War. The Fall River Academy students enfirst three were originals by joyed their annual French club sponsored hat contest in honor Christine. A showstopper was the next of the feast of St. Catherine. item 6n the program, Sister Winners were Paula Charette, Charlotte Burleigh's "Dancing Jo Anne Mello and Jane Zdon. Can it· be time aiready for Fingers," belonging to members of SAH's Business Club. The fin- naming of school representatives gers danced on f1uorescent- to the annual Student Government Day held in Boston in .trimme~ ~ypewriters as students typed' in se'nii-darkness 'to "Pa- Apri1.' It can. Feehan High in Atrade of the Wooden Soldiers." tleboro has named Richard AnThey were directed orchestra- tone, Political Club president, as style by Sister Charlotte; and its delegate, while the club treastribute must also be paid to urer, Martin Dubuc, will con'Mark Racicot, who spent the tend for a U. S. senate seat. The athletic association of day of the show preparing the fluorescent trimmings of the Sacred Hearts Academy, Fall typewriters and typewriter tables River, will hold its annual alumnae career-college day proused. Following 'the typing exhibi- gram in December. Alumnae tion, David Letendre sang and from the past three years will be accompanied himself on the invited to discuss their college guitar; and concluding the pro- experiences with SHA juniors gram the glee club, directed by and seniors. The day will be divided into Sister Rita, principal, sang four songs, accompanied by Louise two categories, say organizers: colleges and majors. College seSRacine. Later in the week two open sions will brief girls on campus house days were held for par-' life and major sessions will exents and new members of the plain major fields of study availNational Honor Society were in- able. Following alumnae registra~ucted at a prayer service, highhghted by interpretations of the tion and a coffee hour, the profour seasons by way of Bible gram will be explafned to students and the morning will be readings, poetry and slides. New members are Allen Al- devoted to examination of mafonso, Diane Bocichio Christine jors. The afternoon session will Boisvert, Janet Daig~ault, Eu- consider colleges and careers gene Hebert, Janine Lamontagne, and will be followed by an Bernadette Mailloux, Lucille evaluation and :entertainment, Morris, Muriel Parent, Denise including a social hour and alumnae-varsity basketball game. Robitaille and Richard Savoie. Drama Club alumnae will get The Week of Sharing was closed with a Mass of the Holy together after the game. ' Working on plans for the daySpirit, climaxed by a swearing in ceremony for student council long program are Elizabeth DeNardo, general chairman; Pat members. Correia, mail; Veronica Nobrega, JunIor MIsses Diocesan high students are sessions; 'Janice DeMotta, pubamong contenders for the title licity; Sue Lapointe, refreshof Junior Miss in New Bedford ments; Kathy Kay, evaluation~ All-Catholic and Fall River. Ir. New Bedford The Catholic School Press seven Stang seniors will compete Saturday in a pageant at Association has awarded DominKeith Junior High School. They ican Academy's yearbook the are Diane, Bock" Marie Denault, "All-Catholic"rating; and ,the Anne Frenette, Maureen Healy book merited a First Place Bonnie Smith, Maureen Sweeney . 'award from the Columbia Schoand Lynn Trundy. lastic Press Association. Also at -. Fall River's hopefuls will be the Fall River girls' school Pat
BOWLING. GROUP: Among those aiming .for that elusive 300 game are these bowlers from St. Anthony ~Igh, New Bedford. From left, James Veiga, advisor, Jeffrey Almeida, Jacques Hebert, DenniS Tetreault, Maurlc.e Goudreau, Marc Cormier.
Leduc has been named the delegate for Student Government Day. Student government officers at St. Joseph High, Fall River,. were in charge of a blessing ceremony for school medals, awarded to new students Madeline Motta, Judith Monroe, Norma Paul, Jane Marter, Joanne Martin, Diane Crepeau, Theresa Magno, Lorraine De Mederious, Barbara Viens, Jean Rapecis, Madeline Beaudoin, Monique Beaudoin and Deborah Mullaney. A folk Mass preceded the ceremony. Stang student· council members sponsored a· dance commemorating the, centennial year of football and honoring the school's football team. A queen and her court, including a princess from each class, was chosen, and the queen was crowned at the Stang-Feehan game. Fran Lal,lzier was chairman for a Thanksgiving Mass celebrated Thanksgiving Eve at Dominican Academy with Rev. Maurice Jeffrey as celebrant. Canned goods for Marathon House were brought to the altar by students at the offertory procession and a paper chain symbolizing school unity was presented .to Sister Barbara, principal. Theme of the Mass 'was ,sharing and giving. Also taking place Thanksgiving Eve was the junior-senior prom, themed "A Time for Us." Fifty-four students made Mt. St. Mary's honor. roll, including 16 seniors, 12 juniors, 15 sophomores and 11 freshmen. And Holy Family debaters are preparing for tournaments at Hendrick Hudson High School, New York; ,St. John's, Danvers; and Boston College in the next few months. Join the debate club and see the world is their mottO. Still in high gear at Bishop Stang is TEC, Teens for Exceptional Children, whose members work with children from the Greater New Bedford area on a one-to-one basis during weekly panel, available 'to speak at' CCD classes. Several members have also formed a discussion meetings and programs of the TEC program. Senior class officers at St. Anthony High are Daniel LaPerriere, president; Diane Bochichio, vice-president; Denise Boucher, secre.tary; Dolores Vieira and Janine Lamontagne, treasurers. And their opposite numbers at : Holy 'Family, are : Dan'iei' F. D.wye.r J~., president, pat, Loria, vIce-presIdent; Leslie Palmieri, secretary; and' Gary Rego, treasurer. Does· it help to become a
class president if your name is Bock, Kathy Broughton, Chris Costa, Denise Desrosiers, and Daniel? Student Council officers at Kathy Kearney. Coyle were sworn into office reAnd, UMass debaters addressed cently and got right to work Mount students on the National sponsoring a silver tea for fac- Debate Topic: whether Congress ulties of Coyle, Cassidy and should prohibit uniluateral U. S. Taunton Highs. military intervention in foreign And also on Coyle's calendar countries. Mount is one of 18 was a student exchange with Massachusetts schools chosen to Norton High School. And Na- hear the team. tional Honor Society members DA student councillors' are have initiated a tutoring prohard at work selling "polly gram for fellow students. Also at Mt. St. Marya student fluffs" to cover expenses of delecouncil installation with Susan gates to upcoming convention. Pacheco, Diane Desmarais, Jane What's a polly fluff? Charette and Dawn Hannafin beAnd DA Drama Club members ing sworn into office. Guest will see a Trinity Square Reperspeaker was Rev. John Driscoll. tory Company performance WedDA alumnae' will hold a nesday, Dec. 3, while Mountie Christmas party at the school at basketball players will meet St. 7:30 Thursday night, Dec. 11, Mary's Bay View Thursday Dec. with reservations closing Mon- 18. ' day, Dec. 1. . New Bedford representatives for a Y-Teen Seminar were Stang seniors Sheila Dorgan and Maureen Sweeney. And at Feehan freshman homeroom representatives have been elected. They're Marie Casale, Susan Donnelly, Barbara Joyce, Mary-Lou Petti and Jo.WYman anne Marcinkwicz. Also up At3-6592 tleboro way, Feehan sodalists collected 20 food baskets for CHARLES F. VARGAS Thanksgiving distribution. 254 ROCKDALE AVENUE Dominican Academy Classical Society members have inducted NEW B~DFORD, MASS. Sister Barbara as a "friend of the Roman people." Friend, Roman, countryman? The ceremony was performed by Marcia Pavent society consul. ' And at recent DA hootenanny Ronny Gamache won first place, with Joanne Pitera and the group of Lucille Gauvin Danielle Desmarais and Kathy Wholey tied for second place. ReceIve Trophies Everett Allan of the New Bedford Standard-Times addressed a recent Stang assembly on caring for one's neighbors. Also at the assembly varsity cheering squad members received trophies for participation in a CYO tourney lost Spring. They are Donna Hernon, head cheerleader, Diane
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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of fall River-Thurs. Nov. 27, 1969
Sheila Burnford Describes Ontario Province Indians By Rt. Rev. Msgr. John S. Kennedy In Without Reserve (Atlantic-Little, Brown, 34 Beaco~ St., Boston, Mass. 02106, $5.95), SheliaBurnford, author of the exceptionally popular The Incredible Journey, is writing about a place where, when an old Western movie is shown, the audi-
33rd St., New York, N. Y. 10016, $15). ' ' Red Hordes." The audience Charles Darwin was a recent must comprise Indians, and university graduate and contemit does. The place .is .a small plating a career in, the Church town in Canada, between Lake of England when" in 1831,· he got the opportunity to go on a Superior and surveying trip aboard the BeaHudson Bay. gle, serving as· the expedition's Mrs. Burnford, naturalist: . . . .' Scots by origin The voyage lasted five years, and now a Camuch of the time spent along nadian, tells in the eastern and western coast this book of her of South America. interest in, cuThe ship's captain was Robert riosity about, FitzRoy, an aristocrat who was and ultimate . superb at handling a ship even rather extensive in the atrocious weather which acquaintthe Beagle often encountered.. ance with the Smooth Narrative Ojibwa and FitzRoy was a fundamentalist, Cree Indians of the pro:vince of and indeed something of a faOntario. She is an ardent outdoors natic. His views arid Darwin's woman, and her concern with diverged more sharply and more Indians dates back to childhood. widely the longer the voyage Not far from her new home in lasted. This was because Darwin's Canada she had an opportunity to observe Indians who came observation of natural phenomseasonally to the area to harvest ena .-:- living species, fossils, other geological ~vidences-Ied wild rice. Later she and an artist friend him to conclude that the ScripKEYNOTlER: The keynote adhad the opportunity to go re- tural account of creation was peatedly by plane deep into real not literal. Th'e earth was much dress at the 66th annual conIndian country, the reserves on older than had been supposed, vention of the National Cathoand change had b~en taking lic Educational Association, to which the aborigines live. place over many millennia.. be held in Detroit, April 7-10, Way-of-Iife Close-up Mr. Moorhead has drawn is Bishop Joseph L. Bernardin, Quiet and aloof, and probably heavily on· Darwin's own writmade suspicious by sad experi- ings. His narrative is. smooth general secretory of the Naence, the Indians were not easy and lucid.' There are fine· illus- tional ,Conference of Catholic Bishops and the U.S. Catholic to knoW. But the author's friend- trations. liness and her respect for them Conference, Washington, D.C. Coming of Rain won their confidence, and she The theme of the convention, A fictional period piece is 'was able to study their way of where 15,000 Catholic educaRichard Marius's The Coming of life close-up. tors are expected to attend, is: Obviously, she h.as great sym- Rain (Knopf, 501 Madison Ave., Catholic Education: Serving a New York, N. Y., 10022, $6.95), pathy for these people and feels keenly that th'ey have not been unwarrantedly touted as "this Troubled Society. NC Photo.· well used by the whites. But she wonderfully rich novel." The setting is the Tennessee indulges in no harangues in laymen Give Homily their behalf; rather, she confines town of Bourbon in 1885. The effects of the Civil. War are herself to describing their ways At Sunday Masses strongly felt there, as well as and their plight. BELLEVILLE (NC) - Bishop the effects of a prolonged Their faults she does not con- drought. The central. theme is Albert R. Zuroweste of Belleceal or explain away. But their the use which people make of a ville has approved a plan offered ·by a group of laymen to appear virtues, seldom noted, she pic- second chance in life. tures attractively. Thus,she reSeveral channels, of .plot flow in the pastor's' "pulpit" at Sunmarks on the Indians' silent turbulently together. The prin- day Masses for a homily on awareness, their capacity for cipal one concerns Samuel Beck- priesthood, vocations. taking in every scene or an in- with, 19, who was a small child The laymen, aware of the drop cident and relishing it. when his father died, and whose in seminary enrollment and ordiThey have, she says, truly mother . talks incessantly of the nations, offered their "preach'seeing eyes, and it may be said glories of her ancestry, the per- ing" idea to Father Robert of her that she has the very fect love between her and her Eimer, O.M.I., rector of St. same in her scrutiny of these husband, and Sam's obligation Henry Prep Seminary h~re some people. to live up to the great tradition weeks· ago.· Looming ·Problem of which he is heir. Working under the rector's For hundreds of years, many . When Sam falls in love with direction, the 25 volunteers of the· Indian regions which she Emilie, a· newcomer to' Bourbon roughed' out their sermon outvisited have had little contact and, much worse, a foreigner, line, as. well as an· itinerary Jor with white civilization. A few his mother works 'ruthlessly to . the 115 parishes and 15 missions who have come in touch with it . prevent their marrying. She suc- in the far-flung, 28-county diohave adjusted well, most have· ceeds, and Emilie and her family cese in southern Illinois. leave for·the West.. . With a final, uniform sermon not. But Sam has picked up some draft completed, the plan and Little is being done to .prepare the Indians for survival. The ed- hints that his mother's version material to be presented was ucation, such as it. is, that they of her family's quality. and of immediately approved by Bishop are getting is, in Mrs. Burnford's her husband's death may not be Zuroweste. opinion ludicrously inapposite accurate. . Noisy, Overlong Book and inadequate. She has some kind words to As rain finally comes, violent- der, a furious rant by a crazed say of Catholic missionaries ly, to the parched town, Sam preacher, the savage beating of whom she met, and of nurses runs down the leads he has been two Negroes by the town bully, who maintain a health service. given, and discovers the truth, a hanging done in horrible deBut she taxes government. with which is entirely different from tail, and an unsparing account insufficient attention to a loom- what he has been led to believe. of the crowd's obscene reaction· .' ing problem. 'Free at last of his mother's dom- to this event. And that is only She writes admirably, with inance, he heads for the West. the beginning. excellent pictorial effect and Melodrama and mystery are Mr. Marius keeps the pot boilwith humor. the· main components' of this ing furiously for most of the Darwin and Beagle overwrought work which misses book, but the characterizations Another sort of journey of no opportunity for scatological are standard and the revelations . discovery is unreeled in Darwin shock. which stun Sam are quite easy and the Beagle by Alan MoorIn the 33-page prologue alone, to foresee. This is a noisy book head (Harper & Row, 49 East we are treated to a brut~1 mur- and overlong.
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·"If I can get over to you this HARRISBURG (NC) - "Mommy, I'm running away. Will you evening one thought. to prevent drug· addiction, it is . . . don't drive me?" Father Daniel Egan zipped that create an atmosphere of comfort cartoon caption off to his audi- for your children." he emphaenceof concerned parents during sized. He said if children are led. to a forum on drugs at t~e William Penn Museum. The crowd, believe they don't have to inwhich overflowed into the lobby vest anything in anything, or to and spilled into all corners back- endure pain or suffering, they stage, laughed at the mental pic- will be conditioned to be "completely incapable of dealing with ture.. But Father Egan was dead ser- the harsh realities of life." - Young people today, he said, ious when he said that parents' attempts to shield their young- "are conditioned by modern sosters from the reality of life ciety to cop out instead of being , can lead the you~g people to able to cope up" with the ridicule that may come when they do not drug addiction. ,. "The happiest people on this want to smoke pot. "We are not conditioning our earth are those who know reality and are able to deal with young person to deal with the it," said the priest. who founded hurt of the crowd - when he Village Haven, a rehabilitation wants acceptance so much he is center for female addicts in New willing to do anything to be accepted." York City. Father Egan believes "an emo-The teenager, he asserted, actepts reality when he can say: tional dependency on marijuana "I'm short, not tall; I'm white, is far mo.re dangerous than a not black; I have an IQ of 110, physical addiction. And on the not 140; my father is drunk, not college level the cultural addiction is even more dangerous," sober." Some parents might in essence he said. The transition from pot to say: "Please love me, here's a car. Please love me, here's a stronger drugs is easy because new .coat. Please love me, you "a human being who emotionally can leave your room' dirty. This needs what marijuana does for is buying love,'" Father Egan him is all ready to take whatever else is available," he added. declared. The priest urged the parents "Some people· want peace in the family at any price. Even to start early. "If you can't get if' we all go to heli, let's go little children to deal with little there peaceful. Let's be· peace- responsibilities, then you have ful, daddy's looking at the boob no right to demand it at 16. If you· can't get the confidence tube." of children at six, you can't exEasy Solutions pect to get it at 16. At 16 it's The tendency of today's so- too late to talk about sex if ciety is to look to chemicals you didn't speak about it at six. and pills for answers to prob- How many guys and girls turn lems rather than inside· each to drugs because they can't deal one's own hutnanity. Father Egan with problems of sex?" he asked. asserted. . ..,.. . ,:1'Confidence is a gradual{thing;' '''Our chiid"ren 'are growing up and blessed are the kids who conditioned to believe from what can come home and find their television tells them that there parents there, not sitting up like must be a quick, easy solution detectives, but sitting up beto everything-from an instant cause they care." ticket to India to instant coffee," the priest explained.
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Anglican Prelate Expects Violence In South Africa
THE ANCHORThurs., Nov. 27, 1969
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MILWAUKEE (NC) -An Anglican bishop expelled from South Africa because of his opposition to its government's policy of apartheid (strict racial segregation) has predicted "a violent revolution" in that country. And that revolution he said, is "not too far in the future." The churchman, Bishop C. Edward Crowther, also claimed that violence in South Africa would be justified and that the churches should support it. Speaking at Marquette university here, Bishop Crowther charged that the leadership of South African church-including all Roman Catholic bishops except Archbishop Denis Hurley of Durban-have "sold the black man down the river and have become part of the problem rather than trying to solve it." Take Step Back He said he is convinced that the Christian church will lose out when the white man "loses his stranglehold on his black brothers." All church bodies lack voice and leadership in helping to solve problems facing people throughout the world, he said. "We have the opportunities to protest," he explained, "but we .don't take them. We take a step back and wait for proper channels to open, but they never do." Bishop Crowther said that church groups everywhere are involved in some type of revolution, and he urged that they recognize responsibilities and develop a theology toward violence. "The Church must speak to theological issues, to the conscience of man, not only in South Africa but in the United States and throughout the world. The Churches have got to take some position on .this," he stressed. Long Overdue Bishop Crowther said the move for civil rights is long overdue in .South Africa and that the Churches should take a leadership role. Bishop Crowther explained that the South African population of 18 million includes 15 million blacks who are permitted on only 13 per cent of the land area. The remaining 87 per cent is allocated for the small minority of whites. He described some of the injustices imposed on the black population by the government: no mixed education; they must be taught in their native tongue; they have no voting rights or representation in government; they are forbidden to join labor unions and thus cannot strike; they are controlled by strict rules and regulations; and they are often imprisoned without trial for long periods of time.
Plan Discussions On Priestly Roles BALTIMORE (NC) - What is the role of today's priest is the basic question clergy in the Baltimore archdiocese will be discussing at workshops scheduled at St. Joseph monastery and at Manresa retreat house. The workshops are part of a program sponsored by the Senate of the Priests' Committee on Clergy Education. The meetings will have as their goal the creation of understanding of different styles of the ministry. Last June, the clergy education committee presented a workshop on authority and responsibility. One of the major problem areas to emerge was the role of the priest.
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SALUTE MARYKNOLLERS: The Jesuit Fathers named the Mary~noll Fathers to receive t~e Xavier Award, presented annually for outstanding zeal and devotion to the cause of the misions. Maryknoll's Superior Gent-ral, Father John J. McCormack, left, who accepted the a,,:,ard, . reeted by Terence Cardinal Cooke of New York and Emile C~rdinal Leger, former archbishop ~f gMontreal. who retired to devote himself to the missions in Africa. NC Photo.
Covers All U.S. Missionary Activities Pennsylvania Prelate Heads New Council WASHINGTON (NC)-Bishop William Graham ·Connare, perhaps aptly now, can be described. as the man with the enormous umbrella. . The umbrella is the newly United States Catholic Mission Council. For the first time in the history of the Church in this country, the council will cover all the various organizations, societies and enterprises involved in mission work in this nation and throughou tthe world. The affable, 58-year-old bishop of Greensburg, Pa., as chairman of the U.S. bishops' committee for the missions, is ex-officio head of the new council. After two years of work and planning, the council was inaugurated formally during the semi-annual meeting of the U.S. bishops here. The council carries out a directive of Vatican Council II. Bishop Connare explained this directive called upon national conferences of bishops to form mission .councils for their respective countries. Includes Lay Organizations "In this way," the bishop said, "there can be cohesive cooperation, contacts and a unity of effort among the various national councils in a more unified effort in the worldwide mission apostolate. The effort goes beyond evangelization, encompassing development." Bishop Connare said the new U.S. council does more than supplant the Mission Secretariat, which was formed in 1950 and now has been phased out. The Mission Secretariat, a bureau of the national office of the Society for the Propagation
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Seeks Amendment To Constitution SAN JUAN (NC)-An amend· ment to the Puerto Rican constitution to facilitate aid to 'private education was suggested to the legislature here by a veteran educator. Jaime Benitez. president of the University of Puerto Rico, in making his suggestion, also said any action toward private school aid should be preceded by an in-depth study. . "In the long run it would be necessary .to amend the constitution of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to facilitllte the most effective way of taking the maximum development of educational programs complementary to ·the public programs," Benitez told the House Government and Judicial Committee.
Ra Ily for Peace JERSEY CITY (NC)-The box score on an anti-war demonstration staged here by St. Peter's College students and faculty members toted up this way. Some scuffling, quieted by police with no arrests; a priest publicly jeered as a "communist"; the only injury to a plainclothes detective rapped ove~ the head by a nightclub-wielding uniformed policeman who failed to recognize .the detective.
enumeratea these categories: The National Conference of Catholic Bishops, represented by its committee for the missions. Representatives of all religious orders, societies and communities of men which supply missionary personnel. A similar representation for the groups of religious women missionaries. A committee representing the various missionary groups and support organizations of the laity actively engaged in mission work. A committee representing the various assistance agencies recognized and approved by the Church in the United States, plUS represent.atives of the pontifical . mission aid societies. Each of the five groups has designated a chairman to represent it on the executive board of the new council.
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WASHNGTON (NC) - Opponents 'of U. S. intervention in Vietnam should work toward United Nations peace-keeping operations in that war-torn country, according to an American priest involved since 1960 with American volunteers helping the Vietnamese people. The priest, Msgr. Edward W. O'Rourke, executive director of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference, is a member of the board of directors of International Voluntary Servcies (IVS). an aid organization serving Southeast Asia. IVS has had volunteers engaged in self-help programs in Vietnam since 1957. The priest claimed that unilateral peace-keeping efforts by the U. S. have been "ineffectual, extremely costly" and cause resentment at home and abroad, and said that the "only viable alternative" is "peace-keeping operations by the UN." In an interview here, Msgr. O'Rourke said: "It is my earnest hope that the miIlions of Americans who disagree with the unilateral intervention of the United States in Southeast Asia will direct their energies toward United Nations peace-keeping operations. To do otherwise would, in my estimation, bring into serious question the maturity and responsibility of their protest." Msgr. O'Rourke has been in Vietnam and Laos three times in the past three years to visit the IVS volunteers serving there. His views of the prevailing conditions in those countries come chiefly from extended conv!'!rsations with those volunteers and their Vietnamese and Laos counterparts.
Layman President ST. LOUIS (NC)-Dr. Thomas R. Fischer, 38, former adminisra-. tive assistant to the president of St. Louis University, will be inaugurated Saturday, Dec. 6 as the first lay president of Marlllac College, an inter-community arts college for Sisters, here.
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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Nov. 2,7, 1969
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Director, Division of Urban Life, U.S.C.C. A few weeks ago, during the course of the annual Bishops' meeting in Washington, the publisher of Twin Circle, a- national Catholic weekly, looked me up in the press room to say "hello" and "how are you" and to compare notes on what was taking place at the meeting. by noting, with a snide, backof-the-hand slap at Notre Dame, By way of breaking the ice, that this is the first time that he started off by saying Ii Negro has been invited to
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goodnaturedly, "You are the man who_ is always criticizing Twin Circle"or words to that effect. I hastened to remind him that I have never criticized Twin Circle as such, though I have taken issue with one or two of its feature writers for their attacks on Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee and can be expected to do so again if they should ever decide to do another hatchet job on Chavez. Following this brief colloquy; which really wasn't as tough as it might appear to be in the telling, we moved on to less controversial matters and got along just fine, thank you, during the rest of the week. On the SUJ:lday following the Bishops' meeting I happened to be saying one of the scheduled Masses at a parish church in the Archdiocese of Chicago. The pastor had, asked me to say a few words at the Mass and to read the a'\lIo~r-r'..'''''ents for the coming Week. AmbiguousPositton One of the announcements noted that a r~presentative of Twin Circle had made arrangements to supply the parishioners with sample copies of the paper, presumably with the hope that some of them would like the product well enough to take out a yearly subscription. Recalling my friendly exchange at the Bishops' meeting with the publisher of Twin Circle, I couldn't resist telling the parishioners that I was sure he would be just as amused as I was at. the thought of my being put in the ambiguous postion of acting, willy nilly, as a salesman for the paper. It only goes to prove, I suggested, that people can agree. to disagree agreeably and, in spite of their differences, can find it possible to lend one another a willing hand, and so on and so forth. Beneath Contempt It is. just as well, 'I suppose" that when I was making this littile spiel. I hadn't yet seen the Nov. 23 issue of Twin Circle. Otherwise I am afraid I, would haye launched an all out attack against the paper and, even at the risk of wearing out my welcome at the parish, would have urged the congregation not to subscribe to it. This is by way of saying that the lead editorial on Bayard Rustin, the noted Negro Civil Rights leader, in the Nov. 23 issue of Twin Circle is, 'in my opinion, utterly beneath contempt. The editorial was occasioned by a recent announcement that Notre Dame University has appointed Mr. Rustin to its Board of Trustees. The editor starts off
serve' on the University's governing board. He says that "the choice could hardly ,have been worse;" and alleges that Rustion "worked di• rectly for the Communist Party for a period of years and has remained a Communist sympathizer most of his life." He then goes on to add, for good measure, that "there seems to 'be no indication that he is 'not a Communist sympathizer now." Freedom of Press? In my book; this is a cheap form of character assassination. It's. almost, but not quite, as bad as the editor's indecent attempt to destroy Mr. Rustin's personal reputation by dredging up a morals charge to which Rustin is said to have pleaded guilty some 16 years ago. I have no way of knowing, and 'really no interest in knowing, whether or not there is anything' in the record to substantiate this charg,e against Mr. Rustin. This I do know, however, that even if the editor of Twin ,Circle has irrefutable, evidence to support it, he has debased himself and his paper by dredging it up, for polemical purposes, at this late date. .If this is what we mean by' freedom of the press, we had better start all over again and try to come up with a more compassionate and more Christian definition of the term. Merely Allegation Twin Circle's attempt to smear Mr. Rustin as a Communist sympathizer, while less obnoxious perhaps than its heartless effort to blacken Rustin's personal reputation, is a classic example of editorial irresponsibility. . . The editor takes note of the fact that Rustin has denied that he was ever a member of the Communist Party but then blithely goes on to say that "he could never deny that he has served the Communists well." In support of this charge, he cites a 1964 article in the Saturday Evening Post which said that. in "those first years Rustin gave most of his money to the (Communist) Party ¢ * *" That's not a statement of fact; it's merely an allegation. No court in the land would even dream .of accepting it as evi.dence. Libels Others Again, however, even if the editor of Twin Circle could make the allegation stick in a ,court of law, he would still be left with the burden of proving that Rustin "has remained a Communist sympathizer most of his life." This he fails to do and, worse than that, ends up libeling several other individuals and organizations in the process. He says, for example, that the late J. A. Muste, director of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, for whom Rustin worked at one time. "worked all his life for Communism." That's a com-
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.' . . OUR LADY Of FATIM!'\, NEW BEDFORD A Christmas sale will be sponsored by the Ladies' Guild iil- the 02722. parish hall from 6 to 10 tomorrow night; from -noon to 9 on ST. LOUIS DE FRANCE" 'Saturday; and from 9 to 3 on' SWANSEA Sunday. Also aiding in the event Louise Caron, Angel Pratt and will be the Ladies of St. Anne Pauline Tremblay are accepting Sodality and the Fellowship reservations for the annual Club. . Christmas party. of the Ladie's of Ail items on sale will be handS1. Anne Sodality, which will made and attractions will inbe held at 7:30. Wednesday' clude homemade bread and pasnight, Dec. 10 in the church hall tries, novelties, and ceramics. and which will be open to mem- Games will be available for chilbers' friends. dren. Reservations should be made OUR LADY OF MT. CARMEL, by Saturday, Nov. 29. It .is an- NEW BEDFORD nounced that 'entertainment will The P-TA will hold a cake "sale be by the Allegro Glee Club and that a buffet will be served. A Saturday, Nov. 29 at Stop and dollar exchange gift should be Shop Market, Rockdale Avenue. brought by each person ~ttend Cakes may be brought to the store from 9 on Saturday- morning. ing, or Mrs. Lucy Marks may be ST. JOHN BAPTIST, called for a pick-up. Proceeds -NEW BEDFORD will defray expenses of the girls' A Christmas bazaar will be and boys' basketball teams, TO SANTA ROSA: Bishop held by the Ladies' Guild from sponsored by the P-TA.. Mark J. Hurley, auxiliary of 6:30 to 9:30 Saturday night, Dec. San Francisco, has been named 6 and from 8 to noon Sunday OUR LADY OF ANGELS, Bishop of Sant(l Rosa by Pope morning, Dec. 7. Coffee and FALL RIVER Donations for the ThanksgivPaul VI. NC Photo. muffins will be served both ing Clothing Appeal may be days. brought to the rectory or to the Chairman of the Christmas church hall any night except pletely false and irresponsible table is Mrs. Norma Conde, Saturday or Sunday. Items will statement-all the more so in aided by Mrs. Betty Macedo. be shipped from the parish Monview of the fact that Muste is Mrs. Dolores Santos is in charge day, Dec. 1. no longer. here to enter a' re- of the cake table. JOSEPH joinder in his own name. A Christmas party to which ST. FALL RIVER - husbands and friends are inLast-Ditch Attempt Parishioners wishing to doThe editor also tries to create vited will take place at 6:30 nate knit goods, toys, foodstuffs, Wednesday night, pec. 10 at the impression that Martin Stone Bridge Inn. Mrs. Edith Christmas decorations or white Luther King's march on Wash- Marshall is in charge of arrange- elephant items for the Women's ington, which Rustin helped to ments, with Mrs. Eiieen Car- Guild bazaar to be held at the organize, was a Communist or school Friday and Saturday: penter as cocchairman. pro-Communist :demonstration. Dec. 5 and 6, may contact Mrs. His' only "proof;' for this fantasJean Bogan or leave articles at tic allegation is that "the Comthe rectory.. munists boasted in The W.orker qothing drive contributions that (the march on Washngton) may be left at the school hall was one of their projects." any day this week. Since when did Twin Circle BROOKLYN (NC) - Bishop SACRED HEART, decide that The 'Worker is a re- Francis J. Mugavero of Brooklyn liable source. of information on said here that specific plans for FALL RIVER The Women's Guild will meet this or any other subject? a National Crusade Against PovIn' the end, realizing that he erty, approved by the U. S. at 8 Monday night, Dec. 1 in hasn't been able to prove that bishops, have not yet been the school hall. Entertainment Rustin "has remained a Com- worked out in detail, but will be will be by S1. Anne's Boys' munist sympathizer all his life," under study 'during the next few Choir, directed by Normand Gingras. the editor suddenly goes off on a months. tangent and' begins to play At their semi-annual meeting games with words. He says that .in Washington, the bishops' while "Rustin tried to deny he adopted a resolution establishing had ever been a Communist, a program, known as the Na'" ¢ 0:: he could never say that he tional Crusade Against Poverty, is not at least' a Socialist." which would commit the Church Over 35 Years This isa desperate, last-ditch to raise a fund of $50 million of Satisfied Service attempt on the editor's part to over the next several years to muddy the waters by leaving the combat poverty in this country., Reg. Master Plumber 7023 impression with the unwary JOSEPH RAPOSA, JR; Bishop Mugavero, former reader that Communism and chairman of the Brooklyn di806 NO. MAIN STREET Socialism are synonymous. He ocesan Catholic Charities, was Fall River 675-7497 knows better than that. appointed by John Cardinal He knows very well that Dearden of Detroit, president of Communism. and, Socialism are the National Conference of Cathnot interchangeable terms, and olic Bishops, to head a committee must also be aware of the fact to formulate the specifics of the that American Socialists have program for approval by the been among the most vigorous NCCB administrative board at its and most effective opponents of next meeting in February. Communism both at home and There exists a widespread abroad. need for the education of CathCITIES SERVICE Social Justice Champion olics on the massive problems of DISTRIBUTORS He also knows better than to poverty in the United States, suggest that Rustin is a dan- Bishop Mugavero stressed. This Gasoline gerous "militant or anarchist or is one of the first, and basic, Red or just plain racist." If not concerns of the program to be Fuel and Range - if he doesn't know that Rus- worked out, he said. tin is among the most constructive, non~violent, anti-Communist, anti-racist, pro-integration Ol~ BURNERS leaders, in the American Civil For Prompt Delivery Rights movement- he has no &. Day & Night Service business editing a newspaper. As indicated above, ·the editor also takes a low-blow swipe at G. E. BOILER BURNER UNITS Notre Dame University. If Father Hesburgh, the distinRural Bottled Gas Service guished president of the Univer61 COHANNEl ST sity, decides to respond to the editor's charge that Notre Dame TAUNTON . has been pl.aYiQg' footsie with Attleboro - No. Attleboro the leftists in recent years, I Taunton am sure he will also come to the defense of Bayard Rustin.
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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Nov. 27, 1969
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Traditional Holiday Games Bring Down Grid Curtain The gay air of the nation's autumn festival will be the most apparent throughout the Commonwealth today at all 125, or more, traditional football games-except one which has been saddened as, a result of a terrible automobile accident. Season records Sporting perfect records are: mean little, if anything, as Class A - Peabody, Northern the schoolboys engage in Conference champion. their final Fall contests which, undoubtedly, will produce as many stunning upsets as occurred in colIegilate competition throughout the country last weekend. Caution against over-confidence will be the theme of many pre-game clubhouse pep talks by coaches who fear the same fate that befelI Ohio State when its skein of 22 straight triumphs ended, dropping the Buckeyes out of the nation's No. 1 rated spot. Nine clubs carry alI-winning records into their holiday encounters. Lawrence High of Falmouth, leading the Eastern Mass. Class C. Division, is the only team within the confines of the diocese with a perfect mark. The other eight unbeaten and untied aggregations are scattered around the Bay State's east~rn, 'co~~t.
Class B-Winchester, Middlesex League titlist; Swampscott, certain of a first place Northeast Conference tie and Walpole, assured of at least a first place deadlock in the Bay State League. Class C - Lawrence of Falmouth, certain of at least a first place tie in the Capeway Conference. Class D-Weston of the Dual County League; Hanover, South Shore eastern division; Our Lady's of Newton, Catholic Suburban League winners, and, South Boston of the Boston District League. . Second-place Holliston of the Tri-ValIey Conference sJiII ranks as the top scoring team in Eastern Massachusetts, having amassed a total of 310 points in eight contests, an average of ~8. 75 pli!r, game.
P'eabody Leads A, Triple Tie in B Hanover of the eastern section of the South Shore League is second among the leading scorers witl) a total of 308 pointstwo less than Holliston-while Coach Don Ruggerio's Falmouth Clippers are the third most explosive scoring combine. South Boston High currently holds the best defensive record in Eastern Mass., having yielded a total of only 19 points in six outings or 3.16 per game while Our Lady of Newton has the second best defensive record, having alIowed a total of 36 points, or an average of 4.5 in each of its eight outings thus far. Walpole has given up an average of 4.75 points in each of its eight victories in the Bay State League competaition to
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place third in defensive records. peabody High, currently ranked the best team in alI Eastern Mass. has rolIed-up a total of 205 points while permitting only 40 by the opposition in compiling its perfect eight-game mark in the winning Northern Conference. Winchester, Swampscott and Walpole, currently deadlocked for first place ranking in Class B, have similar offensive and defensive records in eight victories. Winchester (8-0-0) has tallied a total of 279 points while yielding only 60. Swampscott registered 265 points in compiling 8-0-0 mark while alIowing 92. Walpole has chalked up 166 points while limiting eight defeated opponents to 38.
J.awrence and Coyle in C Deadlock Msgr. Coyle High of Taunton, Seekonk 30, Case of Swansea 45, in one rating plan, is tied with Martha's Vineyard 47, North Lawrence of Falmouth in Class Attleboro 50, Norton 54, MansC. Coach Jim Lanagan's Warriors field 62, Old Rochester of Mathave seven victories in eight tapoiset~ 65. outings as contrasted with FalA heavy cloud of sadness will mouth's perfect eight-game rec- hang over Hanson Memorial ord. Field in Somerset when it enGoing into today's holiday gages Case in a Narry League games, other area Class C teams fixture. Paul Ferris was fatalIy rank as folIows: injured in a motor vehicle acciFairhaven, nine, Attleboro II, 'dent last Saturday while two Bishop Feehan of Attleboro 12, teammates-Philip Demarco and Dartmouth 13, Taunton 16, Steven Costa - were criticaIly Barnstable 30, Bourne 31, Ware- injured. ham 32, Bishop Stang of DartThe impact of the accident mouth 34, New Bedford Voca- upon the Somerset townsfolk tional 37, Durfee of Fall River was evidenced when Ferris' 39 and Dennis-Yarmouth 41. teammates requested Father Somerset High rates 13th in Howard Waldron of st Thomas the Class D division which is More parish to offer the Sa,turheaded by Ipswich of the upper day vigil Mass for the three division of the Cape Ann League. boys. It was standing room only Area Class D teams rank as fol- long before the hour for the lows: start of the Mass. Town flags Provincetown 16, Dighton- are flying at hil,lf mast for the Rehoboth 17, Nantucket 20, victim, a popular and weIl-liked Oliver Ames of North Easton 26, young lad. May he rest in peace!
By Luke Sims North Dartmouth's Bob Thorley experienced his alltime college thrill on Nov. 15 when he helped spark the Bruins of Brown University to a stunning 24"17 upset victory over Ivy League foe Harvard. Although he didn't figure in the scoring, the six-foot, 173pound juni(}r was the key in the sparkling Brown, defense that held the invading Crimson to two touchdowns and a field goal in 48 minutes of action. For Brown, which hadn't won a league game since 1967, the triumph was the first over Harvard in 10 seasons. Thorley has been playing standout defensive back for the Bruins since the opening game of the season. Because of a 2-6 record, the contributions have often gone unnoticed ¢ 0:0 ¢especialIy in the press. Head Coach Len Jardine is one individual who hasn't overlooked the outstanding work of his dandy defender. "Bob has seen a great deal of action at left cor· nerback in our 5-2-4 defense and has been most impressive.
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Key Defenseman "A sure tackler, he (Thorley) has good range, speed and was the key in our shutout- of Rhode Island earlier in the year." Thorley is starting for the second season in a row at the cornerback position and, with his senior year still ahead of him, is likely to make it three years next season. A former three-year letterman at Darmouth High School, Bob is also a standout pitcher for the Bruins' baseball team. As a sophomore he compiled a 2.80 ERA BOB THORLEY in 77 innings and led the team in strikeouts. This Spring, the hard . As a pitcher.first baseman for throwing righthander figures to halfback, earning All-Star honors be the ace of the staff once in his senior year. During the the Dartmouth baseball team, he basketball season, he was the led the Indians to the Class C again. Thorley is the son of Mr. and Indians' ,chief ball-handler and State Schoolboy finals during his senior year and was selected as Mrs. Francis Thorley of 207 playmaker in the backcourt. the outstanding hurler. Hixville Road and is the youngA true athlete in every sense est of three .Thorley children. Schools to Honor of the word, the likable North Francis, a 1957, Brown graduate, Dartmouth youngster enjoys is a product manager for the Senator Muskie golf, tennis, swimming, skating J. T. Ryerson Company and his DETROIT (NC) - U. S. Sen, and is a member of the Bruin sister Sylvia is a housewife. Edmund Muskie of Maine will be Club at school. honored tomorrow as an outOutstanding Hurler Bob is presently majoring in Bob has been an outstanding standing American Catholic of Economics but will forego his Polish background by the subathlete since his freshman year immediate future plans to be at Dartmouth. Except for an in- urban Orchard Lake Schools. commissioned an Ensign in the John Cardinal Dearden of Dejury in his sophomore year, troit will present him with the United States Navy following which sidelined him for the foot- schools' Fjdelitas Medal at a tes- graduation. ball season, Thorley was a three- timonial luncheon. The honor sport sensation for each of his has been conferred annually four schoolboy seasons. since 1949 by the three Orchard On the gridiron, he played Lake schools, SS. Cyril and Complete both offensive and defensive Methodius Seminary, St. Mary's College and St. Mary's PreparaBANKING tory school, to an American Columban Fathers' Catholic of Polish background. SERVICE Father Walter Ziembe, presiPrepare Chapter dent-rector of the schools, said MILTON (NC) - Representafor Bristol County tives of the 160 Colurnban Fath- the award is made for "fidelity ers in the United States are meet- in serving God and country ing at St. Columban's Seminary through the realization of the reo here to prepare for the General Iigious and cultural backgrounds Chapter of the Society which of our forefathers." will be held in .1970. , Delegates from Columban seminaries and houses .in the United States heard a message from TAUNTON, MASS. Richard Cardinal Cushing of BosONE STOP ton at a concelebrated Mass SHOPPING CENTER THE BANK ON which opened the convention. Cardinal Cushing called for a • Television • Grocery TAUNTON GREEN rededication to the missionary • Appliances • Fruniture Member of Federal DepOsit work of the Church, and urged 104 Allen St., New Bedford Insurance Corporation the Columbans seek ways of interesting the youth of the 70's 997-9354 in the challenge of the inissions.
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Jews Skeptica I About 'Revised' Text of Play NEW' YORK (NC)":'" The American Jewish Congress has voiced skepticism here about a "revised" text of the
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Oberammergau Passion Play which they charged to be antiSemitic, and has asked the Mayor of the West German vih lage for an opportunity to review it. (In Oberammergau, Mayor Ernst Zwink announced that the village had adopted revisions which· would "stand up to any criticism," and that rendered the traditional play "free of antiSemitic overtones.") Dr. Joachim Prinz, chairman of AJC's commission on international affairs, said here he had some doubts about the. matter. "It is hard to have confidence in the competence and "intentions of the Mayor and his friends," Dr. Prinz said, "when their position throughout has been that the original grossly anti-Semitic play was completely proper and acceptable. It is unlikely that they can cure a defect they cannot even perceive." Reject New Script. In a cable to Mayor Zwink, Dr. Prinz requested that copies of the revised script be sent to him and to Father Stephen Schaller, O.S.B., of the Monastery of Ettal, near Oberammergau. Father Schaller, a Benedictine educator who had been assigned by Julius Cardinai Doepfner of Munich to revise" the text, submitted a new script, which was rejected by the Bavarian' villagers. Last Septe~ber, in a letter. to Dr. Prinz, Father Schaller wrote of his frustration in ,dealing with the townspeople, and noted that "the already weak will to reform the play disappeared completely" when Oberammergau was toid told by travel agents that the 1970 performances were sold out. Supports Revision Mayor Zwink's .recent announcement that revisions had been made followed a news conference at which Dr. Prinz renewed the AJC's protest against what it termed the "scandalous anti-Semitism of the play," and called upon Cardinal Doepfner to press for revision. . In another response to the AJC protest, the cardinal said he supported revision of the text and favored the version" prepared by Father Schaller. "We are gratified that Cardinal Doepfner· has affirmed his support of our protest," Dr. Prinz said here. "We cannot, however, be so sanguine about assurances offered 'by . Mayor Zwink. "We know. that careful revision prepared after long and serious study by Father Schaller, was rejected out of - ha~d by Mayor Zwink and his associates;" Dr. Prinz continued. The AJC spokesman said evaluation of the revision would have to await' receipt of a copy of the text from Germany.
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