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Diocese Makes Response To Needs of Pico Island

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Heat and Lights Cut Throughout Nation Lower thermostats and fewer lights are the order of the day for Catholic churches, schools and hospitals across the country as the United States faces its first major peacetime fuel and energy shortage in history.

According to reports in diocesan newspapers, many dioceses and parishes are also encouraging car pooling among employees, calling for more austere Christmas displays, insisting on ~iO-milc speed limits for alI institutionalIy owned vehicles, and adopting other cooperative programs to cut their energy consumption.

One of ti,e most dramatic euthacks is the Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows in BelIevile, III., where shrine directors turned off their annual "Way of Lights" Christmas display.

The 125,OOO·light extravaganza has drawn almost 250,000 vis·

Experts Assert Vocation Crisis Lessening Here ROME (NC)-The crisis of vocations to the priesthood in the United Stales is. lessening, according to the cautious butopti· mistic evaluation of two U. S. experts on religious vocations.

Auxiliary Bishop Raymond Vonesh of Joliet, Ill., chairman of the U. S. Bishops' Committee on Vocations, and Father Edward Baldwin, executive director of the National Center for Church Vocations in Detroit, agreed, in an interview with NC News, that seminaries are "settling down."

Fresh from a meeting at the Vatican Nov. 20-24 t<> discuss na· tional "plans of action" to alIeviate the crisis, Bishop Vonesh said: .

"I don't think there was anyone present at our meeting who wo.uld say there was not a crisis, but the American seminary is settling down because there is less turmoil in our land.

"Today's seminarians are asking for and receiving an active prayer life instead of what was calIed just a few years ago an active apostolate."

Father Baldwin added that a few years ago some experts fulIy expected the American seminary to colIapse.

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itors a year in its three-year history, and it was completely set up by Thanksgiving - but after President Nixon's Nov. 25 speech on the energy crisis, the shrine officials decided to limit this year's display to weekend floodlighting of the Lourdes Grotto in the shrine.

At the U. S. Catholic Confer· ence building in Washington, D. C., which houses the national staff offices of the U. S. bishops, general services manager Steve A. Conna11y said workers were removing 50 per cent of the fluorescentlights throughout the building and reducing the wattage of alI halIway and stairwelI bulbs.

"We've gotten a cut of 15 per cent in heating oil 'allocation," said ConnalIy. "This means we will lose one month of heat," He said the building temperature has been lowered to 68 degrees, and he was planning to recommend "absolute closing" of the buildinl? on Saturdays.

In a letter to all his priests Bishop Bernard Flanagan of Worcester, Mass., directed alI parish properties to reduce building tem\,eratures to the recom· mended 65-68 degrees, eliminate all nonessential lighting, and avoid "extravagant use" of decorative lighting for Christmas displays. He also urged parishioners to folIow suit in their own homes.

Cardinal Humberto Medeiros of Boston issued more detailed directives to the same effect, pointing out that the Church must not "stand apart" from the rest of society in facing the natiopal need. "Indeed, as a religious body, we must lead in the spirit of cooperation and compliance," the cardinal said.

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IMMACULATE CONCEPTION Holyday

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H:is Excellency, the Most Reveren:! Daniel A. Cronin, Bishop of FalI River, has sent a gift of $5,000 to the Most Reverend Manuel Carvalho, Bishop of An· gra, Azores, in the name of the Diocese of Fall River, to assist in relieving the plight of th3 residents of the Island of Pico, where a devastating earthquake struck last week.

Initial reports indicate that substantial damage was caused by the earthquake, and much suffering has been reported.

Bis,hop Cronin described the gift as a tangible sign of solidari· ty with those afflicted by the disaster. Churches throughout the Diocese of FalI River included special prayers for the victims of the earthquake in the General Inter<:ession of Masses on the weekend that the news of the earthquake reached the United State!;..

Bis:.10p Cronin further announced that he has alerted Most Reverend Edward E. Swanstrom, Executive Director of the Catholic Relief Services Office, of the situation in Pico, so that facilities and resources of this arm of the. National Conference of

Catholic Bishops would be pre· pared to render any possible assistance.

Bishop Cronin issued the following statement in announcing the Diocesan contribution: Nesta hora aflitiva para tantos milhares de Acoreanos, desejo manifestar () meu cuidade e 0 meu pesar pelos sinistrados da I1ha do Pico e outras ilhas do oeste, possivelmente atingidas pelos terramotos. A eles e as suas familias, principalmente as que aqui vivem, e que, separadas pela distancia e falta de communicacoes, sofrem ainda a a angustia da duvida e da incerteza, ofereco 0 canforte das minhas oracoes e dos fieis de toad a diocese.

Remeto, nesta altura, em nome da diocese de FalI River, e como sinaI de solidariedade com as nossos irmaos sinistrados da IIha do Pico, a soma de $5,000 ao Sr. Bispo de Angra para Ihe adjudar na sua missao de caridade em ali· vial' 0 sofrimento e necessidade naquela i1ha desventurada. Que a caridade crista surja abundantemente entre todos que ouvem esta mensagem, e venham gen· erosamente em socorro dos nos-

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In this hour of distress for so many thousands of Azoreans, I wish to express my concern and sorrow for the victims of the earthquakes on the Island of Pico and other western islands, possibly stricken also. I offer to the victims and their families, especially those who, living in our area and separated by distance and lack of communication, suffer the added anxiety of doubt and uncertainty, the comfort of my own prayers and those of all the faithful throughout the Diocese.

In the name of thoe Diocese, as a sign of solidarity with our afflicted hrothers on the Island of Pico, I am forwarding a sum of $5,000 to the Bishop of Angra, to assist him in the alleviation of suffering' and need as he carries out his mission of charity on that distressed island. I trust that thoe spirit of charity may prevail abundantly among those who hear this message, and that many may come forth generously to the aid of our afflicted brothers.

Bishop Cronin Opens Diocesan Holy Year Preparation With Cathedral Mass

Holy Year Preparation Begins ~

Most Reverend Daniel A. Cro· nin, . Bishop of FalI River, was principal concelebrant Of a Mass at Saint Mary's Cathedral on the First Sunday of Advent, marking the opening of the Diocesan period of preparation for the Holy Year, proclaimed by Pope Paul VI for 1975.

Bishop Cronin was joined by the Vicalrs Episcopal· and by the officers of the Senate of Priests of the Diocese, who concelebrated the Mass with him.

Homilist for the Mass, Very Reverend Luiz G. Mendonca, V.G., coordinator of the Diocesan Holy Year Committee, identified the 'essential concept of the Holy Year as the interior renewal of man. Father Mendonca noted that renewal will, in turn, bring about the second desired effect of the Holy Year, reconciliation.

He cited the theme of the Pauline

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Testament reading of the Holy Father's announcement Mass for the First Sunday of Ad- . poses for us several questions:vent as characterizing the antic- what is a Holy Year? - what ipation of the Holy Year to be meaning does it have for us?reflected in the People of God: what is expected of us?

"May the Lord make you to in· The tradition of the Holy Year crease and abound in Charity to- has its origin in Old Testam.ent wards one another and towards times. It took place every fiftieth all men." year, and was a year of special Father Mendonca's -text: pubHc observance, during which "May the Lord make you to debts were forgiven, slaves were increase and abound in charity freed, and neighbor reconciled towards one another and towards with neighbor. In the history of all men." I Thess. 3-12 the Church, the Jubilee was inLast May Our Holy Father, stituted in the year 1300 by BonPope Paul, announced that the iface VIII, for a purely spiritual Church throughout the world, purpose. It consisted in making will observe 1975 as a Holy Year. a penitential pilgrimage to the Since the time of the initial an- tombs of the Apostles Peter and nouncement, the Holy Father has Paul. repeatedly, in his weekly audiIn the year 1470, Paul II fixed ences, and in most public utter- the twenty five year intervals ances, stressed the importance which have been observed from of this great event in the his· then, to the present time. Even tory and life of the Church. The Turn to Page Four N~w

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THE ANCHOR~Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., De.c. 6, 1973

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Woodstock College, Jesuit Trciin~n9­ Center, Moves to Washington NEW YORK (NC) -Woodstock College, the centr y-old Jesuit training center' v oose closing was announced a year ago, is moving its name and library to Washington, D.C., Jesuit officials announced here.

At its ncw homl Jesuit ~pokesmen said, Woodstock will become a center for th.'ological reflection, searching ne'IV ways to bring the Catholic tradition to hear on human problems to today.

The move marks a new phase in the recent physical and spiri~'Ual wanderings of the 104-yearold institution, whose faculty and students have includee! such fa·.mous Jesuits as Fathers John LaFarge, John Courtney Murray and Gustave Weigel.

Originally byilt in l869 in Woodstock, Md., a small rural community a few miles outside -Baltimore, the Jesuit seminary, with its outstanding theological library, became one of the major Catholic intellectual cen ters on issues cf Ecumenism, religious frf'ec!om and Church-state rcla-

Vocation Crisis Continued from Page One "To the surprise of the experts," he S'aid, "it has not fallen down."

Asked if celibacy is a selling point or a stumbling block. BishI'P Vonesh said that the Church is emphasizing sacrifice and that young people want to respond to the demands of sacrifice iT) order 10 serve others.

Celibacy Factor "The seminarian today who makes a permanent commitment to a life of celibacy Knows what he is doing. If he has any hes· itancy about the permanency of 'this vow he is encouraged to take time off until he is sure.

"No bishop in the United States is going .to ordain a man if he is not clear on the permanency of commitment."

Father Baldwin added: "Celibacy is .not the hangup it was just a few years ago. It is still a factor but not the allimportant factor.

"Since we. have fewer. people in training ~hey are able to be screened well in order to be sure they thought out celibacy and settled it for themselves.

"We recognize that today's seminarian was brought up in a permissive society and we emphasize strongly the grace of God and the need for constant prayer."

Prot. No, M·113 Scott vs. Paul ligamen .

EDICTAL CITATlDN Insofar as the whereabouts of Ruth Board· man, party in the case of Scott vs. Paul, Protocol Number M·1l3, are unknown, we cite the said Ruth Boardman to appear be· fore the said Tribunal of the Diocese of Fall River on De·cember 10, 1973 at 11 :00 A.M.. at 344 Highland Avenue, Fall River. Massa· chusetts. to give testimony to establish: WHETHER THE MARRIAGE IN QUESTION BE NULL? Pastors and others having knowledge of the-whereabouts of the said Ruth Boardman are advised to notify her in regard to this. . Edictal Citation.

Henury T. Munroe Officia/is Given from the Seat of the Tribunal, Fall River, Massachusetts. on this, the 6th day of December, 1973.

Roland Bousquet Notary'

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Principals of all diocesan schools as well as interested teachers, parents and other individuals are invited to a sem· inar at 7:30 tonight in the library of Bishop Gerrard High School, Fall River, at which members of the Social Action Conference of Mercy in the Fall· River and Providence dioceses will present information on problems of workers striking the William ,Farah Co., manufacturers of men's and boys'. slacks as well as parochial school uniforms in use in many diocesan e3ucational institutions.

A film, "The People vs. Willie Farah," will be shown and Rev. Donald J. Bauer of the Syracuse, N. Y. diocese, Religious Consultant for the Amalgamated Cloth· ing Workers of America, will be on hand to lead discussion and answer regarding a nationwide boycott of Farah products.

Humberto Cardinal Medeiros of Boston is the highest ranking member. of the American hier· ,arcQyto; len(l support ·to· the stri;ke.rs' qlUs.e;" He ,pledged. his c~operation and that of archdiocesan institutions in.a statement last May. The strike has been in effect 19 months.

tions in the 1940s, 50s and 60s.

In the mid-60s it was one of the spiritual centers of Catholic pacifism, often housing Jesuit Father Daniel Berrigan and many of his fellow anti·war activists. . Largely as a result of an intense spirit of ecumenism, social activism and community involvement, in 1969' the Woodst.ock community moved from its quiet, rural setting in Maryland to the urban bustle of New York City. . Academically the seminary was aligned with Union Theolog-, ical Seminary and Jewish Theological Seminary. Students lived in five different buildings in a 30-block area,· and some lived alone, leading to complaints that the community was too fragmented to fulfill its purposes.

Three Other Centers Last January the American Jesuits anounced that Woodstock College would be closed a,~ part .. of a program of reevaluating and changing priorities in the Society of Jesus in'this country. , The phase-out· is expected to end next year, with Jesuit seminarians from Woodstock moving to the other three major Jesuit training centers in the United States: . Bellarmine School of Theology in Chicago, Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, Calif., and Weston College in Cambridge, Mass.

The decision to open the new Woodstock Center for theological reflection in Washi!1gto!1 was jolntlyannounceq. by .' t1~e New York and Baltimore provinces of Jesuits. According to the an· nouncement, the· new .center. will receive ~'significant fu·nding"· for its founaation and development.

Jesuit officials said the Woodstock library, one of the best of its kind in the nation, will be housed in the new Georgetown University library complex, but will reman an independent collection.

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The chamber orchestra of the New England Conservatory f)f Music will be heard at 3:30 P.M. Sunday, Dec. 9 in the student Center of Stonehill College.

Easton, under the direction of .Benjamin Zander, also conductor . of. the -BostQI) Civic Symphol')Y. The program Is free· of. .charge, •.but.advance reservatiops should be made. It is one of a series of classical concerts arranged by Rev. James G. Burbank, assistant dean of student affairs. Forthcoming wHI 'be appearances by -the Brockton Symphony and the women's chorus of Boston University.

Centenariqn Got Her First Job After I'Attending Mass

TROY (NC) - Eighty-eight' chapel in the house, where she years ago a devilish 12-year-old . goes often during. the .day .to girl'piied .her' auburn·cJrls ·on :pray... She.~lways: ca,rr~es· a .rostop of her head, length~ned a 'aiy 'in 'he): pocket.. For' severa! skirt to her ankles ..and ,looked .' .ye;iJ:s ..s.he .h~s,.:been .w.or~ing :.at -Into ·a ··mirror. 'Yc's;"she 'did .look . herl'apostolate," as 'she 'calls it, older. : getting her friends to visit the . With her mother, she attended chapel more often.

IronicallY,one of Mrs. Burke's the eight o'clock Mass at St. Lawrence's' Church in this New earliest memories is going to St. York community. Then the two Vincent's home with her girl· paraded across the street to a friend and visiting the old peoFrench dress shop where the .girl pie. "We lIsed to like to hear the applied for her first job. "My you old men sing vespers," said Mrs. look young," the own~r said. Burke.

"A person asked me one time "Let's see what you can l do."

Before the day was over ~hat I do to live so long. ~ell I. Germans Generous Lavinia ·Burke who willi be 100 Just make the best of anythmg. I in February, h~d stolen away.one think someone else must, be To Latin America FULDA (NC)-Adve·niat, the of the shop's best customers and worse off than me." .

German Catholic aid agencY.Jor had been slipped' two silver. 'dol! " Latin America, granted over $9.5 lars in tips. million for more than 1,600 proj"Fourth· grade is the, highest ects this past year, according to grade I went to," said' Mrs. FUNERAL HOME, INt. Bishop Franz Hengsbach of Es- Burke, now a resident: of the seri, president of the agency.

R. Marcel Roy - G. lorraine Roy Little Sisters of the Poor home Roger LaFrance - James E. Barton ,Projects given high priority for aged here, "One day I just FUNIERAL DIRECTORS were educational and pastoral came home from school and told programs and parish construc- my mother, 'Ma, I'm nqt going 1,5 Irvington Ct. HYANNIS 775-068" tion in special development back,' And I didn't. I loved to New Bedford South Yarmouth 398-2201 areas. sew, and I wante<;! to be la dress995-5166 Harwich P~rt 432-0593 The U: S. National Collection maker," I for' Latin America, administered 'She became a dressmaker and by the Division for Latin Amer- earned $12 per week, a l fortune ica of the U. S. Catholic Confer- for a young lady then. ence, was about $1.5 million this v - When she married, M~s. Burke past year. stopped her thriving biJ~iness to devote her time to her. 'husband and her five sons, all Of whom Necrology SERVING ALL FAITHS are no~ dead.

DEC. 14 Mr. Burke was a generous Rev. Msgr. John J. Hayes, 1970, man, she said, sometimes giving Pastor, Holy Name, New Bed- away his whole paycheck to the ford. poor. He was an active I member of the St. Vincent.· de Paul So~.

DEC. 15 ~Jr ciety.

I Rev. Mortimer Downing, 1942,· She and· her husband never Pastor, St; Francis )Gavier, HySt:Jmner James Waring, Inc./Thomas J. Ashton & Son. Inc. had an argument, s~id Mrs. annis.

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DEC. 20 ever I said went," 178 Winter St.l466 North Main 51.. Fall River SUBURBAN LOCATION Rev. Manuel S. Travassos, Mrs. Burke loves her home 189 Gardners Neck Road, Swansea, 1953, Pastor, Espirito Santo, Fall with the Little Sisters. In parti~­ River. ular, she Is. grateful ,for Ihaving a

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Holy Father's Peace Efforts Have Influence VATICAN CITY (NC) - New Zealand's first ambassador to the Vatican told Pope Paul VI that New Zealand believes the Pope's efforts to secure WClrld peace' "have had considerable influence."

Ambassador Owson Paul Gabites, a 60-year-old career diplomat, presented his credentials in a formal audience at the Vatican Nov. 29.

Pope Paul said that he regretted that he had heen unable to visit New Zealand during his trip to Asia in 1970 and to be with its "young and dynamic people and its vigorous Catholic population."

In welcoming the new ambassador, the Pope expressed appreciation of the "objectives which unite your government and the Holy See in a common search .for peace through the improvement of economic and social conditions, through disarmament and the defense of the environment.".

The Pope added that he esteemed "the idealism which inspires New Zealand and the valid contribution it continues to make. On its part, the Holy See, in the measure permitted by its nature and mission, willingly seeks to contrtibute to the solutions of the grave p.roblems affecting the welfare and security of mankind."

Mutual' Concern Ambassador Gabites told the Pope' that the "Holy See has done much in the last 25 years or so to reslore the damage caused, hy war and conflict in various parts of the world. -We belive that' if· the qualify '~of life can be improved for all peoples the risk of future conflkts will he diminished."

The ambassador said that "the Holy See and New Zealand have a mutual concern for the objectives of international peace, for disarmament, for economic and social development and for the environment in all its aspect.

With .its high moral principles, the Vatican has played, and is playing a responsible and constructive role to further these objectives in many areas."

Endorses Boycott Of Farah Products WASHINGTON (NC)-A resolution supporting the strike against the Farah Manufacturing Co. and using a nationwide boycott of Farah products, has been approved without a dissenting vote by the Committee on Social Development and World Peace of the U. S. Catholic Conference (USCC).

After a six-month study of the dispute, the committee said it has had found a denial of social justice to the :Farah strikers who are attempting to organize in the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (ACWA) "deserve support of the Christian community and others of good will."

During the recent: annual meeting of the nation's bishops, the Farah company as:ked the bishops to take no action on the strike. The bishops heard an address suppbrting the strike by Bishop Sidney Metzger of EI Paso, Tex., but took no other action. Bishop Metzger' did not ask for a vote on the matter.

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STONEHILL DONOR: Attending the preview showing of the Arnold B. Tofias Industrial Archives at Stonehill College, Friday, Nov. 30, were: left to right, Arnold-B. Tofias, donor of the collection and Brockton real estate developer; Dr. James J. Kenneally, Chairman of the Stonehill History Department; Professor Judith A. Sughrue, Archives Director and History Department; and Rev. Ernest J. Gartell, Stonehill President.

Stonehill To Feature Ames History Marion Unsworth Curran A preview showing of a large collection of industrial documents and artifacts, tracing the I".-istory of one of the oldest families and businesses in New England, The Ames Shovel Works, was held Friday at the Stonehill College Library, North Easton.

The collection, which date.s back to 1774 and contains over 100,000 documents and over 1,000 shovels and other tools, has been donated to St9nehill hy Mr.' Arnbld -Tofias; "Brockton 'real estate developer, wbo purchased . the :old'~Shove(Wpi'Itsjiroperty'in 1972. . ' Mr. Tofias, who was introduced at the showing :by Dr. James J. Kenneally, chairman of the history department, explained that after purchase of the property he found a huge attic "just filled witb racks, papers, boxes, and shovels. I called in some historians to look at them and they discovered what .. a complete record of American, particularly American business, was really contained there," he said.

"I also felt very strongly that the collection represented a very definite part of the history of Easton and should remain here," hoe added, "and that is why I gave it to Stonehill." The College, in gratitude; has established ·the Arnold B. Tofias Industrial Archives to house the collection and other materials which may be acquired.

Industrial Development Miss Judith A. Sughrue, Direc, tor of the Archives and ,Associ· ate Professor of History at Stonehill, has been working since June at cataloging' the collection.

Her results thus far were displayed at the showing.

She explained that William Ames of England, father of the first two Ames to come to America hefore 1638, was the founder of the Puritan ethic-to work b:ud, save money, and acquire property. "His philosophy can be easily seen in the records of his descendants," she said, "and of course it was very important in the development of American industry and of capitalism."

Seven Categories Professor Sughrue has divided thoe collection into seven categories. The first concerns the

Two representatives from the New England area were elected Saturday to serve on a national consultative committee to assist the Catholic Bishops of the United States in various endeavors. Mr. Kevin Concannon from the Portland Diocese and Mr. Bernard Nardi, of the Manchester Diocese, were chosen as New England delegates. .

Representing the Diocese of Fall River at the meeting and election at Worcester were Mr. George A. Milot, principal of Bishop Stang High School 'inNorth Dartmouth, and Mrs. Mi'hael J. McMahon of Fall River.

24 Buffalo Priests To Retire at 7S BUFFALO (NC)-Twenty-four priests in the Buffalo diocese are expected to retire by next April as a resuJ.t of Bishop Edward Head's decision to set a mandatory retirement age of 75 for priests.

Bishop Head's letter to priests outlining the retirement directive stressed that the diocese would "assure our priests pleasant, dignified and secure years in retirement-the best the diocese can provide."

The letter emphasized that retired priests would still have a role to play in the diocese. "Because salvation of souls is the supreme law of the church~ we shall strive to keep every priest in action as long as he is capable of serving his people," Bishop Head wrote.

working class at the company, when the first shovelful was dug and includes wage scales, details by Charles Carrol, last living about when the working class signer of the Declaration of Infirst started huying property, and dependence, and the dedication the record of the hiring of a 14 of Henry Ford's Greenfield Vilyear old Irish boy named Mc- lage, when Thomas Edison Donough. That same McDonough placed an Ames shovel in the now owns the company, wbich cornerstone representing Amerioperates in Parkersburg, West ca's agricultural and industrial Virginia, and is a millionaire sev- society. eral times over.

Rev. Ernest Bartell, Stonehill A second grol!1p of documents president, estimates that it will ,concerns the administration of the company, including details of be about a year before the colthe company',s actions when la- lection is sufficiently evaluated bor unions 'were, agitating for : and prepared for general inspection. ' r~l;ognitiQn _in the 20's and 30's.

A third category is· being developed on the company during the wars-the shovels used during the Civil War, the taxes inaugurated during World War I, and the badges used for identifieation during World War II when shovels were considered a defense matter.

Up until the 1920's, the Shovel Works did little advertising, but at that time, business was slow, ••• and the documents that show a heavy increase in display advertising in magazines and newspapers comprise the fourth category. for those who don't want to tie up their 'Fhe fifth division, family history, reveals, for instance, that Savings for long periods of time we also in the 1840's when Oakes and Oliver Ames were sent by their 'have available the "convenient" REGfather Oliver, Sr., on business trips, they had to keep fastidious ULAR passbook account earning 5.25% records, even to how much they for an effective yield of 5.47% had spent on stamps. Interfamily lawsuits between brothers' in and Massacbusetts, Connecticut and Minnesota: where some of the the "different" 90 day account earning Ames family went homesteading, are ~ also' detailed.

5.75% for an effective yield of 6.00% Local Easton history is also categorized.

Easton residents looking at the records may be • interest continuously compounded less than gratified to discover that property taxes in the 1850's were amounts such as $1.52, insured safe by a Federal Agency $3.14, and $4.36.

The final category 'includes those papers concerning the Credit Mobilier, a company owned hy the Ames family which financed the building of the first transcontinental railroad, The Union Pacific, and includes deSOMERSET FALL RIVER tails of the buying of equipment, 149 GAR Hwy., Rte. 6 1 No. Main Street and the purchase of land.

1450 Plymouth Avenue , Railroad Ames shovels were used at such historical events as the inPhone 9-8181 auguration of the firs~ American railroad, The Baltimore and Ohio,

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Says Farah. Controversy Not B'uckley's· Cup of Tea Willia~ F. Buckley, Jr., editor of "'fhe National Review" and moderator of a highly successful television talk show, is a man of many talents. He is 'a clever debater, a witty conversationalist, and a master showman who takes a kind of adolescent delight relations and, more specifically, in playing the role of the so- on the ,role of certain churchmen phisticated intellectual snob in connection with the Farah who knows more big words strike in El Paso, Texas. Frankly, and more esoteric words than anyone else in t!le class. Buckley, in other words, is a man to be reckoned with and, besides, he is' generally lots of fun.

it was an extremely superficial and extremely' supercilious col-, umn.

Conflict of Interest Buckley would have us believe that Bishop Metzger of. El Paso and the other American bishops 8y who are supporting the Farah strike are a bunch of ].loobs who MSGR. don't know enough to come in out of the rain and are woefully misinformed about the Farah GEORGE G. controversy. The fa c t i s , however, that Bishop Metzger, HIGGINS who has lived in El Paso for more 'than 25 years, has studied the 1:1[[ [[j:i II:_'~ Farah controversy inside out, Unfortunately, however, he whereas it is quite apparent that has never learned to stick to his Buckley's very limited knowledge last. -He will tackle almost any of the strike has come almost subject you can ~hink of and will exclusively from his casual readdo so with all of, the brash self- ,ing of company propaganda.assurance which many years ago' I might add that Buckley, prompted 'him, as a callow un- whether wittingly or not, has dergraduate, to take on The Es- gotten himself involved in a tablishment at his alma mater in nasty little conflict.. of interest a book called "God and Man at in connection with the Farah Yale." This is the book that first controversy. During the recent made him famous-or notorious meeting of 'the National Confer-as the college debater par ex. . h I . 't bI' ence of CatholIc BIS ops, s~vera cellence. Ever smce I s ~u Ica- 'public_relations, peQplfl representtio~,~e has been soundmg offi~g' 'the Farah:"Company bornperIOdIcally on a num~er of con- !;larded, the. bishops with outrapro-Farah troversial' sU~jectsW.hlCh, t~· put:, .'g'eousiy '~ne-sided 't 'ld'l SIble , are not' I as ml I y as pos ., propaganda 'and carr-ied on one his particular cup of tea. of the most blatantly offensive' The sU~ject.?f labo~-manage- lobbying campaigns I have ever ment relatIons IS a pertment case witnessed at an NCCB meeting. in point. Buckley knows very As might have been expected, campaign 'boomeranged little about this subject, bu! he the can't seem to stay away Hom against the company,. for it it in his syndicated column. He forced Bishop Metzger to to take returned to it again on Novem- the floor at the bishops' meeting ber 6 in a very patronizing col- and to set the record stright. umn on the rol~ of the Church This he did very effectivelyin the field of labor-management, much to the embarmssment of the F:arah lobby<ists.

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Hoi), y ~ar Pr1eparatio,n Begins think like Christ, do I act like, Christ, do I love Christ?

Reconciliation Unless we are willing to ask ourselves these soull'-searching questions with honesty and sincerity, renewal within our lives cannot be a reality. This renewal will in turn bring about the second desired effect of the Holy Year,-RECONCILIATION. This is the all 'important theme set forth by the Holy Father, and which he asks us to take very seriously. Reconciliation' to God, is a turning to God, -a recognizing, of Him as the I very essence of our life and of Internal Renewal The essential concept of the the life of the world; it is a conversion to God on our part, and Holy Year is:the interior ren~wal of man. Spiritual renewal is nec. conversion means a turning from .essary to enable us to combat one thing to another. We must more effectively the forces of FR. MENDONCA turn therefore from the things hatred, violence and oppres'sion of man, to God Himself. I believe which diV'ided man from matt. It ceptional forom to all men that we will generally agree that will help us to resist and rev~rse throughout the world. modern man has tried just about the process of demoralization Thus, the Ecumenical Council everything. With all the -knowlwhich affects so many segments brings about the universal dis- edge and technology at his comof our society.

I seminati,on of truth, the proper mand, with all the material reAll true morality is founded 'guidance of individual, domestic sources that he disposes of, man in the divine law of God. The and social ,life, the strengthening seems rather to have succeeded Holy year will help us appieci~ of spiritual force~, and a constant in creating more problems than ate this fact more clearly 'and 'progress toward real and ever- in solving the mimy that afflict mankind,-the order of things in give it meaning in the trou~led lasting good. . society in which we live.. I Vatican II the world continue in a startling The history of mankind, as, reand ironic state of utter disarray'. late'd to us in the Sacred ScripIt will be under the guidance.

This state of affairs does intures, indicates how man pros- and in the spirit of Vatican II, deed confirm the words of Christ, pered and fared well when' he that all men, are called upon to which, while we profess to'beremained close to God through bring about renewal within him- lieve them, yet. we terid to forget the observance of His laws, and self. During the Holy Year, each them, '''without Me, you can do how he suffered tribulations of Christian, and in particular, each nothing." May this Holy Year be every sort, when he turned a'!l'ay member of the Church, will be the propitious time: when all from Him. History repeats itself, asked to probe the interior of of mankind will make -its own, ' our d an d m ay,' t here .

IS .m d'~ d , his soul,-to . . , a,sk . himself . . about with humility and sincerity,' the an urgent need to reevaluate the smcenty o:f hIS CO~vl.ctlOns,words of St. Peter, "Lord, to man's pQsitiqn in. the world4 in. ,whether t~~S(: convl:tJons. are .' whom ~hall we go? You have the which he lives, as'it affects his founded on tht. true faIth denv.~<!. ,.w9r,ds, o.f,·.et~)1Qal 'life.r: ,_ " .', relationship with God, with him- from the Gospels of Jesus Chris'f, ,.r. 'J • 'L~ve of 'Neighb~~' '. . self and with his fellow man.; or whether ~he:y h~ve become enReconciliation with God, howIn the past twenty five years, t~enc~ed wlthl.n hIm ?y, the en- ever, cannot take place unless the world has undergone an las- tIcements of expedIency and man is first willing to reconcile tounding transfor~ation. Man complacency, by the pressures with his fellow man. "IF you has made vast strides in scien- of the mass.es, or by the ?emand bring your gift to the altar and ti,fic, social, economic and cui- of conformIsm to what IS most there recall that your brother tural advancement. Fascinated agreeabl~ and most popular. has anything against you, leave 'by this material progress, llrnd In a word, eaoh one must ask Turn to P S'x age 1 overwhelmed so greatly by ,its himself, what kind of a Christian enormity, man can, and actually' am I,-am I in reality a true and ·has lost sight of so _many spir- sincere follower of Christ, or · itual values that supercede ~nd am I a Christian simply because govern all these things. Unless, my name is engraved in a bapat all times, and in all circum- tismal register of some church, stances, he is constantly aw~re while my life is guided by the Complete'~Line, ' .. of his dependence on ,God, tj:Ie dictates 'of the pagan,. secularistic actual autihot and master of ~ll and >. mater,ialistic' philosophies: Buildi "g' M~tef.jaIs' human accomplislimen!s; -he m~y: that surround'Ilie? Is: 'God and: "1'18 ALDEN RO',' FAIRHAVEN soon become' inebriated with" a' C~rist the ,~~nter that conditions 993-2611 secularistic philosophy,' <;if' life and ·harrponizes my life? Do I + ••••••••••••••••• that obscures, rather than' clarifies' the "view of his eternal destiny.

Continued from Page One in the early years, despite the hazards and perils of travel', pilgrims, flocked 'to ,Rome, there to do penance, visit the' s~cred shrines, revive their faith and spirituality, pledge their fiqelity to Christ's Vicar on' earth, receive his blessing, and partaking in whatever other spiritual Ibenefits the pilgrimage entitled them I to.

The last Hofy Year was I celebrated in 1950. 1975 will be the twenty sixth celebrated in i the history of the Church.

Violated Ethics Be that as it may, the princiVATICAN CITY (NC)-A Vat- pal Farah' lobbyist somehow or ican diplomat told a' meeting of ' other rh~nagep to get himself actop European government edu- credited to the NCCB meeting as cation officials that universities a working Journalist; thereby must be guaranteed a high level gaining entrance to all of the I _ of freedom and autonomy to pre- public sessinons of the meeting.

God's Providence serve them from becoming in- BeHeve it or not, he produced I struments of economic or politi- credentials from Buckley's' own , IUs of this danger that a moppublication,' "The National Recal power. ern day philosopher speaks, when ' view." In my opinion, that was The diplomat, Archbishop Lu- , he says, "the' greater "the proga clear violation of professional igi Poggi, was the Vatican's obress of technical, scientific, ecojournalistic ethics-and an 'even server at the second conference nomic and social development of government ministers of edu- clearer indication that Buckley, today, the more a man needs cation of nations belonging to who claims to be an expert on "spiritual supplement," in' order the United Nations Educational, the Farah strike, is getting his not to fall victim of, his own Cultural and Scientific Organiza- information directly from the conquests." And so it appears tion ~UNESCO), held at Bucha- Farah PR fim}. that the Holy Y~ar is God's proyThis is not the first time that · idential way of having His rest, Romania. Archbishop Poggi is an' official of the Council for the celebrated college debater Church provide that "spiritual the Public Affairs of tl)e Church. from Old Eli has outsmarted supplement.", Within the last quarter cenThe archbishop told the con- himself, but it may be the first ference that those responsible for time that he failed to cover his tury, Holy Mother <;:hurch COlleducational policies "must pro- tracks and therefore got caught vened an ecumenical' counci:l, mote and safeguard the liberty so openly in the act. Hopefully Vatican II. Its purpose, according of private universities," which, the experience will be good for to the words of John XXIII il1 he said, "have a valuable role in his humility. Who knows - it his opening address to the the free development of -intellec- might even prompt him to offer Council, w.as that the Church tual activity, fostering disinter- a public apology to Bishop 'might once again assert her unested research and creative imag- Metzger and the other· bishops. failing and imperishable magisination, promoting rare and pre- whom he criticized so snidely terium,-and this magisteriurh, cious human values and thus in his untfortunate column of consider the errors, requirements, making a truly original contribu- November 6. and 'opportunities of our time, tion to society." ,( © 1973NC Features and thus ,be presented in an ex-

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Makes Third Try for School Aid CINCINNATI (NC) - For the non public schools. The law is third time in less than two years, believed to have a· better chance tbe state of Ohio is trying to of survival than tbe others beconvince three federal ju\dges cause it involves a form of aid here of the constitutionality of that has been used her'e since a state aid to non public educa- 1967 and that has passed eadier tion law. court tests.

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IN ST. LOUIS: Father Patrick Peyton gets admiring looks from two participants at a Festival of Prayer in St. Louis. The Holy Cross priest sought written commitments to daily family prayer from the 6,000 persons attending the rally. Pledge forms will be mailed later to 140,000 families in the St. Louis area. The pledges weI:e the climax of the 6 week Family' Prayer Crusade. .

• Priest Says Belief In Jesus Growing SAVANNAH (NC)--A vital, if not traditional, belief in Jesus is growing in the United States and those who share it have something of value to say to the traditional, institutional Church, a priest educator said here in Georgia.

In an address Father Alfred MCBride recalled that a Time, magazine cover in' 1966 proclaimed that "God is dead."

"Yet, in 1973," he said, "we get the distinct impression that Jesus lives. A belief experience in, Christ is rife in American <;ulture and abroad in the land."

"In 1966, Joh;;;' Lennon of the I3eatles remarked that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus Christ," Father McBride told a Congress on Worship of the Atlanta church province." "The Beatles have since disbanded, George Harrison has been found singing "My Sweet Lord" and message songs such as 'Amazing Grace' and 'Bridge Over Troubled Waters' are filling our air waves even yet. 'Godspell' comes through like a medieval mystery play set to music."

Father McBride, director of the National Forum for Religious Educators of the National Catholic Educational Association, listed the so-called Jesus People. Protestant Evangelicals and Catholic Pentecostals as the "three shapes" the modern belief experience of Jesus is taking.

All three groups, he said, emphasize the value of devotiona'l and personal prayer to Jesus and personal experience of the Holy

Spirit. "There is evidence in l:ven though they are sometimes many instances/' Father McBride marred by overzealousness and said, "of conversion from lives the introduction of such trivia as of despair ... to lives of joy and , Jesus T-shirts and Christ wrist-' hope." watches.

Nevertheless, he said, "I sinAll three groups, he continued, talk about Jesus as a "friend" cerely believe that we have and proclaim that that direct something to .Iearn by what's communication with God is avail- going on in this movement." able to anyone "who opens him• self to the power of Jesus and London' Expensive permits himself to be 'baptized again' by the Holy Spirit." .For Churches The Norbertine priest declared LONDON (NC)-There is inhis personal belief that "these creasing pressure on both the developments are indicative of a Anglican and Methodist churches religious revival in the '70s," to move their administrative headquarters out of London beProtesters Occupy cause of increasing rents, high wage scales and the .generally Bishop's Office high cost of living here.

WASHINGTON (NC) - WelAnglican Bishop Eric Treacy fare rights demonstrators occuof Wakefield said in his diocpied the office of the general esan newsletter: "I am sure that secretary of the U.S. Catholic Conference (USCC) here for the Church of England will have about four hours Nov. 14, but to give some serious thought to left when spokesmen were invit- disposing of some of its highly ed .to meet with bishops to air valuable property in London and grievances about the Campaign moving its office out into the provinces." for Human Development.

With the rapid escalation of The protesters complained aboutothe "unfairness, the duplic- , property values in London Over ity, the divisiveness, the political' recent years, this is a point of interference, and arbitrariness" view shared by many Anglicans, of the Campaign which is the although there is strong opposibishops' national anti-poverty tion from some traditionalists.

The Methodists have an offiprogram.

About 30· persons, including a cial working party considering three-year-old boy, sat on the the future location of their headcarpeted floor and on chairs in quarters. 'It is studying, among the spacious office of Bishop other things, sharing accommoJames S. Rauscb, with one of dations with other bodies, a postheir leaders, Mrs. Frankie Mae sible move to another city and Jeter occupying Bishop Rausch's the replanning of existing accommodations in London. own black swivel chair.

Christmas is Christ's Birthday. This year, to show Him you love Him, give your presents to the poor.... For instance, train a boy for the priesthood. We'll send you his name, he'll write to you, arid you may stretch payments to suit your own convenience ($15.00 a month, $180 a year, $1,080 for the entire six-year course). The friend who has everything, if you sponsor a seminarian in his name, will ·appreciate this more than a gift he doesn't need. We'll send your friend our attractive Gift Card before Christmas. t~lIing him what you ,have don.e....

Or sponsor a Sister-to-be ($12.50 a month, $150 a year, $300'altogether), a homeless child ($14 a month), or feed a refugee family for two wee~s ($5). Your friend will be pleased you thought of someone else when you rememt:!ered him. . . . Please write to us,today to be sure the Gift Cards reach your friends before Christmas. We'll sefid the cards as soon as we hear from you., .

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Thought.Pro~oking ,Hardly world-shattering was the recent announcement that a carved wood figure~, stolen in 1966 from the tiny African kingdom of Kom in Wes~ Cameroon, had been recovered and would soon be on its way back to the 40,000 people who hold it in reverence as the manifestation of their religious' and political heritage. ' The Cameroon ambassador to the United States ac~ cepted the statue last week for its return to his country.

And the words' he spoke on that occasion were thoughtprovoking ones. Turning to the statue itself he said: "As for you . . . return .hence to your ancestral land. . . . You, symbol of' love and unity, be forgetful of upheaval and blasphemy.... Forever forget your uncomfortable appearance in this sophisticated technology whose achievements tend to overlook human considerations."

From time to time, Americans should re-examine their sophisticated technology and put the human person into perspective. From time to time they should forget the boast about being the richest and most advanced civilization in the world, 'and consider the single human being. From, time to time they should ask themselves about such human considerations as the I!fe of an unborn child, the care of the older citizen, the mental health of the disturbed person, the attempts at rehabilitation of' the one who has outraged society.

Preparatio,n

NCC Said to Recognize Need

Continued from Page Four your gift at the altar, go first to be reconciled with your brother, and then come and offer your gift."

Reconciliation with man, is therefore, the oflher essential element of our turning to God. This will require that each man seek to be at peace with his neighbor,-and, each nation atpeace with the other. All of us 'detest war and decry its evils.

No one of us likes war, yet, how can we be consistent with our feelings, if so many of us insist on carrying on our own private little war with our neighbor?

This reconciliation must not merely be on a personal basis,of just one man to another. Our reconciliation must embrace the full ,scope of our relationship with our fellow man, - and therefore, must, of necessity, concern itself with his needs and his dignity. There is no true reconciliation amongst men all the while that gross social injustice afflicts- any segment of mankind, nor while racial pre.. judice, discrimination and mi.. nority group oppression plagues any man or group of men. Reconciliation demands that each man respect th~ human dignity of his fellow man, that he recognize in him the image of his Maker, that he see in him a brother with whom he shares the Harne com· mon fatherhood of God.

Every 25 years since 1450, the Church has celebrated a Holy Year, a year of renewal and reconciliation. As is To Support ReBgious EdLllcation WASHfNGTON (NC)-Rlfcent qirector of the USCC Division of fitting for such a significant year, there is a period of prep,Pauline Directive by the National Council Elementary and Secondary Eduactivity aration which began last Sunday, the first Sunday of of Churches (NCe) indicates a cation; Robert N. Lynch,' former It is the fund and anxious hope Advent, the beginning of the Church Year. ,recognition by that organization executive director of Parents for of our Holy Father, that during The Holy Year and its preparation year could be taken of an obligation to "be active in Nonpublic Education; and Father the Holy Year, all men of good as merely ceremonial commemorations. 'rhat is not the religious education and suppor- John Meyers,acting president of will strive for this reconciliation tive of other ,groups who are," a the National Catholic Education- in order that. many of the ills Holy Father's intention nor the purpose of the Church Catholic education official :said al Association. that plague mankind' might be in calling for these observances. " . here.

I cured, and men able to live at Lack ,of Tolerance The official, Msgr. Olin J. JYIurpeace and in harmony with one The Holy Father asks that this preparation year be dick, secretary of th~ U.S. C,athAt the meeting, Dr. Edward another. lived as a vast "spiritual and penitential movement" in olic Conference's Department of A. Powers, general secretary of On this opening day of the prelude to the Holy Year. ' Education, is a member of a Isix- the United Church of Christ's di- Holy Year, as we gather around It would be unfortunate if Catholics entered the Holy man committee that' was set up vision of Christian education, God's altar, offering the Holy in October at a meeting in New Year without having made the sincere effort at a greater York City under the sponsorship ,wbo is chairman of the new six- Sacrifice together with' our . man committee, contrasted the bishop, let us pray that the exholiness in their own lives-a greater degree of reconcilia- of the NCC. assumption of the NCC in the hortation of St. Paul may become The function of the commit- early 1960s "that the public' a reality for us and for all maption with God, a greatermeasure of reconciliation with their feliow men, a greater spiritual renewal in their lives so that tee, Msgr. Murdick said, ''is, to schools are good, desirable, hu- kind,-"may the Lord make you pursue some of the ideas that mane, ideal and that the role of to increase and abound in charthey enter the Holy Year as more deeply committed sons seemed to emerge from the meetchurehes related to the coun- ity towards one another, and and daughters of God, brothers and sisters of Jesus Christ. . ing by exploring ways in which- the cil is'to support them" with "the towards all men," and may The extraordinary impact made in recent, years by' aid can be furnished to religious kind of critique which many of Mary, the Mother ,of God and that wish to operate tqeir ,us would ma~:e today of public our, Mother too, under whose gurus and similar spiritual leaders, the unusual interest in ' groups own schools and what impact !we education: the increasing mono- patronage the Holy Father has things of the spirit even if this interest has ta~en some down can ,make on the public schools' lithic quality of much of public placed the Holy Year, watch the road toward black magic, the revival of meditation and .mode of operation." ; education; the lack of tolerance over us, and help us make of 'it, The meeting and the establish- for diversity; the fundamental the desire for inner peace-all these testify that the hearts truly .a year of ~onversion. ment of the committee, Msgr. commitment to the status quo of men are hungry for foOd of the spirit.

Murdick said, indicate the NCe's instead of triggering imagination This preparation year for the Holy Year should· see recognition that reiigious eduta- to think about new possibilities Cemetery Strikers Catholics firmly and deeply interested in renewal-in bring- tion is "a continuing concern, for the full development of perand that they have not solved the sons; the lack: of tolerance or , Face Loss of Job ing about change for the better in their own lives.

NORTH ARLINGTON (NC) problem or settled it hy opposing provision for diversity and .

Striking workers at Holy Cross St. Augustine once wrote,. "God, Who created you tax credits:" strength." ' cemetery here have .been told to In testimony hefore the House without your participation, will not redeem yoli without Dr. Powers Haid many ProtesWays and Means Committee 'in tants are now agreeing with return to their jobs or risk losing your cooperation." This is the time to begin a new effort May, them. the NCC opposed federal at cooperation With God for the salvation of one's own legislation to provide tax credits Catholics that "values which the In a letter, Msgr. Joseph Doyle, public schools convey are alien , Newark archdiocesan director of soul and the renewal of the whole Church. to' p'arents of nonpublic scho.ol I

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I 'highly" and because of that, they 'Kind of Retraction' are seeking ways to foster alAlthough statements made by . ternatives. individuals at the OctOber meet· ing amounted to a "kind of retraction" of the NCC's earlier Museum C:ollecting position, the meeting was an informal consultation, Msgr. Mur- Old Religi4C»us Garbs NORWICH (NC) - A museum dick pointed out, and it cannot in England has begun a here be assumed that the organization's official position has collection of pre-Second Vatican «hanged. There is, however, Council Catholic Religious garbs.

The collection, being' assem"some reason for optimism," 'hie ~~. ' , ! bled as the Castle Museum, will About '25 representatives of 16 include the dress of as many as denominations attended the possible of the Religious orders meeting. In addition to Msgr. and congregations, both of womMurdick, Catholic representatives en and of men, as well as that of were Dr. Edward R. D'Alessio, th~ aiQcesan cler~y.,

cemeteries, told striking workers that the cemetery is hiring "permanent replacements" in order to continue operations.

Sam Cimaglia, local leader of the Cemetery and Greens Workers Union, charged that the latter const,itutes an unfair labor practice. Union attorneys will turn it over to the National Labor Relations Board for investi· gation, he said.

Some 35 cemetery workers bave been on strike at Holy Cross since September. The cemetery generally employs about 50 men. Originally, 40 men manned the picket I·ines but a few have returned to work.

St. Anthony Is Still On Job Of Finding Lost Articles

Church Respects Asia Traditions

What do you say to a lady who has lost her statue of St. Anthony? I wanted to laugh at the irony of the situation but I couldn't. This is a lady who makes St. Anthony believable-several times daily. She loses her glasses, for example, says a quick prayer to S.A., and finds her find things." She turned to us glasses a few minutes later and explained, "I'm getting for. . getful, you know, and I thought nestled m he! ha.lr. She loses _ it might help if I had someone her ~rocery h~t, I~vokes. S. A., and fmds the hst flled with her prayer leaflets that evening.

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J~Diq~~!. hotly, "there IS a St. Anthony!"

"I know, I know," I respond.

I'm not going to argue with one who finds half of what she loses. [ don't argue with S. A. fans at all, in fact. They're a committed lot. They can quote more things S. A. has located for them than most people have lost.

Several years ago, the wife of II Big Ten football coach admitted she prayed to S. A. when the team was losing. I thought that was a creative use of the patron of lost items. From innumerable pleas for misplaced wallets to the coach's wife, this saint goes on and on. . Saint. fOr l\'Ietho4ists Consider this scene. Last fall, my husband and I were in an artisan's shop in Santa Fe,.New Mexico, when a local santero came in with some of his statues.

A santero is a statue maker or saint carver in the Mexican tradition; that is, he is highly respected, not only for his craftsmanship but also for his piety. Our Mexican brothers want no saints from unsaintly carvers.

Anyway, as we were admiring the colors and lines of his Lady of Guadalupes and his San Franciscos, a women edged up timidly, "Can a Methodist get a saint?"

"Si, of course," he replied.

"Which one do you want?"

"Oh, I don't care what he looks like. I just want one to help me

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'Permitted to Use Apostles Creed OTTAWA (NC)-The Vatican has granted permission to Catholics in Canada to use the Apostles' Creed at all ~\1asses requiring the recitation of the Creed.

Th'e Congregation for Divine Worship granted the option of using either the Apostles' Creed or the Nicene Creed at the request of the Canadian bishops.

The U. S. bishops have not asked for such permission. The Nicene Creed has been used for about 13 centuries in Latin-rite Masses.

"The Holy See directed that both Creeds be printed in the ,celebrant's sacramentary (altar missal), solihat both may continue as part of our liturgical tradition," said Bishop Gerald E. Carter of London, president of the National Office for Liturgy.

VATICAN CITY ~NC) - Pope Paul VI told the head of a Japanese religious peace movement that the Catholic Church has "sincere respect and admiration" for the "great religious traditions of Asia."

Pope Paul gave a warm welcome to Patriarch Miki Tokuchi· ·ka in a private audience Nov. 29.

Tbe patriarch is head of a Japanese religious movement called "Perfect Liberty Kyodan," which calls on its members to exalt freedom and peace.

to remind me where I put things.

I heard there was a saint like that." .

Gradually, the santero understood. "Ah ... si, you want San Antonio."

"No, I want a statue."

It took a few minutes of semantic untangling to convince her that San Antonio was a saint before he was a city. She ordered one on the spot and I presume has never had any' trouble finding things since.

Saints may come and saints may go but Saint Anthony will live on as long as we remain careless. For ,all my snickering, I can drum up an intense faith in his powers whenever I mispl~ce the car keys, a manuscript, or a child. He's a comfortable saint to have around, I've found, and I don't blame that Methodist woman at all for poaching.

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The movement was founded in 1926 as a Shinto sect. It was prohibited in 1937, but began again in 1946. It claims to believe in one supreme being hut also accepts the influence of ancestors upon believers. With the motto "Life Is Art," the movement gives great importance to material and social activities, with schools, bospitals, and recreation centers, as well as temples and ancestral shrines.

The Pope noted that the movement headed by the patriarch "is dedicated to a new life-style, made up of respect, harmony and art."

VOCATIONAL .DECALS: The Hartford office of communications is.distributing these new vocational decals to children in grades five through eight. The priest decal is aqua; the sister, yellow; and the brother, red. They come in two sizes, 4~ inch and 2~ inch in diameter. Artists Vincent H. Shaheen and Jphn B. Lanzieri cooperated in producing the design. NC Photo.

Finders Sweepers I checked in my only saint's encyclopedia, My Nameday, Come for dessert by Helen McLoughlin, for clues on how St. Anthony came to be regarded as patron saint of lost things. All' I discovered is that he lived in a cave at a hermitage, leaving it only. to attend Office and to sweep the monastery. Later, St. Francis de Sales asserted he had the power to find lost things.

At first,' it didn't tell me much but the more I think about it and the more I sweep, the more divine inspiration I'm getting reo garding his title. Anyone who sweeps finds lost articles. In fact, I've been known to clean rather vigorously when I've lost something important.

So, my friend who has misplaced your St. Anthony statue, get out your broom and go' to work. What's that? You can't find your broom? Oh, dear ...

Bishop Peacemaker In Hospitql Strike STREATOR (NC)-Bishop Edward O'Rourke of Peoria has. stepped in as "peacemaker" to help resolve a strike at St. "Mary's Hospital here" a 251-bed institution in his Illinois diocese.

The strike was started in early October by nurses and other hos· pital employees who were seeking to hold an election to see if the majority of employees would favor union representation.

According to Henry Wilson, an official of Laborer's International Union of North America, AFLCIO, Washington, D. C., the hospital employes sought the union's help. The union includes a hospital employe membership in the United States totaling 30,000.

The point at issue at St. Mary's was whether the employes have the right to be.represented by a union. Nonprofit hospitals are currently exempt from the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA).

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Maybe Picket Lilne Is Way To U,nite Parish C,ommunity I

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Each evening after the children are in' bed, my husband and I sit down to watch the news on TV. Actually, he watches the news; I just doze in my chair. One night, a couple of weeks ago, the news was all about ,strikes. The strike has become the tool for calling attention to just Rosary Society, movies of the meditations", , about anything. On that parFathers were demanding a reticular night the firemen in, view of schedules, so that parish New York City were on, strike and not responding to alarms.

That was bad enough, but at the same time the city's hospital

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workers had picket lines around the hospitals preventing food and medicine from being delivered.

Life in New York was further complicated because citizens could find out who was on strike only by listening to the radio or watching TV. New York's newspapers were also on strike.

The whole thing just boggled my mind, and at that hour I boggle rather easily. I dozed off ...

Parish Pickets ... but only for a moment because I was startled by the newscaster's anouncement that there was a picket line around my parish church and several simultaneous demonstrations going on.

Lectors wanted' their microphone on an. extension wire, so they could go into the congregation and play "Stump the Choir" before Mass.

Altar boys were demanding safer working conditions - the replacement of candles with electric bulbs. The altar girls were disputing this demand. They preferred to play with fire.

The conservatives carried signs in Latin ... the liberals' signs were Mank.

The ecumenical group wanted to do away with the English Mass,' and rewrite it in Esperanto.

Young curates were-- demanding more lee-way regarding innovations ... like a Latin Mass, and that great chant with the little square notes.

The Ushers' Society wanted pews installed in church with seats slanting down, away from the aisles.

The Altar Sodality wanted perma-prest linens ... and the

functions didn't conflict with, crucial football games.

Mothers were asking for a non-Mass, a period of one hour in church, alone ... when nothing would happen. They could just sit there and listen to the quiet.

Real Unity Teen-agers wanted the altar moved to the back of the church so they wouldn't strahl their eyes at Mass.

In order to keep involvement at a peak" the Parish Council was distributing strike, placards: "Catholics United For" was printed in large letters, followed by a long list of demands. By using these, a striker could just check off whatever was most important to him.

The newscast cut to the inside of the rectory, and our pastor was asked for his comments. He was smiling, and said he thought it was wonderful.

"Just think of it," he said, "the entire parish' out, all together, ,. marching up and down! It's the first real unity I've seen in years!"

Puerto Rico Yule

In New Bedford

BALL COMMI'ITEES: Among the members ot' various committees planning the Bishop's Charity ,Ball to be he~d on Friday, Jan. 11 at Lincoln Park, are: left to right, Mrs. Joseph Carreiro, St. Julie Parish" No. Dartmouth, President of the New Bedford District Council of Catholic Women; VitQ V. Girardi, St. John' the Baptist Parish, New Bedford, Usher; Mrs. Pauline Goldrick, St! Joseph Parish, Fairhaven, Decorations; Rev. Manuer P. Ferreira, St. John the Baptist Pari,sh, Area Director of the Ball; Miss Helen L. Stager; St. Lawrence Parish, New Bedford, Deqorations.

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on W om'en Beg ins 'M'eeNngs Commission I VATICAN CITY (NC) - The Vatican's commission on the }ole I of women, showing little en~husiasm for the ordination of women ,to the priesthood, spent: its first-ever plenary session: by members getting acquainted ~ith each other and dividing up ~he "homework" for its next meeting in March 1974.

I "It was a good meeting," bne member told NC News in Rome.

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For their December meeting the Ca'tholic Woman's Club of New Bedford will present "Puerto Rican Christmas Customs."

I A group of teenagers from the Regina Pacis Center, under the I direction of Mrs: Lydia Cornier, will depict 1'he Spanish rituals in ST. PAUL (NC) - When the story, song and dance. lighting system that illumina'tes Members of the Club are rethe majestic Cathedral of I'St. quested to bring a gift of either Paul here was turned off in early toys or clothes to the December November, the, dark spot on the 13th event for a child up to the St. Paul skyline was a drama.tic age of sixteen years. It is' sug- indication of the effect of the gested that the packages be energy crisis on the Church. : labeled as to their contents and But while the darkening of the the age level for the boy or girl Cathedral is a voluntary effort: to for which it is intended. , conserve energy, the fuel shortFestivities will begin at 8:00 age, may have more serious ~f颅 P.M. at the Clubhouse, 399 fects on the Catholic schools lin County Street. the St. Paul-Minneapolis archdiocese. ' I According to Brother Theodore Sees Gasless Sundays Drahmann, archdiocesan superin, Blessing in Disguise tendent of schools, Catholic NEW YORK (NC) - Gasless schools face two separate prdbSundays for the nation's auto- lems that may force them Ito mobile drivers could be a bless- close.

I ing in disguise for sagging church Unlike the public schools, eath attendance, according to the Catholic school, contracts indepresident of the National Council . pendently witb fuel suppliers, so of Churches. b'e, one school may have .to close Diaconate Program , I , The Rev. W. Sterling Cary dis- cause of the shortage while Sets Annual Meet agreed with those who have ex- neighboring Catholic scnools and WASHINGTON (NC) - The pressed fears that Sunday gas- public schools are still able to Washington-Richmond Perma- oline sales restrictions may ad- operate. ' I nent Diaconate Program will host versely affect church attendance.

On the other hand, because of the second annual Eastern re"Rather than' fearing the 'gas- busing and shared time prograrrts gional workshop on the perma- less' Sunday, we wonder whether witb public schools, if the pubnent diaconate here at Immac- it might be a blessing in dis- lic schools close some Catholic ulate College Dec. 1. guise," he said. "Lacking the schools may be forced .to cloSe Msgr. Ernest Fiedler, executive opportunity for vacation week- as well, even though they have ' secretary of the U. S. bishops' , ends, people may find again their enough fuel to operate. ; Committee on the Permanent local church, get to know their Schools in general are not high Diaconate, will be the keynote neighbors, ,and have time to on the priority list for fuel, and' speaker. His talk will be followed search again for the values which many have been warned that by wOl:king sessions that morn- once made this nation one of past fuel guarantees will not aphope and trust." ing and afternoon. ply this winter. '

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It was "profitable in the sense that the commission got its feet wet and got it.s sense of direction for future meetings," A communique issued by the Vatican on Nov. 17, the final day of the three-day meeting; said that" the 'agenda for 'the 'first meeting of,the Study ConiiIiissio'(l' o'n Women in Society and in the Church'includled four points: "The woman as a person, biblical-theological studies on woman in terms of God's plan, the woman in society, and the woman in the Church," One member'said that subcommittees of the commission will now prepare papers and specific ,recommendations for the Vatican on each of three topics.

The first topic, woman as a person, will be "basic anthropology, an attempt to define what man-woman represent as a modern image of God," the member 'said.

"The second topic flows from the first and perhaps even over路 _ laps it, but it will be an effort to define where man and woman stand in their unique relationship with God. "The subcommittee on the woman in society will gather' material which will shed light on the treatment of women in different countries.

"The subcommittee on the woman in the Church will define where women are in the Church and where perhaps they could be,," the member said.

Asked if the commission dis.. cussed the ordination of women to the 'pr,lesthood,' a topic Pope , Paul VI banned from the' commission's competency early last May, the member replied: "Of course it, was discussed, as any intelligent discussion of the integral role of women had to include it, but to tell you the truth,' there was 'not all that much enthusiasm for it.

"As a matter of fact, many women members agreed that they found little or no enthusiasm in their respective countries for an 'ordination' ceremony for w!lmen to any of the ministries in the Church,"

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Showing loving Thought It's just about the time when we begin to panic about Christmas buying. The stretch of days that seemed endless only a short weeks ago suddenly has the ring of immediacy.

Whatever happened to November? This year, because we are doing over a family to include this type of gifting, room, Joe and I agreed that I'm sure many a house-bound gal we would not buy gifts for would welcome ticke~s to a musione another, only token ones calor drama in Boston, complete and of course this is our own choice. However I have heard many other wives complain that their husbands either don't think

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of a gift or else give '~hem the money and tell them to buy something-this latter is known as the "easy way out."

There are many gifts tha'~ a wife would like, and that a husband can pick out without being embarrassed (1 must admit that today's husbands are much more shopping orien~ed that my dad '.vas.)

Day of Beauty One of the most exciting gifts that I ever received from my husband was a day of beauty at a beauty salon in Boston (shops in this ar'ea do no~ offer this type of service). That was a long tim~ ago but I did notice in the paper last Sunday that this gift is still being offered.

Another unusual gift that a friend of mine received was a (rip to visit her sister, away from the cares of family life for a week. With so many minivacations being offered during the winter, one of these would be a delightful surprise to presen~ to Mom on Christmas morn.

If your finances won't stretch

Spanish TV to Explore U.S. Catholic Church MADRID (NC) - The Spanish television network is preparing to "explore" the characteristics of the Catholic Church in the United States.

"We want to present to the viewers of Spain and Latin America a true and up-to-date image of Catholicism in the U. 5.," said Alfredo Amestov, journalist and producer of the program.

The planning stage of the program has been going on for months, and although it might still take another year until it is finally broadcast, great interest has been aroused among the members of an "old Catholic Church" which is trying to renew itself in Spain and is interested in how a "young Church" renews itself in the U. S. and its possible impact on the Catholic Church as a whole.

"The topics are very complex.

It is possible that next January we will have the scripts and the shooting schedule as well as the contacts in the United States," said Amestov, who has had a meeting to coordinate plans with Robert Beusse, secretary for communications of the United States Catholic Conference.

with after-theatre dinner. The man of the house who present'> this type of package, along with completed arrangements for the care of the children deserves a round of cheers even from good Saint Nick.

Physical Fitness With the new emphasis on physical fitness, perhaps a membership in a health spa or tennis club would be an offbeat but welcome gift for the wife who sees middle age creeping along wiJth the midriff bulge.

My list could go on and on, but what I'm basically saying is that a wife appreciates the type of gift that makes her realize ~hat her husband really has stopped to think about the kind of person she is. This of course takes some thinking on the part of the man of the family and i~'s a chore that can be written off as easily as a cancelled check, but the dividends that he will reap are well worth '~he little bit of extra thought.

'Scripture '73' H1eld in Canado SCARBOROUGH (NC)-"Salvation will not come from the correction of Church structures but rather from conversion to God", Auxiliary Bishop Leonard Crowley of Montreal told a Scripture conference here.

The concept of a personal God, he said, is basic to Christianity and man's response is faith which, in biblical terms, "is a loyal adherence to a personal God." Bishop Crowley told the conference, entitled Scripture '73: "We must develop an attitude toward the future which is affirmative, not fearful; - remembering that only those who labor to ransom the present are worthy to inherit the promises of the future. The Church we seek to become depends upon the Church we are today."

More than 500 persons, including 200 teachers from Catholic schools, took part in the conference, held at St. Augustine's seminary here.

Sponsored by the Canadian Catholic Biblical Association, the conference's theme was "The Word Among Men." Bishop Crowley told the group that Canadian bishops are interested in the association's work to promote the study of Scriptures and spread the word in Canada.

"The written record in the New Testament is vitally important," he said. "It does not claim to be a complete and balanced inventory of the early Christian beliefs.

"Nevertheless, these writings lay down what cannot be changed-the rule of faith, as it was recorded, to which the Church is always bound and which she can develop and expand but never falsify."

MEMBERS OF HOSPITALITY COMMITTEE MEET: Among the members of the hospitality committee preparing for the annual Bishop's Charity Ball on Jan. 11, are, seated: Mrs. Michael J. McMahon of St. Mary's Cathedral Parish, Fall River, chairman. Standing: Miss Beatrice Vasconcellos, Our Lady of Health, Fall River; Edward Franco, Our Lady of Lourdes, Taunton; Richard Paulson, Immaculate Conception, Taunton; Vito V. Gerardi, St. John the Baptist Paris, New Bedford.

Share Foith With Probation Clamp Residents LA VERNE (NC) Every Monday and Tuesday night something of the love of God is conveyed to the boys at three Los Angeles County probation camps in the foothills above this small California town a few miles east of Los Angeles.

Half a dozen laymen and women faithfully drive uphill to the camps to share their faith, their time and their friendship with boys, who range in age from 13 to 18.

The boys are there because they have broken the law. Violations range from drug abuse to burglary and assault.

"We do a good deal of praying up there," said Don Fusco, a mild, clear-eyed, thirtyish member of the Legion of Mary. "We consider that this is our primary purpose-to get them to pray, to return to the practice of their religion," he added.

White-haired Felix Giroux is retired. He is Confraternity of Christian Doctrine (CCD) chairman. "We start out with the rosary. Each boy leads a decade.

They name the intention. Sometimes it's "for a friend who got busted last week, or for their mothers."

Carlos Hanly, supervising dep-

uty probation officer at Camp Joseph M. Paige, said the boys go voluntarily, on their free time, to the sessions with the people from the Legion of Mary and the Confraternity.

The three camps, Paige, AffIerbaugh and Glenn Rockey, are the pastoral responsibility of Father Dominic A. Crewe, administrator of Holy Name of Mary Church in La Verne.

About 30 boys a year are prepared for their first Communion by the lay people, said Father Crewe. Last Oct. 19, Auxiliary Bishop Juan Arzube of Los Angeles went to Camp Paige to confirm 15 boys who had been prepared by the La Verne volunteers.

"The boys have a great respect for the prie.sthood and for the people who come up to see them," said Father Crewe. "They have a sense of religion." The

boys who come to the evening meetings are mostly MexicanAmericans, he said.

Mrs. Mary Louise Natividad, a mother of six children, said the boys in the camps know there's a God. They're hungry for someone to say God loves them.

"The boys really trust you when they find out that you come up there voluntarily. 'You mean nobody pays you, nobody pays your gas even,' they say.

Then they trust you. They've never had many people sit down and talk with them about God."

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Do We Teach Twice As MuchOr Stop Pushing Children-?

Wht's a parent to do when one publishing season brings forth books with such contradictory titles as "How to Teach Children Twice as Much" (by Allen E. Harrison, Arlington House, $6.95) and "Don't Push Me, I'm No Computer" (by Helen L. Beck, McGraw Hill, $5.95). The answer, obviously, resides in using common sense amidst the flood of authors eager to offer methods of raising superchildren.

Author Harrison's plan is to duplicate the money economy in his classroom, letting children amass bank accounts through learning proficiency, teaching each other, and behaving acceptably. Minicompanies are set up trading in pencils, textbooks and even bathroom and drinking fountain privileges, while fines are exacted for such offenses as talking in class. The author says his system "motivates children more than any existing method cf teaching," but it has met almost complete rejection from fellow educators. However, publication of his book may spur othrrs to try his revolutionary ideas.

No Computer That small children should not he taught meChanistiCally IS the message of Helen Beck, who argues persuasively for unstructured play and less concern for teaching social and learning skills to tots. "Premature independence forced onto young - children by the adults responsible for them comes dangerously dose to abandonment, regardless of the underlying motives," she contends.

Another type of concern is manifested

by Thomas W. Evans, author of "The School in the Home" (Harper and Row, $6.95), a presentation of the edcational theories of Adolf A. Berle Sr. He declares, "The greatest severity a child ever encounters in this life should be met in the home. . . . All this for the greatest of all reasons, that here the only motive that can possibly govern is love, of the right kind." He then outlines a plan of building on every interest a child expresses to the

end of providing him with as enriched an educational background as possible. "It is the paramount problem of education," he declares, "to create first anel foremost in the minds of young children as rich and full anel varied a knowledge of words as possible." He is insistent on occupying the child's mind with "exact and interesting know1edge" instead of "the vile stuff which is usually doled out to the infant intellect."

Piaget, Montessori Two educators with a tremendous influence on today's scholarship made their own marks be-

ginning in the 1920's and before.

They are Maria Montessori and Jean Piaget, and no publishing season seems complete without one or more books on or by them.

"Montessori: A Modern Approach" by Paula Polk Lillard (Schocken, $1.95) relates the principles of the Montessori approach to early education. Mrs. Lillard points out "If路 young people are to meet the challenge of survival that faces them today, it is imperative that their education develop to the fullest extent possible their potential for creativity, initiative, indepenclence, inner discipline and self-confidence. This is the central focus of Montessori education."

By Dr. Montessori herself is the first EngIish translation of

"From Childhood to Adolescence" (Schocken, $6.95), a book originally published in 1948 in which the late educator extends her study of child development from seven to 12-year-olds and up to university level students.

Her most original concept, still unfulfilled, is that of a teenage boarding school which would place youngsters in simple country surroundings, introducing them to the world of business and commerce by way of the operation of small hotels and produce stands in addition to giving them the esentials of high school education.

A dialogue with the worldfamed Swiss psychologist is the core of "Jean Piaget: The Man and His Ideas" by Richard J. Evans (Dutton, $8.95) while "To Understand Is to Invent" by Piaget himself (Grossman, $7.50) is addressed to the layman and offers a clear explanation of the author's contributions to educational psychology, as well as an examination of new teaching techniques in their light.

Child Progidies "The Children on the Hill" by Michael Deakin (Bobbs-Merrill, $5.95) is a profoundly disturbing account of the educational climate provided for their four children by a Jewish-Italian couple living in the north of England.

Basically, they have sought to" provide a Montessori-type program at home, with the mother devoting every waking moment to providing her children with stimuli at the moment she perceives路 readiness for them.

The children have developed as intellectual prodigies, one an accomplished concert pianist, another a budding scientific genius, yet their parents consider these achievements as by-products.

They have primarily sought to produce "good and happy human beings," and the reader must decide whether this has been accomplisehed. One wonders however, if children raised in isolation from playmates, as these seem to have been, will not suffer a good deal when they enter society.

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Any Book's Right Choice for Someone; Problem's Matching Per'son to Volume Any book's the right Christmas present for someone; the problem, of course, is matching person and book. Here are several that should match many people, including "Seasons" by Hal Borland with photographs

by Les Line (Lippincott, $12.95, $14.95 after Dec. 31). This is a lavish book of color photographs, matched by Borland's sensitive reactions to nature in all her phases. For it, he says, lle spent his time "Jnterviewing trees, investigating swamps and woodlands, attending conventions of crows and grackles ... being on hand for sunrises, thunderstorms and harvest moons." The end product is a lovely, lovely

book.

"The Lighthouses of New England" by Edward Rowe Snow (Dodd, Mead, $7.95) is a book of particular interest to area readers, since it relates the histories of many nearby lighthouses in the inimitable style of the veteran spinner of tales of the sea.

My Daddy "Every time a policeman leaves home, there is always the unspoken - and unanswerable - question: Will he come back again?" So comments the introduction to "My Daddy Is a Policeman" by Elizabeth Ann Doll, with photographs by Ron Scalera (Prentice-Hall, $3.95). In

form it looks like a children's book, but its message is tragic as its Iast page reads "My Daddy was a policeman."

"This book's real value," comments Edward J. Kiernan, president of the International Conference of Police Associations, "lies in its truth, its compassion, and the new understanding that will come to the heart of everyone who turns its pages."

"You Are What You Write"

by Huntington Hartford (Macmillan, $8.85) is a fascinating introduction to the study of what a person reveals about himself through his handwriting. The auTurn to Page Twelve

Ii AND IT CAME TO PASS: Angels rejoice at birth of Christ in cover illustration by Leonard Weisgard for "And It Came to Pass" by Jean Slaughter (Macmillant $4.95), a book

Callahan Couple Busy Writers That remarkable couple, Daniel and Sidney Callahan, have each produced a book this fall, despite busy lives including the care and feeding of six children plus, for Sidney, lecturing and newspaper writing, for Daniel the directorship of the Institute of Society, Ethics and the Life Sciences.

Sidney's book, "Parenting" (Doubleday, $5.95), attempts to combine the author's experience with psychological and sociocultural observations to come up with some answers as to what constitutes good parenthood ("parenting" seems to be a word she has coined, but it fills the bill very well).

Her concerns include how to read "how-to" parent books, the dynamics of parent-child tension, the question of whether parents are born or made and the possible future for parents and children. "Parents," she advises, "shouldn't shrink from their role as 'enemies of freedom,' the 'squarest of -the square,' 'persecutor' of friends. Parents have to lose the power struggle, it's disastrous to win; but it should be a long-drawn-out process in which the growing child wins no more freedom than he is really alble to cope with."

Uses of Technology In "The Tyranny of Survival" (Macmillan, $6.95) Daniel Callahan "examines the uses, control and consequences of technology" in today's world, giving special attention to the areas of population growth and genetic control.

His conclusion: "The individual will always have to bargain with the culture. Technology, far from making a better bargain possible, has made it all the more difficult. . . . There can only be, at best. a life of modest satisfactions."

of Bible selections and carols telling the Christmas story in chronological order.

The God I Don't Believe In No, I shall never believe in: the God who loves pain, the God who makes Himself the monopoly of a church, a race, a culture or a caste, the lottery-God whom one can find only by chance, the God who "sends" people to hell, the God who does not accept a seat at our human festivities, the aseptic God hought up by so many theologians and

canonists in their ivory towers,

the God of the "middle-class" priests, the the the the the the the the

God who regards war as good, God who prefers the rich and the powerful, God who "causes" cancer or "makes" a woman sterile, God who does not go out to meet him who had abandoned him, God who does not have a different, personal, individual word for each person, God who prefers purity to love, God who cannot find himself in the eyes of a child or a pretty woman or a mother in tears, God who would not have given men even His very own mother.

Excerpts from "The God I Dontt Believe Intt

by Juan Arias (Abbey Press, 5.95)

Glimpses of Others' Lives Endlessly Fascinating Who won't admit that it's interesting to go down a street at night, catching here and there a glimpse of life within the lighted houses one passes. The same interest in other people operates in making biographies and autobiographies endlessly fascinating, and among the most predictable sellers on any publisher's list.

Catholics have a pair of "I remember when" books this season: "Memories of a Catholic Boyhood" by Harry J. Boyle (Doubleday, $6.95) and "Aphrodite at Mid-Century: Growing up Female and Catholic in Postwar America" by Caryl Rivers (Doubleday, $6.95).

Boyle's book tells of growing路 up in rural Canada, attending a strict boarding school and eventually deciding that the priesthood is not for him; while Mrs. Rivers describes a childhood

spanning World War II and including a complete Catholic education from crib through college.

Her verdict: "I remember Growing Up Catholic with affection, even in the days of the old preVatican II insulated and insular Church. There are Gothic strands of love and ignorance, of faith and superstition woven into my past." and I remember: the sudden hush and three clear bells when the priest held the host aloft and it seemed sacrilege even to- breathe."

Facing Death Two books are by people facing death from leukemia. Ted Rosenthal, author of "How Could I Not Be Among You?" (Braziller, cloth $5.95, paper $2.95) died in 1972 and this book and a motion picture with the same title record his reactions and Turn to Page Thirteen

Books on Season Add to Its Joys Books say a special Merry Christmas when they're about the feast itself. This year three charming songbooks vie for beneath the tree honors. Most lavish is a new edition of "A Treasury of Christmas Songs and Carols" edited by Henry W. Simon (Houghton Mifflin, $7.95).

What's been added to the former piano and voice arrangements are guitar chords, thus making this longtime favorite book of even wider service to families, clubs and schools. Over 100 carols are included, old standards as well as beautiful songs from other lands and the Christmas compositions of such musicians as Bach, Brahms, Schubert and Mozart. Illustrations by Rafaello Busoni complete the book.

In "The Little Drummer Boy" (Macmillan, $4.50) Ezra Jack Keats of "Snowy Day" fame has turned his talents to illustrating the song that although only 15 years old has become a Christmas favorite. A phrase by phrase interpretation of the lyrics is followed by words and music for those wishing to follow a feast for the eyes with one for the ears.

"And It Came to Pass" by Jean Slaughter, illustrated by Leonard Weisgard (Macmillan, $4.95) is a selection of carols and Bible verses which tell the story of Christmas in chronological order, heginning with "0 Little Town of Bethlehem" and ending "Joy to the World." The music is arranged for piano and guitar.

Christmas Mouse "Miss Read" has been promising her readers a Christmas novel since 1966 and "The Christmas Mouse" (Houghton Mifflin, $4.95) is it, a comfortable story ahout small-scale doings in an English village. Right triumphs and everything ends neatly, a rather unusual occurrence in today's fiction, and possibly the reason why a flourishing "We Love Miss Read Week" happens annually at a Michigan bookstore.

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Although the formerly clear lines of religious beliefs and practice have become blurred and often confused in the years since Vatican II, there is no end to the making of books about God and his workiings, giving testimony to man's never-ceasing and restless preoccupation with the One and the All. One such is "Jesus Now" by Malachi Martin (Dutton, $7.95), a study of "something that is shaking the human race." After an examination of Jesus as seen through history and by 20th century man, the author concludes "Jesus confirms our own personal salvation, not a vague and general attainment of eternal safety.... For all men and women, past, present, and future, the value and significance of being merely human (apart from any 'salvation') and the possibility of being 'saved' depend exclusively on Jesus. To state this irreducibility is to state the specific vulnerabiHty particular to Christianity in our modern world. For it lies there as a hard lump indigestible by human logic and unassimilable by human factual knowing. . . . Whether we like it or not, it will not be expelled, can be neglected but not repulsed, and will not pass from the human scene."

Holy Spirit Concerned with the working of the Holy Spirit is John C. Haughey, S.J., an associate editor of America magazine, whose "The Conspiracy of God" (Doubleday, $4.95) is an examination of the manifestations of the Third Person in history. Father Haughey discusses ways in which the Spirit operates in modern man and suggests directions for future spirituality incorporating traditional doctrine and contemporary religious insigh ts.

And a "new approach to fundamental religious issues in contemporary terms" is offered by the prolific Rev. Andrew M. Greeley in "The New Agenda" (Doubleday, $6.95). Father Greeley discusses matters such as faith, community, education, ritual and sexuality, first giving the Church's traditional teaching in these areas, then proposing how they- may be re-examined, "not from devising new answers to

old questions, but rather from asking new questions."

Echoing Malachi Martin, he says: "The symbols of the Christian tradition may be accepted or rejected; they cannot be ignored. The message they contain may well be too good to be true; but it might be true and in that 'might' there is contained the most startling religious challenge in human history."

;i Harvey Coxt author of THE SEDUCTION OF THE SPIRIT published by Simon and Schuster.

If Father Greeley is somewhat abstract, Rev. Michael Winter is extremely concrete. In "Blueprint for a Working Church" (Abbey Press, $2.95) he makes practJical suggestions for reinvigorating a Church mired in toolarge buildings, serving tOO-large congregations. He wants "house churches" of 20 or 30 Christians, meeting in homes and served by married priests from the area they serve, therefore knowing it intimately.

He would like to see the unmarried priests of a town sharing a common rectory and working in teams, and ~ some system devised where seminarians would get to know their bishop well.

'Father Winter's observations and suggestions deal with the Church in England, but most are equally appHcable to the United States, and merit careful consideration.

People's Religion "The Seduction of the Spirit"

by Harvey Cox (Simon and

Schuster, $8.95) is an attempt to analyze the beginnings of what he feels is an emerging "people's religion," marrying ancient religious roots to aspects of contemporary life, such as the encounter movement, Western interest in Eastern thought and the counterculture of the young.

Despite incorporation of new elements, however, Cox feels "that one of religion's most important features is its intractable irrelevance, its eccentricity, its downright inconvenience. Religion is an antique settee on the freeway, an almost indecipherable old song disturbing the bleep of the computers."

The aspects of mystery and modernity are neatly encapsulated in "Psalms/Now" by Leslie F. Brandt, with art by Corita Kent (Concordia), which presents a modern reading of the Book of Psalms which yet reaches the depths of suffering and longing and the heights of joy known to David.

"Everyday and Its Possibilities"

by Edward Carter, S.J. (Abbey Press, $2.95) is a series of brief reflections on various aspects of the spiritual life, suitable for prayerful reading or for use in preparing homilies or retreat conferences.

Also for the prayerful is "Prayer Starters from the Bible for Every Mood" compiled by Blaise Hettich (Abbey Press, $3.95), a pocket-sized collection of short Biblical quotations married to evocative photographs.

From Old to New Responding to questions from his readers and radio listeners, Rev. Seef Konijn of the Dutch diocese of Haarlem has written "The Bridge" (Abbey Press, $2.95), an attempt to expla,in the Church in a time of transition from inward-looking to outwardlooking Christianity. "The pastor," he writes, "is no longer required to be the man with the answers. He only has to know how to follow the road that must be taken. He must help with the searching."

Transactional analysis, with its battle cry of "I'm OK, you're OK," has had much attention in the past few years. Now Rev. Dr. Muriel James has applied its insights to the Church, producing Turn to Page Thirteen

They Live Gospel Unknowingly "Be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what you shall put on." Possibly unknowingly, but nevertheless literally, many Americans are following the Gospel admonition to the letter, and many of the season's new books reflect just such an attitude.

Among them is "Subsistence U.S.A" with text by Carol Hill and photographs by Bruce Davidson (Holt, Rinehart, Winston, $12.95), a telling of the stories of people who know how to make do "with the experience of a lifetime and a few simple tools."

"Farming for Self-Sufficiency"

by John and Sally Seymour

(Shacken, $7.50) gives down-toearth advice on how to run a small (about five acre) farm. Included are chapters on farm animals, field and garden crops, baking and storage of foods.

Even less than five acres is required by Bradford Angier, author of "One Acre and Security: How to Live Off the Earth Without Ruining it" (Vintage, $2.45).

Not only does he write of crops and animals, but he gives directions for building a log cabin and for embarking on such home industries as raising and selling herbs, honey, earthworms and rabbits. He's sanguine about the difficulties of the back-to-nature life and makes it all sound easy

and fun, maybe the legacy of his younger days as an advertising man.

Supermarket Sleuths What if you're concerned about getting maximum nutrition from the foods you buy, yet can't afford the always-higher prices of health food stores?

"The Supermarket Handbook" by Nikki and David Goldbeck (Harper and Row, $7.95) is for. you, showing you how "to select, prepare and evaluate the wares of the supermarket." Nutritionally desirable foods are listed by brand name and there's a large selection of recipes.

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Children's Books Give Plus Of Yule Lull for Parents If not for the sake of the child, then for the sake of his parents, give a book or two for Christmas, and look forward to an hour or two's lull in the midst of the hoopla when child meets I)ook.

For the smallest children and ideal to take on a trip or visit to Grandma's or wherever, there's the "Excursion Box Library" (Collier, $6.95), which contains seven read-aloud or read-to-.yourself picture books for ages 3 to 7. Included are "Goggles" by Ezra Jack Keats; "The Rooster Crows," Maud and Miska Petersham; "Siny and Blaze," C. W. Anderson; "Rosie's Walk," Pat Hutchins; "Will I Have a Friend," Miriam Cohen and Lillian Hoban; "Ask Mr. Bear," Marjorie Flack; and "The Little Wooden Farmer," Alice Daigliesh and Anita Lobel, amounting to a veritable prizewinning array of children's aut hors and artists.

Also for tots arc two Lois Lenski books "The Little Farm" and "The Little Train" (Walck, pach $1.50); "Lord Rex, the Lion Who Wished" by David McKee (Abelard-Schuman, $4.95), a cheerful tale about a lion who wanted to be anything but what he was; and "3 in I: A Picture of God" by Joanne and Benjamin Marxhausen (Concordia, $3), a graphic- portrayal of the myst pry of the Trinity.

Eight and Up For ages 8 and up is "A Gift for the Children" by Pearl S. Buck (John Day, $8.95), a collection of 15 read-aloud stories selected by the author from the many she wrote through her long life, and including of course, several about her land of adoption, China.

"A Prairie Boy's Winter" by William Kurelek (Houghton Mifflin, $5.95) is the story in painting and prose of how a little Canadian boy grew up in the 1930's. The paintings convey the sense of a cold and lonely land with frozen seas of snow, lit by the aurora borealis, but also the enjoyment the prairie children had in their vast winter playground.

Another child of the north is depicted in "Eskimo Boy Today"

by Byron Fish with photos by Bob and Ira Spring (Alaska Northwest Publishing Co., $7.20 hard cover, $4.20 paper). The boy is sixth grader Gary Hopson of Barrow, Alaska, northernmost setlement on the North American continent, and the book describes his daily life in school and at home with hon-

esty and perception. An excellent book to give youngsters in the "lower 48" an understanding of the Eskimo way of life as it merges with the influences of the 20th century.

"The Song of Francis" is a beautiful retelling by Fray Angelico Chavez of the life of St. Francis of Assisi, with illustrations by Judy Graese (Northland Press, $6.50). It's suitable for thoughtful children of every age.

For Teens For teens is "The Boy Who Stayed Cool," des~ribed by the publishers as "40 stories of young people in the Bible retold with startling impact by jailr-'Juse kids for Carl F. Burke" (Association Press, paper $2.95, cloth $5.95). The "jailhouse kids" are youngsters from the Erie County Jail and Children's Detention Home in Buffalo, N.Y., and the Rev. Burke is their chaplain.

The cool boy was Asher, of the Book of Genesis and he is described by tbe kids as "like a peacemaker. When his brothers got into a rumble over who was the chief of them all, Asher would set down and talk with them and get them talking to each other, and pretty soon it would all be cool."

An old favorite now in new dress is "My Friend Flicka" by Mary O'Hara (Lippincott, $6.95).

Tbe famous story of Ken Laugh. lin and his horse has now been matched to beautiful illustrations

by Dave Blossom.

And for nearly every boy in this part of _the country is "Everyting You've Always Wanted to Know About Hockey" by Brian McFarlane (Scribners, $7.95), a "pocket encyclopedia" of the favorite sport of thousands, including histories of the National Hockey League and the Stanley Cup, statistics, records and rules, by one of Canada's outstanding sportscasters.

Books on Season Continued from Page Eleven (Harper and Row, $4.95) gathers together all this writer's thoughts on Christmas, giving the reader such insights as the thought that "if the theme of the angels' song is to find fulfillment in the world, it will be through the common man's becoming aware of his true worthfulness and asserting his generic prerogatives as a child of God. The diplomats, the politicians, the statesmen, the lords of business and religion will never bring peace in the world. Violence is the behavior pattern of Power in the modern world, and violence has its own etiquette and ritual, and its own morality."

New Editor TORONTO (NC)-Larry Henderson has been named editorgeneral manager of the Catholic Register, the weekly of the Toronto archdiocese. Henderson, news commentator for Toronto radio station CHFI-FM, now writes a column in the Register entitled "World in Perspective."

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From TO A CABIN by Dorothea Lange and Margaretta K. Mitchell (Grossman Publishers). $15.00; 100 black and white photographs.

Matching Person to Volume Continued from Page Ten thor, founder of The Handwriting Institute of New York, as well as heir to the A&P supermarket fortune, explains how writing can indicate a person's health, his character and his emotIonal stability or lack of it.

A six-point program to restore sanity in America is offered by Richard L. Cutler in "The LJiberal Middle Class: Maker of Radicals" (Arlington House, $8.95). Dr. Cutler, a child psychologist in Ann Arbor, Mich., feels that permissive parents and schools have contributed to the shaping of radical youth. His prescription for cure includes re~toration of discipline to society, recognition of the superiority of reason to emotion, reduction of self-indulgence, restorabion of the value of the individual, a return to family values and a turning away from decadence". "We must quit acting like helpless, frightened, impotent people, and must demand the restoration of quality and decency to every aspect of our national life."

Little Things Also concerned with liberal youth is Richard S. Wheeler, author of "The Children of Darkness: Some Heretical Reflections on the Kid Cult" (Arlington, $7.95). His thesis is that "the kids" are breaking up the established order and that the Christian churches are pretty much on their side. "It is a pity the monastic orders wither now," he writes, "just when we need a vehicle for the sensitive ones to offer love to God and man."

Eventually, he feels, however, a cleansed Christianity will offer "home to legions of hip kids who are struggling upward from hell on earth. These scarred pilgrims, searching for some meaning to their drug and sex-sodden lives, will be more receptive to the welcoming hand of God than are the smug armies from the suburbs."

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"Thank You, Lord, for Little Things," by Annice H. Brown, illustrated by Eleanor T. Lewis (Knox, $2.95), a collection of tiny poems in praise of "the little gifts in life."

Also cheerful is "Beyond This Land of Whoa" by Episcopal Bishop Chandler W. Sterling (Pilgrim Press, $4.95), an unpretentious novel about growing up in a small Illinois town in the beginning years of this century.

"The Mind Managers" by Herbert 1. Schiller (Beason, $9.95) is a frightening presentation of ways in which the author feels the consciousness of Americans is programmed by television, radio, newspapers and books.

Abundance of media, he claims, is mistaken for diversity of content" "The mind becomes a sieve, through which dozens of announcements" a few important but most insignificant, are poured almost hourly." The result of such ceaseless battering at consciousness, he claims, is passivity.

The Op-Ed page of The New York Times is a new part of that venerable newspaper, coneeived as a vehicle which would provide a place "where men and women could express themselves on what was closest to their hearts, strongest in their passions, most fiercely in their principles." The best of its contributions have been gathered in "The Indignant Years: Art and Articles from the Op-Ed Page of The New York Times" edited by Harrison E. Salisbury (Crown/Arno, $6.95). This is a book to please any thoughtful Times reader.

How to do it? How to do it?

It's a class of books with un· failing appeal, and it seems that there's no human activity for which someone hasn't issued guidelines. Some new offerings: "You Can Do It: Senator Proxmire's Exercise, Diet and Relaxation Plan" (Simon and Schuster, $7.95) is a point-by-point guide to better physical and emotional health. The Senator forgets nothing, even telling you not to worry about people staring at your knobby knees as, at· tired in shorts, you do a morning jog-around. Now, if the publishers had only included a package of willpower with the book . . .

Right after ",I wish I could lose weight" on most people's list of desires is apt to come, "I wish I didn't feel blue so often" or "I wish I weren't so tense."

Two books are written to those problems: "Understanding and Overcoming Depression" by James A. Brussel, M.D. and Theadore Irwin (Hawthorn, $6.95) and "How to Find Inner Peace and Learn to Relax" by W.H.M. Stover (Hawthorn, $4.95).

Practical Manuals From the theoretical to the practical, "Guide to Family Camping" by George S. Wells (Stackpole, $2.95) and "Living on Wheels" by Richard A. Wolters (Dutton, $8.95) are how-to books on the subjects indicated, with Wolters concentrating on motor homes and campers, their care and upkeep, and Wells discussing aspects of camping such as cooking, budgets, tent selection, and how to travel with children.

One hopes that the energy shortage will not make these books obsolete shortly after publication!

With regard to that same energy shortage, the Administration has suggested that people may be staying at home more, and in that case "Polly Prindle's Book of American Patchwork Quilts" by Alice I. Gammell (Grosset and Dunlap, $12.95) might be just the thing for a Christmas present. Its lucky recipient will learn how to make 50 historic quilts.

Survival Manual And, to end with the most important subject of all, how to care for babies and children, try "The Modern Parents' Guide to Baby and Child Care" by Violet Broadrib, R.N. and Henry F. Lee, M.D. (Lippincott, $10), an excellent ,common sense manual covering emotional and physical needs of normal and handicapped children. A special first aid section in the back of the book is carefully Written to allay panic and get the parent to take prompt action in emergencies.

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Glimpses of Others' Liv·es Continued from Page Eleven eventual acceptance of what was to come. It is illustrated with poignant photographs of the author and his family and t.he last page pictures him at the end of an ocean breakwater. The words on the facing page are Step lightly, we're walking home now.

Steward Alsop, famed political journalist, calls his "Stay of Execution" «Lippincott, $8.95) a "sort of memoir" and it has to do with his life and relationships, seen in the light of his illness. No experience in that life, he writes "has been more mixed up than the peculiar helllo-heaven-to-purgatory existence 1 have had since 1 was first diagnosed {Is an acute leukemic."

To a Cabin An unu:mal book, giving a slice of many lives, is "To a Cabin" by Dorothea Lange and Margaretta K. Mitchell (Grossman, $15). Basically, it is a photo record of life in a bare California vacation cabin, perched on a cliff overlooking the Pacific - a "tiny place, at the very centel' of the demeO'ts-earth, sky, sea and fire-"

The cabin was seen by Dorothea Lange, famed American photographer, as a place where she and her children and grandchildren could enjoy freedom.

She had treasured the idea of doing a book on the concept and the place, but died before she could accomplish this.

Her project was taken up by Margaret·ta Mitchell, also a photographer and dweller on the same Pacific cliff, who combined photographs by herself and Mrs. Lange to produce a book 'Which she hopes has bodied-forth Mrs. Lange's declaration, "The cabin answers the longings of the human heart."

Two orthodox biographies are "The Indigo Bunting" by Vincent Sheean (Schocken, $2.95) a memoir of Edna St. Vincent Millay who, throughout her life, Sheean tells us, had great empathy and love for birds, hence the title; and Holy Man: Father Damien of Molokai" by Gavan Daws (Harper and Row, $8.95), the story of the "leper priest" who "by his example forced others to consider the moral quality of their own lives." . Not orthodox is "A Different Woman" by Jane Howard (Dutton, $7.95), a combination autobiography of a former "Life" staff writer and the report of her' coast-to-coast survey of the dfect upon women of the liberation movement.

Her conclusion, after 411 pages of reportage: "Wholesomeness is exotic to me. . . . More and more I am drawn towards stillness. So it is with the woman's movement: its theorists interest me less than those Closet Feminists . . . who wrest sap from the trees, fish from the seas, or fashion quilts from scraps of cloth. Yoked to their menfolk . . . they flourish on a fraction of the options granted most of us."

like anything toeal" that's good for them, spend their days dirtying and wearing out clothes, lugging home offbeat pets and spilling milk. Readers will nod throughout, and say "Us, too," a hundred times. .

But no one will say "Us, too" at "The Showbiz Priest" by Father Robert Perrella, O.F.M. (Trident, $7.95). This is the unique story of a priest whose "parish is showbiz" and whose parishioners include such luminaries as Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, Jerry Lewis and Jimmy Durante.

The book is chock-full of anecdotes and stories revealing the human, often little-known side' of world-famous entertainers.

Religious Books Continued from Page Eleven in "Born to Love" (Addison-Wesley, $5.95), a readable how-to-doit book on the use of "TA" in parish situations. Almost any priest, church group leader or active church member would profit from this volume.

Of late the Church has been forced to come to grips more and more with its own version .of Women's Liberation. Of help in understanding the situation from the point of view of women in understanding the situation is "Beyond God the Father" by Mary Daly, associate professor of theology at Boston College (Beacon, $8.95).

Books of hope come from Dr. Martin E. Marty and Rev. Eugene Kennedy. "You Are Promise" by Dr'-.Marty (Argus, $5.95) points to Jesus as a model for those who seek purpose and meaning in life. "The future of God and the promise of Jesus Christ do riot make affirmation easy, and they do not make simple answers available. They open the door for the yes that marks some lives, and they raise the level of questions. No books, prescriptions or counsels have done away with cancer wards, concentra'tion camps, refugees, racial prejudice, poverty and natural terror or death. But the gift of promise makes it possible for people to meet life on the terms that existence hands them."

And Father Kennedy says in "The Heart of Loving" (Argus, $5.95), "We are born again whenever somebody else reaches out to touch us with understanding and care. We are born again when we are forgiven, and we are born again when we are able to forgive those who wound us.

We are born again whenever we respond to somebody outside of ourselves with the commitment to them that realizes the seriousness of a life that is really shared by lovers."

"No Tall Buildings in Naza•reth" by Tom Johnson (Harper and Row, $4.95) is a cheerful set of children's questions and parent's answers on religion.

Sample: "How many Christians are there? Answer: About 42."

You have to read the book to see what such an answer means, and it may give you many good ideas on how to talk to your children.

Average Family If wholesomeness is exotic to Jane Howard, she would find the life described in "Everything Happens with Kids" (Pilgrim Press, $4.95) absolutE:ly superexotic. Play by play, author Nancy A. Burcham describes how life is with three kids who don't

Melkite Petition WEST NEWTON (NC) - Melkite-rite Catholics in the United States have begun seeking signatures for a petition urging Israel to honor the human rights of Palestinians who had to leave their former homes.

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Twice as Much Continued from Page Ten "Musioal Prodigies" by Renee B. Fisher (Association Press, $7.95), an absorbing account of the (!hildh00cIc of famous singers and instrumentalists, serves inspiration in heaping doses for reluctant young players and singers of today, ranging as' it does from Beethoven to the Jackson 5.

Meant for administrative personnel in schools is "Loneliness in the Schools" by Marc Robert, Ed.D. (Argus, $5.95).· In offbeat fashion it discusses the factors that make for depersonalized schools, then offers concrete suggestions for initiating interaction and considering personal needs of students and teachers. Planning sheets and pages for note taking are incorporated into the book and it's brightened with colored illustrations.

IlMler-Cities "The actuality of being a socially conscious inner-city school~ teacher" is conveyed in "The' Real Teachers" edited by Philip Sterling (Vintage, $2.95)~ which is a collection of interviews with 30 teachers in ghettoed cities such as Boston, Philadelphia and New York, and which should be read a) by cynics who think most teachers take the job because it's short hours and long vacations; and b) by people who think ghetto kids don't want to learn anyway.

ST. STANISLAUS, FALL RIVER The annual Christmas party of the Men's Club will take place at 8:30 P.M. Saturday in the school hall.

Fall River area members of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul will meet at the church for 8 A.M. Mass Sunday, fOllowed by a breakfast at which Bishop Cronin and Bishop Connolly will be g4ests of honor.

Senior high school students will attend CCD classes in the school at 6 P.M. every Sunday of Advent.

The parish's annual New Year's Eve dinner dance will be held in the school hall beginning at 8 P.M. Monday, Dec. 31. Music will be by Johnny Sowa. Tickets are available from J;:dwin Reid, chairman.

A group of parishioners led by Sister Felicita of the school faculty is preparing a Christmas tapestry to adorn the Church for the Yule season. Additional volunteer workers are welcomed for this project.

ST. WILLIAM, FALL RIVER The Women's Guild will hold a public whist at 1:30 P.M. Sunday 'at the parish center. Hostesses are Mrs. Michael Biszko, Mrs. Frank Krauczk, Miss Irene Boodry and Mrs. Stella Dube.

The unit plans its annual Christmas party for Thursday, Dec. 20 at White's restaurant.

Co-chairmen Mrs. Raymond Dooley and Mrs. William O'Neil will be assisted by Mrs. Joseph Burns and Mrs. Ruth McKane. Reservations may be made with them or at the rectory.

ST. GEORGE, WESTPORT The Women's Guild wHl hold a Christmas party tomorrow night at Twin Silos restaurant, Dartmouth, preceded by a social hour from 6:30 to 7:30. Gifts will be exchanged, announced Mrs. Carolyn Forand, chairman.

The annual parish variety show will be held in May and those wishing to participate may contact Mrs. Connie Souza or Mrs. Lorraine Bussiere.

Tickets for the Bishop's Ball are available from Mrs. Jeanne Forest.

ST. MARY, NEW BEDFORD The Women's Guild will hold its Christmas party at 8 P.M. Monday, Dee. 10, with a holiday program following a business session. Members will exchange gifts and Santa Claus will be present.

Reservations are being taken fool' a· New' Year's Eve dinner dance to be sponsored by the guild. The meal will be served from 7:3P to 9 P.M. and dancing will follow with music by the J.B. Quintet. "After-glow" will be served at 12:15 A.M. In charge of tickets are Claudette LaBonte, telephone .995-5781 and Helen Ewaszko, 995-2821.

Members are reminded that Connie Levasseur is collecting items for a flea market scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 19. She may be reached at telephone 995-1462, and notes that clothing will not be among articles sold.

ST. ANN, RAYNHAM A turkey whist will be sponsored by the Ladies' Guild at 8 tomorrow night in the church hall. Co-chairmen are Mrs. Eileen Alden and Mrs. Anna Keough.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., Dec. 6, 1973

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Finds It Hard Switchi:ng To Conservation. Habits

Publicity chairmen of parish organizations · ST. THOMAS MORE, Ir' Isked to submit news items for this SOMERSET column to The Anchor, P. O. Box 7, Fall River 02722. Name of city or town should The Women's Guild will hold be Include,j, as well as full dates of all its Christmas meeting a't 8 P.M. activities. I'lease send news of future rather Thursday, Dec. 13. An exchange than past l!vents.

By Joseph and. Marilyn Roderick

ST. JOSEPH, ATTLEBORO

We have rediscovered the sweater now that the temperature in our ho.use has been dropped to comply with ' the objeCt of saving fuel. I am a sweater wearer by habit, since I spend some time out in the nippy air in the gar~en, but the children have never' . th h b't f . we are being forced into making been V1 e a 1 0 \ismg to' turnabout It is difficult for wool for wamith. I have a most of us who have never really feeling they will have to had to conserve and it will be a I

learn in a hurry!

Personally, I have always felt that our houses were too warm, but Marilyn could not adjust to any temperature less than 72 degrees. Now that she hasn't any choice in the matter 'she has been shivering 'through her heavy sweaters and night clothes and has admitted that she is slowly adjusting.

Whether she is saying this out of a feeling of duty or, whether she really feels comfortable is difficult to determine, but I expect to come home some day and find the house like a sauna.

test of our adaptability to turn ourselves around and do something about our wasteful habits.

In The Kitchen

If any of us have doubts con· cerning the ability of life to go on "as usul<il" there are still some signs to show that these doubts are unfounded. The women's magazines are still full of Christmas cookies and decoratios that make one want to rush to the kitchen or at least attempt a go at do-it-yourself decorating.

Noticeably absent, of course, is any emphasis on lights arid this, despite the fact, that many of Good Wasters these magazines were set-up All of us are considering ways to conserve fuel as it has become months ago.

And despite a credibility gap a necessity. I have no useful in Washin~ton, an oil shortage hints for the homeowner, in fact in the states, and a strained we are quite adept at wasting it. peace in the Suez Canal Zone, Our children are prone to leaving doors open, pushing up the heat our issue of Gourmet arrived with the most delightful article and all the other things children imaginable on Christmas Eve on can manage to muster.

Beacon Hill. (As an aside, if-you I am guilty too often for com· have a friend or relative who fort of starting fires in the fire- loves to cook Gourmet is the perplace and then leaving the flue fect gift) open all night. This matter of FHled with nostalgia, and, the fireplace flue cannot be' some great sounding recipes, the avoided'- While th~ fireplace is. ar.ticle evokes memories of a Yule' in operation it is efficient but season 'complete with flaming when the fire stops burning, candles. The latter is a custom there is no way for me to turn that we may very well harken off the flue until the fire is com- back to. pletely extinguished. This norOther than the lack of outdoor mally means the next morning, lighting, Chri9tmas in New En. after heat has been rushing up gland should go on as usual as the chimney all night.

We have long been hearing one man put it very wel( the complaints from all of us about other evening on the news, the waste in our society and now maybe Christmas this year will be celebrated inwardly w1th the family rather than on a display basis.

Fear State Action Saint Nicholas Day wouldn't Against Churches be Saint Nicholas Day without LONDON (NC) - Many fear cookies. My family loves anything. that the recent trial of a clergy- as long as it's chocolate, so natman in South Africa is the pre- . urally they find these delightful. liminary to proceedings against the Christian Churches there, AilChocolate Crinkle Cookies glican Archbishop Gwilym Wil1 cup corn oil liams of Wales said on his return 4 I'quares unsweetened chocfrom the trial. olate "There will be a church-state 2 cups sugar conflict if the state is determined 4 eggs . that there will be one," said the 2 teaspoons vanilla archbishop, who attended the Yz teaspoon salt trial as an observer on behalf of 2 cups sifted flour· the British Council of Churches.

2 <teaspoons baking powder The trial was that of the Rev. 1 cup confectioner's sugar, Dr. C.F. Beyers Naude, director 1) Melt the chococlate in the ,of the ecumenical, interracial South African Christian Institute, top of a double boiler. Cool who was found guilty of refusing slightly and add the corn. oil, to testify before the government- and sugar.

2) Blend in 1 egg at a time appointed Schlebusch Commisuntil well mixed. Add vanilla. sion, which is investigating the 3) Sift together, the flour, salt Christian Institute' and three other organizations opposed to an,d baking powder. Stir into South Africa's policy of apar- chocolate, egg mixture. Chill sevtheid, or strict racial segregation. eral hours or overp.ight.

4) Drop teaspoonful of dough Dr. Naude was fined about $70, with the alternative of, one into confectioner's sugar. Roll month in prison, and given a around and shape into a ball. three-month jail sentence sus- Place about 2 inches apart on pended for three years on condi- greased baking sheet and bake in tion that he is not convicted of'a a 350· oven 10 to 12 minutes. similar charge.

Makes about 4 dozen.

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\ DEACON: Steve ~andregan, editor of the i Texas Catholic and. scripture columnist for The A!nchor's "Know Your Faith"! series, will be ordained a peTfllanent deacon in Dallas on IDee. 15.

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Appea I to'State , I In Disput'e' BATON ROUGE (NC)l.A conservative Catholic grotp has appealed to the Louisiaha state hoard of education for ~ction to halt what the group !claimed was a sex education course in the Baton Rouge diocesah school system.

1 The group, ,called Deus Dux (God the Commander), I whose president is Jack Leggett, appealed to the state boat-d. after the diocesan school board turned down their request to disqontinue a program entitled :lEducation in Love." \I , The appeal was based on a 1970 Louisiana law that Iforbids the teaching of sex education courses..

I Deus Dux asked th.e state board .to order Bi$hop R6bert E. Tracy of Baton Rouge, U~e diocesan board of education and Sacred Heart Brother Felicia~ Fourrier, diocesan superintendent of schools, to' write to aH Catholic schools to halt the "Education in Love" program. , Af.ter hearing testimony from Brother Felician, the state board did not issue any of the I-equesed orders but referred t~e matter to' its education com'mittee, which was ,to seek an bpinion from the state attorney general.

"The materials in question are , I handbooks for teachers aryd parents, and supplied background material to be used in the teaching of religious doctrines which could only be understood in the context of human sexJality," i Br.other Felician said.

He cited the Incarna'tidn and the Sixth and Ninth Com'mandments as doctrinal matter.I's that could only be understood .in the conte:lG( of human sexuality, but added "We're not concerned with human plumbing." Acknowl~ , I ' edging·that the program influded some reference to human I anatomy, Brother Felician I said "That's not the prime foc~s."

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of gifts will be featured and Kiah O'Brien will present the Middle School Show Group in a holiday program. Members are also asked to bring gifts for, shut-ins, marked as to contents.

Mrs. Patricia Cadoret -is social chairmari for the evening, to which all women of the parish are invited.

Junior Girl Scouts of the parish wiU attend the Providence Ice Capades Saturday, Dec. 8, departing from Attleboro at '12:30 P.M. CCD boys will visit Sacred Heart Novitiate in Wareham Sunday, Dec. 9. Girls will v~sit ,the Dominican Sisters of South ST. FRANCIS XAVIER, HYANNIS Dartmouth.

David F. Bisbee and Sister Gifts and canned goods will be presented at the offertory Helen ·Anne Pullen are CYO adof all Masses this weekend for visors for this club year. Officers use by the St. Vincent de Paul are John Loughnane, president Society for needy families. All and Gregory Meuse, secretaryparishioners are asked to par- treasurer. The unit plans a dance ticipate in this act of sharing, Friday, Dec. 21 with music by and are requested to wrap gifts the Gringos. Basketball practice and indicate age and .sex for -is held at 7 P.M. every Thursday whom they woul.d be appropriate. in ,the parish center with John Knights of the Altar commit- Sylvester and Marshall Lopes as teemen and wives will hold their coaches. annual Christmas party at 7:30 Cub Scouts meet at 3:30 P.M. P.M. Sunday at the home of Mr. · Monday with Diane Sherman and and Mrs. Richard Depot. ' J:erry Basti~ie as den mothers. " An outdoor_display will be ar- New members, age 8 and over, ranged Saturday by the Knights may join on any meeting day. .of the Altar committee, led by The Christmas party for the David Dion with Raymond Dion Women's Guild will take place as adult supervisor. at 8 P.M. Thursday, Dec. 13 in HOLY NAME, the parish hall. Priests and sisFALL RIVER ters of the parish will be guests.

The Leisure Group will meet Teachers in the CCD program from 2 to 4 P.M. Thursday, Dec. will attend an Advent Mass Fri13 in the school hall. A coffee day, Dec. 14, followed by a noon hour will' follow a program of · dinner at Mitchell's restaurant, Christmas music by" the B.M.C. Hyannis.

Durfee High School chorus.

Bingo is played at 7:30 P.M. every.

WednesQay in the" center.

'ST. M'CHAEL, ,A .Christin'as" party, tor :'workers . SWANSEA'" .

-. . will take place at Cummaquid A Christmas bazaar and sale Ocean House, Yarmouthport, will be held from 7 to 10 P.M. Thursday, Dec. 20. tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday High school CeD students will nights in the church hall, with a make a pilgrimage to La Salette special children's sale scheduled Shrine, Attleboro. Sunday, Dec. for 2 to ~i P.M. Saturday.

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Seventeen booths will feature attractions for men, women and ST. ANNE, children, including fo~d, games FALL RIVER and prizes. Rev. Joseph MartiThe parish board of education neau is general chairman of the will meet at 7:30 P.M. Monday, event whkh will benefit the parish. Donations of items for use Dec. 10 in the rectory. Sister Rita at the booths may be left at the PeNetier will speak.

A cake sale to benefit parish rectory. , cheerleaders will be held at all ST.MATlIIEU, M~sses this weekend.

FALL RIVER A mystery ride to take place A Christmas concert will be Sunday will benefit the parish presented at 2 o'clock on Sunday school.

Maurice Francoeur, afternoon. Dec. 16 in the chairman, may be contacted for church on St. Mary St. reservations.

Under the direction of Miss Madeleine Delisle !lnd organist ,David Car:rier, the program will WEAR include sacred works of PachelShoes That Fit bel, Palestrina and Sweelinck, as· ''THE FAMILY SHOE STORE" well as traditional carols from foreign lands.

Admission is free but a freewill offering may be made at the conclusion of the concert.

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Missioners Well Qualified To Help Poor Help Selves Before the bishops go into the details of international policies for justice in their Synodal document, they pause and do something which may surprise quite a few people in contemporary society. They pay an admiring and grateful tribute to the work of the missionaries and char- wretched, the sick and the illiterate. itable agencies. In some cirIt was, for instance, their witcles this attitude has not ness that made such giant fig-

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is denounced with a whole armory of criticism.They come in and behind them follow white settlers, traders, investors, international corporations and all the other extensions of "rapacious Wetern capitalism."

They come in and reinforce the moral authority of' corrupt local leaders and by preaching a gospel of patience, perpetuate feudal injustice and exploitation.

The list goes on and on. The sure conclusion: Missionaries are u Bad Thing.

What are we to make of this catalogue? That upon ocr.asion, in some cases, the criticism has substance, we cannot deny. Portuguese missionaries to the Kingdom of the Congo in the early 16th century were indeed precursors of Portuguese slavers.

French missionaries preceded the French into Indo-China. In fact, one reason for the Japanese closure of its coasts to all missionaries in the 16th century was the shrewd belief that uncontrollable commercial interests might not be far behind.

If Only .•• Nor can we dispute the fact that many missionary groupsone thinks of evangelical clergy· men in India in the 19th century -had no feeling whatsoever for the value of local cultures, the riches of other civiliz.ations or the validity of universal moral witness.

That remarkable Jesuit, Matteo Ricci, believed that muc:h of Confucian "Natural, Law" could be combined and enriched with the Christian gospel. Had his view prevailed, China might, like Rome under Constantine, have become a Christian state under the Ming Dynasty. Who knows whether with these conditions, China would have had to wait 300 years and then adapt Western ideas by way of Marx, not Christ.

Yet even when the missionaries worked with the protection of Western colonial priorities, their good deeds were monumental.

They brought to cultures which could be savage, indifferent to life and wedded to injustice, a new view of compassion and love. There were Mother Teresas in every epoch, spending themselves without ·stint for the

ures as Mahatma Gandhi see in Christ a model for much that he had tried to do among the casteridden injustices and rigidities of his own' society.

Today, as imperialism fades and the missionary orders seek to redefine their role and their' work, it can be argued that no other group has potentially the ' same scale of gifts to offer the world's growing cohorts of poor and desperate people.

School Probl'ems Elicit Concern From Cardinal BOSTON (NC) - Cardinal Humberto Medeiros of Boston. has ordered that informational seminars on the subject of racial imbalance in Boston's public schools be arranged for all of, the city's priests and Religious.

The subject has been debated since 1965 when ~he Racial Imbalance Act was passed by the Massachusetts state legislature.

However, the debate heated up recently when the state Supreme Court ordered the Boston schools to implement the law by Septem,bel' 1974. It will require busing for many of the city's children.

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cardinal said, would be "a prerequisite to the formulation. of parish programs designed to alleviate racial tension in our city."

While noting that the problems must ,be solved by parents and educators, Cardinal Medeiros noted that "if one responds to the Racial Imbalance Law out of ha~ed for one's brother, be he black or white, or responds out of disdain and disrespect for legitimate authority, or acts in such a way as to deny others a quality education, then the racial balancing of the schools becomes a moral issue."

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sions of anger and hatred, the cardinal said and noted that he published a pastoral letter on the subject last. year.

"In that letter," Cardinal Medeiros said, "I reiterated the late Cardinid Cushing's exhortation that those legally mandated to implement the Racial Imbalance Act of 1965 should do so with professional competence and enlightened leadership in order to fulfill both the spirit and the letter of the law in the manner least disruptive for all concerned.

That exhortation went unheard in the clamor of anxiety, anger, and even seeming expressions of hatred."

Missionary priests and sisters giving their lives in service to the mission'-- -__~_. poor afflicted with . . ."

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We know, from hard statistical fact, that today nearly 800 million people often have to try to exist on the equivalent of 30 cents a day. We know that with average population growth of 2.7 per cent a year these numbers are growing. There are more illiterates in the world than there were 10 years ago, more children dying before the age of five, more adults with a life expectancy of less than 30 years.

But we know, too, something about the policies needed to begin to counter- the misery. About 70 per cent of it is to be found on small subsistence farms, where men struggle to, feed a family on less than five acres of land. If the productivity of these small farmers could be increased, world' po~erty would lessen and the deepening shadow of world hunger would recede.

More ouput means more credit,' more fertilizer, more water, better seeds. But none of these were without secure tenure, cooper-atives, credit unions, extension efforts, self-reliance and selfhelp. , And it is here that missionaries are uniquely qualified.

They can lovingly and humbly encourage the poor to help themselves, to form credit unions, to create pressures for land reform, to band together for helf-help projects, to undertake rural works. Missionaries do not come in on a motor bike every six months. They come and they stay. Their centers can become the places -where men learn to develop their land, to cure their diseases, to organize for political action.

Indeed, in parts of Latin America today, the missionaries are beginning to be seen as before else the protectors of the poor.

Some are in prison as a result.

Some have been tortured. But the true vocation of these "other Christs" is beginning to emerge and some orders, notably the Jesuits, make a rededication of their whole effort to ,"the least of these little ones" the supreme rationale of their activity.

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KNOW YOUR FAITH Family Prayer "Arc our youngsters being taught their prayers" "Do the new religion programs teach the 'traditional prayers?"

In my expwience of several years of frequent meetings with parents and religion teachers, these or similar questions about prayer inevitably arise. Parents today seem to have a genuine concern th~t thei.r children learn the traditional p'rayers of the Church. This is a 'heal;thy sign of parents' care for their children's growth in faith.

FR. CARL J. PFEIFER, S.J.

My first response to such questions is to reasSure the questioners that Jthe newer religion programs do contain the traditional' prayers. In fact. the bettcr programs place much more emphasis on prayer than did earlier caltechisms. The young today are exposed not only' to prayers such as the Our Father nnd Hail Mary, Glory Be to the' Father, and Apostles' Creed, but they are introduced also to

the beautiful prayers of the Bible, especially th~ Psalms, and to many of the prayers from the Church's liturgy.

The new religion programs reveal a serious concern that the young learn not only prayers, but that they can learn also to pray. Learning to pray is much more important than learning prayers. The traditional. prayers of the Church are a rich resource for learning ,topray.

Best School of Prayer After proposing evidence that catechetical programs today do give serious attention to guiding the young in prayer, I find it necessary to point out that this is actually of secondary importance. Children best learn to pray not at school, not in religion class, but at home. Family prayer is the best schQol of prayer for the young.

I remember a Sister recalling her own experience as a. child. ':1 can still see myself sitting in , religion class with Sister Evaristao She went over the Our Father again and again with me and others in the class. I must adm'it that this exercise did not ,teach me to pray. I learned to pray at home. I learned the importance and value of prayer in my life.

My parents prayed. at every, meal.

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Praying. Together We've all heard that olld phrase toabout. the family that drays I . gether staying together. i In this age of proof positive, I've always been surpri~ed. that someone didn't appointj a task force to make a s,tudy that would determine once and for all if that .is indeed true-or if famIly praying can be saiq to lead inljust the opposite direction. Study or no study, most of us believel in family prayer; the problem' is doing something about it.'

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By JANE WILLIAMS PUGEL

Concerning praying, I've often

wonde~ed what ehildre~ think

we are talking about ~hen we are rattling along in the! typical soupeq-up rhetoric that :has always been considered· necessary for talking to God. A ~elative of mine . told me about hisI threeyear-old son who sat th~ough a lengthy church service anp final- _ FAMILY PRAYER: Most of us believe in family prayer; Iy, during a reflective ~ilence, the problem is doing something about it. A mother teaches whispered loudly, "Oka~, but her children to pray. NC Photo.' . " what is God doing' now?'j .

Right in our own fa1?1ily, a young daughter calle~ our •member each day to make the As for the words involved, it is church "Harold's place" I for a special prayer for thanks before a simple matter. We should talk While. We discovered that her the main fl!mily meal. A, friend to God in our own most simple, personal Lord's Prayer raA, "Our' told me that her son, called upon direct language. Even the formal 5 Father who art in Heaven, Har- to ask the blessing, cast an evil prayers of the Church can be reold by thy name ..." In my own eye over his plate of liver and worded for family use so that the non and the Antilebanon ranges. early days, a child in. my cate- onions and muttered, "Thank you youngest will understand. We Even in ruins, its size and ·mag- chis~ class asked how,; come God, for this-awful stuff."

Turn to Page Seventeen nificence overwhelm the visitor. guardian angels are too thin to.

Baalbek was built to outshine guard .us properly? The !prayer all the other existing temples of "Angel of God, my -gllardian the Roman Empire. It dwarfed dear" ended, in her mind, with the shrines of Byblos. The maj- "Ever this day be at my sibe, too esty of the Acropolis in Athens light to guard, to rule and guide."

I Pope Paul VI used his August with a mixture of blacks, Irish paled beside the temple city. Poor children. . .

I 22 general audience as the occa- and Italian whites, Puerto Ricans Next to the temples of Baalb~k, Family Feast I sion to issue a "Prayer Deca- and Por.tuguese from Cape Verdi. the Pharoahs' masterpieces at· Last Sunday we realizedlthat it logue" or ten commandments de-, Thebes and Karnack were' insigAt the beginning of the school was Advent, already. Once again signed·to help Christians pray , year, Father Svioka brought his nificant.

Baalbek was created to mani-' we are in the season of pdyerful better. Prayer, our Holy Father extensive staff-ten priests and fest Rome's ascendency, to her- preparation for what is the!great- insisted, whether individual and 38 Sisters-together for a unique ald the Empire's progress and est family feast of the <J:hurch private or public and collective, retreat. It started Sunday night prosperity, and to stabilize its year. For. Christmas involves a 'is the Church's highest expres- and ran daily through Friday control over the restless Near, mother and a father, a birth, wel- sion, fundamental nourishment with, morning and afternoon .

East. Its accomplished all three corned visitors, gifts, good ;'news. and basic principle. conferences plus an evening filmpurposes, admirably. discussion session. This renewal When it came to administerweek took place within the paring an Empire, the Romans were ish itself; the administrator had no amateurs. One thing they realarranged for a' local scripture ized was that conquered peoples scholar arid a religious educaNon were much more docile when the expert to make the presentations: conqueror did not add insult to, They covered on successive . . injury by imposing an' aHen cul- grown and multiplied. Th~ days C H A M P L I N ' ; days the humani·ty ,of Christ, Iture upon the occupied country. are apparently gone when the discipleship to Jesus, freedom It was a lesson many other Em- family knelt down daily for the and law, prophecy and commupire builders never learned, to Rosary, some Bible reading or nity. During Friday's final hours, I other group prayers. their sorrow. participants worked on practical Two 'priests in :the Boston It seems most possible for our ways to implement the lofty Religious 'Cult own famiilies to try for a few archdiocese wholeheartedly agree ideals built up in the retreat's Most of the Near Eastern cul- words with God at a meal or and have experienced successful earlier moments.

I tures were identified with a reli- some time when most of us are efforts with new prayer forms Common' Bond gious cult. In Phoenicia and Syria together. Our family happehs to in their respective parishes. it was with the cult of Baal. Baal eat breakfast together, an~ we The significant deepening of At one point in his 22 years i~ a.generic. name for a deity but have formed the habit of offering of ministry, Father. Edmund Svi- their inner spirit and common can also .be used to designate a our day and everything in Iit to oka served as president of the bond which resulted was not human person to whom loyalty God. Any personal petitions or priest's sena.te. He now is admin- really a great surprise. Throughand homage are due. I' can .best thanksgiving are made thert too. istrator of St. Pa'trick's Church in out the previous year, the same be translated by the English word For us, it works.

I Roxbury, a once heavily Irish, group had met once a week for 30 "lord." . Atmosphere of Faith; middle-class. community which minu'tes of shared prayer planned Turn to Page Eighteen Other people ask a different has become an inner city parish Turn to Page Seventeen

I The ·'Roman Empir.' Sputnik II

Teddy Roose'velt sent the White Fleet around the world to impress other nations with the power and strength of the United States. The propa-, , ganda value of Russia being the first nation to place a satellite in orbit, or of the United States ~ making the first manned moon flight was not lost to the planners in Moscow and Washington.

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In the days of ;the Roman Em~ pire the same problem existed for Rome, specifically ,to impress' upon the people of the Middle East that Rome didn't have to take a back seat to Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, or anyone else..

With this in mind, we could correctly refer to Baalbek as the Roman Sp,utnik. How's that? You say you've never heard of Baalbek. No matter. The Romans weren't trying to impress you.

But the world of the ancient Near East heard about Baalbekand they were properly awed by it.

Temple City Baalbek is a temple city. It is nestled high in the fertile plain of the Bekaa between the Lana-

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Damien Story Presented Lucidly and .Impressively

Praying Together Continued from Page Sixteen have 'rewritten several for our own use, including :the Stations of the Cross and the Act of Contrition. For what s'ense does it make to talk to the person you love the most if you don't know what. you are saying?

Family prayer should help the members to live in an atmosphere of faith. Prayer should be not so much an occasional formal pronouncement, but a sort of ongoing conversation with God Ithat praises and loves, accepts, thanks, acknowledges-and oc· casionally asks. Just the sort of conversation we have with loved ones in the family, only this one can be partly silent.

However you work it, family prayer should eventually allow. us parents and our children simply to make a day·long "Yes" to God, as Mary did in the first Advent so long ago.

Just a hundred years ago, in 1873, a Belgian priest named Damien went to the leper colony on Molokai in the Hawaiian Islands. He then had only 16 more years to live, and during them he very seldom left the leper colony. It would seem, then, that he ' was destined for oblivion. It excellent salary, but he rejected was not to be so. He becanfe it.

Love of God, Neighbor almost world famous during

He endured excruciating loneliness, and longed for the comPllnionship of another priest, Most of the time he was com· By pletely by himself. His superiors in religion often showed themRT. REV. selves unsympathetic, Eventually he contracted leprosy, and he MSGR. died of it in 1889 at the age of JOHN S. 49.

His reputation was, after his KENNEDY death, slanderously attacked by a clergyman named Hyde, who II i&Z'''''~~ was answered in a famous letter his lifetime, and his name and of shattering rebuttal by, Robert work are still celebrated. That' Louis Stevenson. his life has lessons especially apDamien had his faults, and one posite to our times is the conten· of them, although perhaps minor, tion of John Beevers in his biog- was his penchant for giving very raphy of Damien, A Man for Now long sermons. Mr. Beevers can (Doubleday 277 Park Ave., New not be accused of pro~ixity or York, N. Y. 10017. $5.95). ,long windednes. His book is com· Damien was a Belgian.. Before pact and always to the point. He he entered the Congregation of presents Damien's story lucidly the Sacred Hearts he was known and impressively. us Joseph de Veuster. At the age The author points out that of 19 he joined the religious con- Damien fulfilled, in an extragregation just mentioned, which ordinary w,ay, the two great comsent him to Paris to study. Three mandments: love of God and love years later he was assigned to of neighbor. He sees materialism a mission in the Hawaiian Is- and hatred as rampant in our lands. The journey there, by sail. age, and he analyzes Damien's career to show that, in particular, ing vessel, took 140 days.'

He was ordained in 1864, and the great priest exemplified the . . very reverse of these derangeat once was assIgned a pans~" .rnents.-, . ~', . '" . j ' ;~:.~:~_.~., ~..:!: soon a second one. He spent· S t M . eight years as a pastor, of neceswee ,emones. sity pel'forming much manual . Harry J. ~oyle s autobl~graph. labor. Thus, he built a chapel a Ical Memones of a Catholic Boy· year in his term as pastor. This hood (Dou~leday, 277 Park Ave., does not mean that he supervised !'lew York, N. Y. 10017. $6.95) is the work of others, but he did 10 somber contrast to the Beevers most of it himself. He was ver- book, which has a peculiar radisatile, ener~etic, and tireless in ance despi~e Molokai's atmothe care of his people.' sphere of dIsease and death.

Mr. Boyle grew up on a farm Volunteered to Serve in the village of Clover, in OnIn 1865 the leper colony on tario: His family was Catholic; Molokai was established. There, the Church was their focal point. in an isolated area, cut off by He finished high school in 1931" mountains and sea, all in the i~- when the Depression was making lands afflicted With the dreadful itself felt. : ..' , disease were to be 'segregated.

His" mother wanted' him to he a Once penned in, they .had a priest, and tried to maneuver hi~ , wretched existence, untended toward the priesthood.' She had either physically or spiritually, clung to a World War I Victory forgotten.

Bond, and she cashed it in so Damien was 33 when, in 1873, that he might have at least a there was an appeal for a priest year at St. Gerald's College, run to volunteer to serve the lepers. by priests and recruiting youths He responded immediately. He for the pries~hood. did not comprehend the extent A large part of the book is de· of the lepers' misery until he voted to life at St. Gerald's. It went among them. But once he seems to have been quite, a grim saw their plight, he set about institution, in its plants, its bettering it. grounds, its spirit. The discipline Thus, he himself built wooden was severe, the food abominable, huts for them, where previously the education offered mediocre they had only shelters of sticks at best.

Life on Farm and leaves. He piped in a water But it had a library, and' young supply (Le., he did the job himself). He organized the lepers Boyle did a great deal of reading. for work, such as raising food, And one or two of the teachers looking after chickens and live- gave an occasional glint of inspistock, etc. He instituted confra- ration. He tried his hand at writ· ternities with special purposes. ing, kept assiduously at it despite He taught music and set the peo- a rain of rejection slips, finally ple to singing. He dressed their had some pieces published and sores, and when they died he paid for. This he knew to be his made their coffins. calling, and he left St. Gerald's.

After initial indifference and The picture of life on the farm some opposition, the government and in the village, as well as the came to appreciate what he was family portraits, show Mr. Boyle doing and to give him consider- at his finest. And one does not able material help, He was of- doubt that the account of St. fered an official position at an Gerald's in'the 1930's, is just. The

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LAYING ON OF HANDS: Some 50 individuals from all over the area gather for this three-hour session which consists of shared prayer, a eucharistic liturgy, coffee and conversation and a final laying on of hands and prayer over people in need. NC Photo.

The Parish Family Prays Continuep. from, Page Sixteen by the 'sist~r~. fO,1l9Wed,l>y .a nlea\ and, ~fterward:s, a eucharistic liturgy.

Father James Hickey is quite a bit younger - five years orordeal of one student is effectively conveyed.

But there is no remembered joy, such as persor,s reared in similar circumstances and with experience of like institutions have known and still cherish.

This is an ,account of springtime which has the feeling of November .

Considerations In the pref;'lce to his new book, Considerations (Templegate, 719 E. Adams St., Springfield, III. 62705. $6.95), Dom Hubert van Zeller, says that he here submits "nothing but the fruit, some of it unripe and some of it stale, of a lifetime's guessing, fumbling, faltering ... mugging up the theory and misapplying it in practice," etc.

Enough of that deprecatory nonsense! As always with Dom Hubert, what we have from him now is prime quality, this time in a series of brief observations about common difficulties and predicaments which everyone runs into when trying to live the Christian life in contemporary conditions.

The special distinction of what Dom Hubert writes is its hon:· esty. He does not duck the real problems which beset us, and he does not prescribe in pious bromides. He comes to grips with actuality, and the medicine he gives is a true specific, apt if not sweet.

This is a book to be dipped into day after day, with reflection to follow each sampling of its excellent wares.

dained-and labors in St. Mary's paJ;isb, a mushrooming suburban congregatiori in Randolph, Massachusetts.

Two years ago its worship 'committee planned an experimental and devotional prayer service in church after the Holy Thursday liturgy. The positive response to this pilot project encouraged planners to repeat the hour of prayer (8:00-9:00 P,M.) on a monthly basis. Prepared and presided over by lay persons, it draws an aV4~rage of 30 participants and has attracted as many as 90.

Holy Hour Format Tbe holy hour format leaves ample periods for quiet prayer and often concludes by a priest celebrating benediction with the Blessed Sacrament.

Following is another example of special parish worship at St. Mary's: During its weekday 12:10 Eucharist the several dozen assembled join with their celebrant in reciting Midday Prayer from the Liturgy of the Hours.

After the entrance hymn or antiphon and greeting, the community alternately recites the assigned psalms, the priest leads them in the opening prayer, and then Mass continues with the scriptural readings.

GENEVA (NC)-Efforts of the Lutheran Church in Chile to fulfill. its Christian duty in behalf of reconciliation, peace and justice through "preaching of the Gos· pel, prayer and action" have deeply impressed the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) and its member churches, according to a pastoral of two top LFW officials.

The pastoral, sent to Chilean Lutherans by LWF president Dr. Mikko Juva of Finland and LWF general secretary Andre Appel, said that all LWF member churches are following closely the activities of the Lutheran Church in Chile" in response to others suffering and in distressregardless of their descent, inner conviction and previous stand toward the Gospel."

"We are also pursuing with interest," the pastoral said, "your endeavors in support of the rights of all men."

The Chilean Lutheran Church, as is the Catholic Church, is participating in an ecumenical effort to assist an estimated 13,000 foreigners who reportely expressed a desire to leave the country after the military coup Sept. 11.

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Continued from Page Sixteen each evening-which I frequently found tiring and boring 'at the time.. We thanked God for good things and asked his help in various needs. Prayer was as much a part of our family life as was eating, sleeping, playing and Liberaf heretics, to continue my Chestertonian com- " working." ments on brthodoxy, are not radical enough, j~st as conserTeach by Example vative heretics are far too radical. Orthodoxy is aroChildren learn to pray not so mance, an adventure, a juggling act in which one must much as being taught to recite balance the accumulated prayers, but by experiencing divinity schools and seminaries. their parents' praying. One of wisdom of the past with the Without any respect for past my most vivid childhood mempresent reality a~a the un- traditions or the social, religious, ories is of my parents earnestly known future. The conserva- and intel1ectual situations in asking God to let me live. It tive heretic considers the present which their parishioners find was very late in the night and to be an 'aberration, a threat, an themselves, these wel1-meaning they had been told earlier that absurdity.. The orthodox position zealots are trying 'to reform the evening by the doctor that I -in the Chestertonian sense- Chtlrch and make it relevant. In was close to death from pneuthe process' they are destroying monia. Their praying left an inthe symbols and traditions that I delible impression on me. ' give life and meaning to the reSuch genuine prayer need not ligion of their people. .be scheduled or planned. Each For such liberal heretics the By family has to find its own past is not a potentiality to be rhythm. For some it may be dedeveloped but a burden to be IMMACULATE CONCEPTION: On the feastday of the sirable to have regular prayers, REV. obliterated without even bother· Immaculate Conceptidn, Dec. 8, one of the Mass prayers such as at meals or bedtime.

ANDREW M. ing to 'go through the painful, I prolonged process of explaining says 'We proclaim that she was spotless through the power Others may find it more mean· ingflul to pray when prayer GREELEY why change is necessary. of your grace; may w~ be freed fr~m our faults through her' seems timely-like my parents Brandes makes this point in \ holy intercession." This depiction of the Immaculate Con- praying during the time that I his paper. There is in principle ception is fromSpain'~ Prado museum. The' artist is Murillo. was deathly ill. It is not so much ~ no reason why the liturgical I " the quantity of prayer 'that matconsiders the past to be a potenI . modernization decreed by the NC Photo... ters. tiality that can be actualized in I. I Parents' teach their children to the present to define and con· Vatican Council could not have been introduced in the little .'

5' pray by praying themselves. If struct the future.

Spanish val1ey in such a way'as I ,they truly pray, then their efforts The weakness of the liberal, is to reinforce, not destroy, the traContinued from Page Sixteen polytheists, to them one god was to teach their children traditional that he simply cannot see the In Syria and Phoenifia the as good as another and they prayers may bear fruit. If they potentiality in the past and is ditional process. Change had to not even 'aware that his own cri· come, and it had to come at term general1y referred to IHadad, were perfectly willing to wor- do not pray, neither ,they nor retique of it is carried on with the once. Instead of becoming rel- the Syrian sun-god whose dy- ship Jupiter and accept the fact ligion teachers will normally tools the past has given him. The evant and up-to-date, the parish· nasty dates from the sedond or that the Syro-Phoenicians' Baal have have too much success in liberal heretic, not believing in . -ioners simply stopped going to third millenium before IChrist. or Helios was just another ex· teaching their children to' pray, When the Romans arrived in the pression of the same worship. no matter how well they teach his own roots and tradition, church.

The American version of Dom Near East, Alexander th~ Great The way :they acc'ompllished their them ithe traditional prayers of does not believe in himself. He ends up not believing in anything. Diego has read Future Shock, and his successors had imposed little charade was to give Jupiter th~ Church. .'

Unfortunately the liberal her· . has heard about the death of ,much 'of ,the" Greek. culture as the iastname of Heli6s. Thus'the . . iThe parental; que~ions abo,ut etics have had everything their . God, an.dhas takena';course or:.·. ~ell asilie 'latig~age' Of t~e area.. :'goa 'tb -·:b{l·'·w'orshiPi;ed~''at) tli~ir "te~t~ooks' ~nd .new' approaches own way for the last decade, and two in counseling and guidance. This was known as Hel1en,ization. new temple city was Jupiter to religious education are underDuring this period Baalbekhad HeliopolitailUs, which was the standable and express a genuine now it seems that the conserva- He is a shallow, superfici~l, halftive heretics are taking over to educated person. ~etermm.ed ~o.· gatten a, Greek name,! Helios, same as saying Jupiter Baal. concern. They deserve forthright To the Phoenicians Baal was answers. Part of an honest redeliver the coup' de grace to the rema~e hiS pan~hlOners m hiS which is simply th.e Greek word ..

I traditionally associated with sponse to their questions involves opportunities the liberal heretics own Image an~ likeness. He h~s for sun. no understandmg of the tradlNow our Roman friends had Astarte, the female gooddess. asking parents more basic quesignored. , Recently I wrote an article on tions of the past, no insight into .their owh set of gods, bJt being and Simios, the son. The Romans tions: "Do you pray?" "Do your accepted this triadic deity and children ever see you Ilraying?" parochial schools for the New their potential~ties for orgapic. .

York Times Magazine. I suggest- development ,In the present, """"""""",,,,,,,""',,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,;,,,,,"""'' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' "let Astarte represent Venus while "Do you ever pray as a family?" and has no sympathy at all ..

I. _ ed .there that the real problems for the needs and limitations of the past traditIOn more t~an lib- Simios became the .local man· "Do you and your childre'n pray together?" . of parochial schools were not his people. eral heretics, they objectl to the ifestation of Mer<:ury. financial arid were not caused by insensitivity of eccle~iastical Engineering Feat Liberty lack of support from Oatholic Shallowness, Insensitivity leadership. that the conservative God presses us but does not The place was referred to as Church attendance ,in the heretics so admire. parents. Paroch,ial 'schools are I .Heliopolis by the Greeks and oppress our liberty. committing suicide, I argued, be· United States among Catholics , Few Orthodox Leaders cause those who run them and has declined dramatical1y, indeed -St. Francis de Sales The, Catholic masses 're. still the Romans, which means the teach in them no longer have traumatical1y, in recent years. orthodox, though frequently in- city of the sun or, the sun god. .The problem is not that most articul,ately so. For them the past But the Syro-Phoenicians called faith in what they.are doing.

A young anthropologist at. 'Catholics are opposed to the is potentiality, neither ~empta. It Baalbek, which means the city Michigan State University, Henry changes that have occurred but tion nor ideal. They willinot ac- of Baal. Whatever it was called, Brandes, sent me a copy of a that they have been turned off cept the definitions of relevancy it was magnificent: There were paper of his ~n a village in Spain by the shallowness, insensitivity, ,imposed upon them byl liberal found the largest stone blocks in which the sincere, dedicated, and unperceptivenessof those heretics; neither .will they live in ever used and the boldest archiand well-meaning parish priest who have imposed those changes. the past to whioh the conserva- te~tural engineering fea,t accomwas busy destroying the religion Liberal heretics eagerly denounce tive heretics so desperately want plished by man.

Although the site had been a of his flock in a mindless, insen· resistance to change among their to return. . sitive attempt to convert a peas· parishioners without ever fully 254 ROCKDALE AVENUE The main problem the ordinary sacred one from very ancient ant valley into a "relevant" post· understanding, without even be- American Catholic facesl is that times, it was Augustus Caesar NEW BEDFO~D, MASS. Vatican Church overnight. ginning to understand, that in he can find few orthodox Ileaders. who began construction of the "Dom Diego" was imposing their stubborn love for the tradi- The liberal heretics want to de· temples that took 250 years to secularization on his parishio- tion, the parishioners may have prive him of his past, the! conser· ' complete. The Roman emperors, ners whether they wanted it or an insight that the liberal heretic vative heretics want to Ideprive: Trajan, Hadrian, Antonius, Mar· not and without even bothering! has missed completely. him of the chal1enge of the pres· cus Aurelius, Septimus Severus, HEATING OILS My own conviction is that the ent and the opportunitie~ of the Caracal1a and Philip the Arab, all to explain to them what was hllPCOMPLETE furthered ,the construction. pening. The greatest threat to revolt of the Catholic' masses is future. The ordinary Aberican I the Catholic faith of the citizens not ideological;it is not a protest Catholic finds himself inl exaCtly The Byzantine~ followed the HEATING SYSTEMS of the valley, according to Bran- against the irrelevance of the the same position as did the pa- Romans and converted the tern· INSTALLED des' paper, was not secular soci· Church leadership nor a protest rishioners of Dom Diego in Pro- pres into churches. Finally, the ety but secularization imposed by against change. It is rather a fessor Brandes' little val1ey in Arabs came~nd transformed the 24 HOUR OIL BURNER its own priest. nonideological but quite concrete Spain. temple cIty into a fortress.

SERVICE objection to all kinds of things So they say the hel1 with it, Today, there are relics of anDestroy Traditions they don't like. and stop going to church on Sun- cient Phoenicia, Greece, the RoBUDGET PLA~S It seems to me that the From Sunday sermons to inept day morning. It is not that they maQ and the Byzantine Empires Church is swarming with Dom readers to insensitive ecclesias- are any less religious hor any anc! the Arab Empire all within The Vargas Oil Co. protects Diegos, with liJ)eral heretics who tical authority, the masses are less Catholic. They ha~e been the precincts of Baalbek. Julian your family's heating comfort I are trying to ·remake their people registering their confusion and turned off by the false prophets. Huxley has referred .to Baalbek all year round. instantaneously into the model disapproval by not going to and the heretics cavorting around as the showplace of Lebanon. It TRY US FIRST providea by the liberation theol- church. They are neither con· the country. One can hardly is also one of the most Interestogy textbooks or the .latest fads servative heretics nor liberal her- blame them.

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Expanded S. E. Mass. League To Realign Grid Divisions The Southeastern Massachusetts Football Conference will expand from its original 20 teams 'to 22 next Fall when Durfee High of Fall River and New Bedford return to compete against the local secondary schools. The two new league members have been playing independent sons, it is time to review the schedules the past two grid divisional alignments and make seasons although both were formally accepted into the Confercnce last Spring. Since the Con(erence was in the middle of a two year grid schedule it :-vas determined that both would begin gridiron competition in '74 when realignment was slated.

The Constitution of the 'Con· fcrence states that 'schools will he divided into divisions for athletic purposes so as to create equitable competitive conditions for all members. Periodic realignment of divisions will be made to keep the competition as equi· table as possible.

Now that the circuit has complcted its first two football sea-

the necessary changes.

There an; many methods which the league athletic directors will explore before proposing the, new divisions. However, the question being asked most frequently is personal as each school is concerned about whom it will be playing. Bl,lt the athletic directors ,encountered the same problem two years ago and came forth with a proposal that was generally acceptable and received the approval of the Board of Gover· nors on Athletic Affairs. The task will be more involved this time' around. But, rest assured another workable plan will evolve.

Strive to Gain Equitable Competition Competition in the grid circuit has been excellent over the two year span which is a credit to those who formed the three divi· ·skins. 136th Divisldn' 'I and II have had different champions in the two years. Wareham has won Division III twice but only by a one game margin each time.

The goal of the league officials is to make competition more equitable. With this in mind, those in:volved in the realignment, process will take into consider· ation the won·loss records of all teams, their performance against t1ivisional opponents, plus 'intradivisional results in the case of Divisions II and. III, record of the junior varsity and freshman teams the past two years and any special request an individual school may present. ' Also factors such as enrollment, geographical location and type of school will be considered.

Dartmouth leads Division I over., the two year period with a ]3·1 record. The Cclrlin Lynch coached Indians lost to Msgr.

Coyle·Bishop Cassidy in their season opener last year and have not lost since. Coyle, on the other hand won the title in '72 and dropp~4 to an 0-7 loop ma.~k this past season.

A quick glance at the two year record shows Attleboro second with an 11-3 mark trailed.by Coyle, Falmouth, Taunton and Barnstable with nearly idEm tical records. Bishop Feehan High of Attleboro and Somerset have been ~unsuccessful among the top division teams.

Division II is closer with no team going unbeaten in two seasons. Bishop Stang of Dart.mouth leads the six team bracket with an 8-2 record followed by Bourne with a 7-2·1 mark. Dighton-' Rehoboth is last with a 2'8 slate; however, the Falcons were an improved club this season and could be better next. DennisYarmouth, Seekonk and Fairhaven finIshed in the middle of the group. Although Fairhaven was winless this year it won the divisional title last.

Proposal Will Be Awaited Anxiously In Division III Wareham and Case High of Swansea have vir· tually dominated the picture.

The Vikings coached hy Jim Lanagan have won the crown with perfect 5-0 records both years while Case lost only to Wareham.

Old Rochester of Mattapoisett, Norton and New Bedford Vocational have been competitive while Diman Regional of Fall River has not won a league game to date.

In the way of speculation some close to the circuit feel that Dur· fee and New Bedford will go into Division 1. Feehan along with Somerset will be dropped to the second bracket. Others contend that the top division may become a seven team division instead of eight.

If Feehan and Somerset arc

dropped down, there will b~ eight cluos in Division II. Based upon record alone, it would ap· pear that neither Dennis-Yar· mouth nor Dighton-Rehoboth could compete equally with the new members. Then it would be feasible to move them down into Division Ill. But, the question ,then arises, Should Wareham and Case be moved up? If so, Will the former have an advantage in the third group?

But, then again should 'the number of teams in each division be changed? If so ... oh! well.

The athletic director will figure it all out. This proposal will be awaited with anticipation.

Area schoolboy football fans will, have all Winter to debate' the findings which should make for some interesting discussions.

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POSTMASTER IN NAZARETH: Sister Marciana Hennig, postmaster at Nazareth, Mich., decorates a Christmas tree for the holidays. The Sister of St. Joseph, one of the few nuns in the country to run a post office, said: "I "estimate that 98 per cent of the people who use our post office do so because of the postmark." It is specially busy at Christmas. .

Postmaster is Sister of St. Joseph Na~areth

Postmark in Demand at Christmas

NAZARETH (NC)-The postmaster in the town of Nazareth is a Sister of St. Joseph.

Sister Marciana Hennig is one of the few nuns who serve as postmasters in the nation.

The tiny post office, which is on the ground floor of the convent, was founded by the Sisters of St. Joseph in 1899, two years after they settled in this then remote part of Michigan.

"We named our hamlet Nazareth after Joseph, the carpenter, our protector," Sister Marciana

Action Committee Disbands in Toledo TOLEDO (NC) - The Central Toledo Action Committee, an organization which worked for bet· ter housing here, has gone out of existence because of lack of support from the people it was trying to help.

"The CTAC board of directors judged it nC? longer fitting to continue pursuing the original purposes of the organization in the light of the community's clear indication that it is not in· terested in dreaming," the board said in a statement. ' Father Thomas Redding, director of the diocesan Office of Community Relations, which channeled diocesan funds to CTAC, said the Jesuit organizers felt they had reached a "dead end" because of the stance taken by city officials.

CTAC's aim, Father Redding told the Catholic Chronicle of Toledo, was not to destroy "the system" but to make the system work.

explained. "This was his home in the province of Galilee."

Busy Eeason Besides the Sister,s, the second-class post office is open to the 440 Nazareth College students, the 128 students at Barbour Hall Military Academy, and the area :residents. The convent houses, the Barbour Hall school and college comprise the Nazareth compound on the outskirts of Kalamazoo'.

Like other post offices, the Nazareth office's business picks up around Christmas.

"At Christmas, we really see how important our postmark is," Sister Marciana noted. "Some Sisters who have moved away or people who have heard· about the post office send their cards , to be mailed from Nazareth."

Prompt Deliveries All the mail is delivered by Christmas, she said. "By Christmas Eve, the students have gone and it is just a few of us here. It is usually very quiet."

In addition to the size of the post office, Sister Marciana

added, there are other differences between the Nazareth 'post office and others.

"Almost everybody who comes to our post office say they feel that it has a special quality," she said. "1 think we offer something different from what you get in a large city post office."

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