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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., Dec. 23,1965

Come to your heaven, you h~avenly choirs, Earth hath the heaven of yoiir desires; Remove your dwelling to your God, A stall is now his best abode; Since men their homage do detty, Come Angels, all their faults supply.

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At that time Caesa-r Augustus published a decree ordering a census of the whole world. This first census took place while Cyrinus was governor of Syria. And all went to register, each to his own town. Joseph also went from the town of Bethlehem in Gallilee to Judea to the town of David, which is called Bethlehem-because he was of the house and family of David - to register with Mary, his engaged wife, w.qo was with child. But while they were there the time came for the child to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a crib· because there was no .place for them in the inn. And there were shepherds in the locality living in the fields and keeping watch by turns over their flock. And the angel of the Lord appeared to them and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they very much afraid. And the angel said to them: UDo not be afraid! I proclaim good news to you of a great joy which will be shared by the whole people: today, in the city of David, a Savior has been born to you, who is Messiah and Lord. And this will be a sign for you: you will find an infant wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a crib." And suddenly a multitude of the heavenly host was with the angel, praising God and saying: "Glory to God in high heaven, and on ~rth peace among men of good wilL·· Luke 2. 1-14 I

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Once upon a time there was a little Spanish boy named Guil lermo. His special friend was the Baby Jesus because He Wal a little boy too.

The world is torn, to-day, between Faith and fear.

The good tidings brought by the angel told that a Savior

was born. This meant much to the shepherds. But they

. soon went away to their normal pattern of life. It meant more to the Wisemen who saw Christ's star in the East, .. and came to find Him. It meant most to the humble heart . of Mary whose only will was to accomplish what God sought of her. She never forgot. She kept all these words, turning them over iri her mind. There never was question or doubt that she had become an instrument in the Divine plan for redemption, for renewal of the covenant, for the lifting of the veil that hung in the Temple. From hence forth all men would call her blessed, since through her

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maternity men would see the love, the compassion of God re vealed in the person of His Son. Christ was born into a world filled with fear: fear. of - the anger of God, fear of the un known destiny that lay. ahead of all humankind. But· much fear 0 £War from without, and of uncertain friendships even among one's own people. He came to bring peace. He was, in His life, the expression of true peace. He loved God the Father. He embraced His breth ren on earth, and to Him, all . men were brothers." Peace, I Tum to P8leTwenty-fow

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-Blessed Robert Southwell,

Thurs., Dec. 23, 1965

Bishop Connolly To Concelebrate Christmas Mass

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The Most Reverend Bishop will be principal celebrant at a concelebrated Mass to be offered at midnight in St: Mary's Ca thedral Christmas. The concelebrants will be Very Rev. Robert L. Stanton, Cathedral rector;"Rev. Walter A. Sullivan, Rev. Peter N. Graziano, assistants at the Cathedral; and Rev. Patrick J. O'Neill, superin tendent of Diocesan Schools. The first concelebrated . Mass in the Diocese was offered on Feb. 13 in the Cathedral at the ordination Mass of five priests and xepeated on Holy Thursday.

.Christmas 1965 is a sober feast, with peace on earth a promise rather than a reality. Yet despite the wars and rumors (}f wars that circle the globe, men of good will con tinue to do the work of peace. Among them are certainly spiritual preparations for the birthday of the small under the tablecloth in memory Prince of Peace. In the Fall of the manger and special Christmas wafers, known as River Diocese these are man "oplatek," are at each place.

ifold. True, there is the usual bus tie of card-sending, gift buying and gift-wrapping, to say nothing of the material matters of tree, turkey and trimmings, but there is more. There are choirs in every parish preparing for a Midnight Mass that, this year, will be "the beSt ever"; there are the multitude of the faithful who, despite. all the bustle, will find time for a Christmas confession so they can present themselves fittingly to the Child. There are the priests, pastors and curates, for whom Christmas is not so much a time of per sonal pleasure as of checking to make sure no parish family is without the things that make the holiday bright, hurrying to all the sick on Christmas Com munion calls, serving extra long lines of penitents in the confes sional and, lastly, coping with a Christmas Mass schedule that may include a midnight Mass and another at 6 in the morning. Students Aid There are the Diocesan stu dents, who have for weeks aided in making Yuletide happier for the underprivileged, the old, the sick. Musical groups have toured hospitals, children's hom'es and homes for the aged, While sodal ists have prepared gifts for the needy and nearly every school has sponsored some sort of re membrance program for service men in Viet Nam. In convents of the Diocese, Sisters are busy decking chapels for the highlight of Christmas, celebration of midnight Mass. Special community customs pre vail in many houses. Some Sis ters have a traditional carol singing procession; in other com munities a statue of the Infant Christ is kept by each Sister in turn during Advent, to be placed in. the crib at Christmas. At Home Catholic Christmas customs Yary from home to home among Diocesan faithful. They're often shaped by national origins, as among the French, who enjoy a midnight supper, "revillon," after Christmas Mass. Irish fam Wes may place a candle in the window "to light the Christ Child, should he seek a home." Polish families customarily serve a nine-course dinner with the appearance of the first star OIl Christmas Eve. Hay ia placed

The Advent wreath is a custom growing in popularity among American Catholics and by Christmas Eve it is fully lit, with its four candles signifying the four weeks of Advent. A new custom, growing in popularity, is that of placing a Jewish men orah within the Advent wreath for the last few days of Advent. The menorah, a seven-branched candlestick, may have a candle lit for each of the last seven days before Christmas, to accompani ment of recitation of one of the "0 antiphons" which are part of the Church's Divine Office for the period. This combination of Jewish and Christian traditions illustrates the close cOnnection between them and the fact that the Infant Christ was the link between the old and new laws. Important to children is the preparation of a manger for Baby Jesus during Advent. Each straw in the manger symbolizes a good deed or act of self-denial and on Christmas morning each child finds his manger by his bed with an image of the Infant resting inside. And at last Christmas comes: to Attleboro, to Provincetown, to the Islands, to Fall River, New Bedford, Taunton and Norton to every city, town and village in the Diocese, to every spot on earth. May our Diocese be among the places where the Child finds the warmest welcome!

,Silent Night

We sing out worm greetings and ~est wishes fot a very joyous Christmasl

BALTIMORE (NC)-The ecu menical council has "not really changed any of the fundamental teachings of the Church," Law Jence Cardinal Shehan of BaltI more said here. The council has, however, brought about some real devel opments" in such matters as rev elation, the collegiality of bish ops, and religious liberty, Cardi !tal Shehan said in an interview With the Catholic Review, arch diocesan newspaper. Describing plans for imple menting council decrees here, ~e cardinal said he would make lISe of an archdiocesan synod, work on which was interrupted _ the eorweninl ot. the councIL

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Korean Womens Club lermo wanted most was a big red wagon. He prayed HelpsH ospital Ship for it every night. SEOUL (NC) - The Catholic Women's Club of Korea has do nated $2,000 to the Star of the Sea hospital ship. The Star of the Sea, a 36-ton ship, was converted into a float ing clinic by Father Benedict Zweber, M.M" of St. Paul, Minn. Staffed by six doctors and nurses and technicians, it brings med ical care to thousands of persons on islands off the west coast of Korea.

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And may the Prince of Peace bring peace and understanding to all men, so that thousands of our gallant compatriots may be able to abandon the battleground of Viet Nam to return home and spend countless Christmases by their cozy, warm hearthside with loved ones.

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Let Michael stand in his defense, Whom love hath linked to feeble sense, Let graces rock when he doth cry And Angels sing his lullaby. -Blessed Robert Southwell, S.J.

23, 1965

Parents and Children Have R~spon$ibility· to Save 'Soul By .Joseph T. McGloin, S. .J. There's an old cliche that there are no deliquent chil dren, just deliquent adults, and like aU cliches, there is much truth to it and also much falsehood. While it is certainly true that the folly of a parent can produce a situation harmful to a child, tight slacks, swung arm-in-arm there are other facts to con into the bus depot, then out on sider, too. There have, for the landing where they treated instance, been many people everyone to their command of who have grown up .under "de linquent parents" and still risen over their en vironment. On the other hand, many a delin quent youngster has been such, apparently, de spite the efforts of a darn good set of parents. Besides, no matter how good 01 bad a parent, he can't take away his children's free will. But the fact is, too, that a par ent can allow or even set up sit uations where it would require heroic virtue (something not given to the majority of teen agers) to stay out of trouble. Recently I traveled a good portion of the country giving retreats-by every sort of con veyance except dog-sled. One night found me on a real owl bus from Amarillo, Texas to Roswell, New Mexico, getting to my destination at something like 5:30 A.M. At one stop, a little New Mex ican town, I woke up, largely because the town street light was shining in my eyes. It was about two-thirty or three A.M., but there was one thing which made you think the clocks and the sun rot st have been all wrong. Teen-agers Everywhere '. Elvery teen-ager in town must have been on the streets. They VI ere in and out of the' bus depot. Some sort of snack bar down about half a block was jammed to the windows with a constant flow of traffic in and out. Teen agers in cars and on motorcycles and on foot were everywhere. Nor did it seem like any par ticularly special occasion, since they seemed to know too well what they were doing-nothing really, just wasting time at three in the morning. As I watched through sleepy eyes, a couple of young girls, maybe 14 or 15, in incredibly

the shorter words in the English language for a few minutes. That town is going to live in my memory for some time-and with it the question "Where were their parents?" It is incredible that parents could allow their kids to roam the streets like this and not expect some sort of trouble. What could have been the "reasoning" of the fathers of those two young girls, so young and yet painted and dressed so much older, and, in general, giv ing a good imitation of amateur street-walkers. It seems incredible, but had their father been in my place on the bus, he would either have gone back to sleep, or else would have been highly indignant to see his daughter acting this way '-even though Pop must have known she was out, and must have see. how she looked when she left. Parents have a responsibility 'to see that their children grow up with . good crack at saving their souls, just as they also have a responsibility to see that they grow up at all. And children have the respon sibility of following the reason able directions of their -parents to this end. Not only that, but this is.a mu tt:al vocation, so that, if parents are to get to heaven by the way t1 . raise their children,so chil dren are to get" to God partly by by the way they c:ooperate with and treat their parents.

Mass Ordo

"If I get a wagon," he told the Baby Jesus, I will take you for the first ride."

FRIDAY-Vigil of ChristmM. I ~lass. Violet. Mass Proper; leo Gloria 01' Creed; COmmoll Preface. SATURDAY - Nativity of Oar Lord Jesus Christ. I ClaS White; Mass Proper. First Mass: Gloria; Creed; Prefaee and Communicantes of Christ mas. Second Mass: Gloria; 2nd CoIL St. Anastasia, ·Martyr; Creed; Preface and Communicantes of Christmas: Third' Mass: Gloria; Creed; Preface and Communicantes of Christmas. The Last Gospel III omitted. Each priest may offer three Masses. Holy Day of Obliga tion. SUNDAY - Sunday within the Octave of Christmas. II Class. White. Mass Proper; Gloria; 2nd ColI. St. Stephen, Proto martyr; Creed'; Preface and Communicantes of Christmas. MONDAY-St. J 0 h n, Apostle and Evangelist. II Class. White. Mass Proper; Gloria; 2nd ColI. Octave of Christmas; Creed; Preface and Communi cantes of Christmas. TUESDAY - Hoi y Innocents, Martyrs. II Class. Red. Mag Proper; Gloria; 2nd ColI. Oc tave of Christmas; Creed; Preface and Communicantes of Christmas. WEDNESDA Y - Wednesday Within the' Octave of Christ mas. II Class. White. (Mass _ on Dec. 30 in Missal.) Mallll Proper; Gloria; 2nd CoIl. St Thomas of Canterbury, Bishop and Martyr; Creed; Preface and Communicantes of Christ mas; THURSDAY - Thursday Within the Octave of Christmas. n Class. White. (Mass as on Dee. 3() in Missal.) Mass Proper; Gloria; Creed; Preface .and Communicantes of Christmas.

Necrology JAN. 1

Rev. Jose Valeiro, 1955, Pastor, St. Elizabeth, Fall River. Rev. Antonio M. Fortuna, 1956, I"~stor,' Immaculate Conception, New Bedford. JAN. 4 Rev. Eugene L. Dion, 1961, Pastor, Blessed Sacrament, Fall River. JAN.·6

Rev. James F.Roach, 1906, Founder, Immaculate Concep tion, Taunton.

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'ntend to ,Deploy Diocesan Tasks In Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH (NC) - Bisholt lohn J. Wright of Pittsburgh has announced that a major program of study of Second Vatican Council documents ,will be ini tiated for priests and laity of the'

diocese. He has also indicated

,that there will be a broad cHoeesan administrative recon atructing.

They will be part, he said, of

an effort of "fulfilling the as pirations of the council and of making its promises good" in the Pittsburgh diocese. "In our diocese," he com mented, "we intend to deploy the work, the responsibility, in deed the joy of service to the Church, so that everything is not

at 111 Boulevard of the Allies in the office of the bishop or that of the vicar general." (The address is that of the diocese of Pitts burgh chancery building.) He added that he intended "to deploy the administrative struc ture of the whole life of the diocese" in order that initiatives may be taken in outlying centers, without people there having al ways to turn first to Pittsburgh. ''Thus will the service of the Church be brought and kept as dose as possible to where the people are," the bishop declared. Deeply Involved Bishop Wright said too that he wanted the previously an nounced projected new parish

eommittees to be far more than

honorific. He said that they should be deeply and seriously involved in the affairs of their given parishes. The bishop said he hoped one result of involvement by the laity would provide priests more time for study. Bishop Wright said ,the work of'education that is to be done is

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everything in perspective," Bishop Wright concluded, "bilt we must do it together. The next decades therefore will be excit ing and fatiguing for the valiant, even if frustrating and bewilder ing for the stupid and the half hearted."

Agnize your King a mortal WIght, His borrowed weed lets not your sight: Come kiss the manger where he lies, That is your bliss above the skies. -Blessed Robert Southwell, S.J.

Layman Runs Seminary OBO (NC) ...., A 25-y,ear-old neighboring countrIes after b~ layman is running a junior sem ing accused of helping anti inary -in 'the' southern Sudan government rebels. her~ in Central African Repub lic due' to a lack of priests as

a result of government ,:restric tive measures. According to reports received here, the junior seminary at

CINCINNATI (NC) - Father Oewchi in the 'prefecture apo

stolic of Malakal is bein.g kept Paul L. O'Connor, S.J., presi dent of Xavier University here, open by a layman' named Bene has appointed a faculty-student dict Kwerthok. The Church committee to help Negro stu jurisdiction serves about 10,000 dents gain college educations. Catholics scattered along the' upper Nile river. Father O'Connor gave the There are only three Sudanese committee the job of formulating priests left in the prefecture "definite propasals in the area apostolic. All foreign mission of recruitment, scholarship as

aries were expelled last year, sistance and preparation of Ne 'and most of the native priests gro youngsters for successful have been forced to ilee to college careers."

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tax return. Wondering what you can do? l TIl fee important mission buildings remain unfinished in India: $3,604 will complete th, school the Clartst SIsters are trying to build ill I' Thottakadu for children of the penniless••• _ Agil18: Father Luke Manikarott in Enadi-man- ' galana stili needs $2,201 to build a church for : , his new converts. The parish center will cost' NAME $2,100 more•••• 1ft Perum·pavadu Father: IT George Srampickal lacks only $2,977 to com-Ii FOR plete a church for 200 penniless families•••• ~ YOUR Name the churdl (or school) for your favorite FAVORITE saint, in memory of your loved ones, if you cont-o

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TO Sister Maria Consellatta needs help to complete BE her training. All told It costs $300 ($150 a year. A SISTER , $12.50 a month, payable at your convenience). I Sister will pray for you and yours. write to you when she can. Pur 0 Christian Brother Michael Reynolds (birth BROTHER place: Providence, R. I.), seasoned missionary ON in Ethiopia, has been name(f by the Bishops WHEELS' there to upgrade Catholic schools. 'To visit the schools (the area is roughly the size of Texas., Oklahoma and New Mexico), Brother Michael needs a small Volkswagen ($2,255). Help at least with the gas and oIlf

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Holiday - Holyday

All too many of the reminders of Christmas that are seen at this time are reminders of a holiday instead of ~ holyday. They are really commercials for things rather than inspirations for the spirit. Pope Paul has given the key to the spirit of Christmas when he told a group at St. Peter's a few days ago: "We must seek to celebrate Christmas . . . in the union with Christ and always with the thought of peace and with the heart opened to the necessities of the poor." This, the Pope said, can be a first experiment of the renewal that Vatican Council II hoped for. The basis of that spirit is faith ·in God and in Christ, the Elder Brother Who came to make all men His brothers and children o..f the One heavenly Father. That faith re sults in union with Christ by sanctifying grace and by the "putting on" of Christ, of His virtues and .His holi ness•.And then the consequence of such faith and such imion is good w·orks. There are many who would like to do the good works without bothering much about an interior spirit. Such persons do much 'good but their motives may range all the way from worthy humanitarianism to showing off. It is important not only to do good but to act from a right heart and with the right reason. Else the good works can be whims or can lack that inner core that makes them prayers.

-Blessed Robert Southwell, S.J.

The other day the Catholic Religious News Editor of The New York Times-a man formerly editor of The Commonweal-wrote an interpretation of the current con troversy surrounding St. John's University in New York. This is 'not an attempt either to comment on the issues involved or to attack the validity of his interpretation or conclusions. But the article reduced the issues to such simple terms that it is immediately suspect. He makes the St. John's controversy a matter of good guys versus bad, freedom against. authoritarianism, progressives opposed by con servatives. These elements are undoubtedly present in the St. John's scene. But no one has a right to reduce complex and complicated issues to such black and white terms. Because such issues also contain many areas and shades of grey. In such circumstances, the temptation to over simplification must be rejected in the interest of a more balanced and fair-if less clear-cut-treatment.

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Everyone was busy. No one noticed Guillermo putting on his jacket.

Helps Negro Children BOYNTON BEACH (NC)-A "one-woman committee" in the fight against poverty here is Mrs. Sarah L. Coston, who operates a center for underprivileged Negro children. She recently was honored' with the Palm Beach Human Rela tions Council's "woman of tht!' year" award. Mrs~ Coston, a member of St. Mark's parish, is a native of Pittsburgh who· came to Florida 45 years ago. She is the mother of three grown children. For three hours, five days a week, she leads some 60 young steJ:s in singing, outdoor games, playing with dolls, blocks and putty, and drawing or coloring. The children, most of whom

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The Elementary School of Religion is the keystone ()f the CCD program in the Di.. ocese of Fall River. It is

Oversimplification

A British doll maker has taken a step that has all 80'rts of political and sociological implications. Traditional ly a manufacturer of black-faced rag dolls, he is now making the dolls with white faces. ,Perhaps the step is a small one but it all adds to the important movement of improving image of the non-white and restoring to him much of' the dignity that has been robbed from him because of the shameful treatment he has received for centuries at the hands of the white. Should non-whites receive such favored.' treatment? Of course. As has been well said, medicine and unusual care are given not to the well but to the sick. And if the non-whites are sick economically and sociologically, then at the present time they need the doctor and the medi eine and the extra care more than does the white. Of coul~se, a sick person is also' expected to do all he tan for himself, and so Negroes would be well-advised -to avoid those spectacles-singing combos, wild dancing that could build up the very image that they themselves rightfully resent and 'that so many persons are now try ing ro change.

I DIS little Dane SO lew oays 010, Is come to rifle Satan's fold; All hell doth at his presence quake, -hough' he himself for cold do shake: For in this weak unarmed wise, The gates of hell he will S\Jrprise.

Communist Speaker CALICUT (NC)-A commu nist recently elected as mayor of Calicut was the principal speaker at the opening of a Carmelite monastery here; May or C.E. Bharatan also offered an possible assistance by bill administratioI:. to the Carmelites' Bevqiri CeHege.

are of pre-school age, come from homes where both parents must work, The boys and girls arrive at the Boynton Beach Child Care Center alone, holding. each oth ers' hands, and leave by them selves. Some don't know their names; many are without shoes; still others are- completely with drawn anti hav:e. not seen nor known what to d'o with toys. Started With 12 Late in 19&4; Mrs. Coston 'started a program for about 12 children in a recl1eati'on center in the city's Negro section. Within a week more than 50 boys and girls were participating. She conceived the idea of the center through programs on Miami's educational television channel. "I heard. that poor Negro chil dren have given up hope before they're in the first grade," she said, "and I saw how they'd been partly successful trying to bring dropouts back into schooL" Now in addition to running the school each morning, slle studiell in the afternoon to be ready tM tile education classes in which she is ellrol1e4 at. Palm. Beach .JUDieI' Celleae ill. toe evenine••

our largest unit, with over 18,000 students taught by more than 800 catechists. If our elementary program succeeds, it provides consider able suppqrt to other CCD parish units because it exposes large numbers of people-both parents 'and children-to CCD with good . effect. If our elementary pro gram is weak, the rest of our ef fort suffers. TIl-trained students from primary grades will not do well in the High School of Reli gion. Looking further, children with inadequate basic religious training can hardly be counted on to staff CCD when they be come adults. Later still, as par ents with their own children, they will regard any CCD pro gram with apathy. Quite aside from our concern for the CCD of the future, the plain fact is that unformed and uninformed Catholic children win not grow to be the kind of laymen and laywomen they need to be if Christ and His Church are to be served. Reasons for Success Happily, there are many rea.. sons why the elementary pro gram should be successful. Jane1 Barbelle, chairman of Elemen tary Teachers for the Fall River Diocesan CCD Board, cites the following factors: There is a wealth of training aids and documentation to sup port the elementary program. The Sadlier "On Our Way" se ries, standard texts in our Dio cese, are professionally done and are a useful tool in the hands of the primary teacher who is re sponsive to the needs of the stu dents. . The relatively large numbers of teaching Brothers and Sisters in the elementary program pro vide a welcome base to many parish efforts. The Teaching Sis ters and Brothers Committee, headed by Sister Kateri, R.S.M., is showing progress towards en hancing the role of the profes s:onally-trained religious teach er in CCD. Janet Barbelle has been active in CCD for a dozen. years in New York, Rhode Island and Massa,. chusetts. Besides her Diocesan Board duties, she serves as Chairman of Teachers in her parish CCD, Holy Name, Fan River. Trained at Holy UnictJl, CctIlege and Fordham Univer sity, she is on the teaching staff at St. Mathieu's primary sch06l in Central Falls. As a teacher, Janet feels we must remember we are teaching children a subject and not teach ing a subject to children. When necessary, the course plan or goals should be adopted to the absorption of the children-not the other way around. This calls for adaptability and flexibility on the part of the teacher. Janet Barbelle practices what she preaches by maintaining a flex ible schedule and a willingness to go anywhere in the Diocese where she IDight be of assist

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ica when priests- have financial lecurity to assist them in sick ness and old age. Father JQseph Kuhl, a Ger man-born missionary to Chile . and the director of a pilot proj ect aimed at solving this crucial problem, predicted here that its solution would result in a dra matic improvement in the Latin American Church. Among the benefits to be gained: -Parents would drop their objection to priestly vocations for their sons once the burden of poverty is lifted from the priest hood. Thus the number of voca tions would increase. -Bishops would have the fi nancial means to retire before they are slowed by age, thus in suring the Church a younger and more dynamic leadership. For Greater Harmony -Priests would no longer seek avidly for fees to tide them through sickness and declining years. Their motivation and the people's image of them would be spiritualized. -Diocesan priests would lose any lingering resentment of priests sheltered in Religious orders, leading to greater 00 eperation and harmony. Interviewed here, Father Kuhl said the grinding poverty of the vast majority of Latin American priests is a "tragic problem" and one that must not continue· any longer. "It is too much to expect that priests and bishops live like St. Francis of Assisi," he said. ''It is aot necessary that all of them be saints. They are men like all of us, and they must have a certain level of security."

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Benefit Gains $800 For Grape Workers SAN FRANCISCO (NG)-AI most $800 was sent to families of striking grape pickers in Delano, Calif., by San Francisco religi ous groups. A benefit dinner sponsored by ~ interfaith committee at Im maculate Conception Academy here raised '$610, while the San Francisco Catholic Interracial Council donated $120 and the Latin American Mission Pro gram (LAMP) sent $42.50. As picket lines expanded and reached into southern Tulare County in the strike for higher wages, the Student Nonviolent Coordinatin~ Committee of Cal Ifornia announced that it wi;ll lead a national boycott of wines and l:rapes produced in the area.

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WASHINGTON (NC)-A spe"We know too well," he said, cialist in overseas de.velopment "that the misery of half the programs urged here that Cath- .human family concerns only olles, Protestants and Jews some few _Christians, some small should form a national joint part of the time, in rather re committee to fight for more ;aid stricted areas of the world *"** for the world's hungry .and poor. "And the more startling truth This proposed commLttee, said still is that as a whole, Catholics Msgr. Joseph Gremillion, could of the United 'States -have ·shown work to develop a "national con . no more concern, and perhaps science" to move Americans to even quite less concern, for the greater generosity and self-sac poorer ·peoples of the world than rifice in behalf of the world's have other Chl1istians, Jews and needy. men of humanatarian motiva The director ofsocio..economic tion." development for Catholic Relief To help counter both these Services-National Catholic Wel shortcomings, he suggested first fare Conference spoke to the that the U. S. Catholic bishops 38th annual conference of the consider establishment of a com Catholic Association for Inter mission charged with bringing national Peace. The CAIP met "the Church's concern for the under the theme: "Human Mis poor of the world into the lives ery: A Challenge to the World's of our people a~d nation in a Conscience." more realistic and effective man Msgr. Gremillion, under whose ner." direction the U.S. Cath:>lic over seas agency is adding to its tra ditional distribution of relief supplies a wide range of "self help development :programs, held that Christians have not done all they could .for the world's poor.

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Budding Journalists To Get Scholarship PRINCETON (NC)-8cholar ship grants worth $500 each are available through the Newspaper Fund here to 50 young men who want to test their interest in journalism careers. The grants are offered through a program, now in its seventh year, which combines 10 weeks as a beginning reporter with the opportunity to gain practical knowledge and .experience in news editorial work. Young men, who are now juniors in liberal arts colleges where little or no formal journalism education is '. taught, are eligible. Applications are now being received on forms available at the Newspaper Fund, P. O. Box 300, Princeton, N.J. 08540. Dead line for applications is Jan. 10. Winners will be announced Feb.!.

TIiEANCHOR~Dioceseof Fall River-Thurs., Dec. 23, 1965

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His camp is pitched in a stall, His bulwark but a broken wall: The crib his trench, hay stalks his stakes, Of shepherds he his muster makes; And thus as sure his foe to wound, The Angels' trumps alarum sound.

Lauds Openness Of Sisterhoods HYATTSVILLE (NC)-A psy ehiatrist lauded new openness toward personal fulfillment on tbe part of religious communi ties. Dr. Robert McAllister, Wash ington, D. C., psychiatrist, told 850 Sisters at a Maryland work shop sponsored by the Washing ton Council for Women's Voca tions that the wider choices of recreational activities being given to Sisters now encouraged them' to read more widely' and, argue politics, to discuss art and J tlle theater. "The fulfillment of personality and living the life of a Religious are not incompatible. They are, in fact, in deepest harmony. The spiritual life is not the termina tion, but the culmination of per sonality fulfillment," he told the meeting in this suburb of the nation's capital. Dr. McAllister said the present times are witnessing the disap pearance of the assembly-line image of the Sister, and the ap pearance of the Religious woman who takes Ilersonal responsibil ity for her own development. Sister Mary Daniel, provincial of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, urged greater freedom for Sisters with regard to the means of accomplishing apostolic work. "We are all working for the same end," she stressed, "and we are not likely to make deci sions as isolated units. Let the person assigned to the work be I'esponsible for the means." ,

First Layma", to Hold Diocesan School Post ROCKVILLE CENTRE (N~ --Joseph F. Fox of Huntington, a member of the faculty of Cha minade High School, Mineola, since 1947, has become the first layman to hold anadministra tive post in the department or education of the diocese of Rock ville Centre here in' New York. Father David G. Farley, dioc esan superintendent of schools, said Fox will act as the coordi nator of federal and state assist ance programs. Fox was chairman of the s0 cial studies department at Ch_ minade and chairman of the lay faculty association. He will work with 17 high schools and 99 ele mentary schools, assisting them in taking advantage of the gov ernment aid programs available.

-Blessed Robert Southwen, S.}.

25 Nuns Take Course In Shelter Management UNIONDALE (NC)-Twenty five Sisters from six parochial l;chools in Nassau County are participating in a fall-out-shelter program conducted on Long Island, spending eight hours un derground to experience condi tions to be encountered in case of attack. The nuns have been taking a course in shelter management at St. Martha's school here, under direction of county civil defense . officials.

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Urges' Continued

Mission Support

QUEBEC (NC)-Maurice Car dinal Roy of Quebec has called on the priests, religious and laity of the archdiocese to continue their assistance to the archdio cese's mission -in Paraguay. Quebec Catholics are assisting two" large parishes and a minor seminary in Paraguay. There are 12 priests and 13 Religious from the archdiocese there. Cardinal Roy said the five year-old mission is proving most beneficial. Attendance at Mass has in creased considerably, there have been vocations from the people for the religious life, and a Christian way of life is awaken ing everyWhere, he said.

-Blessed Robert Southwell, S.].

Greensburg said here in Ohio at '4Ile consecration of a Kansaa born missioner as a bishop for New Guinea. In a ceremony· in St. Paul's Cathedral, Bishop Firmin M. Schmidt, O.F.M., Cap., was con ~crated as Vicar Apostolic of Medi, Papua, New Guinea. .Bishop John J. Wright of Pitts burgh was the consecrator. In the sermon, Bishop Connare aaid the mission activity of the Church is "readily justified" in every age. "Even as Christ came accord Ing to His own words 'to evan gelize the poor,' the missionary activity of His Church must pe In His pattern. It must use His means, namely 'poverty, obedi encce, service and self-immola tion even to death,' if eventually tt is to lead the People' of God to the triumph of His resurrec tion. Preachin~ Example "It will succeed only in the proportion that its participants, · from the bishop to his humblest lay apostle, mirror by their · preaching and their example the ·dlarity of Christ from which the fabric of the Christian com munity is fashioned," the bishop said. Bishop Schmidt, 47, was or dained in 1946. For 12 years he taught at the Capuchin College, Washington, D.C. In 1959, he went to New Guinea to head the missionary effort there by monks from St. Augustine Monastery, Pittsburgh.

Underground Manger BARCELONA (NC)-A group of scientists engaged in under ....g round research placed a Christ mas manger 663 feet under grc;>Und in one of Spain's deepest caves near here. It took 14 hours to get the manger in place, dur ing which the movers completed scientific studies.

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Cardinal Cushing Indicates Latin Need for Priests

Behold, the father is his daughter's son: The bird that built the nest is hatched therein: The old of years an hour hath not outrun: Eternal life, to Jive doth now begin. The word is dumb: the mirth of heaven doth weep: Might feeble is: and force doth faintly creep.

From "The Church in the New Latin America" Edited by John J. Considine, M.M•. Cardinal Cushing has given this picture of the need tor priests in Latin America: No matter how we look at Latin America the first and foremost problem from the spiritual viewpoint is the scarcity of priests. The population is increasing more than five times faster than the priest States to the appeal for person for Latin America has been hood, which currently pro nel good without being notable. In vides only one parish priest the' two years between Jan. 1,

for about every 5,000 Catholics. 1962, and Jan. 1, 1964, 761 per 1'0 meet this situation the sons from the United States have Church in the 'entered into the service of the United States, Church in Latin America. Of despite its own these 335 (44 per cent) have been nee d 5, niust Sisters, 212 (27.8 per cent) have accept its share been priests and 182 (23.9 per of responsibility. cent) have been lay' volunteers. Other countries Today 3512 persons from the must do the United States work for the same. If we are Church in Latin America. to respond ac Diocesan Contribution cording to our Four religious communities ability to the supply 65 per cent of all the needs of the U. S. clergy now in Latin Amer Church in Latin America, consider, please, the ica, the Redemptorists, Francis cans, Jesuits and Maryknollers. following: Very interesting is the fact that 1. Probably 90 per cent of all the energy and money expended as of Jan. 1, 1965 the U. S. dioc by Catholics for the support of esan clergy in Latin America their Church is devoted to the represented mol' than 10 per cent preservation of the faith in their of the U. S. total. Meanwhile parishes or dioceses. But what this percentage has risen, since have we done and what are we every month new dioceses are doing for the preservation of announcing the assignment of clergy for Latin American ser the faith in Latin America? 2. These countries to the south vice. This spontaneous movement Df our borders, with a population on the part of almost 50 of our destined to surpass that of the total of 140 ordinaries to assume direct responsibility for provid United States, have been peo ing priestly personnel to an area pled by Spaniards and Portu guese who united in marriage c the Church outside our bor with America's Indian stock ders is a ,phenomenon never be fore recorded in U. S. ecclasias brought into the Church by ex plorers and nUssionaries from tical annals. This recognition by Spaih and Portugal. In some so many distinguished American lands citizens of other European prelates of the grave plight in nations augmented the populace. which their Latin American con Then, after revolutions brought freres find themselves is a good augury for greater 31chievements forth some 20 independent na ahead. tions, they were left to them selves with gravely inadequate As Cardinal Cushing has spiritual forces. For some 30 pointed out, much attention years mariy were without any focuses on the shortage of clergy; llishops, writers and speakers refer to a Never See Priest theoretical continental need of 3. What is the result? Today 200,000. Many will therefore be millions of Latin Americans disappointed to note that, despite never see a priest, and millions all the attention given the mat more wait for years for the ter, during the last two years the sacraments, the channels of United States has supplied only grace. Many who possess wealth slightly .more than a hundred In abundance have lost contact new priests per year. Our total w:th the' Church and have never American clergy in Latin Amer been trained to share their abun ica is 1411, so distributed dance with the poor whom they throughout the continent that bave exploited or with the only four countries possess more Church that has the potential to than 100: Brazil has 301, Peru save them from false prophets 233, Bolivia 157 and Chile 117. and dictators. Eight countries have less ,than 4..The popes in our times have 25 each: Argentina, Colombia, warned us about the unthinkable Ecuador, ParaguaJ', Uruguay, p(;ssibility of losing miJlions of Venezuela, EI Salvador, Domin ,Catholics in Latin America to ican Republic. . Communism,. Pope I'ius XII told ,me to send priests to Latin America. I responded five yean ago by founding the Missionary Society of St. James the Apostle BONN (NC)-The West Ger for the recruiting of priests who would volunteer, with the per- man Social Democratic party has , mission of their bishops, to go issued a statement applaUding to the poorest of the poor who steps taken by t.he Catholic bishops of Poland and Germany ~ad no priests ,or were unable to support them if they were aimed at easing age-old tensions available. Over 100 of ,hem are between the two countries. The Social Democrats' who now located in Peru, Bolivia and form West Germany's second Ecuador: The Pontifical Commission for largest political group, said the Latin AmeriCa was established decision by the German 'hier later by the Holy See. It bas been archy to accept an invitation to most successful in persuading visit Poland next year for that . bishops, I,"eligious and m~ssionary country's millenium celebra lIUperiors to send priests, Sisters tion indicates that a solution to and lay apostles to th*t sector problems that divide them is still possible. o' the western hemisphere. As a Poles, many of whom are still result, b'y 1970 5;000 new priests from other lands should be embittered over German ac tions in World War II, are seek ~rengthening the faitll' of mil Jions of our fellow Christiana in.. West German recognition 'of their jurisdiction over territories below the Rio Grande: ; taken from German,. at the . tJ. S. Contribution ' The response' of ~ Uni1ed CIIf the war.

German Party Hails Bishops' Statement

-Blessed Robert Southwell, S.J.

Catholic Groups Mark Human Rights Day, NEW YORK (NC)-UJriII. eel Nations representaives fIl international Catholic o~ anizations marked UN H0 man Rights Day with a special. Mass at Holy Family churdl here, then officially opened tbe International Catholic Organiza tion Lohnge at the UN's Cathok Center. Father Emerson Moore, ass). ant pastor of the church, offerecl the Mass and delivered the s~ mon in which he stressed the r~ iationship between respect for human rights and the essentilf. unity of mankind under God. Ilt this unity, he said, any type of discrimination is inconceivable. Several members of UN dele gations and officials of the UN Secretariat were among the in vited guests at the Mass. Organizations sharing the new ,lounge are: the Catholic Intel' national Union for Social Se~ vice; the Catholic International Education Office; the Interna tional Catholic Child Bureau; the International Con fer e n c e of Catholic Charities; the Interna tional Catholic Migration Com mission; the International Cath olic Press Union; the Interna tional Federation of Catholie Youth; Pax Romana, world fed eration of Catholic Youth; and the World Union of CathoDe Women's Organizations.

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eritical comments about him. "As a matter of practice, ill almost a ~core of years the cardinal before ·the 1960

• a bishop, I have never Democratic national convention

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even one which I had read. by the Sen. John F. Kennedy as

.tnd found offensive," Bishop Wright said. The bishop commented on a eontroversy involving the book ·Cushing of Boston," a biogra phy of Richard Cardinal Cush ing by Joseph Dever. An item in the Dec. 10 issue of Commonweal magazine said Bishop Wright's secretary, Fa ther Robert Garland, had "sug gested" that local Catholic book stores remove the book from their shelves. Subsequently John L. Bell, president of the Bruce Hum phries publishing com pan y, which published the book, pro · tested the alleged censorship here. The matter was then re ported in the Pittsburgh PostGazette. Bishop Wright said he had not read the book. He added that he knew Cardinal Cushing had distributed a "repudiation" of the book and a·copy of this came to Father Garland. "On the basis of this notice," the bishop said, "he (Father Garland) answered direct ques tions from one book store and made the suggestions that he himself has acknowledged to the' Post-Gazette." Fr. Garland said he recalled calling "one 1;lookstore" concern ing the book. He emphasized, however, that he told the pro prietors it was up to them .to.' decide whether or not to sell: the book. Bispop Wright also comment ed on some of the book's refer-: ences to himself as reported by the Post-Gazette. Concerning a remark attribu. ted to Cardinal Cushing that the bishop had engaged in "very fancy footwork in cllmbing the political ladder in the Chun:n and out of it," he said: '''I doubt that Cardinal Cush Ing ever accused me of 'playing politics.' The cardinal would be first to know that the only favor I ever asked of him is, In fact, the only favor he failed to give me. 'I asked if I could remain teaching in his semi

'THeANCHOR-Dioeese of FaR,River-Tfwrs., Dec. 13, 1965

dying soms,behold your living'spring: dazzled eyes, behold' your son of grace~ Dull ears, attend what word this. word doth bring: Up, heavy hearts: with joy your joy embrace. From death, from dark, from deafneSs, from despairs: This life, this light, this word, this joy_ re~airs.

':"""Blessed Robert Southwen, S.].

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Providence Pupil Total Decreases PROVIDENCE (NC) _ For the second consecutive year, en rollment in Rhode Island Catho lic schools has decreased, ac cording to results of an annual survey of parochial schools. The current enrollment of 47,597 represeents a drop of 2.08' per cent from 1964. The decline is almost double that of last year, when enrollment dropped 1.09 per cent from 1963. The decrease, according to Msgr. Arthur T. Geohegan.., Providence diocesan superiIl, tendent of schools, is attributed .you .largely , to the cOIitinuing' effect of the Catholic 'school board's' 1962 decision to reduce the av erage classroom size to 40 pupils. Another factor, he said, was the decision to drop 11 ninth grades fro m elementary-junior high schools this year because of small enrollment.

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Among Yule J~ys, HoUy Recalls

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By Joseph and Marilyn Roderick UJIolly he hath berries as red as· any rose, , The foresters, the hunters keep them from the does." I ran across this little verse lately and it reminded me of a Christmas when I was a child. 1 cannot remember which Christmas it was, but I do recall that there was know was not written until the

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I carried her on a walk through I saw a sweet, a seemly sight,

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It had been one, of those ex That mourning mad4~ and mirth

eiting Christmas mornings, my among: , mother was preparing a large A maiden mother meek and mild meal for many of our relatives In cradle keep a child and she had shooed me and my That softly slept; she sat and sister out of the house for a half sung: hour or so. The snow was freshly Lully, lulla, balow, _ fallen and we walked to a small My bairn, sleep softly now. wood adjoining a cemetery near Over the centuries, many of our home. . All we walked into the wood these early hymns were lost and we were startled by a rustling it wasn't until the Methodist re lOund,made by • deer which vival in the seventeen hundreds stood directly in our path. Al that a number of modern hymnll though I must have been at least were written, of which the most 10 at the time, I had never seen popular was "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing." a. deer, and certainly not in such A renaissance of Christmas a familiar place. He stood tall and proud for just • moment customs brought about the writ and then broke through some ing of some American carols in underbrush and disappeared· the eighteen hundreds. These were quite different from the from sight, leaving what I English carols because American thought was • trail of blood be hind him, but which turned out ones had religious overtones while the British carols told 110 be i holly bush. chiefly of the pleasures of eating Holly is difficult to find in this and good will. area but my father and I _had • One of the lovelie!lt of Amer lIOurce all our own when I was a boy. We would go to 'the ican carols is "0 Little Town of Dighton woods and invariably Bethlehem," written by Phillips find two or three good bushes Brooks in 1868 while he W811 with the bright red berr~s. My rector of Trinity Church in Phil father still manages to find some adelphia. The melody was ~ his organist, Louis H. Redner. 'every Christmas. If you are fortunate enough to Not one to miss .. moral, he would always point out the sym live in an area where house-to bolism of the holly: the prickly house caroling is still. heard, the points which could draw blood vocalizers might enjoy a piece from careless fingers and which. of this pie as payment for. their llerved as a reminder of the entertaininent. crown of thorns, the greenness The recipe for this 'rich and which stood for the everlasting delicious light chocolate pie.was quality of the plant and sym given to me by Mrs. Raymond bolized eternal life; and lastly, Ainsworth Sr. of the Nor1b the bright red berries which Methodist Church, 1"1111 River symbolized the blood shed by FRENCH SILK: PIE Christ at His death on the cross. 1 stick of margarine (~ pound) How odd it seems that holly, % cup sugar IIYJl1bolizing pain and suffering, 2 squares of meltecl chocolate should be so much a part of 1 teaspoon vanilla Christmas. But of course its use 2 eggs is based less on its symbolism 1 baked and cooled pie shen than on its availability and 1) Melt the chocolate in the beauty· in the Christmas season. top of a double boiler and let it In the Kitchen eool. 2) Cream together In • me All the coming of the Christ Child 'draws near, we are vocally dium sized bowl the IIhortening reminded of this glorious event and sugar until they are fluffy. 3) Add the cooled melted choc en television, radio and in the ehurches. Often the holy carols olate and the vanilla to the are played with zest over tbe creamed mixture and blend welL 4) Add one egg and beat for I loudspeakers in the stores, evi dently to spur U8 on in our minuteS with your elec:tric mixer. This ill a very importnnt step, IJO Cbristmas shopping. Excluding the churches which don't cheat on the'Ume. Add are, of course, the ~rfect setting' your lIecond egg and beat i min for these 10veIysongs, the most .' utes more, scraping the Bides of· appropriate background for their the bowl with . a .spatula ,while Y9u're . beating. ,The J!¢rture p~ntationl8 • ~ear, starry . night like that one ~ many cen';' . will be a light, chocolate eolol' turies ago, with fervent ,voiee. ~d of.• iin,looth consistency. ~sed in caroling. ~s age-old . 5) J»ourthe mixture into' the ' ~stom seems: 10 be dYipg 01i~ iD pi~sh~ and cilill ~ the' tefrig. 'our ·modern holi.day "sea,so~, ,but erato!' 1Iritilfimi. This Wilitue it cel'tainly' ~ .~ne custom whose' at le~ 'a:couple'of:h9urs,·. '. " 8) Before ,serving; . decorate ebarm should stir a 'reVival. The first Christmas carol Wal with whipped cream and·&ha¥-. introduced in Italy in the 13th ingi of' chocolate. eentuIj' by the early Fran eiscan ·friars. St. Francis of As Sty~e aiBi was the first 110 introduce earols to Europe, and he wrote a , WIN00SKIPARK (NC)-A . Christmas' Hynui - in Latin. The St. Michael's eollege profeSsor' tirBt English carol of' which we . who teaches eomputers has. writ ten a book about them. But aJl7 one' who wants to read "Com . pu~rs and You." .will have te . , J'l0 M E (NC)- Forty-nine translate' it from 'the Chinese. American seminarians studying Kenneth Kuan-Ling Fan .wrote . at Rome's universities for, vari the paperback, which already ous dioceses in the United States has gone· into its second edition. . were ordail)ed to ~e priesthooc1 The first edition \V811 printed ia .' heril Saiurday~'" .. Tai~aD.

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Gift better than himselt" God doth : not ·ktiow::,' Gift better than his God, no man can see: This gift doth here the giver given bestow: Gift to this gift let each receiver be. God is my gift, himself he freely gave me: God's gift am I, and none but God shall have me.

CINCIN!(ATI: (NC)-The fe60 era! office of Economic Opp~ tunity has granted $53,690 til the Cincinnati area Communi. Action Commission for a bi:JiI control program for the poor. Information, examinations ani birth control devices win be provided under the 12-montll program supported by the graul to an estimated 2,500 women. Sponsoring organization _ the Cincinnati program will bei the Planned Parenthood Asso ciation which already operatell birth control clinics in five low income areas here. Four mo~ clinics will be established the new grant funds. The birth control program w1B offer services both to marrieci women and to unmarrieci mothers referred by responsible health, welfare or religious a.. thoritiea.

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Hark to the true message, the. real promise of Christmas --that men may live and grow and build and progress together in peace, harmony, understanding and sympathy. May the Christmas Blessings of faith, hope, courage and understanding be abundantly bestowed on-and guide -the gallant, dedicated Americans nobly serving. the cause of freedom in Viet Nam. We commend to the Christ Child their welfare and safekeeping in t1is nam~

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BOSTON (NC) - A Harvard University research scientist has reported a study he has been making for a year discloses that transporting Negro children, daily to a predominantly white school definitely Improves the youngsters academically. Robert Coles said he has been riding on a bus daily with 30 children from the Negro section of Roxbury across town to Bea eon Hill, and has attended classes with them. His study, Coles said, shows that 20 out of 30 Negro children have improved scholastically on an average of a whole grade from C to B, and from D to C. Some went from well.. below average in their st\,ldies to well above average. More Active "But more than that," the Har vard scientist said, "they have become brighter, more active, more alert and more eager to learn." In addition, Coles said, it has been a daily adventure for the young Negroes. "Many of them for the first time saw the Massa chusetts State House," even though they were living only a mile away. They also got their first view of the city's Public Garden, City Hospital and other landmarks as their extremely limited sense of geography was expanded, he added. The study which the Harvard expert made began when parents of Negro children at their own expense hired a bus to send their children to schools where white children were in the majority. City Frowns This plan is permitted by the elty's school committee but the elty takes no part in it. The school committee frowns on the practice, claiming the only way to solve the school racial prob lem is to build new schools-not bus children to schools in other districts. ~oles spent five years studying the effect of school integration on Negro children in Atlanta and New Orleans. The "proof" which Coles pre sents is in direct contradiction to the opinion of some leading Boston school officials who maintain that the integration of Negro and white children does not improve the lot of the Negro child academically.

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MONTREAL (NC) - P au 1 Emile Cardinal Leger of Mon treal formally invested Roger Gaudry as the first layman rec tor of the University of Montreal· at a colorful and historic cere mony here. Cardinal Leger acted in his capacity as, chancellor of the university which, since its for mation, had always been di rected by a priest-educator. Gaudry, 52, a biochemist, has been administrator of the Ayerst Laboratories and a professor at Laval University. During the ceremony honorary degrees were conferred on Rocke Robertson, director of McGill University, Montreal; Jean Roche, rector of the Uni versity of Paris, and Father Theodore Hesburgh, C.S.C.. pres-

LIMA (NC) - Father Daniel McLellan, M.M., Peru's "credit union priest," has been elected vice-president of & nterna tional Union of Building Soci eties and savings Assoelations, It was learned here. . .. . F:-ther McLellan spearheaded the credit union movement in Peru. Ten years ago he ~ab Dshed the first such cOOj)e~tive organization in his parish in Puno, with 23 members and $32 in asserts. He developed that organiza tion into the El Pueblo savtDgs and loan association, which're cently won approval of a $1.2 million loan by the Inter-Amer ican Development Bank to' help finance construction of' .m9re than 500 homes for low-iJicome families in Peru. '.

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Man altere,d was ,by sin. frornman to beast:. Beast's food is hay, hay is. all mortal flesh:

Now God is flesh, and lies in manger pressed: As hay, the brutest sinner. to refresh. a happy field wherein this fodder grew, Whose taste doth us from beasts to men renew.

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Immensity cloistered in thy dear wombe,

Now leaves his well-beloved imprisonment, There he hath made himself to his intent Georgetown Aids Weak enough, now into our world to come; But 0, for thee, for him, hath th'inn no room? Youths to Get Yet lay him in ·this stall, and from the Orient, Stars and wise men will travel to prevent

Into College Th' effect of Herod's jealous general doom.

WASHINGTON (NC)-A Cath Seest thou, my soul, with thy faith's eye, how he

.lic school here is watching ciosely the first semester records Which fills all place, yet none holds him, doth lie?

• f more than a score of young . Was not his pity towards thee wondrous high, people in a dozen colleges and .That would have need to be pitied by thee? ...niversities. It is part of a program to help Kiss him, and with him into Egypt go, inner-citf youths to get a college With his kind mother, who partakes thy woe. education for which they have .nly poor prospects. In the Summer of 1964, a group of 49 students of low income families assembled at Georgetown University here in a program aided by a grant from the National Science Foundation. The students, boys and girls, the majority of them Negroes, had ~ust completed the third year ~n four public and one CatholIc high schools in the center of

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est in going to college, but their chances of doing so "were slight because of poor academic rec .rds or problems of motivation." :At the same time, their schools felt they had far more ability than their records. indicated. Special Courses The Georgetown program gave them academic assistance and guidance. It offered special eourses in English, mathematics and chemistry, counseling and guidance, training in efficient reading, field trips and cultural activities. Some dropped out almost at .nce, a few were encouraged to withdraw. Forty stayed with the program the first Summer, anc! a lesser number returned for the I8ix-week course in the Summer of 1965. Last Fall, 27 of the original Itarters entered 14 different col leges and universities, taking liberal arts courses, with half majoring in science. A second group of 50 pupils -entered a new Georgetown Sum mer course in 1965. These were boys and girls who had finished the second year of high school. They are offered an eight-week eourse for three consecutive Summers. Forty-eight completed the first Summer's WOrk.

Slow Process Snail's-Pace Success in Appalachia PovertY Program Would Drive Businessman Crazy LANCASTER (NC) - 0 n e priest's economic attack on Ap palachian poverty is bringing hope to his mountain parish, but it would drive a businessman crazy to see how he has to measure success. "This will be our first full year in operation," said Father Ralph W. Beiting, pastor of a four-county parish in eastern Kentucky and head of the "Christian Appalachian Project," "and I know we're in the red." "All too often," Father Beiting said, "we have to forget smart bookkeeping procedures to do the right thing for these people. That fouls up the economics, but if you think it's what Christ would have done, you go right ahead." Over the past year and a half, the project has purchase'd some 520 acres of land in Jackson County-a rugged rural area where there is no industry and farmers try to scratch a few hundred dollars a year from the worn-out land. On the land, the project has set up a half-dozen projects from a plastic greenhouse that is producing 10matoes for Christ mas meals to a reforestation . project that wiJ1 provide Christ mas trees by 1971. Already about 20 mountain men are employed on the proj ects under four trained and ex perienced managers-volunteers who have came from all parts of the country to work with Father Beiting. Just a few weeks ago Dale Anastasia, an agricultural scien tist from New York who has been with us since March and runs the greenhouse project, came to me and said we'd be

losing Bill, a young man from the county and a high school drop out. His' first steady job was working on the propect and he was one of our better work ers. "I was sort of let down,Father Beiting recalled. "But then Dale told me why Bill wall leavirig and I realized that what looked like another failure was really a big success for us. Working with us had convinced Bill that he should go back to high school. Talking with Bill later I found out that he has a secret desIre to go on to agricultural college."

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Christmas Bonus VATICAN CITY (NC) -The Vatican press office has con firmed reports that a bonus of 100,000 lire (about $1(0) ·will be paid to employees of Vatican City in recognition of the extra 'Work caused fnr them by the ecumenical council.

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embodied in its bishops is the true source in which to find "the

will of Christ," the preacher at the consecration of two bishops laid here. "From Christ and council it is

evident that the function of the bishop is to teach, to rule and to sanctify," said Auxi~ary Bishop John M. A. Fearns of New York. "U there are areas today in which puzzled uncertainty and misty vagueness have befogged the path of the world;s pilgrims,

it is because too often the 'itch ing ears' of which St. Paul wrote are bent toward rumors and sur mises, toward those whom St. Paul castigated as 'sowers of dis sension and falsehood' rather than to the font of teaching, the voice of truth. "It is in the teaching of the Church itself that the will of Christ is found. And if the pil grim is fatigued and ill, it is because he has forgotten his own limitations and neglected the source of sanctity and holiness." Bishop Fearns preached at the consecration in St. Patrick's Cathedral of the Most Rev. Terence J. Cooke as Titular Bishop of Summa and Auxiliary Bishop of New York and the Most Rev. William J. Moran as' Titular Bishop of Centuria and Auxiliary Bishop of the Military Ordlnariate. .

Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee, Gave thee life and bade thee feed By the stream and o'er the mead; Gave thee clothing of delight, Softest clothing, woolley, bright; Gave thee such a tender voice, Making all the vales rejoice? Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee?

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TH~ ~NCHOR-Dioceseof Fall River-Thun., Dec. 23, 1965

Moral Maturity Vatican Radio Hopes Space Conouest leads To "Well-Being and Lasting Peace"

VATICAN CITY (NC) - The space rendezvous by American astronauts prompted Vatican Radio to comment that it is no longer a question of man conquering the universe technically, but of whether he will "reach that moral maturity which will make his technology into an instrument of well-being and lasting peace." The editorial comment said "Genesis and the history of the rendezvous reveal above all the superiority of human intelligence over space, thus confirming the first lines of the Bible which tell of man's vocation to dominate the earth. "The triumph of technical progress, the resources of the human body, the powers of intelligence are by now taken for

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"Man would like to know their purposes. Even stupendous new conquests like the rendezvous outline a vision of the future as a problem. Science and technol ogy are instruments in the hands of man. They can become instru ments of ruin or a springboard for the achievement of a higher and more dignified way of life.

"The problem is no longer whether or not man will succeed in conquering the universe tech nically. The problem is whether man will or will not reach that moral maturity which will make his technology into an instru ment of well-being and lasting peace. This is a question to which it is not possible to give an answer at the present - but only a wish."

Interfaith Garden On Carmel Grounds MAHWAH (NC)-A non-de nominational "peace garden" will be built on the grounds of Carmel Retreat, conducted here in New Jersey by the Carmelite Fathers. A committee of Catholic and Protestant laymen have orga nized the Peace Through Prayer Foundation to erect the garden. Construction is to begin in the Summer. John J. O'Keefe, chairman of the committee which organized the foundation, said the garden will be built in answer to the plea of Pope Paul VI for peace before the United Nations. A, pledge book in an arbor dedi cated to the late President Ken

nedy will be one of the garden's features. The book is to be sign ed by visitors who pledge to pray for peace. Plantings in the garden will come from nations throughout the world.

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NEW YORK (NC)-The In ternational Conference of Cath olic Charities has donated $10, 000 to Catholic Relief Services National Catholic Welfare Con ference for its aid program in Vietnam. Agency officials said the funds were given from the $50 000 con tributed by Pope Pau'l VI in support of a worldwide appeal by Msgr. Jean Rodhain, presi dent of Catholic Charities. CRS-NCWC, which operates t?e largest private voluntary re lief program in Vietnam, has been conducting a drive to send 25,000 cases of milk to that coun try. CRS officials said the Cath olic Charities donation puts the agency over the halfway mark.

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his shrewd application of the Gospel to Its hearers today: "A devil was making people dumb (just as fn our town) Jesus cast him out (through a sacrament). The dumb man speaks (as you will, soon). Because a man who does not speak like God says noth Ing." These short, stabbing essays cover the entire ll'turgical year (with particular attention to the central mystery, of Easter) and a number of related subjects, such as the sacraments. Because of their 'pithiness they are ideal for spiritual snacks at odd hours; The translation, by Mary Ilford, is admirable. Days of the Lord Another unusual book of spir itual readIngs is Days of the Lord, the first in a series of three volumes (Herder and Her der. $3.95). Originally published Ir French, it has belm edited for English and AmerIcan readers by William G. Storey. The first volume, covers the liturgical year froml Advent up to Lent- and touches on the prin cIpal saInts' feasts Illl that period. The compilers- have drawn on an astonishing rang,e of writers, from earliest ChristIan times down to the present, Catholic and non-Catholic, sacred and profane, theologians, philos ophers, novelists, poets. The se lections are 'short and choice. The best Christmas gift, for the pric:e" that I know of is a paperback book that has juSt been published, Garlands for Christmas (Macmillan. 95 cents), 49 poems :m the theme of Christ mas, selected by Chad Walsh. Shakespeare, Southwell, Donne, Longfellow, and Yeats are repre sented here, but 110 also are AUden, Berrigan" Waine, Olson, Nims. The range is very wide, but the standard of l~xcellence is very high.

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N,CWC Official NEW YORK (NC)-HartT Z. Nugent of Brooklyn, N.Y., for mer program director of Catholic Relief Services-National Catha 'lie Welfare Conference, was awarded ''The Star"- med~l of honor from King HusseIn of Jor dan for hIs "work, dedicatiOll and devotion" to the poverty afflicted of Jordan. The medal was presented to Nugenf here, by ~he Jordanian ambassador to the United Na tions, Dr. Muhammad H. EI Far ra, at Jordan's UN mission bouse , here. Nugent served as CRS-NCWC program director in Jordan from 'December, 1963, to October, 1965, when he returned to the U.S. , ' He supervised an aid program that brought food,c1othhig and medIcine to almost 40.000 Jor danians. He has worked' abroad for CRS-NCWC since 1945.

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Many SiQn Petitions Fa' BentificQtions, 'VATICAN CITY (NC) -'-Al most a million people have signed petitions for the beatifi cation of Pope John xxm while more than 700,000 have signed petitions to beatify Pope Pius XII, according to the Vatican City daily newspaper. Editor Raimondo Manzini gave these figures in a L'Osservatore Romano editorial on Pope Paul's announcement that he was ini tiating the beatification proc essses of Loth popes. The basis for Paul's decision, Manzini said, is "a religious fact and not a political one." He de scribed al the real foundation of Pope Paul's decision "the fact of the holiness of the two servants of God, already recognized and decreed i!.1 ,the common sense of pOpular sentiment."

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versity of America declared dur ing a debate on U. S. Vietnam policy that the United States has an obligation to take up arms in defense of Greco-Roman-Chris tian values. "We are entitled to wage a just war," said William H. Rob erts. "We may and we must. "The values of the West are superior to all' other values. If we accept relativism in value systems, then we must admit that might makes right." Father Philip Berrigan, S.S.J.. a longtime critic of American • Vietnam policies, said during the debate that he has "difficulties" ift seeing how the just war the ory applies to Vietnam. He said the conditions laid down by St. Thomas Aquinas do not apply to the Vietnamese conflict and he Boted that Pope Pius XII twice condemned "total war" as it wu practiced in World War II. P!'ImaIT Concern -A just peace ia ~possible UD less the human rights of the Vietnamese people are the pri _ mary concern of our policies," he mid. Roberts stated in the audito rium crowded with nuns, semi narians and lay students that, peace in the world is not possible • ~til St. Augustine's "tranquil Ity of order" is- realized. He said this order must ultimately be a , Christian order. , In answer to a question, he denied he sought a world in which religious and cultural plu ralism could not exist. "We are not bent on the eradication of other value systems," he said. "We recognize the inherent rights, of other eultures. But if we are confronted with an a~ gressive opponent, then we have to fight." .

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Favor Abstinence PORTLA1'lJD (NC)-Portland's Bishop Daniel J. Feeney said he believes most American bishops oppose llfting the Friday ban on meat for Catholics. The Maine prelate expressed the view upon his return here from the second Vatican CounciL

gations in the U. S. and Canada, was reevaluating the theological beliefs and religious practices of American Reform Jews in the light of recent scientific and. technological advances. Invitations to the assembl;y were iSSued by Rabbi Balfour Brickner, director of the UAHC commission on interfaith rela tions. Nun Observer Sister Mary Kathleen, chai~ man of the committee on inter group relations and curriculum. of the San Francisco, archdio cese's department of education, was one of the Catholic obser vers. "The most impressive thin, about the discussions was seein, the groups coming to grips with problems confronting all reli giously committed people-hoW' to make ~liglon relevant to to day's man; how to make religio& meaningful to our young people; why, if such a large percentage of people profess' belief in 'God, 10 few attend worship,'? she said. "The discussion reaffirmed the recognition that all religious17 committed persons are strivin, to meet the same type of prob lems," ahe laid.

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, PO~ Paul Urges Catholics Steer Middle Course \

VATICAN CITY (NC) Pope Paul VI has once again 'called on Catholics to keep up the spirit of the Second, "

Vatican Council, steering a mid dle course between a return to , old ways and a continual appli- ' cation of the council's dialectic process to settled truths and laws. "Some might think that there has been too much talk of the council, by many people and in many ways," he told those at tending his weekly general audf ence. "Is, it not time to change the subject?" he asked. The pope replied to his ques tion with an emphatic negative, declaring: "We cannot put the council aside. Why? For the simple rea son that the council, by its very nature, is an event that must endure. . . "We say above all that it is not good or logical or 'ecc1esial' to adopt the attitude of those who are longing to return to the way things were before the council, going back to pre-conciliar reli' 'gious and moral habits." State of Mind Pope Paul then turned to the attitude at the opposite extreme, styling it "conciliarism." He pointed out immediately, how ever, that he was not using the ' term "concilarism" in its old sense of a theory about the Church's highest directive au' thority. "We allude rather to the state of mind of those who would sub ject to' permanent discussion truths and laws already clear and established, who would con ti.nue the council's dialectic process, attributing to them selves the competence and au thority of introducing their oWn. innovating or subversive prin ciples in the analysis of the Cath-' olic Church's dogmas, statutes, rites and spirituality in order to adapt its thought and its life to the spirit of the times."

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Vatican Council's work should not be judged from either an "ultra-conservative" or -doctri naire liberal" point of view. He said the council's decisions "'had to be those with which the entire Church could live and act," in an address sponsored by Bellarmine and Ursuline Col leges. He grouped under four points the council's aims in the years to come: self-awareness of the Church; its renewal; Christian unity; dialogue with contempo rary world. He added: KIt seems to me that the coun cil in the most stunninng ways has fulfilled its first objective. It will take us years to appreci ate an the n~w opportunities and guidelines for self-awareness in relation to the nature and the mission of the Church and our own vocations and memberships . within that Church."

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MANCHESTER (NC)-Masses in English are offered, .now at St. Jean Baptiste church here in New 'Hampshire, where' an Masses had been in French since . the changes made by the SeCond ' . Vatican Council. Fathe~ Artl1~ Lesmerises. administrator, re pOrted~a: poll of pari~";onei'sbad' . shown 80 per I'~'" f,: "ared. the .Masses 'in Eo,gli". '

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the threat of totalitarianism, whether communist or fascist. Dr. Franklin H. Littell, of the Chicago Theological Seminary told a luncheon sponsored by the Cincinnati Committee for Civic Responsibility, the two extremist ideologies "are possible only where religion has become de generate and politics has become apocalyptic and messianic." It is the business of the churches and synagogues, he said, to ''isolate and either re claim or expel" those who have adopted totalitarian ideas. "And it is the business of the citizenry to build a body of law that will destroy totalitarian forms before violence becomes necessary," he said. Dr. Littell pointed out that both communist and fascist groups have no use for genuine discussion, consensus, or com promise, but insist on "black or white answers." Cynical Efforts He criticized the "arrogance with which extremists assault our institutions," the "faceless ness" of their anonymous attacks on those who disagree with them, and their "cynical efforts to un dermine confidence in American leadership." Fascists in the U. S. believe they can resist communist tyr anny only by becoming conspir ators thmselves, and this "trea son feeds on treason," Dr. Litell said. "Now is the ti'me to act," he declared, "while the main body of citizens is still loyal." Failure to create a "body of law" that will effectively suppress the radical left and right, he said, may leave the door open to vio lent revolution.

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WASHINGTON (NC) For the first .time since its establishment in 1962, a lay 'man' has been 'elected presi den of the coordinating board of National Newman Apostol ate. Timothy J. Dyer of Ypsilanti, 'Mich., will serve for a year as . head. of the policy making body 10r the Newman Apostolate. The board includes the presi dents, chaplains and chief ad ministrative officers of each of the six national organizations which compose the apostolate the National Newman Student Federation, the :National New man Chaplains Association, the :National Newman Association of Faculty and Staff, the National l':ewman Foundation, the Na tional Newman Alunini Associa tion, and the John Henry Car dinal Newman Honorary Society. Dyer is president of the honor ary society. A former president of the National Newman Student Federation, he is also vice-pres ident of Pax Romana, interna tional Catholic student move ment, and is chairman of the political science department at the Wayne County High School in Ypsilanti. Helpful Decree During its one-day Winter meet:ng the Newman Apostolate coordinating board took up such issues as a charter, financing, and the role of the apostolate in international educational ex change. Father John T. McDonough, director of the apostolate, issued a statement praising the recog nition of Newman work con tained in the Second Vatican Council's decree on education. Citing sections in the docu ment which stress the Church's responsibility toward Catholics on non-Catholic .campuses, he said: ''Those who have pioneered in this work and labored so long are especially gratified to re ceive such a helpful tool as the decree on education."

Joachim to raise money for the ho·spital's equipment fund drive. The ring was a gift from his parishioners in Flagstaff, Ariz., when he was consecrated a bish i)p more than 20 years ago. The ring has a large, square-cut em erald, with small diamonds on -each side in a heavy yellow gold setting. Experts are appraising the ring so,that the full value will be realized. In a letter that accompanied the gift the New Mexico prelate wrote: "You have my whole hearted support for the campaign and my prayers will be offered for this effort." St. Vincent's hospital has been facing financial difficulties. The eighth grade Civics Club of Cristo Rey parish here embarked on a nationwide campaign to help alleviate the $200,000 debt facing the hospital. The hospital has been in Santa Fe more than 100 years, and is operated by the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati.

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WASHINGTON (NC) -..Rep. Bernard F. Gra.bowski of Con necticut called here for increased eongressional action', to fight "the rising flood 9f pornog raphy." Grabowski endorsed pending legislation to establish a presi dential commission on the ob scenity problem. "Let us tum the spotlight on the evil charac ters ,vho peddle smut,", he said. Stressing government responsi-. bility in.'this area, ,he called the postal system the "vital artery" for distIibution of obscenity. Efforts to control obscene mat ter must be constitutional, Gra bowski said. But he added: "I am confident we have the intel ligence to bring under control the vicious smut industry by means. entirely ,constitutional;"

Dominicans Discuss Newman Activities ALBUQUERQUE (NC)-Mem bers of the three American Do minican provinces participating in the work of the Newman Apostolate met at a desert re treat house here in New Mexico to discuss new dimensions and the necessary expansion of their work. ' Problems t rea ted included belief and values on the secular campus, cooperation of Newman centers with the diocesan cler gy, and reorientation of the apostolate in the light of the Vatican council.

BEHIND ~SCENES: Hen. are participants and those who made behind the scenes ,arrangements .for THE ANCHOR'S 1965 Christmas story. From left, four year old Guillermo Aponte, kn~wn to his English-spea)cing friends as William; Sister ~ Teresita, s'. u.s~c.; Mrs. Apolinario Aponte and Mr. Aponte, Guillermo's parents; and Rev. Gera:ld T. Shovelton, curate of St. Mary's Church, Taunton, which was scene of story. Father Shoyelton is director of Out· Lady of Guad alupe Spanish Center ;m Taunton, of which the Aponte family are members. Sister Teresita, art department head at Bishop Cassidy High School, is also associated with the center.

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Christmas recess, but memories of holiday parties within Dances follow Christmas as school walls are still' bright-and good deeds by students Spring follows W!nter. Coyle's are still spreading Yule cheer both at home and abroad. junior prom will be held Wed At Fall River's Jesus-Mary, , nesday, Dec. 29, with theme ':Th; Bridge to Tinseled Memones. Academy, sodalists prepared Nurses' Guild and were heard in a radio concert; Future, Nurses Co-chairmen Joseph and Michael "Dooley Kits" for Viet ,Nam entertained Bristol County Hos- , Gallagher expect some 90 cou tots. These are drawstring pital patients and distributed, ples in attendance. A senior class bags containing toilet articles, gifts; and on,.campus activities sponsored dance will be held by and small toys. Also at Jesus were manifold. Prevost High Thursday, Dec. 30 Mary, the Natiopal Honor Soci A Christmas party for the fac at Dwelly Street Armory. The ety prepared Christmas baskets ulty, for instance, ,was held FalJulous Vikings will supply for the needy and members sang Monday in the school cafeteria music. at Taunton State Hospital. Carol under student council sponsor Back at Coyle, the Winter ing was heard before classes ship. And a hootenanny high t.rack team will participate in its too, the last few days before va 'lighted the annual Christmas as first meet Tuesday, Dec. 28 at cation. sembly, held today before the the Falmouth Invitational. This Senior Privilege Day at Sacred close of school. After the song will be followed by a Boston Hearts Academy, Fall River, co fest, gifts were distributed to the larden .meet Tuesday, Jan. 4. incided with the celebration of faculty and the program closed Brother Harold Qualters, C.S.C., the feast of St. Lucy, traditional with a Bible Vigil. Rev. Joseph is coach. pre-Christmas festivity in Scan Powers, school chaplain and At Bishop Stang the school dinavian countrfes. Eldest daugh Diocesan Director of CCD, gave paper, Stangscript, was distrib ters have special honors in a homily and students from each uted to students Wednesday. the North on the feast of St. class were lectors, including Also at the north Dartmouth Lucy and SHA's "eldest daugh Nan c y Kosinski, Raymond school, senior sodalists plan a ters" enjoyed a "no-uniform O'Brien, Kathleen Frost and "Holiday Ball" for Wednesday, day" and a no-homework night, David Downarowicz.' Dec. 29. Juniors and seniors are in addition to having a candy Voice of Democracy contest invited to the semi-formal affair treat, courtesy of the junior FEEHAN SODALISTS: Sodality officers at Bishop and music will be by Bud Lilley winners in Diocesan highs, in class. SHA's Christmas concert clude Roger Lizotte at Prevost; Feehan High School, Attleboro are, seated from left, Carol and his group. featured traditional and modern Charles Seibold at Coyle High in Miller, social chairman; Colleen Martin, secretary; rear, Yuletide melodies and was open At St. Joseph's Prep, Fall Taunton; and Daniel Larkin at to the public. River, girls visited the Rose Donna Gamache, prefect; Diane Roy, treasurer. New Bedford's Holy Family At Prevost High, Fall River, Hawthorne Home to sing carols High. the goal was tv prepare 50 Christ and distribute gifts. A family lege; Raymond French, Rensse discussiori in the Feehan cafe

Also at Holy Family, Barry mas baskets for the needy. So party for the Prep School Mis-. laer; Ronald L'herault, PC; and teria.

Harrington was named to rep dalists and the National Honor tress, Sister Paul Joseph, was Young Math stars

Maurice Guertin and Ernest resent the school at Student Society were in charge of the The Stang math team has once held Wednesday. It featured Government Day in Boston in Turcotte of SMTI visited, science annual project. classes for personal talks with again figured its way to victory carol singing and a card ex the Spring. And HF students are Also an NHS project is the students and question-answering in the Notre Dame Math League. change, with a special gift going welcoming Bishop Gerrard upon annual Christmas party, for to Sister Paul :Joseph. In a field of 20 the North Dart

his return from the Ecumenical sessions. The program wound up which students have been audi MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL! with refreshments and further mouth school placed first in a

tioning; and the sodality's other Council. SHA Fall River girls' are doing the same with newly Christmas activity was the mak created Msgr. John H. Hackett, ing and distributing of Advent Academy chaplain for several wreaths to every classroom. years. French Club members at Mt. St. Mary Academy, Fall River, Debate News entered into the spirit of the sea Many area schools were rep son with a French fete de Noel, resented at the first Narragan featuring singing of French sett League Workshop, held at Christmas carols. The annual Bishop Cassidy High in Taunton. Christmas play, "The Mystery Prevost, president debate club of Play," was offered at 7:30 Wed the league, opened the workshOp nesday night with a cast of with an address by Richard freshmen and sophomores and Charland. Also participating in Sister Mary Mercy in charge of the program was Prevost's de production. bate coach, Mr. Daniel Grace. Spirit Bubbles "Science in College" was the Christmas spirit. is bubbling topic of a panel discussion at everywhere at Bishop Feehan Feehan High this Tuesday. Fee High in, Attleboro, where chor han graduates Susan Connor, isters sang for the Catholic now of Albertus Magnus Col-

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By Msgr. George G. Higgins (Director, Social Action Dept., N.C.W.C.) Cardinal Patriarch Maximos IV Saigh of Antioch is quoted by Time magazine, in its round-up essay on Vatican II, as s-aying .that the effect of the council has been to "put the Church mto a permanent state of dialogue--dialogue with itself for a continuous renewal: dialogue with our haps than some of our non-Cath Christian brothers in order olie; contemporaries-to get used to restore th . 'bl 't to the dialogue, for we have long

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Short of open rebeliion against the letter as well as the spirit of the council, there is no going back to the time when Catholics, however mistakenly, could re gard' it as a virtue to stay in their ba kyard for fear of being ::~ami~ated by the "dangerous" influences of the world and/or of compromising their own reli gious principles. With Everyone This dialogue which the coun cit repeatedly calls for and which it says "can lead t01ruth through love' alone," excludes no one. "We include those," the council Fathers state at the end of Schema 13, "who cultivate outstanding qualities of the hu man spirit, but do not yet ac knowledge the Source of these qualities. We include those who oppress the Church and harass her in manifold ways. "Since God the Father is the origin and purpose of all men, we are called to be brothers. Therefore, if we have been sum moned to the same destiny, hu man. and divine, we can and should work together without violence and deceit in order to build up. the world in genuine peace." Mutual Instruction £jj Working together in this spirit and for this purpose presupposes, of course, that all parties to the dialogue have something to learn from one another. That is to say, dialogue, by definition is a conversation , aimed at mutual instruction, not a series of simultaneous or suc cessive monologues in which people talk at or to (or, worse still, down to) one another with the hope and the expectation of being able to convince them of the 'error of their ways. We Catholics may find it diffi cult at first-more difficult per

'Change Plate' BOSTON (NC)-A project de seigned. to raise $150,000 for the Pope John 'XXIII National Sem inary for Delayed Vocations in nearby Weston will be operated by some 25,000 men of 400 parish Holy Name Societies throughout the Boston archdio cese from Dec. 31 to Jan. 2. It's ealled. "Operation Change Plate" and ent1\ils putting the new 1966 license plates on autos at a cost ol $1 per car.

been accustomed to think that on many if not most of the problems 'which we are ,-now ex pected to discuss in "frank t' " ' t h . h conversa Ion WI our nelg bors, we already have the an swers. It may take us a while to real ize that on all matters, except the essentials of our Faith, we have something to learn from the modern world-at least as much as we have to teach. Emphasis on Freedom This is particularly- true, I think, ,~n the area of hu~an,~reedom.. OU~ contem?or?nes, the counCIl pomts out In Schema 13,_ "make ~uch of this free~om and pursue I,~ eagerly, and nghtly to be sure.. . The counCIl, a~ you mIght ex pect, war.ns agamst the dan~er of confUSIng true freedom WIth license, but true freedom, it in . t· . I d SIS~, IS a precIOUS va ue n one WhICh our contemporanes:, do well ~o pursue so eagerly, . for O?ly In freedom can man "dlrect hImself toward go.odness.. . From. the .doctrIn~1 pomt of VIew, there IS .nothmg new or original abou! the council's state ment. on the Impor~ance o~ free dom. In human SOCH:;ty. StIll a~d all, ~t has a new rmg ab.out ~t, possIbly. because CatholIcs 111 recent times hav~ nut alw~ys taken the lea~. 1 n. defendmg freedom as a CIVIl nght. Liberties Movement The civil liberties movement in the United States, for example, has not had as much support from Catholics as one might have expected. The councH, with its historic Declaration on Religious Freedom and its frequent refer ences to freedom in general, will undoubtedly help to correct this situation. Please God, the council will also help to bring about a greater measure of freedom within the Church itself. The Fathers have spoken out very forcefully on this subject. "In order that they may ful fil their function," we read at the end of the chapter on culture in Schema 13, "let it be recog nized that ~ll of t~e faithful, whether clencs or laIty,. pos~ess a lawful freedom of InqUlry, freedom of thought and of ex ~ressing the~r min? with humilIty and for~ltude In th?se 'mat ters on WhICh they enJoy com t " pe ence. stresses Imporbnce In an effort to Implement both the letter and the spirit of this declaration, a group of American Catholics have established an Institute for Freedom in the Church. It's arguable, I suppose, as to whether or not such an Institute is necessary or will serve any useful purpose. As I see it, however, the fact that so many intelligent, well meaning laymen and priests think that it is necessary should give us pause and should lead us to take a good hard look at the problem of freedom within the Church. Unless and until we solve this problem, we are not likely to get very far in our dialogue with the modern world, which, to re peat the language of Schema 13, "rightly" attaches so much im portance to freedom..

These are valid questions. Their answer Is Christmas. What has Christmas to do with anxieties and depression and hunger! Christmas means "the Word became flesh and dwelt among us." The Word means the rational ground and basis of the universe, the ultimate significance of things, a Person Who has a plan and purpose like a ~reat dramatist who knows how the play will end long be fore the audience. The Word is the or chestra director who wrote the score and prepared the climaxes and melo dies to the very end, even though the listener hears only a measure here and there in slow succession. The Word means that the universe has meaning. That is why scientists are really only proofreaders, for they are daily learning what somone else wrote.

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Urge Stronger RiOlhts Bills HARRISBURG (NC) -For a second time in two months the Pennsylvania Catholic Confer ence called on the Pennsylvania General Assembly to pass strong civil rights legislation this ses sion. As one of the stormiest ses sions of the Legislature neared· its close, the conference, repre senting the eight Catholic Sees of the state, sent individual let ters to Gov. William W. Scran ton and to each member of the General Assembly urging affir mative action on nine specific bilb dealing with employment, housing, education and the func tioning of the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission. The conference led a success ful fight earlier this year for school bus legislation for pa rochial school children. It ex pressed particular interest in Housing Bill 2140 which would open up to migrant workers the benefits of the state's fair em ployment statutes. The bill is op posed by industrial farm inter ests. The conference also called for action on bills which would: permit state Human Relations Commission to hold so-called "investigatory hearings" where public disorder, due to racial disturbance, threatens; include personal residences under pro visions of the state fair Qousing laws; and empower the state Human Relations Commission to issue injunctions where an own er whose property was subjected to a fair housing complaint at tempted to transfer it.

Planning to Update Blue Army Units PLAINFIELD (NC) - Francis K. Schuckardt, former linguistics research analyst and secretary of the Crusader Committee of the Blue Army of Our Lady, has bee 1 commissioned to update the Blue Army's units throughout the East. Schuckaard,t is to update the army's cells in keeping with the Vatican ,~ouncil's recent decla ration oa the apostolate of the lait7.

But grant then that there is a plan or intelligence behind the universe. What about the tears, wars, delinquency, injustices and hates that so mar its beauty? Here one must finish the verse: ''The Word became flesh and dwelt amongst us." The only way to understand lepers is to live among them as one cannot know pov erty from an ivory tower. If - the Wisdom and Intelligence of the universe became flesh in order to know the rottenness that our sin has caused, He had to strip Himself of the splendor of His divinity and become helpless, become so utterly like us that He is "humanity." He had to have a mother who could not find a room. He had to go and live in a slum, fly over a "Berlin Wall" from a dictator's wrath, earn His bread by the sweat of His brow, live on the wrong side of the tracks, be snubbed by the intelli gentsia,.lay with cattle on the straw when young and when older have no place to lay His head. His followers had to tempt Him to the "easy life" without a cross, accusing Him at one moment of being too divine because He called Himself God and, at another ~oment, of being too human because He meddled in politics. He ?ad to take on the headaches of the world in a crown of thorns, Its heartaches in a pierced side, its loneliness by shutting out the divine consolation and bearing an agony that sweated blood. . Then, when that unbearable Beauty and tremendous Lover had taken on every ill that breaks the heart of man, He over came them. This is Christmas. Here our poor earthly existence at its lowest depths has been consecrated. Here it lives at its greatest intensity. Today Christ lives in His known Eucharistic Presence in churches all over the world, but at the same time He reliving His birth, life and death in His unknown Presence in the poor, the sick, the suffering and the lepers of the world. You can lessen His suffering. You can change their Christmas and make yours happier by tearing out this column and by shar .in&' your blessings with the poor. Have a happy Christmas-God Love You! In answer to innumerable demands, the recorded talks of Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, which he has used privately for over 40 years to help people of all faiths find meaning and deeper happi ness in life, are now available to the general public on 25 records -THE LIFE IS WORTH LIVING series. In 50 talks of about 30 minutes each, His Excellency offers wise and inspiring guid ance on problems affecting all age groups, such as love, marriage and raising children, suffering, anxiety and loneliness, alcoholism and death, as well as the Christian faith. Priced at $57.50 and sold only as a complete set, the LP high-fidelity album can be ordered from Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, at his office, 366 Fifth Avenue, New Yor, N. Y. 10001.

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Parish children will receive corporate Communion at 8 The Confraternity of Christian o'clock Mass Sunday morning, Doctrine has been established in Dec. 26, as a spiritual bouquet for the pastor. Women's Guild the parish. Officers include Nor members are preparing a pantry man J. Rousseau, president; Ed shower of foods for the Sisters of ward D. Tyrrell, vice-president; Nazareth Hall in Hyannis, who _ Mrs. Stanley Janick, treasurer; are Sunday school teachers for Miss Jeanne C. Frechette, secre the parish. tary. The first executive board The guild plans a penny sale at meeting of the new group· will 8 Monday night, Jan. 10 in the be held at 7:30 Wednesday night, church hall. The sale will high Jan. 5 in the church hall. Chap light the unit's regular meeting. lain is Rev. John F. Andrews.

LoUISVILLE (NC)-Catholie laymen here in Kentucky again have asked for representation on the Catholic School Board, which helps administrators of parochial schools in 31 counties in the archdiocese. The board now is comprised of priests. The laity request. cam e through a recommendation of an educational conference spon sored by the League of Catholic Paient-Teacher Associations. An estimated 400 persons at tended the conference, which discussed problems and poten tials of the parochial school sys tem. A similar conference in February, 1964, made a similar request.

Sees Vision Coming True

DAR ES SALAAM (NC) -An Anglican bishop who conducted a spiritual retreat for a fellow bishop and 10 Anglican priests at a Roman Catholic mission here in Tan zania said afterward that "the vision of Pope John is beginning to be realized." Bishop Trevor Huddleston, C.R., of Masasi, in southern Tan ganyika, utilized the German Benedictine Fathers' Kurasini mission station here as a retreat center for four days because the Anglican Church lacks an ade quate retreat house. ' Those taking part, including Anglican Bishop John Sepeku of Dar es Salaam,. lived at the mission and had their meals in common with the Roman Cath olic mission staff. Bishop Huddleston-who was provincial of the Church of En gland's Community of the Resur rection in South Africa when because of his outspoken support of interracial justice he was

Summer institutes At Catholic Colleges WASHINGTON (NC)-Three Catholic colleges will conduct counseling and guidance train ing institutes during the Sum mer of 1966 with funds from the U.S. Office of Education. The institutes, supported by the Office of Education under the National Defense Education Act, are designed to improve the qualifications of counselors of students in public and private elementary schools, colI e g e s, universities, junior colleges and technical institutes. The University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Ind., Creighton University, Omaha, Neb., and St. Michael's College in Santa Fe, N.M., are the three Catholic col leges that will conduct the in stitutes.

forced to leave that country in 1956-said after the retreat: ''The very fact that this retreat can take place here and that we can use not only the house but also the church and the liturgical vestments, show that relation be tween the Christian religions in Tanzania have greatly improved. ''Three years ago this could not have happened. One senses the change of atmosphere, the spirit of aggiornamento. In a true sense the vision of Pope John is beginning to be realized."

Twins' Ordination o EMMANUEL: Our King and Lawgiver, the Ex pectation and Savior of the nations, come to save us,- 0 Lord our God. (0 Antiphon for Dec. 23) Children who wait for One who is above them and yet in their very midst. These are the joyful, expectant faces familiar to the Medical Mission Sisters in Asia, Africa and South America. NC Photo.

Pope Says 'Best Ever' To Council Officials Spokane Preparing VATICAN CITY (NC)-High praise was given to the admini For Cuban Parents strators of the Vatican council by Pope Paul VI in an audience with the council's secretary general, Archbishop Pericle Fe officials (Dec. 17). lici, and other administrative "We can well say that no pre ceding council had internal ser vices so well organized and so efficient," Pope Paul said in thanking and blessing all who worked for the council's success. Archbishop Felici reported to the Pope that all the material collected during the council's four sessions is being brought together for publication and use by historians. A similiar publi cation task was done for the council's preparatory phase, amounting to 19 volumes.

SPOKANE (NC)-The diocese of Spokane is preparing to re- ' ceive and resettle refugee par ents of Cuban children already in this diocese. Some 117 Cuban children have settled in the diocese, some as early as 1962. Of these, 12 are now living with their parents here and 38 have rejoined par ents elsewhere.

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INTROIT: When a profound stillness compassed every thing and the night in its swift COurse was half spent, your all-powerful word, 0 Lord, bounded from heaven;.;; royal throne. The Lord is king, .in splendor robeq; robed is the Lord and girt about with strength. Glory be to the Father. When a profound stillness compassed everything and the night in its swift course was half spent, your all-powerful word, 0 Lord, bounded from heaven's royal throne. GRADUAL: Fairer in beauty are you than the sons of men; grace is poured out upon your lips. My heart over~ flows with a goodly theme; as I sing my ode to the king, my tongue is nimble as the pen of a skillful scribe. Alleluia, alleluia. The Lord is king, in splendor robed; robed is the Lord and girt about with strength. Alleluia. OFFERTORY: God has made the world firm, not to be moved. Your throne, 0 God, stands firm from of old; from everlasting you are. . ,;...; COMMUNION: Take the child and his mother, and go into the ll'l,nd of Israel, for those who sought the child's life are dead

Bishop's Christmas Message,

VATICAN CHRISTMAS STAMPS: This year's stamps show a Peruvian setting, the seventh in a series begun in 1959 of national settings for Christmas scene. By mini aturist Casimira Dabrowski, the stamps are issued in de nominations of 20, 40 and 200 lire. NC Photo.

Continued from Page One ,leave with you, my peace I give

you", was the theme of all His

- teaching. And it was illustrated by the way He lived, going about to do good, always at the disposition of those who called on Him for healing whether of the diseased body, or the dis-, traught mind. Nowadays, we are, despite all

centuries of progress, worse off

than those who lived in the

time of Christ. Never before

were men brought closer in

time and distance, and never

before was there more suspicion

and distrust. So much wealth,

amid so much squallor, - so

much suffering that escapes the

hand and skill of the healer. So

much stress on individual free

dom, and such supineness before

the challenge of slavery masked

as independence and liberty.

How many there are fearful of

doing the right thing lest they

bring upon themselves the scorn

and ridicule of men and women

Intent on following the low road

that leads to perdition?

UNiTED NATIONS (NC) The Holy See's permanent ob . server at the United Nations has declared 'that the' Catholie Church "eagerly Seeks to'join in the' noble efforts' of the UN ag;linst h!Ipger."" .' " .Msgr. Alberto Giovanett~ told a meeting of the UN General As sembly's Economic Committee that Pope Paul VI regards the UK world food program as a highly humane undertaking and welcomes any resolution aimed at improving its efficiency. it was the first time an ob server of the Holy See had ever addressed a General Assembly committee. Msgr. Giovanetti said Pope Paul recently told a great throng gathered in st. Peter's square that "among the many voices from the world we must listen to in order to carry out the res olutions of the ecumenical coun cil is that of the Food and Agri culture Organization (FAO)," an affiliate of the UN. "It is beyond doubt that the Holy Father is also extremely attentive to the voice of the 20th session 0" the General Assem bly," Msgr. Giovanetti said.

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We need a Savior to take us

out of the valley of contradic

tion. We have scientists, and

self-styled liberals, who shut

the book of religion, close their

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There is another complacency. It is tha~ of· God the Father,' testifying to His Divine Son: "This is my beloved in Whom I am: well pleased, hear ye Him." This is a complacency that mea sures up to our real need. This is our strength. This is our hope. This is our answer to fear. This is our faith. We know In Whom we have believed. We salute and welcome Emmanuel, God with us, yesterday, to-day and the same forever. He could be, if we but let Him, the healer of all our anxieties. We have only to think of Him to possess Him, and whoever has God in his heart has everything. Material goods, and personal pride we cannot take with us. What we make of ourselves is .11 that realy counts in life. We may need, at the begin

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"After 40 years, thanks to Pope John XXIII, the Catholic Church has affectionately and soundly recognized the C-"l:istcnce of the Christian churches and the Christians throughout the world." He said that John was chosen Pope because "many thought they were electing.a watchman, a caretaker. Well, he fooled them all. He was the greatest bridge builder in t.he last -400 years of the Catholic Church." Cardinal Cushing said that al though he bf'lieved that the vari ous Christian churches "can never be united in one physical or organic unity," they can be uniterl in "thl"ir unity of love. "ti1 this unity of love we can· be united for the common good o~ countries, for the betterment of city and country and for uni vel'sal peace. We must get a united Christian front built with It,ve and charity," he said.

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Foreign St",Itst1ts ST. LOUIS (NC J-"" total of 340 fOl'eign students al'e enrolled In 81. Louis Univprsity. Louis Falkn(~r, . university rcgistrar, _id the students come from 69 t!lDuntries and al'l' ("1r,,11('d in all schools at the univcl'b;Ly.

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CHRISTMAS IN HONG KONG: Father Charles Vath; president of Caritas, charitable agency of Hong Kong, and editor of The Examiner, weekly newspaper of the diocese, presents a Christmas check to one of his clients. NC Photo.

_Negro Mission Vestments SILVER SPRING (NC) - A set of vestments honoring the late President Kennedy will soori be in use at a Negro mission church in the deep South as a gift from members of his family.

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The vestments were made by Mrs. Mary Thompson of Man teca, Calif., for nuns and stu dents at St. Anthony's School there to send to Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy. The late President's widow en listed the help of his brother, Sen. Robert Kennedy of New York, in finding an appropriate place for the' vestments. He donated them to Trinity Missions here in Maryland, which has sent them to Holy Child Jesus' mission in Canton, Miss.

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THE ANCHol<-

Thurs., Dec. 23, 1965

Urges Students Protect National Moral Levels

NEW YORK (NCl Doubleday & Company, Inc., publishers, will inaugurate a biennial Doubleday Catho lic prize contest on Jan. 1. Offering prizes in three cate gories, the contest seeks to en courage authors and to stimulate interest in all fields of Catholic writing, the company said. The contest is open to all authors, new or established, Catholic or non-Catholic, writing in the English language, the statement said. At the judges' discretion, each of the three awards will carry a $5,000 prize as a guaranteed ad vance royalty against the au thor's earnings. The categoriea

are: "1. Fiction: for the best novel of Catholic interest, Whose theme and treatment embody Catholic principles and values.

"2. Biography: for the best biography of a Catholic figure whose life and activities consti tute a significant contribution to the Catholic heritage (an auto biography by a Catholic is also eligible in this category). Editors Are 3udges "3. Non-fiction: for the best book of non-fiction which per sonifies the spirit of Catholicism 8f propounded in the teachings and tradition of the Church." The winners of the awardll will be determined by the editors of Doubleday & Company, Inc. If the judges feel that no manu script merits a prize in any or an categories, no award shall be made. The winner or winners will be announced u soon u possible after the close of the contest on June 30, 1967.

DURHAM (NO) - Moral

and spiritual foundations _of

national life must be protect

ed through education on all

levels to avert the danger of

losing democracy, a priest-theo

logian told the Newman Stu

dent's Association at the Univ~r

sity of New Hampshire here.

Msgr. Jerome V. Maceachin, a

professor at Michigan State Uni

versity, told the association's

27th annual National Commun

ion breakfast: "Despite scientific

and technological conquests, the

blight of spiritual and moral

mediocrity is a real threat to our

basic inherited rights of life and

happiness on the individual, fam

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"While we forge ahead in ,_ the flag of our country GUITAR, ANYONE?: Sister Camille, R.S.M., of St. Brendan's school, Riverside, R.I., planting on the stars of outer space, let says guitar playing -and folk music are "wholesome". The habited guitar te'acher has no us make certain that the hearts, trouble keeping the attention of her classes which are standing room only. NC Photo. . minds and souls of our American children are not denied their na tional spiritual heritage," he said. He said there is evidence that moral and spiritual dimensions are being neglected because of "the irreligious connivance of in WASHINGTON (NC) - The Macon, Ga., had sought tax de Court, the Rev. Mr. Wilson con U.S. Supreme/ Court has dis ductions for dues paid to a mo tended that his "sacred income" competent theologians and so missed an appeal by a minister tor club, repairs to his automo was "not under the jurisdiction phisticated public servants." who claimed the income from bile and home repairs. The case of civil authority." He cited a his religious activities was tax involves unpaid taxes for the number of Scripture passages to exempt. years 1958, 1959 and 1960 a support his position. VATICAN City (NC)-Pope

The court said it dismissed the Paul has accepted the resigna

The Rev. Charlie L. Wilson of mounting to $100.01, $135.64 and $298.78. appeal "for want of jurisdic tion of 83-year-old Bishop Al

In his appeal to the Supreme tion." fred Couderc of Viviers, France.

Court Dismisses Ministers Appeal

Bishop Resigns

Lauds Board MANCHESTER (NC) - The Pittsfield, N. H. school board has been praised for authorizing the Catholic Church to teach cate chism in school buildings after regular sessions.

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