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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thur., Dec. 21, 1972

Bishop Cronin's Christmas Message

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HOLY NAME, FALL RIVER The third Advent Family Mass will beheld at 5:15 tomorrow night.

OUR LADY OF VICTORY, CENTERVILLE Christmas music by the Conservatory Guild Chorale featured the Yule meetingof the Women's Guild. Members have prepared favors and bandages for use at the Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Home in Fall River.

Bus reservations for the Bishop's Ball should be made as soon as possible with Mrs. Shirley Pendergast. ' Together with members of the South Congregational Church, the guild gave a Christmas party for patients at Centerville Nursing Home.

OUR LADY OF ANGELS, FALL RIVER,

One winter evening long ago the trees ~tood black against the sky. The wind whistl~d around Cl small hut.

'-ablet Devotes Issue to Women BROOKLYN (NC)-The Tablet, the Brooklyn diocesan newspaper, has devoted an entire issue to women.

Date'd Dec. 7, the eight-page Ms. Tablet was edited by women and contained news stories, features, and editorials completely about women.

Mr. Tablet also had a20-page supplement called Ms. ,Tablet Magazine. It, too, was devoted entirely to women.

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Cover Photo Mrs. "Mary Regan, 88 years of age and' a former member of St; Mary's Parish" Norton , puts the finishing touch to the crib at Madonn~ Manor,. No. Attleboro in the presence of another guest of the manor, Arthur Lefebvre, 94 years of age and a former member of, , St. Stephen's Parish, Attleboro.

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God's love was revealed in our midst in this way: He sent His only Son to the world that we might have life through Him. -1 Jn 4, 9 Each year on the feast of Christmas, Christians commemorate the awesome fact that God's only Son, eternally begotten, was born of a Virgin in Bethlehem. Jesus Christ, truly God and truly man, came among us at the will of His Fatherto manifest the love of God for mankind. He came to overcome sin and to reconcile man with God. Through Him man was to have life. . "christmas therefore is a feast if!. which we celebrate in a special 'way life and love. What greater comfort could men have than to know. that the very Son of God deigned to take on human nature, . live in the world and shcire the lot of human kind in all except sin. , A proper meditation on this momentous fact of history and salvation is profitable not only for individuals but for society as a whole.

Jesus, the God-man, lived in our midst and taught us that He is . the way, the truth and the life. Men in their own lives, and society in 'the ordinary conduct of affairs must come to know the precepts, the counsels and values taught by Jesus, and indeed, must abide by them if the fulfillment of God's designs is to be a reality and if indeed the life which the Son of God came to the world to assure is to be a€hieved. .

The Church which Jesus founded seeks to carryon His mission.

Its apostolate therefore seeks to bring life and love to men just as -Christ Himself did. It seeks to enrich men's lives on earth irt order that they may fulfill their human destiny in a manner befitting men saved by God and called to participate in the divine life..

People of God, who are the Church, recall at Christmas their noble calling and they renew their determination to bring life and 'love into society iust as Jesus their Lord did. Christians are to be signs of'love fqr all men. They are to be signs and instruments of peace and harmony in families, in neighborhood groups, in nations and in the world-wide society itself. . Christians on this feast of Christmas recognize that their belief in Jesus Christ requires them not 'only to be models in their 'own lives of the truths of the Gospel but also to spread the good news to all with whom they come in contact. The mission of Jesus was to all mankind. So also is the apostolate of the Christian.

The Christian heart therefore cannot be content as long as evil in all its many manifestations still continues to exert such influence.

Personal sin and the sins of society scandalize the true Christian and challenge him to counter measures.

Certainly one of the most frightful consequences of evil is war between nations. No Christian heart can be at rest while war rages.

Comforting indications that a just settlement to the horrible conflict in Southeast Asia may emerge from the current negotiations, give cause for hope. Men of good will greatly desire that an early and lasting peace will soon come to that war-torn land. We yearn for that day not only for the benefit of a suffering people so ravaged by war but also for ourselves in this wonderful country, so favored by God, that our you'ng men and women in the armed forces, particularly those men being detained as prisoners of war, may return home quickly and safely. For this we pray as indeed we pray that Almighty God will guide our President and civil authorities to effeCting peace abroad and reconciliation among all who in whatever. way have SUffered from this conflict. ' May the Divine Child whose birth we commemorate with affection this Christmas bring men to the knowledge of His truth so that through Him they may have life. May He strengthen the bonds of love and fellowship among men so that His birthday this year may be the occasion once again for peace to reign in the world.

On this feast of Christmas I express my best wishes and sincere greetings to the clergy, religious and faithful of the Diocese of Fall River, to all our brothers of other Christian denominations who share our belief in Jesus Christ and to all men of good will in Fall River and neighboring communities. May Almighty God bless us all abundantly now and in the coming New Year.

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"We interrupt this newspaper to make a special announcement: Women are important," proclaimed the issue's editorial. "We regret that the women had to take over The Tablet to get your attention, but really, we felt this was the best way of making the point."

Holy Name Society members will attend 5 P.M. Mass Sunday, Jan. 14. Installation of officers and reception of new members will follow, and supper will be served for members and their 'families. A guest speaker will address the group.

'Parishioner~ will mark the Feast of the Holy Family Sunday, Dec. 31.

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DEC. 28 Rev. Charles R. Smith, 1955, The point, said the editorial, . Pastor, Immaculate Conception, Fall River. was "People's Liberation," not JAN. I "Women's Liberation."

Rev. Jose Valeiro, 1955, Pastor, "As long as women are not st. Elizabeth, Fall River. free, then neither are men, beRev. Antonio M. Fortuna, c~use their lives will be lacking 1956, Pastor, lmmaculate Conbalance and control," the edito- ception, New Bedford. rial stated.

Rev. Francis R. Connerton, SS. STD, 1968, St. John's Seminary, In the issue Mother Teresa of Plymouth, Mich.

Calcutta was named the Tablet's woman of the year - .over such JAN. 4 ,luminaries as Mrs. Pat Nixon, Rev. Eugene L. Dian, 1961, Ethel and Rose Kennedy, Golda Pastor, Blessed Sacrament, Fall Meir and Shirley Chisholm.

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Area TV Channel ·6 To Clarry Papal Mass Rev. Patrick Peyton, C.S.C., founder and director of Family' Theatre Productions in Los Angeles, has announced that Pope Paul VI's Midnight Mass and Christmas Message will be carried via satellite and in color over Station WTEV, Channel 6, New Bedford on Christmas morning from 9:30 to 11 o·clock.

The time difference between Rome and this area makes it possible for this first satellite transmission in this country of the traditional Midnight Mass to he viewed live during Christmas morning.

Pope Paul usually celebrates his Christmas Midnight Mass in the Sistine Chapel for an audience of prelates and diplomats.

This year he will offer the Midriight Mass and deliver his Christmas Message before workers at a big construction site 25 miles north of Rome. The construction site is at the entrance of a new tunnel being built near the town of Sant'Oreste on a new rail line between Rome and Florence. nuring his nine years as Pontiff. Pope Paul has twice left the Vatican to say Christmas .Eve Mass away from Rome. He said Mass in the cathedral in Florence in 1966 as a sign of solidarity for the renaissance city which had suffered a disastrous flood seven and a half months earlier.

In 1968 Pope Paul flew to Taranto in southern Italy and said Mass for workers and their families near the blast furnaces of the local steel works.

The details of the Pope's Christmas Eve trip this year have not yet been announced. He is

Maryland Suspends Private College Aid ANNAPOLIS (NC)-State aid to 22 private colleges in Maryland has been suspended by the state attorney general because of a suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union.

As a result of the suit, the attorney general has suspended the financial assistance to the pri· vate colleges in Maryland until it can be decided if the aid is con· stitutional. The ACLU has ar· gued that the 1971 law which grants the assistance is unconsti tutional.

Named in the suit: was one Methodist affiliated college and four Catholic colleges: Western Maryland College. Westminster.

Md.; Notre Dame College, Balti· more; Loyola College. Balti· more; Mount Saint Mary's Col· lege. Emmittsburg; St. Joseph's College in Emrnittsburg which has closed down.

In the suit filed last March. the ACLU argued that each of the five institutions named in the suit "compels obedience to the doctrines and dogma of a par· ticular religion, requires instruction in theology and, doctrine. and does everything it can to propagate a particular religion."

expected to drive by car to Sant'Oreste late in the evening and return to the Vatican immediately after the Mass.

Arrangements for the live satellite transmission of the Midnight Mass are being made by Family Theater Productions in cooperation with the Spanish International Network in New York. An independent network of some 125 stations including Channel 6, New Bedford, has been formed nationwide to carry the telecast into some 50,000,000 television homes.

Family Theater has also arranged to supply the telecast to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation which w.ill transmit it throughout Canada in both English and French. Yet another network will carry the program in Spanish to the 10 largest concentrations of the Spanishspeaking population throughout the country.

The 90-minute color transmission will be augmented by commentary and translation by Rev. Agnellus Andrews, an English Franciscan priest with vast experience in television coverage of Vatican affairs.

SAN DIEGO (NC) - Although women still may not be ordained. they are active in a variety of ministries. according to the president of the National Assembly of Women Religious.

The role of Sisters as associate pastors she considers is all but accepted, Sister Ethne Kennedy said in an interview here.

"I see more and more of it." she said. "In Denver there are 26. And ifs happening in Houston, Toledo and unofficially in many more dioceses-unofficial because of canonical' legislation.

There's a bit of gamesmanship."

Sister Kennedy said that deaconess could be one of many ministries. She also foresees the day of l'he ordination of women, too. "But we have to get to the ,deeper question of what Is min· istry. What are the needs of those being ministered to?"

"I find Sisters who are in hospital work. in prison work and in counselling who 'are saying that we have to discuss the sac-

A concelebrated Mass of Christian Burial was held last Saturday in St. Anne's Church.

Fall River. for the repose of the soul of Rev. Reginald Theriault.

O.P.• former prior of St. Anne's Priory. and a priest active in ecumenical matters in the Great· er Fall River area. In attendance at the Mass were Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin. S.T.D.• Bishop of Fall River. Most Rev. James L. Connolly, D.D.• former Bishop of Fall River, and Most Rev. James J. Gerrard. D.D.• auxiliary to the Bishop of Fall River. as weB as many Dominican priests and priests of the Fall River Diocese.

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However, Sister Kennedy said the Vatican action "certainly shows that the consciousness of women's place in the Church is not there yet-and tlhat is sad."

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"Neither of the letters was addessed to women, and neither took into account the Synod (of Bishops) ,in Rome which raised ,the' question of women in ministry," she said. "Until we have a document that is addressed to us, and we have time to spend on it, any debate at this stage

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Yule Film Bishop Gerrar.d High School, Fall River. will sponsor a Christmas Festival movie at 1:30 Saturday afternoon, Dec. 23. It will be shown in the school audio torium on Whipple Street and the public is invited. Proceeds will benefit the school.

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Identity of Xavier Rynne Still S~rouded in Mystery Who is (are) Xavier Rynne? There was a time in the not too distant past-to this writer it seems like eons ago-when this was the "in" question whenever two or more sophisticated Catholics (you had to be a "sophisticated" Catholic to qualify) who should have got together to exchange community known better, one is intrigued little tidbits of ecclesiastical

by the fact that the identity of Xavier Rynne should have , to whom behind the scenes at aroused so much curiosity Vatican ,II.., Ecclesiasti:al one- but even more intrigued by the upmanship was the name of the facVthat his, identity is still game and, for a mercifully brief shrouded in mystery.

By actual count, Rynne's articles and books on the Council have been ascribed by enterpris'By ing ecclesiastical detectives to at least 20 different individuals.

MSGR. . And yet the real Xavier Rynnc, bless his slippery heart, is still GEORGE G. at large and presumably still col. lecting royalties.

HIGGINS Be that as it may, I had long ago assumed that the game referred to above had gone out of period of time, it was or at least style and that the ,search for appeared to be the only Catholic Xavier Rynne had been given up as a hopeless cause. I was wrong game in town.

The point of the game-which about that, however, for within was played with a ruthless will recent weeks The Wanderer has to win-was to make the other unexpectedly reopened the case.

To their credit, the editors of participants green with envy by claiming or at least pretending to The Wanderer, who are usually know more than they did about pretty sure of themselves, are • the inside story of the Council. hedging their' bets this time. That The rules of the game and the is to say, they don't actually scoring system were' simplicity claim to know the identity of itself. All you had to do was to Xavier Rynne' beyond any fear , top your opponent's hottest of contradiction. On the other She went to the door. rumor with one that was even hand, they do seem to have a more sensational. ' The more strong suspicion' that a priest by implausible the rumor, the more the name of Higgins, first name points you scored. Plausible ru- George;' 'second initial G. is the to substantiate this, run;lOr~but mors counted for very little. .real Xavier Rynne or, in any name-dropping with a difference .

In fact, they were thought to be event,' one of his closest collab- Their original source isa harm.. less quote from Abigail McCaro·rators. rather corny. thy's new -book, "Private Faces, Only a Game Gossipy Reference Public Places," which, aside from Name-dropping, providing it Playing the game the way it her gossipy reference 'to the preswas very adroitly, was also quite, used to be played in the days ent writer, is a remarkably good effective. But not any kind of immediately following the COUll- . piece of writing and is enthusiasname dropping.' Quoting an cil, the editors of The Wanderer- tically recommended to the readAmerican, a British, or an Aus- tlo a bit of casual name-dropping ers of this ·column. tralian bishop or peritus was considered very amateurish. The mark of the real professionalthe' 'mark of the man· who was out for blo'od and who had the winner's sense of timing-was to , wait until the chips were down , and then come in for the kill by casually - very casually - recounting something that one had been told in strict confidence in the back room of a Roman bistro by a German, French Swiss, or Dutch theologian, preferably one who had been called on the carpet by the Holy Office and had at least one, scholarly work on the Index of Forbidden Books.

The only way to top that particular ploy and be declared the winner of the game was to claim to know beyond' the slightest fear of contradiction the identity (singular or plural) of Xavier Rynne.

To say that aU of those who on~his way made'the latter claim bluffing is to wish all not to impugn their integrity.

After all it was only a gameand the poipt of the game, as suggested above was to win by putting on a better' act than your opponents. ."

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5 Nonpublic School Aid Opposed

CINCINNATI (NC)-Qpposition to state aid for nonpublic schools was expressed again by the Ohio Education Association in its annual meeting here.

In a resolution adopted by a voice vote of delegates representing more than 80,000 Ohio teachers, the OEA charged that "the trend of providing public funds to private and nonpublic elementary and secondary schools could lead to racial, economic or so'cial isolation of children and weaken or destroy the public school systern."

The resolution said: "The'association further believes that additional financial aid to private

and nonpublic elementary and secondary schools should be discouraged and pledges its support to any bHls opposing further diversion of public tax funds for that purpose."

However, Leonard J. Arcilesi, OEA president, told the Catholi..: Telegraph, Cincinnati archdiocesan newspaper, that OEA is in favor of "whatever is constitutiona!." He added that the statement attributed to him in thE' daily Cincinnati Enquirer Dec. 9 that any tax credit plan would be "clearly unconstitutional" was incorrect and that he had no intention of making such a statement about tax credits.

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VAllICAN CITY (NC) - The possibility of cooperation among Catholics and Lutherans along social and practical lines was the central theme of a recent visit of seven Vatican officials to the offices of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) at Geneva.

The official Vatican delegation was led by Cardinal Jan Willebrands, presiden.t of the Vatican Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity. The visit was made in connection with the 25th anniversary of the LWF's establishment, and retul'llled a visit made

by Lutheran staff members to the Vatican in May 1969.

Jesuit Father Gerald Phelan, an official of the Vatican Secretariat for Non-Believers and a member of the seven-man delegation, said the welcome given in Geneva was "extremely cordial, with the Lutheran hosts inviting each of us individually into their homes for dinner and more discussion on an informal, friend: Iy basis."

Father Phelan said that although "it was felt that theological dialogue so far has been quite fruitful," there is still great need for "approaches to mutual cooperation along social and practical lines.

"This doesn't mean that they

want to give up the the theological approach but that the next logical step has to be taken along the lines of unity of service and unity of witness."

The Vatican delegation was welcomed to Geneva by Dr. Andre Appel, LWF general secretary and near the end of the visit

by Dr. Philip Potter, World Council of Churches' general secretary.

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Dr. Appel said the visit will help increase and broaden LutheranRoman Catholic contacts.

In addition to the unity secretariat and the secretariat for non-believers, other Vatican offices that sent representatives to the Geneva meeting were the Doctrinal Congregation, the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, the Congregation for Catholic Education and the papal secretariat of state.

MISSiON AID TO THE ORIENTAL CH'URCH

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With each Christmas season one message keeps coming through more and more clearly: people are most anxious.' to turn from the holiday to the holy day. They endure the bustle and confusion of shopping and card-sending. But they look forward to the feast of Christmas itself, to the serenity of its inner 'meaning.

All men look for the same things-for peace and happiness and forgiveness, for hope and joy and the promise of better things to come. The peace promised by family and friends at Christmas time is a sometime thing, quite full and real for some people, just a hope for others, a sad disappointment for still others. .

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But Christmas itself is Christ and He is the One who holds out to all men the serenity that comes from union _ with God, the hope of immortality in happiness that this' un'ion brings about, the clear answer to so many of life's questions. .

And these are the things men hunger for. .

The realities of life press hard in upon people. There is struggle and disappointment and difficulty, there is worry and anxiety and frustration. People are looking for. a greater reality and Christ is the Reality they seek. ,

Christmas focuses attention on Christ. Beneath all the materialism and hucksterism and crassness and weariness of the season-there is Christ. He must be the center. A deeper, awareness of Christ and what ,He came to bring to each individual life can make the difference at Christmas, can truly turn the holiday into a holy day, can bring about new realizations. .

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A study' of young workers has found that twenty per cent of them were dissatisfied with their work life, twenty per cent were happy, and sixty per cent were "ambivalent and resigned to their situation."

This study would show, then, that most people must find their happiness and satisfaction outside of their work lives. Their needs, then, certainly center on their family lives and on their individual lives.

That is why there is such concern over all that is written about the family. People are upset and understandably so when they read articles that seem to be in so many magazines and newspapers, articles predicting the demise of the family unit, the end of marriage, the introduction of life styles that feature prominently the absence of children and stability and the presence of temporary or no commitments at all on the part of those involved. ' If there is anything that the so-called average normal person has it. is a sense of the continuity of life-the holding on to the fact that people come into the world, are cared for by others, are helped and encouraged to a better type of life by the generation that is before, and that this g~oup in turn repeats the process with those who follow.

Anything that attacks this concept of a stable and continuing and-hopefully-better society hits at people where they live.

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,MADISON (NC)-If peace is to be a reality, an educational effort to make people aware of and accept the social implications of the Gospel must be the Church's first priority, Auxiliary Bishop John Dougherty of Newark said here.

The chairman of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on International Development and Wor·ld Peace told a peace studies forum that working for sociiil justice by a Christian "is a mandate of Jesus."

The bishop spoke on the topic "Peace is Possible," the theme for the World Day of Peace declared by Pope Paul V~. .Social justice is a Gospel imperative, Bishop Dougherty said, especially for Christians "for whom the Gospel directs their life style."

A joint Jubilee celebration Academy and from then on has was recently held at the Domini- been a very busy person. Fellow can Convent, Park Street, Fall community members describe her River, for five Jubilariaps. Four as' "jack of all trades and master were celebrating their ~Oth an- of all". She taught in Dominican niversary of religious profession. Academy High School for several They are Sister Louis Marie AI''' years and studied at Catholic pin, Sister Reginald Lapointe, University, where she received Sister Alvarez Pelletier and .Sis- a master's degree in art. tel' Jean Massias Caron. Sister Gertrude Gaudette was the Silver Awards $859,400 JUbiiarian.

A concelebrated Mass was In New Grants sung by Father Jean LOiJis BouWASHINGTON (NC) - The chard, O.P., Father Maudce Jef·· Campaign for Human -Developfrey and Father Aurele Pepin, ment, the U.S. Catholic Church's S.S.C.C. of Saint Francis Xaxier antipoverty effort, has awarded Church in Acushnet. After the 34 new grants totalling $859,400.

Mass Sisters of the Mother House rhe grants, the fourth group of and Sisters from Acushnet, Dartmouth and Swansea had a fes- grants announced this year, went tive dinner, at which Father , to such diverse enterprises as Blain, O.P., Prior of Saint Anne's the Kentucky Mountain Feeder Monastery and Father Thomas Pig Cooperative in Jackson, Ky. Landry, pastor of Saint Anne's and an Institute for Social Acparish, Father Jeffrey an~ Father tion on the Pacific island qf Guam.

Pepin were guests.

The largest grant, $108,000, Fifty Years went to Arriba Loiza, a 'multiSister Louis Marie taught in action, self-help project in Santhe various schools of the Conturce, Puerto Rico, and the smallgregation for ,50 ),~a~. Two est award, $5,000 will aid the schools where she taught, St. Lancaster Spanish Center in .Joseph's and St. Thomas, have long been closed. For many years Lancaster, Pa. she taught at St. Anne's school in Fall River, where she was also Buffalo Physician principal. For several years be- Heads Federat.oon . fore her retirement, she taught in Dominican Academy.

CINCINNATI (NC) Dr. Sister Alvarez spent many Cha'rles A. Bauda of Buffalo, years in mission houses in Platts- N. Y., has been installed as 21st burg, N.Y., Mooers Forks, N.Y., president of the National Federand Peru, N.Y. Besides tllacbing, ation of Catholic Physicians' she was ~acristan in the church Guilds at the organization's anand convent. . nual meeting here.. . Sister Reginald spent all her Dr. John J. Brennan of Milreligious .life in the Fall River . waukee was named presidentconvent where she tobkcare of elect, while Dr. John R. Cavanschool children and helped with agh of Washington, D. C., was housework. " elected vice .president. Elected Sister Jean Massias sp~nt sev- secretary was Dr. George Blaha eraI years in the missions in of Chicago and named treasurer Mooers Forks, N.Y., and in was Dr. Edward G. Kilroy of . Acushnet. An excellent' seams- Cleveland. tress, she also served as' Novice The national federation, begun Mistress in the Mother House in 1931, is composed of 96 for a long period. guilds in. 36 states and four S:ister Gertrude Gaudette en- Canadian provinces with ,a memtered the Convent shortly after bership of over 6,000 Catholic her graduation from Dominican doctors and dentists. . .:'._._:

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"The major problem facing the Church is that its social doctrines are not accepted broadly enough." There is a tendency for the Church to make a pronouncement and assume that "once the principle is declared it is well known by all."

That 'is why there is a need for an educational effort, he said.

"We must work to raise the consciousness of the people to, see the need for social justice and peace through education.

"The Catholic community is not aware of social sin," he said.

Rather, the emphasis is on personal sin. "How many people," he asked, "are even aware they are committing social sin?"

Bishop Dougherty said social sins are those things that go against the goal of social justice and world peace-excess profits; the hoarding of resources by a small group; the multinational corporations' efforts to control whole nations for their own advanta·ge; the Vietnam war.

New Attitude "Vatican II affirmed that we must take a new attitude toward matters of war and peace," he said. An educatinal effort involving 'Universities, the pulpit schools and adult education is "a long term process, but the only solution as I see it."

What education has already taken place has had an effect, Bishop Dougherty said. He stated that the changing attitudes of the youth toward war is an indication of that effect, and "placed the cause on the election of two Johns"-Pope John XXIU and President John Kennedy.

The primary role of the Church in seeking peace and justice is "to express the principle and point to the fact," he said. He admitted the "difficulty comes in applying the principle to complex realities."

Yet for the Church "a certain amount of activism (politically) is required with some discretion due to the nature of the Church," he said.

Happiness Those who are not looking for happiness. are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek hap..~~~ess .f~~ ,others.- -King

Cardinal Muench Papers I)onated To Catholic U. WASHINGTON (NC) - The papers of Cardinal Aloisius Muench of. Fargo, N. D. the first American-born papal - nuncio, have been donated to the archives of the Cat.holic University of America here.

The papers deal primarily with the period after World War II, when Cardinal Muench _served both the Vatican and the U. S. government in securing aid for the reconstruction of Germany.

They were donated by Bishop Justin A. Driscoll, the present bishop of -Fargo.

In 1946 as bishop of Fargo Cardinal Muench issued a fa. mous Lenten -pastoral letter, "One World in Charity," in which he condemned the Morgenthau plan for restricting 'Postwar Germany to an agricultural economy.

Shortly after that he was named apostolic visitator to Germany by Pope Pius XII. He was also named liaison officer between the U. S. military government and the Catholic Church in Germany by U. S. Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson. During his first two years in Germany, Cardi!1al Mueneh headed the Papal Relief Commission, pro· viding for the needs of the war's displaced persons and refugees.

On March 6, 1951, when West Germany became a sovereign state, Cardinal Muench was named papal nuncio. He was the first diplomat to present his credentials to the new government and was dean of the diplomatic corps.

Pope John XXIII made Cardinal Muench a member of the college of cardinals in 1959. The first American <:ardinal to serve actively in the Roman Curia, the Church's central administrative offices, he was a member of three Vatican congregationsrites, religious, and extraordinary affairs-until his death in 1962.

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River- Th~r., Dec. 21, 1972

Ask Blue Shield Stop Coverage For Abortions DAYTON (NC) - The grand knight of the local Knights of Columbus 'has urged Blue Shield to stop providing insurance coverage for abortions.

William T.ReHly of Marian Council 3754 here eX'Pressed the - councH's dissatisfaction with the practice in a letter to the Worth· ington, Ohio, office of the sponsoring Corporation, Ohio Medi:al Indemnity Inc.

In the correspondence, Reilly conceded that the corporation serves people of vari9us beliefs, but said that '~to take a moral position in leadership is an important part of responsible business."

He stressed that the corporation should not reimburse the costs of "wiHful abortions."

Reilly's position had been taken by an earlier grand knie-ht

of Marian Council 3754. Joseph W. Fecke, writing to Ohio Indemnity last January,' said the corporation should place an abortion coverage option in their contracts "and charge extra to those people who wish to be covered by the abortion benefit."

Fecke's contention was reject· ed by Richard D. Dickas, d,irector of mar·keting and communication!; for Ohio Medical Indemnitv.

Dickas said Blue Shield is neutral on abortion.

"We believe that this -is strictIy a matter between the mother, the father, and the physician, and that our obligation is to provide the benefits under our contracts paid for by our subscribers," he said.

It was Dickas' response that prompted the letter by Grand Knight Reilly.

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Post-Christmas Sales Bright Spot on January -Ho,rizon One of the most delightful things to look forward to after: the joy of Christmas is hot the January bills, not the long dreary winter days ahead, but the one bright spot on the horizon...;,...the after-Christmas sales. Now I know if you'.re anything like me (and I'm sure our family is I) Wear your most comfortas typical as hot dogs and able shoes, but not flats becausz apple pie as far as thIs sit- if you do buy a good outfit you uation is concerned) January, or even the later weeks in Decem-

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2) Don't waste even sales money on any gimmickly outfits. or something so in fashion that by next year it will be out. What I personally have found to be the best buys· at this time of the year are winter coats and good woolen dresses and suits, especially a suit that is made up of a dres~ and. jacket. This type of outfit can be worn into late spring and then brought out again for the first cool 'days -of fall. ,

her arrive when funds are at the lowest and debts at the highest, however, if you did pick up 3) Knits are always a good any cash gifts at Christmas the buy because they truly know no possibility of getting. value for season and generally their styles your money is greater than it are quite classic. . was pre~December 25.

While· many stores do take Try Again inventory that post-Christmas I'm sure that all the women week many of the better stores choose this time to begin the who have spent the. last few clearance of their very good mer- weeks sh.opping for Christmas chandise. That designer's coat presents have come out of many that you hesitated over in No- . stores with the memory of a vember may still be on the rack lovely dress or outfit that they and if your luck is holding a saw but didn't feel that they goodly amount could be chopped could buy during the moneyspending weeks of pre-Christmas. off its price.

Now, I refuse to acknowle:lge Don't despair, remember where ,$2 or $3 off as a sale, in fact you saw it, take a trip back to when I do encounter such a that store after December 25th feeble markdown I'm rather in- and if luck's on your side you sulted that the store should in- may be able to squeeze .it~ sale sult my intelligence by thinking price into your budget. (Your family won't mind eating chicken I'd fall for such a play. and. hamb.ur,gers for the next In Good Stores month after all the excesses of The really worthwhile sales the holidays!) can be found in the stores that care what their customers think Joy and those that have such good The secret of happiness is remerchandise that they cannot -Carnegie nunciation. afford to have it stay around the stores into the spring months.

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One smiled and saicf to her: "We have come from far lands following a star to find d Baby of whom our anCient books tell marvelous tales, Now we are lost. You must know this country. Would you come with us to. help us find Him?"

)~ir TV program on Ca~paign Spending NEW YORK (NC) - A one· hour spedal program on the Chllrch's drive to alleviate poverty in the U. S., the bishops' Campaign for Human Development, was telecast Sund~y..

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"Human Development: Sharing the American Dream."

It explored the campaign's philosophy of helping the poor help themselves by taking a look. at campaign-funded projects in Illinois, North Dakota, Virginia, and New York. Since its .incep-

tion in 1970, the campaign has sation with Three Jesuits," an funded over 420 projects nation- interview with Father Pedro Arally allocating more than $16 rupe, Jesuit superior general; Father Vincent O'Keefe, vicar million.

Campaign grants are given to general of the society and an self-help projects run by the poor American; and Father Herbert themselves. These organizations . de Souza, special consultant to use the money in turn to gener- Father Arrupe on education. The ate a self-sustaining operation. interview was filmed at the JesA second major effort of the uit general headquarters in Rome. campaign is to educate the The Division for Film and American public to the reaHties Broadcasting, United Catholic of poverty in the United States. Conference, served as a consulAlso on Dec. 17, ABC's "Direc- tor to the networks on both tions" program aired a "Conver- programs.

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Dear Mary, Just between us ... as one mother to another what was that First Christmas really like? The New Testament tells of the beauty, the wonder, the glory, th~vmagnificence. But those stories ' were written by men. None saw was a sterling silver tooth brush-for. a baby/with no teeth. of them was ever pregnant.

What was Jesus suposed to do You must have been uncom- with gold, frankincense and fortable those ,last weeks of pregnancy. I remember how exhausted I was carrying my children.

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uncomfortable riding in a car.

Once I had to make a two hour drive when I was seven months pregnant. My son-to-be spent the entire ride doing stretching exercises, with one fist braced against my ribs and one foot planted in my bladder.

I was seven monhts and miserable. Mary, you made your jaunt just before your Baby was due. It took me two hours ... it took you two weeks. I was in a car ... you were riding on a donkey!

I don't care if your Baby was God, He still had hands and feet, and the Bible does mention that babies "stirred within the womb."

It must have been a gruelling trip. In fact, it was probably because the trip was so bad that you didn't want to talk about it.

All you told St. Luke was that you "went."

myrrh? You probably didn't even have. diapers for Him ... but al- . ready He had a bank account. If you had diapers, why wou,ld you wrap Him in swaddling clothes?

I just found out what swaddling clothes are. They're long, narrow strips of cloth. It must have been an awful nuisance having to unwind your baby before you could change Him. , All the Bible says about you is, " ... kept in mind all these things, pondering them in her ' heart." I'm convinced that your "pondering" is just like my "mul'ling," even perhaps, "worrying."

But then, what did you do with that Baby? Eight days later you took Him out to present Him . . . to show Him off . . . because you were proud of Him. And you "marveled at the things , spoken concerning Him." Surgeon's Hands

Every time I had a new baby, a doting aunt looked at him.

Baboushka shivered and pulled her shawl more tightly about her shoulders. fondled his tiny fingers and proclaimed, "He.. has the hands of a "Oh, not tonight, my lords. It is so cold. Hear the wind howl. Stay here great surgeon." And I believed it. tonight' where it is warm and I will go with you in the dawn."

Or, "He has the eyes of a philosopher." (He couldn't even open his eyes yet, but she thought he was going to be a great thinker.)

CHICAGO (NC) - Cardinal The cardi~al spoke at a meet- gram. He said both required And I believed. Because, just as you did, I want to believe the John Cody of Chicago has urged ing of more than 450 priests of combined effort or teamwork the archdiocesan priests' senate the archdiocese at Loyola D. and the pooling of time, energy, best concerning my children.

At the meeting, Father Thomas resources and imagination under Mary, maybe I shouldn't, but to advise him on how to impleat Christmas, I think more about ment Church teaching on respect J. Murphy, president of the effective leadership and both repriests' senate, compared the quire asking why this particular you as a mother, than I do about and concern for life.

He said the advice should re- senate to the ·D. S. space pro- strocture is needed. your Son as God. Somehow, I feel that we're in this mother- late to the fundamental gift of Mary Was Tired life itself, "the quality of life, hood business together. which can be less than fully huI know you'}.} be busy You know, Mary, a few years man because of poverty, injusChristmas morning, but if you ago I found a picture of the tice, a lack of caring and sharing Nativity that I liked. Instead of have a minute to spare, stop over among men," and family life, unto my kitchen.

Let's take a few kneeling so piously by the side der so much stress today. moments to just sit quietly and of the manger, you were seated, Cardinal Cody also asked for resting, holding your new Baby. ITave a cup of coffee.

And if I don't see you before advice on how to "call ourselves Somehow, I could believe that. then'... have a very Merry and the people we serve to a . Even though He was the Son .

Christmas ... and wish your Boy deeper sense of sin and a spirit of God, even if it was an easy a Happy Birthday for me. of Penance," and on how best to delivery, labor is still exhausting love, express the unity of the local and you must have been tired.

Mary Carson Church, as an archdiocese.· It's symbolic.' to imagine you kneeling by your new-born Child, but I believe the other picture.

May the Christmqs Star light the path of all men Besides, you had all that company. to peace and love and understanding.

I thought I had confusion with May it shine its warmth and brilliance upon relatives and neighbors dropping you and yours at this season. in. You had all those shepherds ... and the angels upstairs, who And please keep storming the Gates of Heaven kept singing all night. You must with your prayers to end the war in Vie~nam have been exhausted. and to soon deliver our prisoners of war .Then the gifts started. I've had To celebrate His some strange gifts for a new and those missing in action to their loved ones. baby. The most unusual I ever birth . .. a host of

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KAAKUPE (NC) - Celebra,tions honoring Our Lady of Kaakupe-including a procession of thousands of farm workers and other laborers-reflected the current conflict between Church leaders and Paraguayan government of Gen. Alfredo Stroessner, who has ruled this nation of 6.1 million since 1954.

Organizers said that in past years the celebration had essen· tially consisted of "the image (of Our Lady) and a few dignitaries, while the people watched from the sides."

This 'year, eight bishops and \ .. hundreds of priests and Religious '''mixed with the fkrmworkers and l'il.b.orers in the celebration at this ruraI town 40 miles from Ascuncion, the Paraguayan capital.

During the celebration the crowds entoned prayers and songs whose themes were love, social justice .and liberation.

Bishop DemetriO. Aquino of Kaakupe told the crowds that Mary, the patron of Paraguay, "is saddened at the sight of 'so many of her children deprived from the fruits of Redemption.

Fr. Theriault, OP Continued from Page Three The Dominican priest had served as executive secretary of the Massachusetts Commission on Christian Unity, a joint . Protestant-Catholic body. He had been a staff member of Massachusetts Council of Churches and vice-chairman of the Fall River Diocesan Ecumenical Commission.

Father Theriault was born in Salem, March 10, 1920, the son of Joseph E. Theriault and Eva S. (Madore) Theriault. After his elementary studies in his native city, . he pursued his studies at Boston College and, in Canada, at the Seminaire de Joliette. On Aug. 3, 1942, he entered the no-, vitiate of the Dominican Fathers at St. Hyacinthe, Canada. He took his studies for the priesthood at the Dominican House of Studies at'Ottawa, where he was ordained a priest the 30th of April, 1948.

Father Theriault's chief career has been in education. He held a master's degree in education from the University of Ottawa, as well as an M.A. in education from Boston College.

In 1966, shortly after an ecumenical commission was established in the Fall River Diocese, Msgr. Henri A. Hamel, chairman, called on the Dominican Fathers of St.. Anne's to ask for a theologian to serve as consultant to the commission. Father Theriault was approached and he accepted to prepare for this new and chal·lenging task. He undertook special studies in ecumenical theory and practice in Toronto, Canada, under the direction of Rev. Gregory Baum, of international renown.

After his arrival at Fall River, he was appointed vice-chairman of the Diocesan Ecumenical Commission on Church Unity.

In March of 1969, Father Theriault was elected religious superior. He held this office until May 10 of this year, when he was relieved of his duties follow, ing a massive stroke in the latter part of April. He succumbed to to a new hemorrhage Wednesday, Dec. '13 at St. Anne's Hospital.

The Kings shook their heads. "We cannot wait. If you- do not wish to co'me now, we must go on. Farewell." They turned and took their way onwards.

Says Priests' Faill to Promote Vocations MENLO PARK (NC) - There are fewer young men entering America's seminaries partly because many priests no longer actively promote vocatio'ns, according to a seminary rector.

"There are many priests who make. no bones about the fact that they are frustrated and unhappy," said Father Melvin L. Farrell, rector of St. Patrick's Seminary here in the San Francisco archdiocese.

Also retarding vocations is the conflict between traditionalist and progressive priests, he said.

The Sulpician priest aired his views in Pastoral Life, a monthly magazine on the ministry, pub· Iished in Canfield, Ohio. His ar- ' ticle was entitled ~'Crisis Behind the Vocation Crisis."

-Some priests, wrote Father Farrell, are bitter enough to say openly ·that they would not become priests if they had it, to do over again and they knew what they were getting into.

"Other priests, while not pleading personal anguish, admit to much confusion," the priest wrote. Things used to be clear, he said, but in the aftermath of Vatican II "the old clarity is gone."

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"Priests committed to progressive causes in the Church aren't particulary known for promoting vocations, either. Frequently they are opposed to seminaries as they are now constituted," he said.

The fact that some priests are pushing for optional celibacy makes)t difficult for them to urge young men to embrace a priestly' ministry which sanctions only celibacy, Father Farrell said.

"Priests today are in fact agonizing over who they are and what they ought to be doing in an age of rapid change for the Church and for society as a whole. On such fundamental matters as the role of authority, the function of the liturgy, and

issues of social involvement there is no agreement."

Father Farrell said tha~ disagreements among priest$ ate largely over forms and stru¢tures' of ministry. Some priests insist on running their parishes ac<:ording to the books, he said.

Canon law and rubrics are scrupulously observed by them.

'Open Antagonism', ' , Other priests, he said, di1>daln such methods. In the pulpit, they come off more as social workers than as preachers. Papal documents often make them angry and cynical.

"The tragedy is that neither is able to recognize, much, less

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This kind of open antagonism in the clergy between traditionalists and progressives is poisoning the well of vocations," the priest wrote.

"Until we can project authentic unity among ourselves, we can scarcely hope to turn the tide in the number of priestly candidates," he said.

"First, we must undergo a conversion of heart in relation to priests whose vision of ministerial forms disagree with our own. Second, we must undergo a conversion of mind, so that we are able to deal with the question of external' structures ina more detached and balanced way."

Father Farrell said there is no use for despondency about the present state of the priesthood, "no matter where we fall on the spectrum between traditionalism and progressivism." , '

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He said in a pastoral letter: "It is my hope that the foundation of the Church in Memphis will be justice and peace, that as the Psalmist sang 'Righteousness and peace now embrace.'''

At a press conference, Bishop Dozier discussed his pastoral and said: "I have tried to face violations of justice as expressed in violence and racism, and the necessity of law and order to secure and protect human dignity.

The letter points out that there are concerns such as busing and open housing which offend against justice."

In calling for support of busing Bishop Dozier said that it might be seen "as partial repayment" for past education injustices to black students.

Equal Opportunity "However, some people have promoted anti-busing as an emotional issue," Bishop Dozier said.

"Politicians who have introduced anti-busing legislati.on are once again blocking the schoolhouse door. When they limit the education of poor children and inflame the hatreds of the community, they nail two-by-fours across the doors of equal opportunity. Busing has become a tension which divides us."

Bishop Dozier also said if neighborhoods were integrated, "we could then pursue education at the neighborhood school. Divisions about busing would not destroy our community."

Elected officials who seek to undermine the Supreme Court's desegregation decision of 1954 "are not only unpatriotic, they are ungodly," the bishop said.

Most Destructive Sin Bishop Dozier said he hoped Memphis churches would seek justice in the community by pouring large portions of their budgets into programs to work for justice.

"Justice is not served by Christmas baskets to the poor," he said. "In fact it is not served by any single stopgap program . . . We say we believe in God and yet this belief does not always enter our day..to-day lives.

God calls us to love our neighbor. The Church in Memphis has frequently forgotten this.. This Church has reflected the temper of our society.

"Of all sins, considering a person inferior because of his race is the most destructive ... Racism directly shatters Jesus' reconciliation."

Newspaper J~oYes Printing Operation SPEARVILLE (NC)-The Dec. 7 edition of the Southwest Kansas Register is the first produced in its home diocese of Dodge City.

Previously, the seven-year-old publication had been printed' in Denver and La Junta, ,Colo.

Byron Hull, the paper's editor, said the decision to move the printing operation from Valley Offset Inc. of La Junta to the Spearville News plant had been made because of mail delivery problems and other considerations.

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Deny Charges Of Subversion BURGOS (NC)-Three Spanish priests expelled by Colombia for alleged subversive activities, were simply foHowing a bishop's instruction on the care of the poor, according to the Church agency here in Spain that sponsored them.

The Foreign Missions Institute said that Fathers Cirilo Terron, Eutimio Gutierrez and Manuel Mandianes "were doing priestly work in one of the poorest regions in Colombia, under a plan approved by the bishop and his pastoral council."

Spanish-born Bishop Eloy Tato Losad of Magangue in northwestern Colombia, where the three priests worked until early December, is also a member of the Foreign Missions Institute.

Baboushka went back into her warm house. She finished sweeping and sat down to her supper. Then she began thinking. "1 should have gone with them," she reproached herself. "1 too would greet that Baby."

Plan Discussion on Abortion Law HAPPAUGE (NC)-Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller has announced that he will meet with opponents of the state's liberal abortion law.

The governor made the announcement at a Town Hall meeting in this Island community, during which he was castigated for his veto of a biU which would have repealed the present law permitting abortions for any reason during the first 20 weeks of pregnancy.

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Chris!tmasProgram Event That Grabs Staides,t Adult We hurry through dinner, the kids eating a little. We dress in our Christmas clothes, stomp out into the brisk air and march excitedly to school, a block away.

What's the occasion demanding such anticipation? The annual school Christmas Chores were done in a zip program; an event as old as ties. and we didn't eat much. ourselves, as predictable as At school, our senses were t he letdown after and as bombarded: the odor of the tree, heart·warming as the manger it· self. We get there early to get the best scats. Everyone else gets there early for the same reason

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so we strain our necks, prop up short siblings and shiver as the lights go down.

Holly-garbed youngsters march in and up the risers, gleaming faces, awful harmony, hut nobody notices.' There's something about the Christmas program that grabs adults. Part of it is the joy of seeing one's own youngster shine with that inner excitement, true.

But that's only part of it.

Adults thrill to the Christmas program whether they have children in it or not, because it hrings back so forcibly the feeling of Christmas in their own childhood. We relive our own programs through' those we watch.

Country Christmas As I watch my children singing up there on the risers, my mind wanders back to our country school Christmas program. . It was the highlight of the year, beginning early in December when we practiced dialogues (plays) and pieces (poems) for eventual performance in front of the neighborhood.

Each child had at least one piece, the youngest one always given a popular poem beginning with, "My mother calls me Willie, my father calls me Bill..... or something like that. The day before the program our dads came to school and turned sawhorses and planks into a stage. Burlap curtains, folding chairs, and the fullest, freshest pine to be found in rural Wisconsin transformed . our school into a gay opera ·house. .

At home we had been preparing for days.' Our long white stockings and the curling iron were set out in anticipation of th~t final evening. The boys had professional haircuts and neck-

wet coats, and fire in the normally drab schoolroom; the sight of decorations, colorful dresses, and Santa Claus; the sound of carols, applause, and gaiety; the taste of excitement, success, and candy; the touch of curtain, curis, and gifts. All filled us with a seasonal sense not easily forgotten.

Feel Christmas That's why we like children's programs at Christmas. They make us feel Christmas again.

We can get better music on the stereo, lovelier settings on tele· vision, and more beautiful decorations in the shopping center but they don't make us feel Christmas the way we feel it at the program.

I hope we never get too soShe peered from her window, but the wind was howling louder and the phisticated for the local Christdarkness was deeper. "The Kings cannot have gone far this bitter night," mas program at school. It ('he thought. "At first light I will rise and follow them. doesn't matter where the program is, farm or city, or when Surely I will soon overtake them." it is, then or now, as long as it' is. I hope' that children will al• ways' have programs and that In adults will always be able to Of the 7,448 abortions perWASHINGTON (NC) - Abor- were performed while e~ch day watch them.

Capsule Review: Preparing a tions performed in hospitals and last year 51 such operations were- formed in the first quarter this child for First 'Communion? ,clinics here increased by 56 per performed, accounting for the 56 year, only 1,648-0r 22.1 per cent of them-were on District Christiane Brusselmans and Bri· cent in the first three months per cent increase. women. Residents of nearby The statistics also reveal that this year over January-Mal'Ch, an A. Haggerty give us a new an increasingly larger proportion Maryland and Virginia obtainedbook, We Celebrate the Euchar- 1971.

Department of Human Re- of women obtaining abortions a total of 2,928-0r 39.3 per cent· ist. I found .it enjoyable to use with my own son and also with sources statistics show 7,448 are non-residents of the District -of the operations. other parents involved in helping abortions were performed from of Columbia, which relaxed its . A total of 18,897 abortions their children understand the January through March of this restrictions on abortions three was recorded here last year. sacrament. A nice balance of year. Each day 79.~ abortions years ago. theology and experience plus space for the child to write his own prayers and hopes. Parents' book also available. (Information from Silver Burdette, 250 James • St., Morristown, N.J.)

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Young Jason Findsl Out Real Toys Not Like TV

By Joe and Marilyn Roderick Per usual, Santa Claus has his little helpers making sure that the products he. so faithfully produced during the: year catch the imagi.nation of the young TV viewer. In· this case, his helpers are not little elves but Madison Avenue advertisers foisting some good and some not-so- world of adulthood and become parents themselves. good products on eager viewNo Magic ers. Well, we have beaten them to' their own game by per· What particular custom, what. fecting a system which over- gift, what food will stand out in comes their shabby advertising their minds as being the one out· ' techniques with reality. standing memory or the custom When Jason becomes enam- they will want to continue with ored of a game, a device or their own families. whatever on television, we simWhile we can do as much as ply ask him to list it and when' , possible to make Advent and ~ ]t is convenient (as when Mom· Christmas .meaningful, there is, my is shopping), we drop into . no magic formula for implanting. ~ the nearest toy store and let him memories. All we can do is try see the advertised spectacular to make this holy celebration "l In the morning Baboushka prepared a few gifts for the Baby and placed face to face. Faced with the true meaningful and hope that in the them in her basket. She started in the direction the Kings had taken. object, illusions are soon cast future they' will still consider' aside and in no time at all our Advent ahd the beauty of the • young son turns away in bore- Christmas as the parts of the dom from the object he wanted Christmas season that they more than' anything else in the couldn't possibly do without; TALLAHASSEE (NC) .- Gov. The High Court's Chief Justice, by the U. S. Supreme Court rulworld two hours before. ing.

E. Burger, had said, Warren Reubbin Askew has signed into We had this tart and tangy Toy Thing The prelates also said they cranberry pie at Thanksgiving law a bill reinstituting the death however, that states might satify court objections under which hoped capital punishment would Unfortunately, not everything time and while it will never reo penalty in Florida.

The state's chief executive a judge or jury can impose the be abandoned entirely in the the television promoters handle phice the traditional mince and can' be dismissed as easily. I squash it is future. tasty addition to made no comments in signing the death penalty. bill, which had been passed by have been 'rather surprised at the any holiday table.

The Florida law attempts to a special session of the state leg- meet such standards, as it cites number of vitamin pills that are islature that he had convened. foisted on the children during Cranberry Meringue Pie a variety of crimes that would Florida thus is among the first entail capital punishment and "kiddy programs." A child can 3 cups cranberries states to reinstate the death pen- provides that the state supreme not measure the effectiveness of 1 Y2' cups water alty after a June ruling by the court must review-and can rea. pill by looking at it, as he can % cup light raisins U. S. Supreme Court declaring a toy. However, for what it is ject-a death sentence declared 1 % cups granulated sugar . ,- capital punishment Iaw~ as then by a trial judge. worth, the toy thing is easily .14 cup cornstarch . offset, admi nistered unconstitlitional. .Yz cup chopped walnuts The state's bishops had' issued Actually, the method is un2 Tablespoons butter or mar· a statement before the state legbeatable because the toys are garine ' islature approved the bill urging made to look alive on television 3 egg whites 303 I.YANOUGH ROAD or margarine until butter melts; that new legislation apply capital and the camera handles them in 6 Tablespoons brown sugar cool. punishment more fairly. across HYANNIS, MASS. such a way that dolls have life1 9-inch baked pie shell :3) Beat egg whites until soft racial, economic and social lines like movement, trains whiz TEL. 775·0081 peaks form. Gradually a9d brown than the previous law ~escinded 1) In medium saucepan, cook through the night; cars speed sugar and 'Continue be~ting till along race tracks with screaming. cranberries in water, stirring till still peaks fOml. Turn cooled throngs behind them, etc. cranberries pop, add raisins.

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For Chicago Archd iocese Service CHICAGO (NC)-Ninety-seven men, including 3~1 who are black and Spanish-speaking, have been ordained permanent deacons, the first groups to be ordained for such service in the Chicago archdiocese.

Cardinal John Cody of Chicago ordained eight black deacons at Our Lady of Sorrows Basilica here, while AUXiliary Bishop Nevin W. Hayes ordained 21 Spanish-speaking deacons at special Spanish liturgical ceremonies at St. Francis of Assisi Church.

Auxiliary Bishops William E. McManus, A'lfred L. Abramowicz and Thomas J. Grady officiated at ceremonies in other churches, at which 68 men became permanent deacons.

The men's ordination broughtto at least 275 the number of men who are pen:nanent deacons in the United States. It also increased the number of black and Spanish-speaking deacons in this country to over 100.

A total of 69 archdiocesan parishes 'will now have deacons serving on their staffs.

length, consists of classes for candidates in such areas as systematic theology, Scripture, p,astoral theology, parish sociology, public speaking and counseling.

The new permanent deacons must now undergo an additional year of continuing education with stress on homiletics and counseling.

An additional 100 men aiready have begun their initial two-year diaconate program here, while applications for the thinl class of deacons beginning next September will be accepted from ' Janl.!ary through May. Deacons, at least 35 years old by the date of their ordination, may baptize, perform marriages and conduct funeral services, preach, anQ distribute Commu· nion. Howe'ver, they cannot say Mass, hear confessions or give last rites.

The vast majority of perma· 'nent deacons are married and work in the secular field to support themselves and their families while holding religious office.

Diocese Pia ns Self-Scrutiny EL PASO (NC)-Bishop Sidney M. Metzger has anounced that the EI Paso diocese will undertake a self-examination all next year "to determine if we are truly becoming the Church that God wants us to be."

The bishop said the self·review, called "Congress '73," would include "intensive consultations with the people who compose our Church" in local discussions and prayer meetings."

He said the study, to cover diocesan members, structures and plans, was designed to produce ' a list of objectives to be presented to "a large representative assembly of the Catholic Church of the diocese in December of next year."

But she could find no trace of the royal travelers.

She asked everyone she met, "Have you seen three Kings?" But no one had seen them.

, The bishop made his announcement on Dec. 12. The day marks the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the patroness of the diocese.

Additional Educntion The Chicago diaconate program was begun in 1969, two years after Pope Paul VI restored t.he permanent dia'conate to the official Church s':ructure.

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University lOfficial Wins XaviE,r Award CINClNNATI {NC) - Xavier University awarded its St. Francis Xavier Medal to :Father Paul L. O'Connor, chancellor of the university who served as its president for the past 17 years.

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Story of Mother Elisabeth Impressive, Worth Reading A novelty, almost an extinct species, these days is a book about a founder or foundress of a religious community.

Nothing daunted, along comes Mother Elisabeth: The Resurgence of the Order of Saint Birgittta by Marguerite Tjader (Herder and Herder, 232 beth, who deserves admiration.

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'The Mother Elisabeth of the title' is also a native of Sweden, born' in 1870, died in 1956. Her story is certainly extraordinary and worth knowing.

Before she entered religion, her name wa's Maria Elisabeth Hesselblad. Her family was Lu· thera-n, and so was she. As a girl of 17 she came to the United States, iii the hope of making a bett. er I·· lvmg than was possible at home.' She trained and was graduated as' a nurse in. New York City.

For example, it is said that "Mussolini had come to power in 1925," when he actually did so in 1922. A little later it is said that the concordat between the Holy See and Italy was effect..,ed when Mussolini first came to power, but' the correct year is 1929.

In the 1970s is there a place and a public for a book like this?

'Much about its approach and tone is reminiscent of 'an era departed and ~ ,irrevocable. The pounding pursuit of such an objective as recovery from the Car· melites of a house identified with St. Birgitta may not strike us today as being nearly so significant and pious a work as it would once have been thought.

On the other hand, Mother Elisabeth's fortitude, perseverance, and sacrifice in the interest of a new religious c'ommunity which would carryon an ancient tradition and be of notable Christian service in the, contemporary world, can impress us with the value of institutions which' we tend to downgrade, if not write off altogether.

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ALLENTOWN (NC)"7 Bishop Jos,ep'a McShea of Allentown said Pennsy,lvania Gov. Milton J. Shapp broke· a pledge to the people by vetoing an anti·abortion bill. .The governor's "actions say this clearly-despite the words with which he has tried to cover Having written two exceHent up his broken. promise," the books on Robert Browning, bishop said.

Maisie Ward now offers a short, lhe bishop's comments conA Convert fascinating' account of the life cerned House Bill 800, which Drawn to religion, she never of the son and only child of Rob- Pennsylvania's House of Represupposed that she would become ert and Elizabeth Barrett Brown- sentatives passed by 157..34 in a Catholic, but become one she ing, in the generously ilJustrated June artd the Senate passed by did, through a set of cir<:um· The Tragi-Comedy of Pen Brown- 39-!l in November. He sP9 k e at a stances passing strange. ing (Sheed and Ward, 64 Univer- clergy conference here to more A seed of interest in St. Bir- sity Place, New York, N. Y. than 200 diocesan priests.

"House Bill 800 was designed gitta grew, and she reached the 10003. $8.50). fixed pur.pose of having BrigitAfter their elopement, the two to protect the lives of conceived tine nuns once again instaned poets left England and lived in but unborn children," the bishop in the house in ·Rome where the Florence, where Pen was born in said. "Similai' laws exist in some 1849. His father was then 36,'his 30 other states. Only the' strangsaint had lived and died.

Were there any Brigittine nuns mother 42. The offspring of ge· est sort of logic could label this left in the world? Certainly none niuses, Pen was expected to be a' bill an extreme measure." in Scandinavia, and probably ,genius himself. But he amounted "The sophisms in the statenone elsewhere. But Maria, to very little. This was not for, ment accompanying his yeto reo known as Sister Elisabeth after lack of promise or lack of gifts. veal either that the governor has her reception in 1904 by the Car- , He eventually produced paint- beeJll taken in by pro-abortion melite nuns who then occupied ings and sculpture which, if not ,propaganda or that he does want the saint's former convent in of the first order, were far frort:! to be on record as Pennsylva. nia's abortion governor, the Rome, discovered that there' contemptible.

As quite smaJI child, he was first to tolerate-even attempt were Brigittines-one convent of them ,in Germany, two in Hol- driven through ari ambitious to make respectable--the killing land, five in Spain, and one in course of .studies. At the age of of unborn children." nine, ,he was conversant with England. : Subjected to Abuse These she visited, seeking sup- Italian, French, German' and "The governor protests that he - port for her plan to reintroduce English. He was reading' a rather ,. the community to the Rome surprising array of books. At 15, is concerned about the unborn. house. She was cordiaBy treated, ,he was participating in adult Yet his message to them is es· but none of the assistance' she. social life. sentially this: If your parents Yet he failed at Oxford) his life want you, you may live; if they , \ required was forthcoming.

Finally, in 1911, she founded trailed off dismally, his marriage do not want you, we shaU allow her own community. It gr.ew de· collapsed. At the end (he died in them to end your life before spite trials and setbacks. She 1912) he had found a quiet place birth. This is a plea for abortion took 20 years to achieve, her to his measure, and a 'certain at will." original purpose, but she never u~efulness and contentment, in Legislators audprivate citirested until, in 1931, her Brigit- the town of Asolo, near· Venice... zens of all faiths who labored fOt' tines had sole possesion of the Maisie Ward finds in him an ·the passage of House Bill. 800 historic buHding on the Piazza "example of' the effect of an ,havle been subjected to consider. :. '. adoring,- unintelligentiove' qnrt. ' able abuse," Bishop McShea said. ' , Farnese.

And it was her nuns who' set 'bined with' a' sense 'of an author· ',"Abuse is a small price to pay, up the- first' Brigittine founda-. '"Ity little short of the ~ivine .however, for upholding the prin, tions in Sweden since the .16th 'with which parents felt them· ciple that the lives of all innocentury. Other foundations of., selves' to be invested." Over· cent human beings must be proher carrimunity are in India, the pressed, overprotected, over- tected by the 'Iaw~ of this ComUnited States, and England. , possessed, poor Pen didn't have monwealth, and indeed of this The author is obviously an ar·· a chance. There is a lesson here nation. dent' admirer of Mother Elisa- : fo!, tl>day's parents. . . ','The democratic process does

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not demand silence on the part would have protected the right of the members or the leaders of to life of unborn children ... any church," the bishop told the which legislators have spoken, worked, and voted on behalf of priests.

He encouraged the priests to ,the innocent and powerless un"let your people know how hard born. :. and which legisIators the governor worked to prevent have spoken, worked and voted the passage of legislation that against this cause."

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Essence of Rentzel Story Is Struggle for Maturity

Of NCEA WASHINGTON (NC) - The National Catholic Educational ,Association (NCEA) here has named Father John F. Meyers as acting president to replace Father C. Albert Koob, NCEA president, who is recuperating from injuries suffered in a fall.

Ordinarily I would argue that professional football players are to be watched. on television and not read about in books. They don't watch me play football, why should I read their books? I make an exception, of course, for anything about sonality and relationships are t.he Chicago Bears (and Jean- held together by courage and nie Morris's Short Season hope and very little else. was magnificent.)

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the Laughter Died in Sorrow (despite the fact that no Chicago Bear fan can possibly have much sympathy for someone who had played for the Dallas Cowboys).

It is an exfraordinary book, perhaps something of a masterJ?iece.

As Rentzel's psychiatrist says in an afterword, it is not a book about professional football or psychotherapy; it is a book about growing up. In a style which is simple and direct without being either self-excusing or. selfdestroying, a former "golden boy" tells of his struggle for adulthood, a struggle which one senses he is in the process of winning.

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His story goes beyond what are ultimately accidental phenomena - his successes in the room and on the foot15a11 field, his marriage to a lovely actress. his arrest and the horrible humiliations which followed. The essence of the story concerns the struggle for maturity and the triumph of hope over despair.

Both the struggle and the triumph are part of the human condition; and Lance Rentzel has succeeded in touching a phenomenon that is basic to the humanity of us all. It is the universality of an experience that is a prerequisite for great writing.

Reritzel is Everyman, grasping , for adulthood and路trying to come back from defeat, discouragement, humiliation, and /despair.

But he does not attempt to hide his own individuality or responsibility under the Everyman cloak. Not once in the whole painful, poignant, fascinating book. does he deviate from the perfect balance of universality and individual responsibility.

The book was not written as part of Rentzel's therapy; and it is not-unlike most memoirs by athletes-the work of a ghostwriter. No ghostwriter in the wor,ld could possibly produce' something as authentic as When All the Laughter Died in Sorrow.

Lance Rentzel's battle is far from over.. The press and the nightclub comedians will continue to hound him. Cornerbacks and safetys will know what words are the most likely to sting him. He emerges from the book as a young man whose per.-

the ugliness of the American emphasis on being a "winner," an ugliness that anyone who has dealt with athletes even on the grammar or high school level . knows all too well. Many of th~ reviewers . of When All the Laughter Died in S.orrow have chosen to interpret this as the main theme of the book.

But clearly the issue which concerns Lance Rentzel is much . more basic: Is it safe 'to trust?

Can you let others get close to you? Do you become worthless路 when you' fail. Can you run the risk of seeking depth' in your relationships and your search for meaning? Can you be brave enough to be serious?

Religious Book

The appointment w.as made by NCEA's board of directors at a meeting here. Father Koob is making steady progress from muWple injuries he received when he fell through a grate in a shopping center on 路Oct. 28.

Father Meyers \viii serve as acting president until April 24, when the NCEA board will meet in New Orleans. A priest of the diocese of Dallas, Texas, is vice president for fundamental .education and executive secretary of the department of Chief Administrators of Catholic Edu- . cation (CACE).

To this day, when Christmastide draws near, Baboushka seeks acrOss the world for the Child, leaving gifts wherever she goes.

'Sense of Nothingness'

These are all religious questions, and Rentzel has written a En1phasis on Productivity Isolates Elderly religious book. Any book about the pains of growing up - and Priest Asserts growing up is what such. quesMILWAUKEE (NC)-An Amer- successful weare ...but old age tions are all about-is inevitably ican emphasis on possession,pro- cal)not be equated with produca religious book. One can only duction and profit contributes to tive profit. grow up, when one has begun to "Old persons don't do anyanswer the question of what sort the loneliness of the elderly, ac~hing. They live. They exist. They cording to a priest whQ works of creature man is; and that is be. And, we fail to recognize the most basic of religious ques- wit!:l 'the aged. that beingness as something "We see having as more i,mtiong.: portant than being... .. saored."

Rentzel touches only lightly "Do we have to accept this?

"We face being old when we on explicit ,religion. He admits Does this have to be vl!e definicannot live up to what we should that his shattering experience has forced him to wonder about produce," Father Larry fIonnold tion of old age? It doesn't. Aging God and to question the purpose told managers and ,\dministra- can and should be a movement of human existence. WeB it tors of long term health ca,re into greater and greater maturity and life. might. Any experience that . facilities meeting here. .

"To produce means tp profit forces us to face the God quesFrugality tion honestly and openly is po- , anD according to our standards FrugaNty includes all the other the more we profit the more tentia11y a positfve experience., virtues. "":""Cicero In the final analysis, he must IIlIl'll'lUm"'" answer the question of whether existence is gracious by iooking an object of hope that underat himself - as we all must. writes a universe that is ultiThere is no stronger "signal of mately friendly. One prays that the transcendent" in the human he will listen to the forces of condition than hope. Lance Rent- hope within himself. For When zel must ask himself 'whether All the Laughter Died in Sorrow 'that powerful hope which has is a. book about hope, and hence, .enabled him to come back from whl~ther the author knows it or the ashes reflects a cause and not, a book about God..

FoLlowing his appointment, Father Meyers said: "I will try to continue on the progressive course charted for NCEA by Father Koob. We will continue to emphasize NCEA's leadership , role in the total Catholic educational mission, in religious education, in schools, and in adult education."

In other actions at its meeting, the NCEA board approved the establishment of a standing committee on minority concerns, to be composed of at least three board members as weB as representatives from various minority groups.

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,S'CHOOLBOY . SPORTS IN THE DIOCESE

By PETER 1. BARTEK

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All S E: Mass Divisiol1 I Tearns Contenders for Hoop Crown The Southeastern Massachusetts Conference will commence its first basketball season in January with a full slate of games. Prognostications indicate tight championship races in each of the circuits four divisions. The only thing reasonably certain at this time it that no team is The new conference, in essence likely to walk away with a a merger of the three leagues, title. Who will eventually includes neither Durfee nor emerge as champion is anyone's guess A year ago one would be on safe ground predicting that Durfee High of Fall River, New Bedford and Bishop Stang of Dartmouth would battle it out for Bristol County League Honors, the Narragansett League race would be a toss-up between Holy Family High of New Bedford and Swansea's Case High with Somerset a contender, and that Barnstable, Fairhaven and probably Dennis-Yarmouth would fight it out for Capeway Conference laurels.

New Bedford. Both schools have applied for admission into the league, but their bids have been rejected. They will play independent schedules this Winter with the hope of路 being admitted to the loop next year.

In their absence the six team Division I championship race appears to be a wide open affair.

Some believe Bishop Stang of Dartmouth to be the favorite; however, the Spartans' veteran mentor John O'Brien is non-committal when queried about his team's prospects.

Taunton Preps for Long Awaited Title In true O'Brien fashion, the affable dean of area coaches, points out the strengths of each of the other clubs in the division neglecting to mention Stang's.

But, rest assured Stang will be in the thick of the fight.

Over the past few seasons Stang has always possessed fine shooters. This year should be no exception. The O'Brien coached Diocesans boast three marksmen in guard Billy McMillan, forward Pat Curran and center Hartrriut Andrade. If Stang has a weakness this year it appears to be its lack of bench strength.

Taunton High has not had a championship basketball team in many years. This could be the Tigers year. Coach Bob Ready

has last year's starting unit returning for duty knowing well what is expected of it. The club is big, aggressive and talented.

Center Jim Cunningham at 6'5" will pose plenty of problems for 'smaller pivotmen. If he were the only force to contend with opposing coaches would have enough to think about; but add 6'4" Walt Harrigan and 6'3" Brad Smith to the front line and Taunton's strength becomes more apparent.

The Tigers' starting guards will: probably be Fred Correia and Matt Wayslow, both six footers. Coach Ready's floor generals are both capable ball handlers who have the ability to score from outside.

Little Holy Family High Big on Talent If Taunton wins a few in the early going and gains that nee. essary confidence, it could earn the coveted title.

When speaking of winning attitude, confidence and basketball titles Coach Jack Nobrega's Holy Family High has to come into the conversation. Holy Family, in spite of its limited boy enrollment, has earned the reputation as one of the finest basketball schools in the Commonwealth.

The Blue Wave who have been playing schools with much larger enrollments wilt face its toughest chaHenge in the new Conference. With less than 100 boys enrolled in the school, Holy Family is the smallest school in the circuit. .However, it will be competing with the area's best.

With junior Steve Gomes leading the way don't count Holy Family out. Steve is an artist on the court. He can, in the words of opposing coaches, "do it all.:' The hi'ghly touted young man has more than lived up to advance billing the past two seasons and is generally considered

one of the best hoopsters in the state.

Holy Family is not, however, a one man team. Forward Jim Palmieri and guard Mike Gelinas rate with the best in the area.

Holy Family's weakness, Hke Stang's, is its lack of bench strength. The Biue Wave will have to remain healthy to stay in the race.

Somerset, Attleboro and Barnstable, the remaining three Division I teams, will field untested teams this season.

Coach Ray McDonald's Somerset aggregation will be led by senior Don Henriques. The 6'4" pivotman will be called upon to carry the burden for the inexperienced Blue Raiders. . ,In Attleboro Coach Jim Cassidy will rely on Bob Callahan for the leadership necessary to thrust 'his untried Bombardiers into contention. Coach Dick Graves of Barnstable is faced with developing a completely new starting unit this Winter.

All starters from last year's championship club have graduated.

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"It is not He," she sighs, and turns away to continue her search. But the hearts of children everywhere are made glad by the gifts she leaves in the silent night.

Buy Chaplain's Option for One Dollar CINCINNAToI (NC) - Father Richard J. Coimelly, who prayed out his option as chaplain of the Cleveland Browns early this year, apparently has not yet adjusted to the prayer formations of his new team, the Cincinnati Bengals.

The Bengals and the Browns dashed (Dec. 9) in the latest installment of one Qf professional football's most heated rivalries, and the Browns came out on top, 27-24.

Before going over to the Bengals, Father Connelly had doubled .for four years as' chaplain of both teams. But the Bengals bought out his option for one .dollar 'at the beginning of the 1972 season.

This deal prompted a local sports writer to bemoan that the Bengals were getting greedy. He pointed out that not only had the Bengals obtained Father Connelly but they also got an altar boy from the Browns.

The altar boy in the case was former Browns' star Ernie Kellermann who served the Masses said

by Father Connelly for Cleveland players each weekend. The Bengals picked up Kellermann at the start of the season and, the day he joined the Bengals. Kellermann teamed up with Father Connelly at a Mass.

Priests Arraigned DENVER (NC)-Two Catholic priests and six others have been released on their own recognizance following their arraignment here on a charge of trespassing at the Air Force Academy, where they had held an anti-war meeting. Father Steven Handen of Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, Colorado Springs, and Father William Sulzman of Our Lady of Guadalupe Church here and the others pleaded innocent to the trespassing charge at the arraignment in federal district court here.

The BengaJs also have the for the Browns.. The two met Browns" former coach - Paul when the priest was assigned to Brown, who made Cleveland a the parish at Martins Ferry, Ohio, football power, and is striving to Groza's hometown. Groza intromake Cincinnati a power, too. duced Father Connelly to Coach Brown and, for the next 26 years, Second Chaplain the priest was part of the OleveIt was under Paul Brown that land team.

Father Connelly broke into pro His association with the football in 1946 wheh the Cleveland Browns were founded. He Browns even was formalized in was the second pro football team a contrad. His pay: $1 a year. chaplain. The first was Father . Ho\Vever, there was a clause that Dudley, a Franciscan priest provided a $50 bonus if he could who's been with the New York pray the ~rowns to the NFL title.

Giants for 30 years. Until around When present Browns' owner 1956, however, Fathers Connelly Art Modell took over the club, and Dudley were the only chap- Father Connelly tried to renegolains in pro football. Now all tiate his contract. He sought teams have one. $1.50 a year, but Modell told him You might say that former he could get a Methodist minister Cleveland great "Lou the Toe" for 75 cents. Father Connelly Groza scouted Father Connelly signed again for a dollar.

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