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MIAMI (NC) - The Miami archdiocese observed the 10th anniversary of its founding as a diocese by Pope ~ius XII with a solemn pontifical Mass offered by Archbishop, Coleman F. Car roll in St. Mary's Cathedral here.

Bishop Co... nolly To Ordain Four In No.' Easton Most Rev. James L. Con nolly will ordain to the priesthood four deacons of the Congregation of Holy,' Cross at 11 on Saturday mom- r

The area was established as a diocese Oct. 7, 19:;8, and Arch 'bisliop Carroll was installed as first bishop. The diocese was raised to archdiocesan status last May by Pope Paul VI, with the St. Augustine, Orlando and St. Petersburg dioceses as suf fragan Sees.

ing, Dec. 21 in the Chapel of _the Holy Cross Fathers Semi nary, North Easton. -T{) be ordained are: Rev. Mr. R. Bradley Beaupre, C.S.C., son of Mr. and Mrs. Roland F. Beau pre, 7 Belvidere Street, St. Johnsbury, Vt. Rev. Mr. 'Robert J. Brennan, C.S.C., son of Mrs. Anne' and the late Francis J. Brennan, 91 Strawberry Hill,' "Stamford, Conn. Rev.: Mr. A. Joseph Schwab, C.S.C., son of Mr. and Mrs. 'Al bert J. Schwab, 35 Parkhill Ave., Norwalk, Conn. Rev. Mr. Frederick Serraino, C.S.C., SOn of Anthony arid the , late Philomena Serraino," 1930 Queen City Ave., ,Cincinnati, Ohip. Following, their ' graduation from Stonehill College, these deacons then' entered upon their theological studies at Holy Cross College, Washington.

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FRIDAY-Ember Friday in Ad vent. II Class. Violet. SATURDAY-St. Thomas, Apos tle. II Class Red. Mass Proper; " Glory; Creed; Preface of Apos , ties. ' SUNDAY-Fourth Sunday of Advent. I Class. Violet. Mass 'Proper; Creed; Preface of Ad vent. MONDAY-Mas.s "of preceding ·Sunday. III Class. Violet. ' TUESDAY-Vigil of Christmas. I Class. Violet. Mass Proper; Preface of Advent. WEDNESDAY - The Birth of Our Lord Jesus Christ. I Class: White. Three different Mass texts for Midnight, Dawn, and Daytime. Mass Proper; Glory; Creed; Preface of Christmas. THURSDAY-St. Stephen, 'First Martyr. II Class. Red. Mass Proper; Glory; Creed; Preface of Christmas.

DEC. 27 Rev. ,Thomas J. Stapleton, 1956, Pastor, Corpus Christi, Sandwich. DEC. 28 Rev. Charles R. Smith, 1955, Pastor, Immaculate Conception, Fall River. JAN. 1 Rev. Jose Valeiro, 1955, Pas tor, St. Elizabeth, Fall River. Rev. Antonio M. Fortuna, 1956, Pastor, Immaculate Con "ception, New Bedford.

Priests Reorganize NEWARK (NC) -The infor mally structured Newark Priests' GrouI>-'-first of 11 independent groups of priests organized on a regional basis in the Newark archdiocese-:....is now the New ark Priests' Association. •

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Day of Prayer Jan. 5--Cathedral of the As sumption, Fall River. Sacred Heart Home, New Bedford. '" St. Patrick,Fall River. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ • • • • • • • e'

This Ch'ristmas let us consider The inconvenient Christ, The one who ctimes when he isn't wa"nted ,In our inns _ Or in our hearts.

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V@h,lInll'®efj' AW@fj'@Ik -W ASH I N G TON (NC) chine and Iwoodworking shops, A priest in Appalachia and the used dothibg stores and adult Harlem School of the Arts won education classes. I the 20th annual Lane Bryant ' Father Beiting, who has Volunteer Awards. worked in \the area for nearly The $5,000 prizes were pre 20 years, helps the people use sented to Father Ralph W. Beit what resourbes they find around ing {)f the Covington, Ky. dio them. He introduced cucumber cese, VI{~o won the individual growing into the region, and award, and to Dorothy Maynor, found a p'ickle manufacturer former OPera star who founded who guaranteed a market. the Harlem school five, years, The Harl~m School of the ago. " Arts" wQich\ received the group The awards, recognizing the award, gives 400 poor students contributions of volunteers to the opporturiity to paint, dance, community life, were presented learn to play a musical, instru by Raphael Malsin, president of ment, or to Iparticipate in dra Lan Bryant, at a luncheon at matics. 'I tended "by 350 educators, gov W· ernment officials and business lOners "Iere selected by a panel including William F. leaders. Buckley, Jr.,! editor of the Na Father Beiting is the founder tionalReview; 'Whitney Young, arid president of the Christian 'Jr., executiv~ director of the Appalachian Project, which National Urbkn League; Robert helps the poor in eastern Ken F. Goheen, ptesident of, Prince tucky where the median, income ton University; and Sen. Daniel Is slightly more than $500 per K. Inouye of Hawaii. year. I The project, which attracts THE ANCHOR some 2,000 volunteers a year Second Class po~tage Paid at Fall River, ~ 11 rt f th t ' Mass. Published every Thursday at 410 f rom a pa s 0 e· coun ry, Highland Avenue, Fall River, Mass," 02722 has organized coooerative farms', by the Catholic Pre'ss of th~ Diocese of Fall children's camps, 'a f"ctory,: maRiver: Subscription \ price by mail, postpaid ..

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Jl1ay the Christmas spmt of Peace on

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Tells Commission Increase 'Efforts CHICAGO (NC)-The Chica go Commission on Human Rela tions has been advised to step up its fight 'against local discrim ination practices, and warned ,that many black activists con sider the commission to be part of the "establishment." The recommendations directed the commission .to: "Be more aggressive in call ing attention to injustices in the city and in proposing ways of eliminating them. "Implement recommendations of the Kerner Report which have local applicatio,:p. "Reactivate .the Commission's Citizen Advisory Committees. "Develop a program to help residents in all-white neighbor hoods located 'near boundary lines to prepare for eventual in 'tegration. "-Review the· human relations programs of the Chicago police departmen.t 'and the Chicago Board of Education."

VATICAN CITY (NC) A global program directed toward the promotion of jus tice as the means of counter ing the "permanent threat of war" and achievement of peace by channeling mllitary spend ing Into aid for developing na tions has been issued by the Vatican to mark Pope Paul's second World Day of Peace on Jan. I, 1969. The annual World Day of Peace was inaugurated by Pope Paul last Janu~ry. The 16-page document was prepared by the Papal Secre tariat of State for the 1969 World Day of Peace observances with the theme, "The PromoUon of Human Rights - Road to Peace." ' The Vatican document pro vides a, suggested plan for per sons responsible for the organ ization- of the World Day of Peace on national levels in all countries. It calls for action by individu: als, groups and governments and expresses the hope that the Vatican appeal "will find a fa vorable echo in other Christians and in all men of good will everywhere." Threats of War It asks Catholics to join non Catholics in ecumenical religious services to undertake acts of penance, charity and brother hood. The statement says that "the impossIbility for individuals or social groups to find. on this earth a dignified existence, to insure their family's subsistence by their work and to safeguard their legiUmate cultural ,and ethnic heritage, is a cause of grave injustices and leaves per manent threats of war hovering over the world." It also urges that individuals. groups and states devote a part of their resources to institutions dedicated to peace and to de veloping countries. A contribu tion of one per cent of income is suggested. The statement calls for "re spect for fundamental rights" and religious liberty, and an end to discrimination "because of race, color, ethnic origin, sex, age or because they belong to a specific social group." Highlights of the suggestions outlined "in the Vatican docu ment are: Turn to Page Four

CU Has Jesuit Vice-President WHEELING (NC)-Father G. Gordon Henderson, S.J., chair man of the department of be havioral sciences and founder of the counseling center at Wheeling College, conducted by the Jesuits here in West Virgin ia, hrs been appointed vice president for student affairs at the Catholic University of America, Washington, D. C. Father Henderson received his doctorate in counseling psy chology from the University of Ottawa, and degrees from Bos ton College, Woodstock (Md.) College, Weston College ilInd Georgetown University, Wash ington, D. C. During the 1967-68 academic year, he was visiting professor at the National Uni versity of Mexico and the Uni versity Ibero Americana. ,

, " Urge .Catholics Support Tuition Rebate' I, Silent Night He is often, maybe always, Where we don't want to be: In the alleys

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MILWAUKEE (NC) -Catho lics here were urged to partic ipate in the democratic process and ,to unite with other parents of nonpublic school children in support of state tuition rebate legislation. More than 1,000 fathers and mothers, ,priests and nuns heard repeated pleas to cooperate with the Citizens for Educational Freedom (CEF) organization in a grass roots movement to coun teract financial crises facing parochial and ·private schools. They attended a CEF-spon sored rally at Pius XI high school. It was the first in a se ries of meetings to focus atten tion on the need for state aid to families with yougsters in Cath olic, Protestant and Jewish schools. . CEF is promoting a tuition reimbursement ,bill in the 1969 legislature which would provide $50 for each nonpublic grade school child and $100 for each student in a private or parOChial high school. Father Virgil Blum, S.J., po litical science professor at Mar quette University and a mem ber of CEF'snational executive committee , said financial prob lems were largely responsible for the loss of 25,000 pupils in Milwaukee archdiocesan schools' during the last four years. He said parochial school enrollment dropped from 101,000 in 1964 to 76,000 this year. Become 1\1Iiss!o~y "Therefore," Father Blum said, "it is incumbent on each one of

'you to become an emissary, a missionary, to inform and edu cate your fellow citizens of the facts in the case in which we are now involved." Father Blum said CEF is the only grass roots organization at tempting to .bring about fairness for Christian and Jewish chil dren who attend nonpublic schools. He criticized Catholics

for not being more involved in its work, and for failing to help shape public opinion in ,favor of aid to nonpublic school youngsters. "Catholics 'have not joined hands with non Catholics and Jews in helping to solve com mon problems," he stated "What do they do? They pray. Is this Turn to Page Six

We sing Oul warm greetings and besl wishes for a very joyous Christmas!

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BUFFALO (NC)-More than 200 diocesan and religious com munities priests here have indi cated interest in joining an in dependent, association of priests, a spokesman for 18 clergymen serving as the organization's ad hoc committee reported.

'Parish Parade Publicity chairmen of parish organizations are for this column to The asked to submit news items Anchor, P. O. Box ,,/, Fall River '02"/22.

Letters explaining the asso ciation were sent to all the priests in the diocese last month. Tgere are some ~50 dioces~n priests and 650 'prlests of rell gious communities in the dio cese. Bishop James A. McNulty, who also was mailed one of the letters, noted in a statement car ried on the front page of the diocesan paper: the Magnificat: "The conciliar decrees of Vati can II recommend adequate communication among the People of God. The suggested instruments of communication are the Senate of Priests and the Pastoral Council, composed of clergy, Religious and Laity." Parish councils' foster com munication on the parish level, he added. The bishop did not mention the ·proposed priest's group by name, but his statement gen erally was construed to be a response to the letter.

ST. ANTHONY OF DESER'l', FALL RIVER A traditional novena in prep aration for Christmas is being held' each night in the church. Chor Bishop Joseph EJd an nounces that he is prepared to give illustrated iectures on Leb anon and other countries. of the Middle East, as well as 'Rome, Portugal and the Fatima shrine to interested groups. He spoke last week to Dominican Terti aries connected with Providence College on Lebanon and the , cause for canonization of Blessed Sharbel. OUR LADY OF ANGELS" FALL RIVER The Holy Name Society' will receive corporate Communion at 8 o'clock Mass Sunday morning, 'Jan. 5. Members will attend a breakfast .immediately after wards in the church hall and will meet again in the hall at 6 S'unday night for a program' including a churcJf service at' 7 and a social hour. OUR LADY OF ASSUMPTION, OSTERVILLE The Christmas meeting of the Women's Guild featured a pres entation by CCD members of "The Gift of the Magi," directed by Sister Christine Marie. Members plan a February food sale and Spring fashion show. .

Appoint Nun Editor Of Speech Journal.. SAN ANTONIO (NC)-5ister Mary Arthur Carrow, vice-pres ident of Our Lady of the Lake College, conducted by the Sis ters of Divine Providence here, has been named editor of tne Journal of Speech and HeaI:ing Disorder, publication of the American Speech and Hearing. Association. The four-year appointment was made by the publication board and ratified by the ASHA executive council. Sister i'dary Arthur i2 years ago founded and has directed the Harry Jersig Speech and Hearing Center at the~ college. She has been active in work for the underprivileged and is widely known as a lecturer.

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. p. \ Carnegle • Report Ed ucator raises WASHINGTON (NC) - An official of the National Catholic Educational Association has praised a special report on fed eral responsibilitY' for higher education for accenting "educa tional quality and equality of opportunity." Father Clarence W. Friedman, assOCiate secretary of the NCEA college and university depart ment, said the report "sums up what is necesary for higher edu cation to meet the many chal lenges it faces." The report by the Carnegie

commissioJ on Higher Education said the federal government's proportionate share of

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Peace Platform Continued' from Page Three Public prayer and Masses for peace and also private prayers. Concelebration of Masses by priests of various races, coun tries and social origins. Other religious ceremonies, ecumenical wherever possible, including silent marches outside churches or temples or in sta diums or large public halls. Penitence and offerings, in cluding reconciliation and for- giveness for injuries, fasting in

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Hospitality and meetings on the occasion of the World Day of Peace, sucb as Christmas Eve or New Year's Day parties for foreigners, visits to the sick and "prisoners, etc., on New Year's Day; literacy and language courses, and' pilgrimages from country 'to country.

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OTTAWA (NC)-Grant Max well, writer, lecturer and direc tor of the Saskatoon Diocesan Catholic Center, has been ap pointed co-director of the Social Action Department, Canadian Catholic Conference, organiza tion of the (:anadian hierarchy. Maxwell is the first layman to be appointed director of .the Social Action i>epartment.

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Bishop Weldon To Ordain Fr. Swol

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Award Finalists

The Rev. Gabriel Swol, O.F.M. Conv., a member of the Order of· Friars Millor Conventual, will be ordain~d to the priesthood on Saturda" Dec. 21 in Granby, Mass. Mos\ Rev. Christopher J. Weldon, D.D., Bishop of Springfield, will officiate. Fr. Gabriel, the .son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis W. Swol of 65 Howard Street, New Bedford, received his early education at Our Lady of Perpetual Help School and at Holy Family High School. He studied for the priesthood at St. Joseph Cuper tino Novitiate, Ellicott City, Md.; St. Hyacinth College and Sem inary, Granby; and St. Anthony on-Hudson Major Theological Seminary, Rensselaer, N. Y. After earning his B.A. degree in. Philosophy from St. Hya cinth, he taught biology ·and English at Archbishop Curley High School in Baltimore, Md. Fr. Gabriel has continued his studies in Biology at St. Bona . venture University, and at Johns Hopkins University. Fr. Gabriel is presently affil iated with Kolbe High School of Bridgeport, Conn., where he is teaching Biology and Religion. Father is also Assistant Director of the Kolbe Swimming Team. . Fr. Gabriel will celebrate his First Concelebrated High Mass at 4 on Sunday afternoon, Dec. 22 in Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church,' New Bedford. Concelebrating with Fr. Gabriel will be his uncle Fr. Cyril Au gustin, O.F.M.Conv.; Fr. Ful gence Gorczyca, O.F.M.Conv., pastor; Fr. Nicholas Swiatek, O.F.M.Conv., classmate; and Fr. Charles Jagodzinski, O.F.M. Conv., classmate. The Preacher at Fr. Gabriel's First Mass will be Rev. Martin Dombrowski, O.F.M.Conv., Prin cipal of ~ibe High School in Bridgepor£, Conn. ~-'-' ----~-

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WASHINGTON (NC) - Five finalists for the Outstandhc Catholic Y'outh of the Ye:>r Award, to be announced Jan. !, have be.en selected in a natim, wide competition. The list of nominess was rc.. duced to five by a committ..: working with Michael McGovr of Beaumont, Tex., president v:; the teenage section, Nation:' Catholic Youth Organizatio. Federation. McGown said the five finali~b are: Gail Meredith, daughter ot: Mr. 'and Mrs. James L. Meredith, Washington, D. C., a freshman at the University of Dayton, Ohio. Patti Yezak, daughter of Mr. Mr. and Mr. Herman Yez~k. Bremond, Tex., a freshman ~,~ the University of Dallas. Francis Kardos, son of Mr.. Margaret Kardos, Wilmlngt(,·· Del., a sophomore at the Uc'i· versity of Delaware. Timothy.J. Russert, son of 1\',;. and Mrs. John Russert, We' Seneca, N. Y., a freshman t:· John Carroll University, Clev~.. land. Luis Cobb, son of Mr. am' Mrs. Lionel M. Cobb of K.~'"· West, ,Fla., a junior at Key W~ ~ High School.

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India, United States Sign Aad Agreement NEW DELHI (NC) - An agreement providing for con tinued distribution in India of foodstuffs and other articles by U.S. Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and other' voluntary agencies was signed here by the Indian and U.S. governments. The agreement, signed by U.S. Ambassador to India Chester Bowles and Indi,an Foreign Sec retary T.N. Kaul, also covers tractors, well-digging equip ment, ambulances, mobile clinics and food supplements in the list of donated articles entitled to exemption from customs duty and other concessions.

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not the sin of presumption?" he asked.. " "We ask God to perform; a miracle perhaps or to intervene to inspire the hearts and minds of public' officials to vote for reimbursement even though we have not prepared grass roots for the movement. "If we are mere sideliners, then the results of all laws on education cannot include our own nonpublic school children," Father Blum said.

Divinity People have always been fascinated, and still are deep ly touched, by the surroundings into which Christ came, the poverty and starkness of the cave and its welcome to Him. . These always-and rightfully---evoke sentiments that reach out to embrace the Christ ,Child. But in this age when faith, as in every age, is being tested and strained, it is the part of wisdom to see the whole picture and to know that the greatness of Christmas. lies not in the fact that the Second Person of the Trinity came into poverty and deprivation and nothingness, but that He came at all. .

Save $160 Million

The priest said Wisconsin taxpayers would be faced with an enormous added burden ill the financial crisis in nonpublic education forced all 223,000 non public school pupils of the state , into 'the public system. The cost would be $175 million a year in taxes, plus a capital outlay of $606 million for facil ities and equipment, Father Blum . said. These figures are, based on the National Education Association's estimate that it costs over $750 per year to edu cate each child in the state. Father Blum said the pro posed tuition reimbursement bill would cost $13 million, re sulting in a tax saving of some $160 million a 'year. '

It is the Divinity that we should concentrate upon at Christmas. The wonder of Christmas is that men of every age have looked upon Christ and have acknowledged Him to be the Son of God. The wonder of Christmas is that men have been given by God the insight to know and believe that here is God made man To one who has been given faith by God, it is simple. To one whose life is lacking or weak in that faith; it is incomprehensible and complex.

The just-issued report by the Federal Bureau of In~ vestigation that crime in the country during the first nine months of this year increased 19 per cent over the corres ponding period in 1967 should upset complacency.

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In this case, the World Health Organization has. re ported that 200,000 persons ,were killed in road accidents around the world ,in 1966, with the United 'States recording She highest death toll-48,050.

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NEW HAV·EN (NC)-The late Father John Courthey Murray, . r.oted Jesuit theologian, will be honored ina memorial fellow ship .program .at Yale University established by a gift of $140,000 from Thomas J. Watson, Jir., chairman of Intern'ational Bus iness Machines )Corp.

Rev. John F. Moore, St. Joseph's, Taunton

Increases in crime are not just statistics. They involve people. And a beginning here is made with the individual.

'What would and ,should be world ,reacHonat the news ·of the kil1ing of 200,000 persons? It should be one of vehe ment 'Sihoc,k and protestation. ,But is it?

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Increases are the concern' not only of the heads of communities and those charged with its safety.. Every par ent should look into his own. life and family and ask what he is doing to build a strong moral ch;uacter in himself and ilis children.

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mentari~s ,a:el employing th.is label WIth mcreased usage 111 reference. to \ the sociological structure of tllis country. In some countries, road deaths doubled and tripled and To better IUt:Iderstand this term, let's look at a few facts. even quadrupled in a matter of fifteen years. ' • <> No matter hdw far a minority And the slaughter goes on. group feels it Ihas emerged in this progressiv~ United States, With the 'approach of the Chri'stmas Season, more and the White' Anglo-Saxon Protesmore cars will be on the roads in less than ideal weather tant i.s still in \t?e majority in ,and with the added problem of children out of school and AmerIca, numbermg about 120,.a utomobile drivers tempted to rill up wi:th liquid cheer 000,000 adhere~ts, or, r?ughly 59..per cent of the populatIon. . before driving. WASP society! controls, at the The outlook for a lessening of automobile 'accidents and' Present time, the political, social'

The new J'ohn Cour.tney Mur ray Fellowships will be avail able to ,both Y,ale undergradu ates and graduating seniors, the university announced. Recipi ents will be free of normal ac ademic or job, ·responsibilities to travel and study anywhere in ,the world for up to one year.

country, 88 per cent of their The l'ate F,ather Murray, for Boards of Directors were WASP 30 years on the faculty of Jesuit controlled while 83 per cent of at Woodstock College, in Mary the direction of the 10 largest , land until his death in 1967, was commercial banks rests in the a visiting professor at Yale hands of WASP. On the univer- during the 1951-52 school year. sity campus, WASP holds 80 per He delivered the 51. Thomas cent of the trusteeshtps in -the More lectures at the university 10 universities with the greatest in 1932, and in 1965, joined Yale faculty members in teaching the enrollments. The 'bett~r' country clubs and annual Y.ale Alumni Semina·rs. private sOCIal clubs are, by far,

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groups in this country, the odds ~@[j' Au@] U'@ ~~Ilu@@~$ seem to be overwhelming. PHILADELPHIA (NC) - The \ road deaths is not promising. But each ,person Clan make head of the archdiocesan school ~[j'®@U'®$fr ~1lu@~~®I7il@® ~~ JJl1!l~fr AIlu®@@] , the difference by a greater sense of responsibility on the system said here parents, not Most American binority groups has notably altered student Church leaders, have the greater road as either driver or pedestrian. l are but' a couplel of generations bodies. Education will bring impact in obtaining community removed from their European about a leveling of social influ su'pport for non-public cshools. farms. Some feel\that'the recent ences. Addressing some 10,000 dele At no other time in American gates 'at, the first Philadelphia . liberalization of'the immigration law~ only will slerve to secure history will WASP be exposed archdiocesan Home and School the WASP positid,n. more to the glare of television Associations convention, Msgr. However, cracks' are begin lights and the judgment of the Edward T. Hughes said: "I do ning to appear in \th.is, seemingly entire population. not ,believe any concerned' unconquerable social fortress. A dark cloud looms bn the horizon, The g:eatest challen~e to Catholic parent can vote respon not for the WASP\as individuals, WASP WIll take place.·m the sibly unless he knows the posi OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OIF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER - tion of his legislators on the crit but as a dominating for~e in next four years. . Published weekly by The Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall River American life. \ Despite its great i?fluence and ical position of state aid to non The evolution of a scientific conltrol, WASP WIll have to public school children." 410 Highland Avenue

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WASHINGTON (NC)-SOMl.' 500 U. S. college students will meet' at Georgetown University here Dec. 19 to 22 to make fol' eign policy recommendations to the Nixon administration and the 91st Congress. The students will draw up a formal report on immediate and long-range foreign policy and present it in January to Pre!li· dent Richard M, Nixon and the legislators, Dean Curran, a Georgetown junior who is conference chair man, said "President-elect Nix on said during the campaign that he wanted to open 'chan nels of communication' with stu dents and consider their sugges tions. This symposium will serve as a vehicle." Curran said the conference. known as the National Student Symposium on United States Foreign Policy, is "the first time collegians have gathered a month before a Presidential ir. auguration to try to influence foreign policy."

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University Medical Center called for additional federal funds to support medical schools and their students at a session of the National Federation of Catholic Physicians' Guilds meeting here. Dr. Dwight Wilbur and Father Edward J. Drummond, S.J., ad dressed delegates representing 88 Catholic Physicians' Guilds with some 5,000 members throughout the country. Estimating that the shortage of physicians in this country is between 30,000 and 50,000, Dr. Wilbur said no medical school in the nation can operate today without federal funds. He urged • that funds be provided for con struction and research be ex tended on the matter of assist ing students with tuition. Critical Condition Dr. Wilbur urged that every practicing physician donate at least $100 each year to the med ical school of his choice as an indication of his concern. This would add $20 million to med ical school funds, he said. Father Drummond pointed out that each of the nation's four Catholic medical schools is in critical financial condition and declared that their 'Q.ases of sup port must be ,broadened and strengthened at the Federal level. This inconvenient Christ "Such increased federal fund Is in the kids whose Christmas comes early, ing could either be in the way of direct institutional support With organized parties or by way of making money And falsely jovial Santos, . available to students to cover So that we, consciences appeased, full educational costs," he said. Can enjoy the Day itself "Either methed has its advan At home. tages and difficulties, locally and nationally, politically and legally," he stated. "Changes and adjustments might be made in either method." aequires Hard Work V@\!'@fi'@[i1 C6@ti'ho~i~ Jourru~iis~ H«I$ ]'] Father Drummond admitted 1T{]@1i\l@[j'~Il'J 1Q)@(i;;U'@Fi'@t<e:i that any such program will take time and effort. "Just putting PHILADELPHIA (NC)-Cath- conferred by Suffolk University wise legislation in shape to be olic journalism's revered Patrick in Boston last June, when he heard, to say nothing about be F. (Pat) Scanlan holds a'distinc- retired. ing passed, requires much hard tion unmatched by any other Reflecting on his academic ca and thoughtful work," he said, alumnus of 117-year-old St. Joreer at St. Joseph's around 1~10, adding that there is also work seph's College here--he received Scanlan said: "You had to work to be done in "educating better 11 honorary doctorates during like the devil and though you the various publics whose needs his 51-year career as managing may have protested at the time, would be served by our schools." ,editor of the Table.ot, Brooklyn in later life every thing came "Society rightly feels that de diocesan newspaper. easily." He spoke with respect spite the very real advances in The record was disclosed in an for the "tremendous discipline" medicine in the United States interview with Scanlan which in those days. there is something wrong with appears in the Summer issue of "The Jesuits figured you came its health delivery systems," there to get an education," he Father Drummond stated. "If Alumni Hawk, quarterly magazine published by the college. said, "and if you didn't want to our schools look more to the His last honorary degree was take advantage of i,t, get out!" human' persW\ and to the deliv ery of health care in their edu cational and research; efforts, modern society will find such schools relevant indeed," he said ..

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lDtMrgy Service

CHICAGO (NC)-John Car dinal Cody of Chicago has con demned an "avant garde" litur gical service held here during a "Day of Information" spon 'sored by the Chicago Confer ence of Laymen (CCL). The service included African, "soul" and "psychedelic" music, on Offertory dance and the use of French bread for the Eucha rist. In a statement Cardinal Cody dt'plored the dance, said no offi cial permission for it had been requested or given, and said "a thorough investigation of the matter is being made." He said permission has not been given to individual par ishes-"nor will it be given"-to conduct any services "not in keeping with the devotional spirit of the liturgy." Non-litur gical "elements" are forbidden in Masses, he added. The cardinal also pointed out that the CCL is "not approved by the archdiocese and has no connection with it." The avant garde liturgical service concluded a meeting at tended by over 400 persons, pre dominantly middle-aged mem bers of the laity.

RIGHT REVEREND EDWARD T. O'MEARA ..NATIONAL DIRECTOR

'Jrwo thousand years ago shepherds left their flocks on the hillside and set out, following the star, to find the Babe. T~.;lIay let us gO together in spirit to Bethlehem. . The streets here, how dirty and 'all those people. Perhaps this ill the census. Ah, yes, the cellsus-l00,OOO nameless, suffering ·;.ces sleeping in the streets each night in tile shadow of luxury; ;\UO million sacred cows which cannot be ,touched while each of tl~ daily discard enough food' to feed six people. This cannot be ~he House of Bread. . Out of the stifling city at last. 'Jrhere is a mountainside, Cite stable must be there. Stables, they are, if even that exalted name can be given to such structures. As far as the eye can "ee up the hillside are adobe huts anell fiber shacks massed over what was ,once a garbage heap. , Oh, that looks like a clinic and ,those are missionary sisters. f·u,rely ,they will know the way to Bethlehem. Just look at those <.iny rows of beds. Why, there is hardly room between them. ·~iow -'Weak, how helpless, how much suffering already evident i'l their young faces. The sisters are kind, but the dreaded killer, l.·l.alnutrition, claims the lives of '10,000 children in the world ~very day. They give them good care, but the sisters are sadly ~~w in number and medicines are scare.' How many ,times have ;hey watched death, knowing that with more help and supplies, ':hey oouid have saved a tiny life. ' , You are tired from the long trip and in half desperation, HJ,s in the New Bedford:50uth End YOU ask, "When wiIR we find the Babe?" ,lIIave you been so Who's a problem to her- parents, "wrapped up in Y01l1rselves that you do Illot know that this very So they make her a state ward lillay you, have seen Him? lln your search for splendor, have you So she won't corrupt the little kids Grawn away In disgust at the sight. of llIimhidden in hunger, ~!l poverty, in dISease, ,and cried out, "Lord that's' not how You 365 NORTH i:=RONT ST'REET hire supposed to appear?" Have you not yet 1llnderotood that He NEW BEDfORD I . , fa .where you ,find Illothlng to honor 011' admire, nothing to fear UTRECHT (NC)-Unmarried and of foreign bishops' confer or reverence; tliat lIIe Is precisely where Y01l1 feel so sure .1IIe 992-5534 priests are \ preferable1;>ecause enees. ~ouldn't be? T.he Church, like the Babe, has Come, "not' to be served, but they are more easily prepared and available "":-l(l~~~~fI$(lI$~~'l$Ci~~~I$e~lI$r:ro ~() serve." We at the Propagation of the ·F.ai,th are striVing to ex , at all times of the ~~~'" day and. night. Bernard Cardinal ;;elld His love and compassion ,to our suffering brothers through -Jut the .world. Christ has no other hands but ours to bring His' Alfrink of Utrecht said here: In 'a' sermbn at ,the ordination !ove and consoIali,on. You can help yourselves, you can help them,' of deacons,! Cardinal, Alfrink l'y looking deep within your own hearts this Christmas and said the unmarried priest is not realizing that Bethlehem is not 20 centuries ago, but in each man limited in \his pastoral avail ~md woman' ,in need today. T.hrough you, Christ will be made ':'lown to them. Through them, you have been to Bethlehem ability by matrimonial and fam ily obligatiohs. He told deacons ·;OOay. t.hat their I\choice of celibacy SALVA']['HiOIN AND SJERVlIClE' are' the work 'of 'Jrhe Society .' made ·sense. for the Propagation oil the lFaith. Please cut out this column In' 'October, a resolution I was amd send your offering to Right Reverend IEdward 'Jr. O'Meara, adopted at \ the first national National IDirector,' 366 'lFifth Avenue. New York, N.Y. 10001 meeting of the' Dutch Catholic 0r directly ~ your local IDiocesan ,IDirector, 'Jrhe Rt. Rev_ Msgr. clergy citing! a married clergy's )l~ayniond 'Jr. Considine, 368 North Main'Street, lFall River, Mass . great value to the Church. 8c.husetts 02720. ,/" Cardinal !Alfrink told the ~eeting that! the Dutch bishops will seek to promote the realiza tion of the p~oposal for a mar riedclergy~nd that he would 1~®'W@li'[k( '~®rnH~]If~ A@I@/P'If$ [P%roliil If@ N@li'i1ilOlT\l@If® bring the r~solution approved . by the priests' meeting to the !?>1ro®!SIf!S @$ ~/P'O~«:@/P'@~ 'attention of Va,tican authori.ties· KEARNY (NC)-The Newark I '3(~nate of Priests ~has adopted \~ unanimously a proposal for'ihe :~lection of episcopal vicars. The Senate's personnel com Bells ringing, .nittee has suggested that priests ill each of the four vicariates in i.he archdiocese nominate priests carol-singing tell ~nr the positions. 0 0 The nine in each vicariate re the joys of Christmas. ccoiving the most votes would be submitted to the Archbishop, . 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Pledg·e Loyalty To Pope Paul

MILWAUKEE (NC)-A seminar on long-range plan ning conducted here is ex pected to brighten the finan cial picture of the Milwaukee archdiocesan school system, and possibly the entire archdiocese. Members of the planning team based their optimism on results in other dioceses where self studies on money matters were made. Spokesmen for the team of experienced educators described Catholic schools as having the potential "for being the agents of greatest educational change in this country." They pointed out, however, that "right now the system is sick, but must be made healthy to prevent mis takes of the past." The planning team led a- se:" ries of discussions and wor~hop sessions for administrators, prin cipals and superiors in all high schools' of the archdiocese. About 80 priests, nuns and lay men attended the meetings.

CLEVELAND (NC) - Cleve land Catholics attending Sunday Mass here were asked to sign petitions pledging loyalty to Pope Paul VI and expressing acceptance of his recent encyc lical' on birth control, Humanae Vitae. .

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Had Ford Grant The five-member team and its program were developed about a year ago through a Ford Foundation grant to the National Catholic Educational Associa tion to introduce long-range planning methods in Catholic elementary and secondary schools. Father Edmund W. Olley, principal of Pio Nono High School, a planning-team mem ber, cited the nee.d to introduce the project here. He said high school officials were selected because they have stronger or ganizational ties than those of other archdiocesan organiza tions. ,. He said Kenneth Burgess, newly appointed financial a~ ministrator of the archdiocese, was at the meetings to get a bet ter understanding of the total educational program. Other ·team members are: An thony E. Seidl, project director, long-range planning seminars for the Academy of Educational Development; G. Wayne· Glock, president, Keuka College, Keuka Park, N. Y.; Karly J. Vander Horck, director of graduate studies in education administra tion, University of Minnesota, Duluth; and Brother J. Alfred Moroni, F.S.C., chairman, busi ness administration division, Christian Brothers College, Memphis. Seidl and Brother Moroni ex plained that they don't bring the answers to the participants but help them find the answers by applying sound business princi ples and methods.

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worship or liturgy; the spiritual life ()f the diQcese; life and work of the clergy; apostolic action and spiritual life of the laity; the .witness and work of Reli giOllS in the diocese; Christian education; -participation of the Church in community affairs; the use -of communications. for the work -of the Church and the service of souls; ecumenical re lations in -the diocese; pastoral government in the diocese deaneries and parishes; and di ocesan financing, property, plan ningand' development.

The bishop said commissions are assigned to preparations of materials for· synod action in the following areas of concern:

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Minn. Ordinaries Ask Confidence In Schools

INDIANAPOLIS (NC) - The Committee on Nonpublic Schools, a group of administrators and board members of nonpublic schools in Indiana, has launched' a program to inform Hoosiers of , of the "civil, financial and edu cational contributions made by ouf schools." Arthur L. Amt, chairman of the organization, said that over a quarter of a million informa tional pamphlets were being distributed throughout the state "as a service to the citizens." , Amt is superintendent of edu 'cation for Lutheran schools' in Indiana. The'pamphlet, entitled "Indi ' ana's Nonpu-blic Schools: Finan- ;' cial impact. Public Contribu tion," notes that 'one in' nine of ' all school children in' the state' attends a nonpublic school, thus relieving the, g~neral' public of a large financial', burden. It warns, however" that the current financial crisi~ in: nonpublic schools wHI force fuore closings and dropping of grades unless increased state' aid Is forthcom ing.

ST. PAUL (NC) - The bishops of the Minnesota Catholi~ Conference have called upon priests and people to give a vote of confi dence to the Catholic schools and have urgea their continued support, the ,president of the .MCC, Coadjutor Archbishop Leo C. Byrne 'of St. Paul and Min-' neapolis, has' announced., ' The ,bishops stated: "We. . . wish to address our- ' selves ,to Catholic education, one of the most important works of the Church. We declare our belief in the value of Catholic education in fOI'IIlinga Christian people whose intellectual and cultural achievements are linked . with deep religious convictions and a -mature understanding" of the meaning and purpose of life. . " Distinctive Values "We wish to impress' on the people of the state the need for Cliurch-related schools in a free, pluralistic' society. This tradi tion must continue if the .rights of individuals and groups ,to" develop 'and express their dis tinctive cultural and religious values are to endure. ' "We assure our Catholic people that the substantial fi ' nancial support they ',have so generouslygiven~o the Catholic schools is in reality' an invest-, ment for their own religious freedom and that of their chil dren. ' "For this reason we call upon the priests.· and people 'to give a vote of confidence to the Cath olic schools and urge them ·to continue their support. The . Catholic' .bishops of' the: :state' '>k' ' ,.<'iF ••. "."';} ¥.,'., ,,',' ,In, the"t:friehdle'sf' Attleboro teen unhesitatingly affirm that, the Who'd like. someone to share a Coke', ," role of the' Catholic' school i n · ' · . . Or a secret. ']1. today's world is vital: " ' ; . " __ , ',' '0

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I suppose that it is an old cry by this time, but it strikes us that it is becoming ever more difficult to keep Christ in Christmas. The money changers are continuing to com mercialize on the single greatest day of the year and it would seem .Ufey know no ·bounds in fulfilling the American dream of selling their products. People everywhere are aghast at the effect television is having on their children. Commercials cry out with every conceivable. toy and gimmick in such a way that the children lose all per spective and want what they see to the exclusion of everything else. This year we have gone them one better and think we have devised a method for beat ing them which we will ·pass on to our readers who we're sure are in the same quandry. Two Methods Two methods have been par ticularly useful to us in over coming television advertising: (1) allowing children to see the advertised toys in the stores and (2) showing them that al most every one is made of cheap plastic material which will break a~ the slightest pressure. The first of these methods is remarkably effective. As adults we know that the advertisers are trying to show their toys in the best possible light, using sound effects, excited children's voices, ·etc. So what better way to show the toys up for what they are than to take the children to a toy store wher~they can con front ·the laughing don' '(who has a hideous laugh) or the doll with the moving head (which is far from realistic) and so on down the line. After a few of these visits the children begin to gaze at television with a more critical eye and are quick to point out ·the defects in what they are seeing to their parents. The second method is equaliy effective because the children are aware of the short lives of most of their toys and as a re sult can be easily convinced that shoddily made toys are not worth buying. My children now frown on almost anything made of plastic! What we need to teach the ad vertisers a lesson is a boycott of one of their products during the next year. Someone should devise a simple system· to in form parents to boycott a single toy and thus make manufactu rers aware that American par ents and their childreo are not to be hoodwinked into buying shoddy merchandise. In the Kitchen As Joe mentions above, it is very difficult to keep Christ in Christmas with all the commer cialism that abounds at -this sea son. Store windows are decor ated the day after Halloween, carols are blared over car radios Thanksgiving at the latest, and the worst culprits of all, the toy manufacturers, apparently plan their brain-washing techniques back in early January. Parents find themselves hard put to compete with the Madison Ave nue marvels that lure a~ woo both adults and children into a Christmas season filled with gimme, instead of good will to men. Advent ~ustoms such as the celebration of St. Lucy's Day, Dec. 13, are the uncommercial happenings that we have found do keep Christ in Christmas and

THE ANCHORThurs., Dec. 19, 1968

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In the Taunton mother At home so much Wtth just the kids, Who'd like to have coffee. with a neighbor If a neighbor w.ould come,. crass materialism out. St. Lucy's Day, or the Feast of Lights as it is. called in Sweden, is the perfect ·time to remind everyone in the family that the Light of the World, Jesus Christ, is on his way. Swedish custom has the eldest daughter of the household serve her parents breakfast in bed this morning. Traditionally she wears a crown of lighted can dles and carries.a ring of sweet" bread (coffee cakes). The lighted crown would make most of us alarmist mothers a bit nervous but the coffee cake in bed does sound like a good idea. Warmth of Christmas . Although the communications media are responsible for much of the worry, strain and com mercialism that· goes into Christmas of the sixties, many of them do convey the warmth and love that is Christmas in their article content. Pictures and articles on fam ilies together for the holidays, complete with all the decora tions and good things to eat that make this day so warm and wonderful, help offset the buy buy-buy cry. There is something old-fashioned and safe about baking and decorating for the holidays. A· home full of tangy cooking odors and the clutter of decoration making is filled with holiday spirit. This is a perfect breakfast treat for ChrIstmas and would be a good recipe to keep in mind for next St. Lucy's morn. Christmas Crescent 1 pkg. compressed yeast % cup wanri water 1 teaspoon sugar 1 cup scalded milk 1 cup butter or margarine 1h cup sugar .

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ST. CLOUD (NC)-Some 30 chaplains - Catholic, Lutheran, Methodist and Presbyterian from Minnesota state college and university campuses advo cated at a recent meeting herp that the Catholic Church should discontinue its demand for pre marriage promises from the non-Catholic partner in a mixed marriage. The chaplains resolved that couples in a mixed marriage should be "encouraged to raise their children with an opennes:> to all churches." Instead of be ing called "mixed," such mar riages should be called "ecu menical," the chaplains said. Partners In such marriages, they added, should "strive for ecumenical development in their own marriages and in the world around them," by meeting with "other such couples on a con tinuing 'basis" and setting up· common religious instruction for their children, based on the Bible. The chaplains also urged bet ter conditions for married stu dents. They suggested that cam pl.\ses prov_de family life studies and preparation for marriage courses. Are YOU being called to ~I ~ • serve GOD • as a contemplative NUN~' in the Dominican Cloister?

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Stress Christian" Jurists' Role

Favors Change in Church Press Relations ,Policy

VATICAN CITY (NC)-Chris tian jurists have an especially important role to play in the economic and social progress of developing countries. This was the message of a papal letter sent in the name of Pope, Paul VI' by Amleto Car dinal Cicognani, Papal Secretary of State, to the sixth world con gress of the International Secre tariat of Catholic Jurists, spon sored by Pax Romana, interna tional organization of Catholic students and (intellectuals, at Dakar, Senegal: The congress theme is "The Mission of the Christian Jurists in Developing Countries." The letter stressed that "the Christian jurist is perhaps in the best situation for giving a balanced opinion" on what areas are to be given priority in the immense undertaking of eco nomic and social progress of the developing countries. "In fact, it is above all on the , basis of the equality and liberty of individuals', and therefore on the basis of justice and of law, that this edifice, which seems to be in the designs of Providence one of the great tasks of present day man, must be built."

By Msgr. George 'G. Higgins The .pres's and the other media have come in for a fair amount of criticism 'in recent, wee~s for the way they handled--or allegedly mishandled-the Bishops' Pastoral. I suppose it could be demonstrated,' on record, that some of ,this criticism was fully warranted. On the -other first session, the Council au hand, I 'get the impression thorities tried to enforce a pol icy of almost complete secrec:r. that we clerics and ecclesi They soon learned the hard way,

astics tend to be hypercritical of the media and may not realize that we our selves are at

least partially to blame for some of their occasional gaffs. Another way of saying the same thing is that we too often give the impression of wanting to have it both ways in our reluctant, stand-offish deal ings with the' media. We tend to make a fetish of secrecy, for secrecy's sake, and then - quite unreasonably, in my opinion - are inclined to become hyper-sensitive if, as sometimes happens, th~ media fail to report our activities and our statements as accurately as they might~and probably would -have done if they had been given ready access to all of the necessary background in~orma tion. This is not to say that re porters, for the,ir part, are with out }ault o,r that they are l}ll parag9ns of professional com-, petence. Quite the contrary. They make their share of mis takes and are just as unwilling to own up to them as the rest of us are to our own. Moreover, as a group, they have just about as many profes sional or occupational hang-ups as do clerics and other special ized segments of our society. Traditional Policy Be that as it may, there is no reason to lose our cool, when they occasionally give us what we, rightly or wrongly, regard as a bad press. Far better to ask ourselves, in all seriousness, if our own man'ner of dealing wi'th the media is always up to the pro fessional standards which other public figures-political leaders, for example - are expected to meet. More specifically, I think we ought to take a good hard look' at our traditional policy of air tight secrecy about matters which, whether we like it or not, are today commonly thought to be of legitimate concern not only to rank-and-file, Catholics, but also to the public at large. Church' and Society When we are dealing with matters affecting the common good of the Church and society, we must take on the burden of demonstrating-and should not simply assume a' priori that secrecy in this or that particular situation is justified. I believe it would be fair to) say that in the past we have not felt obliged, as a general rule, to take on this burden of proof, but inst~ad have instinctively tended to opt for lIir-tight secrecy under any and all circumstances. ' I really: don't think we can expect to get by with this ap proach any longer. The experi ence of Vatican Council II proved that rather conclusively. During the early days of the

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And while they never did open the Council to the media, they did get around to,provid ing them with a reasonably 'complete summary of the daily proceedings. Additional infor mation and background material was' also made available to the reporters, through the medium of press panels, special lectures, etc. As a result, Vatican II was covered more extensively, more: accurately - and, I might add, much more sympathetically than any previous event of its kind in the history of the Church. My own guess is that if we were to have another Council within the next 20 or 30 years; the authorities would decide hopefully on their own inItiative -to go all the way and open the public sessions to the press and the other media. ' After all, why not? We can't have our cake and eat it too. That is 'to say, we can't talk about the role of tlfe Church 'in the modern world and then ex pect to get by with a press rela tions policy which, mayor "may not have been adequate in an' earlier age but is certainly not so today. Praises Media Why shouldn't the next Coun cil, then, be open to the press and the other media? And, a fortiori, why not admit duly accl'edited reporters to the pub lic (as opposed to executive)', sessions of all lesser ecclesiasti cal gatherings (including meet ings of the hierarchy) when they are dealing with matters effect ing the common good of the Church and the society? And while we are waiting for this to happen, I ,think we ought to pay tribute to the press and the other media for keeping the public so well informed about developments in the life of the Church and for doing so with a sense of humor or a reason able facsimile theeof under less than completely satisfactory working conditions.

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Devises Method To Overcome TV Effect By Marilyn Roderick "That's where our money goes" will soon be the cry uttered by despondent papas when the Christmas bills come in. Now, not oldy will the cry be aimed at the holiday cost of outfitting the Mrs. 'but even more at the cost of dressing the lollipop set. A dressy child's fashion used to be available in $10 to $15 range but not in the inflationary year of 1968. Four teen dollars will buy a very, very plain little cotton this sea son and if you want to pick out something with a ,bit more style, perhaps in a knit, then the price tag is going to read $20 and up. Little girls' coats this year hit an all-time high as, lavish with fur trim, they entered a new stage of fashion elegance, and of course a new price range. Gone were the $39.95 tags and in their place, to do justice to the fur, of course, was a $59.95 tag. There was a time when one season was dad's turn to get a new coat and the next was mom's but with just a glance at the prices on children's wear, it looks as if both mom and dad will have to take a back seat. Total Look? As if we kid fanciers didn't have enough problems with the rising cost of keeping our offspring in the fashion whirl, designers are now announcing that they are going in for the total look. ,No more ,will your nJ!1.e yeatqld go around with mismated knee socks and a schoolbag that doesn't jive. Oh no, they too are going to get pulled together in order that they will be coordinated trom tip to toe. In order to accomplish this stores will set up juvenile boutiques with every item a young fashion individualist needs in one department. This of course will enable you to spend your money faster and without tiring yourself out moving from department to de partment. Personally I like tq feel that I get a bit of a run for my money; but it will be nice not to wear out my shoe leather (not to mention my nerves) by running from department to de partment or from store to store to find a sweater to match that skirt you just bought, or red patent shoes to complete a patri otic ensemble. Children Don't Cooperate The approach sounds marvel ous, the idea sound, the princi ple sensible, but there is just one little problem. What hap pens to this put-together look when it gets home? In my house, it just falls apart. The last time I went out to buy Meryl an outfit I made sure that I bought a jersey and leotards to match her new jump er. Seventh Avenue designers, though, don't seem to know my daughters and the first time this one wore this ensemble she fell down the back stairs and tore a large hole in her coordinated leotards. Thus within the first 24 hours of ownership the put together look had gone down the drain (or more exactly out into the trash barrel). A course in poise lind the correct way to descend s~airs could well be in corporate~ into one of these pro posed boutiques so that the wearer of' new clothes would be

THE ANCHOR Thurs., Dec. 19, 1968

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NEWARK (NC)-Benedictinc priests here and in Morristown voted to erect a new abbey in this city, which will restore his toric ties of the community dat -ing back to 1939. An abbey once located here was trans ferred to nearby Morristown in 1956. Abbot Martin J. Burne, O.S.B., said the decision has been ap proved by the Sacred Congrega tion of Religious in Rome and archbishop Thomas A. Bohind 'of Newark. Both abbeys will be known as St. Mary's. The one in Morristown, in the Paterson diocese, will retain the theologate, which will be used by the two communities. The abbey here had its begin nings in 1839 when Benedictine monks were assigned to a parish church. The church was burned and looted on Sept. 4, 1854, when a riot erupted during a parade by the Orangemen of Newark. The present church was dedi cated in 1856, named St. Mary's, and later became the site of the abbey. ~

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DES MOINES (NC)-Parents of school and pre-school age chil dren in 19 parishes in metro politan Des Moines have ,been given an opportunity to express their views on present and fu ture Catholic educational pro grams, according to diocesan school officials. '

to all parents of children cur rently enrolled in Catholic ele mentary and secondary schools, parents'- ,whose children were withdrawn from Catholic schools within the past two years, and parents of pre-school children.

Questionnaires have been sent

The study is being conducted by Sister Marie Michelle Schiff gens, a doctoral candidate at the university of Iowa.

able to live up to the fashion image that is emerging for the young. Ideally, every child should have a place for his possessions and every possession should be in its place. Life being as con trary as it is though, every pair of navy blue socks or leotards looks like every other pair of socks and leotards. Underclothes get mixed up and jerseys shrink. In no time at all the coordinated set ,has become uncoordinated. A maid is what we need!

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THE ANCHOR-'I.;;·" Thurs., Dec~19, 1968,

Seeking Security Through Violence Is 'Blind Alley

NEW YORK (NC) - Msgr. John G. Nolan, national secre tary of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association and presi dent of the Pontific;al Mission for Palestine, left here for the Near East on his annual Christ mas visit. \ Msgr. Nolan indicated his current visit coming at a time of renewed Arab-Israeli tension in the Holy Land, would be an opportunity not only to re-eval uate the Catholic Near East Welfare 'Association's supportive efforts in behalf of the Pontifi cal Mission to Palestine but also to view those areas which need to ·be emphasized and strength ened in light of, the 'current crisis. . In Beirut, Lebanon, he will ~isit the Pontifical Mission headquarters and refugee camps at Dbayeh and Jisir el Basha. While in 'Jordan he will present to the United Nations Relief and ,Works Agency (UNRWA) and the Jordanian government a 15 unit school complex which the Pontifical Mission has recently completed. The new complex will provide schooling for some 10,000 children. His trip will also include a visit to the Pontifical Mission Center for the Blind in Gaza~ which was constructed and is maintained by the Pontifical " MissiOn. 'The center has 60 stu dents and traj.nees. Msgr. Nolan will participate again this 'year, as assistant priest at the Midnight Mass in the Basilica of the Nativity in Bethlehem. On Christmas 'Day, he will visit the Pontifical,Mis:-" sion Orphanage in Bethlehem, where he will deliver gifts from ,the members; of the' New York ;'"r":clty-bClSe,d Catholic'Near:: East'· ,. Welfare Association. J

By Barbara Ward

There is one fundamental difficulty about pursuing "security" in the elaboration of ever new weapons sys

terns: The scientists and technol ogists ,in the two leading coun ties-the United 'States and the Soviet Union are level with each other in the ultra sophistication of missiles and nu clear weaponry: rockets, detec tion 'devices, de livery systems, anti - ballistic , defenses, every thing. One can see th sbas c equality in the moon race in which' both can consider, in'the span of the same month, the des patch of ,manned spacecraft to encircle the moon. Between such equals, "de fense" ,by way of an arms race, .is an upward spiral of ev~r increasing costs and never-les sening ,insecurity. Both nations can spend another hundred bil lion dollars and remain exactly where they are now-unable to ward off Ii second crippling atoinic strike even if they have risked a supposedly pre-emptive first strike. ' Blind Alley If it is true that the giant rep tiles finally extinguis}fed their species by the weight of defen 'sive scales and spines and armor which far sur}>assed their', pin head of intelligence, the h~man race could do the same by elab-' orating defense Systems so vast and so equal that they came, to absorb an' 'extingufshing share of m'ankind's resources and brainpower. It is a blind alley labelled "security" ,but in reality spelling extinction.' , : Are there any alternatives? We look at the claims of total sovereignty put forward ;by states, great and small alike. We look back over, history and see llttle but pretentions and powers of nations and empires and the blind record ot' collision and violence that has followed their conflicts. Can' one rationallY suppose there are other ways of medi ating inevitable disputes? Are we not condemned .by human nature and human pride, to blunder from violence to vio ience over the edge to Arma gedon? Inside and Outside If man's record were nothing but war, this despairing verdict would have to stand. But it, is not. Inside 'our states, we deal differently with our conflicts. The point is obvious, but it needs to be repeated. M~nkind .. has invented an alternative to the rule of violence. It is per haps'man's chief invention. It is the rule {)f law, protected by properly constituted tribunals,. due process· and an impartial police. Inside our. societies, we take for granted that, normally, peo ple me!iiate or arbitrate or take th'eir disputes to law..They do not use force to setHe them in their own favor. If war were in separable from man's nature he could never have evolved a sys tem/of laW. and lived by it. The sceptics will say, . how ever, that while civic society may have learnt the lesson in ternally, it is inconceivable to apply, it to the play of drives

and ambitions 'present in great states. But even this' is not inconceivable. . Just over 2,000 years ago, China was a violent arena, of the' wars 'between feudal' states.' Then the Dukes of Chi'in succeeded in establishing a central dymisty which later monarchs reinforced with the unifying influence of a state iQeology Confucianism-and a state bureaucracy-the Mandarins. Thereafter, with a few interruptio'ns, China, then as now, making up a, quarter of the human race, lived under the rule not of violence but of law and custom. We cannot say dog'matically that what a quarter, of the human race can practice" the whole cannot. The move"", ment from separatism to work... '

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In tlie husband and father Who wouldn't retreat Behind the p6per " If there werel someone who'd listen. I . ing unity has been achieved' 10 the U. S. Senate had been wise human ~istor~. So i,t can be enough to ratify it~a l~unching. pad for .further nuclear: disarm , done agam.· I . ament. . " Possible Steps, Now· the Russians seem at Are there ,aAy limits in con temporary po)itics that .the least ready to consider alterna . movement is stirring in our own tives to another upward round violent and IdiVided world? of competitive striving by way Certainly, we' have no reason Turn to Page Fifteen for pollyanna optimism. But we 'are not· wit}jout reason for Christian hope] At the level of Great Power cdnfrontation, Russia and Amerita have achieved two agreements' which begin to pull them back from unlimited. competitivenesS. The Test Bar! Treaty has kept heaven khows how much cancer dealing strontitim 90 out of the bones of growing children. The Anti-Proliferation Treaty could already be pr6viding - if only

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THE ANCHOR Thurs., Dec. 19, 1968

ST. ADELE (NC) - A spokesman for Englis'h speaking Catholics here criti cized the Quebec provinC'i'al

SACRAMENTO (NC) - Gov. Ronald Reagan of California has rejected as "unwise" the appli cation of the principl~s of the National Labor Relations Act to farming, but urged legislators and the public to seek other ways of improving the lot of farm workers. The governor said that, be yond providing for government certification of a union and re qui ring employer and union representatives to bargain to a conclusion, "the NRLA does nothing." "It is self-evident," Reagan said, "that crop perishability and weather factors reduce--or per haps entirely eliminate - any chance, of. ,achieVing a balance of union and farmer bargaining power so necessary to reach fair decisions and avoid loss of food and fibre in the public in terest." The California governor's stand on the NLRA is in opposi tion to the frequent urgings of the Catholic bishops of Califor nia and more recently the Cath olic bishops of the United States.

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government for deferring action on its proposed linguistic rights bill. "A milUon and a half English speaking Quebecers have been told that their rights may be '''4.,,,~,. ,...£,.: "': projected in the future," said Noel Herron, president of the Montreal Catholic Principals' Association. "But for now the legislature has bowed to pres sure within and without the ca'binet. It has condoned na tionalism run riot and extrem ism." Herron's criticism came at the conference of Montreal English speaking, Catholic principals here. The conference later sent a wire to Premier JeanJ. Ber trand of Quebec asking lor "Prompt decisive action" on the bill. Language of Cholee They said they were shocked by the postponement of the :bill and that the government's prom ise to present the bill by the end of the current session was "hardly reassuring." The proposed linguistic rights bill would guarantee parents the right to have their children receive 'at least some education in the language of their choice LACKAWANNA (NC) -The' I'n the schools they attend-even Lackawanna Common Council if the Quebec provincial gov has condemned land owned by ernment should one day declare the Buffalo diocese in a pre that French must be the 'basic dominantly white area here language taught in all schools. which the diocese had proposed The government' has been to sell to several Negro groups under increasing pressure from for a housing project. nationalist groups in -Quebec to The move by the Common make precisely that declaration. Council was the latest develop The nationalists .-'belleve"such. 'ment in a controversy over the a step may be necessary to pre ,tract of land in this industrial vent French from becoming a suburb of Buffalo. minority language here. '1'hey are Earlier the land was rezoned alarmed that the 'birth rate has ,by the city for recreation use been declining among French only. The rezoning move was speaking persons of Quebec and met with charges of discriminathat mo~t immigrants opt for English-speaking schools.

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Security Pursuit Continued from Page Fourteen of ballistic missile screens (which scientists will nullify even before they are put up). There are thus hints that the large "barons" are ready for} a measure of conciliation and dIs cussion, if not yet for formal ar bitration or judicial processes. There are also hints that they wish to stop some way short of the old "Balkan" type of escala tion by which the disputes be tween local states draw in the great power-s who patronize rival sides. In Kashmir, when war broke out, Russia and America coop erated to halt it. They did the same in last year's Middle East ern conflict. Even in Vietnam, Russia has avoided the full, open intervention on the side of the North that would have made the conflict general. All this is, in the main, rooted in the fear of atomic weapons. But fear can be the beginning of wisdom. Can we use it for further ad vance?

Business Manager SYRACUSE (NC)-Mrs. Cath erine M. HoWard, veteran staff member, has been appointed business manager of the Catho lic Sun, Syracuse diocesan newspaper. She succeeds the late Mrs. I Dorothy Vieau. Mrs. Howard 'tnd her husband, Clif ford E., 'have a son, daughter and three grandchildren.

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TARRYTOWN (NC) -Mary mount College here, conducted by the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary, is encouraging women of all ages who have, completed high school or sev eral years ,of college to resume their studies and acquire a bac . calaureate degree. The four-year liberal arts col lege for women has announced that "a high school diploma and a desire to learn" constitute the entrance requirements for wom en to enroll as special students at Marymount, whether to pre pare for a profession, or to broaden their knOWledge and help them live more meaningful lives in today's world. Mrs. Gilbert T. Anyon, assist ant academic dean, said 30 spe cial students currently are en rolled at the New York college and, depending upon their available time, are taking from one to four courses each. She said women with degrees who are seeking credits for state teaching certificates may enroll in the education department and participate in an accelerated program of studies.

SAIGON (NC)-Military chaplains in Vietnam were· told here by a leader of their professional assoCiation that the basic idea of a paid chap laincy for the U. S. armed ser vices is under powerful attack. Dr. Karl B. Justus, executive director of the Military Chap lains Association, said the most 'seriQus threat is from Prot estant groups. He mentioned a challenge that recently came from his own colleagues in the Methodist ministry. He said: "The whole idea of the military chaplaincy is'under attack and the greatest threat is coming from the Protestant de nominations themselves. Four years ago the American Civil Liberties Union "Started to ques tion the constitutionality of the military chaplaincy. "The last Methodist, General Chapter voted on the question and the proposal to abolish the military chaplaincy was just beaten. It is disturbing that the question should ,have reached the floor for a vote at all." Dr. Justus continued: "Now adays there are people who say there is no need for the military chaplain, that the civilian clergy can take, care of' the 'military. That's not true. "You can't send civilian. clergy in to battle, they're not prepared for the military sys tem and they can't identify with the military.' It was tried in the First World War when some YMCA people were se!'lt :but it did not work." Dr. Justus expects the attacks on the military chaplaincy to be increased. "So we have formed," he said, "a committee on church sta,te relations to examine the question if military chaplains are legal and constitutional. "We have contacted 10 eminent constitutional lawyers who are ,prepared to -come to the defense of the chaplaincy when the at foes to the'··

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CHICAGO (NC) _ Chicago - tunity to groJ in this diocese." archdiocese chancery has stated He said Ibter that Father it has no information to support Clemenis and bther ·black priests a claim by a Southern Christian here- could not. grow, "cannot ·be Fr. Hesburgh Says Leadership Conference official men," were b~ing "pushed out" who said black priests were be- of the priesthbod, and might be Youth Disillusioned ing "pushed out" of the archdi- departing frorll it. . EAST LANSING (NC)-The ocese and might be leaving the The chancety spokesman said American dream has turned into priesthood. archdiocesan offices have no in a nightmare for ma~y of the formation whihh would substanThe claim was made by the I nation's young persons, Father Rev. Jesse Jackson who ad- . tiate the 'assrrtion "rega·rding Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., dressed a session of the Asso- the departure of a group of Ro president of the University of of Chicago priests man Catholicl priests of the Notre Dame, told, a Michigan ciatioq , archdiocese. . , MIssion to Poor . '. State UnIversity Fall term com-. (ACP) on "Poverty and Racism mencement audience here. in the Church." The Rey. Mr. "If such wer~ the case the ofFather Hesburgh, a member Jackson is currently direCtor of fice -of the ~rch-bishop would of the U. S. Civil Rights Com Operation Breadbasket he,re. obviously be iappraised of the ·mission since its inception in With one Chicago black priest, " fact," the spokesman added. 1957, said the frustration felt by . Father George W. Clemehts, sitLater, a. grbup of 21 white disillusioned students had legit ting behind him on the 'platform, priests and Irtembers of inner. imate causes, one of them rac- the Rev. Mr. Jackson said: "It' city parishes r~commended that ism. . is wrong for George Clements to John Cardinal Cody lmd the "Black Americans, they found, be ridiculed, to have no oppor- archdiocesan Ipersonnel board g~nerally live in the worst .' \ I houses, in the worst sections of ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~.~~.~ our cities, and so were fated to continue to attend the worst schools which are located there, .~ so that their frustration and lack Thank you of social mobility upward seems for your valued patronage. eVE:r circular and inevitable," he said. I We hope to serve you even beHer during the! coming year. Vietnam is another issue raised by the young which de mands attention, Father Hes burgh said. "Too few of the eld 75 HUTTLESrON AVENUE, Route 6 ers really.' debated the issues or FA!RHAVEN, MASSACHUSmS drew 'back from the mounting cost in Ifves and doll!lrs,"he MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CqRPORATION charged.

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Addressing the Cardinal Pri mate of Poland and other Polish bishops who had come to Rome, Pope Paul VI called them examples to the whole world of loyalty to Christ and His Vicar. "We fully know," the Pope told Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski and the other prelates, "your fidelity and your loyalty to the Chair of Peter and the Vicar of Christ: fidelity that is all the more significant ,because it is not a simple personal deed of yours but is the proper and characteristic expresf:ion of all the Catholic faithful of Poland." The firmness of Polish Cath olics, the Pope said, gives them "a very particular mission to fill in today's world, also on ac-_ count of the circumstances in which your apostolate is carried out; that of being witnesses, au thentic witnesses of Christ." He paid tribute to the bishops' tenacioJ.1s, intelligent, perserver ing and farseeing zeal. FlouJri9ll1ling Cb1lllJrches Among the six Polish 'bishops present was Wroclaw's Arch": bishop Boleslaw Kominek, who had arrived about a week before the audience. Earlier this year the Polish government had re fused him a visa to attend a congress in Austria. This refusal was believed to have been prompted by his dispute with the government-oriented "Pax group" of Catholics. Archbishop Komlnek's arrival, coming as it did upon the heels of Cardinal Wyszynski's, ap pears to indicate a softening of the Polish communist regime's two-year-old policy of open .re strictionon travel of bishops abroad. It might indicate new efforts to reach agreement with the Holy See. The Pope said that in receiv ing the bishops on their "ad limina" visits, he heard - "the voice of your flourishing churches." The Pope praising the pastoral practices of the bishops, gave what one bishop later called "a pastoral program for Poland." He spoke of their emphasis on the Blessed Virgin Mary, on the Eucharist, and on liturgical renewal.

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.Atheist's 'Faith' Valid Objection BALTIMORE (NC)-An athe ist can have the kind of faith which qualifies him as a con scientious objector, a Federal Judge in Baltimore has ruled. District Court Judge Alexan der Harvey II said that although he does not adhere to any ortho dox religion, an atheist can hold obj~ctions to - war and killing which the "the product of faith." Specialists in military draft law said the ruling significantly extended the interpretation of the law and previous Supreme Court decisions. Lawyer Joseph Forer, who argued the: case on behalf of Michael H. Schacter, a 21-year old Library of Congress clerk, said it meant that "any number of young people have been' re fused conscientious objector sta-

for induction in August. He re fused and was charged with vio lating the Selective Service law. In a 20Tminute oral opinion, Judge Harvey acquitted Schac tel' and told the draft board to reclassify the youth. If Schacter's opposition to war had been "a raUona'l or intellec tual exercise," Harvey said he would not be eligible for exemp tion. But, he said Schacter's theism meant only that he does "My faith centers around not believe in a conventional mankind rather than God," he god, not that he has no beliefs wrote once. "Th,is does not mean at all. that I am any less religious than Harvey said Schacter had an a man who believes in God.... acceptable "unorthodox faith." I have neither scripture nor God His' views, said the judge, were to support me, but I can take no' "perverse," but a result of that part in an attempt at another faith. man's life." Nevertheless, he was classi fied I-A and ordered to report

tus who really should have got ten it, even some who are now in jaiL" Schacter had told his Beth esda, Md., draft board in several letters and interviews: "I do not believe there is any being superior, to man in the 'universe." He added that he was opposed to' war and killing because "man's mortal soul is the most perfect element in the .cosmos."

M®t1'w@[9)©~OU'@IT\) W@wfr~ ce@1l'[}u@~O~~ OW WC~ VIENNA (NC) -Greek Or thodox Metropolitan Meliton of Chalcedon said he hopes that the Catholic Church will be come a member of the World Council of Churches (WCC) so that the ecumenical movement may become more all-embrac ing. Metropolitan Melibn, who is dean of the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Con stantinople and a vice chairman of the central committee of the WCC, offered this personal opin ion in an address to the Pro Oriente Foundation here. The foundation was established in 1964 by Franz Cardinal Koenig of Vienna in an effort to improve relations between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches. Referring to the presence of Catholic observers at the fourth general assembly of the WCC at Uppsala, Sweden, in July, the Orthodox leader said: "On the theological sidf', the participa tion of the Roman Catholics and the Orthodox p,reatly helped the Assembly to .~rlenhte itself to ward more universal stand points."

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PHILADELPHIA (NC)-TIll' president-elect of the Nationnl Federation of Catholic Physi cians' Guilds says his organiza tion "supports wholeheartedly the teaehing authority of the Pope and the Bishops" and. by implication, "the position of the Pope and the Bishops" on arti ficial birth control. Dr. Gino G, Popola of subur ban Upper Darby, who will be chief officer when the 5.000 member federation hosts the in ternational convention of Cath olic physicians slated for 1970 in Washington, admitted that a strongly worded resolution had been modified when some dele gates objected to the word "loyalty" as suggestive of a "loyalty oath" out of keeping with modern times. "Whether we use the word 'loyalty' or 'support' really doesn't matter," Dr. Popola said. "We went along with dropping the word 'ioyalty' to prevent dividing the group. As it was. the final resolution was just one vote short of unanimous. I would like to have seen the resolution a little stronger but I think that it certainly upholds the teaching of the Pope and of the Bishops."

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NEW YORK (NC) The American Jewish Congress has protested that the 1968 Christ mas stamp issued by .the U. S. Post Offic~ violates the First Amendment of the Constitution, which guarantees the separation of Church and state. The stamp shows a portion of the Annunciation, - a work by the' 15-century Flemish painter, Jan Van Eyck. . The A,IC said in a lett~r to Postmaster General W. Marvin Watson that the annual Christ mas stamps--first introduced in 11)62-were becoming "increas ingly religious in content," hav ing changed over the years from "relatively innocuous" designs like holly wreaths to produc tions of paintings celebrating the dogma of the virgin birth." The letter chargeli that "this amounts to government ~upport of specific religious ideas, even when those ideas are antithet ical to the religious beliefs of others." . , The Jewish Congress said that by issuing such a stamp "the government set a precedent for using its power and prestige to support the celebration of a re ligious holiday." . "It is from suc'h beginnings as this," the letter charged, "that fundamental threats to our re ligious liberty can grow into reality."

WORCESTER (NC)-An attitudinal poll has disclosed the laity of the Worcester di ocese overwhelmingly are "responsive" to changes intro duced in the Church by Vatican Council II. . The results of the poll, con ducted in July, were made. known as 12,000 volunteer workers embarked on the first house-to-house census in the 18-year history of the diocese. The diocese has a Catholic pop ulation of more than 350,000. The" poll showed three out of four ,persons interviewed felt the Church should be changing and an overwhelming majority were enthusiastic about the ways in which it was changing. A total of 1,168 men and wo men were interviewed in the survey conducted by Becker Research Corp. of' Boston. The researchers used "area proba bility ,sampling teachniques," questioning those interviewed 011 the reaction to changes in the Church and their effect on the laity. Fund of Knowledge In arranging for the poll, Bishop Bernard J. Flanagan said the primary 'purpose was "to determine what the Church of, Worcester ought to be doing that it is not now doing, and to develop a fund of knowledge to enable the bishop and the di ocesan administration to objec tively view the capacity and . attitudes of the people of the. diocese enabling them (the leadership) to give greater ser vice to the peopl«:." The initial results of the poll were made, public, 5ut final re sults will not 'be available "for several weeks" because infor mation still is being cross-re ferenced and cross-checked on computers. Among other findings, how ever, the initial report shows 75 percent of the people feel the Church should be changing, 24 per cent felt it should have stayed the way it was, and three per cent had no opinion.

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M@gatt:une Vet@es !F@iicy Shnft ST. MEINRAD (NC)-Father Boland, O.S.B., pub lisher of Marriage magazine and general manager of Abbey Press operated by the Benedictines of . St. Meinrad's archabbey here in Indiana, has emphasized that the magazine for husbands and wives has made no changes in policy. His statement has been prompted by remarks attributed to Charles Q. Mattingly, first layman editor of the magazine, who resigned as a result of a policy dispute. : Father Boland said Mattingly, magazine editor since 1966 and a staff. member since 1951, quit when his proposal to make the publication strictly secular in tone, was vetoed. Father Boland said: ' "The ecumenical direction which began during Vatican. (Council) II continues to be our policy. Articles on the religious implications and basis of mar riages in '; other denominations are planned for future issues. In the nelft issue, January 1969, the new Jay editorial advisory board will be announced, the majority of which are members of other faiths." Pascha~

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ROME (NC)-Caritas In ternationlis, the internation al Oatholic charities organi zation, has denied chargei'

in the Cape basketball circuit. Only one starter from last sea son's title team, Jim Townley, is currently working out under the watchful eyes of Coach Wayne Wilson. The remaining four frontline performers of last Winter have been lost through graduation. Coach Wilson must fill the voids with '67-'68 reserves and mem bers of the junior varsity unit. However, the Blue Devils' mentor is faced with somewhat the same problem he had when Fairhaven left the B:ristol County League two years ago to join the then newly formed Capeway Conference. And, since that time, the Blue Devils have rambled through 28 consecutive league contests without a defeat.

that radical Catholics are fi nancing mercenaries for Biafra, Nigeria's former Eastern Region which seceded last year. Nigeria has charged that a radical wing of the Catholic Church in the United States has financed the recruitment and transportation of mercenaries for Biafra. The Nigerian government said that about 200 mercenaries were sent to Biafra v!a Gobon and were financed by Irish Catholics in the U. S. and Ireland. No lBasls Caritas said the charges "ab solutely have no basis." The organization said its secretary general, Msgr. Carlo Bayer, had recently made a statement to that effect to the Rome Daily American and on a previous occasion he had said, "Not a single bullet has ever been sup plied by Catholic relief groups." Meanwhile, in Geneva, a spokesman for the International Red Cross said a Red Cross plane was machine-gunned as it was being unloaded on the Biaf ran landing strip at Uli. There were a number of Afri can casualties in the attack, the spokesman said, but the plane I crew escaped unhurt despite 22 rounds piercing the plane. The plane had been provided ··1 A by the West· German govern ii ment to carry relief supplies . into the besieged African region.

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He's in the HHle ones Who like 'to dress as Christmas shepherds And haven't learned about prejudice and war And don't know yet About the willing teachers who await them. reviewing their season, and anticipating next. And, as is the case each year at this time, league imbalance. is again the main topic of dis cussion. It is reported that some schools in each of the three cir cuits located within the confines of diocesan territorial limits ate contemplliting changing leagues before next September. Possibly the highly successful season enjoyed by New Bedford and the ease with which it rolled over some of its future Bristol County League oppo nents has ,caused several to have second thoughts about New Bedford as a league member. So,me smaller BCL schools are again dismayed about the pros pects of facing Durfee High of Fall River and New Bedford. The consensus is that the smaller schools cannot compete year-in and year-out with the Whaling City Crimson and the Fall River Hilltoppers. Some basketball followers are also questioning the advisability of playing Durfee and New

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TOLEDO (NC) - Make racial justice "the first con cern 'of the entire Christian Church," Donald E. Dobbs

advocated as he took office as president of the Catholic Inter racial Council here. Dobbs, a Marquette Univer sity graduate in industrial pub lic relations work, said: "The racial problems can no longer be the concern merely of the so called inner city or activist priests and nuns and eIC mem bers; instead, we must impress on our fellow Cotholics that it must be the first concern of the entire Christian Church. "There is work for us all: In dividually and 'collectively, . through CIC and allied groups, we must go to work to end rac ism and. prejudice and 'build a new society of Americans based on Chrisfs command to love one another," he added. Sense of Shame Dobbs' message marked the 10th anniversary observance of the Toledo' CIC, following a Mass: He said despite unparal leled advances of the past dec ade, sense of shame must be felt . for neglected oppor~unities to further Christ's message of love. "In our larger cities the Church has considerable influ ence on the power structure. In these same urban areas it has assu,med a great portion of the educational process as well. Yet it is here in these vast crowded cities that the problems are most distressing," he said. For outstanding contribution to the field of human relations, Msgr. Michael J. Doyle, director of Toledo Catholic Charities, was presented with the Lewis A. Canada Award by the CIC.

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spect or our neighbor's person, - all: 'How gQod, how delightful dignity, feelings and rights. it is for all to live together like "Th th I'. h t M' h -brothers (Psalm 133: 1),''' us. e ~rop e Ica teaches us. "Ijhls is wha~ the ,~_IClCICI(l«,l«~.IGIll~IlIlRICEIC~N1~~~II*NiCllI~ Lor~ asks of you: only thIS, to act Justly, to~ove .tenderly and to walk humb~y WIth your God (Micah 6-8),' "We, therefore, condemn as 'contrary to the very heart of our religion, :a~ well ~s con~rary, to ou~ AmerIcan herItage, Irre: sponslble and I.hateful attempts . to hurt. our .nelghbors of what ever faIth, 10 !that w~ich. they hold most sacred, theIr houses of religious wtrshiP and study. "We hope 'and pray that no ' more such attempts will besmirch the gohcI name of our city, and that k growing 'sensi tivity to the n~eds and rights of others will cr~ate a - spirit of brotherhood· that must enrich us

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leaves Priesthood THE HAGUE (NC)-Aprom inent Dutch priest has decided to leave the active/priesthood. Father Jan Ponsioen, 57, a member of' the faculty of the International Institute for Social Studies here, has been a mem ber of the Congregation of the , Holy Heart and is currently vis iting professor in sociology at the university of New Hamp shire. Durham, N. H.

BLOOMINGTON (N C ) Priests of the St. Paul and Min neapolis archdiocese, meeting here as the archdiocesan pres bytery, approved a compren sive .pension and retirement plan for priests. Their most vigorous debate and closest voting, however, concerned nonviolence and Father Alfred Janicke, assistant at St. Philip church, Minneap olis, who is awaiting trial with other members of the Milwau kee 14-a peace demonstration group-for having seized and burned draft records there in October. The priests voted 148 to 110 , "that the presbytery express its gratitude to our brother priest, Father Alfred Janicke. for mak ing us more sensitive to the is sues involved by his witness to the dictates' of his conscience. and assure him of its support as he faces the consequence' of his action," Before its vote on Father Janicke, the presbytery resolved to direct ·its theological ques tions committee "to initiate in tense research on the question of 'nonviolence and Christian witness in the world' for the un derstanding of all."

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Remember one thing, though:

Nuns Question Police Actions

Commission Advises Health Care for All

WASHINGTON (NC) - The National Advisory Commission ST. LOUIS (NC) -Thirty on Health Facilities has told eight Sisters from various reli President Johnson that the de gious communities here descend livery of health services to ed on St. Louis police headquar ters, asking for the department's Americans 'has not kept pace with recent advances in medical side of stories alleging harass ment of militant Negro leaders. science. Comprehensive Services The nuns, accompanied by a As a result, millions of citileader of the Black Li'berators, , zens lacking either the funds or local militant group, said they the knowledge of how to obtain came not to demonstrate but to help are going without the care obtain information op., police ac they have a right to expect, the tivities and practices. commission said. In presenting the report to the Two'members of the Black President, Boisfeuillet Jones of Liberators were seriously in jured, as were several policemen, Atlanta, commission chairman, in a furniture-breaking scuffle which took place in a room in a neighborhood police station here recently. The incident has provoked community discussion and arguments about relations between the department and' black militants. ' Sister Joanne Malone, a Sister of Loretto, said the nuns had visited the two Black Liberators and obtained' their side of the story. Now they wanted to get the police version from Chief Curtis Brostron. she said. The chief was out of the city. The commander of the Central District told the Sisters that he could give them no information because the incident is pending in the courts. The Black Liberators have filed suits against the police De partment, and a grand jury has recommended a thorough inves tigation of the 'incident.

said its major conclusion is that "the nation must now concen trate upon organizing health fa facilities and other heal,th re sources into effective, efficient and economical community sys tems of comprehensive health care available to all." Jones said the existing "frag mented" systems for the deliv ery of health care "must be made whole through full coor dination cif resources and ser vices at the local level. Coordinate Elements "E~phasis must be given to ,the organization of ambulatory care for the individual and his

family; with coordinated profes sional direction through the full spectrum of comprehensive health services." President Johnson established the National Advisory Commis sion on Health Facilities in October, 1967, ,to find out how the nation's hospitals, and other facilities could better meet the health needs of the people. The commission found that it has become virtually impossible' for an individual practitioner, institution or facility·-acting in isolation"':"to deliver all the in terrelated services which med ical science has to offer.

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"An approach to human needs that coordinates all these ele ments is the only rational way to provide for essential commu nity services," the report said Planning lPartneli"sbip The commission called for a joint partnership of pl.'!;>lic and private responsibility for the nation's health care systems. It said facilities and systems will vary in accordance with local capacities and needs but empha sized that in all cases those who consume as well as those who provide health services should participate in planning the im provement of the systems.

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your heart now and always. May this seasorn be really rewarding to you spiritual!y, brigM , with promise of "Peace on ~arth, good

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Olde§i' P[J'®~(ilJq-@ BAKER (NC)-Bishop Francis' P. Leipzig of Baker, Ore., in a pamphlet containing historical information on the longevi,ty of 'the American hierarchy, says that Bishop John Bernard Mac Ginley, 97, -retired bishop of Monterrey-Fresno, Calif., is the oldest living bishop in the world.

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Honor Qur Lady O'f Guadalupe

1968

State Conference Directors Form National.Group

LOS ANGELES (NC)-"You have worshipped God valiantly and through the centuries pre served an inconquerable faith," James Francis Cardinal McIn tyre of Los Angeles told a crowd of persons of Mexican descent at the 37th annual procession here in honor of Our Lady of Guada lupe. Some 30,000 participated in-the mile-long march in the city's eastside, honoring Our Lady as Empress of the Americas. , They marched, mainly in fam ily groups 'behind their pastors, singing hymns, praying the Ros ary-and some danced. The dancing by nearly 100 •adults and children from three

· d"ifferent ,parishes' represented

the custom by Mexico's Indians

,-of dancing. before the Image' of

; "Guadalupe just as the early Az tecs had' danced when her'image was born in procession in the 16th century: ih Mexico by Bishop Juan de Zumarraga.. The" procession terminated in . , East;Los Angeles·'College ~ta:di urn where 17 floats arid' scores of nl'arching units' passed in re view before Beriediction im parted by the Cardinal. . · The celebration ended with spontaneous cries.frb~·tlle great congregation: "Viva Cristo Rey" -Long live Christ the King. "Viva la Virgen de Guadalupe" -Long live Our Lady of Guad alupe. "Viva el Cardenal McIn tyre." And the response was a surging cry of "Viva!"

LANSING (NC)-The na tion's 'state Oatholic Conf~r ence directors, who have been meeting ~nformally for several years, have established' a national ·association. State Cath- olic Conferences are the .organ izations of bishops whose arch dioceses and dioceses comprise -'the territory within .;. state .. boundaries. . The National' Association of 'State Catholic Conference Di rectors was established to: .en courage. the ·~~change of infor . mation among its membel,"s per taining to, their activities, pro gra.ms l:\n'd' organizations, and promote" the establishment and . developme'nt, of state Catholic conferenc'es . throughout the .:~

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Francis J, Coomes of Lansing, .' executive director of the Midi- ',.:., igan Catholic Conferenc~, was elected chairman for a two-year term. Other officers include Callan Graham of Austin, Tex., executive director of the Texas Catholic Conference, secretary, and Vincent DeCoursey of Kan sas City, Kan" executive direc tor of the Kansas Catholic Con ., ference. Public Affairs Committee '" ',~ Coomes said four state Cath olic Conferences were repre sented at the first informal meeting in 1963; 16 states were represented at the recent organ izational meeting in Denver,' and 18 states now have Catholic Con ferences. The new national association established one standing com mittee -public affairs - at its organizational meeting, and may establish others later, he added. The association will meet

twice a' year-in Washington in

December, and at another loca

cation, to be chosen by its mem bers, in August. '

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Lutheran - Catholic Study Week Slated WASHINGTON (NC)-A Lu theran-Catholic Student' Study Week' has been scheduled for Aug. 17 to 22 at the 'Univers~ty of Colorado, Boulder, Colo. The theme win be "Mission: Revo lution and Reconciliation." Planned for two years, the observances will be sponsored by the National Lutheran Cam pus Ministry, the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod and the National Newman Apostolate. It will replace individual meet ings of -the two groups which have been held in the ·,past. Details for the observance are

being worked out by the Rev.

Donald Htzler, assistant direc

tor, National Lutheran Campus

Ministry; the Rev. Charles Born,

advisor, 'Luther Church-~issou

ri Synod, and Father John T.

McDonough, director, 'National

Newman Apostolate, which has

headquarters here. A group of

Lutheran and Catholic students

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Str~sses TIi'Mth SAIGON (NC) - The impor tance of truthful broadcasting,

particularly in telling' the world

the facts about the war in Viet nam, was emphasized by Arch bishop Angelo Palmas, apostolic delegate' to Vietnam, as ,he helped dedicate a' new broad casting studio at the Catholic Center here,

Charge Freeze-out On Education Aid

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Is manageable enough when he sleeps in Mary's arms

But when you start to love, Beware of him, beware of !lim.

He will awaken.

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CHICAGO (NC)-The Chica go Conference on Religion and Race has received a $25,000 loan from' the· Inland S.teel-Ryerson Foundation, Inc. for'. use ,by Home Investments Fund. '. Home Invest-ments Fund is a conference program which is providing secondary financing to minority group families seek-. ing to ,purchase homes in non ghetto areas. ' Financial support into the program has also been received' from the Ford Foundation, Car son Pirie Scott Foundation and De Soto Foundation.

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COLUMBIA (NC)-The state chairman of Citizens for Educa tional Freedom charged that persons advocating public as 'sistance to nonpublic school children were effectively left out of the Governor's Confer ence on Education held here re cently. "Conference officials made it virtually impossible for nonpub lie school representatives to pre sent meaningful proposals which can help solve the urban crisis," said John J. McDonough in a letter to Missouri Gov. Warren E. Hearnes. McDonough claimed confer ence officials "not only arranged to freeze out the proposals of the nonpublic school delegates," but that a study report given to delegates contained 'information "which further excludes consid eration of private, enterprise viewpoints and needs in educa tion."

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VATICAN CITY (NC)-Pope Paul VI, in accepting the cre dentials of 'Finland's new am , bassador to the Holy See, praised that small country for the full liberty -which ,the Church en joys there. New Finnish Ambassador Jus si -Makinen, in presenting his credentials, .recalled ,that Fin land and the Holy See establish ed diplomatic' relations during the Second World War and that both sought .to defend peace. The Pope recalled that at the time diplomatic relations were' established he was then in the Papal Secretariat of State and recalledPo.pe Pius XII's stress ing then that it is "the inviola ble right of 'all nations, both great and small, to determine their own destiny to ,the ex clusion of interference QY out siders."

Reviews Bishop's Book on Death Of President By Msgr. John S. Kenned.y

As I plowed through the 685 pages of Jim Bishop's The Day Kennedy·Was Shot (Funk and Wagnalls, 360

has reached only the second page of Mr. Bishop's preface when one encounters two errors. St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington is there referred to (as it is throughout the book) as a pro-cathedral. And Ken nedy's nomination for the Pres idency is said to have occurred in 1959, when, in fact, it occur red in 1960. This error, too, is compound ed later in the book. There is a reference to the Kennedy presi dential campaign of 1959 (page 24), and to Nixon's defeat "in the autumn election of 1959" (page 27). On page 230, Nixon is represented as planning to run for the governorship of Califor nia in 1964, whereas, after his disastrous defeat for that office in 1962, nothing was heard of a . second try. There is a like imprecision in the use of language. Someone, for example, is said to have tall legs; long legs-yes, tall legs no. More than once we are told of the, hackles on someone's neck. 'This is like speaking of the toenails on someone's foot.

Lexington Ave., New York, N.Y. 10017. $7.95), I wondered what kind of sale this book was going to have. Wil liam Manchest er's The Death of a President cove re d the same ground, and more; its author had ac cess . to impor tant people who would,not grant inter'V'iews to Mr. Bishop; and, despite un precendented publicity, deliber ate and accidental, its sale fell short of expectations. Besides, the assassination of President Kennedy is fast re ceding into the past and no longer has the grip on our imagination and feelings that once it did. Reading the Manchester book became a chore because of its excessive length and detail. Reading the Bishop book is even more of a chore, because of the plethoric style and the repeti tion of particulars long since familiar. Mr. Bishop gives two reasons for the production of his book. "One is that, for a number of years, the minute-by-minute ac count of an event has been my forte, and that day in that city lends itself to this sort of writ ing." The other is that "a great number of writers have spent a lot of energy bending these events to preconceived notions." Mr. Bishop, then, is to per form his specialty whether or not there is demand or need for it, and he is going to be unique ly objective. Reveals ll'rejucnice Perhaps the best part of the book comprises those sections which cover the police activity leading to Oswald's capture and the handling of Oswald once he was in custody. Countless words are given to this phase, and they add up to a vivid and critical picture. A definite prejudice against John Kennedy's widow and his brother Robert pervades the book. The former Mrs. Kennedy, it seems, was not properly ap preciative of Mr. Bishop's A Day in the Life of President Ken nedy, and she opposed the writ ing of his present opus. This has led the author to use pejorative expressions in expla nation of incidents which, in the cruel circumstances of that No vember day, need not be so in terpreted. The evident bias de tracts from the claimed objec tivity. 'Morbid, Gruesome' On page 662, one encounters the words "morbid and grue some," but they had occurred to one long before that. In deal ing with the assassination, the doings at the Dallas hospital, the ransacking of the presidential car, th~.,autopsy, and the em balming of the President's re mains, the book is morbid and gruesome. This is particularly true of the mlUlY pages devoted to the au topsy and the embalming. They are horrible and indefensible, glloulish and fit only for ghouls. A supposed strong point of this peculiar genre of book is its accuracy as to detail. But one

Where else would they be? On page 307 we read, "The Kennedys were effete Euro peans, in manner and address." This of the man who made vigor famous? Small Town in Germany What a relief to turn to John Le Carre's superb novel of sus pense, A Small Town in Ger many (Coward-McCann, 200 Madison Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10016, $5.95)! Here is splendid writing, lean and lucid, in which words are used with a masterly regard for shades of meaning. And this in the service of a heai:llong narrative which is, at the same time, a sardonic commentary on our times and the shape of the near future. The small town in' Germany is Bonn" capital of West Ger many. The scene in Bonn is the British Embassy. A second sec retary, Leo Harting, has van ished, and with his departure it is discovered that some impor tant confidential files are miss-. ing. This may have some bearing on two touchy developments:

THE ANCHOR-l>locese of Fall River-Thurs., Dec. 19, 1968

the first being yet' another at tempt of Britain to secure mem bership in the Common Market; and the second, the rise of a new totalitarian movement leaning toward Moscow. Grim Book Alan Turner is sent out from London to investigate. He is hostilely received at his own embassy, and he soon begins to suspect that its officials want Harting lost, not found. But he goes doggedly about his task. He has no success and is sum marily ordered out of the em bassy when, suddenly, he comes upon substantial clues. The story speeds ahead ·thereafter, taut and bristling with menace. The denouement crackles with irony. This is not simply a mystery tale, but a full-fledged novel. The portraiture is expert and multi-dimensional. There is psychological depth and subtlety here: .character is a chief ele ment in the shaping of events.

We never once see Leo Hart ing, and yet a complete and credible picture of him is drawn as Turner pieces together his bits of evidence. Mr. Le Carre is deft in fash ioning dialogue which is true to .the speaker and often admirably witty. He has a keen sense of the thrust of recent history and its probable yield. This is in cer tain respects a grim book, be cause it is so realistic as to the motives and the compromises which run counter to surface rhetoric.

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