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ALLENTOWN (NC;) - Bishop Joseph McShea of Allentown has approved new wage scale for diocesan lay teachers. It will become effective during the 1971-72 academic year. A modified version will be adopted for 1970-71, the bishop said. The increase will affect 336' elementary and secondary teachers in the five counties of the diocese.

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NEW DELHI (NC) - A more responsible selectlo~ of Indian students for stud~ overseas and improved counselingl concerning the choice of studies 'is the aim of a new comrrlittbe in this I country. The National B?a~d of Christian Higher. Education is setting

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WASHINGTON (NC) - Archbishop Carlos Parteli of Montivideo has problems galore in his {Jruguayan ,church renewal task, complicated by poverty and turmoil. .' . During a stop-over here in the WEqNESDAY -. etenth day 'nation's capital on his return' within the Octah of Christ- .from Kyoto, the Latin American mas.. II Class. Iw ite. Mass prelate cited some of the many Proper; Glory; qreed; Preface challenges' c.onfronting him in 1 of Christmas. " . his pastoral work in his coun· THURSDAY-Sole., n ~y of. Mary.' try's over-sized, ,capital which . the Mother of Gdd..Solemnity. represents about one-half of the /: White..Ma~s P~oper; Glory; .. total· Uruguayan. population. creed;, Preface, or· (thristma,s. . His vIsit to' Japan points up I another. fac,et of Archbjshop Par~ , •• ~ •, , "" ".: , ".-L-'"I" , , ; :" . tmeoliv'semaecntitv.itHiees, 'wthaes"; CoCnUeinOenf ic81 40 Day of ~~ayer representatives of the major reI ligions found the world who met Dec.21-St. Anth ny of Padin Kyoto to plan for a World . ua. Fall R~'erJ. Peace" Inter-Religio~s· ConferSt. Mary, Fai h~ven. " in October, 1970. St Helena's on1vent Fall "Yes, we are a nation' in cri. . . , Jan. 4~~:~~edra~ o~ the Assis," ArchbishopParteli said,

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"and, in part it is our own-fault. In the- past ·we relied too much on a patermilistic state with a heavy program of social welfare and pensions. The economy was vulnerable. Blit' it is' also the fault of international powers. Ur~guay isa' small country with limite'd domestic markets, capital or skilled labor..We depend on .. exports .of wo.ol; m.·eats' 'and f' leather for our growth, : but prices - and volume 'have" <fecre,ased substantially. The bishops have spoken several ti'mes of the need. for austerity, for intelligent· planning' to get' the country'out <if' the woods,', as they's~y here. It is' not em>ugh to' slow' down inficitiQn, much less, hol.dwages· Qn ',the line." The Archbishop declined com-ment on the internal conditions f 0 hiscoun,try, except-..to refer to "those who hold on to the

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Meeting Concludes Work on New Rule ALTAMONT (NC)-The special General Chapter 'of the Missionaries of LaSalette, currently meeting in Rome, is concluding work on a new rule for the community, with emphasis on promises, rather than temporary vows, preparatory tQ taking perpetual vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, it was reported here in New York. Decision-making. is based on principles, of subsidiarity, coresponsibility and the participation of all. At the level of general administration, the general council and' eight provincial superiors form an international council of the congregation, which coordinates and animates the major programs and aposto· lates carried out by the congregation. Some 38 delegates representing more than 1,100 missionaries in 15 countries are participating in the General Chapter.

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NEW YORK (NC)-Leaders of New York State's publit and Catholic schools have issued a joint statement declaring "it is essential for the public and non public schools to work together, not only il) the field of education but also in the solution of their respective financial problems." The statement was issued by the New York State Council of Catholic School Superintendents and the Conference of Large City Boards of Education. The latter groups includes public school officials from Albany, Buffalo, New York, Rochester, Syracuse and Yonkers. A similar joint statement was issued last month by Catholic and public school officials in Philadelphia. The New York statement expressed the need for "the wholehearted commitment of the Catholic community to the financial support of public education." It also put the officials on record as recognizing the need "for all efforts, including those of the New York State Education Department, to explore legal and constitutional avenues of assistance to the non public schools." The statement was issued at the conclusion of the first formal meeting between' the two groups, which was held at the invitation of the public school boards and superintendents of schools. . Work Jointly In the last f.our years, Catholic school enrollment in this state has decreased by 58,524 .. Almost all of' these youngsters are now in public schools, at an average per pupil cost of $1,140, which means a $66 million cost increase for this year alone. The joint statement said that the education of the state's children depends upon the continued strength of both systems; the failure of either would seriously affect the other. "In the days ahead, both systems face severe financial crises," the statement declared. Therefore the two groups have agreed to work jointly to bring to public attention "the 'fundamental services needed byalJ the childrep of New York State and the means of providing these services." Representatives of Protestant and Jewish schools are being in· vited to the next meeting.

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River--Thurs. Dec. 25, 1969

Public, Catholic School Officials Cite Concerns

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It seems a shame to come into the Christmas Season with so much dissension and disorder about us. This is supposed to be a time for good-will ' '. towards men. Catholics customarily quote the mes- l."•. '", sage of the angels as, "Peace on earth to men of good-will." Whichever way we look. at it, nations and races have a long way to go if they are to ~l... achieve some semblance of Peace.

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But there is a power in Christmas to change the hearts and minds of men; and men must change before races and nations do. Pity is, that people called Christian have not lived in an atmosphere of Peace for generations. Yet many, even most of us, have learned to rely, not so much on external conditions, but on the simple fact that we are Christ-bearers. The memory of the first coming of Christ may come and go, as do Christmas festivals, but the actuality of Our Lord being one with us will never ~adpe. Where Chrisht is, there is Peace. He Himself IS , eace. In fact, t ere is none better, nor any other. So let us count our blessings and put them to use.

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centage of the entire continuency of 5,000 to 6,000 stud~nts:' But despite what he called the will of the majority, Rosenberg said he "had to order a halt to the practices because they violate the First Amendment of the Constitution, which prohibits establishment of religion. "I can do nothing more than observe the dictates of 'our law as interpreted by our courts" the Federal jurist commented, referring to the 1963 Supreme Court decision which declared school Bible reading and prayer uncon~ stitutional. The district school board voted last March to "install Bi~le reading and some nondenominational mass prayer" in its 13 schools to promote what it called the betterment of moral and spiritual values.

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THE ANCHORL Diocese of fall River-Thurs. Dec. 25, 1969 1

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ST. PAUL (NC)-Some 20 to 30 schools in the St. Paul and Minneapolis archdiocese. are likely to close or consolidate. at the end of the current school year, according to Father John R. Gilbert, archdiocesan superintendent of schools. Father Gilbert, in a letter to pastors and priests of the archdiocese, said the 'prime cause of the expected curtailment is a continuing decline in available Religious teachers. "A further cutback in Religious personnel will weaken your school perhaps beyond the breaking point," he said. "We do not intend to recommend this route as a solution to our present crisis." . Instead, Father Gilbert recommended the closing or consolidation of 20 to 30 schools, which would mean a decrease in archdiocesan elementary and secondary school enrollment greater than the 7,OOO-student decline which took place last fall. Father Gilbert said no an-. nouncement of the schools in. volved will be made until he is able to discuss each situation with the parish pastor.

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'We Are All Alike'

Cardinal Cooke Visits Troops

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LOS ANGELES (NC) - Sister Justa Ciriza, the mother general, pledged the 1,500 Daughters of St. Joseph in 13 nations will stand solidly for one objectivemedical care for the poor. "We were founded to give medical care to the workers to the poor. I say poor for we are of the poor," Sister Justa ~aid here. She came here from her Madrid, Spain, headquarters to supervise the planning of a new 100-bed hospital, which will reo place 45-year·old Santa Marta Maternity Hospital and Clinic. Construction on the new project will start in January. Sister Justa has promised to provide 25 Sisters, fully trained professionally to staff the new hospital.' . "We have nine hospitals in this province. In Mexico City we have a I,OOO-bed hospital, the Hospital Espanol, which is the largest in the nation," she said. "Recently, we had a chapter to update ourselves i n medicine :1Od education and to renew ourselves spirituJlly," she continued. The DJughters of St. Joseph will we~ the traditional, anklelength habit. , "Naturally, we all need interior reform. But there have been

NEW YORK (NC)-Terence Cardinal Cooke of New York, military vicar for the armed forces, has left here on his second annual around-the·world tour to visit U.S. troops. He will' visit seven countries in Europe and Asia during his three-week trip. Cardinal Cooke pointed out that the purpose of his visit is to bring to the men and women serving in the armed forces in each of the countries he will visit the prayers of good tidings of their families and friends. The prelate w'ill spend Christmas day in Saigon and New Year's Day in Korea. He also will visit Barcelona, \Viesbaden, Frankfurt, Bangkok, Manila, Okinawa, Japan, Guam, and Hawaii. He is expected < back here Jan. 6.

no exterior changes. We have a vigorous and, vital number of young Sisters, but but there was no petition from them to change or shorten the habit," Sister Justa said in discussing reforms suggested at the chapter meeting, Sister JustJ said eight young American women, mostly from the Los Angeles area, who joined the community, are completing training to return to duty in the new hospital. Sister Justa said' a full complement of Sisters trained as nurses, medical technicians, medical records librarians and X-ray technicians, will staff the hospital. . There are already 13 Sisters at the Santa Marta institution, where 800 babies were delivered last year. "...Ve consider thIS a work of the Church. In all our houses we have a superior, but she is the same as all the Sisters. We are all alike in our manner, in our work. We are very demo-" cratic. We are for the poor and we have joined to serve them medically," she said. The Daughters of St. Joseph were founded in Spain in 1875 by a Jesuit, Father Francisco Xavier Butina. Sister Justa has 11 years to go in a 12-year term as superior general.

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Follows CHA Code PHILADELPHIA (NC) - The administrator' of Holy Redeemer Hospital in suburban Meadowbrook denied a report attributed to him that the hospital has an abortion committee which au· thorizes "termination of pregnancy only for specific medical reasons." Hospital administrator Timothy A. Harrington, who is also president of the Philadelphia Conference of the Catholic Hospital Association, said in a statement: "The statement made in the Evening Bulletin on Monday, Dec. 15, relative to the attitude of Holy Redeemer Hospital toward thererapeutic abortion is completely in error. "Holy Redeemer Hospital has no therapeutic abortion committee and does not perform therapeutic abortions. "Holy Redeemer Hospital, like

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all other Catholic hospitals, follows the code of ethics promulgated by the Catholic Hospital Association, which does not authorize the performance of therapeutic abortion for any reason." (David M, Cleary, medical writer for the Evening Bulletin and author of the article on hospital abortion policy, was unavailable for comment.) The .Miseracordia and Fitzgerald-Mercy units of the Mercy Catholic Medical Center were reported in the Evening Bulletin articles as having no abortion committees and as performing no abortions. A telephane survey of all Catholic hospital!> in the Philadelphia archdiocese revealed that none of the hospitals-St. Agnes, St. Joseph's, St. Mary's and Nazareth in Philadelphia; Sacred Heart in Chester; and Sacred Heart in Norristown-has an abortion r.on;tmittee or permits performance of abortions.

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THE ANCHOR+Diocese of Fall-River-Thurs. Dec.--25, 1969

Christmas I (s Re-Creat·ion

Sixteen cent~ri¢S ago, one of t~e four great Greek' Doctors of the Chutch stated· that the Nativity of Christ "is not a festival bf ,creation, but a festival of r~-creation."

PHILADELPHIA (NC) The president of St. Joseph's College here expressed gratification at the Maryland

St. Gregory' 01 N~zianzen could. thus be considered an editorialist for 1969J For the birth of .Christ, although an historical event, i~ pot an end but a means to renewal, sanctification and, re-creation of the whole ·universe.

province Jesuits' commitment to make more personnel available to the order's educational institutions in the Philadelphia area. the birth ·of the Divine Child, We At the same time, he stressed that the province plan did not but we should go :ftirther and signalize the Christmas celdiminish the college's autonomy. ebration with the :ultimate transfiguration of man and the Father Terrence J. Toland, whole created wO~ldl The world held in bondage by reason ·S.J., commenting on the ,educational implications of a stateof man's perversiQn, this is the world Christ redeemed. ment recently released by the humanity and by taking humanity to Maryland provincial, Father Christ redeembJ I I James L. Connor, S.J., said "apHimself He redeemed the world. pointments of qualified staff • I I members, including Jesuits, will In Christ Jesus the universe was radically transformed; continue to be made according in His Person the! ,orld was consecrated and sacramentto procedures determined by our alized-our earth was redeemed, re-created. Jwn college ;ommunity," The statement noted that the And so is the feast of re-creation. It ns the' province's Jesuits are charting feaSt' which bespe~kS the continuing mission of Christ and a course "toward reconciliation of men of our timp who suffer His re-created folloWers to answer creation's call for redivisi differences and aliena:\ . demption. tion. .' Th'c pru v mce ,has committed . Christmas is 'yours-so make it a day re-creating. . . ~iWlllh't%'l:.wHID.'!llUmWg:lm;;il!;I;;~i~~~~~§?r~~~~_~ itself to "deal with the causes a renewal of your own spiritual life, not only yo~rself and effects of racism, poverty, but also make it a l ~y of re-creating the lives of your relreligious separatism and war," the provincial stated. atives and neighbQr1b~ Christian examples of daily living. Direct Involvement In determining priority areas for service, the Jesuit study emCar~Not phasized the "urban centers I The calendar 'year hurtles to a close and· almost as which combine the greatest need with the most promising opporrapidly do autoists: s~'em to be hurling themselves or others tunity," into eternity. The! stiatistics on automobile accidents and To achieve their aim of "recfatalities' have risen iat a truly alarming rate here in the Rev. John F. Moore, B.A., M.A., M.Ed. onciliation;" the province's 766 Commonwealth of' Massachusetts, and the combination of SSe Peter & Paul, Fall River Jesuits will be concentrated' in the work of retreats, education, wintery weather and fast-approaching· holidays seems to research and scholarship, the promise a record de~th rate for the current year. Hardly province statement said, as well proud of. And a thing for the cid, Zi'ns of the Stale to as direct pastoral and social involvement. ' yet~they alone c.an do somethmg about It. Father Toland noted that Phil· It is strang~ ho~ a youth will not be trusted to' make Lonely men are fighting a lonely war in Vietnam this adelphia, "as the fourth largest all sorts of serious decisions, will not be allowed to particity in the United States, epitocipate in all kinds of !community offices. And yet this same week. The joy of the season's greetings will echo the plain- _ mizes most of the problems and opportunities found in the metyouth is licensed at Ithe age of sixteen to drive a couple tive moan of men dying in the agony of violence. There ropolitan areas of our nation. chajrs at home that will never be filled again. There will of tons of steel a,n1 glass and ever-present danger and Philadelphia has always been a potential death. It does not occur to most parents to deny will be chairs that only will this season of Peace, with this meeting house of freedoms. the' wounded body. in mind, while we still do vio"The 'City of Brotherly Love' him this privilege, ~r to restrict it or 'to' supervise it. wheel Men will search for the light lence to each other? Indeed, many a' mot~er is working in a shop to pay for . As the good news of Peace on is a singularly appropriate workshop for the educational task of . .. of peace. Theywl~l see but Earth is repeated once more to reconciling a child's car or insu~ance. . man with man," he the darkness of blood, sweat and mankind, we wonder if it will said. tears. be heard. The always tlr.ol,lght-provoking Harry Golden - the The Christmas ch()ir that This peace we have lost beeditor of the newspaper with the highly unlikely name of chants the song of glory will be cause we have lost the essential forced ~onversion The Carolina IsraeHt~has suggested a novel answer as to shouted down by the roar of the quality of "good will." what to do about the Imass slaughters by the recklessly and cannon and screams of agony. This Christmas closes the dec- Laws Forecast The traveling USO Christmas ade of th~ 60's. , carelessly driven a,utemobile. Quoting another newspaper NEW DELHI (NC)-More InThis age, which began in the dian states will introduce legisfriend of his,' he suggested that the car be put in jail in..: show will give men a brief interlude of laughter before they re- hopefUl light of a new Camelot, lation to ban alleged forced constead of the driver. ;. turn to weeping for their fellow now comes to its completion in versions to Christianity. comrades. a dismal fog of confusion and This was indicated by Minister A brilliant and, ~ractical solution! Many 'a~ otherwise This is Christmas in Vietnam, uphe~va1. of State for Home Affairs Vidya sane person becomes la monster behind the wheel of a car. a fact of. stark reality that is so We are all very familiar with Charan Shukla, who told the naAnd even if this per~on were put in jail he would not be very personal to those who la- the events of this age. No de- tional parliament here that fresh deeply affected but 'Y0uld spend the time dreaming of the ment their dead soldier sons and tailed television review is need- legislation to prohibit conversion very impersonal to the major- ed because each American has by force or by allurement was nice shiny car waiting comfortably for his return. So why so ity as they sweep through the been emotionaly involved in this being considered. not put the car in' j~i1. If the driver were home and the mores 'of the Yuletide. . / s p i n n i n g web of national vioShukla added that the RajasCan we sincerely celebrate lence. automobile were irin~unded, think of the results ! than state government and the administration in the NEFA It might be wo a try. . . Prayer for New Way of Life (North-East Frontier Agency) I territory reported "increased These reflections, for many, sage that has true meaning and proselytizing activities" by formight seem not to be in keeping everlasting life. eign Christian missionaries. with ·the joy of the season. The false tinsel of man-made If joy be fantasy, then this is peace has led humanity from 1"""""111"""""""""" """IIII"lIl""'If".ltrmll"'I"'"''"''''''''lIl'''''''''''"'.,,1/,/1 true. war to war; the shiny ornament the move, ever searching, ever But, we live in a real world of a material existence has de- hopeful because it is ever loving. where j9Y has little meaning for toured us from our true destiny; It is in this quality of the DiOFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF .THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER so many. The reasons for this the glow of synthetic stars has vine that must be our Christmas Published weekly by +h~ Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall River ·is quite obvious. Just read the blinded us. from. seeing the star' gift to the world if we are' to 410 Highland Avenue daily news reports. And, too, of Bethlehem. have Peace on Earth. If there is to be a peaceful look around the corner and see Fall River~, Mass. 02722 675-7151 Yes, there is a hopeful ChristI the' slum, look at the bread lines Christmas, there must be a hope- ma'S wherever there is a believful one where men take the mesi PUBLISHER and see the "joyous" faces. ing man. ". Most Rev. James L. Connolly, D.O., PhD. The facts of daily life could sage of the angels to heart. I It is this spirit that will bring There will be peace if there .overcome the faithless man. GENERAL MAN'iGIER ASST. GENERAL MANAGER are men of good will, if there us not into the false age of a Rev. Msgr. Daniel F. Shalloo, M.A. Rev. John P. Driscoll But, there is hope, if we could are benevolent men with open debauched Aquarius but into a take it for real. : new decade of Peace. hearts and minds. , .. 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There's often a letdown feeling" after Christmas, but not this year for upperclassmen at Mt. St. Mary Academy,' Fall River, who are anticipating their Holly Ball, a semiformal to be held Friday,' Jan. 2 at Compton Cliffs Steak House, Little Compton. R.I. Dancing will follow dinner. Schools, having as its purpose promotion of good relations For those who've been the between the two schools. Holiwondering about class of- day projects of 'YCCL were a ficers at New Bedford's Holy Family High, here they are: Senior president, Dan Dwyer; Pat Loria, vice-president; Leslie Palmieri, secretary; Gary Rego, treasurer. Juniors Room 3: Joe David, president; Julie Cayer, vice-president; Lillian Costa, secretary; Diane Lino, treasurer. Room 5: Neil Barney, president; Marsha Moses, vice-president; Elizabeth Humphrey, secretary; Terry Servais, treasurer. Room 10: James Allen, president; Pat Cabral, secretary; Carol Collard, treasurer. SophomQres, Room 2: Joe Olifierko, president; Steve Wright, vice-president; Debbie Torres, secretary; Paula Freitas, treasurer. Room 4: Martha Healy, president; Ray Perry, vice-president; Lynn Riley, secretary; Mary Glenn, treasurer. Freshmen Room 8: Bob Larkin, president; Mary Clarke, vice-president; Anne Fontaine, :;ecretary; Kathy Lowney, treasurer. Room 9: Mike Sanford, president; Jim Palmieri, vicepresident; Kathy McDonald, secretary; Nancy Weaver, treasurer. Freshman Day Girls at St. Joseph High, Fall River, held a freshman day, dedicated to the school's newest seekers after knowledge. Themed on 20th century Inventors, it closed with a folk Mass. James Jackson, student body president at Msgr. Prevost High School, Fall River, is one of two Massachusetts students who will attend the 1970 Hearst Foundation U. S. Senate Youth Program In Washington the week of Jan. 25. They will attend senate sessions and visit the offices of Massachusetts senators Brooke llnd Kennedy. They also hope to meet President Nixon. The other Massachusetts student named to participate In the program is John M. Burke, Pittsfield:', Mt. St. Mary seniors will hold their prom In April at Shamrock Cliff restaurant. Theme will be "In the Windmills ot Your Mind," and Janice Pieri, senior class president, is in charge of arrangements. Meanwhile Mount juniors will have "Crystal Blue Persuasion" as the theme of their dance, scheduled for late January. Holy Family debaters took fourth place In a varsity debate tournament at Barrington High School, with Raymond Perry and Joseph Olifierlw on the affirmative side and Marsha Moses and Janine Bourassa on the negative. Marsh and Janine were also the only undefeated twoman team in the tournament, posting a win-loss record of 4-0. And this week saw induction ceremonies for the Youth Council of Christian Leadership, a joint organization for students at Prevost and Connolly High

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record contest and a toy drive, the latter for the benefit of underprivileged area youngsters. Upcoming is a retreat, a parent-tea€her forum and renewal of weekday Masses in cooperation with student spiritual organizations. Name Officers Freshman homeroom officers at Mt. St. Mary's include, Room 10, Shelly Dufresne, president; Debra Belanger, vice-president; Linda Costa, secretary; Michelle Arntz, treasurer; Susan Franco,' student council representative. Room 12: Sharon Nascimento, president; Susan McDonald, vice-president; Cynthia Guay, secretary; Norma LeBlanc, treasurer; JoAnn Hannafin, student council representative. Room 13: Sherril Vanasse, president; Denise Pelletier, vicepresident; Cheryl Paquette, secretary; Paul Szagowiez, treasurer; Ellen Thran, student council representative. Shelly, Sharon, Sherril-there must be something presidential about having your name begin with S. Something else begins with S -snow, and a third thing, which you do on snow, which is ski. Those thoughts struck Connolly students last year, and they organized ski club which is now trying to raise money for a Volkswagen bus, the more easily to get to where the skiing's best. Not to be outdone, Mounties Sue Anne Cadieux and Margaret Gibbons are hoping to organize a ski club, soon to take its first trip snow-wards_ Glee Club Officers of Holy Family's glee club are Terry Sirois, president; PHOENIX (Nc) Bringing Dana Querlm, vice-president; MaryLou LeBoeuf, secretary- along a wealth of optimism treasurer. Members were heard about the future of the Church, recently at an area women's Bishop Edward A. McCarthy took of6ice Tuesday as the first club Christmas party. Meanwhile, back at the Mount. spiritual head of the new Pat C,ummings and Marguerite Phoenix diocese. Letendre are co-captains of the Bishop McCarthy said "the seniors varsity basketball team. current unrest in the Church The team will have five memo seems based upon high and pure bers instead of six under changed principles" and is leadin, playing rules, and all players toward "a goklen age." will have free nm of the entire He eschewed pessimism recourt. today's youth and the Congratulations to Peter .Bee- garding decline, in vocations to the ton, senior at Bishop Stang High, North Dartmouth, who has priesthood and religious life. He received Sen. Edw.ard Kennedy's said: "Today's young people arc· denomination to Annapolis. And high scorer in a recent manding a spir~t of. genuineness. math meet at Quincy High was They are impatient with what is Stanglte Patricia Downey. Other artificial; they are turning off members of the Stang team were materialism and affirming the Marcia Roszkiewisz, Teresa primacy of love. This is the Downey, Anne Marie Smith, and spirt of -the Gospel! We have to Ed:-vard Martin. Sister Ann show these young people that Marie Fitzgerald is team moder- the religious life does offer them a life of total dedication ator. Jesus-Mary Academy Add Jesus-Mary Academy of Fall River to the list of Diocesan high glee clubs heard at La Salette Shrine during the Christmas See Us season. The JMA laSJiies jourAbout. neyed to the Attleboro pilgrimage spot last Saturday night. And on Tuesday of this week 80 JMAers made a field trip to New York City under direction of Mother Grace Manley. A tour of the UN anel the NBC studio$ were on the agenda, plus "three hours· to do last minute ChristFalmouth Wareham l'1a5 shopping all Fifth Avenue." 548-3000 295·3800 Turn to Page, Twelve

refused to block inclusion of a Nativity scene in a Christmas pageant in a public park within sight of the White House. The challtfuge was initiated by tI-e American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of three clergymen, an atheist and an Ethical So('lety leader. Target of the suit is a life-size Nativity scene which annually is part of the Christmas pageant on the Ellipse, the park area betWl'en the White House and Washington Monument. .The pageant is arranged by a private nnnprofit corporation under a permit from the lnterior Department. The Court of Appeals heard arguments in the case but declined to issue an immediate order blocking the Nativity scene. Th(l court did not indicate when il would rule on the case.

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Divulges How I I Human We, Are By Joseph and Mar;ly

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The holidays pr a time for ups and dow s. Emotions r.un high apdr it takes very lIttle for mOft of 'us to laugh gleefully' or shed a sudden tear. Businqss per usual is not the style and it doesn't' take much to bring' 0 the dol· drums. The following s a list of doldrum-prodL!cing' ty ical holi· day events. When you sit dqw to read the children "Twas he Night Before 'Christmas" l\ncll half way through it one of! t~em turns on TV to watch Star rek, Or, when you unt>a k the bicycle t.he night befOi-.e [Christmas only to discover that i has only one Wheel. , When you ask your ife what she wants for Chris~mas and she answers, "Well If . ou really want to know, I woul like the cellar cleaned, the i dIshwasher fixed. the curtain tod! hung in the den, and. , . , ~ .1Or after .fighting your 'way through the crowds a~. J'.e department store to buy ~e the iron she needed so badlY, our wife says," Any husband' Iho would . buy his wife an appl~ance for Christmas isn't very 'th~ughtful." When the tree i~ ~.naIlY up and everyone is gath'er d around ? to see the lights go ;on and you plug it in only tg, blo a fuse. Reasonably Qui t A visit from the id ctor two days before Christmas rings the pronouncement," The aby has a bad cold. Keep him i bed for the next few days .aryd keep him reasonably quiet." ; When a kindly 'fir t ,grade teacher asks you to be he Santa Claus at her schooll p rty. . When ,you put on, lur rain· coat three days after. hristmas and find a stack of hristmas cards in your pocket our wife ,asked you to mail a Jveek bei fore. Or the inevitable' hristmas'

Sing a song this is the first one that Joe Ys teaspoon salt . Meaningless Whirlwind other Y2 cup of sugar and the, % sticks or 6 Tablespoons salt. Since the sixties have been has raved about. Apple Crisp butter 3) Cut in with a pastry cutter, the decades of self-searching (at 6 tart apples, peeled and cored J;.l cup chopped nuts 01' two knives the butter until least that's what I read), it 2 teaspoons lemon juice I) Slice the apples and mix the mixture is crumbly. Stir in should come as no surprise to Y2 cup sugar them with the first half cup of the nuts and sprinkle this mixme that so very many people Y2 teaspoon cinnamon sugar, the lemon .iuice, cinnamon ture over the apples, Bake i,n. a mention the fact that while this J;.l teaspoon ground cloves and cloves. Turn into a buttered 350'0 oven. for 45 minutes. Serve happy and holy season should ~ cup sifted flour 2 Y2 or 3 guart baking dish. warm with whipped 'cream or be one of the warmest periods Y2 cup sugar 2) Mix together the flour, the vanilla ice cream, of family happiness we find it instead to be a whilwind of m~n~~~s Ktivity ili~ ~ems ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~n~~~~m~z~ to accomplish nothin'g and leaves •• til ~ ~ tis feeling quite empty. .~ ii Perhaps this happens be'cause ~ all through our adult .life we are ~ Jf searching for that special Christ- I~ ~ mas magic that is known only ~ to children. Never again can we. i recapture that breathless expec.~ tancy we felt waiting for Christ- ~ cry.

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No, childhood can never again experienced. be recaptured but perhaps there i., another joy that we can find ten friend to whom yo did not ' in this holy season-joy that send a card. comes from giving, observing And finally after spending and maybe just praying. much' too much for yo r wife's gift you find out that tQe fellow next door gave his wife a new feet to serve even company on Mustang as a little tri~ket' and a cold wintery day. I've tried. your exorbitant offeri1g fades many Apple Crisp recipes I quickly into the real~ of the thought wer~ pretty. good but miserly afterthought.' . In the Kitchen Hopefully by the; l' e you Charge Dominicans read this your presents will be all wrapped, the tree: w II be up With Housing Blacks and trimmed (of courSe fter hitSTELLENBOSCH (NC) ~ Six ting the floor a coupl¢ f .times) black Africans given housing and the children wilt . e wait- during a student mee~ing here . ing eagerly for, that cllu by little . were arrested in a post-midnight man in the red suit ,t'o answer raid_and their hosts, a Catholic all 'their dreams, I religious order: face charges for Oddly enough Chri,st as day having given them shelter.' itself goes by in a haze f wrapThe incident occurred during ping paper, broken fi gernails a conference of Nusas, a student (this fro. m putting to•. g~her ail organization that is regarded those toys that are so easy a three year older could do it) with disfavor by the South African government. The scene was and Excedrin headaches ith the the St~llenb9sch Ecumenical only oasis in the hectiC hirl the Center, which is 'conducted by lovely Christmas Mas!>. . Every year most df us vow .the Dominican Fathers.' Officials of the government's that we'll get all ou~ s, opping done by, November, .oul cards Bantu' Affairs ,Department, using rna i1ed out by the 15th of De· center at 2 A.M. and found the cember and the freezer"pi ed with center _at 28 A.M. and found the goodies long, before the day it- six black delegates'. They were ~elf rolls around.Becau~~' we are taken t? a police station and all human, such v'ows as this charged with being in the area fall by,the wayside but it does without a perm.it. The charge , give one's spirit a boo~t 0 think against the Dominicans was that one could possibly become "housing Africans without a license." that efficient. 1

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Post-Holiday Lull Affo'rds P!erilod of R1eplenishment

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By Marilyn Roderick There's no time that's any better to take stock of your wardrobe than the period right after the holidays. Usually a few extra tidbits appear under your tree to give your wardrobe that extra punch. These coupled with ' some repairs on what you already have in your closet and sizes are concerned, but if you shop without preconceived should give you some indica- notions (such as insisti~ that tion of what you should be you just have to find a navy looking for on the sale racks. Scarfs are the big accessory buy this season and if you were lucky you were gifted with a few by Saint Nick. Here could be a big fashion plus in your wardrobe plans. 0 ne W l' a p around you l' neck, tie a long one around your waist or tie your hair back with one and even the drabbest outfit picks up some zing. If you're anything like me, you have a half-dozen or so skirts, a dress or two and at least one coat that you have been moving around in your closet because you haven't had them altered. Truly, you could use them, in fact you haVe probably been complaining that you just don't have any clothes to wear, while all it would take would be a couple of trips to the dressmaker or an evening or two with the sewing machine and your wardrobe would grow by leaps and bounds. Inventory Time The after-holiday lull is the perfect time to take inventory because at the same time that you're taking stock, so are the stores; and every wise shopper knows that after inventory comes slilles. I'm sure I'm repeating myself when I say that the stores that I have. found consistently to have the best sales are those stores that have good merchandise to begin with. A dollar or so off an item doesn't constitute a sale 'in .my book; but one half off, there's a deal for you. However, January is the time when you can pick up that extra skirt or maybe a few extra blouses. It's the time to be on the lookout for a coat to wear to work or run errands in. True, there is little choice left on the racks as far as certain colors

Economic Association Elects New Officers WINONA (NC)-James E. Kenney, economic professor at Le Moyne College, Syracuse, N.Y., has been elected president of the Catholic Economic Association, succeeding Father Richard L. Porter, S.J., of Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Okla. Results of the election here in Minnesota were disclosed by Sistcr M. Yolande, College of St. Tcresa, the association secretarytreasurer. She said the officers will be installed at the annual meeting Dec. 27 and 28 in New York City. Others elected were Sister Catherine Therese Knoop, Los Angeles, first vice-president; Richard J. Ward, Washington, D.C., second vice-president, and Ludwig H. Mai, San Antonio, Tex., Father John F. Killeen, S.J., Los Angeles, and Peter Danner, Milwaukec, executivc council mcmbers.

WASHINGTON (NC) - President Nixon has congratulated thE' Catholic College Coordinating Council, composed of 172 Catholic colleges and universities in 28 states, for its "imaginative programs" which have aided thousands of college students. The President's message was transmitted to the Council's annual meeting, at Trinity College here, in a letter from Robert H. Finch, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, to Father E.dmund J. Haughey, C.S.C., of Stonehill College, outgoing Council president. eccc is an organization of a(_missions officers college which provides information on scholarships, admissions policies and curricula of the various institutions to potential college students.

blue skirt on sale) then you have a fighting chance. Catching up Time Also those long Winter evenings ahead would be a perfect opportunity to catch up on some of that sewing you've been dying to tackle but haven't had the opportunity to even begin. Jumpers, skirts, and some of the easy little dresses will not cause you a great deal of thought and worry but they will perk up your Winter weary wardrobe. Why, it could even be the time for you to begin on your Easter outfit. Pattern magazines begin to show their Spring styles in early January so get a jump on everyone and begin early. So when the cold winds blow this Winter, don't: get depressed, get out that needle and thread, clean out your closet, send all your items that need cleaning to the cleaners (or if you have the time drive over to one of those do-it-yourself places) and the days of "Good heavens, what am I going to wear?" will be over for you.

Occupy Women's College Sui Iding PURCHASE (NC)-A group of 18 black students barricaded themselves in a classroom building of Manhattanville College here in New York and pledged to remain until their demands were met. The students, led by Paula Williams, a junior, said they were seeking a "deeper" involvement by the black community in the life and governance of the institution" operated by the Religious of the Sacred Heart. The most signifieant demands in a list of about 10 presented by the students were a request that more blacks be included in the 1,150-member student body and that black faculty membership be increased. At present, 47 black girls are enrolled as full-time undergraduates and there are three blacks on the' faculty" Sister Elizabeth McCormack, college president, who was away from the campus when the occupation began,. issued a statement saying she would make efforts to understand the. situation fully "before taking the .action that it is my responsibility to take." A group of about 300 Manhattanville students signed a petition saying they were opposed to the tactics used by the protestors. .

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Demytholo.gizes Belief LOS ANGELES (NC) - The Los Ange.les Archdiocese has paid $1,657,697 in taxes and assessments in the past year in the four counties which comprise this California See. Included were: ' Assessments 'paid by the Archdiocesan Education and Welfare Corporation on elementary, and high schools, convents, halls and auditoriums, $316,136. Assessments paid by the parishes on churches and taxes on rectories and other parish properties, $727,002. Taxes and .assessments paid on land for future parish and school sites, and other properties not tax exempt, $614,559. These figures were disclosed in a front page editorial in the Tidings, archdiocesan newspaper. ' "Somehow, the myth exists that the Church pays no taxes or tax assessments, and every now and then one hears of pro-

tests against 'Church tax exemptions.' It might be well, in the language of the day, to demythologize this innocent be:ief," the editorial stated.

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WASHINGTON (N~) - The Jesuit· Fathers' Maryand prov,ince, with headquart rs in Baltimore,has committe itself to deal with the causes nd effects ' of '"racism, poverty, religious separatism and war through new as well as trad,iti nal forms of ministry, according to a plan of renewal issued I b province .officials. . . Father Robert J. j enle, S.J., president of Georget wn University here said Iat a press conference that a, ignificant feature of the plan i the assignment of more Jes its to inner-city projects i~ altimore, Washington and Ph ladelphia, and a reduction of: J suit personnel in other part of the province. The Maryland pro ince includes southern NeW' Jersey; Philadelphia, Scrant~nknd Pittsburgh, Pa.; the Distridt of Columbia; Wheeling, W. ~va., and a number of missions' in North Carolina. Its 766 mem, ers staff five' 'colleges and ~n,versities; six high schools; tW? retreat houses; 11 parishes ~aQd a variety of other ministries, as well as schools and pariShJS in Osorno, Chile, and Ja shedpur, India. I Summarizing the principal features of the. rene al plan, Father Henle said' it f lIows an intensive self-study by the province over the past tY)o years, and reflects a determiqation of emphases and a reevall1ation of priorities as to how the Society of Jesus, with limited ",anpower and external activities lin order to best achieve the accomplishment of its mission itt ~he modern world. I Father Henle said the renewal plan' deve,loped 'out hf the deliberations' of both Vatican Council II and the 31 st general congregation of the JJsuits, held in Rome, which fOllowtd it. It was undertakef', he said, against the background of th'e ultural, - ideological, political. an social issues of our time" alld particularly, of our nation.

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Offering You UNION (NC)-The New Jersey Congress of Parent-Teacher Associations has launched a driVe against current efforts to pro· vide assistance for children attending non-public schools. PTA activity against two pending measures has pick~d up throughout northern New Jersey since the state group advised affiliates of its position. That position was revealed when the PTA unit at Battle Hill School here distributed a letter at its November meeting outlin!ng the state group's stand. The measures being opposed are the Vander Plaat bill, under which the state school-aid formula for public schools would be used to determine payments to parents of children attending pr1vate schools, and a book loan bill. . :State assistance to private scho,ols was an issue in the reo: cent·statewide 'election, with Citizens for Educational Free·'

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STOCKHOLM (NC~ he pos- dcaonmdl·daantdesotohnerthg~OUPtaSnqduerYtinh·ge elr s on sibili'ty that a new "frJe" church may be formed becau,se of the two measures, both of which are controversy over wome clergy still in committee. . Observers doubt that either in the Lutheran· state chu ch has been .implied here by a rt,inister measure will be reported out at of the High Church mdvement this session but they expect action next year when the new here in Sweden. ' The traditionalist Hi~h Church legislature meets, and ~oes on a basis for the first time. movement Kyrklig: amling two-year Offset Racial Balance (Church Union) advocate a -litAccording to the letter dis· .urgy and church praetic s that tributed here, parents should opclosely resemble thos¢. of the two measures because pose the Roman Catholic Church. "Free"- private schools might be discrimchurches are those Pr~testant inatory and would vie for childenominations not I affiliated dren who bring them the largest with the Lutheran state hurch. tuition allotments under the , I ' The 10-year-old struggl\e over state's sliding-scale formula. women clergy in the state It was also charged that prichurch has flared up agaj-n in a. vate schools would want to use dispute between Bishop I?av~d public fun.ds without restrictions, Lundquist of Vaxso and t e rec- review or control; that school aid tor of his cathedral wh n the measures might offset the recent Bishop announced plans to ortoward racial balance in dain a' woman to the' mInistry trend public schools, and that books on Dec. 20. This would \)e the and materials loaned to private first ordination of a woman in would districts be returned to publi(.; school' in un· the Vaxjo diocese, regar'led as . schools a "High Church" diocese.. usable conditions after five years. .' The block of gt:anite w ich' is an obstacle in the pathway the weak becomes"'a steePing. the stone in the pathway I' .strong. +Oarlyle

RADNOR (NC) Religious broadcasters might do better to concentrate on spot announcements instead of producing fulllength programs, according to TV Guide magazine. The Dec. 20 issue of TV Guide says a growing number of national and regional church. 'groups are using 10-second to one-minute film commercials. Many religious broadcasters think the time allotted to them on TV and radio for full-length shows keeps them from attracting audiences, it says. "Religion is something that ,goes on radio and TV at 8:30 A.M. Sunday, to be jotted down, in the public service logs to show to the FCC (Federal Communications Commission)," the magazine quotes Charles E. Reilly Jr., executive director of the National Catholic Office for Radio and Television, as saying. This problem has led several denominations to concentrate on ,the short anouncements which are frequently mixed in with normal commercial messages, according to the magazine.

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Announces Bcill PresentatiQn Committee Rev. Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, diocesan coordinator of the Bishop's Charity Ball, announced today the committee in charge of the presentation of young ladies to His Excellency James L. Connolly, Bishop of the Fall River diocese, at the 15th annual Charity Ball to be held Friday evening, Jan. 9 at Lincoln Park Ballroom, Dartmouth. Dedication of the Ball will be in honor of Bishop Connolly on the occasion of his 25th year in the episcopate and 19 of these years as the Ordinary of the diocese. Bishop Connolly was the orig• ina tor of the Ball, New England's outstanding social and charitable event for the benefit of the exceptional and underprivileged children of the area, regardless of race, color or creed. Bishop Connolly's 25 years in the episcopate has been in the service of the Fall River Diocese. Area Members Mrs. James A. O'Brien of Fall River is chairman of the presentees' program. She is aided by the following: Fall River Area-Mrs. Thomas H. Cahill, Mrs. William A. Murphy, Fall River and Mrs. Vincent A. Coady of Somerset. New Bedford area chairman is Mrs. Elmer Paul; Tauton area Chairman is Miss Adrienne Lemieux; Attleboro area cochairmen are Mrs. John J. Mullaney, 'Mrs. Adrien Piette; and the Cape area chairman is Mrs. Nestor Robidou. Parishes Selected Under the new plan of the presentation of young ladies, every year one-third of the parishes of the dio.cese will be represented at this outstanding ceremony at the Ball. Under this plan, assurance. is given that every parish of the diocese will be honored with a presentee every third year. Full participation by all parishes in this social and charitable event provides added success of the Charity Ball. The parishes selected for the 15th Annual Ball are: St. Mary's Cathedral, Notre Dame, St. Anne, St. Louis, St. Michael, St. William, Santo Christo, Holy Name, St. Anthony of the Desert; St. Bernard, Assonet; Our Lady of Grace, No. Westport; Our Lady of Fatima, Swansea. Attleboro Area: St. John the Evangelist, ·St. Stephen; St. Mary, No. Attleboro; Mt. Carmel, Seekonk. Cape Cod and the Island area: St. Margaret, Buzzards Bay; St. Patrick, Falmouth; St. Elizabeth, Edgartown; St. Joan of- Arc, Orleans; St. John the Evangelist, Pocasset; St. Augustine, Vineyard Haven; Our Lady of Lourdes, Wellfleet. New Bedford area: Assumption, Our Lady of Purgatory, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Kilian, St. John the Baptist, St. Joseph, St. Boniface, St. Hyacinth, St. Theresa; St. Mary, Fairhaven. Taunton area: St. Mary, St. P!lul, Holy Rosary, Our Lady of Lourdes; Immaculate Conception, North Easton.

Mass Option ROCKVILLE CENTRE (NC)Catholics in the Rockville Centre ,(N.Y.) diocese may fulfill th,eir Sunday Mass obligation by attending a Saturday evening Mass, beginning Dec. 31. Thc option also extends to holy days of obligation.

Urges Clergymen Speak French MONTREAL (~C)-The Canadian Council of Churches, at its week-long triennial assembly here, urged that all clergymen within the province of Quebec .be able to ipeak French. The stand was considered one of the strongest on the question to date by a national church organization. The council is composed of 11 Protestant and Or· thodox denow.inations. The resolution on the "French fact" came in the wake of disc:ussions on the subject by a section of the assembly. It was chaired by Rev. Claude de Mestral of Montreal, a Frenchspeaking United Church .minister who directs Dialogue, an ecumenical study center here. About 75 to 80 per cent of the population of the province of Quebec is French-speaking. The overwelming majority of these persons also speak English, but the reverse does not always hold true for citizens, inciudingsome members of the dergy, whose first language is English'. A joint working committee of the Canadian Council of Churches and the Canadian Catholic Conference, organization of the country's Catholic bishops, was asked to make a 'thorough study of the FrenchEnglish question, submitting its views to the parent bodies.

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Brings Res,ults Family Prayer Crusade Draws People of Latin America LOS ANGELES (NC) - Back from Guatemala, where a countrywide Family Prayer Crusade is in full swing, the movement's founder, Father Patrick J. Peyton, C.S.C., said that new directions based on the directives of the Second Vatican Council are bringing results. The "Rosary Priest" commented that his decision to suspend diocesan crusades until his policies could be' updated and leadership retrained has now proved to be a correct course. "These many months have been anxious months," he said. "We seemed to be so idle when the world needed prayer-and more prayer. I confess I've been eating my heart out, but now the strain has lifted arid the horizon is clear." He riffled through a portfolio of news pictures of great crowds attending the family prayer rallies in Guatemala. Father Peyton said: "What will weld Latin America into great and glorious continent that it is, is prayer. The faith is there. We must have faith. and build on it." 'Violence Makes News' Picking up a· photograph showing the sea of faces at a prayer rally, Father Peyton said: "Look, these are the real people of Latin America. The head-

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LONDON (NC) -:. The recent request made by John Cardinal, Heenan of· Westminster to Pope Paul for the canonization of the Forty Martyrs of England. and Wales is held to be unecumeni, cal by Archbishop Michael Ramsey of 'Canterbury, Anglican Primate. The Catholic weekly review, The Tablet, sought Archbishop Ramsey's opinion after the publication in the press of Cardinal . Heenan's request for canonization of the Catholic Martyrs, who died for their faith during the Reformation. The archbishop sent the Tablet a memorandum on the subject he had drawn up in 1966 but which had not been pub· lished. His views, he said, remained the same. Archbishop Ramsey said he believes that the canonization would "be harmful to the ecumenical cause in England" and ~ that "it would encourage those r emotions which militate against the ecumenical cause,"

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Utrecht Coa4jutor UTRECHT (NC) --:- Pope Paul Hope Santa is picture VI sent a personal',letter of congratulation to newly ;consecrated good to youl Coadjutor Archbish<;>p Marinus Kok of the Old Catholic archGreetings from diocese of Utrecht. j Doing Things Well Archbishop Kok, 54, was con· Opportunity for distinction secrated in the Old Catholic lies in doing ordinary things well ,cathedral of St. Gertrude here Routes i & 1A at Intersection in The Netherlands. The Old and not in erratically striving to Award Medal of Honor Posthumously .of Route 123 • So. Attleboro Gatholic archdioces~ is \ now perform· grandstand plays._ To Chaplain, Two. Soldiers headed by 80-year·old Arch· -Feather ., bishop Andreas Rinkel. Spec. 4 Robert F. Stryker . WASHINGTON (NC) - ,A Old 'Catholics are a sect that Catholic chaplain and two other and Pfc. A. John Barnes Ill' developed from the! refusal· of Army men were' awarded the wer~ cited for throwing them-. some Germa!1 theologians and Medal of Honor posthumously selves atop deadly enemy excanonists to accept I the defini- for extraordinar)t heroism in the plosives, thus saving the_ lives tion of papal infallibility issued Vietnam war.. . of comrades, in separate en· • • by the First Vatican Council in Next of kin of the three heroes gagements, in November, 1967. • 1870. They professed adherence' received the awards from Vice Their fathers, Harold Stryker of • • to the teachings of the first President Spiro T. Agnew at a Throop, N.Y'" and John A. seven ecumenical 'councils and private ceremony~ Barnes" Jr., of Needham, Mass., the Nicene Creed but Confession The chaplain, Maj. Charles J. were invited to receive tile med'and fasting, among either things, Watte'rs, was killed Nov.. 1967 als. Were regarded as optional. while ministering to the wound· , . The Old Catholics became ed on Hill 875, scene of some In the nation's .annals only loosely organized i~to national ·of the heaviest fighting at Dak three other chaplains, all 'Cathchurches in severa! countries. To_ According to .reports from olic priests, have been awarded Their holy orders Iand sacra· the sce'ne, Father' Watters was the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest h~nor for heroes. The ments are considered valid. .the victim of a U.S. bomb which only living one is Father (Capt.) fell.by mist.ake among a group Angelo J. Liteky, M.S.SS.T., of of some 20 wounded men. The Jackson.ville, Fla, who received i I wounded men also were killed. the award from. President John- '~.", Father. Watters, a priest of son in November.. 1968. Continued from' Page Seven il; DA alumnae willi hold their the . Newark ; archaiocese, is Although an honor medalist annual .homecoming I game at 8 buried in Arlington National Monday night, Dec' l 29, at the Cemetery. His brother, Ken- is excused from further combat -academy.. All' are )velcome to neth Watte.rs, of Jersey City, ,duty, Father Liteky subsequently ret.urned to Vietnam. '\ accepted tpe medal. <)ttend. I Sophomores at. DA hao two Advent, projects, r~pbrts our girl on the spot. P~ula Hamel. They car.oled door to: door at the ItfS Morgan 'apartments for' the elderly and' held a children's party at St. Joseph's Horrle. Also, on the sop.homore Chri~tmas agenda was a play, "The Christmas SERV~.C' Necklace," in' which' Cindy Ra· INCORPORATED ~ posa and Denise Boit:,ma had leading p a r t s . : ' F!igidaire Appliances . Christmasy too was the glee ~ _ Air Conditioning club, which entertain'ed students ~63 SECOND STREET, FALL RIVER 678~5644 115' WI~LlAM ST. .NEW BEDFORD, MASS. and faculty with a: medley of Yule <.:a·rols.

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By Rt. Rev. Msgr. John S. Kennedy The legions who have delighted in the New Testament portion of the justly renowned Jerusalem Bible will be glad to hear that a new volume, The Old Testament of the Jerusalem Bible Doubleday, 501 Franklin Ave., Garden City, N.Y., 11531, acquaintance will have to $11.95), has now been pub- An be developed over the years. But lished. All the features which The Jerusalem Bible, now fully accounted for the excellence done in genuine English, can of the earlier 'issued section, characterize ,the present one. The translation is superb. The general and particular introductions are scholarly in substance, simple in expression. T,h e notes are practical. A numof supplements (e.g., a chronological table paralleling Biblical history and general history, tables of measures and money) are useful. And there is an admirable index of Biblical themes which enables one to follow key ideas straight through both Testaments. The single column format makes reading easy. The maps are adequate. The Jerusalem Bible was originally a French project. The English version of the Old Testament uses the introductions and notes of the French, with some emendation in view of Vatican II. The sacred text itself was, in the main, translated into English from Hebrew or Greek, with constant attention to the French rendering. Some of the rules followed in translating are given in the editor's foreword' (the editor, not sO incidentally, is Alexander Jones). One, for example, is that the translator may not impose his personal style on originals. To do this would be to suppress the individuality of the several writers of the Bible. Private, Public Reading Another is that the translator may not substitute contemporary images for those in the original. Such .'!Pdating, as is wisely remarke~should be left to the theologian and the preacher. The Bible, in short, is Is to be preserved intact, yet opened to the eye and ear of the man of our day. The Jerusalem Bible performs this task exceptionally well. As one reads it, one is pleasantly aware that no violence has been done to the Scriptures, but that, by wholly legitimate means, they have been made more intelligible and attractive through a translation which is alive and unostentatiously graceful. As one who is required to recite the Breviary daily, this reviewer has tried using the Psalms as presented in The Jerusalem Bible, and it is a most agreeable experience as contrasted with what one suffers when the lips attempt certain other barbaro'us translations The same is true of sections of books, historical, for example, and prophetic, which figure in. the breviary and in the Mass. The JerusaJem Bible rendel'.ings have limpidity and rhythm and general style which strongly commend them for private or public reading. So far, we have had very modest success in drawing our people into the liturgy, and .8 principal reason is their lack of familiarity with the Bible. The appearance of a single. book is not going to correct that deficien,cy.

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ST. LOUIS (NC)-One of the higher courts of the land has ruled a person may be classified as a conscientious objector even though his beliefs are a product of logic, not faith:

case and speed that acquaintance. New Atlas What could be a companion volume is New Atlas of the Bible (Doubleday. $19.95), written by Jan H. Negenman, translated from the Dutch by Hubert Hoskins and Richard Beckley. It has been edited by Harold H. Rowley, who writes a foreword, and there is an epilogue by Lucas H. Grollenberg, O.P. This is a hero-size and handsome book which contains 34 maps, 21 of them relief maps in color; 53 color photographs and 104 monochromes; and a number of drawings and town plans. The pictorial material is nothing short of magnificent, and much of it was expressly done for this work. The reproduction is practically faultless. The term "atlas" might lead one to expect that a book so identified would chiefly comprise maps. Such is not the case in the present' instance. The Negenman text is lengthy and comprehensive. It begins with the Bible as we know it, remarking that by the end of 1967 it had been translated into 1,250 languages. It next reviews the annals of the printed Bible; goes back to manuscripts of t.he New Testament, and the Old Testament in Greek and Hebrew; and recapitulates the development of writing. The pre-historical and historical background of the Middle NEW YORK (NC)-Mrs. JacEast, with special attention to cultural and religious factors, is queline Grennan Wexler, a forsummarized, and then there is a mer nun who was president of shift to the tenth century B.C., Webster College near St. Louis, in a chapter entitled "The Birth has been chosen by a search committee of the Board of of the Bible." This date, of course, brings us Higher Education of Hunter Colto the time of David and Solo- lege to fill the vacant presidency mon, rulers of the kingdom of of that institution. Israel. It was in that era, says But the Hunter College chapthe author, that the extant oral ter of the United Federation of and written traditions of Israel College Teachers has announced were collected, edited, and ar- its backing for another presidenranged, and thus did the Bible tial candidate, Dr. F. Joachim begin. Weyl, dean of science and mathematics, who took over the Compei Interest The introduction to the Penta- Hunter presidency on an interim teuch in The Jerusalem Bible basis last July when the former deals more amply and, it would president Robert D. Cross, left seem, more satisfactorily with to head Swarthmore College. this subject. There the theori~颅 Russell Miller, chairman of the ing as to the emergence of the Hunter UFCT chapter, said first five books of the Old Testa- "there will be no cooperation by ment is given a succinct but many of the faculty if Mrs. thorough and balanced treat- ,Wexler is appointed." He exment, and a careful critical eval- plained that the objections to uation. Mrs. Wexler's choice are based The growth of the Bible, Old 'on her lack of familiarity with Testament, then New, is shown problems of the school. He in New Atlas of the Bible, in a added that "no cooperation" series of chapters which move does not mean "open revolt." like a narrative and compel a steady interest, The ~Iast word on the subject is not to be found here, nor is there any pretense that it might be. What is offered is an outline intelligibly summarizing many centuries and myriad events. In the review copy of the atlas which came to this desk, there is ,a mix-up of pages in th,e 170's and 180's rarige, wit.h some missing. But on the basis of what was present and in order, the reviewer can pronounce t.his a beautiful and informative piece of work.

The Either Circuit U. S. Court of Appeals here reversed the conviction of Ronald F. Levy, 22, who had been convicted of failure to report for induction. The government contended Levy could not be classified as a con路 scientious objector. "

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S'core Religious Life Pastoral

DETROIT (NC) - The fight -against proposals to relax Michigan anti-abortion laws is not exclusively a Catholic struggle. In the vanguard with Catholic Church leaders against such proposals here are an Episcopalian Bishop and a Presbyterian church official.

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WASHINGTON (NC) - Two' American nuns' in national leadership posts have criticized a document on the religious Sisters which originated in a committee of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB). Critical statements come from Sister M. Claudia Zeller, executive director of th~ C;onference of Major Superiors of Women, and Sister Margaret Ellen Traxler, head of the 1,500-member National Coalition of 'American Nuns. Sister Traxler was quoted in the press several months ago as . stating that the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart in I Los Angeles were "being ground to death" in a dispute wjth James Francis Cardinal McIntyre over new forms of the ilpostolate they undertook as p'art of a controversial renewal I program. The document, entitled "The Religious Woman in Our Day," has now been issued as a collective pastoral letter by' the bishops of the provinces of Los Angeles and San Francisc6; Seattle, Wash.; Portland, Ore.; 'Santa Fe, N.M.; San Antonio, Tex.; Denver, Colo.; and Dubuq'ue, Iowa. The ~astoral said: "Although we cannot praise too highly those outstanding ,Religious women who have concerned themselves \\!,ith poor people, social injustice, hunger, 'racial injustice and other such problems, we must also recognize that these works of mercy' and jus. tice of themselves cannot dispense from the need of liturgical I and private prayer.'" The pastoral emphasized that a nun's activities-in "a whole new set of opportunties," including work in poverty pro· grams, in efforts to dissipate racial conflicts, to secure peace and even to contribute to the im. provement of family life-must always be carried out 'according to the spirit of her c()mmunity and the guidance of the local bishop. . :

NO,tre Dame Lifts Expulsion of F.ve NOTRE DAME (NC)- The University of Notre Dame reversed its decision to expel five students involved in a November campus demonstration.' The re, versal was made a~ the request of a university appeals poard. Father James L. Riehle, C.S.C., dean of students, assented to the board's request for' "¢xecutive clemency" and reduced I the penalty to suspension for I the rest of the term, which ends Jan. '20. He also reconfirmed the suspension of five other students who played roles in the same demonI • stration. The 10 suspended, students will lose their' academic standing. for .·the entire first semester, according to a university spokesman, but cart reapply for admission without prejudice at the beginning of next term. · \rhe 10 students' 'allegedly bldcked the entrance o~ campus of a recruiter for .the Dow Chemical Company. They attempted to justify their action on the grounds that the company, which manufactures napalm used in Vietnam,,' was engaged in activities abhOrrent to · a "Christian c()mmunit~."

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Episcopal Bishop Richard S. Emrich of Michigan has asserted "abortion is the killing of innocent human life." "It is human life, innocent and helpless ':' ':' " those who believe this must be expected to fight fiercely against any law which would permit destruction of life for the sake of convenience," the bishop asse.rted in 3 public state. ment. .

Dr. Richard V. Jaynes of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and a Detroit obstetrician, has stated he is "unalterably opposed to liberalized abortion laws." The. physician is'" an elder of the West-. minster Presbyterian Church here. .

Saturday Mass JOLIET (NC) - Bishop Romeo Blanchette is seeking permission from the Holy See for the fulfillment of the Sunday Mass obligation on Saturday evenings in the Joliet diocese here in Illinois. The diocesan information bulletin said Bishop Blanchette was acting on the recommendation of the Diocesan Pastoral Council.

Drink A (up of Mixed Emotions Cites Progress Bishop Says Americans Have' Gloomy Picture of South Vietnam SAIGON (NC)-Qn his return at the' same time. The bishops to Vietnam, the vice-president of . had refused to meet the delegathe Vietnamese Bishops' Confer- tions separately.) ence said he had. found that While' visiting in the U. S. most Americans have a gloomy Bishop Chi granted several inpicture of South Vietnam. terviews. During one in Chicago Bishop Peter Pham ngoc Chi he claimed that press coverage of Danimg said that there "is a of the Vietnam conflict "has shortage of good. news _ about misled' the American people into South Vifi!tnam in' the United believing the war is going badly, States" and "most Americans while, in fact, the situation has have a very bad idea of how been improving considerably things 'are here. That picture since the (Vie~ Cong) Tet (lunar was true in the past, but it is new year) offensive of nearly not ,true now." two years ago. J:{e said that he had tried to "The, truth is that the United correct that picture while visiting in the U. S. by. citing the . States, our other allies and the example of his own diocese. The South Vietnamese forces are ,bishop explained that he can winning the war." now· visit 38 of the 40 parishes in his diocese' by car and the Laymen Help other two by helicopter. Two years. ago, he said, he ~could not ROME (NC)-The few priests do this. in' the Mrican countries of Bishop Cl'!i said that it is now Rwanda and Burundi are able "impossible to unite North and to care for parishes numbering South Vietnam. . . . The best 30,000 Catholics because of an thing for the present is to leave o~tstandingly active laity, Archit divided like Korea or Ger- bIshop Andre Parraudin of Kabmany. In' the present ·circum- gayl, RW!lnda, said 'here, pointstances there is no hope; so it i~' ing out that - in Rwanda and better to' leave unification' to Burundj the Church's major some time in the future." problem is lack of ecclesiastical The bishop is' also' opposed to personnel. a coalition government with the Viet Congo "The .Catholics would not accept it," he said. The ,. ELECTRICAL bishop, a native of North Viet.,~ Contractors nam, declared: "We saw·it in the . ~~ North... '. It lasted for a: short time until the communists' elim. inated all the non-communists in. the government." Situation Improving (Bishop .Chi and Archbishop' Paul Nguyen van Binh of Saigon, .. president of the bishops' conference; had been unsuccessful while in ParIs in getting the 944 County St.' four delegations at the Paris New Bedford' • peace talks to meet with them

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Does New Year's Eve find you with mixed emotions? There's the nostalgia when "old acquaintances" get together recalling the good times of the past or the happy and sad times of 1969. Or does the spirit of a new year make you refreshed to begin again • . • or weary? Some may view 1970 with anxious anticipation; some with lonely melancholy; some with fear and insecurity at what the months ahead hold for us, our families, our world. Where will we be this time next year? Who will be born, and who will die? What changes or happenings will 1970 bring to our life·situation: school, career, marriage, home, problems, money, and health? If such mixed emotions are universal, the circumstances . are vastly different. Some two-billion people meet the 70's in the life of. the ThlJ'tl World. Their thoughts are whether they . will even survive another year • , . or if It's even worth It. Many look at their children (as we do) and wonder, not what wllI they, be when they grow up, but will they grow up all? What does life hold for a child who knows only illiteracy, poverty, and disease? . Happiness for the people of the Third World is not the .memory of the good old days, but the possible hope for a better fut.ure..That hope is realized among the fortunate ones receiving rehef, Improvement, and self-development from the services of missionaries. The chance for schools, chapels, medicine, and food is the t:'!ew Year's prayer of countless Latin Americans, Afritans, and ASIans. WlII the C'hurch reach them with its services and good news of faith, hope and love? Are not we, who have been given more, held responsible for the answer? What can we do? First pray for a special world: a world where men may .live and work together for development; a world where the suffering-poor may find a life worth' living; a world where Christ may be born to "renew the face of the earth." Secondly make a New Year's Resolution: that the development of peoples be your personal concern, for if we as Christians do not respond In helping the poor of the world . •• ' we have failed in our Christianity. The missionaries of the Church see, not just the challenge of a n~~ year, but of n new world. You can share and even shape that vIsIon by your generous support of the Society for the Propagation of the .Faith. Start t~e New Year off with a gift for others; please drmk a cup of kmd~ess yet for the good things you have had and the good times that be ahead. Others aren't as blessed.' Please help them. Enclosed Is my donation for the missions. Please remember my special New Year's Intention: .

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By Barbara Ward "Woe to those who dissipate their goods and their revenues in scandalous spending, whether for luxuries or for war. Woe to those who selfishly enjoy their wealth without having the slightest care for the poor-the poor who are not only individuals but families, social classes American share is highest at nearly $80 billion. The Russians and whole peoples." This spend half this figure - but it cry was wrung from Pope represents a higher share of Paul when he recently celebrated Mass in SI.. Peter's for the delegates attending the biennial conference of the U.N.'s Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO). This body has just published its Indicative Plan for world agriculture which shows that if, over the next 15 years, the nations were ready to invest an extra $6 to $7 billion a year in our planet's farming sector, there would be good hope of ending endemic 'malnutrition and the recurrent risk of semi-starvation by the end of this century. But the Pope's agonized protest springs from his knowledge that, at present, the likelihood of governments supporting such a program seems actually to be diminishing. As he himself mentioned, "this period following on the first Development Decade is marked by some disillusionment." This "wearniess with well-doing" does not spring from any objective failures. As the authoritative Pearson Report, "Partners in Development," make::; clear the developing nations as a group have, over the last 10 years, been making more rapid economic progress than the Atlantic nations did a hundred years ago and have provided over 80 per cent of the capital needed for this advance. Ridiculous Priorities The trouble lies elsewherein the ridiculous priorities that wealthy nations set for themselves. Of the steady growth of consumer spending, of the sustained rise in living standards measured largely in material things, we will talk another time. Let us look at once at the horrifying facts about the world's spending on war and the preparations for war. In the week of the Pope's discourse, the officially sponsored Stockholm International Peace Research Unit published the most up-to-date figures about the present state of the world's expenditure on arms. At official exchange rates, the annual sum spent by all nations is $159.3 billion ($159,300,000,000.) Since Ccmmunist exchange rates tend to represent more than their real puchasing power, the true figure is nearer $175 billion. The

F;ght Racism SYDNEY (NC)-A group of Australian churchillen has 'stepped up its campaign against racism in sports. A deputation of churchmen presented a petition bearing 6,000 names to the Australian Cricket Board of Control calling upon Australia to sever sports' links with South Africa because of its apartheid policy (strict racial segregation). The deputation included Angll路 cans, Catholics, Congregationalists, Methodists and Preshyterians.

their sm~ller income. This scale is horrifying enough in absolute terms. It represents for instance, 25 times the amount spent on genuine economic assistance programs. But even more alarming is the fact that the expenditures are driving steadily upwards. The United States now spends five times more than it did in the Thirties. Overall, arms spending grows by 6 per cent a year, a level higher than the annual growth of total world production. If one takes the last 50 years, the world's output of goods and services has been multiplied by five. But it's spending on arms has been multiplied by 10. It is an open secret that today, if the next round 'in the nuclear arms race is not checked by the Russian-American talks at Helsinki, the production of uninspectable and virtually unmeasurable multiple nuclear warheads (the so-called MIRVS) will add at least half as much again to the 'great nations' arms budgets. And the final irony is that neither side will be more secure at the end of the process. It does not ultimately matter which side starts a full-scale "first strike" nuclear attack, however "successful" in the short run. In the longer run, destruction will f01- , low from the fallout of its own nuclear armament and from the sweeping epidemics and plagues caused by millions upon millions of unburied dead corrupting the planet's single "biosphere" of air and water upon which all life depends. This, then, is the woe, the misery, the appalling human folly against which the Pope, like the prophets of old, raises his voice of warning and judgment. We as citizens can take up the cry. End to Testing At this moment, the greatest single need is. to legislate for an end to further testing of the MIRV system for at least the full period of the Helsinki talks. Every American. citizen who heeds the Pope's pleas for sanity and generosity can, at this time, pass on to his or her own elected representatives an urgent plea for formal postponement of all further developtnents-either ,for testing or producing-in the MIRV program. Once the "breakthrough" in this arms system is accomplished, both sides will lurch forward to another round of sense-路 less spending, to another step towards planetary death. The time for a standstill is today.

HARRISBURG (NC)-Bishop George L. Leech of Harrisburg hus established a 14-member diocesan communications commission to promote activities in the television, radio, movie, and press fields. Coadjutor Bishop .:u~eph T. Daley in a statement sdid: "We of the diocese of Har-;;burg expt'ct that our comm".,lications commission will pre 'dE' competent and invaluabJ.' counsel and leadership in h:1 )ling the parishes, as well as d:~):esan offices, institutions and organiZiltions, relate to the modern media. "We are deeply grateful to the men and women who have agreed to share their talent and vast practical experience by ~('rving on the commission."

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Shift Approach Emphasis SHELBY (NC)-The Society of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart has revised its constitutions and created guidelines for. reorganization of the society. Father John Bruni, M.S.C., superior of Sacred Heart Seminary here in Ohio, one of the four U. S. delegates to the chapter, highest authority in the 3,000member society, said: "This (Rome) chapter made a big difference in the way we will approach our work and see our vocation." "Allareas of our society's life and work received radical treatment. For example, the old approach to the structure and government was reversed and the emphasis was placed on decentralization and the principle that each individual has complete freedom to act within his sphere of competence." The United States province, with headquarters in Aurora, III., will hold a provincial chapter next May at Sacred Heart

Retreat House in Youngstown. The international chapter's recommendations will be applied particularly to the American province and its local communities. as determined by delegates at the May provincial meeting.

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ADELAIDE' (NC)-By a narrow parliament~ry vote of 19 to 17 South Australia has become the first state in this country to 'liberalize its abortion laws. The new act whicr needs only the formality of the governor's signature, practically permits abortion on demand. In its final form, the abortion act is a compromise agreed to by the Assembly, the lower house, and the upper house, the Legislative Council. The houses did not reach agreement until shortly before the end of the current parliamentary session, and at one stage it appeared that in the face of a great deal of opposition the bill's proponents were ready to throw it out. The parliamentary leader of the fight against the bill is the deputy leader of the opposition Labor party, Des Corcoran, who said that he will not give up the abortion issue but will challenge the new law as it becomes implemented.

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~t Yo Ch)(~pter NEW YORK (NC)~The Holy Name province of, the Franciscan friars has released results of its y.ear-Iong, three session extraordinary chapter. Broad sweeping norms for reo newal, based on the original world vision of St.; Francis of Assisi and the needs of the Church and world today, conimit the 1,000 priests' and Brothers of the province to seek new styles of apostolic wprk, experimentation in traditional apostolates, involvement in the areas of peace, race relation's, poverty, addiction and ecum~nism, and greater concern for the problems of the 'local civic communities. In releasing the texts of the chapter decisions, F~ther Finian Kerwin, O,F.M" prov~ncial, noted that the single most. important achievement of the chapter was "the recognition of it vital pluralism providing the friars of the province with a free, choice between the newer and older approaches to life style, commu'nity and apostolic w~rk"" Special Concern "The chapter del~gates not 'only provided for experimentation in these areas," Father Kerwin continued, "but strongly encouraged the friars'to find new ways to place the I Franciscan charism' at the service of the Church and American society. "At the same time, the chapter recognized diversity of opinion in these areas and offered VATICAN CITY (Nt) -:- "In Pope said. "Let everyone be conguidelines to protec;t personal freedom of expresl?ion and pro- the great tempest, the words of cerned with it today more than , ' mote tolerance of other' views." the First Vatican Council are a ever." In Vatican I, 'he said, tne The Franciscan ~inglea out life raft," and the two dogmas two groups which demand the special concern of all the friars, -those who have become alien, ated from the Churcl1, especially young people, and friars who have left or are on leave of absence from the order. Internal Reforms wear and tear of time." under the impulse of grace," he "Much of oour innovation," , In his' general ,audience talk 'added. ,Father Ker.win said, "is designed "the Pope said the promulgation "Finally, the superiority is'' dehopefully to reach those young of the 'two dogmas during Vati- fined of the revelation of the people not yet being reached by can I marked a, "dramatic page faith' over reason and, its capacithe Crurch. At, the 'same time, in the life o( the Church, and at ~ ties, while declaring that there we have set up a committee of the same time a page 'that is can be no contrast between friars and lay Franciscans (Third clear and definitive." truth of faith and truth of reaOrder) to find ways of extendPapal. primacy ref~rs t~ the son, since God is the font 'of ing our notion of community to unity of the Church of which the both." iilclude former friars in some pthope is no~ O?,IYfthe't!'aPbCXt alnd h He said that the "reality" of way and provide whatever sere expressIon q um y u a so t e First ...Vatican Council has vice we can." the "visible foundation," he said. not diminished because the Among internal reforms, pro- • "Infallibility likewise touches truths, it· affirmed "are \(ery vincial and local .. government a decisive point in the life of the close' to our modern mentality, has been reorganized, stressing Church, of. all Christians' and of even though they are impugned, shared authority and decision the world-revealed truth," the dis~~ssed, experimented with making; full equality for Brothers in government and apostolate ' ~ has been restored aCcording to the original norms of ,St. Francis; and adaptation of community life-styles has been delegated to the members of th~ individual 'friaries of the province. Holy Name province encompasses the entire East coast of the United States. staffs par- ~ ishes in New Jersey, ,New York, Once again, we 'pause to thank our many good. Pennsylvania, . Georgia, South Carolina and Virginia; service friends and wish t.hem the merriest of Christo. .~ chapels in five cities; St. Bona! mases and .a Yuletide season overflowing with 'Ill venture (N. Y.) University; Siena College, Loudonville, N. Y; Bishhappiness and good cheer. ' op, Timon High SchQol in Buf- ~ ~ ~ falo, N. Y; and missions in Brazil, Bolivia, Japan, Fetu, Jamaica and Puerto Rico. I ~ ~.

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CHICAGO (NC)-More than 85 per cent of the teaching Sisters in the Chicago archdiocese who responded to a survey of their attitudes feel that "their religious commitment as a teacher is a vital service to the modern Church." The survey was sponsored by the Sisters' Advisory Council (SAC) and reported at a SAC meeting here by William C. McCready, a doctoral candidate at the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle. According to the report, over 85 per cent of the nuns who respond ~d agree that they "have a place in Christian education; that their religious commitment as a teacher is of vital service to the modern Church; and that they have a responsibility to updllte themselves according to Vatican Council 11." The survey also showed that the majority of respondents were satisfied with conditions in their parishes, religious communities and the archdiocese.

Some 600 youngsters in this area of Florida raised $50,000, ensuring more than two million meals for starving children in Biafra, as well as poor youngsters in Brevard County. The teenagers staged a 17mile "hunger march," collecting funds for the needy here and overseas. The idea originated with Carol Weishaupt, a senior at Melbourne High School. She discussed it with Bill Bledsoe, senior class president, and the idea was spread. Adult community leaders, as well as some parents, voiced opposition to the plan, but the teenagers persisted. The youngsters got backing from religious, civic and social organizations, plus a number of individuals. On the day of the march it was chilly and windy. The young::;ters checked in at a registration desk at the Melbourne Shopping Center, were provided with "walk sheets," and took off en masse. There were both white and black youngsters in the march. they sang and joked and laughed along the way, but were appropriately serious while soliciting funds. An ambulance from the Harbour City Volunteer Red Cross unit made up the rear . guard-just in case. TC:l Bucks a Mile One adult stoqd out prominently among the marchersFather Val Sheedy, a former missioner in Biafra, now assistant pastor at St. Joseph's parish in Palm City. One "marcher" completed his "walk sheet" in an hour and 50 ~inutes-John Tyss, who runs for Melbourne High's cross country team. One walker signecl up 95 donors for $176, which he figured out amounted to" 10 bucks and some cents per mile. " If was mid-afternoon when the last of the marchers completed his task. The youngsters agreed the "take" from the march will be split between Stop Gap, a county organization ministering to the poor, and Joint Church Aid, the relief service of various churches providing aid for the starving in Biafra.

Episcopal LaY'men Oppose Donation NEW YORK (NC)-Two Episcopal laymen filed suit seeking to stop the National Episcopal Chur.ch from giving 5200,000 to the National Committee of Black Churchmen (NCBC). David Arms and Walter Gates said NCBC is a "conduit" to the Black Economic Development Conference headed by James Forman, who has demanded $3 billion in "reparations" from churches. A special Episcopal convention in South Bend, Ind., voted last Summer to give $200,000 to NCBC. The suit, filed in the New York State Supreme Court,· claims the money was going to black militants adVtlcating violence. The plaintiffs said this was in violation of church rules established in 1967. They proposed,' as an alt.ernat.ive, that t.he money, or any part of it already raised by a fundraising 'drive now in progress, be given to an established, nonviolent group such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

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THE ANCHORTh.urs;, Dec.: 25, 1969

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ROME (NC)-Twin broadsides were simultaneously levelled at the proposed Italian divorce bill by Catholic prelates and Catholic jurists. . The dual attacks followed separate meetings of the president's council of the Italian Bishops' Conference ,(CEI) and the Union of Italian Catholic Jurists (UGCI). A prestigious organization. UGCI attracted to its meeting in the Roman city hall magistrates, jurists and attorneys from all over Italy. Surprisingly, the jurists' condemnation was stronger than that of the bishops. It called for a reasoned ap; proach to the benefit of, indissolubility and ending on the ominous note of taking the matter to the people in a national referendum should the matter go that far. ,. Prof. Francesco Passarelli, a member of the civil law' faculty ,at Rome University and president of UGCI, keynoted the study congress of jurists by condemning the very' notion of divorce. ' . He emphasized that the Italian value of the family was predicated on indissolubility and this was a benefit "to all marriages" in· Italy, regardless of religion. On the contrary, he said, the very possibility 'of divorce "undermines every marriage" by putting dissolution of marriage into the minds of people even before they are married. Tracing the history of the divorce question, Passarel1i stated that the position of marriage in this country. was "willed' and defended" by many laymen who had no religious preference but who appreciated the value ,of indissolubility.

By Luke Sims Thanks, to a mid-season rush, the Springfield College Chiefs iecorded their second successive winning season on the gridil'on with a 6-3-0 record. The mark was one game "poorer" than last season's fine 7-2-0 showing. One of the main reasons for the Chiefs' success was the play of end Wally Davis of Rehoboth who capped his college career in Springfield's 28-8 season finale triumph of Tufts. I the former Dighton-Rehoboth star athlete who earned his football letter for the second season, was described by Coach Ted Dunn as "a fine team man who is real dependable in tight situations." Standing only 5-9 and weighing 170 pounds, Davis was used as the Chiefs' tight end and ran mostly short pattern!). When not on offense, he was a top performer in the Spring(ield defensive backfield. ."Wally improv.ed during' the four years he play.~d here," said Dunn, "and, he was one of the most .consistent ball players on the team this, past season." With football' in ,the past, Davis will' take a breather until the, Spring, when the ·call for basebalL' candidates goes out. (Wally played infield and pitched occasionally as a junior.) Davis is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Wallace E. Davis of Elm Road, Rehoboth and is the second of three Davis children. Lauren Eve, 22, is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts and younger .brother Jim is a freshman student at the Art Institute of Boston. , - Wally got his start in schoolboy 'athletics during his freshman year in high school and during the next four years was a member of the football, baseball and basketball teams. He played all three sports during his freshman year at college but gave up the hardwood game to concentrate on football and baseball in his final three years. At Dighton-Rehoboth, - Wally played both 'ways as a' member of the Falcon aridiron gang, starring at offensive end and defensive halfback. A$ a basketball player, he was the Falcon center, despite his size, and was Turn to Page Nineteen

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fair. Of the 22 teachers who recently went on strike with students in support of the physicist, nine are not being asked ba~k next year. The collece attributed the unprecedented staff cut-back to a general dissatisfaction with the instructors' rote in the English depaftment and' an expected reductionin student enronment over the next few years. _ These reasons were. harshly attacked by many arts faculty prof~S6I's as "a cover-up.of the real story.". The faculty is explOl'ing ways of overturning the administration's decision. In anticipation of the announe-ement, the. arts . faculty Energy Does It ,council~epresenting170 of' the A man doesn't need briWance college's 270 instructors -last or genius, all he 'needs is energy. week demanded the immediate . -Gree~field dismissal of Father Johri E.

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WASHNGTON (NC) The Texas priest who attempted to keep the White House Conference on'· Food, Nutrition, and Health in session until President Nixon acted immediately to eliminate hunger in the United States, says the chief executive will make a "very serious mistake" if he fails to act soon. In a telephone interview from San Antonio, Father Ralph Ruiz told NC News Service that "it will be a pretty bad thing politi. cally when President Nixon realiZl's there is hunger, admits it, and then does nothing about it. So it will be a very serious mistake if he doesn't act." Father Ruiz had approached the podium with a group of persons near the end of the conference and put forth a motion to keep the meeting in session un· til Nixon acted immediately. Most of the conference participants, however, did not stay. Father Ruiz said he was not too disappointed' about it. "I didn't expect them t'o stay, I really . didn't," he explained. "They already had shown their good will ,) * * their recommen· dations were very good, and they were ready to go home." . But the priest still insists that the President do "something now." He said he sees the necessity for Nixon to declare a na~ tional hunger emergency in America so that everyone will before have enough food Christmas. '

By PETER J. BARTEK Norton High' Coach

........... ~I .Boire & P-town Hoop Co. ,Eye Cape-Islands Title The basketbffll stockings are hanging by the chimney, with "are; in the hope that St. Nicholas soon will be there. Meanwhile, the coaches are snuggled in their beds with championship visions dancing through their heads. And, •. Coach Paul Boire of Provincetowngets his Christmas other clubs had in the actual games. Miller has the know-how wish, jolly ole Santa will to adjust to any situation." leave a Cape & Islands Miller is building his combine League pennant in his Yuletide sock. titlist However, defending Nauset Regional and Harwich are certain to make a run to the wire for the coveted crown. It would appear that the outlook is bleak for veteran Coach Leo Miller and his lower Cape Regionals as four of his last starting club have been graduated. The situation notwithstanding, no one ever counts Durfee of Fall River out of the Bristol County loop race and no one ever counts Holy Family Hi~h of New Bedford out of the Narragansett League title bid. And no one ever counts Nauset out of the Cape & Islands championship battle. And, as one astute Cape & Islands coach aptly noted, Miller had better talent sitting on the bench last Winter than

around 6'5" pivotman Clayton Reynard, the sole returning regular. The task of handling the rebounding assignment at both boards will fall on the shoulders of the rangy and capable center. Every adversary already is aware of Miller's advantage around the boards. Bob O'Brien and Steve Pino have been operating out of the forward slots. Both have good height, which means that the opposition will have plenty to contend with in the corners as well as under the baskets. John Donahue is the club's field general, operating from the backcourt with sharp-shooter Ron Taylor. With 11 players' back from last season's squad, and, only two Seniors on the present squad, Coach Boire's P-towners promise to be in the thick of the pennant race.

Harwich Bids, 'One Notch Higher Co-captains Frank Reis and Brock Papetsas give the Fishermen a potent one-two punch. Reis, a 6'1" junior who led Provincetown in scoring and rebounding last season, will be sighting new school records in both departments this Winter. He has amassed a total of 668 points in his Freshman and Sophomore years with the varsity. Maintaining that pace, he bids fair to break the.I,OOOpoint figure during the current campaign. The straight-A student, who is also president of the Junior Class, garnered 186 rebounds last season. Senior Papetsas, teaming with Reis in the front court, has the ability to keep the Boiremen on the move when the opposition momentarily manages to contain . Reis. The P-town mentor has been alternating Gary Martin and Joe Ferraba at center. It looks as if 6'5" Martin will cop the regular starting assignment the way he has been· improving at every practice session. If and when this happens,

Farraba will then move to a guard post. He excelled in the backcourt at a Summer basketball camp this year. Hence, the personnel shift promises a better balanced P-town attack. Boire also has two ,other capable guards in Senior Anthony Joseph and Sophomore Dennis Santos. Coach Charlie Dunbar has the nucleus for another strong Harwich ,team. Runner-up last season, Harwich is ready for the season-long 'shoot-out:' Dunbar's combination, like its contenders, is not wanting' for size. Manny Fernandes, considered the best one-on-one player in the Cape & Islands competition, will be at one forward berth with Dennis Barrett taking care of -the other forward slot. And, 6'4" Dale Mazzar, capable of battling anyone for the rebounds, will be at the pivot post. Sharpshooter Greg Rose and Tim Crowell will probably operate in the backcourt as inspired Harwich bids to move up "just one place in the standings."

Lack of Depth, Experience Hurt Sophomore Murray Bannister The lack of depth as well as experience is hurting the other is the lone experienced starter four clubs in the seven-team in Coach .Jay Schofield's Martha Vineyard lineup. Jim Heathman circuit. Coach Bob Fenton hopes to ,lind Steve Garvin, who will develop his Sandwich team probably win the nods at center around back court man, Bill Rus- and guard, respectively, were on sell, his only experienced re- Coach Fran Pacheco's varsity' turnee. Jeff Lewis will pair with . last Winter, but did not start: stepped into the Fenton in the defensive guard Schofield positions as well as directing a coaching position when Pacheco moved int.o the athletic c1irecfast hreaking offense. Fenton, momentarily at least, tor's .Iob at King Philip Regional se('ms to favor Mike Miller and in Wrentham. Senior Mike McNino Pola at the forward places Carthy, a forward, and Senior Mike Billings, a guard, look like with Jim Long as center.

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Continued from Pa~~ Eig~teen Davis, seemed to improve with among the team's leading' scor- each 'passmg period. ers during his senior season. Winslow is the son of Mr: and On .the diamond. he di.vided Mrs. Freeman Winslow, 394 his time between shortstop, Davisville Road, and, again like third base and pitcher. Davis, is majoring in physical A physical education major, dlucation. Davis hopes to enter the teachDunn has what has been deing profession upon his gradua- scribed as "great plans for Ed as tion in June and would like to;i~. defensive tackle." c~~ch some sport. "What he (Ed) lacks in speed Another member of the suc- and strength, he makes up for cessful Springfield squad was in .,desire," commented Dunn. sophomore Eddie Winslow of "He has all the tools but is goFairtlouth. . ~ ing to need experience to devel'Only a sophomore" Winslow op them. He'll get his shot next made· his varsity debut after a September." successful season as a freshman I () Winslow devotes all of his tackle. On y 5-9, 20 -pounds the athletic time' to football and Falmouth native spent most of the time on offense and like with his desire and :ove for the '''''' .""",,,,,,,,,,,..,,,..,,.. ,,, ,.. ,,' ", "..""""""" ,,, ',,,,. game, he should steadily improve, in the manner of Davis. the other two starters. .Curtis Allen, who has all the moves and is far and away one of the better-if not the bestguards in the Cape & Islands competition, is the only seasoned player returning on Coach Howard North's Nantucket High \ first-string team. Noel Kinski, former Providence College court ace, is lacking experienced players at Chatham High. Bob Erickson is the only regular that Kinski has back from last season. It's a: building campaign this Winter for Kinski who hopes to d~velop a sufficient number of uhderclassmen to form the nucleus for a much more talented club the next time' around.

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Legion of Mary Has New Status In Archdioc:ese'

SAN ANTONIO (NC)-Archbishop Francis J. Furey of San Antonio was among signers of a newspaper advertisement supporting a Texas Supreme Court dedsion upholding the state's Saturday-Sunday closing law as constitutional. Also signing the statement were Bishop Harold C. Gosnell of the Episcopal Diocese of . West Texas, Presiding Bishop O. 'Eugene Slater of the San Antonio Area of the United Meth· odist Church, the Rev. C. Don / Baugh of the San Antonio Council of Churches and Dr. George E. Stewart of the San Antonio Baptist Association. Meanwhile, four San Antooio discount houses who have been in the center of a continued legal dispute over Sunday business activities filed a motion asking for a rehearing. The stores ignored the high court's recent ruling and challenged the county district attorney, who had promised immediate enforcement of the law banning retail sales on consecutive Saturdays and Sundays. The stores took the battle back into .a lower court and were granted an injunction to prevent immediate enforcement Of the closing law, pending further hearings on the issue.

BOSTON' (NC)..-,.The govern· ing ,council of the Legion' of Mary in the Boston archdiocese has been raised to the level of a senatus, thereby assuming responsibility for legion activities in the 10 dioceses in the New England area.' . "The governing council, until now known as a comitium, was previously responsible for the Legion activities. mainly in Boston. Legion of Mary councils in the other dioceses were super-vised by Legion headquarters in . Dublin. : "This st~p," according to a Legion spokesman, "should mean a closer personal contact, drawing together the vari<,>Us' Legion bodies in a closer bpnd for a mutual sharing of ideas, inspiring-one another towards pioneer, enterprising' apostolic labors for the spiritual service of the' community as well as establishing the reign of Christ." Boston has the eighth senatus council of the Legion of Mary in the United States, sharing this distinction with St. Louis, Cincinnati, Baltimore, New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Chicago. The lay apostolate organization was founded some 40 years ago. Father Francis Ripley, directar of the Catholic Information 'Centre in the diocese' of Liverpool, England, and spiritual director of the Liverpool senatus, presided at the ceremonies here. Representative delegations from each 'of New England dioceses were also present.

Cardinal Condemns P'ermissive Society LONDON (NC)-John Cardinal Heenan said today's permissiveness is due to the decline in religious belief. Sexual laxity tends to destroy moral resistance in the whole fabric of human behavior, he added, and the creation of a moral code cannot be left to the majority 'opinion of politicians. The archbishop of Westminster was giving what is kllOwn as the "Watford Lectur~," an important annual ad<iress' by a distinguished personality at the technology college at Watford near °London. His subject was "The Permissive Society." "It is hard to see," he said, "and here we inevitably enter the area of controversy, how a declension of morals can ,be avoided when religion itself is in decline. Whether valid or not the standpoint of believers is quite' clear. Man is not his own master. He cannot, make his own law. My suggE;stion is that without .an eternal. lawgiver there can be no certain principles upon which human legislators can base their'own laws."

Teach';rs" Union' Seeks Members PHILADELPHIA (NCr-The Association of Catholic Teachers (ACT), bargaining, represent- . ative for lay teachers" in the Philadelphia archdiocesan secondary schoo! system, 'announced , this week that it will begin a "major. recruiting thrust" toward the "elementary schools of the archdiocese. In a statement, ACT also noted that it had established a fund to help in the .recruitment of teachers in non public schools other than the archdiocesan secondary system.

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sometimes sent to one prospective employer before he accepted' one; and one single applicant looked ov~r the job descriptions of 16 employers before making his final choice. ' In addition 'to' individual applicants' entire . dioceses and archdioceses, including Richmond, Spokane and Cincinnati, have asked REX to obtain trained religious educators for them, Father Collins, said. "There is a notable renewed interest in' REX during the closing weeks 'of the year as p~lrishes prepare for 1970," he noted. "So far the demand exceeds the supply," he continued.' "The need is for experts in religious education and theology who are dedicated, unselfish and ready to work anywhere, at annual salaries,ranging up "to $10,000." "REX is trying to fill a most critlcal need for the CCD· and for the ,Church in America," Father Collins said. 1

• THE ANCHORThurs.. Dec. 25. 1969

Hispanic-Americans Seek Church, Government Aid

Seeking Reform For Teen Tolks

By Rev. P. David Finks Asst. Director, Division of Urban Life, U.S.C.C. (Guest-columnist, Father P. David Finks, is writing The Yardstick for four weeks while Msgr. George G. Higgins is in the Orient. Father Finks, a native of Rochester, N. Y., is assistant director, Division of Urban Life, U. S. Catholic Conference, Washington, b. C.)

Sidney Callahan wrote a column in The National Catholic Reporter recently in which she reminped her readers that "Mary was no moderate." The passivity and submissiveness of another age that marked Marian devotion does not impress the present generation. Mrs. Cal- issues on their agenda were the as the Task Force report. lahan gets support for her same Clergy and laymen in the thesis from a recent article Spanish-speaking community in the Catholic Biblical Quarterly, which places Mary in the prophetic line of the old Testament as daugh- ! ter of Israel, heir to the pro- ,. phetic struggle for justice. The courageous leadership of Cesar Chavez and the activities of his United Far m W 0 r k e r s are hopeful s i g n s that the large numbers of Span· ish-speaking immigrants to the United States are now ready to make their influence felt within the nation. It seems that our fellow citizens from South and Central America realize that patience and passivity are not key virtues in, the democratic process. 90 Per Cent Catholic The U. S. Catholic Church is also hearing strong voices with Hispanic accents these days. In addition to the "white" and '''black'' papers of Father Gerio Baroni and Father Donald Clark, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops at its November meeting heard Mr. Andrew Moses Gallegos speak of the crisis of poverty and discrimination as it affects the Spanishspeaking community. Many of the Bishops, no strangers to statistics, seemed somewhat surprised to find that nearly 25 per cent of American Catholics are Hispanic-Americans. Mr. Gallegos prefaced his paper with a' brief demographic overview: nearly 12 million Hispanics in the' United States include Mexicanl?, Mexican-Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Spaniards, Central and South . Americans. Of these over 90 per cent are Catholic with 2,000 religious, in which number are included 800 priests. The Bishops were urged to give more attention to this group, now the largest ethnic concentration within the U. S. Catholic Church. Changing Needs That same evening in Washington I met with representa· tives of the Padres at Mr. Gallegos' apartment. Key members of this clergy association headed by the articulate Father Ralph Ruiz of San Antonio were in the Capital to present their agenda ··to the Bishops' Conference. The Padres were formed at a meeting in October, 1969 attended by about 50 Mexican-American and other Spanish-speaking priests from seven states and the District of Columbia. The

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want to eradicate the 'institutional inertia within the U. S. Catholic Church because it causes discrimination toward them as minority group. The Church as a human organization gets moving toward specific goals and sets its priorities and then "just keeps rolling along." It is difficult to get all that machinery, with all the special interests involved, to alter its course to meet changing needs. Rights as Immigrants The Spanish influence in the United States began before the Pilgrims and Plymouth Rock, to say nothing of the Irish immi· gration which began little more than a century ago. But, these critics claim that the increased migration into and within the U. S. of more recent years has not· received the attention either from the Church or Federal Government that the problems deserve. The one exception, it seems, has been the effort to resettle Cuban refugees. Perhaps their flight from Communist Cuba and the considerable organizational skill of the mostly middle-class Cubans received more attention than the rural poor from Puerto Rico and Mexico. The important fact for the Catholic Church and the nation is that the Hispanic-Americans are on the move. They are asking from Church leaders only what Pope Pius XII and Pope Paul VI have said are their rights as. immigrants to a new land (cf.: the Apostolic Constitution, Exsul Familia, 1952 and the Motu Proprio on the Care of Migrants, 1969). The Spanishspeaking Catholics want their part in the decision·making process in Church and government. On Right Track The agenda presented to the' Bishops' Conference asked that episcopal and pastoral appointments be made from the ranks of the indigenous Spanishspeaking clergy; for special training in language and culture for all including Bishops who are involved in pastoral service to Hispanic Americans; that bilingual courses be instituted in Catholic schools; that liturgy be adapted to the Mexican-American and other Spanish-speaking cultures; that -funds be made available to initiate community development and provide technical assistance to overcome urban and rural property. It seems the Spanish-speaking are on the right track. Even those churchmen who long for the "Camelot-days;' when the Church had only to be involved in spiritual affairs (historians are finding some difficulty pin· ning down just where in history that period came) are becoming aware that the pastoral ministry is a complex ano arduous task with little time for taking bows or publishing inventories of past . glories.

HIALEAH (NC) - Reformed drug addicts can play an important role in combatting teen· age addiction in the opinion of a young Irish-born priest who has inaugurated a program here called "Operation S~'!f Help, Inc." Supported by local businessmen, lawyers, ~nd jud[;:.'!s, Father Sean O'Sullivan, a Catholic Youth Organization moderator in the Miami archdioccB:.'!, opened a pre-addict drug Iwevention clinic here.· Cured addicts trained to talk to teens in their· own language will staff the program, which will be conducted in two trailers parked on an area donated by the city of Hialeah. The new program hopes to raise $40,000 for its first-year of operation through community donations and, according to Father O'Sullivan, will hire a director whose primary qualification will be to have formerl~ been 11 drug addict.

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NEW YORK (NC)-The National Association for Repeal of Abortion Laws announced here it would open an abortion clinic in Washington, D. C., for women - from all over the country, if the District of Columbia Health Department and· the hospitals of Washington do not do so within "a month or so." Lawrence Lader, the organization's executive committee chairman, said in a statement: "We pledge a clinic open to all women from all over the country. We pledge a clinic that will . be free to those who cannot afford, medical care, moderately priced to others." A U. S. District Court judge in Washington on Nov. 10 held the anti-abortion laws of the na· tion's capital are unconstitutional because of vagueness. He ruled licensed physicians may. perform abortions. His ruling is not binding on other federal judges here. Patrick Cardinal O'Boyle of Washington issued a statement Dec.. 9 asserting that" "abortion is murder" and denouncing a proposed change in the capital's laws which would permit abortion-on-!equest.

BANGALORE (NC) ~ A "national- consultation" here in priestly formation has urged that the' study of Latin in Indian seminaries be made optional. tatin should no longer. be compulsory for future priests in India, the four-week conference of. bishops, seminary. rectors, professors and student~ said in / a recommendation to the India Bishops' Conference. The conference of nearly 240. delegates from.'virtulllly all seminaries in the country also recommended that seminarians be given a share in the administration of the institutions. Aimed at Indianizing the training of future priests and incorporating Second,' Vatican Council decrees in· seminary education, the consultation was sponsored by a 27-member technical commission named earlier by the bishops' conference. Att.ending, in addition to the priests, were the five bishops. members of the' commission, a two-member delegation from the national seminary of. Ceylong and "J.C. Ryan, president of the Catholic Union, the national lay organization.

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Thurs.. Dec. 25. 1969

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BOSTON (NC}-Richard Cardinal Cushing has requested that a uniform mode of announcing mixed marriages, those betwelan Catholics and persons who are not Catholics, be adopted in individual parishes of the archdiocese of Boston, effective Jan. I. The reason for this request, the cardinal said in a letter sent to priests, is that it had been called to his attention by the Archdiocesan Ecumenical Commission that "the omission of ., banns in cases of mixed marriages has been the source of some misunderstanding on the part of members of other churches, and that it has even ;ij given offense to many persons, including Catholics, who have ," been sensitive to the ecumenical mission of the Church." Asks Cooperation Banns, from the Latin word bannum, meaning a proclamation, are announcements of intent to marry ordinarily made in the home-parishes of Catholic persons engaged to be married. The banns are customarily read on the three Sundays prior to the wedding date. It has been customary that banns are not read in the case of mixed marriages, and, for some. good reason, may be dispensed with entirely. Because of this misunderstanalng and confusion, Cardinal Cushing said, "I am calling upon the priests of the archdiocese to cooperate with me in establishing a new policy which will retain the values of the traditional canons, and yet provide for the needs of a new ecumenical age. The policy is as follows: I. Pastors, using their discretion, may announce the banns for mixed marriages. In making their decisions, pastors should consult with the parties to the marriage and secure their approval. NEW YORK (NC)-Calling for 2. The banns for mixed marriages generally should be an- a "new medicine of the poor," nounced only in the parish of Bishop Edward E. Swanstrom, domicile of the Catholic party. executive director of CatholiC Spirit of Friendship Relief Services, joined medical 3. The dispensation for the professionals and diplomats in marriage should be obtained challenging both government prior to the announcement of and the medical profession dur. .:. banns. ing a symposia here on "Medi4. The banns should normally cine and Diplomacy in the Tropbe omitted whenever the cel- ics." ebration of the marriage will , At the one-day meeting con· violate the norms of the other ducted by the Tropical Disease Center of St. Clare's Hospital religious community involved. In order that there be a uni· here, at which Dr. Kevin M. Caformity of ):Iractice in- each par- hill, the center's director preish, Cardinal Cushing s~ggested, sided, the bishop emphasized that pastors and. curates discuss ,the importance of "preventive the directive together and agree medicine." "In the developing world," he upon a common procedure. "It ,is my hope that the priests said, "the medical profession of the archdiocese will welcome must think in terms of the eduthis ecumenical initiative and cative and preventive programs will implement it willingly and over and above the direct cura· wisely in a spirit of friendship and tive practice~ Unless medicine understanding among people of can move dram'at~cally from. i~s all religions within 'our com- heavy emphasis on the simply munity." curative it will cut itself off the realities of living." Much of this' education, he Women to Attend said, "must be in the fields of nutrition and public health.;' St. Mary's College Alithough medicine and diploST. MARY'S (NC}-St. Mary's College, operated by the Chris- macy were cited as "strange the symposium tian Brothers, here in California, bedfellows" will become coeducational in made it clear that medicine is "a most effective diplomatic tool." September, 1970. Brother Mel Anderson, F.S.C., Dr. Cahill, said "medicine is the president, and Daniel J. Cullen, untapped resource in internahead of the board of trustees, tional diplomacy." said the decision to allow woDr. John S. Badeau, directoi', men to attend the 106·year-olcl the Near East Institute and forinstitution is based on a desire mer U. S. Ambassador to the to "improve the quality of edu- United Arab Republic noted that cation, rather than for economic "the role of medicine and diploreasons." macy is neithe~ new nor novel."

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He said as it exists today it has become of secondary importance. "We must be concerned with the question whether there is a new diplomacy that has in it a plac,c; ,for wi!1-espread: medical projects," he ',said. There is a need for "a diplomacy that goes beyond political considerations, a diplomacy of persuasion rather than of a pressure," and "health and healing are a powerful part of a program of persuasive diplomacy," he continued. F\ve points stressed by all spea\{ers were: establishment ·of a national organization to assume leadership in, this field; need for a radical change and establishment of priorities in government spending; new dimensions in diplomacy; need for additiOnal and more intensive health programs for the .. \mder-5 age groups, and importance of the part played by voluntary agencies. Joining the other speakers in their concern for the health of the young, Bishop Swanstrom said experts have concluded that "tbere is evidence that the child under five years bears the brunt of the social, economic and nutritional problems in deficit areas. "On the other hand, this same age group lags far behind in benefits accruing from the economic development of a country.~' "The only chance he has of receiving henefits is for the

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