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Vocation Appeal on Anniversary

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Respect for Learning Basis of Attraction CLEVELAND (NC) - "The Church must find ways to capitalize on young people's respect for knowledge rather than the last generation's respect for posilion or role," according to Dr. Robert F. Vizza, dean of the School of Business at Manhattan College in N~w York City.

Dr. Vizza made his remarks in an address to the First National Conference on Pastoral Planning here.

Changes are necessary, he said, because polls indicate a tremendous credibility problem for all big institutions, including the Church, and a growing lack of confidence in them among peop'1e.

Formal education, Dr. Vizza noted, is a continuing process today.

"The day is gone when just getting a degree was enough," he said. "Education has replaced experience as the force of change in our society ... Y{lUng people today are saying don't give me yesterday's experience for to-

Set Scouter Night I n Attleboro On Saturday, January 5th from 2:00 to 9:00 P.M., the AttleboroTaunton Catholic Scouting Committee will offer a "Scouter Development Program" at St. Joseph's School, Attleboro. This is a special program for adult scouters, both men and women, designed to help them better serve boys in a Catholic way.

Talks will be presented by three laymen 'and two priests and Mass, a dinner and a presentation of ct:!rtificates will conclude the evening.

Speakers will include James Melloni; Al Manson; Frederick Govain, chie.f executive of Anawon Boy Scout Council; Rev. Thomas Rita, assistant pastor of St. Mary's parish, Mansfield; and Rev. Roger Leduc, assistant pastor of St. Joseph's, New Bedford.

Father Leduc is also area Scout chaplain for the New Bedford area.

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day's answers to tomorrow's problems."

The Church, whose influence on today's young people is not as great as it was a generation ago: Dr. Vizza added, must find ways to pull together the zeal and enthusiasm of young people who are searching and grasping for ways to be productive.

Planners should focus -on opportunities and not on problems, he explained. Problems are never solved, only replaced by other problems. Only opportunities, he concluded, can bring results.

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Lapsed Catholics Problem Cited

By Cardinal LONDON (NC) - In some things young people today have even higher standards than their parents had when they were young, Cardinal John Heenan of Westminster said in his Advent pastoral letter.

"They are more unselfish," the cardinal said. "They really do care about the poor and the old.

They worry about the hungry in Asia and Africa, the immigrants.

-at home, the victims of war and persecution.

"Many young Catholics are as keen as ever on the Church and they grieve for friends who have given up their religion."

Cardinal Heenan devoted his pastoral principally to the problem of lapsed Catholics.

He said that the reconciliation of lapsed Catholics with the Church "must he one of the great aims of the Holy Year."

Admitting that "there has heen a great decline in church-going in England," the cardinal said that many young Catholicssome still at school-have given up the practice of their faith. .

"There is .nothing new about young people lapsing for a time after they leave school," he said.

"What is new is that boys and girls of magnificent Catholic families are missing Mass while still at school.

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On Saturday, Dec. 15, Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., will celebrate his third anniversary as Bishop of Fall River with a concelebrated Mass at St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. . Youths from all of the diocese's schools and parishes have been invited by the Bishop to participate in the Mass which will be offered that Almighty God will bless the Diocese with a rich harvest of vocations to the Priesthood and to the Religious Life.

Originally scheduled for the 16th, the actual date of the anniversary, the Mass was rescheduled to Saturday to cOllform to the urgings of less travel during the energy crisis.

To underscore the theme of prayer for vocations which will characterize the Mass, the school chaplains, daily associated with the diocese's young men and women, will concelebrate with the Bishop together with the Diocesan Director of Vocations, Rev. John J. Smith, assistant pastor at St. James Parish in New Bedford.

Representing the diocesan endeavors in the educational and vocational field by their concelebration will be: Very Rev. Luiz G. Mendonca, V.G., pastor of St. John of God Parish in Somerset; Rev. Patrick J. O'Neill, Diocesan Director of Education; Rev. John J. Steakem, Bishop Stang High School Chaplain; Rev. Brian J. Harrington, Bishop Feehan High School Chaplain; Rev.· Maurice H. Jeffrey, Bishop Gerrard High School Chaplain; Rev. Richard W. Beaulieu, CoyleCassidy High School Chaplain; Rev. Francis McManus, S.J., Bishop Connolly High School Chaplain.

Bishop James J. Gerrard, Vicar General and Auxiliary Bishop of Fall River, and Bishop James L. Connolly, Former Bishop of Fall River, will also participate in the Cathedral Mass.

In announcing the anniversary Mass, the Most Reverend Bishop wrote to the clergy: "Increasingly throughout the Universal Church, attention is being given to the all-important question of fostering vocations to the priesthood and religious life.

"Pastoral action for vocations is much needed, and only recently an International Congress for planning such action was convened in Rome under the auspices of the Sacred Congregation for Catholic Education. . "In Washington, at the Bishops' meeting last month, the Committee on Vocations gave a report of its work to the assembled Bishops. Just last week, the Bishops of New England met together with Vocation Directors of the various New England dioceses in an all-day session to review the current situation and formulate plans for increasing vocations. An outgrowth of that meeting was the formation of a Conference of Vocation Directors in order to coordinate efforts to foster vocations.

"As you well know, our Diocese is greatly blessed with young men and women who, with great generosity of heart and courage of spirit, respond willingly to the grace of a vocation given them by Almighty God. "Our priests have an enviable Turn to Page Three

Ready January 11 ,Charity Ball The Souvenir Booklet for the 19th annual Bishop's Charity Ball of the diocese of FaH River is rapidly being filled. The Ball will be held on Fr.iday, January 11 at the Lincoln Park Ballroom in North Dartmouth with music by Lester Lanin. The Booklet lists six categories. Persons applying for categories receive tickets for the .social event.

The Society of St. Vincent de Paul and the Council of Catholic Women, co-sponsors of the Ball ask that each conference and affiliate submit their names to the Booklet as soon as possible. Rev. Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, diocesan director of the Ball, requests that all member.s of the Ball committee report their final listings

of names for the Booklet as soon as possible.

Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., Bishop of Fall River, i!! the honored guest and the Ball is dedicated to Bishop Cronoin for his efforts and support in behalf of the exceptional and underprivileged children in the southeastern area of Massachusetts of every race, color and creed. The four schools for the exceptional children and the four summer camps for the underprivileged and exceptional children are the recipient of the funds from the Charity Ball.

Msgr. Gomes requests that pastors of parishes having presentees for the Ball submit the names of the representatives to

the presentation chairman, Mrs. James A. O'Brien, Jr. of 37 Forest St., F'all River, by December 18. Thirty-eight parishes are eligible for the honor of presenting a young lady to Bishop Cronin in a colorful presentation ceremony on the night of the Ball.

Fathers accompany their daughters in this outstandJ~ event.

Names for the Hall Booklet may be submitted to the Ball Headquarters, 410 Highland Ave., Fall River. Tickets may be obtained at all Cathollc Church rectories. Members of the Ball Committee and members of the sponsoring ol'ganizatons are to meet 'on Sunday, January 6 at. 1 P.M. at Lincoln Pa-rk for the setting up of decorations.

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PLANNING BALL: Among the many planning the Bishop's Annual Charity Ball to be held Friday, January 11, at Lincoln Park Ballroom, are these from Taunton area: Left to right, Mrs. Richard PaUlson, Immaculate Conception Parish, honorary co-chaiirman of Ball; Camille Denis, St. Jacques Parish, decorations; Rev. Walter A. Sullivan, pastor of Sacred Heart Parish, area director of Ball; Edward Kennedy, St. Joseph Pafish, diocesan president of St. Vincent de Paul Society; and Mrs. William Grover, St. Peter Parish, Dighton, Taunton District president of Council of Catholic Women.

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- ,Introductory Letter to '~~ation~s Bishops' Pastoral on Mary Dearly belm- ~d in Christ, Today, 1 have' the distinct pleasure of promulgating in the Diocese of iall River a Pastoral Letter on the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God. In doing so, I join all the Bishops of ,the dioceses Of the United St~tes, whose collaborative effort: this pastoral represents. The letter, entitled Behold Your Mother, was' formally presented at thE:; National Shrine in Washington duringithe Bishops' Meeting in November of this year. It is especiaily apptopriate that this brief "Intruduction" to' the pastoral be addressed, to all the . faithful of the Diocese of Fall River, for our Diocese is under the special patronage of Our Lady of the Assumption, whose title graces' our Cathedral and whose intercession we take this occasion to invoke, especially for the particular grace of many vocations to tije priesthood and to the religious life. " With all t;he Bishops of the United States, I am addressing to you this resume of the Pastoral Letter on the Bless~d Virgin Mary. We wish to share with you' our faith in the truths concerning her and to.gether with you to express publicly our filial love for her.'The Gospels summon us all to recognize the special place the Mother of Jes~s has in God's plan for the salvation of mankind. The teachings of Popes and Councils lead us to an ever clearer understandi,ng of Mary's privileged position in the. Church. Singular honor has been given her in pi,ety, art, music and literature. Surely this Catholk tradition is a fulfillment of her prophecy: "All ages to come sha.ll call me blessed" (Lk. 1:48). ' In order to serve better the current needs. of men, the Chur~h seeks to adapt herself to the widespread social and cultural changes . of our tiqte. Nevertheles's, under the guidance' of the l:Ioly Spirit, she must preserve intact the divine message whiCh she' has receiv~d from Christ. This includes the special role of Mary in the mystery of the salvation of the human race. Through this letter I we hope to reaffirm our heritage of faith in Mary, the Mother of God, and to encourage authentic devotion to her.

First of all, we should clearly understand that the Second Vatican Council in no way downgraded faith in or devotion to Mary.' On the contrary, the eighth chapter of the Constitution on the Church is a clear and penetrating account of Catholie teaching on the Blessed l\1other of God. Other ages have ereeted shines and temples in her honor. This chapter, fashioned from !the inspir~d texts of Sacred Scripture, the teachings of early Chris~ian writers, and the practice and- prayer life of the Church, is in reality i a , beautiful spiritual shrine in which the Mother of Jesus is honored and from which she continues to speak to us with'a morher's lovi~g concern. Our Holy Father, Pope Paul VI, has repeatec;lly affirmed the position' of the Council. He called the chapter oJil Our Lady "a vast synthesis of Catholic doctrine" concerning her place in the mystery of Christ and his Church. He also recalled that. she was the heavenly patroness to whom Pope John entrusted ~he Councjl.

These words of ours are the preamble to our f~ll. Pastoral Letter on O~r Lady. VIe have called upon dediCated, theologians to aid- us in restating the teachings of the Church about her. Here again the Council documents have guided our approach. We hope and pray that our presentation will be a subject for s~rious study and loving reflection. We desire with all our hearts that it be received into homes and rectories and seminaries, into :schools and ' institutes of' higher learning, into adult education groups, confraternity centers, campus ministries and religious communities. .

The intercession of Mary eXtends not only to irid~viduals but· to the whole community of believers. She has a place in the ongoing •

work of redemption, whiCh has as its goal, "to bring all things- in the heavens and on, earth into one under Christ's headship" (Eph. 1:10). Tbe full sense of Mary's role is summed up in the title Pope Paul gave her, "Mother of the Church." Because of her divine maternity, Mary stands in a unique relationship with her Savior and her Son. "Believing and obeying, she brought forth on ,earth the Father's Son . . . whom God placed as the first born among many brethren, namely, the faithful. In ,their birth and development she' cooperates with a maternal love."

Sometimes anxiety is expressed that devotion to Mary may detract from the position of Jesus, our one Lord and Mediator.

Such fear is unfounded. The more we know arid love Mary, tpe more surely will we know -and love Jesus and understand his mission in the world. It is also true that the more we know Jesus and love Him, the better we will appreciate His Mother's place in God's plan for man's redemption. This is the teaching of the Second VatiCan Council. Her motherly intercession, the Council made clear, in no way diminishes the unique mediation of Christ, but rather shows its power. God's free choice is the reason for Mary's place in the plan for our redemption. She is totally dependent on her Son. Commenting on the words of the Council, Paul VI declared.

"Devotion to the Virgin Mother of God does not stop with her, but has to be regarded as a help which of its very n~ture leads men to Christ."

Dearly beloved brothers and' sisters, this is the faith we share _ with you: We honor Mary as the Mother of Jesus Chnst, the Incarnate Word of God. We recognize her unique and exalted role in the redemption her Son broilght to men. We love Mary. We try to imitate her virtues of faith, purity, humility and co'nformity to the· will of God, whiCh are pa.rt of the very texture of the Gospel message.

We acknowledge that devotion to Mary, the joyful duty of all of us, has a special funetion in exalting the gignity of woman and fostering respect for her person. We believe in the power of Mary's intercession to bring us, as individuals and as a community, under the influence of Christ's redeeming mercy. , With all the af{ection of our hearts and the full submission of our minds to the truths ,oj[ our holy Faith, we repeat the Church's familiar, words in praise of the Mother of Jesus: Blessed Blessed Blessed Blessed

be the great: Mother of God, Mary most holy. be her holy and Immaculate Conception. 'be her glorious Assumption. be the name of Mary, Virgin and Mother.

United with our Holy Father, we proclaim once more the .preeminent position of Mary in "the mystery of Christ and the Church." We urge the restoration and renewal of the anCient love of -Christendom for the Mother of. the Lord as a tribute to lay tenderly at her feet. In this Holy Year, we pray that she may fill the hearts of all men with peace and lead them to know and love Jesus Christ, her Son, and to share in the abundant fruits of His .redemption.

Devotedly yours in Christ,

Bishop of Fall River

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Heinz, su~reme president of t.he Western Catho1j.c Union, was reelected to 'the CCF's post of ex.. €lcutive vice-president.

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Appeal for Vocations Continued from Page One record in fostering vocations, not only seeking them out and encouraging them, but also by the very example of their own dedicated holy lives.

"Nonetheless, we wish always to be alert to the necessity of constantly and persistently encouraging young men to answer the call to serve in the Priesthood of Jesus Christ. Likewise, as priests in charge of souls, we feel the duty of fostering in the young men and women for whom we devotedly care the vocation to the Brotherhood or the Sisterhood whenever this grace may he given to a young person by the Holy Spirit.

"The mission of Jesus Christ ,must be carried out in this Diocese, in this country, and in the missions, but to do this, there must be generous and dedicated laborers in the vineyard of the Lord.

"I feel that we mList invoke in a special way, the blessing~ and graces of our Divine Master on our work for vocations, and it would seem that to sponsor a Diocesan Day for Vocations, with a special Mass at St. Mary's Cathedra~ would be the best way. to accomplish this. This would likewise be a fitting part of our Diocesan participation in the preparation for the Holy Year.

"Traditionally, on the anni-

First Mass Set For Dec. 16 Rev. Brother Francis David Lavich, SS.CC., son of Mr. and Mr~. Pett;!r S. Lavich of .MiIlbury, Mass'., will be ordained to the priesthood 'by Most' Rev. Bishop Bernard J. Flanagan Bishop of Worcester on Satur: day, Dec. 15. The ordination ceremony will be held at St. Catherine of Sweden Church, Worcester.

A native of Worcester, Brother ,Francis graduated from Millbury Catholic High School and entered Sacred Hearts Novitiate Wareham, Mass. making his pro: fession of vows in August 1967~ He continued his studies at St. Mary's College, Winona, Minn. and then went on to the Washington Theological Coalition Washington. ' Last summer he attended Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan.

Since his ordination to the diaconate he has served at Our Lady of the Assumption Church, New Bedford where a first mass ,is being planned for Sunday, Dec, 16.

versary of my installation as Bishop ,of Fall River, I have offered a Mass of Thanksgiving at the Cathedral, surrounded by the priests, religious and laity of the Diocese. This year, on my third anniversary as your Bishop, in addition to the note of thanksgiving, I wish to celebrate this Mass with the special petition that Almighty Go~ will bless our Diocese with a rich harvest of vocations to the Priesthood and Religious Life ...

"I shall be appreciative of efforts which you would undertake in your own parishes on the weekend of Dec. 15-16 to express my gratitude and my prayerful good wishes to all the faithful of the Diocese and to solicit the good prayers of all for God's guidance and blessing as I enter my fourth year as Bishop of Fall River.

"I shall be doubly grateful for your efforts on that weekend to have occasion, at all Masses, to encourage prayers for vocations on the part of all our people, and careful consideration of a life devoted to the service of Almighty God and the Church by each and everyone of our young men and ;women."

Shrine Dedicated

By CardinQI Krol MIAMI (NC) - The newest Marian shrine in the nation, designed and f.inanced by Cuban refugees as a symbol of their gratitude to America, was dedicated here by Cardinal John Krolof Philadelphia, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Thousands of Miami's Cuban refugees crowded the site of the Shrine of Our Lady of Charity of Cobre, patroness of Cuba, on land donated by the Miami archdiocese.

• Following the dedication, a Mass was concelebrated by Archbishop Coleman F. Carroll of Miami; Cardinal Krol; Bishop Eduardo Boza Masvidal, former auxiliary bishop of Havana who was exiled in 1961 by Castro and who now resides in Caracas, Venezuela; and Spanish,speakdng priests of south Flor.ida.

"In the same way your forefathers prayed to Our Lady of Charity during the struggle for independence and during the early years of your republic," Cardinal Krol said in Spanish, "so now she will inspire Cubans in exile and will lead you to a r~al libeMtion wherever' you settle."

Cardinal Krol also said that he hopes "that in a near day, your brothers in Cuba may enjoy the same freedoms you have reached here,"

Acquit Critics Of P,ortugal lJISBON (NC) - ·Four Catholic critics of Portugal's efforts to suppress independence movements in its African territories, including a priest and a former priest, have been acquitted of acting against the security of the state.

'Fhe four are' Jose' Felicictade" . Alves, "a former priest' Who had, , been a constailt critic of Portugal's colonial policies; Father Amilio Tavares Cardozo, former rector of the Olivais major seminary in Lisbon; Nuno Theotonio Pereira, nephew of the fOrIner Portuguese ambassador to the United States and Great Britain; and Manuel Mendes Mourac, a student at the Higher Institute of Languages. ,The four have all been free on . It's early to think of next summer, but Boy Scouts of Troop bail.

In addition, the "case of the 11, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Rato chapel," involving a sit~in Church, New Bedford, are planin that Lisbon chapel last New ning towards it already, and at a Year's Eve to protest the Por- recent banquet honoring boys tuguese wars in Africa, has been meriting Ad Altare Dei and Pope closed without anyone being Pius XII awards for their work brought to trial. Theotonio Per~ in religious Scout activities, it eira, an architect who has de- was announced that members exsigned several new Catholic pect to repeat their, successful churches ,in and around Lisbon, camping trip of last August to . was one of about 50 persons ar- Martha's Vineyard, come warm weather and school vacations. rested at the Rato chapel.

Films of the trip shown at the In the trial of the four critics of Portugal's colonial policy, the banquet served to rekindle en-, prosecution had charged that thusiasm for the project, which they belonged to an l,mauthor- will involve loading food, biized group in Lisbon, that they cycles and tents aboard a Marhad held meetings without au- tha's Vineyard steamer for a thorization 'by Lisbon's civil gov- one week stay on the island. ernor and that they had contino Tour Island ued to issue a periodical after the government had ordered publicaLast summer the Scouts travt,ion halted. eled a total of 131 miles to island points of interest, including Gay Head, Felix Point, a wild life sanctuary, the island's state forest and its several small commuContinued from Page One Chaplain's aides from Attle- nities. They were led by Ted boro area troops will be hosts Souza, Scoutmaster, Gil Varao, assistant, and Larry Silva, comfor' the program.

Registration forms are avail- mitteeman.

Most points visited were on able from Rev. Normand Boulet, Attleboro-Taunton Area Scout the north side of the island, Chaplain at St. Joseph's Rectory, noted the Scout leaders. This Attleboro. Deadline for registra- summer's tour will concentrate on exploring its south side. tion is Friday, December 28th.

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May the Christmas spirit of peace, contentment and brotherhood abide again in the hearts of men the world over. May it rekindle love understanding and justice toward one anothe; as the Christ Child had desired with his birth in Bethlehem 20 centuries ago.

Christmas Blessings to You and Your Loved Ones

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Decision to Support UFW True Act of Reconc'iliatio'n . One of the last-but by no means least importarititems on the agenda of the recent bishops' meeting in Washington was the farm labor problem. The reason this matter was held over until the very end of the meeting is very simple.' The agenda for the meeting was drawn committee's recommendations and called upon the NCCB to up and approved several support the UFW in its n~n­ weeks ago by the NCCB violent struggle to improve' the

Administrative Committee. At that time the bishops' Committee on Farm Labor ~aived its right to make a· report at the Novem-

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lot of one of ,the most disadvantaged group of workers in the American economy. When the question was finally called for', the assembly unanimously adopted the following resolutions: Had Special Importance .

1. That :the NCCB. go 'on rec-

ord in support of· the right of field workers in the agricultural GEORGE·G. industry to free secret· . ballot elections which' will determine HIGGINS' whether or not they want union representation and which union _ r~:IittillE!!!i'~ they want to represent them. The her meeting of the hierarchy. NCCB calls upon the growers and The committee did' so on the the Teamsters to accede tOIJthis' .grounds that since the Teamsters demand of .the UFW without furand the United Farm Workers ther delay.

2. That the NCCB endorse and had just settled on the terms of a iurisdictional pact which prom- support UFW's boycott of lettuce 'ised in due time to bring an end and grapes until such time as to the farm labor dispute, there free secret ballot elections are really wasn't any need for the held. committee, much less for the It was widedly reported in the hody of bishops, to take a'ny press ~hat evening and the folfurther. action, at least for the lowing day that this' was the time being. first time that the American Unfort\lnately, . hElwevcr, on bishops had taken such specific the eve of the NCCB meeting the action in support of a particular Teamsters repudiated this p<!-ct 'u?io~' in·.·a controversial labor and anl)punced tll~t tpey intend-'l': ·d.I~,~ute.~he press w.as correct in cd to honor their collusive con- tha. regard. Normally the body tracts with the California grow- . of .bishops leaves it to the approers. This meant that the "vel-Y' :pnate "NCC:B. ?r USCC departexistence of the UFW was in ments or dIVISIOn to handle the jeopardy. sp~cifics of any given problem in . . . tllIS area. lYIattcr of Urgcncy Cardinal's Definition In the light of this unforeseen Some people will contend, I emergency, the bishops' Committee on Farm Labor was forced am sure, that the bishops made a to reconsider its own position. mistake in voting to support the The committee met on the first UFW. They will argue that the day of the NCCB General Assem- bishops should never take sides bly and, following a careful re- in disputes of this kind - that view of the current status of the their support of the UFW is difarm labor pr.oblem, voted to visive, whereas the role of the take the matter to the floor of hierarchy should be one of reconthe assembly and to ask the en- ciliation. On the face of it, that tire body of bishops to support might seem like a plausible ar· the UFW in its desperate strug- gument, but, in my opinion, it doesn't come to grips with the gle for survival. .

Since the committee's request real meaning of reconciliation as for a place on the agenda of the defined, for example, by. Cardibishops' meeting was SIQ late in nal Pellegrino of Tur.in, Italy, being filed, .the committee had to' in a recent pastoral letter on the get in iineand wait its turn at Christian understanding of that the podium. This will exp,lain ·term.

Writing on the theme of the why a matter of such urgencyand of such deep concern to the forthcoming Holy Year, Cardinal bishops - didn't come to the- Pellegrino wen't out of' his way floor until the very last. session to note that reconciJ,iation, prop~ . of the NCCB meeting when the erly understoQd, "does not mean' assembly was getting ready to a too facile embracing' of one another \Yhich closes one's 'eyes adjourn. ,/ Portunately, however, the ,to injustice ... oppression, exchair was able to give the com- ploitation, hatred, revenge. . . mittee all the time it needed to There are sins and occasions of present its emergency report on sin which must lJe firmly dethe farm labor problem, which nounced, and the denunciation of report, as indicated above, con- these evils must be confirmed by cluded with a strong recommen- . the personal and communitarian dation that the NCCB come out testimony or witness of justice in support of the UFW. and solidarity." St. Chrysostom The spirited discussion from himself, who has reconciliation the floor following the presenta- a,nd. charity so much at heart, tion of the committtee's report never lets 'an occasion go by to was one of Ithe highlights of the denounce, with realism and entire bishops' meeting. A dozen vigor, all forms 'Of egoism by or more bishops took part in the which the strong oppress the discussion. Almost to a man, weak." . they vigorously supported the ( © 1973· NC -Features )

MEN SIGNS :OF GOOI) WILL: December 16 program on CBS will feature Eugene O'N~ill National Theater of the Deaf doing Dylon Thomas' "A Child's Christmas in Wales," with deaf performers telling the story in sign language and Sir Michael Redgrave ne;trrating for the hearing audience. NC Photo.

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ROME (NC) - A niece of ~nformed beforehand of the masPope Pius XII has asked Italian sacre ordered by the German 00authorities to halt showing of cupiers of Rome in reprisal for the f,iJm "Massacre in Rome," the killing of 33 SS troops by which portrays her famous uncle Italian partisans. as being indifferent to the Nazi Mrs. Rossignani's complaint massacre of 335 Italians in Rome , stated that both the film and in World War II. the book "constitute an ignoble Mrs. Eleonora Rossignani, debasement" of Pius XII and is daughter of Elizabeth Pacelli, the contrary to the truth. sister of Pope Pius XH, asked The complaint asked authori· court actiori aga,inst the film, ties to stop showings of the film, which stars Richard Burton and which was said to be a "daily of.Marcello Mastrioanni and which fense against the memory of Pius is based on the book "Death in X1'I.' Rome," written by American American Jesuit historian Father Robert Graham said the Jewish author Robert Katz.

The book and the movie main- movie "is a total distortion of tain that Pope Pius XII had been history."

THINKING OF CHRISTIVIAS THE HOLY FATHER'S MISSIO!\l AID TO_THE

PRO-LIFE _PROGRAM: Taking part in Birthright Program on behalf. of life, sponsored for Greater New Bedford Area by St. Joseph's Church, Fairhaven, were, left to right, Gordon Baker, educational chairman and coordinator of Birthright, Albert Loranger, president of parish Sacred Heart Society, and Mrs. Joseph Borges, president of parish Association of the Sacred Hearts.

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Redemptorist Served Apostleship 'of Sea OCONOMOWOK (NC) - Redemptorist Father Thomas A. McDonough. retired national secretary of the Apostleship of the Sea and for 25 years chaplain of the Port of New Orleans, died here in Wisconsin Nov. 19 at the age of 70 after surgery for lung cancer.

Father McDonougb, who retired in June, 1972, had been residing at the novitiate here of the Redemptorist Fathers' St. Louis province.

As national secretary of the Apostleship of the Sea, he coor· . dinated the work of the 83 port chaplains in the United States by letters, personal visits, surveys and working with bishops to correlate information.

In 1971, Father McDonough, travelling on a tow boat with a fleet of barges, made a thousandmile "f.ield trip" on the Mississippi River in an effort to reach some of the 80,000 inland boat· men and show the Church's concern for them.

"The Church can't become too involved in lectures, meetings and workshops," he said at the end of the trip. "We have to get with it; we've got to move."

Negro Spirituals At Papal Audience VA111CAN 'CITY (NC) - Negro spirituals filled a Vatican audience hall Dec. 5 as a group of American black singers serenaded Pope Paul VI at a general audience.

Pope Paul welcomed the "Stars of Faitb of Black Nativity" who are touring j::urope, saying.

"Your Negro spirituals and Gospel songs give pleasure to many people and they are surely equally pleasing to Our Lord."

In· 1968, he was recognized by the Board of Commissioners of the port of New Orleans for 25 years of service to the waterfront as a man known and respected by seamen of all nations.

Born in St. Louis, he joined the Redemptorists in 1925 and was ordained in 1930.

Founded Club His first contact with the waterfront was at Sacred Heart parish _in seattle from 1939 to 1941.

He became chaplain of the port of New Orleans in 1944 and served in that post until 1969.

He helped found the Catholic Maritime Club in New Orleans.

He served as a national secretary of the Apostleship of the Sea from the establishment of the U. S. branch of the international organization in 1947.

Founded ,in 1932, the organization establishes in every seaport centers that sailors can call "home." The services of a port chaplain are provided at every center for sailors removed from immediate parish influence.

Father McDonough is survived by five sisters in the St. Louis area.

Polish extraction.

-Only two corporations had officers of Spanish-speaking origin, and only one corporation had a black officer.

-Fifty-four corporations had no officers or directors from any of the four groups.

The institute's study reflected minority representation in major industrial firms, retailers, utilities, transportation - companies, banks and saving and loan institutions.

Out of an area population of nearly 7 million, Polish-Americans make up 6.9 per cent, yet they have only four directors and 10 officers in those 106 corporations, the report showed.

Italian-Americans at 4.8 per cent of the population have 26 directors and 30 officers; Span- . ish-speaking Americans at 4.4 per cent have one director and two officers; and blacks, although representing 17.6 per cent of the population, has only five directors and one officer, the study revealed.

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Russell Barta, professor of social science at Mundelein College and author of the study, found that those of Polish, Spanishspeaking and black origins were "virtually absent from the upper echelons of management."

The study was prepared for the National Center for Urban Ethnic Affairs, Washington, D.C., whose director is Msgr. Geno Baroni.

Barta said that persons of Italian descent were somewhat more numerous in the executive suite than the o'ther groups. Yet 75 corporations out of the 106 still had no officers of Italian origin, he said.

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Continued from Page One Sulpician Father William J. Lee, president of St. Mary Seminary and University in Baltimore, told the conference that pastoral planning "can improve the' chances of a diocesan decision-maker making good decisions.

The planners' job, Father Lee said, is to gather all the data, acquire all the knowledge pos· sible about the situation, then help the decision-maker determine some concrete priorities.

"PlanIiers' lives aren't easy," he added. "They're aiming at moving targets, not fixed objectJives. The longer-range the planning is the more the target shifts."

The essential ingredient, he noted, is flexibility because of rapid change, new knowledge ,and instant communication.

Preparing A Christmas It has been said that Advent is not so much a time for preparing oneself for Christmas as a time for 'preparing a Christmas for oneself. The kind of a Christmas a person will have depends on these weeks of preparation.

If the preparation is a desultory one, then Christmas will come up suddenly, will take on the air of a particularly pleasant holiday, and will be little more. If the preparation concentrates on shopping and cards and home decorations, then Christmas will be a time of' physical let-down, an interruption of nervous tension, a respite after' a grind of furious activity. If the preparation, on the other hand, is truly a spiritual one, one that concentrates on the essence of Christmas-the greater coming of, Christ into the individual life-then Christmas will be a spiritual experience, an ?pening of the soul to the grace~ of God.

A preparation needs two things-the willingness to, take the time and the willingness to make the effort.

The readings of the daily Advent Masses provide rich food for reflection. Thinking on them for only five or ten minutes a day would give a person an insight into the coming of Christ that would enlarge the vision and open up the mind to God's plan for man's redemption.'

Laapsed Catholics Continued from Page One "Parents are worried and wonder what has gone wrong. Before laying the blame on Catholic schools, teachers, catechists' or the Vatican Council we ought to face the facts. One certain fact is that what is happening in the Church ,is happening on a much larger scale' outside . . .

But the effort should be made every day to decide on what one wants Christmas to be. And then one's preparation should aim at this ideal. With God's grace, it can be realized.

A New Era

Same Attitudes "Young people throughout the world have become united as In a message issued on Tuesday' of this week, Pope never ,before. They sing the same Paul voiced optimism in the sincerity of the desire of world songs, shout the same slogans leaders to avoid war. He wrote~ "The idea of peace is already and have the same attitude towards authority. This youth outvictorious in the thought of all men in posts of responsibility. look oveJ:comes barriers of lanNo head of a nation can today wish for war; everyone guage, race and class. Typists. yearns for general peace in the world." students, factory workers' and children in the East as The Pope was not voicing merely a pious wish. Nor st. William's Church school REV. JOHII f. MOORE ill the West are taking the same was he unmindful of the complexities on the world scene. line.

He stated that the world scene is marked "by fierce out"They refuse to be told what breaks of international conflict, by.implacable class warfare, to do and what not to do..They outbursts gf revolutionary freedoms, the crushing of human It should be quite clear to the vast majority of American regard the old moral rules as out rights and fundamental liberties, and by unforeseen symp- dtizens that' under the pres1ent inability of thE~ federal gov· of date. Diff.iculty over morals has always been the chief reason . toms of world-wide economic instability." , ernment to govern, some serious thoughts should be given ' for giving up faith.

"Most young people are too In spite ofthis turmoil, the Holy Father still sees men tc? the refoqpation and the refinement of our present form of constitutional govern..

Honest to go to Mass and Comof leadership as sincerely desiring peace. And he insi$ts If these events alone were not munion if they are unwilling to ment.

The executive branch that each person must support the 'international peace suff.icient to make the ordinary obey the law of God. If they canmovement: "P.eace is possible if each of us wants it. Each is, in turmoiI, the legislative man realize that we face not a' not make a good Confession and of us must listen in his ,own conscience to the impelling , is totally confused and the mere ~risis of government, cer- promise amendment it is far betjUdkiary has reached a stage of' tainly then the fads of the ener- ter not to receive Holy Com~all: "Peace depends on you too.' " le~al ineffectiveness. Certainly gy crisis and ,the role qf the oil munion."

There is' a weariness among people the world over tlie l~ntire mess that we refer to barons, the loss of jobs, beat with conflict 'and violence. There is a realization that force a~ Watergate; the White House and transportation and the rapid Plumbers and the I.T.T. affair of, inflation in markets, breeds only more force, and into the vacuum that destruc- along with' countless other rise The parliamentary form of stores and banks might hit home government and its variations is tion brings about com~s on,ly failure. a~uses of public trust should in. with the message tha'tsomething . . . di,cate that all is not well with not rotten in Denmark but in now the accepted democratic sysThe Pope sees an· era when world leaders desire peace 04 r present form of federal rule. isWashington. tem of government among the vast majority of free nations inand·, while they "may ,differ, and do, on how to effect it, cluding our neighbors in Canada. the aim' of peace will remaiilthedomin.!ting force in their New Nations Avoid American Federalism Seemingly in such a system the thinking a:nd'a~tlVity.This is a spirit thafn~eds encouraging ,What then can ,be done to safe· is in one way 'or another the people have a more direct and an~, s~ppoI1, " ' guard our repUblic, our constitu- yreation of the legislature. The influential voice in the demotiqnal freedoms and our respect legislative and executive func- cratic process and not merely for true law and order? How can tions while placed in separate the huge corporations, the giants w~ bring abo~t effective govern- hands are not independent of of industry and the' conglomerment that is accountable and each other. There is no separa- ates of Wall Street. It would be held responsibie to the voting tion of powers in the American well for us as a nation to sericitizen? If we look around to- sense. The executive is respon- ously study the parliamentary day's present world and recog- sible to the legislature, and can system that we may reform and .1 nI?e t h at none 10 f the new emerggovern only so long as it' pos- renew our own unique brand of ing nations pattern themselves sesses the confidence of the leg- Federalism. No voting citizen after Americ~l) federalism but ,islature, that is Holong as it should fear reform when reform OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER rather look to' the tried and ef· can command a majority vote in is needed to preserve freedom, Published weekly by The Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall River fe~tive form of parliamentary any matter which it deems im- justice and liberty. If this means go~ernment, tI;ten we might fin'd portant. In turn, the executive a new constitutional convention 41 0 Highla~d Avenue sotyle answers that would help has the power to dissolve the on a national level, then so be it. ·675·7151 Fall River, Mass. 02722 this nation avoid the conflicts in legislature and seek a fresh man- It ,is about time that' the Ameri· th~ future that now beset us. date from the people whenever can people, the American press PUBLISHER Britain offers the leading and the situation demands it. The and ,the American news media blqest example of the parliamen- constitution in such a parliament stop cursing the darkness of Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, D.O., S.T.D. tally form of government as dis· is- notemboctied in a formal le- Washington and energetically deGENERAL MANAGER ' ASST. GENERAL MANAGER tingu.ished from the 'presidential gal document. It is rather a body velop new forms and new sysfo~m. Under the parliamentary of accepted praetice evolved tems of government that will enRev. Msgr. Daniel F. Shalloo, M.A. iev. John P., Driscoll sYstem the legislature is elected through centuries of political sure the survival of American but not the executive, the la'tter conflict and is never static. democracy.

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For Second Year, Ojje_r 'Holiday Cooking Favorite For the second year Anchor readers have been nice enough to share their holiday specialties with the rest of us. Here's a round-up of delights to increase your Yuletide eating pleasure. :;:

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Cookies or bars are perfect for the holidays and this recipe is requested for many affairs at St. Louis Church in Fall River from the president of the guild, Mrs. Wilfred St. Michel.

Christmas Cookies 2 sticks shortening I cup sugar 2 eggs 2 cups flour I,{ teaspoon salt I teaspoon vanilla I can cherry pie filling

I) Cream together the sugar and shortening.

2) Beat the eggs one at a time into this mixture. Add vanilla.

3) Sift together the flour, and salt.

4) Add the dry ingredients to the shortening egg mixture and form into a dough. Divide in balf.

5) Pat the dough into bottom l,lf 13 x 9 inch pan, that has 'been greased well.

6) Spread pie filling over bottom crust, leaving about I,{ of it for topping.

7) Top with remaining crust mixture.

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Another floaty, heavenly dessert is this light and lovely Cranberry Bavarian Cream from Mrs. , William O'Neil of St. Louis parish in Fall River.

Cranberry Bavarian Cream I envelope of unflavored gel-

atin I,{ cup cold water I large can jellied cranberries I,{ cup sugar or corn syrup I tablespoon lemon juice

lis teaspoon salt 2 egg whites I cup heavy cream

1) Soften gelatin in cold water and then dissolve in the top of a double boiler over hot water.

2) Crush the jellied cranberry sauce and combine with sugar and lemon juice.

3) Add the gelatin and stir welI. 4) Beat the egg whites with salt until stiff.

5) Fold tbis into cranberry mixture.

6) Fold in whipped cream 7) Rinse a large bowl in cold • water, fill with mixture and chill until it is firm enough to be unmolded.

Cookies are Christmas and there is no more tasty Christmas delicacy than just a touch of liquor for a sophisticated touch.

This rum balI recipe comes from Miss Donna Moniz of St. Louis parish in FalI River.

Holiday Rum Balls

Bourbon on a Cloud

2 cups vanilla wafer crumbs or graham cracker crumbs 1 cup sifted confectioners' sugar pinch of salt I cup finely chopped nuts or chopped coconut 2 tablespoons of white corn syrup or honey ~ to % cup brandy or rum depending on taste 2 tablespoons of cocoa I) RolI. the'crumbs fine and add the sugar, cocoa, salt and nuts.

2) Combine the corn syrup and . the ,liquor.

3) Pour into the dry ingredients just enough of tbe liquid to hold the ingredients together.

Shape into 1 inch' halIs and roll in confectioners'· 'sugar or dry cocoa.

4) Store in a tightly covered container at least 24 hours be· fore using.

Makes 45 to 50 rum balIs.

2 eggs separated Y2 'cup bourbon % envelope unflavored gelatin Y2 cup sugar 1,4 cup chopped walnuts % cup heavy cream whipped fresh strawberries or thawed frozen strawberries.

1) In top of double boiler, beat egg yolks slightly and add bourbon, stir-ring constantly (Addition of boul'bon too quickly tends to cook the egg yolks.) Set aside.

2) Combine the gelatin and half the sugar" mix well.

3) Add the egg yolk mixture to the gelatin. Cook over hot, not boiling water, stirring constantly until mi~ture coats spoon, about 10 minutes.

4) Beat the egg whites until foamy and gradually add the remaining sugar. Continue beating until stiff and glossy.

5) Fold in the egg yolk mixture and chill for 20 minutes.

Fold in walnuts and whipped cream. Turn into a 4 or 6 cup mold. Chill until firm.

6) Unmold and serve gar: nished with strawberries.

For the sweet teeth that appear in abundance around the holidays this is a quick and delightful way to satisfy them. Mrs. George MelIo of St. Anthony of Padua parish in FalI River finds that her two sons will eat as much of th:s as she can make.

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malIows , 1 cup chopped walnuts 1) Melt cooking,oil and chocolate in top of ,double boiler.

2) Line cookie sheet with waxed paper.

3) Spread half of the chocolate mixture on the waxed paper.

4) Place thz marshmalIows on the first layer, do not cut.

5) Pour remainder of chocolate mixed with the walnuts over the marshmalIows..'

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This famous cheese balI has become almost as welI known as the gal who whips it up, Mrs. Daniel O'Connell of St. Joseph's parish in FalI River. Carol guarantees the ease with which this can be made and the great com· ments from the people who try it. She is the president of the League of Women Voters of ,Greater FalI River, so there is many a buffet that this cheese appetizer graces.

Peppy 'Cheese Ball 1 8 ounce package of cream cheese, softened Y2 jar of sweet pepper relish chopped walnuts ( about Y2 a cup) 1) Cream the cheese and relish together until it can be formed into a ball. RolI the balI in the chopped nuts and refrigerate until ready to serve.' Serve with crackers.

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From one of my faithful readers who never fails me when I need soine new recipes (Ms. Alix Marie Cote of Taunton, Mass.)-and this pie is a very welcome addition to the recipe page.

Special Dressing

Favorite Cranberry Pie

(for bird 12 to 16 pounds) 1 smaH onion 1 teaspoon salt 2 loaves of stale Portuguese bread 2 eggs 1 onion, minced 1 large clove garlic parlsley (small bunch) ,2 teaspoons chopped pepper salt to taste 2 Tablespoons salad oil 1) Cook the gizzards. heart, and liver with one small onion and the teaspoon of salt until tender (about an hour). Drain, reserving broth for gravy.

2) Remove crusts from bread and break up into hunks. Soak in cold water a few minutes and then squeeze with hands as much as possible to remove mO,st of the water.

3) Saute the onion and garlic in the oil until golden. .

4) Add the parsley.

5) Beat eggs in a bowl, add the squeezed bread and mix well.

Add this to the onion, garlic and' parsley mixture, mixing well.

Add the pepper, salt, and chopped gizzards, liver, etc, (these should have been chopped very fine.) Stir over low flame a few minutes. Taste to be sure it is seasoned enough. Cool well be- . fore stuffing bird.

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Cranberries and oranges are a natural wedding and what could be a better setting for tJhis blend than a cranber,ry-orange bread.

This one comes from Mrs. William (Eileen Shea) Dennis of Holy Ghost parish in Tiverton, R. I.

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2) Cover with strips of pastry (lattice style) or cover with reg· ular style pastry slotted here and there.

1) Bake in a 425' oven for 30 minutes or, until golden brown. .* * * Another recipe from this cooking enthusiast is an unusual and exciting one called.

Cranberry-Orange Bread 2 cups (all purpose) flour

1 Y2 teaspoons baking powder 1 Y2 teaspoons salt 1 cup sugar Y2 teaspoon baking soda 2 Tablespoons shortening (level) juice and rind of one orange 1 beaten egg 1 cup nuts chopped small 1 cup cranberries, .chopped small 1) Cut up the cranberries and nuts.

2) Sift together twice the flour, baking powder, salt, sugar and baking soda.

3) In a measuring cup place the shortening, juice and rind of the orange and boiling water until cup equals % full.

4) Add the liquid to the beaten egg and pour all of this at once into the dry ingredients, mixing well. Fold in the nuts and cranberries.

5) Pour into a greased bread loaf pan and bake in a 325' oven for one hour.

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Says Motherholod Career Requires Gra\dulate Study Nurses, teachers and chauffeurs need licenses. Finance 'managers, purchasing agents, systems managers, as well as chairmen of boards, must have training and competence.

Chefs, governesses, maids, laundresses, and cleaning wom- ' en must meet standards of . performance or they're fired. has broken her picture window twice..

But most girls start a caSome philosophy would also reer in motherhood with a prove useful in the last situation. bit of b,abysitting, a home-economics class, and possibly a course in child psychology as their qualifications.

By MARY CARSON

With that throwing arm your son could become a great ballplayer ... if he will just learn better aim.

Aside from the basics in homemaking, the course would include mechanics, plumbing, carpentry ... and naturally, minor surgery.

Mock Motherhood Final degrees would be offered only after a simulated exercise in mock-motherhood, to, be held from November to the end of March.

This session would require controlled conditions. The candidate would be given half a Gozen children, aged 16 to a new infant. There must be at least , one bout with a communicable disease, which. the "mother" never had. ' Aside from colds, homework, flue, slush and. II first crush, one major appliance will break and take 10 days to be fixe<.l, the car won't start when the children are late for school, and a snowflake costume will be made on 12 hour notice. ' I'm sure many girls taking the course will flunk ... or decide that's really not the car~er they want for the next 30 years of their lives. And better they find it out ahead of time.

Others will thrive on it ... will succeed ... and go into mother'hood prepared and pre-trained for what all previous generations have had to learn along the way with on-the-job training.

It's just t~ken.for granted that a woman is born knowin'. What logical reason is there to believe a woman automatically has the talent and expertise to raise a family just because she's given birth?

I believe that if we're going to adv,ance womanhood, we must require extensive realistic school training in raising a family. It should start in kindergarten, and if there is any aptitude, contiriue through graduate study.

A prime course, in' the advanced studies, would be speed reading. Unless you can breeze through 750 to 1000 words a minute you cannot possibly keep up with all the "urgent messages for parents" that will come home from school with your kids. . Selective Hearing , A second subject would' be m.usic ... majoring in concentra, tion. This would provide' the selective hearing training, that ' you need. You must be able to Van Thieu Contributes turn off in your mind radios and To Scholarship Fund record players, and above it, hear CINCINNATI (NC) - Presithe scratching of a toddler's pen- dent Nguyan Van Thieu of the cil all over the report that Republic of (South) Vietnam has Daddy stayed up all night com- contributed $1,000 to Xavier Unipleting. versity for the memorial scholA crash session in 'military arship fund honoring the late logistics would be invaluable ... Lt. Robert T. Rice of Springfield, just to prepare you to move the who was killed in Vietnam Aug. troops to all the required Satur- 8, 1970, while leading a. Fourth day activities.

Infantry Division platoon.

In political science, the course The scholarship fund was eswoultl cover diplomacy between tablished by Lt. Rice's parents, estranged nations. How inval- Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Rice, uable such training would be in Sr., who have written to hunexplaining to the optician why dreds of individuals and firms your child has broken guaran- fqr donations ·to the fund. teed eyeglass frames three times; When a group of Vietnamese or to a neighbor why your child recently came to Dayton's Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Conference Supports where Rice is employed, for a period of training. he invited State Anti-Smut Bill .. HARRJ:SBURG (NC) - Too them to his home for dinner and Pennsylvania Catholic Confer- asked them to deliver a letter ence will support the strongest to President Thieu when they possible anti-pornography law al- went home.

The ,president's check for lowable under the U.S. Supreme $1,000 in response to the letter Court's June 22 decision.

Howard J. Fetterhoff, execu- was directed to Xavier through tive director of the conference, - the office of Ambassador Tran delivered the conference's posi- Kim, Phuong, who spoke of his tion to the Pennsylvania House nation's "deep gratitude for the .Law and Justice Committee dur- services of the armed forces of ing hearin~s on a bill which the United States and our heartwould place new limits on the felt appreciation for the most' sale and distribution of obscene valuable effort of Mr. and Mrs. .

Robert T, Rice, Sr." materials.

To Lobby Suit WASHiNGTON (NC) - The U.S. Catholic Conference (USCC) has denied that·it is a lobbying - group. Therefore, it said, it should not be made to cease its anti-abortion campaign until it registers as a lobby.

Women's Action Lobby, Inc. . filed suit in U.S. district court here against the usee, alleging that the USCC acts as a lobbying group but is not registered with Congress as provided by law.

The usec's reply maintains that the USCC does not meet the definition of a lobbying group, saying it does "not directly or indirectly solicit, collect or receive money."

Furtber, the reply said that ordering the USCC to register "\liould constitute an impermissible invasion of fundamental rights of free speech, petition and free exercises of religion ..."

The initiation of a civil suit, the usce maintained,. was inappropriate because the law regulating lobbying activities 'provides solely for criminal prosecution of alleged vjolations and not for civil suits, which Women's Action Lobby initiated.

Women's Action Lobby, the ENERGETIC ABOUT ENERGY: Despite cold and rainy usce reply said, does not have wea.ther, seventh graders from Queen' .of Pea.ce School in "standing to maintain"-a real North Arlington, N.J., march with homemade signs support- or substantial interest in· the case ing conservation of energy. A Sunday ban on gas sales was which is required of a plaintiff in order to begin legal proobserved widely Dec. 2 at the request of President Nixon ceedings.

and other fuel-saving measures are expected to be put into effect under a new federal energy agency. NC Photo.

Cons'c'ience English Bishops Ask Fair Deal· for People~ , ' Of Underdeveloped Nations LEEDS (Nd)-"The cup of tea or cnff~e you had this morning or the sugar which sweetened the f~lHy breakifa,st cereal" help "bring the Cp.ristian conscience face to fa,ce with real qUestions of Tight and wrong in this mod.. ern world," according to a pas.. toral. letter by two English bish.. ops. In the letter Bishop William Wheeler of Leeds and his auxir.. iary, Boisbop Gerald Moverley, called for a fair deal for the peop~e of the Third World of under.. dl,Jveloped nations. o TE!a, coffee and sugar and lll;any matellilitls like them are produced in poorer parts of the w;oJrld, the tw<? bishops said. "We: tqe lrich coun~ries, buy many of' the~! raw materials more cheaply U~an we should.

"The sell'ing countries have little choice l;lecause if they do n&t sell at oiJr price they may n6t sell at aU. We strike hard blj.rg.ains against desperate peopl¢ to gain advantage and profit for ourselves~ It is no doubt gqod business - but it is not Ohri:;tian."

The richer countries get what th,ey need con)paratively cheaply alld the workers in the poorer cQuntries "receive less than a fair d~y's reward for their work and are unable to help themselves," th:e hishops said. ' "Worse even than that," the t\\(O hishops added, the rich countries of the European Common M~rket are now planning to produce more sugar themselves and thereby remove the livelihood of m~ny workers in the Caribbean W~() have no other way to earn a living.

"Should we buy our sugar from the already rich or give the poor and needy the oniy chance they have got to go on working?

The Chrstian answer is surely clear ...

"It' is tempting for us to say that politics and trade are the 'government's business' and not ours, but it is our government.

The Christian ca.nnot turn his back on injustice and hope it will go away ... These injustices, the lack of a fair deal in our coun- ' try's treatment of the poorer nations, must con,~ern us all."

The bishops called on par.ishes to set up groups ,concerned with justice overseas.

Wisdom For wisdom is llifeless without grace; but when wisdom has received grace, then its work begins to be perfect. This is called regeneration.

-St. Ambrose

Marriage Encounter Leaders to Meet NEW ORLEANS (NC) - A meeting of about 350 Marriage Encounter leaders from the United. States, Cana.da, and Europe has been scheduled here for Jan. 11-13 at Notre Dame Seminary.

Marriage Encounter is a weekend designed to enhance and improve marital relationships. It has ~been estimated that more than 67,000 couples have taken part in the program.

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Erie,rgy Crisis Will Promote:' Wearing Sla,cks, Sweaters

Thurs., Dec. 13, 1973

Bleak Future For Am,endment

I predict that there will be a popularity upsurge of pant suits and long skirts toppea by jackets or sweaters. Presently some of the area Catholic high schools have opted to allow their female students to wear pants and sweaters to school during the energy crisis instead of their regu- slack outfits until a couple of ago and now she finds lation uniforms. Older wom- years them not any serviceable but en who never thought that fashionable as well. All l1el' they would include slacks in their wardrobes are beginning to realize the comfort and warmth of this fashion. While the oil crisis

friends wear them and look neat and attractive in them-eertainly a lot better than the black and white printed darlings that were sold in the older women's se·:::tion of the store only a few years ago.

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By MARILYN RODERICK

has harmed the plastic industry it may have helped the waolen industry!

As our life style is forced to change and we find ourselves spending more and more time in :-weaters we'll also find ourselves looking for fashions to keep our legs and ankles warm as well as ollr shoulders.

No Bare Lool,

When we go to other'people's homes we will want to make sure that we're warm enough while visiting, so the bare look and mini·skirts will definitely not be in this winter.

I~ looked for a time that the short skirt and even shorter dress would be replacing that old favorite, the pant suit, in our wardrobes but the lowered thermostats have caused a reversal in'this belief.

If some of the older members of your family haven't given the pant outfit a place in their wardrobe yet, why not gift them with one for Christmas. The first step is the hardest!

My mother had never worn

Includes Land Sales For Private Schools NEW ORLEANS (NC) - Advisors for New Orleans city planners said they will recommend that a proposed "new town" community here, have sites set aside for construction of 'nonpublic schools.

Harold R. Katner, director of city planning, said he agrees with the proposed revised recommendations by the advisors.

He said his office and the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) had been concerned about earlier proposals that would have prohibited the land sales for nonpublic schools.

When plans were made to restrict land sales for nonpublic schools, tl:-2 Catholic League for Religious and Civil Liberties, headquartered in Washington, D.C., registered protests with HUD. The Louisiana Catholic Conference also protested.

After Katner received the protests, which included threats, of legal action to stop the project, he sent tl:-em the latest memorandum he had received from the advisors.

These silken beauties that were turned off the assemblv line en masse would prove a bit chilling in the 68 degree climate we'll soon live in. Our senior citizens of .today lead such an active life that they truly do need active clothes.

Recently the little girls in school began to be allowcj to wear slacks and pant outfits and now I couldn't imagine taking this freedom away from them.

How nice to be able to sit on the floor without being concerned over scraped or splintere:l legs and cold bottomS'.

The oil shortage may make the hig car, obsolete but a sto::k market speculator may do well to invest in a slacks firm (providing, cf course., we can get the wool).

Says Abortion Most Importc;Jnt Moral ,Issu'e CHICAGO (NC) - Abortion is "the most important moral issue of our time," according to Rep. Earl F. Landgrebe (R-Ind.)..

In an address to the opening session of the second annual canvention of the National Youth Pro-Life Coalition ~NYPLq here, Landgrebe said that the abortion struggle is one which "pro-life forces will either win or lose at the grassroots level. Organizing must be focused at the community level if we are evergoiilg to convince my colleagues that U-,'ey have to deai with the prolife amendments which I and others have introduced."

A resolution calling for a special committee to consider the anti-abortiQn amendments has been introduced by Landgrebe, he said, as a means of bypassing , the House Judiciary Committee, bogged down in considering the nomination of Gerald Ford to the vice-presidency and the attempts to, impeach President Nixon. ' "We dare not relent until the liberal abortion policy set by the Supreme Court is overturned," Landgrebe said, "and the inalienable right to life is firmly established in the United States Constitution."

Second Term ST. COLUMBANS (NC) Father Hugh O'Rourke has been appointed to' a second three-year term as director of the Colurnban Fathers of the U. S. Previously, he held the offices of Vocation director and' assistant director.

Father Charles Coulter was also appointed to a second term as vice-director. He holds a master's degree in sociology from Ford. ham University in New York City.

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POOR CLARES OF NEW ORLEANS-Old and young nuns pray silently in the Poor Clare monastery in New Orleans. To support themselves the Sisters print small jobs and notepaper. The deep silence of the contemplative order has been relaxed to allow talking when necessary. NC Photo.

Nece'ssary Nuns Continue Quiet Way Despite Less Rigid Rules NEW ORLEANS (NC) - The quiet surrounding the Poor Clare monastery is no longer mandatory but is a practice continued voluntarily by the Poor Clare nuns.

The Poor Clares, as a cantemplative order, once had a deeper silence. But since the alteration of many resolutions following the Second Vatican Council, imposed si,lence is no longer the rule.

"It's hard after years of being given deoisions to become part of the decision-making process," she added. "But now, I feel that everyone contributes to the council decisions." ,The Poor Ci;lres earn money by making altar breads, printing stationery and cards on contract, and making small handicrafts.

"But it is ,a tradition of our community not to stockpile money," Sister Marianne explained. "Oh, we keep a small savings a<:count for emergencies, but we have always trusted in . the Lord, and He has provided."

,"It is not that ther:e is constant talking," explained Sister Marianne, abbess of the monastery.

"It is more 'or less a return to the original rules of our founders, that we could speak when necessary.

The same rule applies today to the Sisters leaving the, monastery to run errands, to go on appointments, or to perform other necessary tasks.

"The original rule' of St. Clare," noted Sister Marianne, "said that the Sisters could go out for what is useful, reasonable, or necessary."

Their day is so arranged that noisy tasks are tackled in the mornings, leaving the afternoons free for prayer, reading and studying: ' .

"In the afternoon, the house is quiet, and many of the sisters can be found in quiet nooks throughout the garden or the house reading and contemplating."

Another change in, the community is the governing, which used to be hierarchiCal. "We hold a community meeting each week to discuss whatever we have on our agenda," Sister Marianne said. "And ours is not a majority-rules decision.

Rather, we try to arrive at a consensus decision, one with which everyone can live comfortably."

But establishing participation in the community meetings was , not easy, especially for the older Sisters who recaJ.1ed the old rules.

WASHINGTON (NC)-Despite the petitions of many anti-abortion groups across the nation,. the possibility of congressional passage of an amendment outlawing abortion is bleak.

The proposed amendment which has received the most attention in Congress is sponsored by Rep. Lawrence Hogan (R-Md.). It is now awaiting consideration 'by the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments.

Hogan's amendment, generally considered .to be the strongest of several proposed anti-abortion amendments, states that "neither the United States nor any state shall deprive any human being, from the moment of conception, of life without due process of law." .

"I don't think the committee will have hearings," Hogan told NC News and blamed the situation on Reps. Peter W. Rodino (D-N.J.) aIJd Don Edwards (DCalif.).

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Rodino is the chairman of tbe House Committee on the Judiciary and Edwards is the chair· man of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments.

In reference to Edwards, Hogan said: ''I'm sure he's heard some comments like 'for heaven's sake, don't ever let this thing see the light of day.' " Congressional Quarterly, a periodical reporting on matters concerning Congress. bas reported that most members of Congress are neutral on the issue and hope the amendment remains buried in committee. And Hogan admitted that one reason Edwards refuses to hold hearings on the amendment is that there is little support on the committee for the proposal.

New Leaf It is not of much use to be

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W~itehead Says

Sex Education Pro-Abortion NEW YORK (NC) - Sex ec.\ucation, even in Catholic schools, is the new battlefront for pro-. abortionists according to Kenneth n. Whitehead, executive" vice president of Catholics United for the Faith (CUF), a conservative organization of Catholic laity.

An official of the U.S. bishops' national offices agreed with much of Whitehead's analysis hut disputed his interpretation of Catholic sex education.

Writing in the November issue of Homiletic and Pastoral Review, a monthly journal for priests published here, Whitehead charged that the promoters of sex education in schools have as their intention' "the syst,ematic indoctrination of a new permissive, hedonistic and anti-conceptionist sexual ethic which tol[' ,crates any form of sexual 'exCHRISTMAS GIFT: No one in St. Joseph's parish, Attleboro; will give a bigger gift pression,' in or out of marriage, to the church this Christmas than 15-year-old David Laferriere, shown with large paintprovided it does not result in the of outdoor manger. 'irresponsibility' of, ,bringing an ing of Holy Land scene he ma~e for backdrop , 'unwanted child' into what is considered to be an 'overpopulated' world."

He cited numerous examples But the' observers suggested be of peripheral importance in WASHINGTON (NC)-The ofof abortion proponents who have ~hat they did' not find "confiderit, the scale of issues which conficial observers at the annual called sex education an impor- , front the people of God." tant part of the campaign to win meeting of the National Confer- forward-looking, and strategic" The observers urged the bishI;eadership c~1l1ing from the asence of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) w,ide acceptance of easy aborops to consider "a more realistic ~embly of bishops. gave the bishops a mixed report, tion.

Such a leadership, they said, application of the principle of Catholic schools have also at the end of the meeting, 'lean only come from this body. ' subsidiarity"-in effect, to take tieen affected by the trend, said Nov. 16. . In a prepared statement read But it cannot be expected of this care of a number of the lesser Whitehead, "though the courses for the Catholic schools are less at the bishops' fimil session, the conference if it is weighted down agenda items by. other means and obviously instruments for the 24 observers who represented the by the sheer vol~me of items devote more of their meeting time may too often to major issues. frank acceptance of the contra- ,nation's priests, Religious .and which we suggest ; I ceptive mentality (with abortion laity, applauded the bishops for as the necessary back-up) than most of their presentations and are those in use in the public actions but said they "were schools." , unanimously surprised and disHe singled out the Becoming appointed" by the prelates' vote TORONTO ,~NC) - Canada's forming surgery if the operation u Person (BAP) program in Cath- not to ask the Vatican for the olic schools as one which "point- option of receiving Communion pro路life ,groups have banded to- is performed with care and skill, gether under !the Alliance for Life having regard to the health of edly does not provide appropri- in the hand in this country. ate or complete moral guidance" They also scored "the sheer and launched a campaign for a the person at the time of the ' about abortion and contracep- volume of items" treated by the one-million-signature petition de- operation.

"This ruling of the lower court, tion, although factual material bishops during the meeting and manding tha~ the federal governon both is included in the teach- suggested that "there is not suf- ment tighten existing ilbortion if upheld by the 'Court of Appeal ,er's manuals. ficient free and open dialogue at laws to protect the lives of the and the Supreme Court of Canada, would mean in effect that "Becoming a person," is itself these meetings among our bish- unborn. we would have abortion on dea "code phrase" among sex edu- ops to encourage understanding In announoing the decision of cators and abortionists, said and consensus." the pro-life movement at a recent mand ,in Canada up to the moment of birth by any abortionWhitehead. "It stands for the acOn the whole the observers press conference in Toronto, Dr. ceptance of contraception and seemed to be happy with the re- Heather Morris, president of AI- ist, whether a doctor or not, so abortion as necessary adjuncts sults of the meeting but disap- Uance for Life, said that "if the long as he is reasonably skilled of sex as self-expression and sex pointed with the way in which it health- of the nation is to be pro- at the operation."

The Alliance for Life petition' as self-fulfillment." tected, we must convince the was conducted." currently b e i n g 'circulated ~overnrrient to act, and act as _ USCC Official Agrees We are both happy and encourthroughout Canada states: "Par' Msgr. James T. McHugh, di- aged by the well-prepared and SPOil as possible. rector of the Family Life Bureau "It seems that only a mam- liament's most basic duty is to sincere presentations given on of the U.S. Catholic ~onference . issues such as Quam Singulari moth display of concern for all protect innocent human life. The scientific evidence now puts it (USCC), said that many public (the guiding Vatican document qlembers of oilr human family, beyond reasonable doubt that school family life education proon first confession and first Com-, a,s would be evidenced by one a new human life belJinsat congrams in the past have'been munion), the Middle East, priest- Q)illion or more signatures on a ception, yet our laws permit the good and have helped develop ly life and ministry, Commu- petition urging legislative protec- widespread practice of abortion moral values. But in recent nion in the hand, and prison re- tIon and recdgnition of all creat- in Canada. years, he said, there has been ed human beings, will cause Par"Therefore, we the undera surge of attempts to include form, among others which were li.ament to act." seen, as demonstrating a gensigned, call upon Parliament to factual information on abortion Archbishop Philip Pocock of and contraception without a uine priority beyond simple in- Toronto recently started mobHiz- enact legislation providing for stitutional concerns," said the the child-conceived but not yet moral stance. . ing his archdiocese behind a let- born-the same protection proobservers.

"Mr. Whitehead is correct in "Many of these are viewed as t垄r-writing campaign encourag- vided for any other person. We pointing out that sex educationing everyone ,to press Parliament without any moral basis - can an authentic Gospel response to t6 amend the criminal code to also urge Parliament to show leadership in fostering a lifehuman life; we are further hearteasily be a camouflage for popp~otect the unborn. sustaining society." ulation control programs," said ened by your reports and actions , His call to ,action was sparked the USCC official. "This is espe- on the campus ministry, the na~~ cially true in the public schools." tional catechetical directory, pro- by the recent acquittal of Dr. Msgr. McHugh said he has life, the pastoral on the Blessed ~enry Morgenthaler 路in Montreal, been "positively disposed toward ,Virgin Mary, liaison with the ~ho was charg'ed with performbaving the school assist parents" conferences of Religious' Women big an illegal ,abortion. That ver.. ~;upply in fulfilling their responsibilities and major Superiors of Men. At dlct will be appealed. to educate children in human the same time, we were unanThe archbishop observed in his 245 MAIN STREET sexuality, but he insisted that imously surprised and disap- le,tter: "Recoutse was had to Sec..

FALMOUTH -:- 548-1918 this must be accompanied by pointed by your action taken tion 45 of 'tn.e 'Criminal Code "a commitment to religious and with regard to Communion in the which states that there is no ARMAND ORTINS, ,Prolj). ,hand." moral values." criminal responsibility for per路

Observers Pra!i!;e 'Actions, Rap MethoCi

A:sk Million Signatures on PetitiQn

'-It) Restrict Abortion in Can.:ada

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MILWAUKEE (NC) - Strong support for the permanent diaconate among Milwaukee archdiocesan and Religious priests has been expressed here in a survey sponsored by the archdiocesan diaconate committee.

The study pointed out that over 80 per cent of ,priests recognize a de~inite need for the program which will train married and single men to serve as ordained deacons in various ministerial capacities.

A total of 441 or 53.3 per cent of 827 archidocesan and Rel'igious priests responded to the survey which was intended to determine how they regarded various aspects of the program.

Generally, needs for diaconal ministries to the aged and handicapped, hospitals and nursing homes, the poor and needy, and religious education were ranked high. , But the survey indicated that a priest's own ministry tended to influence his decision on which ministerial' service was most needed.

For example: pastors indicated great need for ministries in religious education; associate' pastors and pastoral team members preferred' diaconal ministries to parochial and interparochial teams; teachers, directors of institutions and chaplains envision considerable need among students and campus groups, and in drug and alcohol rehabilitation.

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Bishop Malone New Council President YOUNGSTOWN (NC)-Bishop James V. Malone of Youngstown has been elected president of the' Ohio Council of Churches, an ecumenical group that includes four of the state's six Catholic dioceses.

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ANAHEIM (NC)-Medical advances have created new moral ' problems for physicians, including the need to reevaluate the extraordinary means for keeping apparently dying patients alive.

This was the conclusion of speakers at a meeting of the Nalional Federation of, Catholic Physicians Guilds.

Dr. Garth Tagge of the University of CaHfornia at Irvine's school of medicine declared that advances in resuscitative medicines and heroic measures often' are continued long after any hope of recovery. ThE~se frequently have disastrous effects on family and staff, he said.

When to stop treatment, he added, is a question a physician must answer. .Dr. Will Shoemaker of Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, said basic moral concepts remain true and acceptable "but the applications are difficult and sometimes con tradictory."

Physicians must try to keep a patient comfortable, he said, but the morphine that lessens his pain may speed his death.

The cost of maintaining a patient in an Jntensive care unit, Dr. Shoemaker noted, is so great that the physician may question its validity for a patient with only one chance in a million of surviv,ing.

Conscience Clauses Sister Virginia Schwager, director of the U. S. Catholic Conference's health affairs division, said Catholic hospitals can survive in a pluralistic society, but not all of these will.

Catholic hospitals, she noted, have sought and accepted public funds in the 'image of community institutions.

"Can we," she asked, "insist that non-Catholic patients and doctors conform to our code of ethics? Can we refuse health services that are legal and accepted hy many."

Sister Schwager saw no need to compromise with Christian principles or Catholic guidelines.

"Conscience clause legisla,tion appears to be safeguarding the right of the hospitals to stand by their prinoiples," she said and added that the' cost of living, rather than' the challenge to ethica,l standards, is the greatest threat to nonprofit, private health facilities.

Fr. Morris Elected Viatorian Provincial CHICAGO (NC) - Viatorian Father Kenneth E. Morris has been elected provincial of the American province of the Clerics of St. Viator. He was elected to a five-year term which begins Feb. 2, 1974.

Father Morris has been provincial counselor and director of formation of the province and will succeed Father Edward C. Anderson. Previously Father Morris was professor of Scripture and director at Viatorian Seminary in Washington, D.C., and a memo ber of the faculty of the Washington Theological Coalition.

The Clerics of St. Viator, a community of over'I,500 priests and Brothers, operate schools and parishes in Canada, Belgium, France, Spain and the United States and missions ,in countries in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and South America.

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Advances Create Mora I Problems For Physicians

Thurs., ,Dec. 13, 1273

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Schools Boycott Farah Clothes

D.E.E. PEOPLE: B.E.E. Peqple of St. Joseph's parish, Attleboro, display enthusiasm that is their trademark as they practice Chrismas carols with advisors Sister Ann Hoffler, C.S.C., left, and Sister -Irene LaBerge, C.S.C., right. Girls carry out many service projects for lonely, needy of area.

B.E.E. People Bring Enthusiasm to Parish Acti~ities at St. Joseph '8, Attleboro Abouht 60 young ladies spent much time this fall making puppets, belts, Christmas wreaths, plaques and other items for a Yule bazaar held at St. Joseph's Church, Attleboro.

The handmade articles were 'only one of many projects for the girls who are members of an organization called B.E.E.'s - Be Enthusiastic Everywhere. The group, although centered at St. Joseph's Church includes girls from grades five through nine living throughout the area.

The club was started just three years ago by Sister Ann Hoffler of the Sisters of the Holy Cross, who had previously organized a smaller but similar group when she was stationed in Westport. "I just wanted to do something with the young girls," she explains.

The "B.E.E. People" have grown so rapidly that Sister Ann now needs the assistance of Sister Irene LaBerge, C.S.C. and five mothers, Mrs. Nancy. O'Brien, Mrs. Sandra Amaral, Mrs. Lorraine Tyner, Mrs. Norma Ferns and Mrs. Ginny Hutchinson.

"The purpose of the B.E.E.'s is to bring young girls together so they can learn to be Catholic as long as they want to do things which are Christian."

Sister meets once a month with each group, seniors (grades 7, 8 and 9) and juniors (grades 5 and 6) and once for an activity with both groups.

Meetings open with a business session at which past and future projects are discussed. A time for spiritual formation follows, when Scripture is discussed, or there

Extends Vacation Stonehill College, Easton, will extend its winter vacation one week as an energy. conservation measure. The campus will be closed from Saturday, Dec. 22 until Friday, Jan. 25. Lost time wilf be made up later in the semester and final examinations will be rescheduled to a later date in May than originally planned.

may be film strips, slides or a speaker on some aspect of Christian life. This is followed by a refreshment and activity J:leriod.

old favorites, at a less busy season when Manor guests are not offered so much entertainment.

Also planned is a banquet in January when officers will be installed and awards will be presented for leadership, service, achievement and attendance.

"The girls are very proud of their awards and of their red jackets with the B.E.E. emblem which they alJ wear," Sister Ann said.

Officers who will be seated and· who are now in a probationary period include, for the senior group, President, Nancy Ann O'Brien; VicewPresident, Adele Paradis; Secret'ary, Kimberly Olson; Treasurer, Loretta Charon.

In the junior group they are: President, Susan Laferriere; VicePresident, Lorraine Steele; Sectary, Marcia Roy; and Treasurer, Bettie Bromley. '

Red Jackets In previous years the girls have visited Madonna Manor to sing Christmas carols but Sister feels that this year they may present a different program, perhaps of

Two Million Sign Pro-Life Petitions GLENDALE (NC)-The Committee of Ten Million has collected more than two million signatures on petitions asking for an anti-abortion amendment to the U. S. Constitution according to a report issued here in Califorina.

Gilbert Durand, 58, former owner of a Los Angeles building supply business, began the petition drive last January to develop support for an amendment that would guarantee all people the right to life, due process of law and equal protection of the laws from the time of conceptiop.

In an ll-page report, Durand said he selected the figure of 10 million "because it was impressive and unprecedented and therefore persuasive." He maintained that a petition drive, to be effective, must be massive and must have a central clearing house where all signed petitions are tabulated by Congressional district. '

Support was indicated by diocesan school principals for a boy· cott of uniforms made by the Farah Manufacturing Co. at a meeting held at Bishop Gerrard High School last week. Members of the Social Action Conference of the Providence Province of the Sisters of Mercy organized the meeting, which will be followed next month by visits to schools currently using Farahmade uniforms. Principals will be asked "to rethink their contracts with Far-ah retailers."

W{)rkers at the Farah plant have been on strike for 19 months, those attending the meeting were told. Reasons for the stdke were explained by Rev. Donald Bauer, who noted that members of the Committee on Social Development and World Peace of the U. S. Catholic Conference unanimously supported the strike" and boycott efforts.

Diocesan Schools Principals or their representatives from 12 schools of the Fall River diocese were at the meeting, as well as representatives of uniform suppliers and several interested individuals from New Bedford and Dartmouth public schools.

Schools represented were St. Mary and Holy Family-Holy Name, New Bedford; Sacred Hearts Academy and St. Joseph, Fairhaven; Catholic Middle School, Taunton; and St. John's Child Care Center, Bish{)p Gerrard, St. Stanislaus, Sacred Heart, Holy Name and Sacred Hearts Academy, Fall River.

The Social Action Conference is headed by Sister Patricia Farley and Sister Elizabeth Morancy of the Sisters of Mercy. Diocesan committee members include Sister Kathleen Donovan, St. Mary's, New Bedford; and Sister Frances Lynch and Sister Barbara Riley, Immaculate Conception, North Easton.

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Parents 'Live 'At Moment'; Non-Parents Can Plan It is Nov. 6 as I w~ite this and I've just turned down two attractive invitations to work with parept groups next summer. Each is being held in a lovely part of ourcountry, directed by interesting leaders and concerns a subject I love, parent-education. .

Why would I reject such of- terrible problem in today's home.

The family of the future was prefers? Because, at the mo- dicted by sociologists but the ment. I can't declare myself family of the future is herr. that far ahead. As a parent, I know.how fast things change inthe, family. At the moment, I don't know when or if my hus- . lmffill1~m(JiigN;;W%'(llll

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At the moment, my children seem to be in fair shape in school and in health. By June we may he involved 'in two tonsillectomies, one. summer math session, a scout pow-wow, and a runaway. Who knows?

"At the moment" is a phrase increasingly useful in today's pace of life. It is a parent ~ord, not a clergy or Religious word.

Without appearing overly simplistic, I believe it illustr~tes one of the barriers between parents and Religious, that of "Who - owns my time?" Non-parents own their time. Parents don't.

Homely Causes Often I hear pastors and' sisters complain, "Our parents ask for help but when we give them something or have a speaker, they don't show up." True, but church reaction and my reaction to the situation vary. Priests ·and nuns tend to ascribe it to lack of interest while· I ascribe it to the variety of homely caus.es keep-, ing parents away.

It is entirely possible that 10 parents who indicate interest in September write an October meeting date on their calendars, fully intending to attend. By the time the meeting roLls around, however, 'one is.:cM·6f tgvy;n, . t wo' have sick ohildren, three have teacher conferences, and four show up. ' irlie,:'2six' .missi~g'~ plm\nis" stili have the interest and still lack . the help but bear an additional guilt for not being able to divide themselves like an amoeba and be aLl the places they're. supposed to be.

Our pace of Ilife cO,nstitutes a

Urge School, Aid DAYTON (NC)"':"" A 'national interfaith workshop here heard two priests appeal' for support for Israel and _a Jewish scholar speak in support of,' government aid for nonpublic schools. The remarks came at the first National Workshop on CatholicJewish Relations sponsored by the U. S. bish'ops' Secretariat for Cathlic-Jewish Relations.

Things move so swiftly we can't plan ahead. We aren't comfor!able with the idea that things will slow down, that next year might be better. We don't believe that at all.

As change escalates, parents dig de.eper for .'roots. They ask help in passing on old traditions and values in an 'ever-new environment. Church leaders respond and try to get parents to work with parents. Alas, the paradox.

The only parents free to share their experiences with other parents are those whose children are grown and they haven't felt ' -the 'impact of the pastfive or ,10 years on the family. .

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I know of several interesting and talented parents who could be of grea.t value to other Christian parents but they are bound to the schedules of their fam- . ' QUIET ROMAN SUNOAY: The road to Peters, Via della Conciliaiione, usually ilies. So, once again, we end up p~d:{ed with :cars, feels Sunday driving ban as only bicycles, taxis, buses and few special with non-pa,rents as the only permit cars ~'ravel it.

Pope rode in horse-drawn carriage on. his annual. visit on Feast of ones free enough to commit themselves far ahead. The rest Imma~ulate I 'Conception to Spanish Steps and m~numertt to Mary there. NC Photo. of us are forced to operate on an "at the moment" level.

Solutions? the day of' C1ontel·,lmplp, long-range planning is over. Maybe a parish or diocese needs to PARIS (N~)~ne cand~date in nuns with i,632' and the 'Poor gests that candidates who are accepted are seriously mot,ivated, operate at-the-moment, grabbing every three fd~ the Religious Life Clares with 1,~~43. skiHed parent' help when it can il1 France la~t year entered a Father Barbier said that. the get it, setting up workshops at c(;mtemplativd ! order,' according Franciscan Father Jean Fran- increase in candidates for the 1 by the ·.petma., cois Bal'biet, secretary" general of contemplative. life qlay in some wlce I' ve t urne d to. figures reI ~ ased a wee k ' s no t'Ice. T' down advance invitations by par- 'nent committe'e of the Union of the Union of M.ajor Superiors" ways parallel the "hippy" moveishes only' to accept on-the-spot ,~ajor Superiors of France. permanent committee, said he ment of return to nature and a i Members of! contemplative or,. considers the in.crease in candi- wholesome life with a spiritual ones later.

If my family is w:ell and dead- def's of men kbd women COIlStj.. dates to contemplative orders indimension. lines are in order (not the house), tute a tenth ~f members of Re.. dicative of a return to prayer in" I tend to' accept. If I'm invited ligious orders :ih France.

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ELECTRICAL for a year from now, I tend to •There are I:39. contemplative Father Barbier pointed'out that Contractors reject. ~ monasteries' for men with a total monastic superiors today are The only other solution is askf 177 kl ' very demandin'g concerning the' , ing our non-parents in the ohurch 0 5 mon fl The Trappists are tne rna t 'th 830 f I to step !II, as surrogate parents'S numerous, WI , o· psychological stability of candi-: dwE'd by the l B d' t" They·. p'rolong the .period of I so pai~nts can work with other ~l' I', ene IC mes, w.I'ttI . dates.

ISO postulancYi ,'or candidacy, have parents. It boggles the mind to I' : . candidates undergo psychological 319 contemplative testi.ng and .send away all those I There are i think of 20 parents attending a meeting while their homes are convents for women with a total ' 9 625 I C· found to be suffering, from neununs' l Th I~ e armehtes are staffed by 20 priests and nuns 0"f 944 County St. th t 'th b ., roses ,or seekin.g only to flee the involved ·in the "experiential I eo mos nU?1erous WI a o.u. world. .

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The statement by' the Irish , Bishops' Conference .came a. week and a half after the first reading of the Family Planning Bill 'in the Irish Seanad. (Senate) . and its subsequent publication.

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Discovers Children Respect Slowly Growing.· Creche

Publicity chairmen of parish organlzatlol1s ara asked to sublTllt news items for this column to The Anc:hor, P. O. Box 7, Fall River 02722. Name of city or town should be Included. as well as full dates of all activities. Please sel,d news of future rather thin past events.

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On Saint Nicholas Day each year we have made it a 'practice to add a piece to our creche. This is a little wooden figure which the children look at with a mixture of awe and love. We began collecting' our set about eight ' or nine years ago and now have in the vicinity of 15 or The idea of protecting what you . so pfeces~ This year I was have and caring for it with the knowledge that it will grow and appalled at the price we had be wor~h, saving is one which to pay for a small boy. Granted that the pieces are imported, and granted ,-the dollar has been devaluated, but to pay $30.90 fora figure we could have purchased 'for under $15 not too long ago strikes me as ridiculous. Nevertheless, we now have the piece and the children did think it was beautiful.

Respect Creche Our children are like most chil-· dren in that they do not revere and respect objects. Toys are quickly broken and discarded, furniture'is given no forbearance and material objects in general are treated as replaceable objects and. are considered expendable; I do not overly object to this -feeling, since I think too many people make too much of such things. But I find that our children do respect and appreciate the little figures which are brought out during Advent.

I would therefore suggest to parents of young children that. they follow our lead in beginning a set of figures. The addition of a figure or two a year heightens their. appreciation and gives them a sense of anticipation that' full-blown set «arinot accomplish. l1here is· nothing wrong with having an incomplete manger as long as the children feel that it will grow as they do.

This approach in general has worked well with our children.

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CELTA charged that since the association affHiated with the American Federation of Teachers (AFL-CIO), tile' diocese had "totally andadiamantly refused to recogqiz~ . or bargain with CELTA as a collective bargaining representative of the teachers in the elementary schools of the diocese.

"The diocese has made it known to aN of its lay teachers that associatoion with CELTA 'may' result in job termination and, in some instances _ has refused teaching jobs or reinstatement of teaching jobs' to teachers who have· acknowledged or demonstrated their affHiation of memo bership with CELTA," the association's charge said.'

CELTA's artorney, Michael T. Honohan, said -that the NLRB has agreed to determine if it has jurisdiction in the case. if it con· Cludes that it has jurisdiction, the NLRB will then decide whether t:he diocese is guilty of unfair labor practices.

runs counter to our present consumer-oriented system. We buy now and pay later, but by the time we have paid for some items they are no longer with us. By playing d'own the idea of immediate gratification we are building upon the idea of value, lon-' gevity and endurance, qualities of which we have made very little in the past 30 years.

In the Kitchen Every year at this time I complain about the toy commercials and this year I'm more furious than usual. There is a certain well-known stunt driver Evel Knievel by name who has been immortalized by a certain toy company. His miniature replica ""hich is reported (in their adver.. tising campaign) to perform daredevil stunts has appeared on TV for the past three months and the results has been that every ,red-blooded American boy just has to have it.

This art1ficial induced desir~ then results in an unbalance of the la~ of supply and demand.

Stores are without this item' for weeks at a time and even the far-sighted shopper who' has begun his search in October finds that he meets with "We're all out of them, try us next w~ek."

Buy Anyway One very concerned and understanding store clerk advised a bedraggled' customer to buy the first one he came ,across, no matter what the price was.

This dilemma is nothing but a joy to the company and an unbeatable problem for concerned aunts, ,grandparents' and parents who spend their free 'time (and precious gas) rolling from one ·toy store to another all in vain.

They cannot be stopped because o'f false advertising. but it ,does seem there should be a consumer law to stop "false~hopes," for there are going to be an awful lo}of disappointed little boys when that motorcycle and rider don't appear under the tree on Christmas morn.

Everyone .loves the cool re-freshing taste of a molded salad with ,their hol>iday meal. This one from Mrs. Joseph Krupa of St. William's parish is both pretty and delicious.

Cranberry I)alad Mold I 3 ounce package lemon jeilo 1 cup hot water 1 pound can whole cranberry sauce Y2 cup chopped celery 2 chopped apples unpeeled Y2 cup nut meat 1) Dissolve jello 'in hot water' and add the cranberry sauce.

2) ChiH until partially thickened. Fold in remainig ingredients and spoon into 3Y2 cup salad mold.

Don't miss the special recipe' page'in this issue of The Anchor -and many thanks to the readers who have contributed to it.

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CHAIRMAN:. New chair;man of U.S. Bishop's Advisory CouQcil is William A. , Toomey Jr. of Albany, N.Y. ;He believes group 'needs more visi~ility. NC Photo.

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Council ·C.fficersActive " WASHINGTON (NC) - A la·bor arbitra~~r, a Chicago priest, a homemak~r and a management consultant have begun their du·ties as offiJers of the U.S. bishops' AdViS~ry Council.

William itoomey of Albany, ,N. Y., will bl~,come chairman; Father Virgil Elizondo of San An-· ,tanio, Texa~., will become vice . 'chairman, ¥rs. Delores Gilmore of Kennwick, Wash., will be:come secret~'ry, and William Ba-' roody of Washington, D.C., will tbecome chairman of the council's steering committee on pastoral council. i •

ST. JOSEPH, TAUNTON The Social Club announces a New Year'~ Ev,e party to be held at the Italian Naturalization Club on Wales Street,' Taunton. Tickets, which are limited, will include a buffet meal, hats and noisemakers. They are aV,ailable from Pauline Ricketts, Bob Martin, . Santa Lewis and Barbara Pirezzi.

ST. ANNE, "'ALL RIVER Bingo is held in the school auditorium at 7 P.M. each Wednesday' night.

A eyO dance will take place tomorrow night in the school recreation hall. Tickets' are available from all members.

The parish school will present its Christmas program at 2 P.M. Sunday in the auditorium.

Tickets for a New Year's Eve party sponsored by the Parish Committee are available from Albert Vezina Jr. or committee members.

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The Barrington Boys" Choir and Miss Susan Maria Spacagno, New York City opera singer, will appear in concert at3 P.M. and 8 P.M. Sunday in the church, with proceeds' benefiting the , I parish. The. program .has been The Advisory -Counci.l serves arranged. by the·. Greater')' Fall as consultative body. to the Ad- River. Cultural Advancement mi:~,istrative: Committee of the Committee and tickets are availNational Co~ference of Catholic able from Edward' Cunha or ,Bishops andl the Administrative Charles R. Menard of that org~n­ Board of th~ United States Cath- ization as well as at the rectory oli<: Conference. and at the door on the .day of i Estahlished in 1969, the coun- the performance. ' cil is comp6sed of 60 diocesan The Barrington choir wHl be priests, ReLigious men and worn- making one of its last area ap~n, lay wo~en and men, and . pearances before traveling to bishops. Mem'bers who ate dioce- Europe for a concert tour.

• . san priests, tay persons, or bishops are elected by their peers on OUR LADY OF FATIMA, a regional b~sis. The representaNEW BEDFORD tives of Reli$ious men and wornThe 'CYO cheerleaders will ~n are designated according to fl method worked out by their re- conduct a cake sale after all the spective coriferences of major Masses on Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 15 -16. ~upel'liors.

ST. KILIAN, NEW BEDFORD A whist par.ty will be sponsored at 8 P.M. Saturday, Dec. 15 by the Ladies' Guild in the school basement at the corner of Earle Street and Ashley Boulevard. In charge are Mrs. Marcella Landry and Mrs. Henrietta Michaud.

ST. JOSEPH, ATTLEBORO A Christmas party for children up to third grade will take place at 2 P.M. Sunday in the parish hall. Gifts "from Santa" may be brought to the sacristy before all Masses this weekend.

Junior Corps members wm have a bowling party. at 7 Saturday night, Dec. 15.

Eight Attleboro are~ priests will participate in an Advent Penitential Service at 7:30 P.M. Monday, Dec. 17. Prepared by seventh and eighth graders, the service will be titled "0 Come, o Come Emmanuel."

Knights of the Altar will meet at 7 tonight in the school.

HOLY NAME, FALL RlVE~ A special Mass for families will be celebrated at 5:15 each Friday afternoon' during Advent.

Project Leisure will hold a meeting at 2 this afternoon in the school hall. Christmas music will be offered by the Durfee High School Chorus and a coffee hour will follow.

ST. MARY, SOUTH DARTMOUTH The Women's Guild Christmas party will take place at 8 P.M. Tuesday, Dec. 18 in the parish center. CCD students will present a play, "Christmas in Different Lands," written and directed by Lynne Pilvines. Gifts contributed at this time by the guild members will be distributed to nursing home patients by the Ju~ior Volunteers unit of the organization.

OUR LADY'OF ANGELS, FALL RIVER The Holy. Name Society will meet following 8 A.M. Mass Sunday, Dec. 23. A Christmas Cheer raffle award is to be made.

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The coins". ranging in face Value from 500 lire (about 85 c¢nts) to one ilire (about one-six.. hundredth of ia dollar), will bear tQe papal coat of arms on one si.de and on 'I the other the in· s<;ription:PaIWls VI P.M. A.X.I. ~CMLXXIII (Paul VI, Supreme Pc;mtiff, Year 111, 1973). iBasic cost bf the set is 3,500 li~e or about $6 with an additionall char,ge of 80 cents for po~tage outside Italy. All mailings from th¢ Vatican he sent registered. .

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ST. JOHN OF GOD, SOMERSET The Woman's Guild will hold a Christmas party at 8 o'clock on Wednesday night, Dec. 19 in the church basement.

Mrs. Bruno Ward of the Bristol County Agricultural School will give gift wrapping demonstratiOl} and refreshments will be served by a committee headed by Mrs. Alice Brillo.

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Delicate Problem Balancing Resources, Human Rights

Vatican, Council of Churches Laud Declaration of Human Rights VATICAN CITY (NC) - The Catholic Church and the World , Council of Churches have pledged to continue fighting to do away with "the deep causes of human suffering" in a joint document issued to mark the 25th anniversary of the universal declaration of the rights of man.

The pledge was contained in an ecumenical document signed

by Cal'dinall Maurice Roy of Quebec, president of the Pontif· ical Justice and Peace Commission, and Dr. Philip Potter, general secretary of the WCC in Geneva, Switzerland. The document was issued to commemorate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on Dec. 10, 1948.

The first concrete issue the Synodal Document takes up in the chapter on International Action is the issue of the Rights of Man~ It urges that the United Nations Convention should be ratified by those governments which have not yet done so and be observed by all of them. And there, of at a thousand Wounded Knee's, It is a present and agonizing course, lies the rub. There problem in Northern Brazil are two broad categories of wbere land developers follow the human rights-those which belong to communities and those which belong to individual citizens-and in both groups, gov-

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Let us begin at the most gencral level. Ma'nkind inhabits a single planet. The idea that men are members of a world society with world rights and world duties is a very new concept. It may have been implicit in the Jewish vision 'of God's universal Fatherhood. ,It is clearly 'expressed in the Christian revelation of Christ as the Head of a redeemed humanity within which "there is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave' nor free."

Little Influence But only in our own day have institutions been brought into existence which give concrete shape to the vision and no one can pretend that they yet command any of the influence and respect almost subconsciously accorded to national governments.

Yet -it is the clear teaching of the Catholic Church that loyalty, obligation, rights and duties are inherent in our emerging world society. One in particular was formulated long before the Second Vatican Council. Pope Pius XII laid it down in his Five Peace Points that all the peoples of the world have the right of access to the resources of the world. In other words, the principle of "fair shares" which we grudgingly admit-even though we do not observe it-within our own frontiers is valid in Catholic teaching in the world at large.

Now let us look at some of the practical problems of applying this right. Does it imply, for ,instance, that once a country becomes overcrowded, it has the right to demand that its citizens take up relatively empty land elsewhere? We are inclined to take the filling up of the Americas in the last 400 years as a model and argue that migration is a remarkably effective way of bringing people and resources together.

But the argument ignores two difficulties. What are the rights of indigenous communities? They may rest lightly on the land like the, hunting tribes of North America. But can any divine or human definition or rights condone their decimation and destruction? This is not an acadcmic question settled by history

route ot the road opening up Amazonia. and kill the local Indians with no more compunction than an Illinois plainsman in thc early 19th century.

And the same reasons are adduced-that the Indians fight to defend lands which they do not know bow to develop. As the French cynic once put it: "This animal is dangerous. When you attack it, it defends itself." From the last tragic frontiers of primi, tive •man in the depths of' the rain-forests, the cry comes to us that we have no theory or practice for understanding and safeguarding the rights of small communities under pressure from more powerful or more numerous groups. Tho:'! Amazonian Indian is, no doubt, a special' case.

In Danger But in every community, some minorities,' often determined by separate race or culture, are in danger from pressures .which strike at their very identity as a separate community. Crimean Germans, the hill people of South East Asia, Biharis in Bangladesh, migrant communities in Britain,' guestworkers in Europe - the phenomenan, is worldwide. There is still no fully accepted set of rules.' and rights that protects them or rather does more and actively supports the variety, the pluralism, the richness they can bring to the whole social order.

And it may not be minorities who need defense. In Southern Africa, it is the majority community of black Africans whose rights are violated in the continent of their birth. But before we look more closely at this major violation of the rights of communities, a word more should be said on the issue of migration.

Today Asia is the overcrowded continent. Two-thirds of humani· ty live there and the average rate of growth is 'about 2.5 a year. Africa, on the other hand, is still relatively lightly populated. Does this give, say, the Indian and Chinese peoples the right to stake a claim to large parts of East Africa? One has only to 'ask the question to see that if access to resources is an inalienable right, migration may not be the acceptable or even human way to fulfilling that right.

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by Bishop Edward E. Swanstrom.

The hospital will serve an estimated 4,000 people and construction will be financed With money appropriated by the United States government.

CRS also helped to rebuild the Neak Luong Hospital, which was mistakenly ,bombed by Ameri· can B52s last August.

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Charges Bishops With Slander MADRID (NC) - The Spanish government has accused two bishops of slandering and insulting it. The government made the charges to the nation's highest court, it was' reported at the meeting of the Spanish Bishops' Conference here.

The accusations against Bishops Antonio Anoveros of Bilbao and Antonio Palenzuela of Sogovia, however, were not made public by the government.

In another development in the rapidly developing Church-state crisis here, it was reported that the government had asked the Vatican to withdraw the apostol'ic nuncio here, Archbishop Luigii Dadaglio..

At their meeting the bishops decided that the special priests' prison in Zamora cannot continue to exist.

The decision was made following the return to Zamora of six priests who ·had been transferred to the' hospital prison here after a I2-day hunger strike. After their return the priests renewed their hunger strike.

MalnutriHon Major Problem in India NEW DELHI (NC) - This country's major problem is the quality of life rather than the 12 million persons it gains in population every year. Government, of course, attributes the low standard of living to the vaEtness of its 550-million popul'ation. "People have too little because they are too many," it says.

Some experts, however, would first tackle the problem of raising the living ~tandard as the best means of cutting down the birth rate. The poor, they argue, have more children because so many die young. It is useless to persuade them of the benefits of family pl'anning unless the survival, of their children is guaranteed.

unchanging pledge to battle for the creation of a truly human world."

The declaration approved 25 years ago made up of 30 articles, beginnJrrg with one which declares: "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act toward one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

The joint document said that "the reason that millions of men today live in less than human condi,tions is not due to deficiencies in the universal declaration, but rather to the fact that nations have thirsted more for power than for justice, and that certain men have sought to increase their portion of riches rather than to promote an equalDemand. Respect ity among the members of the The joint document haired the human family.

Inalienable Rights universal declaration as being "Moreover, ,we must bring "of the highest importance" be-. cause the ".fundamental and in- ourselves to recognize that a:l,ienable rights proclaimed in it, Christians have the duty to exerregarding the human family and cise their rights' more and to each of its members, remain carry out their duties better in sound and demand respect. The battling against injustice nnd in very existence of the declaration preparing in this way for changes is a constant challenge for an in some actual situations.'''

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Our son was recently writing about the training ground for sharing tnat exists in the typical family. As part of his preparation for a Scout skill award on family Iiv,ing, this was making him do some heavy thinking about families in general. He finally showed me what he had written.

By JANE WILLIAMS 'PUGEL

and forks. It's really harder than' acquiring those skills, and some people never tearn.

Sharing must be learned in the bosom of the family. We don't need to make our children think 'thal the nature God, has given us'is unrelievedly bad-it's not: Our nature is, like sugar, refine· able.

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Claude and Mary Ann, the boys', parents shared all this ~ith '! me last week. They hadn't thought FR. CARL J. .: co what Bobby and Kevin had done :,i:i ' was so unusual. In fact they PFEIFER, S.J •.

I were surprised at first when the grandfather, Mary Anne's father, told them what his roommate said. AfteIlWards they tbought "Hi gra~ddad! This is Bobby. more about it and decided to ask I'm using the tape-recorder I just Bobby and Kevin about sharing. got today for my birthday. This They asked the boys what differ· is my first Ireal recording. I got ence, if any, it makes whether · lots of gift~; Mostly games. Dad a family shares with each other. , Kevin answered first. "You is cutting t~e grass. It was awful hot in schOOl today. R wish I find out some things hurt people ,could Vi9itJ~ou. I hope you feel that you didn't think would. You Ibetter. Wlljit a minute. Here~s get to' know a lot m'qre:" B~bby recalled something that had just '}Cevin."

I' . happened a week ago. '''It''s like "Hi granddad! This is Kevin. I when, I lost Vbe class election. I got 95 on a spelling test today. felt mad at Joe for winning. At home you can say, 'That makes me mad,' Most of the time you can't tell' people how you feel.

At home you can," I As Claude and Mary Ami told imals to the other. At first t.he me about the tape·recordings ,and custom was; to reload the cargoes the boys' ideas about sharing, I on other sHips, but later Ii slip- was struck with how ordinary it way called!; the i'diolkos" was it all seemed. Nothing profound· built enabling the empty vessels was on the tapes-just a few exto be rollect overland across the amples of what happened at isthmus oq greased logs. The school, at home, and on the footCorinthian short cut meant a ball field. The two boys' ideas 'savings of 185 miles in a voy- about sharing were not unusually age from t?e east cost of Italy to Piraeus,! the port city of Athens:.

Under th(lBacchiadaen Dynas· Ity and the ~Yrants Kysselos and !Periander, qC)r.inthian ships sailed Long-time readers '~f this colo' :throughout I the , known world umn may remember the descrip· carrying her famous bronzes, tion of 30 Listening Sessions held Ifabrics, perfumes and fine pot- throughout the parish in 1971 tcry. The city was a stronghold during my first summer as pastor !that controlled overland traffic of Holy Family Church in Fulton. , I -'. . . . .-_.' .... between th~, mainland and the pe::linsula and sea tl'affic between (;E"Jf,@llE(lW~lZ%immtJ the Adriatic and the Aegean.

Corinth became wealthy, on the By !tolls charg~d for passage both ;ways and o? her trade. , By

ONLY NON-SHARER!-The only member of the family legitimately unconcerned about sharing is the baby. . '. .

When he 'gets' a bottle, he doesn't say. "Thanks, Ma" and smile companionably as he eats. A young mother feeds her new hungry baby from a bottle. NC Phofo.

Family Sharing and Religious Education

I Bobby atid Kev.in were testing Today is Bobby's birthday. He deep-just some simple thoughts Ollt the neW tape~recorder Bobby had a big cake. Sunday we are on what you can learn and how had just received for' his 11 th playing football. Mom is writing you feel when there is sharing birthday. As they were record· another book. I miss you." within the family. Yet the very The boy's grandfather enjoyed, - ordinariness of it all almost hid :ing their vqices and playing them back, and ~reating sound effects, the tapes very much. He received the really extraordinary reality they got ~n ideil. Their grar-d· more tapes from Bobby and noticed by the man who shared fa.ther was: in the hospital, serio Kevin as the weeks· passed. His ,their grandfather's hospital room. ously sick.· Because of their age roommate could not help over· Mutual Love (Kevin waS just 9) they were :not hearing the recordings. 'One day The fact that Bobby and Kevin, allowed to Ivisit him in the hos- he told the boys' grandfather: pital. He was so ill that no unnec- "You must really be proud to be their parents, and grandfather essary phooe calls were allowed. part of a family like that. It's were able to share the ordinary So the two 'boys decided to make really great that they take time things in their daily lives was ita tape recQrding and have their . just to share with you what they self more important than the sum parents toke it with them on a're doing. It tells me how impor- total of the ideas and feelings · their neJCt visit. tant you are to them. I wish my they shared. The fact that they were able to share in so ordinary family were more like that." a fashion such ordinary happenOrdinary-:Extraordinary - ings suggested family relation-

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No_city of the ancient world rivaled' Corinth as a center of sin and corruption. The term "Corinthian girl" was a synonym "It's a good thing to have . for prostitute and "to live as a brothers' and sisters because if Corinthian" was to live a dissoyou were only one guy you could lute Hfe. l1<;>g the TV, or phone all the time." I wondered, if I detected a' note of regret. "Sometimes this might be sort of nice. But it wouldn't really. teach you noth- By ing."

We talked about grammar- STEVE and about sharing. Grammar- LANDREGAN wise, we were worlds apart. As for sharing, we were remarkably close in point of view.· We both saw the necessity. I, as iln ac· Because of its loca,tion, Corinth quired taste that becomes sweet· had been inhabited since the er with the years. He, as one of Neolithic and Early Bronze age the harsher realities of life. He and rose to become one of the pointed -out, "Well, see there great maritime powers of the isn't enough -of everything to go world in, the' seventh and eighth around, so if every guy takes centuries B.C. everything he wants, some· A narrow neck of land or body else doesn't get nothing." isthmus, connects the mainland "Anything," I replied. 'That Pestruction of Greece with a large peninsula , too," he said. "But sometimes, called Peloponnesos after King · Freedom ended for Corinth in mom, you want to have every, thing to yourself. That's not bad, Pelops, one of the mortal grand· 3.38 B.C. whfP Phillip II of Macesons of Zeus in Greek mythology. ,dania captu~ed the city and used is it?", Corinth is built on the isthmus it as the denter of the Greek Necessity of Sharing and the ancient Corinthians Leag:.te unt,il the city was deNo, I told him, not bad; it's made great use of their strategic stroyed by the Romans under just the human condit.ion. This location. ' The isthmus was so Lucius Mummius in 146 B.C. The whole business of sharing goes narrow (about four miles wide) city had be~n laid waste several against the grain of our trouble· and so flat that ,it was possible 'times previdusly by earthquakes some natures. In fact, the neces- for 'ships coming from Italy but Consul 'Mummius razed the sity of sharing is a hard lesson across, the Adriatic to unload city to the around, killing all the learned right along with walk· their cargo!,!s on one side, and .men and selling the women and ing: talking and handling knives have them caried by pack anTurn tOt Page Seventeen 'I

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~hips grounded in mutual love and trust.

In taking time to share the good and bad news of their day, Bobby and Kevin were really saying to their grandfather: "You're important to us. We really care a tot for you. We wish we could do something more to help you feel better."

The fact that two young boys, 11 and' nine, spontaneously shared the big·little things of their lives with their grandfather suggests a quality of openness or approachability on the part of the grandfather.

Shar,ing is what family life is all about. In a sense it is what life is aU about. Jesus once said: "There is more',happiness in giving than receiving." Paul once wrote: "What do you have that you have not received? Give freeIly what you have freely received." Enabling others to share with others in rela,tionships of of trust and love is part of what religous education is aU about.

The ordinary place for learning this important part of Christian liv.ing is in _the home. Bobby and Kevin can be gratefUl their family continues to work at shaning with each other the big and little things in their lives.

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The procedure was extremely simple, but highly effective. A host home invited 15·20 adults from the neighborhood to this 8:00-9:30 P.M. program. Each wore a name tag and, after my arrival, handed me a card with name, address, phone number and occupation. .

Following a :few moments of

Phase II

introduction, I asked for their suggestions a;pout the parish: How can we best serve you?

What recommendations do you have for us? Which areas need improvement?

Participants (around· 425) reo sponded -swiftly and freely. I listened and, when necessary, guided the conversation into a new topic and wrote down their ideas in a stenographer's pad.

We implemented where possible many of those proposals.

Later, at the ~nd of the year, our annual report categorizea the 539 suggestions, indicated which ones had already' been fulfmed and projected "future plans" to take care of others.

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Reading Fraser's Cromwell Winter's Work for Many

The Open Heart Continued from Page Sixteen The on'ly member of the family legiltimately unconcerned about sharing is the baby. Watch him awhile. He grabs everything.

When he gets a bottle, he doesn't say "Thanks, Ma" and smile companionably as he eats. He holds on grimly and groans with the work of appetite appeasement.

But soon he'll learn that somebody else might want his book, his bottle, his toy. For a few noisy months he'll cry and kick but, in the family school, which combines I'ove with discipline and. plenty of hard knocks he will finally learn that he must share if he is to be a member.

Sharing for sheer pleasure comes later, of course. '

A short while ago, when going through the security check at the Boston airport, I was carrying a copy of Antonia Fraser's huge new book Cromwell Our Chief of Men (Knopf, 501 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. 10022. $12.50 Illustrated).. The in. spector, plainly of Irish as he called them. He was astonished that they were not ashamed blood, looked at it and said, of their Roman Catholic religion, "What's this? I don't know and his hatred of their clergy was mad in its intensity.

After his victories in Ireland he was named Lord General, and proc~ded to deal decisively with ~~ the rebellious Scots. For all this, material rewards were heaped upon him.

By But at home there was contention a'bout the form and operations of the government, and by RT. REV. 1652 Cromwell, now the strongMSGR. est figure in the country, was musing, "What if a man should JOHN S. take upon him to be king?" At KENNEDY any rate, he dismissed the unruly Parliament (a like act by Charles I had been considered intolerglllllilrW"%i~~~ able), and arranged the election, a legend to the Irish, and not a very loosely speaking, of a Parhappy one. liament more amenable to him.

Cromwell was, in all but name, Ruler in Fact King of England from about 1653 By the end of 1653, he was esuntil his death in 1658. He had tablished at Whitehall and been born in 1599, when ElizHampton Court, both royal resabeth I still had four more years of life. He grew up during the idences, was provided with royal reign of· James I, the firs~ of the luxury, and lived in royal state.

Stuarts. He had much to do with He was the ruler in fact, if not in the elimination of Charles I, the name.

Again he dismissed a stubborn, second of the Stuarts, whose, suc- argumentative Parliament, after cessor, in effect, he became.

Cromwell was of stern, strict raging at it in terms reminiscent of ,Henry VIII's. He sponsored Protestant stock. When he was a sys,tem of spies, forbade public 29 he underwent an experience which some have called a ner- criticism of his government,set vous breakdown, others a mys- up controls of all printed matter.

In his~' time, the observance of tical transport, still others a reliChristmas was banned. Eventugious conversion. Whatever it ally, in '\657, he was invested as was, he came out of it convinced Lord Protector, in a ceremony that he was God's chosen instruand celebration very like those ment, this on top of his already of a coronation. The next year sturdy self-assurance. he was dead.

He was then a member of ParAll this, 9f course, was the -liament, and Parliament was at . will of God. Again and again and odds with Charles I. This was partly because of a dispute over again, in everything he did, the extent of the king's powers Cromwell gave the credit to God. and the extent of Parliament's. But the other side of this humble attribution was saddling God It also had something to do with the responsibility for whatwith religion. The king was Anever Cromwell did. No' doubt glican, 'and many in Parliament wanted the state Church. purged Cromwell 'was sincere in this, of anything they deemed popish. which is not to say that he was Cromwell became a spokesman altogether sane. The absolute for the Parliamentary cause, and identification of God's will with when it came to physical com- Cromwell's amounted, in fact, to bat between the supporters of a claim that Cromwell could do the king and those of Parliament, no wrong.

Strains Credulity Cromwell emerged as a military He considered himself the genius. He proved this in the two civil wars, the first beginning in champion of the Protestant cause in whatever part of the known 1642, the second in 1648. world: in Europe, for example 'Barbarous Irish' (where he was for the deposition The latter war ended with the of the Catholic king of Poland), trial, condemnation, and execu- and in the western hemisphere. tion of Charles I in January 1649. He was infuriated by the CathA Council of State was set up olic Duke of Savoy's treatment to' govern; Cromwell was a mem- of the Waldensians. But his own ber; he became an ever more in- far worse treatment of the Catholic Irish was, of course, provifluential member. dentially directed. .

It was in that same year that The author is not an unqualihe headed an expedition to Ireland, where supporters of the fiedly fond admirer of Cromwell.

Stuarts were in revolt. With his She remembers the advice about well trained and supplied army the warts and follows it to some he made short work of the oppo- extent. But she sometimes strains sition. Then at Drogheda, north credulity in her explaining away of Dublin, there occurred a mas- of certain repellent aspects of sacre of the civilian population, Cromwell's career. Thus, her atand another enormity of the sort tempted exculpation of him in was perpetrated at Wexford in the matter of the so-called Irish se~t1ement does not jibe at all the south.

What matter? Cr.omwell was with her account of the extent of. contemptuous of the Irish, "the his power.

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if we can let you through." He was joking, of course, but there was a bitter substratum to the joke. For Oliver Cromwell is

Sharing of Self

HISTORIC SITE: Graceful Corinthian columns marking the site of the Temple of Octavia in·ancient Roman Corinth are silhouetted against the mountain of Acrocorinth, with its ruins of the Temple of Aphrodite. NC Photo:

Corinth, Center of Sin and Corruption Continued from Page Sixteen children as slaves in the bazaars of ·the East.

For 100 years the city lay in ruins, In 44 B.C. Julius Caesar founded a Roman colony on the site and it was to this Roman Corinth that St. Paul brought the Gospel. Corinth became the capital of the Roman province of Achaia and by the second century AD., once agai,n was the richest and more populous city of' Greece, . more' . important in every way than Athens.

During tlhe third and fourth centuries the city suffered earth· quakes and Barbarian invasion.

It was destroyed by the Goths in 521 AD. but was rebuilt by the Emperor Justinian. The city was relocated 'in 1858 when it was totally destroyed by earthquake.

In 1928 ano~her quake nearly destroyed the new city.

Temple of Aphrodite Towering high above ancient Corinth is Acrocorinth. Atop this 1,85Q-foot mountain is the Temple of Aphrodite where 1,000 slave girls acted as sacred pros· titutes. Muoh of the repl.!tation for moral corruption that was earned by the city may have heen due to this temple.

Among the ruins visible today, only the stately Doric columns of the Temple of Apollo date from the ancient Greek city. The rest are prinoipally from Roman Corinth, including the Bema, or

to hundreds and. hundreds of pages, a winter's work for many a reader. One wonders how many will keep at it. 'J:he pace, as indicated, is slow, and the method meandering.

There are things about Cromwell not well known, and prob· ably never to be known. This means that it is impossible to achieve a clear portrait of the man, a complete explanation of him. So that, despite Lady Antonia's years of searching, accumulation of minutiae, and labors of composition (why doesn't she allow her wit more play?), the man eludes our grasp and the book becomes logy.

platform, of St. Paul where the Roman Consul Gallo (a brother of the philosopher Seneca) heard the dispute between Jews, and Christian (Acts 18: 1217), but claimed he had no jurisdiction.

The popUlation of Corinth as St. Paul knew it was two-thirds slave, a large number of poor workmen and a small, wealthy merchant class. There was also a s'izable Jewish colony. ,. First Visit P.aul first visited the city in about 50 AD. during his second missionary journey. It was as unpromising a city as the apostle could have chosen and his letters (and that of Clement of Rome) reflect the fact that the Corinthian church was at times obstreperous, It is likely that Paul visited the city again during his long sojourn in Ephesus (Acts 20:3) and possibly a third time after his Roman imprisonment. (2 Tim. 4:20) Paul's letters to the Corinthians are among the best known of his works and are recognized for their application of Christ's principles to the practical problems of Christians living in an alien world.

Beside the shar.ing of tangibles like toys, food, clothes, money, there is the spiritual sharing that must be learned. Sharing of oneself is har-der to learn 'because the,re are no guidelines except the desire to please someone you love. It too finally becomes second nature.

Our youngest boy was in the hospital not llong ago. I spent much of the day with him, but had to be home when the others would roar in from school. One of the older girls, finding me at my post, said "Oh, I hate to have him up there alone. He's so little."

She rearranged her busy aftersohool hours and drove to the hospital for a three~hour stint.

I liked that; I was proud of her.

Somewhere along the line she had learned the beautiful art of sharing herself. She considered giving those hours to her brother the most natural thing in the world. Happy gil'll.

The business of runriing a family requires sharing of jobs, possessions, talen ts. Parents should expect this; they chose it when they became parents. But children neither expect to become sharers-nor especially want to.

So we all have to teach each other the necessity, and finally the Joy, of sharing.

Empty It is only the souls that do not

love that go empty in this world.

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Both Types of Heretics Try to ~ Destroy Church The liberal heretic rejects his past.' The conservative heretic rejects his present and future, and atteI!lpts to reo, store or maintain a past that never existed. The liberal heretic wants to avoid the romance of orthodoxy by eliminating the need ·to listen to purely subjective experience that his own tradition. The con- , could be projected into religious servative heretic wants to symbols. The symbols could take, escape the romance of or- on any meaning that seemed ap.. thodoxy by refusing to listen to his own time.

'Both are rigid, narrow, and self-righteous.

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The HberaI. heretic gives up more easily though, because he nas cut himself off from the roots of his past and eventually discovers that he has no ground at alI on which to stand. He will ./ find it easy to drop his latest principles and causes and uncover new ones to claim his ailegiance. The liberal heretic, as' Dan Nerr suggested recently in The Critic, has become "inoperative" because he has copped out.

But the conservative heretic has something to cling to, and he clings to it as if his life depended on it, proclaiming' alI the whil~ that he-and he alone-stands for Catholic orthodoxy.' Orthodoxy ,means repeating the . phrases and formulae, the incan. rations, and the catechism responses of the past without considering whether they convey today what they did when they were first ,produced. Religion for the conservative heretic is a matter of words; and the meaning behind the words is much less important than that the words themsE;lves be ze,alously and ritualistically guarded and repeated.

Clarity, Simplicity The conservative heretic sees religion not as a set of rich, complex, multilayered, polyvalent symbols ,that must be probed, interpreted, analyzed and studied constantly. This is far too demanding. The conservative heretic must have clarity, simplidty, neatness, l;lnd order if his life is not to colIapse.

Religion is not people, stories, and rituals (Jesus, Mary, the Cross and Resurrection, the Eucharist) that each generation must approach anew to understand again its reference to its own sItuation. Religion is a set of verbal propositions formulated once at a specific time and place with a universal validity for all times and all places. Anything else, any other approach to reli.gion than an insistence on the strict, rigi~, verbal propositions and formulae is written off by the conservative heretic as "modernism."

Religious Symbols Modernism, if it existed at alI as a systematic doctrine outside of the papal encyclical that condemned it, saw religion as. a

propriate to descrilSe a person'~i experience in his own time and place.

I very much doubt that any serious student of religious sym.. bolism would hold the modernist position at the present time. We have discovered that religious symbols have an objectivity, an intractability, an inviolability of their own. You cannot read into a symbol anything you want, and you cannot interpret it in such a way as to cut yourself off from the insights of those who first produced it, or from those who have bridged the gap between the creation of the symboi and you by creating an in" terpretitive tradition.

Religious symbols are inter· preted 'by communities; and communities stretch not only over space' but through time.. The liberal heretic who writes off .the past and treats the religious _ symb~1 Iik~ an inkblot .may be be~avmg \Ik~ .a modernist" but serIOUS practitIOners of the hermaneutic (symbol interpretation) approach to r.eligion are anything but modernists.

These distinctions are quite beyond the really raditlal' 'conservative heretics. They don't ~now wha~ hermaneutic i~, but It so~~ds dirty to them. They are horrIfied at the use of the word "symbol" with regard to religion, (And it does you no good to tel1 the~ that a symbol is a str~~ger reality than a prose proposItion, not a. ~eaker one.)

ReligiOUS truth must be presen ted in old and familiar categories. New interpretation is risky; and the conservative heretics never take risks.

Risky Affair But G. K. Chesterton's whole point, of course, was that orthodoxy is a risky, chancy, romantic affair. The only way you can preserve orthodoxy is by .taking risks, for if your religion is to mean something to your own contemporaries you must run the risk of talking to them about it in terms they understand.

If you choose to use terms that have no meaning to them, then you may welI preserve your own faith (though at the cost of its not meaning anything to you either), but you certainly will not communicate with other human beings.

Such a thought bothers the conservative heretics very little.

They don't think much of other human beings anyhow. They are not 'interested in men and women of their own.age; they are interested in grubbing around in te~ts out of the past not to find illumination and enlightenment but to fashion clubs 'with which to pound those who are really orthodox over the head.

Thus a brilliant, conservative, highly orthodox and widely respected Scripture scholar like Raymond Brown finds himself

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Abortion Law LONDON (NC) - In one of the biggest. parliamentary lobbyings ever 'mounted in London about 10,000 persons went to the House of Commons recently to protest present abortion legisiation. .

From an assembly point in a nearby hall Christians, Jews, agnostics, nurses, doctors and others walked in a long line snaking around the House of Parliament waiting their turns to get inside to discuss with their local MP the implications of the 1967 Abortion Act, which many claim has made Britain the abortion center of the West because it practically permits abortion on demand. .

The demonstration was peaceful and the organizers, the interdenominational Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), said it had been successful and that they had made their , point - especially with votecounting Members of Parliament beginning to look ahead to a general election possibl~ less than one year away.

Catholics, like the other partic-ipants, did not come as representatives of parishes but of some 400 parliamentary constituencies to see their individual po- Iitical representative. About onethird were estimated to be men and a high proportion' were young.

In addition to talking to inIDEAL FAMILY: Church .celebrates Feast of the Holy dividual MPs the lobbyists were Family on:December 30 with readings pointing out need for at times addressed by politicians consideration toward parents, love between family inem~ sympathetic to their cause.

John Selwyn Gummer, a vice bers, and reverence of children· for parents. NC Photo. chairman of the governing Conservative narty. said that an as yet unpublished Gallup poll , shows that 17 per cent -of people the circumstanc,es and the·,inquiContinuea :from Page Sixteen wimt abortion on demand and 'only about ,the future, :but also ries posed. We tried to keep the that over 60 per cent want t~e iabout the past. This amounted discussion for as long as feasible present act amended: :to a performance review as well on the more general topic encompassed by question one, moving 'as an attitu\iinal survey.

Religion eventuaiIy to the easier, specific Religion is for practice, and A quick I questionnaire taken subjects cover~d by two and that immediate. during the Sunday homily gave three.

-Cardinal Newman ius a list o~, 175 volunteer parEach of the 11 s'essions differ:ticipants an? the names of many persons wilting to host "listen- ed. Some zeroed in on lay ministers' of CommUlnion; others on ing SessionS--Phase II." . the sign of peace or applause in To over<lome reticence and, ONE STOP church; some brought forth deep facilitate an honest expression of SHOppiNG CENTER and varied feeHngs, about' the 'views at the beginning of the "new" and "old" church; others • Television • Grocery meeting the hosting party served reflected general agreement over • Appliances • Furniture so~t drink with cheese 'wine or modern ecclesiastical reforms; 'and crackerS: 104 Allen' St., New Bedford some proceeded! at a r~served, orderly pace; others just took 997-9354 Willing Response off in all directions.

My questions this time were: Throughout, however, I found Ho,w do you reel about the changes in the Catholic Church participants quite willing to since Pope ~ohn called the Sec- share their inner feelings with See Us First ond Vatican Council? Have you with us. This was true even in cases where they knew I held a 'liked or disliked the programs 'introduced ~t Holy Family over contrary v,iew or in instances of See Us Last the past t~o years? What sug- poHcies introduced at the parish gestions do: you have for ilie they don't partieularly like.

But See Us future?

Serves Many Purposes Responses came slower in Laughter punetuated the hourPhase II Li~tening Sessions, but and-a-half in all t.hose homes and, that was understandable given at several, practically dominated I ' the event. . Such Listening Sessions achieve, denounced i~s a modernist by many purposes. They enable peo'people who ~re quite incapable of ple in the pews to get matters understandiJl1g what he is talking , off their chests; they give lead'about. In the sick, frightened ership .personnel a quick view nal~row world of the conservative of parish attitUldes; they bring heretic thete is no room for home to paTticiipants the great thought, only for the mindless' diversity of opinions' held by 1001 Kings repetition formulae. fellow Christians at Holy ~amily; Both the liberal and the conser- they supply the decision-making vative heretics are abroad in the unit (pastor, team, parish counland, each: in their own way cil) with pragmatic proposals and trying to destroy the Church. A background information helpful . Open Evenings in charting the parish's future plague on b~th their houses! direction. © 1973; Inter/Syndicate

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SCHOOLBOY SPORTS IN THE DIOCESE

By PETER J. BARTEK Norton Hilh Coach

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To Have New Look in '74 The Southeastern Massachusetts Basketball Conference will have a new look when play commences this January.

The four division circuit now consists of 26 schools aligned into three six team brackets and one eight. Foyr clubs will be playing in different divi., sions this winter as the con- throughout New England, and ference has revised the divi- there is no reason to suspect the Hilltoppers to have an off year sional alignments to provide in '74. Coach Tom Karam's more competitive playing com:li- charges rolled to an impressive lions.

16-3 record last year while playLast Winter Coach John ing an independent schedule.

O'Brien's Bishop Stang Spartans The veteran Hilltopper mentor from Dartmouth captured the top has two regulars returning from division crown with a· 9-1 mark. last year's club. However, the' Taunton having one of its best good news coming from the Durcampaigns in the school's history .fee training camp revolves finished second at 8-2. It is ex- around the performance of Mike pected that both will be back Travassos, a transfer student in contention this time around. from Bishop Connolly High in However, the competition may Fall River. Travassos, a high he a little stiffer with the addi- scoring guard, lE;d the Cougars tion of Durfee High of Fall River . to a second place finish in Diviand New Bedford to the league. sion II a year ago. His transfer The two new enterees will, of to Durfee could spell continued course, compete in the first divi- success for the Red and Black sion. Durfee's reputation as a and disaster for the rest of the hasketball powerhouse is renown circuit.

Division II Rich in Basketball Tradition' While New Bedford suffered will have his work cut out for an off year in '73 it is expected him this ~eardue .to graduation that the Whalers will return to . losses and the reahgnment. respectability this year.

Each of the schools within the The addition of Durfee and division has a strong basketball New Bedford to Division I gives tradition, three qualified 'for the the bracket a semblance of the state playof,f a year ago and any old Bristol County League with one could make it this Winter.

Barnstable the only non-member Somerset finished the '73 camof that defunct loop. When the County powers Durfee, NE'W Bed- paign with a 6-4 loop record, but ford, Attleboro, Stang, and Taun- that was in Division I. The Raidton met they always provided ers are back in their element plenty of hoop excitement; this this year and have to be conseason should bring more of the sidered a 'contender. Holy Family same as the area's best compete High of New Bedford was 1-9 for the Conference's Division I in Division I last Winter. But, as any follower of area high championship.

Under the new alignment, Di- school basketball knows, the vision II has been expanded to Blue Wave was definitely. misinclude eight teams. Defending placed in the original alignment. champion Bishop Feehan High It was believed that Holy Famof Attleboro will have its hands ily, the second smal1est school in full as it attempts to repeat in, the Conference, could compete what appears to be, a well bal- with the biggest and best from anced bracket. the area. Perhaps, it would have The Shamrocks enjoyed their except it lost a key player best hoop season ever a year ago through transfer. Division II as they went undefeated in schools are larger than Holy league play (10-0) and qualified Family, but it has competed for the Massachusetts Champion- against most of them in the past ship tournament for the first with unparal1eled success. The time in the school's history. Wave could come back' in the However, Coach Gerry Cunniff winner's circle this Winter.

VINCENTIAN COMMUNION BREAKFAST: Principals at the annual Communion Breakfast of the Particular Council of the St:. Vincent de Paul Society, Fall River held at St. Stanislaus Church were: Rev. John E. Boyd, spiritual director of the Fall River particular council; Antone Pacheco of Our Lady of Health Parish, president and Most Rev. James J. Gerrard, V.G., Auxiliary 'Bishop of the Diocese and guest speaker at the affair.

Christmas 'Happening' at Piazza Navona ROME (NC)-The penitential season of Advent swept down on Rome in a most unrepentent manner with the annual joyful opening of an open-air market and fair.

Piazza Navona, a stately vast oval in the center of Rome, is already ringed with booths that have a life-span of from Dec. 1 to Jan. 5. The great piazza, famed for iis baroque palaces, fountains and churches, becomes at Christmastime a child's delight and a doting parent's dilemma.

This year, despite threats of early dimming of lights, gasoline rationing and a plea for austerity from the Italian government, Piazza Navona's Christmas market and its merchants still anticipate a business-as-usual season.

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IV is the replacement of Old Rochester with New Bedford Vocational. The Artisans were in Division II last Winter when they won only one game. They should find things much more to their liking in the small school group.

Most Qf the coaches in Division IV agree that the race should be very tight. One key player, or injury, they contend, could mean the difference between finishing first or last. The schools in four include St. Anthony's of New Bedford, Diman Regional from Fal1 River, Norton, Wareham, New Bedford Vocational and Westport.

The first sounds of the approach of Christmas have already been heard in the Roman streets.

Those sounds are the reedy, frequently off-key notes of shepherd' pipes. Some of the pipes are played' qy authentic shepherds who come from the mou.ntainous Abruzzo region of Italy to collect extra pocket money from Christmas-shopping Romans.

Many of the shepherds these days, however, are local Romans who don rustic pants, fur jackets and footwear cut from discarded automobile tires and who pipe an ear-deafening screel in com-. petition to their rustic countrymen.

Six to a dozen scraggly Santa Clauses-or Babbo Natale, as the Romans have it-clutch at children in the Piazza Navona, trying to get their parents to pony up for photographs.

Festival Favor Like many other traditional fests and fairs, the annual Christmas "happening" at Piazza Navona has run headlong into the world of commercialism. Yet somehow, despite the plastic, the Christmas tree lights made in Hong Kong and the phony shep-

herds Piazza Navona still retains a ·flavor of a village festival.

Soft wet, clumps of moss and strips of raw 'cork bark to provide materials for the dQ-lityourself-Christmas-crib constructor, are sandwiched in between candy butohers, twisting red-andgreen-and-white-striped rolls of semi-soft taffy.

Plastic Christmas tree ornaments beneath carved Sicilian puppets recalling the knights of the Crusades and thousands of Christmas crib figures, mostly plastic, march along the banks of the tiny, family operated stalls.

The smells of roasting chestnuts and burning wood from newly opened crates mingle in the chill a~ .

Christmas carols and rock tunes compete for attention as record vendors try to drown out the pop, pop, pop of temporary shooting galleries and the bawling voices of touts urging one and all to "try your luck, Signori," at throwing hoops or darts for prizes of gold fish in a plastic bag or a bottle of vermouth.

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Key Player or Iniury Difference in IV Case High of Swansea, Falmouth and Fairhaven have al1 been successful on the hardwood courts. Bishop 'Connolly has come into its own as a strong basketball school. Dartmouth won Division III last year with a 9-1 mark and has been moved up to Division II. Anyone of these schools could emerge as Divisional champion this time around.

The six team Division III race should also be close. With defending titleholder Dartmouth out 'of the bracket DightonRehoboth is .given a slight edge

to take over the top spot. Bourne is having a good athletic year and could surprise.

Msgr. Coyle-Bishop Cassidy High of Taunton, Seekonk and Dennis-Yarmouth remain in III and all must be considered contenders. The only new member of the division is Old Rochester of Mattapoisett. The Bull Dogs, who were undefeated in Division IV competition a year ago, appear to be strong enough to compete successfully in the .larger school bracket.

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