TRUE ECUMENISM

Orthodox Prelate Queries Motives

Mass, BanquetSet to HonorFr. Medeiros

Most Rev. Daniei· A. Cronin,S.T.D., Bishop of Fall River, willpreside at a special Sunday Massand be a featured speaker at abanquet honoring Rev. Joao'de .Medeiros, retiring pastor of~ St.Elizabeth Parish, Fall River. ",.

The special Mass will be of­fered at St. Elizabeth ChurchSunday morning at 10:45. Rev.Joao de Medeiros. will be theprincipal celebrant. Joining him'as concelebrants. will . be: Rev.Daniel L. Freitas, new adPlinis~

trator of St. Elizabeth's; Rev:Joao V. Resendes, pastor of, Es­pirito Santo Parish, Fall River;and, Rev. Arthur C. dos Reis,pastor of Santo Christo parish,Fall River. .

The homilist of the Mass willbe Rev. Jose M. Bettencourt eAvila, pastor of Our Lady of Mt.

. Carmel Parish, New Bedford.A retirement banquet wHl then

be celebrated at Whites FamilyRestaurant, Westport, at 12:30with Bishop Cronin again pre­siding and speaking.

tries, he said, "join hands withthe embittered and angeredThird World demanding a Chris­tianity which proclaims a cruci­fied Christ as 'its God, despitethe fact that the organized reli­gions and philosophies of thetime would call Christ a scandal­ous or foo:lish man."

Archbishop Iakovos, comment­ing on a recent discussion of theVatican Secretariat for Promot­ing Chirstian Unity on the vital­ity of the Christian Unity move·ment, said that in his viewChristian leaders are "more re­luctant" to initiate approachesto the risng ecumenical questionof ministry in the Church. He re­iterated that Church unityshould be seen in another lightthan "the light of mergers."

an honorary Doctor of Laws de­gree from LaSalle College.

Lady Jackson said that thescientific, economic and politicalunderpinnings of the age of'automatic progress have been re­moved and that there is a wide­spread search for a standard of·living that reflects not "gross na­tional product" but spiritualvalues.

A member of the PontificalCommission for World Justiceand Peace, Lady Jackson notedtliat only Christianity has thecapacity to respond to the col­lapse of faith in scientifc ration·alism, in economic liberalismand in the political theory ofautomatic movement toward so-

,cial progress.In the midst of widespread de­

spair and frustration as a de'ci­sive period in history comes toan end, Lady Jackson stated, theChristan message is that Christ

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Holy Union community, SisterMary Regis said that moneyproblems are "unique to Amer·ican Catholic schools.

"In France, Belgium and En­gland our schools receive finan­cial assistance. They need not

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PHILADELPHIA (NC) - Manis living at the end of the age ofa~tomatic progress and in anage of supreme relevance for areligious vocation, according toBarbara Ward (Lady' Jackson),an Anchor columnist.

The British economist spokeat St. Charles Borromeo Semi­nary, Overbrook, after receiving

Progress Now TurnsTo Spiritual Val'ues

The primate chastised Chris­tian leaders for not being true tothis image of "the Church ofChrist," atlding:

"We avoid systematically be·ing true to ourselves and all wedo is articulate, or expound, orinsist upon the truths of our re­spective churches, dogmatizingin the most axiomatic way thatunity can be realized only withinthis or that theological or eccle·siological domain.

"In the meantime, the ThirdWorld (of underdeveloped na·tions) grows bitter and hostiletowards a Christianity whicheither denies in action or contra­dicts ,in theory, its true self."

Young people in the West andin Communist-controlled coun-

Mary Regis, S.U.S.C., superiorgeneral' of the Religious of theHoly Union of the Sa~red Hearts,is that in other countries govern·

,ment aid to private schools istaken for granted.

In Fall River on a formal visi­tation to diocesan houses of the

DOUGLASTON (NC) - GreekOrthodox Archbishop Iakovos ofNorth and South America voiceda sharp warning to 300 Catholicseminarians here in New Yorkthat church mergers do not nec­essarily advance Christian unity.

The archbishop spoke at anecumenical service at the Cathe­dral College of the ImmaculateConception.

Christian unity, he said, "cannot be achieved by any kind ofOctave Prayer for ChristianUnity," or by decrees, organicunions and the deliberations ofecumenical agencies if its "sealand trademark" of holiness ismissing.

"1 question the holiness andthe ecumenical motives of all the50-called ecumenical agencies,"he said in the strongly wordedassessment. "We have not as yetcome to the realization that ecu­menism is a very binding com­mitment ...

"Mergers may be necessitatedby crises or circumstantial inter"ests, but they do not necessarilyadvance the cause of Christianunity."

The Greek Orthodox leader as­serted that "true and total Chris­tian unity" can. be understoodonly within the context of St.Paul's statement that Christ hasmade Christians one by breakingdown dividing walls.

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Financing "of Schools, Role of SistersDiscussion Topics by Religious Head

CareDogmas

VISITING DIOCESE: Sr. Grace Donovan, SUSC, standing, provincial superior of theImmaculate Heart province, welcomes Sr. Marie Regis, SUSC, superior general of the Re­ligious of the Holy Union of the Sacred Hearts and her four councillors to the province.Seated: Sr. Anne Lucie, ,Sr.- Roberta, Mother Marie Regis, Sr. Alicia and Sr. Mary de Sales.

Although religious communi·,ties throughout the world arefeeling the ,pinch of' vocatiorishortage, in no other (:o.untry.are Catholic schools· experiElnc­ing the financial pressures beingsuffered in the' United States.The reason for this, said Sister

whether such dogmas are usefulfor the solution of the many andpressing problems which besetour immediate and concrete ex­perience.

"We should answer, first ofall, that religious truths are in

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@ 1972 The Anchor

An Anchor of the Soul, Sure and Firm-St. Paul

TheANCHOR

Bishop to VisitNo. l)ighton

Most Rev. Daniel A. Croninwill be principal celebrant of a5 o'clock concelebrated Mass onSunday afternoon at St. JosephChurch, No. Dighton. in cele­brating the annual patronal feastof St. Joseph.

The Bishop will then meetparishioners and participate inthe 7 o'clock parish communaldinner to be shared in the par­ish center.

Pope Paul DemandsIn Explaining

Fall River, Mass., Thurs., MarchVol. 16, No. 11

VATICAN CITY (NC)-PopePaul VI defended and added hispersonal comments to a recentDoctrinal Congregation warningagainst those who questionChrist's divinity and the externalexistence of the Trinity.

Pope Paul ordered the Doctri­nal Congregation to promulgatethe warning, which listed sometheological errors that it said af­fected traditional teachings ofthe Church.

Speaking to crowds in St.Peter's Square for his Sundaynoon blessing on March 12, PopePaul said that the dogmas thatthe errors undermine are ."prin­cipal mysteries of our religion."

He added that "lately, hereand there, they were not prop­erly interpreted or expressed by·various authors, with the gravedanger of irreverence toward themysteries themselves and of dis"tortion to our faith~"

The Pope said that Catholicswho have a "genuine concept ofour religion" will realize the im­portance of the defense of theseteachings and "will rejoice intheir faith and in their piety inhearing them proclaimed to thisday in their completeness."

The Pope admitted that somequestion the usefulness of suchdogmas and such defenses to-

,day: "Accustomed as we are to'assessing everything in termsof subjective utilty, it is possiblethat some may ask them'selves

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Religious, People,'More Ha'ppy

NEW YORK (NC)-Happinessmeans being religous.

That's what Batten, Barton,Durstine & Osborn (BBDO for'short), a Madison Avenue ad­vertising agency discovered whenit asked people if they were

, happy.The survey showed, according

to BBDO, "People who c1a,im tobe 'very religious' were 12 timesmore likely to be very happythan unhappy.

~'Or putting it another way,"the agency said, "unhappiness isapprOXimately five times higheramong non-religious people thanamong people who claim to be'very religious.'''

The survey showed that 42per cent of the "very religous",persons interviewed said theywere very happy. Only 18per cent of the non-religious said,they were very happy.

Only 8.5 per cent of the per­sons questioned said they were"not too happy." Most:-S9.5 percent-said ,they were "somewhathappy" and 32 per cerit said'theywere "very 'happy." .:: '

School Fina'ncing l Sisters RoleContinued from Page One "We're all searching for better

close, even though we have few- ways of educating our children.er vocations, because we can af- The basics can't change in edu- 'ford to employ lay teachers." cation or religion, but ways of

The American-born superior of presenting them can.",the worldwide community is on While saying, "I would hatethe' first leg of a tour that will to see the parochial school sys­take her to Latin America, Africa tern go," the superior also rec­and all Holy Union foundations ognized the need of CCD pro­in Europe, With her are her four grams for children not enrolledcouncillors, Sisters who hold in the Catholic, system, and therank equivalent to "vice-presi- necessity of supplying traineddents" of the community. The personnel to direct such pro­visitation tour is the first that grams.has' been made on a team basis, '''I 'see mote and more 'open"Previously the superior traveled classroom" type schools," shewith one companion," said Sister said, "such as the primary schoolMary Regis. directed by Sister Ann Boland

Feels Hopeful here in Fall River." .. . Sister Mary Regis directs the

A natIv~ of Cambndge, Mass., Holy Union community from athe . ~upenor general \~ade . her generalate in Rome. She saidnovItiate as a H~ly Umo~ ~Is~er . that 'among Sisters stationedat ,the Fall River prOVinCial there is Sister Vera Herbert for-house of the community. Subse- merly on the En'glish faculty at

, quently the province was .divid~d Sacred Hearts Academy, Falland another house est~bhsh~d m River, and most recently atGroton, JI.:1a~s" to which Sister Cassidy-Coyle High School",Mary RegiS IS attached. She and Taunton. As director of commu- ,her counc.illors wi~1 be head- nications for the community,quartered I~ Fa~l. ~.lVer for. t~o Sister Vera is in charge of keep- .months, while vIsiting prOVinCial ing all provinces in touch with

, foundations in New York, Mary- each other. 'land" Washngton, D: C., Pennsyl· With Sister Mary Regis arevarma, North-.Carohna and New Sister Mary de Sales of theJer~ey. She w.lll hav~ ~he oppor- Anglo-Hibernian province of thetumty, she said, to VISit her par- community; Sister Anne Lucieents, Mr, and Mrs. Arthur La- of the French province; Sisterroche of Pet~rboro, N. H" as Alicia of the Argentine province;well as her five brothers and and Sister Roberta of the Sacredtwo siste~s. One sister ~s also. a Heart province of the U. S.Holy Umon nun, statIOned m Sister Grace Donovan, provin-Lav.:rence, Mass. , . cial superior of the Immaculate

Sister Mary RegiS IS h?p.eful Heart province in Fall River, is,about t?: fu.~ure Of, rehglOus hostess to the Sisters duringcommumtles, There IS a great their stay in the diocese.search at present ,for authenticreligious life., What: forms 'it will,take we really don't know, but.I fyel v~ry hopeful., yve're ,allworking together and there is agreat deal of goodwiil. What wemust do is live a life that willshow young people that ours isan authentic choice."

She feels it is probably a goodthing that fewer young peopleare entering religon. "It givesthose responsible for formationthe time to prepare for today'syouth, who have so much tooffer."

The superior said that the vo­cation crisis has' been in themaking the past 10 years inFrance and Belgium. "I thinkone reason was that people wereencouraged along the lines ofCatholic Action and the lay

, ,apostolate rather than towardsthe religous life."

S\:1e note,d that the movementamong Sisters towards wearingsecular clotl'1'ing has made moreheadway in the U. S. than else­where. She was wearing the tra­ditional Holy Union habit, buther councillors were in a varietyof attire. She said it is hopedthat a common "sign," such asit pin or medallion, .will .be de­veloped for all Holy Union reli­giou~ to wear. At piese:n't e,achSister chooses her owp. sym,bol.

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. Interestingly, Sister Mary Re­gis said that the trend towardssmall group living for religious,as in apartments or houses, ismore pronounced in the U. S.and Argentina than itt Europeanfoundations. "Tl).is is possiblysuitable to some types of work,but I don't ,think all are calledupon to leave the convent," shecommented., Re~arding education, the pri­

mary ~oly Union apostolate,Sister 'Mary Regis declared,

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NEW DEAN: Rev. RichardW. Rousseau, S.J., a fou~d­

ing metpber of the BostonTheolog~cal Instit1Jte andp:rofessor of theology at Bos­tim Co1lege and FairfieldUniversity has been namedDean of Weston CollegeS,::hool of Theology locatedir:, CamQridge.' Father Rous­seau su¢ceeds Rev. JosephA. Devenny, S.J., who hasserved as Dean since 1965.

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themselves supreme, and ines­timable values, worthy of ourhomage' and attention. '

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"Seconqly, "wheil" things areconsidereq rightly, it is preciselyfrom adherence' to religioustruths, now safeguarded for ourC~ltholic conscience, that we candraw the applicable and opera­tive principles for theological,eCllmenical, ecclesial, spiritualand even' social and practieaIproblems . which burden ourminds, shaken as they are withso many I interior and exteri.ordifficultie~.

"It is precisely from firm andfervent faith in that God-onein essence, triune in persons­thJ:Ough ~hom we have been'baptized and joined to Christ,Gc,d and man, that we can drawlight and love in order to give'life, in all its aspects, a' trulyhuman solution." ,

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'2 THE AN~~,6R-DJQcese oUaH ~i,-:~r-Thur~. Mar. },6; 197f:­

Religious L'eaders Ask AmericansTo Proy for' Peace in Ire~land',

As one step in family-concern,we ask Jews and Christians inthe United States to becomemore sensitive to the presentdanger inherent in the 'Irish situ­atiQ'n. All "sides" need to beheard; no one account or atti­tude can possibly be adequatein representing the difficulty ofthe political, social and culturalsegregation' involved.

Justice for Everyone

We ask that March 17, St.Patrick's Day, be "celebrated"by Catholics this year in a newway as well as in the usual style,We ask that it be a day ofprayer and penance for justiceand peace in all Ireland-justiceand peace for everyone.

We ask Catholics, then, to addthis nole of seriousness to theexuberance of the day. We askCatholics to include in their planswomen and men of all religioustraditions. Tlj.e parades' could bean effective way of conveyingthis irreligious concern.W~ also ask ,Chr,istians and

Jews to, join in prayers for jus­tice and peace in all Ireland.

We pledge ourselves to dowhat we can do to encourage andimplement ,this new style ofcelebration. The need for prayer­ful support is ,evident; opportuni­ties for other forms of assistancemay develop in' ~he f!lture, andwe urage the interreligious com­munity to be alert for, these.Meanwhile, let us pray and, workfor peace and justice for all.,

Establish RelationsVATICAN CITY (NC) - The

Vatican and Algeria have estab­lished full diplomatic relations.Tqe Vatican named Archbishop.Sante,Portalupe, the' present ap­ostolic delegate in Algeria, to 'be 'the first pr?nuncio there.

Denies HawaIicu1. '. .. ,

Group AffDliatedHONOLULU (NC)-As part of

a "Lenten campaign," a memberof Catholic Action of Hawaiipoured his own blood over top,secret files at Hickam Air ForceBase. James Douglass and sixcompanions were thrown off thebase but not arrested followingthe incident.

Bishop John Scanlan of Hono­, lulu said later that the Catholic

Action group has rio affiliationwith the Honolulu diocese.

"These people have dishonest­ly appropriated the name Cath...olic Action and have no right tolabel themselves as such," Bish­op Scanlan said.

"I believe this sort of activity Ch C'is an insult to military personnel ristian oalitionon the island, and I will. not al- Rleplac~es Council,

, low the name of the Chur~h tobe, associated with' it;" :,POKANE (NC)-A Christian

"Non-Violent Coalltipn ?as been organized by

J" Alb t" " f th '. Ca.thohc and Protestant churches, 1m er illl .one; 0 . e 'SIX :..' , ' ,,' , .- as a means of gomg a step be-,described the ,protest as part of . d.... t d't' I' 'I fthe ' Lente " . f yOIl U1re ra IlOna counci 0

. ,- , . n, fam~algn, ,/~ ,no~- chu.rches.v~olent, dlrect"actlOn 'by C~,thohc .' '.Action of Hawaii to try 'in some' rhe ~pokane, ~ouncIl of

N¢croIOgy',~" way' io"pu(r.ourselves"between ,Churches, ,a Pro.testant group, is'. the war'maclliile, and,tilep,eqple ,poll~in? ,itself ipto, the, yoalition,

~ MAR~H: 1,9:'" '.' ,"\ ' 'ac<o d t th R G Id M, ,~Rev. Jolil(J. MCQuaide, 1905, being; kl1!~.:~': "0,,0,' .>.,,;~', : r mg '0 'e ev.. era ,. " Dou.,·g'lass,'~.t,,:re,li.g·.'foi}:'.te'a'c,h.er.: ~t FOl'd, <;oli~cil president.Assistant, ~t. Mary,: Tauntorif':, '~ . '0'

, " ' .-:.- , MARCH '20 ,,;. "';,; ,th~~:Bpi~~rsi(~,:~~~;,~~,~ali!.~said The~atholic" di~c~se of. Spo­, ~ Re.v· , Fran'cis'A>' Mroz' "j{ '. ,th~' g~ouPo,:'l;h()~e,,~h~:~I~ctr()~ic kane Will also par-tlclpate '1l1 the1951, "'1>~stor;, St. Hedwig, I~e~~," ~\V~5fa~e :.offl,~i:_ ~t : ,i:Iic~.am "'b~- re?,~n tly i.nrorporat~d coalition, !tBe'dfotd:' ,': ',C , , :. '" cau~,e: ,elec~rqplc; w~rfa,re. i,s'>~he ,WIll. be~m. operatIOn late thiS

'.'.:, .'," :,MARCH 22 :":',.~,:"r Jn~jor;"~ay:il};~WhichJ~e'.war :in Spl'lng.. ".'~Re~.;.'J1>srPh A.'¥llr.tins,: '19~0; ": In.dq¢~l~a '!~'~(j~:'b"e~il?', pr<?,~e- The coalition Will: act ~s a)\s$}sta~t; ~t: Johi(B?ptist, New..; ,:el!t~q", He~ S!1I~, ' the, ~lr "F?rce ~at.~ly~t for cooperative proJects,Bedford: ' " ' .~ (.,': ,',' , p,rops - elect,romc ,devIC,es :,mto mdudIng, Its, organizers hope, a

" . . , ' _ -, " ,Ind9China: tol.gulde ,plane~,on lay school of theology and inter-."'''''"~,::,~:~"""",,,,,,,,,,,~~~,,,~~,~~,~,;,,,,,,,,,u'''_''~:~~:'',bon)bii!g:.inissil:m,s. ;' ',: .:,' '-:", fa'ith social service ,programs.

.secohd C!as$ <PostagiLPaid at ~all '~ive'~. " 'Cathoh,c, Action of Haw:~ii is Membership is open to all Chris­~i~~~aq:~~~:~~g,~~W:'~i~~~r~~lss,ato~m' :,:a~ ~ff:H.iate'Of'.the Natii;)rial. As~o- ' tian, ai),d: non~religous, groupsb~ the:Cathol!c' Press'!lf the' Dlo~ese"of'fall,'" clatlOn qfo ~he ',Laity, ,Douglass mav participate in individual·Rlver.> Subscnptlon pnce 'by 'mall' postpaid'" ','"., '., " ",,' .. , '.:$4,00 per Yell, 'said. ' proJects.'

WASHINGTON (NC) - Inter­faith leaders have asked Amer­ica's Christians and Jews to prayfor Peace and Justice in Irelandon'St, Patrick's Day.

They warned that the situa­tion there - Catholic-Protestantconflict in strife-torn NorthernIreland has taken more than 250lives-"seems dangerously closeto civil war."

"Many factors have broughtthe people to this brink," theysaid, "and we do not pretend toknow the answers, even the es­sential questions. But we doknow that our religious motivescompel us to speak out in sor­row, and to offer to do what lit·tle we can, as outsiders, to helpalleviate the sufferings of all thepeople of that land."

The call' for prayers was madeby the Interreligious Committeeof General Secretaries, whichcomprises the executive officersof three religous agencies whomeet regularly to discuss mat­ters of mutual concern. They areDr. R. H. Edwin Espy, generalsecretary of the National Coun­cil of Churches; Bishop JosephL. Bernardin, general secretaryof the United States CatholicConerence, and Rabbi HenrySiegman, executive vice presi­dent, Synagogue Council ofAmerica.

The committee released thefollowing statement:

Close to Civil WarAs the Interreligious Commit­

tee compo~ed of the gerierai'sec­, reiaries "'of the' 'United' stalesCatholic Conference, the Syria­'gogue Council' of' America' 'a'nd

, the National Council of Churches,we issue this call.

In our concern for, areas ofcrisis all over the world, we mayforget one island where misun­derstanding and prejudice seem

, ingrained into much of the socialstructure: Ireland. The situationthere, in south and north, seemsdangerously close to civil war., Many factors have brought the

people to this brink, and we donot pretend to know the answers,even the essentilil questions. Butwe db know that our religiousmotives compel us to speak out'in sorrow, and to offer to dowhat little we can, as outsiders,to help alleviate the sufferings,of all the people of that land.

Ask St. Patrick's .Day ObservanceWith Prayer, Mourning, Self-Denial

Praises EcumenismOf Masons, Knights

CHICAGO (NC)-Cooperationbetween Masons and Knights ofColumbus was described byFather John A. O'Brien as astriking example of grassrootsecumenism.

If the two groups fully united,the University of Notre Dametheologian said, "they could helperadicate religious misunder­standings. prejudices and bitter­ness and provide neeqed supportfor every undertaking to ad­vance the social and moral wel­fare of the community."

In his talk to an ecumenicalmeeting sponsored by the Chi­cago Lawyers Shrine Club.Father O'Brien said that Masonsand Knights of Columbus beganto improve their relations a dec­ade ago. Joint national meetingstook plaoe in 1968 and now co­operative efforts are common.

BrairitrustI use not only all the brains I

have but all I can borr.ow.-Wilson

St. Anne's MassFor Alhambrans

The Fall River Caravan of theorder of Alhambra will havetheir annual Communion Massin St. Anne's Church, Fall Riveron Sunday morning March 19.The Mass will be celebrated bythe pastor. Rev. Thomas M. Lan­dry; O.P.• who will also deliverthe homily.

Imm'ediately after Mass, break­fast will be served in St. Anne'sSchool basement. The AA&Dgroup composed of 25 SomersetHigh School students will enter­tain during the breakfast. Direc­tor of the choral group is KiahO·Brien.

The Fall River Caravan,known as Leon Caravan No. 122,is part of an International Orderof the Alhambra organizationconsisting of some 10,000 mem­bers. throughout the UnitedStates and Canada.

Tiie main purpose of the Al­hambra is assisting .retardedchildren. The local. caravan hasprovided assistance to NazarethHall. St. Vincent's Home andDay Camp.

Chairman for the CommunionBreakfast is Edward Nowak.

THE ANCI-fOR- 3Thurs., Mar. 16, 1972

Contract for LargeParish School Study

NEWARK (NC)-The bishopsof New Jersey have hired a NewYork firm to oonduct a massivestudy of the Catholic school sys­tem in the state.

Msgr. William Daly, Newarkarchdiocesan school superintend­ent, announced the contract ata meeting of archdiocesan edu­cational planning commission.

The oommission is one of fourset up in each diocese to under­gird the work of a statewidecommission established after theNew Jersey Conference of MajorReligious Superiors asked thebishops to undertake such a .study. .

The firm, Donovan and Swank­er Associates, is headed by Ber­nard Donovan. former New YorkCity public school superintend­ent who is in the third year ofa contract for a similar study inBrooklyn.

Democracy .All real democracy is an at­

tempt like that of a jolly hostessto bring the shy peopleout.

-ches~erton '

TOP SCIENTIST: Cathyanne Duarte's exhibit on D-N-AR-N-A in Mitosis and Miosis won first prize in the biologysection of the St. John the Baptist School, New BedfordScience Fair and was awarded the "best of fair" prize forher experiment.

H'op~s Itls LegalBoard of Education Appropriates

Funds for Nonpublic SchoolsELIZABETH (NC)-The Board disrupt the city's public school

of Education here has adopted a system.budget that includes a $505,000, Elizabeth has a 'large Puertoappropriation for nonpublic Rican population, many of themschools. served by the city's 14 Catholic

Comment,ing on the budget. elementary schools and threeAlbert Kopf,. board president. in- high schools.dicated that "there may be sotr)e Dunn saiid that the closing ofquestion as to the legality of one or more schools - a paro­this appropriation," but said he chial high school shut down sev­hoped the legal questions could eral years ago-could cost thebe cleared up sat,isfactori'ly. city more than the half-million

Mayor Thomas Dunn a year budgeted by the school board forago sponsored a meeting be- nonpubloic schools.tween board representatives and Money has been appropr:iated'officials of this community's" for art. music, physical educa­nonpublic schools, which enroll Hon, remedial reading. bilingualaJbout 50 per cent of the city's teachers. auxilary speech in­students. Dunn expressed fearthen that enrollment losses and structors, psychological serv,ices,school closings could seriously supplies, instructional equipment

and Social Secur,ity, pension andworkmen's compensation pay­ments.

The total boaro of educationbudget of $20 million is a $3.million increase over the preced­,ing year.

Internment Policy

The priest said that the peopleof Northern Ireland need help in .making the facts about their sit­uation known. He said he hadturned down offers of money inthe United Stay!s. and insteadhad asked for "the arousal ofpublic opinion."

"We asked people to speakout, to contact their local Con­gressman or Senator, to write tonewspapers and to make theirvoices heard." he added.

Aspects that aroused particu­lar interest among the U. S.press, he said, were the Britishpolicy of internment of terroristsuspects without trial and Britishinterrogation methods.

The British army has been ac­cused of using brutality in inter­rogating suspects. but has de­nied the charges.

troops were fired on first whenthey went into Londonderry'sCatholic Bogside district on Jan.30. "I think I have convincedthem this is not true," he said.

Father Daly said he urged theIrish government to inform thepeople of the United States andthe world much more quicklyand accurately about NorthernIreland events: "If the truth ofwhat is happening could go outto the world," he said" "wewould be a long way towardsachieving peace and justice forour people and. eventually per­haps, the reunification of ourcountry."

Father Daly's trip to theUnited States was sponsored bythe Irish government at the re­quest of Londonderry people.

While in the United States heappeared on many top TV pro­grams, including the Dick CavettShow.

Dominican priest continued. "theobservance could cancel the con­siderable expenses planned forrejoicing and change the wearingof the green into the sharing ofthe green with the widowed. theorphaned. the homeless and thebereaved victims of this strife.

"A fund could be gathered andadministered by some non­partisan agency to all who arein need without regard to polit­

.ical affiliation or religious pref­erence."

.Like Father Bowman, FatherDonlan feels that traditional St.Patrick's Day celebrations this

. year "would seem incongruousagainst the background of strife.suffering and slaughter thatmark Ireland today. This is notime for parading. bagpipes.dancing, the wearing of thegreen. the banquets and thetoasts to 'the Day We Cele­brate·...

In an interview before thepublication of Father Donlan'sletter in the Times, Father Bow­man expressed his feeling that"St. Patrick's Day should be ob­served in a diff~rent way thisyear."

Without going into great de­tail. he did say he felt the cele-'bration should be marked byprayer.

Does he also advocate totalabstinence on St. Patrick's Day?he was asked.

"I'm not that unrealistic." hereplied with a laugh.

Support ChristianTeaching in Schools

LONDON (NC) - Most mem­bers of the British Parliamentoverwhelmingly support Chris­tian teaching in state schoolsand religious broadcasting, ac­cording to an interdenomina­tional poll.

Most members also stronglyoppose unrestricted divorce. con­traceptives for students, eutha­nasia and unrestricted abortion.

The poll taken ,by the Orderof' Christian Unity, a broadlybased body supported by 12churches, drew replies from 182(22.8 per cent) of t~e 800 mem­bers of the House of Lords. theupper chamber of parliament,and 180 (28.2 per cent) of the630 elected members .of theHouse of Commons.

The poll showed .that 84 percent of those who· replied sup- 'port Christian teaching in stateschools. Only one per cent wasopposed and 15 per cent wereuncertain.

NEW YORK (NC) - Drasticchanges in the celebration of St.Pathrick's Day this year havebeen urged here from two sep-arate sources. .

In a letter to the editor. pub­lished in the New York Times.Father Thomas C. Donlan ofWashington. D.C.• suggests thatthe current tragedy in NorthernIreland calls for elimination ofthe traditional merry-making. '

Instead. he would have March17 commemorated as "a day ofprayer. of mourning and self-denial." .

In a similar mood, FatherDavid Bowman, a Jesuit prieston the staff of the NationalCouncil of Churches who hasjust returned from a survey ofconditions in Northern Ireland,expressed the hope that St. Pat­rick's Day celebrations this year."would be explicitly cognizantof the situation in Northern Ire~

land."Aid Needy

Father Donlan. director of thepublications office at the U. S.Catholic Conference, proposedin his letter that "as a day ofprayer. the day could be ecu­menically organized and directedto the intention that all Irishmen.the vast majority of whom pro­fess belief in the Prince of Peace.might renew their efforts to ap­ply his teachings of peace. jus­tice and nonviolence in the set­tlement of their problems."

In its self-denial element. the

Says Americans MisunderstandSituation in Northern Ireland

DUBLIN (NC)-Londonderry's"priest with the bloody handker­chief." Father Edward Daly. toldNC News that on his recent tripto the United States he hadfound great misunderstandingamong Americans concerningevents in Northern Ireland.

Father Daly was seen on manytelevision newscasts ministeringto the dying and wounded duringthe Bloody Sunday killings byBritish troops in LondonderryJan.30.

He said that the Britisr "prop­aganda machine" enjoys com­plete success in the UnitedStates.

He said he found Americansquite convinced' that British

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Threatens' Prosecu.tion.Mobutu Orders Catholics to Accept

Africanization P'olicy .'KINSHASA (NC) - President inary .and for reconsideration of

Mobutu Sese Seko has ordered government moves against Car­the Catholic Church in zaire to dinal Malula, who went to Romeaccept his Africanization policy . last month after being expelled.or face. the closing of seminaries from his state-owned residenceand thl'! prosecution of bishOps and excluded from a. nationaland. priests. honorary order..' /The new ruling was issued Those actions against the car-after a ,meeting by Mobutu with dinal arid the' suspension ofthe .. political committee of the ; Afrique Chretienne followed the

.. ~ People~s .. ReVolutionarY Move-': magazine's publication of . an. ment, the country's only political article by 'Cardinal,Malula crit-

party. . . . icizipg Mobutu's program for aMobutu and the committee return to African authenticity,

especially . through .. changingconfirmed decisions made in Jan- .Christian names to African ones.uary clos~ng the Pope John:}Q{III The cardinal :said that is not the .SemhiarY .here. and' suspending. way "to resolve ..our presentpuplication . of... the . 'Catholic 'problems nor help us live in theweekly, Afrique Chretienne. modem 'world."{Christian ~rica).

-The president, formerly knownThe new ruling said that a'S Joseph Desire Mobutu,

priests who refuse to give "au'- changed his own name, the namethentic" Zairean names to chil- of the country (formerly thed'ren at Baptism will be liable to Democratic Republic of the Con-

. prosecution. It also said semi- go), its flag, anthem and other'naries r~fusing to set up youth geographical names last October.cells to the revolutionary move-ment will be closed and bishops The Africanization campaignof the offenqing dioceses will be has caused friction betweenliable. toC prosecution. . . Mobu·tu and the Common Afro-

Malagasy Organization (OCAM),The Pope John XXIII Semi- of which Zaire is a member.

nary was closed because Cardi-nal Joseph Malula of Kinshasa:refused to allow the formationof an MPR youth group there.

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De nies;lnterferingIn'Spal1ish Politics

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nal John J! Wright. has deniedthat a study' drawn up by his of.-

. fice, the Congregation for theClergy, was in any wayan in·terference ·in Spain's politicalaffaLrs. .

"The dodument is a routineevaluation by this congregationof a· meeting of the Spanishbishops," the American church..man said..

"It is a series of observations.neither a decree nor a regula..tion."

When tol~ that some Sp~nishne\V.'papers ,were attributing po..litical importance to' the docu.. 'men t, he said: '''1 kilOW nothingof that. Our congregation cer.. ·tainly has rio intention whatso··ever of 'getting involved in

·Spanish political affairs."

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On.e is tempted to say, inreply to this kind of ponderousand pedantic rhetoric, that if this

· isa typical sample of the new,nonmainline theology, then God

· preserve us from being exposedto any mor~ of it. .

I hesitate, ho>yever, to gothat far in response to 'anar'ticlewritten ,by a man'who has beenat least acasual·friend of mine

· ever since. his seminary' days. Iwould prefer to think"""'and thenlet it go· at that-:..that·Bianchi is

· soprcifoundly .concerned about··the ..varin ~Viet~~· (as well hemight .be}that:he. Simply had tolet off a· little non-theologicalsteam to: keep' from goingwacky. .

Millions of other Am~ricans, at.leas', half of whom are probably"doves", apparently J·ind that at..tending a .big-time fo06all gameon a' Sunday afternoon s'ervespretty much the same purpose.

· But to each his own. Anyone fortennis?

part of the nation's civil religion... Little wonder then," we are'

· told rather, patronizingly, "thatthe pigskin, cult is generally em­braeed with enthusiasm in main­line religious institutions; whosesynibol 'systems usually, bolsterconventional virtues.' Th~ gameis ex~r~~mr~y popular' amongCatholIc ':pnests' ...." You betyour life itlis!

T'he' ~ext: seven or. eight para­graphs of Bianchi's article elab­orate upon:this somewhat snob­

·biish thec;>logical' theme in con-· sidel'able: d~tail. What, it all ads

up to is thalt ,'''in contrast to reli­gion. as a freeing and hopefulform of play, big-time footballis an exten$ion of dehumanizingreligion." . .

In case' you don't. get thepoin.t," "dehumanizing religion"

· in chis context means, amongother things, American Catholi­cism.

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a demonic (sic) aura around thegridiron ritual. The satanic (sic)implications. of' the rite carryover strongly into business, edu­cation, politics,and, .of' course,interpersonal relations!'

We are aiso toici that','fo'otball'stotalitarian authority stru'cture... reflects the milit'arism prev­alent in our structure ... Littlewonder that. Richard Nixon is afootball freak. The game pro­vides a way of both relaxing andyet not being distracted from thehard qualities needed for geo­political control and. manipula­tion."

Up to this point, Bianchi hasonly been warming .up for thekill. The realthrust of his article-his principal thesis, if you will-is that "football has become

'Pope Urges LoveFor Brazil p'oor

VATICAN CITY' (NC)-PopePaul VI told Brazilians that"only unselfish love can build

.true brotherhood.".' : His message opened the Bro­. therhood Campaign sponsoredby the Brazi.lian bishops~ Thecampaign is aimed 'at easing po­litical and social tensions in thatcountry of 93 million persons.Citing ,the campaign's slogan,;'Find Happiness in Service,"Pope Paul said:. "Service is a magic word, par­

ticularly to the youth of Brazil,which . everywhere shows athirst for ideals and whichsearches, sometimes in impulsiveways, for life-long goals."

Christ' life, example and teach­ings, the Pope said, provide theanswer to that search, which"means renunciaton and a gen­erous identification with one'sbeloved brethren.'.'

American Imperialism

That's pretty heady stuff fora sober-minded theologian to behanding out in a sophisticatedjournal of theological opinion,but the worst is yet to come,and before it's all over, Bianchihas long since taken off the the­ologian's mortarboard and puton the nondescript hat of thepartisan political commentatorwho sees almost everything, in­cluding football, in the light ofAmerican imperialism, Americanmilitarism, and, more specifical­ly in the light of the war inVietnam.. "(The) wedding of violenceand and lucre," he says, "throws

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4 THE ANCHOR""",Diocese.ofFaIiRiver-lhurs.Mar. 16, 1972.

Professional theologians',like the rest of us benightedmortals, come 'in variousshapes' and sizes and differmarkedly' from one another intemperament or· personality.

I had 'aiways thought of Dr. ''. Eugene Bianchi, a former Jesuit'

who is now teaching religion atEmory University in Atlanta,Ga., as being one of the mor'esanguine, more . relaxed; and'more humorous members of ·thefraternity. Either I was ·wrongabout that or Bianchi just hap­pened to. be in an unconscion­ably bad mood when he satdown to write an article entitled"Pigskin Piety" which, appearsin the Feb. 21 issue of Christian­ity and Crisis...Bianchi's artiCle on big-time·football just has to be the mostsad-sack, ponderous, pedantic,humorless, theologically pessi­mistic, . and politically partisanpiece ever written on the al­leged evils of the nation's mostpopular spectator sport.

In Bianchi's judgment, the list 'Sexual Imagery'of such' eviIs and the harm that At the risk of' appearing to'be'they are inflicting on American almost as humorless as Dr. Bian­society are almost beyond human chi himself, I must intervene atreckoning or human calculation. this point to r~port, for whateverAfter ~Il, how can any mortal,even if he happens to be a theo- it .may be worth, that the last

time I attended a professional,logian" begin to calculate . the footbaU ,game (meaculpa)t saw

. ~~:~U~~:i~:~ ~~~~ ~~i~hb~a~ a' nationally celebrated' anti-."demonic" and "satanic" 'impli- Vietnam politician sitting .as big'

as life in .the .owner's glassed-in,cations? That kind' of evil will air conditioned box and seem­not give way even ~o prayer and

.fastllig. It calls for .the ;ministra-. ingly enjoying 'himseILimmense-ly. 1~aw him'.there with my own

tions, on:a nationwide, s~l1le, 'imperialistic, ': .male . '.chauvinistqf a certified and highly experi- eyes. Shame on George McGov­enced exorcist.. . . em.

'·America's'Dark Side" . .Bilt ·hack toth~ scor:ebqard.·.'.. . . . '~FootbaU's sexual .imagery,~'

:BIan~~ ..statts of~. ~y" s~ymg _. Bianchi continues, ~'.has:an espe-.. thatb!g time football ..affor~s "'dally' qemonic ·tinge.;:Not·only

..an excellent .. ~pportumty. t~ . does ·itassign "inferior'~status tostudy. the, dark .sIde .of AmerIca,. -women, .but it also suffuses its.and th~n ;proceeds t~ .ar~ue....... . se:x;uaI- symbolism ·with· .aggres-·more h~~ a po~. s?cIologiSt or sive violence." (Bianchi's clinicalpop PO~Itical SCientist. ·tha~ the imagery; if 1 may 'be permittedtheolog~~n he .was tramed t~ be to say so, then becomes just a-that . coUegiate and especIally wee bit bizarre,' but . that'sprofessIonal football reveal the neither here rior there.)fascist streak in our society."

We are not to take any com­fort whatsoever, he reminds us,'from ·the fact, which is onlygrudgingly conceded, that "thefascist penchant .is' no moreAmerican than it is Chinese orRussian ...," for the further factis that fascism' "takes on pecu­liar . nuances .in our heritage.Fascism means the control' anddomination of others by a force­ful repression of personal andcommunal freedom. Football in'the most blatant way rilanfeststhis tyranny by brute force overthe wills of others."

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priests to develop "an outreachto black Catholics" and the re­cruitment and training of blackpriests should btl emphasized,according to the statement.

The senate, an advisory bodyto Cardinal Lawrence Shehan,said"blacks should be allowed todevelop lIturgies which reflectthe "unique cultural heritage ofblack people."

The 'priests called on theChurch to "lead in an effort toinsure justice for people" andcriticized the "systematic ab­sence of a Catholic response to,the heretical error of racism."

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Archbishop Mar Gregorios of India will writepersonally to say where he'll locate it if youenable him to buy ($975) two acres of land as amodel·farm for a parish priest. Raising his ownfood, the priest can teach his parishioners howto increase their crop production. (A hoe costsonly $1.25, a shovel $2.35.)

When people ask why priests in India are work·ing to find water I go to the faucet and returnwith an empty glass.

Water"like breathing, is something we take forgranted. Without it we cannot eat, or drink, orwash, or be baptized.

People, too, we sometimes take for granted. InIndia there are 530 million-more than twice asmany people as in the U.S.A. and Canada com­bined. :rhe average Indian's take·home pay isless than 50¢ a week.

What can you do about it? Write to me.

We'll put you in touch with the pers,on in Indiayou can help to help himself and others. Forinstance, the deserving young lad Y'ho wants tobecome a priest ($15 a month, $180 a year). Orthe prayerful young teen-ager who feels calledto be a Sister ($12.50 a month, $150 a year).Or the orphanage child, saved from the streets,who needs only an even chance (and $14 amonth, $168 a year) to become a responsible,self-supporting grownup.

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BALTIMORE (NC)-The Bal­timore archdiocesan Senate' ofPr.iests has attacked the "planta­tion mentality" of the Churchand urged the archdiocese togive "highest priority to racialjustice."

lIn a statement adopted by a14-1 vote the Senate also criti­cized "tokenism" in appoint­ments of blacks to decision­making posts in the archdiocese.

The priests said that blacksshould be given a voice in parishcouncils in both all-black areasand in changing neighborhoods.

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brant and homilist at a Mass offered Monday morning for senior boys at the Attleboroco-educational high school. Vocation to the priesthood was stressed in the homily andduring the informal meeting with the seniors after the Mass. Concelebrants were Rev.John J. Smith, Diocesan Director of Vocations and Rev, Brian J. Harrington, Feehan Highchaplain. Top: Raymond Sullivan, extreme right, and Thomas Glynn presenting offer­tory gifts. Center: Distribution of' the Eucharist. Bottom: Paul Hodge ,left, and David Reil­ly, right, :who served as acolytes at the Mass discuss vocation~ with Bishop Cronin.

Strike at CatholicTV Sta~ion ,Ends, '

SANTIAGO (NC) - ,Channel13, TV station of,' the ' Catho­lic University here, is back onthe air following settlement of atwo~week-Iong strike.

, The 'strike was, called byaleftist-dominated union after thestation's president, Father Raulflasbun, fired its news director,Leonardo Caceres, for biasednews coverage. '

The strike was settled by acompromise. Caceres was rehiredbut transferred to, the universityadministrat'ion, where he 'will,work on television program plan-ning. "

, ,'r(The strike was part of a tense

situation in Chile, where<privatecommunications' media" ,are try­ing to survive attempts' by thePopular Union government ofPresident Salvador Allende, to.control press, radio, televisionand publishing.

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i's the "guarantor that it allmakes s,ense." -,

"'ihe'Christarimessag~is notjust 'Love your neighbor,'" shesaid, "since everybody alreadyknew that, but 'Christ is risen'and has brought about victoryover death."

'Individual Christians must bereminded~ Lady Jackson; said, oftheir obligation,to work'for theelimination of worldwide' inj.us­tice.

"You will be faced with con·gregations in the United States,"the economist noted, "in whichsome people won't think it's oddthat six per cent of the people

~ of the world should have 32 percent of the' world's wealth."

"In the wealthiest nation of" the world," she said, "we have

"'1: to effect a spiritual conversion

'''i ::,:/:.:G: ~~I~no;rr:~s~~g~~i;i~ ~~~~:r~~i~~living. We must get across thepicture that the standard of liv­ing is made up of more thanmere economics-that the truestandard of living is not the~gross national product' but thetrue joy of the human spirit."

Lady Jackson said there isonly one sadness and that is notto be a saint:

Comparing priests and semi­narians to the prophets of Is­rael, she said that people have'gone to other persons for an­swers and it hasn't worked.

"They might try you again,"she noted, "but they're not go­ing to come back to people whodon't have much to say, and tobe the type of' person who has

, something' to'say, 'YOU' have tocling ,to prayer ,as 'y,ou)'cling to'water.'" , "" '.. ,,',' , ,, Calling, for' policies ;aimed atredistributing wealth 'on -theworld level, Lady Jackson saidthat there ought to' be a "citi­zens' lobby of all Christians'~ totake one per cent of, the "grossnational product" to take care of'the poor through internationalagencies to avoid the taint ofcolonialism.

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B'ishops MeetingSet for 'Canada '

OTTA\VA -(NC)-Bishops fromNorth, and South Ameri9a ~illdiscuss JheChurch's' relationswith· yo,Jlth .. and poFtics at' ameeting ,May '15-17 at Chateau-guay; Que. ' '. The 'Canadian Catholic Confer­

enCe of Bishops will be the host()f the seventh annual Inter­American Bishops' meeting.

Attending the meeting will bel,epresentatives of the Canadianeonference, the U. S. NationalConference of Catholic Bishops,and" Latin American Bishops'Conference.

The Latin American confer­~mce is preparing a workingpaper on "The Church andPolitics" while the Canadian andU. S. conferences are pre'paring

"a paper on "The Church, andYouth," ,

Thirty bishops, nine each fromthe U: S. anq Latin America andeight from Canada, will partici­Ilate.T\J.eyinclude Cardinal ,Jolinl<:roi 'of P~iladelphia, NCCBpresident, -and Coadjutor Arch­hishop Leo Byrne of St. Paul­Minneapolis, 'NCOB vice-presi·dent.

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'qua~ity, if 'you esteem your ownreputati.on'" for it is' better to bealon(~ than 'in bad' c0l!1pany.

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I~fiost" D'istressful ~Country. .. .

-'Tha't ~Yer',Yet Was Seen',When Irish heads are bleeding, Sure it's like a hell

on earth, In the, lilt of Irish weeping, You can hear the',' atheists' ,mirth. ,Whim' Irish hearts are angry all the world,se~ms tight and' gray and when Irish he~ds' are 'bleeding,

,Sure, God seems far away. ! " "". :'

, Too~ra-loo-ta-Ioo-ral, Too- '~ibod '-is" soaking Irish grou:n'Ci., . • • • 'The' love 'oCGOd 'no' more \ve'Ufa-Ioo-ra.-li, " To:'ta-Ioo-ra-

loo..ral, Hush now, don;t YOil 'keep, his message can't be :h~ard,For there's an age-old law

again the'livin' 10f his Word. Imet with' Napper T.V. and h.etook me by the hand, And hesaid, ,·,"How's poor" old" Ireland,and how does she stand?" She'sthe ' rpost' di~essflul country,that ever· yet was wrought.they're bombing men andwomen'there for reasons they'veforgot.' ' ,

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Loss, of LifeThe Insurance Information Institute and the National

Safety,Council have released figures on acciden~s in the 'United States in 1971. There were almost.23 million acci­dents with 114,000 lives lost and 10.8 million Americanssuffering disabling injuries with some 400,000 permanentlyimpaired.

The dollar cost from accidents in 1971 was placedat $27.7 billion dollars. i

In an age that is concerned-and rightly so-about,war deaths in Vietnam and the tragedies among' youngpeople experimenting with drugs, these,statistics cannot belightly passed over. '

And yet, people will not tear up their driving licensesand'refuse to drive again. No one will ad.vocate a tighten­ing of laws regulating the licensing and driving of auto­mobiles. There will be little talk about stiffening penaltiesfor driving violations. No one will march on police stationsurging a crackdown" on dangerous drivers 'and driving.There will be no meetings of pr,otest over'this sad wasteof human life. "

'Is it that people are concerned over the unusual, thefar-away, the far 'out, !lnd lack 'of interest i,n what is right,,before them? Is it 'that they choose 'todi~cuss ,philosophi­cally what affects them little, but neglect to enter into a'­course of action that might demand a' change il1 them' righthere and new?

Loss of life, hum~n suffering-these ar~ and should. because for concern and 'worty and acti<in" And i even 'though they come 'from such a, commonp,lace,<?ccur,renceas an automobile accident, their tr~gedy,.is 'not: ,therebylessened nor should steps to remedy" them 'be ,'any' lessvigorous., '

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There are' many 'frightening aspects' of the presentfamily life situation with the stresses that"arecplaced·,onparents'and children alike: ,: -.. t',,'" ,,: :"" '. " '

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One reslilt~ 'not'too often 'considered, is th~t a harri~d

family life style qas led ,to' a ,dependence on, conyeQieilce.foods, on snacking as an American way of life; and youngpe0I>le"are, actually' suff~ring from, poore ,nutrition. "

The old concept of ,the family gathered :around thedining room table :for at ieast-one family-meal 'together,a multipliCity of courses, family conversation and excha.ngeof ideas-all 'this has glv~n way to trays in front of •thetelevision', foods eaten' out of the hand, and on the I'llD.

, snacks from dispensing machines w~shed down with soft ' ..drinks. '

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At any rate; tlfe result is 'not' only that the ,various die! Too-ra-\oo-ra-Ioo"ral, 'Too-ra-members of the family see one another with less frequency 100-J:a.l09~li, Too-ra-Ioo-ra 100-and with less personal interrelation, put that people simply ral, A n,ew Irish lullaby.are not being fed, correctly. ' , I'd take you home again,

Kathleen, Across the ocean wildMany married couples are now asking for' dining and wide, To where your heart

rooms in their homes because they see the value of a fam- has ever' been Since first youily gathered together and growing' together. Parents' are were my bonnie bride. But rosestrying to get back,' to the concept, of ~alking with their aU :have 'left your' land, we've

, children and' what more encouraging atmosphere, than at wakhed them faqe, away 'anda meal. -' die; Men would, rather shoot

'than share, And there's no -laugh..And people will I;llsobegin to eat better, 'too. ter in the~r eye.

Olt, I would take you back,,Kathleen, to where your heartwou.ld feel such pain. And if thestreets weren't red' but green Iwou.ld take you home again.

Believe me, if all those unfear..,ing young arms Which' ,shoot onso fondly today" Were 'to cease­by be morrow and turn back tocharms, Ireland would not bleedaway.. Oh, Paddy, dear and did yehear the news that's goinground? Another gemeration's

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LA PAZ (NC)-A bishop andfQur Catholic newsmen wereamong 152 anti-Communistsscheduled for assassination lastSummer by Communist guerril­las, Bolivia'.s rightist governmenthas charged.

The government of PresidentHugo Banzer claimed the killingswere to have been carried outlast Augilst, the' month he oustedthe leftist government of Presi-dent Juan Jose Torres. .

Col. ,Banzer said AuxiliaryBishop Benaro Prata of La Pazand four writers for the Catholicdaily here, Presencia, were onthe death roll of Operation RedZafr:a (sugar cane harvest), tobe launched by guerrillas backedby Cuban Premier Fidel Castro.

,Col. Banzer also claimed thattwo priests active in social workwere to take part in Red Zafraby preventing army units fromrescuing intended victims.

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ValuesFame has only the span of a

day they say. But to live in thehearts of the people - that ' isworth something. -Guida

Cardinal ConwayIn Washington

WASHINGTON (NC)-Cardi­nal William Conway of Armagh,primate of All Ireland, plans tocelebrate St. Patrick's Day hereafter dedicating a church in Mis­sissippi.

Cardinal Conway will preachat the annual St. Patrick's DayMass at St. Patrick's Churchhere. The Mass will be concele­brated by Cardinal PatrickO'Boyle and four Irish-bornpriests of the archdiocese.

Invitations to the Mass havebeen accepted by ArchbfshopLuigi Raimondi, apostolic dele­gate in the U. S.; Bishop JosephL. Bernardin, general secretaryof the National Conference ofCatholic Bishops and the U. S.Catholic Conference; AuxiliaryBishops John Spence and Ed­ward Herrmann of Washington;and Irish Ambassador WilliamWarnock.

Cardinal Conway will meetmembers of the Ancient Order ofHibernians and will attend theannual dinner of the Society ofFriendly Sons of St. P~trick here.

Cardinal Conway agreed tocome to the U. S. for the March12 dedication of the church in aparish of a priest friend nowserving in Jackson, Miss.

He also spoke on the prob­lems of Northern Ireland at aluncheon in Baton Rouge, La.,Tuesday and concelebrated aMass there with Bishop RobertTracy of Baton R{>Uge.

THE ANCHOR- 7Thurs.,' Mar. 16, 1972

,the. "" department themselves., "They were alone in their rooms,too infirm to get out, and theydepended on me. Today ~hecksare mailed, but tlhen that wasn'tthe case,"

Kitchen noted that Foley hadse~ved for many years as presi­dent, of the Fall River ParticularCouncil as well as of his parishconference. Today his son, alsoJerome, carries 'on as a Vincen­tian, and is treasurer of St.Mary's Cathedral conference.

Kitchen makes his home withhis son and daughter in law,"but I'm never at home," Up at6 A.M., he i~ at the restaurantuntil afternoon, when he travelsto the Memorial Home. As well

, as visiting individual guests, he,plans sing-alongs and ,often or­ganizes trips for residents. Healso finds time for calls on needyfamilies in Immaculate Concep­tion parish, and is an activemember of the Serra Club andthe First Friday Club.

Over the years he has alsobeen a good neighbor to many."They don't make men like thatany more," said Abel Marceline;a Vincentian of Sacred, Heartparish, Fall River, who grew upnext door to the Kitchen family.And another little boy, now

,grown, whose family was des­perately poor, remembers howKitchen always had room to takeanother youngster along withhis own son on beach or park

·expeditons.

But first and foremost Harry.Kitchen and Jerome Foley's

· hearts belong to the Society ofSt. Vincent de Paul. "Those menhave loved every part of their

·work for all the' 'years they'vebeen in it," summed up Foley'swife.

, Alone in Rc:»oms

For, 17 years, he recalled, from1924 to 1941, one of his dutiesas a Vincention was to visit thecity' welfare ,department everyThursday and collect 'checks forold people who Cbuld not g~t to

help, and over the years theVincentions have also. becomeidentified with major charitableprojects such as the St. Vincent'de Paul Camp' and the' annualBiShop's 'Ball.

In the depressio,n year of 1932,said Kitchen; the work of theVincentians increased to suchan extent that one citywide con-'ference was iJ;lsufficiimt, and par­ish units' were organized. SecrE~­

cy in giving heip was still main­tained, however, and it is un­heard of for a Vincentian to dis­cuss his cases.

, "Nowadays welfare takes careof many ,problems where theVincentians used' to !?e calledin," said Kitchen, "but we stillget emergency calls." One prob­le~ that has not changed is thatof the loneliness oUhe aged, lind,Kitchen responds to this needin spectacular fashion. ,

Seven days a week he is atthe Catholic Memorial Home onHighland Avenue, spreadingcheer among guests. "I'm thereevery weekday afternoon and allday on Sunday," he said. "Andevery time I walk into t>hatbuilding I say 'Thank God forBishop Cassidy,''''

He explained that in the daysbefore the late Bishop foundedthe Home,' Fall River's needyelderly had nowhere to go buta city institution; "and oftenthey had to wait' years' beforethey' could get in. Sometimesthey died before there was roomfor them."

CONGRATULATES V1NCENTIAN: Bishop congratu­lates Harry Kitchen on 50 years of service as a member ofthe St. Vincent de Paul Society. Also a 50-year member, but

, unable to be present due to illness, is Jerome Foley.

Pittsburgh PriestsJoin Feder'ation

PITTSBURGH (NC)-The As­sociation of Pittsburg Priests hasannounced it has affiliated withthe National Federation ofPriests' Councils.

The' association's chairman,Father Philip Gallagher, in an­nouncing the ,affiliation, ~x­

pressed regret that.'the majorityof priests in the ~ii:tsburgh dio- 'cese still do not want to affiliatewith the NFPC. "

In joining ,the NFPC we willbe representing' only thosepriests of the diocese who, aremembers of our association, butwe hope to keep open some typeof communication between NFPCan~ all the priests of' our dio­cese," Father Gallagher' said.

The Association of PittsburghPriests is a four-year-old organ­ization. It has urged strengthen­ing the witness of the church ininner city areas, and' the estab­Ishment of a' p'ersormel office for'the clergy. "

Then as now, the purpose ofthe Vincentians is to give aid,wherever needed, said Kitchen.Membership is by invitation lindonly, prudent, mature men areasked to join the organization.They investigate cases that havecome ,to the attention of pas­tors, determine what help isneeded and make sure it is given.In the Fall River diocese, holyday' and poor box collections goto parish conferences of t>he so­,ciety for use in giving emergency

Harry Kitchen,' Jerry Foley Give Century·Of Service as Members of Vincentians

BY PATRICIA McGOWAN

Together Harry Kitchen andJerome Foley have given a cen­tury of service to the needy ofFall River. Their work was rec­ognized last week by the FallRiver Particular Council of theSociety of St. Vincent de Paul ata testimonial dinner following aconcelebrated Mass of thanks­giving at which the principalcelebrant was Msgr. 'John E. 'Boyd, council chaplain, ,',' ,

Illness kept Foley f:ro~ th~',celebration, '·which 'came on, his'77th birthday; but when healthpermits he is still ,active in theSt. Vincent de Paul conferenceof SS.' Peter ~nd Paul 'parish, 'whioh he has served, as presidentfor 40 years. Kitchen, 75; 'has 'been a, member ot' Ute 'Immacu-"late Conception parish confer~','

ence an equal length of time, and'he is at present its treasurer.

Kitchen reminisced about the' ~ ,pair's '50 year's ',as. Vincentlansthe other" Q,ay,', pausing, i.n, hi;work, at . Kitchen's', Diner on

,second Street: Retired from hisown' lifetime 'occupation 'as agrocer, he "helps ,out" athis latebrother's restaurant,six or sevenhours a day.

"In 1922,when Jerome a'nd Iwere asked to become Vincen­tians, there was one conferencefor the whole city. We were thetwo youngest members, I was25 and Jerome was 27. In thosedays you didn't work in yourown parish, and you neverstayed on, one case very Ic;mg.

'This was so people wouldn't'beembarrassed by having it known',that they needed help."

To Help People

Catholic OfficialCharg'es BigotryIn Public Schools

BURLINGTON (NC)-A dioc­esan education official here hascharged that insensitivity andeven bigotry against Catholicsis practiced by some teachersin Vermont public schools.

"This is not a witch hunt,"said Msgr. Raymond Adams, Bur~lington diocesan school boardchairman, speaking at a dioc­esan pastoral council meeting."I've been in education longenough to know how some re­'ports can be garbled and lamaware of the dedication of themajority of teachers in ourstate."

"I think, however, that thecomplaints are serious and nu­merous enough to warrant yourattention' and to let you knowthat we are aware of the prob­lem."

"The fact is," Msgr. Adamssaid, "that schools which aresupposed to keep neutral on re­ligion are in some cases actuallyteaching a kind of religioushumanism which has values notacceptable to Catholic parents."

Contraceptive Information

"We, estimate that some50,000 Catholic children are be­ing e~ucated in our publicschools and as Vermonters wehave a concern in what is ,being'taught, not only to them, butalso to all the children. Theyshould not be brainwashed."

Msgr. Adams said, after themeeting that part of the problem"lies in the laudable concernwith ecology.: But when a: third'grader comes home from schooland demands to know why' hisparents have more ,than twochildren, which are equated withpollution,~ parents have a rightto know what kind of values arebeing, taught." .

The passing out of contracep­tive information and the advo­cacy' of vasectOmies were' also

. cited.

In another instance, Msgr.Adams told' of a parent who ob­jected when a teacher, comment­ing on a picture of 'Pope Paul,remarked that he was' "100 yearsbehind the times." ,

'Modesty Hang-up' ,

The complaints have come tothe diocesan school board frompastors,' parents, and teachers inthe religous education program,the monsignor said. They rangefrom insensitivity to a profes­sional failure to balance a pres­entation, he added.

One teacher, attempting to getll-year-old girls to take gangshowers, was quoted by a col­league as saying: "We'll get ridof this modesty hang-up that theCatholics have."

A spokesman for the Vermontstate department of education inMontpelier told NC News thedepartment "does not wish tocomment at this time" on thediocesan official's charges.

"Opportunity to review thearticle in its entirey is neededbefore making further decisions,"the spokesman said.

The diocesan pastoral councilhas asked local deaneries andcouncils to investigate whet)1erthe complaints are justified ineach area.

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Decries K'i II ingOf Farmhands

JUTICALPA (NC) - As thisrural community mourned thedeath of six farm workers anda soldier over land conflicts,Bishop Nicolas D'Antonio ofOlancho told· Sunday worship­pers that this blood was not invain.

"They are modem martyrs ofa fast-changing world," theAmerican-born head of this prel­ature said. "The fruits of theirsacrifice will soon be harvested."

He was referring to the grow­ing for<;:e of grassroots move­ments here ancl in other parts ofHonduras, 70 per cent of whose2.8 million· pe~ple are farmers.

Some 95 members ofth·e. Spe- .cial' Security Corps fired on 40farmhands and their families inFebruary at La Talanquera, a

- large homestead near here, kill- .ing six men. A sargeant wasfatally shot in the struggle anddied while being taken to Tequi­cigalpa.

The families. had moved ontounused farmlands, claiming theywere illegally taken ·,by· privatelarge landholders. A similargroup' occupied another .farm atLa Empalizada. Land occupa­tions in Olancho and Cholu~eca,

another farm province, have beenprompted by hunger amongthousands of farm families.Some 19,000 campesinos hadstaged land ,takeovers in 1970in Cholutec.

. FoolishnessKnowledge wJthout wisdom is

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LEO CARDINAL SUENENS

AirportCardinal Suenens Talks About Women,

Demqcracy, I~eligious Ha'bitsLOS ANGELES (NC) - "The in the Church? It is developing,

number one problem. in the the cardinal replied, adding thatChurch is how to transform pas, there had been women presentsIve Christians into active Chris· at sessions of the world Synodtiam.... Leo Cardinal Suenens of of Bishops in ROlne last Fall.Malirles-Brussels, Beilgiuin, told What about women as priests?a press conference at. Los An· "The question is premature," Says Papua-New Guineagel'e1: International Airport. replied the cardinal, indicating , .

n.e cardinal arrived here from that the theology of the question Rea~'y for IndependenceNew York to lecture at the Hoi. would have to be studied.' SYDNEY (NC~The people ofIywood Palladium for the Paulist Should Sisters wear religious Papua-New. Guinea "are as readyForum. habits? as they will ever be for' Self-

At the press conference the "As a general rule, Sisters government," Archbishop Virgilcard:,nal fielded rapid questions should have some sign that they Copas of Port Moresby said here. ,on .everything ,from democracy are Religious," Cardinal Suenens. The Australian-born archbish­to vocations to' women's lib.' said. "Sometimes there may be op sa,id that independence should

"Has the Church made any e~ceptions. When people are not be held back for Papua-Newprogress toward more democ. wishing to know whether you Guinea because some peopleracy"" asked a tv newscaster. are Religious, it is better to. have ,think it is too early for this.

some sign so they can see you "I would not think self-The <:ardinal, poised and delib- CI·re a Religious, so it facilitates government is coming too soon;"

erate: "The Church hopes to see (',ommun.,·cat,·on." h .. e saId. "It would be better tothe laity take more responsibility The cardinal said he saw noand become more active in the come too soon than too late."

sign of a' resurgence of religious More than a year ago the fjrstChurch, beginning at the parish." vocations. They are still low, he native Papua-New Guinea bish-

W:~at about a constitution for said, holding his hands down- op, consecrated by Pope Paul VIthe Church? . ward to indicate a plateau. \ ' during his visit to Australia in

"Constitution is not a proper .December 1970, said that theterm here," the cardinal replied. M I't ' M d' people" of the Australian-"Constitution is a political term. ora I y In e la administered territory are notWhen you use human terms, you J~onth Proclaimed ready for independence.cannot express the depth of the NEW YORK (NC)-An. inter-Church or of the Gospel." faith organization concerned, What about the role of women with stopping the flow of por-

nography has declared May"Morality in Media;' month.

,Morality in Media, ·Inc., head­q[uartered here and directed byJesuit Father Morton A. Hilland Rabbi Julius G. Neumann,will spearhead a "national, all­out community expression cam­paign on .the problem. of por­nography" that month.:

Also stressed. according, toMM's .monthly newsletter. willbe an appeal to communicationsoff.icials for "media based on the

,principles, of love, truth .andtaste."

MM is also requesting "Moral­ity in Media Month" proclama­tions from mayors and govern­ors, and tentatively plans to or­ganize ,orderly communitymarches during the second week­end in May.

Ask Church SupportInterfaith Housing

CINCINNATI (NC)-The Arch­diocesan Pastoral Council herehas u,rged the archdiocese to join

, other churches in building hous-ing for the poor and elderly.

The council unanimously en­dorsed "adoption 'by the archdio­cese of a continuing program ofdirec:: sponsorship o~ ho~sing forlow'inoome, medium income andelderJ.y residents." .

Th!e council said each projectshould involve at least one agen­cy "which is not Catholic" andshould be started only "after in­volvement and good will· 'of thelocal community has beensought."

Father Carl K. Moeddel, headof a ,:ouncil' committee on' hous­ing, said the conditions would"assure effectiveness of thehousing programs." ,. - - .

li;lt her' do the leg' ~ork." Thislegislator has just such a friendwho selects several outfits andthen sends them over to theCongresswoman's office'for finalapproval.

'.'Do you favor an amendmentto the U.S. Constitution thatwould' prohibit forced busingand guarantee the right of eachstudent to attend the appropri­ate public school nearest hishome?" asks the question placedon the primary election ballotby the Florida legislature tosample public opinion on thecontroversial issue. -

Priests Ask DefeatOf Bus Referendum

ORLANDO (NC) - The Or­lando diocesan priests' senatepublicly recommended a "no"vote on the anti-busing provi­sion Florida voters considered.

.Vivid Colors

Her clothes have to be com­fortable as' well' as attractive,she added, and her color schemeleans toward vivid' Dues for noother' reason' except that shelikes them, The day that wechatted. her coloring was set offby a, pale blue knit that had sud­denly become' the perfect back­ground for a large .lavender or­chid that had been presented toher by a .veterans' group ·only. ashort time before our meeting.

Organization. is another ingre­dient that this involved womanfeels must be part of a careergirl's life. "She's so organized,'''said Patty Tyson, a very lovelyaide of the Congres~woman's,

"that she can pull herself to­gether in minutes and look as ifit 'took 'hours." A trick .that allof us could use as we e~ter thehectic life of a career, womanin the 1970·s.

Noting, however, that busingis an affective means of dis­mantling systems of pred~inin-.antly white and predominantly ,black public schools. the priestsvoted unanimously to recom­mend a "no'! vote on the anti­busing provision included in thestraw ballot.

"I build my whole wardrobearound, one color scheme," sherevealed, "and .that way I don'thave to 'worry ~bout buying a .lot of accessories."

, -Pascal

Opinion

Force rules the world, and not

opinion; but opinion is· that

which makes use of force.

In a resolution introduced byFather Richard Steinkamp ofOrlando, the diocesan priests',

'senate admitted that busing is"artificial and unpleasant andshould be abandoned as soon aspractical."

THE ANCHOR:....Diocese of.Fall River-Thurs. Mar. 16,,1972. . :

Con'gr,esswom,anGives Tips

On In-A-Hurrry Groo,ming,If you wanCanything done, ask a busy person, 'is an

old but true saying and by the same token, if. you want toknow how to look your best consistently ask the womanwho is constantly on public display with a life that leaveslittle time for primping andfuss. This is not the typeof woman who relaxes forhours in her favorite facial,body or hair salon but onewhose time is a precious com-,modity.

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RODERICK'

When she dresses: for the dayshe has' to contemplate an out­fit that can carry her unharriedfrom dawn to dusk-an ensemblethat can go from breakfast meet-'jng to an important lunch andon into the early evening hourswithout- a second spared to con­sider "how do I look?"

"I don't," was her reply. "Iwould advise the overly busywoman to find a good friendwho loves to shop, has time, andknows your taste, and then

By

MARILYN

Laity Accuse BishopOf Racist Attitude

JOHANNESBURG (NC)­The multiracial executive com­mittee of the Johannesburg dioc­esan Justice and Peace Associa­tion has resigned and accusedBishop Hugh Eoyle of Johanes-

,burg of "gross discourtesy typ­ical of white racist attitudes."

The resignations and' accusa­tion followed Bishop Boyle's de­mand that Djrake Koka, a black'labor union official who .. waschairman of the committee re­sign.

In a statement issued in. Pre­toria, where the South AfricanBishops' Conference was meet­ing, Bishop Boyle denied, thatthere was' il.liy discourtesy or.racism in his demand that Kokaresign.' , . , ~

The statement' also said· thatthe bishop was not unhappywith the resignations of the ex­ecutive committee members andthat he believes the work of theJustice and Peace Association,cannot be carried out by "so­called.:pr.~s~!1fe.lP.:°!1P~;~ '.-;:". - " ,',

, Has Answers

Fortunately I found the per­fect woman to answer thesequestions when I had lunch inWashington with the Congress­woman from my district.' Mar-

, garet Heckler. A striking stra~­

berry blonde, whose outfits. al­ways flatter her lovely Irishcoloring, Mrs. Heckler magicallymanages to look well turned outand fashionably attractive de­spite a schedule that wouldmake even the most seasonedtraveler blanch.

"Where do you find the timeto shop for your clothes?" wasthe first question I asked this,slightly built, dynamic woman.

S.E. MassachusetrsFinest Food Stores!

Entry DelayedRIO DE JANEIRO (NC)-The

Brazilian Bishops Conferencesaid it ha,s started negotiationswith the government to clear anunusual backlog of visas neededby foreign missionaries to enterthis country.

James Mauck, executive direc­tor of Catholic Charities in theW,heeling diocese will serve ascoordinator of the funds received,Bishop Hodges said.

Mauck announced that $14,000has already been received .fromU. S. Catholic dioceses, includingChicago,. Cincinnati, Cleveland,and Greensburg, Pa" One Pitts­burgh parish sent in a cash dona­tion of $1,000, he said.

The charities' official said itwas "gratifying that peOPle thecountry over are so terribly con­cerned with West Virginians inthis hour of their special need."

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Two counties in West Virginiahave been declared national dis­aster areas in the wake of 'theiate' February flood, whichclaimed at least 84 lives. About120 persons are still missing.

The 20-member committeesponsored by the National Con­ference of Catholic Bishops said,contributions for the flood vic­tims could: be sent to BishopJoseph H. Hodges of Wheeling,W.Va.

Ask Financi'Ol AidFor FI'ood R'elief

WASHNGTON (NC)-A Cath­olic relief committee here haslaunched a major effort to obtainfinancial aid for victims of therecent West Virginia flood whichwashed away or damaged be­yond repair about 2,000 homes.

Food and clothing .for thehomeless victims are now inadequate supply, according toa letter SeJlt to .the bishops andcharity directors of all U.·S. dio- '

, , ceses by the NatiOnal CatholicDisaster Relief Committee here.

What is needed most, accord­ing to the letter, is financialbacking for the various reliefefforts now underway. The com­mittee also stressed "the needfor long-term continuing finan-'cial and rehabilitative services-

, after the Red Cross and the gov­ernmental agencies have left thedisaster area."

Mrs. Levine Director '.Of Jewish Congress .

NEW YORK (NC) - NaomiLevine h'as been appointed exec­utive director of the AmericanJewish Congress, succeedingWill Maslow. '

Maslow, AJC qirector since1960, will continue as generalcounsel of the organization, fol­lowing his retirement Oct. 1.

Mrs. Levine, an AJC staffmember for 21 years, is the firstwoman to head the staff of amajor national Jewish organiza- 'tion which serves both men andwomen.

Mrs. Levine, 47, is an attorneyand the co-author of "OceanHill-Brownsville: A Case Historyof Schools in Crisis." The bookanalyzes the 1967 New YorkCity teachers' strike.

Report WidespreadAtheism in Korea

SEOUL (NC)-Most, 'people in'South Korea consider 'themselvesatheists, according to a surveyconducted by the Jesuit-runSogang University at the requestof the Korean bishops.

Questionnail'es were sent topersons in both urban and ruralareas. Of the 3,509 queried, 3,317responded.

Of these, 60 per cent said they-considered themselves atheists,19 per oent Buddhists, 11 percent Protestants and 6. 4 percent Catholics. There areabout 788,000 Catholics in SouthKorea's population of more than32 million.

G'randchildren WedMADRID (NC) -.,. TWo grand­

children of the men who havedirected Spain's destiny this cen­tury were married here March 8,with, Cardinal Vicente EnriqueTarancon of Madrid taking timeout from a church-state crisis toofficiate. The bride was Gen.Francisco Franco's 21-year-oldgranddaughter, Maria del Car­men Martinez-Bordieu Franco.The groom was Prince Alfonsode Bourbon Dampierre, 36,grandson of Spain's last king,Alfonso XIII. .,,',' .'.'" '. ':' ...... ,

'PRINCIPALS IN FEEHAN PLAY: Leads in the Springplay "Man of La Mancha" are Bernie Poirier, Dennis Davis,Lois Wims and Kim Lennartz.

Attleboro School Drama Club to Present"Man 'of La Mancha" on April 7 and 8

Man of La Mancha is this Doyle, Debbie Hagopian, Rosalieyear's Spring play by Bishop Poirier, and Shelley Smith.Feehan High's Drama Club to be Attendants to the Knight ofpresented at 8 o'clock on Friday the Mirrors, Bill Flynn, Chrisand Saturday nights, April 7 and Conroy, Rose Hastings, Michelle8. It is the tale of Cervantes' Lennartz; Muleteers, PrisonersDon Quixote de Iii Manch and and Soldiers: Sue Castro, Sandyhis squire, Sancho Panza. Copley, Steve Foley, Ed Healey,

Under the general direction of Jeanne Motyl, Don MacDonald,Sister Frances M. Durlack, Sue Pollis, Gary Sanocki, Fran­R.S.M., and the musical direction cis Basile, Bill Casey, Donof Sister Mary Evangela Mc- Rogers.Aleer" R.S.M., a,cast of near 40 Denise St. Pierre accompanieshas been preparing the play for on the" piano. Gary Zilch, Scottthree months. Phipps, Rick and Dennis Gemme

On stage, scenes alternate are on lighting.from the prison to the inn toDon Quixote'S home. Stagedright in the audience are theopening and closing moments ofthe play, the famous windmillscenes, the barber's scene andthe gypsy dancers.

Title RolesIn the title roles are Dennis

Davis as Don Quixote and Ber­nie Poirier as Sancho. Lois Wimsplays an ,intriguing AldonzaDulcinea. The famous foursomeof village priest, housekeeper,niece and the niece's fiance, whoare "Only Thinking of Tim" areJoel Cotter, Diana Belmore, BillFlynn and Kathy Weygand.

Dennis Connor as the Gover­nor, and -Alan ~sen as the Duketake charge of the prison; PatMcDonagh and Paul Neveuxhead the· Muleteers; and KimLennart;z manages the Inn withthe assistance of Pam Cash.

CastOther members of the cast in­

clude Kevin Byrnes as the bar­ber; Dancers" Beth Averill, MarieChabot, Terry' Dfon, !;Jetty, Ann

I didn't like the penance cele­bration. We had it last year andI don't like to do things overagain (twice). The palm was allover the place and the kids hadit in my face. And it itched allover my neck. but some of itwas very good for me to get toknow what I did wronge and,what I didn't do wronge.

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'children.

I liked the penance celebrationbecaus they boys dident haveto sit next to the grils. FatherM served the penance celebra­tion. Mikle read the story. afterthat we went to confestion andthen we sang alau.

* * *Way I liked the Penent selibra­

tion ... I like penents selibrationit was fun. I liked the songsThey were nice for our lord god.The best part was wen I waswashed cleen of my sin. At firstI was sad but Then I came outfeeling like a new kid.

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The penance celabartion' wasgood expect when we sang. Letme be a Little Kinder soundedlike Home On The, Range. Butthe exyaminng of consence wasvery nice:' It was about a halfhour long. 'We had father M andfather p, in the confeshenal. Ihope we would do it again.

of< '" *I like it because we were to­

gether. I would not like it asmush if I went myself. I felt likewe were one big family all to- ,gether. And it felt like we wereaduts.

South J\frica~ Bishops'Oppose Abortion

CAPETOWN (NC)-"No med­kal, eugenic, social, ethical orother indications can be' acceptedas justifying the direct killing ofwhat is recognized as an inno­cent human being," theS'outh.

. African bishops said in a state-ment on abortion. ',' '

The bishops said they issuedtheir stat~ment because of re­peated appeals by various groupsfor the enactment of laws thatwould make abortions easi~r toobtain. ,

The bishops, said that "the lifeof the fetus from the moment ofconception is regarded as invi­alable, so that any direct attackon it, as an end or a means, isrejected as ·immoral."

The Church's "judgment onthe evil of terminating life," theysaid, "derives from a Christianawareness that men are not them,asters but the minist~rsof ute:'~.,

ance Celebration. I liked it very.much. Mickle and a nether' boy

, read the store the Protigal son.After they finsh the store, wesaid the rist of the praise. Andthen we went to Confession. Ithink is' was very excited. And Ithink it was fun to; :After I cameout of the Convision-box, I feltgood becaus my soil'was cleanfor, Easter.

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CARSON

MARY

Contemporary SettingFor' Beatitudes

LOS ANGELES (NC) - TheEight 'Beatitudes are the subjectof a new ,series of color filmsproduced by T~leKETICS filmsof the Franciscan Communica­tions Center here.

"Those Who Mourn" and"Theirs Is the Kingdom," haveb,.een released, .

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'Penents Se'librati,on', Make's"Tot Feel Like' A New K.id.

Because it was felt that children 7 or 8 years old are .not fully responsible for their actions, our paris,h announcedplans for children to receive First Cominunion~.be{oremak- ,ing their First Confession.. It sounded logirlal enough' tome, so I was surprised whenmany parents of the childreninvolved objected. A meet­ing was called to give theparents an opportunity to dis­cuss the plan with the, priestsand sisters. It' began with apatient talk by one of our cur­ates.

He cited examples of a childbeing overcome with remorsefor the terrible sin he had com­mitted ... he had spilled milk.Or the child who confessed all10 commandments, including thesixth ... and each commandment10 times, at that. Therefore,Father concluded, at such, anearly age, most children are n;9tcapable of making a good CO!l­fession.

When Father finished, it became apparent that the "objec­tors" were more vocal than theparents who agreed with theplan."" ' .

One man (he reminded me ofArchie Bunker) got up and said,"Father, do you mean to standthere and say that a 7 or 8 yearold child doesn't deliberately sin?I've had a few children that age.They do just what they want ...and they know darn well it's sin­ful!They're mean and vicious.How can we not accuse them ofsin? How can we let them getaway with their actions?"

I wondered if he was as strictwith his own conscience as hewas with his children's.

Make" 'Em Neurotic?A mother got up to speak and

her face was livid as she shouted,"My older children all made Con­fession first. How can I explainto them that they were guUtybefore Communion, but their lit­tle sister is not? You'll make myolder children neurotic!"

Finally it was decided that ifthe parents wanted the child tomake Confession first, they'could. Otherwise, they ~o.uld re,- .ceive, Penance later. '

To 'help intr,oduce the littleones to the procedure, PenanceCelebrations are, being held dur;ing Lent. One class was askedto write their reactions ... and_I'm passing them on 'to you ...spelling, grammar and ideas ex­actly as they were written.,

Monday we went to the Pe!l-

NAME OF GAME IS HEURISTICS: Stonehill College students explore similaritiesin use in various academic disciplines in innovative heuristics program directed by Asso­ciate Professor Chester Raymo of physics department (standing) and Associate ProfessorFrank Ryan of English department (seated, in white shirt).

Fear, Despair

She said the victims of panicpeddling and block-busting havecome to understand "that whatoccurred in Chicago was oftenthe result of decisions made incorporate boardrooms in Hart-'ford and New York." '

Edward Stefaniak, an organ­izer of the West Side Coalition,said: "Black, white and brownare being manipulated hy peo­ple who are making a fortune 'from fear and despair. Andwhat's, worse, our own govern­ments seems to be assisting thespeculators. The abuse of theFederal Housing Administrationhas become the syphilis infectingour society."

"Being black, brown or white'doesn't make a bit of differenceto an unscrupulous real estatebroker," Stefaniak said. He citedmethods used by real estatebrokers on whites and blacks.

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Says So. AfricaTortures Blacks

CAPETOWN (NC) - AnglicanBishop Colin O'Brien Winter ofDamaraland in South West Afri­ca (Namibia), deported from thatterritory March 5, has accusedSouth Africa of using torture,detention without trial and vio­lence to control black tribesmenthere.

Just before his departure withtwo other Anglicans from SouthWest Africa, the, 43.year-oldBritish-born Winter issued anopen . letter to South AfricanPrime Minister John Vorster andB.J. van der Walt, administratorof South West Africa.

-An outspoken opponent ofapartheid. the system of strictracial segregation South Africahas extended to South WestAfrica, Bishop Winter had sup­ported members of the Ovambotribe striking against the con­tract labor system of the SouthAfrican administration.

In the open letter, he describedhis deportation as an attempt to

'''muzzle the Church" and "tosuppress criticism of a regimewhich has, now, so far as Ovam­boland is concerned, abrogated

, the due process of law."The bishop said the govern­

ment had ignored the Church'sattempts to bring together gov­ernment officials and Ovamboleaders for talks and had failedto initiate consultations on thecontract labor system.

"We see in their place torture,extended imprisonment withouttrial, violence and shootings inan atempt to suppress the feel­ings of the Ovambo people," hesaid.

"For example, in the course inStructure, there would be read­ings concerning structure inphysics, sociology and litera­ture," Professor Ryan said. "Inthe Naturalist course, perhaps itwould be Thoreau, and in Crea­tivity, perhaps the writings ofD.H. Lawrence and Michelangeloabout their own creativity. Wehope ·these would be applied totheir own projects."

Explains ProcedureProfessor Ryan explained the

procedure in some of the indi­vidual courses such as Str~cture.

This is an attempt to discoverthe degree' to which various dis­ciplines are similarly structured,"he said. "In class, for instance,Gothic architecture might bestructuraIly compared to aspider web, .or a biological ceIl'

, to a ,Greek city.""In Creativity, a student might

create a painting,' sculpture,poem or piece of music and theclass' ,would discuss and reflect'on -the act of creation-how did

',he go about creating it?-plus""'evaluating the results," he 'con­

tinued.Other courses 'include Symbol­

ism, which studies the degreeto which all disciplines makeuse of symbols; Laws, which in­vestigates how the. nature .ofvarious disciplines is -determinedby "laws" such as the laws inphYsics-are there similar lawsin literature, history, etc.?

Another phase, The Naturalistcourse is' an attempt to createwithin the student the desire toexplore 'the world of ordinarythings "around him. "We try toget the students out into thenatural world, the woods andparks, to observe the growth ofthe plants, the acts of insects,even the deterioration of naturallife," Professor Ryan said, "pro­moting self-motivation by askingthe' students to coIlect, objects,

,classify and investigate them.AIl of the students keep journalswith specimens, essays, poems,and ~rawings."

"EventuaIly we wiII come upwith, a natural history of theStonehiII campus," Professor Ry­an said. "The campus is perfectfor such study, with its 500 acresof woods and ponds."

pro.gram at StonehiII actuaIly be­gan nine or 10 years ago whenProfessor Ryan was doing grad­uate work. He wondered if thestudy of literature could be en­hanced and sharpened by usingdevices and techniques fromother disciplines.

"For instance, would classifi­cations used in botany be of anyhelp to literature students inclassifying works, periods oreve:l terms" he explained. "Afterapplying the botanical method toliterary classification for an ar­ticle for the Journal of Science,I saw other possibilities' emerge,such as to what extent the study

'of linguistics and its methodcould be applied to literary anal­ogies."

Theory of TheoryWhen I came to StonehiII, I

found that Professor Raymo had'been concentrating on the samebasi,c acts, a sort of theory oftheory, in his field of Physics,"Mr. Ryan, continued. "So be­tween us we developed a trialcourse in,Observation, Classifi­cation and Theory, Making,which was offered four years

,ago."The foIlowing year was spent

preparing other possible coursesin heuristics and in the foIlowingSpring the program was broach­ed to the coIlege's academiccou:lcii. It was approved andwent into effect)n the FaIl of1970 with five courses, whichwere in«reased to nine this pastsemester. '

"The classes themselves are'not traditional, with lectures andfinal exams," Professor Ryan ex­plai:led. There are no teachersin that sense because the teach­ers ate as engaged as the stu­dents. We 'also bring in objectsfor classification, observation,and evaluation."

"You might caIl us the 'nag:­gers'," he added. "Progress isseIf..motivated, but it can't bewiIIy-niIIy. It must be directed,systematic and consistent. Stu­dents are graded_ on these t~rms

by their feIlow students as weIlas the teachers." "

R'~quired in addition to class­room observatio~ are indivdualexploration and extensive read­ings appropriate to each course.

Stonehill Stul)f~nts Explore SimilaritiesIn Various .Academic Disciplines

BYMARION UNSWORTH CURRAN

On the StonehiII CoIlege cam­pus:

Three or four students conduota survey of the drawing patternsof fourth grade pupils in Easton.

Two others transpose poetryinto music based on sound fea­tures inherent in the languageto determine the degree in which

,poetry contains music~

A faculty member finds andclassifies 72 different species ofcommo~ wild flowers found onthe 500 acr,e campus.

By studying one of the ponds,a student evolves its history interms of the food chain existent

, in it.Other students employ essays,

poetry, music, painting andsculpture to establish the rela­tionship between the naturalworld .and the human world. ,

AIl the above activities are the, products', ofa experimental pro­gram in heuristics developedover the past few years by FrankRyan" associate professor ofEnglish,' and Chester Raymo, as­sociate' professor of physics, andnow involving approximately 100students taking the nine coursesoffered I'n the program.

Three Basic Acts

"Heuristics," Professor Ryanexplained, "is essentiaIly aJ:l at­tempt to discover the similaritiesin methods and systems withinvarious disciplines. Wha,t, for'example diverse subjects' suchas physics, biology and English,would have in common is themethod by which we masterthem."

"AIl the disciplines, we find,"he continued, "share in threebasic acts; observation, classifi­

, cation, and theory making, andthese are the bases of_our pro­gram."

"The cour~es are interdisci­plinary in the sense that we havecoming ·together students whorepresent all the different fields,but not in the usual sense of pro­fessors from two or three areasstudying a broader problem fromthe viewpoint of, their particu­lar subject," he added.

The experimental heuristics

THE ANCHOR-Thu'rs., Mar. 16, 197210

Minority GroupsProtest Rip-offsBy Speculators

WASHINGTON (NC)-Groups'identifying themselves as op­

pressed and alienated minoritiesof the cities say they are tiredof being "ripped Off" by mort­gage speculators, real estatesharks and the federal govern­ment.

A rip-off is a slang term whichhas gained popula'rity amongminority',groups. It covers a mul­tituae of sins. It means havingthe hub caps of your car stolen.It means havng your car stolen.It means being the victim of aswindle. It means a lot of things-all of them bad.

The charges came hot andheavy here at a press conferenceled by Chicago's West Side Co- 'alition, an organization repre­senting mainly white working­class groups within Chicago'smid-city West Side, an area thathas been undergoing change be­cause of an influx of nonwhitesthere.

The white minority groups saythat they are sick of beinglabeled "racist" and "pigs," andthat they are tired of beingtaken in by real estater firmsand mortgages who build up rac-ist tensions. '

'Handful of Men'

Furthermore, they say they aretired of seeing the federal gov­ernment go along with abusesthat have undermined the citiesby insuring corrupt financialmanipulators.

The West Side Coalition an'­nounced at the press conference'

, that representatives from 50 ur­ban areas across the country

'would meet in Chicago to tacklethis problem.

Gale Cincotta, co-ordinator ofthe West Side Coalition, said:,"This conference is a declarationof war ag'ainst the forces' whichare trying to destroy our cities."

She said the .idea of the, con­ference arose from the anger ofresidents of Chicago's West Side"who saw the value of theirhomes and the quality of theirneighborhoods being, affected,not by residents, but by a rela­tive handful of men in financialand aIIied institutions."

COMPLIMENTS CHAPLAIN ON EXPLOIT: Bishop Cronin, left, discusses with FireChief Thomas J. Moore, right, the recent gallant actions of Rev. John R. FoIster, chap­lain to the Fall River Fire Department.

Father Foister Lives His Belief .. Church'Should Be Present When Danger Arises'

Cardinal SuenensExplores RoadOf Chang'e

LOS ANGELES (NC)-In thefirst of eight talks around theUnited States, Cardinal Leo Sue­nens of Brussels t-old an audiencein the Hollywood' Palladium that"a climate of peaceful objectivityand quiet patience is needed infinding a positive way ofchange" in the modern Church.

The 67-year-old Belgian cardi·nal, long regarded a consistentchampion of Catholicism's post­conciliar renewal, explored thequestion of evolution or revolu­tion in a prepared address as helaunched his three-week visit.

Cardinal Suenens observedthat revolution is "perhaps toostrong" while evolution is "a bitweak." He said revolution im­plies a cutting off, a discontinuity,although "the Church would notbe herself if she were not deep­ly rooted in the past."

"Past, present and future areunited in the life of the Churchas a mystery," he said. ".Thisshould discard any idea of prog­ress through revolution.

Different Image"But, and on this we should

agree, the change we acknowl­edge in the Church today is alsonot a gradual evolution of someclassical type, a quiet progresswith no upset. It cannot be therelatively slow evolution of achild growing imperceptibly, oran acorn becoming an oak treethrough the internal thrust of itssap.

"Some stress, som!;! discom­fort, some pruning has producedthe image of the Church today,which is different from theimage of the Church of yester­day."

Cardinal Suenens said thatperceiving the image requiresboth a vivid faith and "a wisdomto discriminate what is non­essential from what is essentiaL"

Original Design"The Church is a cathedral

marked in different ways byeach century," he said. "Variousstyles have been superimposedor juxtapositioned on her. Thismakes it necessary to go back ,always to the original design."

The Belgian cardinal suggestedimagining what would have hap­pened if St. Peter had remainedin Antioch instead of moving toRome. He said the papal prima­cy's nature "would have been un­altered but its style of perfor­mance - oriental- would havebeen quite different." He added,:

"Progressive Christians need a 'deep love of genuine tradition.The conservative Christians needto become acquainted with his­tory, which teaches not relativ­ism but the relativity of manypractices canonized through theages."

Favor SeparaHonSTOCKHOLM (NC)-A Swed­

ish parliamentary commissionhas recommended that the Swed­ish Lutheran State Church, setup by King Gustav Vasa in 1527,be separated from the state asof Jan. I, 1983 The commission,headed by Mrs. Myrdal, ministerfor disarment and for church af­fairs, was set up in 1968 tostudy church-state relations inSweden. The matter had beenstudied by another commissionfor 10 years earlier.

"Just the man, that's all I hadin mind.". That's how the Catholic chap­lain of the Fall River Fire De­partment answered the questionof a fire official after the priesthad climbed onto an abutmentof the Braga Bridge to dissuadean 18-year-old youth from asuicide attempt.

It was a bitter 10-degrees thatafternoon of Feb. ~3 and thespot where Rev. John R. FoIsterspent 40 harrowing minutes isan estimated 115 feet above theState Pier on the Taunton River.

When he made his dramaticwalk along the concrete abut­ment, which was too high forthe fire department's 100-footaerial ladder to reach, the priestadmits that he was afraid butthat he didn't have time to thinkabout himself. That may be be­cause he decided a long time agothat "the Church should be pres· ...ent when something is wrong."

He does not believe that 'it isfeasible nowadays for a priest toexpect to be called to the sceneof an accident; things happentoo fast today, and instant com­munication is a necessity.

The chaplain feels that reosponding to a situation such asthe rescue attempt on the bridgedoes not demand formal trainingas much as a concern for theindividual. "We talked about hisproblems and then we talkedabout ours," he recalls of hisjoint effort with the police, "andwhen we pointed out the dangerwe were in if one of us shouldfall, the boy became just asconcerned about us and camedown."

Lt. Harold Black who is cur·rently in charge of the Fire Pre·vention Bureau, and who wasat the scene, described thepriest's efforts as "a tremendousjob." "When 1 looked up on that

abutment, he was walking alongas though he were on the side·walk and when 1 asked him laterwhat he had had in his mind, heanswered, 'Just the man,' "

Priest Must Respond

It was his interest in emer·gency work and the convictionthat a priest. must be preparedto respond to emergency situa·tions when people are involvedthat led Father FoIster to be·come a chaplain. Previously, heserved in a similar capacity forthe Swansea Police and Fire De­partments. and the SomersetFire Department.

The priest, who is an assistantat Notre Dame Church. in FallRiver, is the son of Mrs. JosephJ. FoIster of St. Roch's parishwhere he was once a curate.Other parishes at which he hasserved are St. Anthony of Paduain New Bedford, Sacred Heart inFall River and' St. Louis deFrance 'in Swansea. One of afamily of 12, the chaplain hasnine sisters and two brothers.

Call Postage StampInvasion of Privacy

WASHINGl:ON (NC)-A post­age stamp celebrating the familyplanning movement, completewith a sketch of a husband, wifeand two children, has been call­ed "an ,unwarranted interfer­ence" in family life.

The criticism came from Msgr.James T. McHugh, director ofthe Family Life Division of theU. S. Catholic Conference.

The stamp "endorses the two­child family," he said, "andthereby supports the position ofthose who urged the governmentto adopt policies that will putpressure on married couples tolimit family size to two chil­dren,"

As a chaplain, he is on call24 hours a day with a radio byhis side in the rectory and inhis car. When he has to beaway, the Fire Department Sig·nal Division is kept informed ofhis whereabouts.

During the five years he hasheld the chaplaincy, he has re­sponded to situations he neverdreamed of as a candidate forthe priesthood in Rome, wherehe was ordained 'in 1958. Hisrecords list 548 cases, 230 ofwhich demanded first aid; 79 thelast rites of the Church; 22where canteens had .to be setup; 'and six which were suicides.

Scuba GearHis car is equipped with a

,siren and flashing red lightsand he can doff his chaplain'sgarb to don scuba gear to searchfor victims'. While he prefers notto discuss what other peoplewould call dramatic moments, hewill admit that his most recentexperience on the bridge was notquite so shocking as his last callabout an attempted suicide onthe viaduct when the boy in­volved "took a swipe at me withan axe,"

Father FoIster carries withhim every conceivable type ofemergency equipment which oneman might use, and his workranges from caring for victims interms of shelter, clothing, food,and lodging, to contacting rela·tives, counseling and workingwith firefighters either to pro­vide first aid assistance or to domanual labor.

He does not underestimatethe spiritual aspects of his role,but he says that his principalfunction as a chaplain is to rep­resent "the embodiment ofChristian concern for one'sneighbor, coming to his aid anddoing anything for him thatneeds to be done,"

THE ANCHOR- 11Thurs., Mar. 16, 1972

Folk Singer UsesGifts of God

EAST CAMDEN (NC)-"Shecan't miss. Within two years of

, the release of the first commer­cial album, Barbara will be a topattraction. 1 guarantee it,", Those words were spoken byMark Coren, production super­visor for Music Corporation ofAmerica, in announcing his com·pany would be handling the re­cordings of Barbara Breuer·Sipple. _

'But the 20-year-old East Cam­deJ,1 folk singer doesn't seemphased by the rave reviews ofher performances or the signingof the contract.

She is not racing around asound studio or laying theground work for lucrative con­cert tours. Instead, she continues

. to have a jammed schedule offolk Masses and performancesfor various Church groupsalways free of charge.

Sharing"I just feel a responsibility to

share the gifts that God hasgiven me," she said in an inter­view with The Monitor, theTrenton diocesan paper. "It'sreally strange how suspiciousmost people get when 1 offer toentertain for nothing."

Barbara says people look ather as either "an eccentric or avery poor performer," She saysshe is neither. She drivesaround New Jersey in a five­year-old car to get to her singingengagements. "I manage to get

, by," she says.Coren said it wasn't easy to

get Barbara to sign a contract."My assistant chased her allover the state of New Jersey formonths," he says. She signedonly when the company agreedalso to record her religiousmatel'iaL

Her "Journey to Jesus" albumsold more than 5,000 copies in

'less than three weeks after itsrelease. Her personal manager,Frank Griffen, says the albumcontinues to sell. "And t1)at'swithout any promotion," he said.

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PHILADELPHIA (NC) - LaSalle College awarded Barbli'raWard (Lady Jackson), the Britisheconomist, an honorary doctorof laws degree in a ceremony atSt. Charles BoromeoSeminary,Overbrook.., Lady Jackson, a professor of

I 'international, economic develop­ment at Columbia 'Universityand weekly contributor of anNC feature in The Anchor, spokeon·world justice' and peace..

Pri,est.$' ,Oppose'Refe,ral Service

DUBUQUE (NC) - Two offi~. cials of. the Oubuque archdioc­

esan Catholic Charities are in­, volved in a controversy over a

federally funded sterilization re­ferral service., Father Bernard Duval, a psy­

'chiatrist for Catholic Charities,compared . the service to the"final solution" of the Nazi ex­termination of Jews.

A 'milder position was takenby charities director FatherThomas Rhomberg; who wasdrawn into the dispute becauseof his position as a consultant to:the agency sponsoring the ser­vice~

Father Rhomberg said thatCatholic Charities can support' afamily planning program if itinsures that families act "in har­mony with their moral valuesand beliefs."

However, he said that hisag~ncy does not suppOrt steril­.izationas a morally acceptableforll1 of birth control. The localfamily .planning service: hassho~tcomings, FaPter Rhombergsaid, and he plans to discussthem with its director.

. Father Duval said he opposed,the service, on "political and

practical" grounds. A govern­ment financed plan carries withit the danger that the poor willbe coerced into obtaining steril­ization in spite M' their religousbeliefs: '

The controversy developed,after the River Valley Comlpun­ity Action Program apprOved arequest from the Hillcrest Tri­Cour:tty Family Planning projectto refer clients to., an" agency,which pays' 'for sterilizations ofthe poor. The Hillcrest projectis part of a program receiving,most of its financing from thefederal Office of Economic Op­portunity.

ST. MARY,SO. DAR1MOUTH

The following' officers' for the'year 1972-73 were introduced attl~e last meeting. Serving. theguild for the coming' ye'ar are:Mrs. Richard Parsons, president;Mrs. Kevin Dugan,' vice~p:resi­

dent; Mrs. James McKenna, cor­resyponding secretary; Mrs. Ed­ward Anuszczyk, recording sec~retary; Mrs. ~o~n Saint,. treasu-.rer.

ST. ANNE,FALL RIVER

The Parish Committee is spon­soring a Las Vegas Night at 7Saturday evening in the schoolauditorium. The commitee willmeet at 7:45 Monday night in,the school J!lusic room.

Cub Scouts will meet tomor­row night in the school cafeteria~~1~ .

A : parish retreat in Englishwill be given by Father Landry,D.P. at 6:30 nigh~ly Monday.through .Thursday, . March 20

, through 23, in the upper. church. , .Goods for a white elephant : N · H T·' :

booth are request~d for the an-' . : orris • rlpp:nual,bazaar. Those with items '-. SHEET METAL 'to donate may contact Al V~zina ' : ' . ': .Jr. or Ernest -Lavoie. ,J. TESER, Prop. ,

'. .' .., ' ,A Red Chair Club. will nitl ,RESID~NTIAL' ,

from March 19 through Aug.'3,: -', INDUSTRIAL, :,with a banquet to be held Satur- .: . COMMERCIAL:day, Sept. 9. , 253 Cedar St.; New Bedford', "

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A meat pie supper will 1;>eserved from 5 to '7 Saturdaynight March 25, in' the parislihall by members of the, Councilof CathoHc Women. TiCkets areavailable from. Mrs.· DelphisMonast, Mrs. Irving Dwyer, Mrs.Donat Francoeur and Mrs. Rob­ert L. Bernier.

The unit will meet at 7:30Monday night, April lOin thehall for a,regular session. A cal­endar party will be held duringtheiMay ~~etin~: ',',,', l';'

ST. KILIAN,NEW BEDFORD

Prizes will be awarded and re­freshments -served at the Wom­en's Guild whist party scheduled.for the school -hall on Saturday

" night, March 25 at 8 o'clock.

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, A MISSIONARY SiStER. FOR 50 YEARS: Sister Fran­ces Bott,' SSpS has spent 50 years as a missionary in New'Guinea. In referring to her long stay in New Guinea, the 86­year old Missionary said, "The people of New Guinea aremy people. .. Here 'I've lived and here I want to die.". . .' .

ST. JOHN OF·GOD.SOMERSET

Members, of the Holy .NatneSodety and the' Woineri~sGuildwiLl receive corporate Commun­ion. at· 8:30 Mass Sunday II)orn­ing, and will then, meet at theVen~s de' Mjlo restaurant forbreakfast. ,State Sen. John Park­er will speak.

The guild will hold its r~gular

meeting ~onight in the parish'hall, following 7 o'clock Mass.

The Holy, Ghost committeewill meet at 8 tonight in the rec­tory. All members with domin-'ga~, are urged to attend, as wellas those interested in joining the

. committee.A discussion club meets in the

hall following 7 o'clock Massevery Wednesday evening. Newmembers are welcomed:. . i

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THE ANCHOR...,..Oiocese of Fall River-Thurs. 'Mar. 16, 1972. :,"=':" '.J, '. "j" • '. ..'1,2

Publicity cha!rmen of parish or· ST. MARY,ganizations ar~, asked to submit NEW B~DFORD

. news items for this column to The St. ,Mary's Couples' Club hasAnchor, P. O. Box 7, fall River planned; a 5.t. Patrick's Day

" 02722. dance from 8 to midnight Satur-OUR LADY OF ANGELS, day night, March 18 in theFALL RIVER ' school auditorium. Music will be,'The Council of Catholic Women' by the Gene Oliver Trio and re­

announces a whist party for 7:30 freshments will follow theSaturday night, March 25 in the dancing..'parish h~ll. A turkey supper and ST. PATRICK,blit7; are, planned for 6:30 this FALL RIVERSaturday night, at the hall. .The board of education of the

· 'Members of ,the Holy Rosary parish school will sponsor aScxiality~ will meet for bre~k- . gigantic auction on Saturday~fast~ and an'1eetiJ;lg· following 8' night, March 18 in the school'

· o'cl6ck Mass. Sunday morning, auditorium on Slade Street. Sale· April 16~The, unit "wm sponsor items will be available for in­a . 'penny', 'sale at 7:30 Friday spection from 6 t9 7 and the ailc- 'night, April 21 in the hall, tion will follow" at 7, with Bob

Marier as auctioneer. A snack'ST. MICHAEL, ba,r will be open during the eve-·.

· OCEAN GROVE ning.Rehearsals for, a Passion Play

to be presented at 8 Saturday HOLY NAME,and Sunday nights, May 6 and 7, FALL RWER '.are being, held w-eekly.,.All play- Teenagers interested in par­ers. are from school and CCD .ticipating in the parish youthclas.ses. Tickets for the play, to program are asked to attend a'be held in the church.basement,' meeting, at 7. .Monday night"are obtainable from the s~hool March 20 in the school.and rectory, from ·CCD. workers, ST. MARY,and from Mr. ~nd Mrs. Edmund MANSFIEWBanville, 61 Pershing Ave. Rev. R'onald 'A~. Tosti, diocesan

The steering committee fqr the director of religious. ,education50th anniversary celeb!ation of and CCD, wili be. ,guest preacher,the parish announces that those at Ii Lenten service to be held'wishing their names to appear in at 7:30, tomorrow' .night.- Hisa commemorative bool,( 'may topic will ,be n~w directions in'contact the rectory or any of religious education: The Massthe' following committee mem- and homily will be followed bybers: Manuel A. Silveira, Leon. a social hour and discussion inJ. Wojtowicz, Charles F. Wil- ,the parish hall.liams Jr., Ban~ille, Norman E~ ST. ANTHONY OF PADUA,Petit, Mr. and Mrs.Oharles FALL/RIVER ~

, Viens. The book will be placed The Council of-Catholic Womenin the' public library and form will sponsor a one day trip topart, of the parish and town New York on Saturday, Aprilhistory. .29, leaving at 6 A.M. and return-ST. STANISLAUS, ing at 9 P.M. Those interestedFALL RIVER may make reservations with Mrs.

The /St. Vincent de PatH Soci- John Silvia, Mrs. Evelyn Martinety meets at 7:45 tonight in, the or Mrs. Romeo Dessert.lower church hall. The, council's next regular

Rev. Rober.t S. Kaszynski will meeting, at 7:30 Tuesday night,lead a pilgFimage to Poland, Rus- March 21 will be open to allsia and France in June. Those in- women of ,the parish and theirtending to participate will meet friends. A plastics demonstration ST, JOSEPH,at 8 tonight in' the school. will be featured. Proceeds of the ATTLE"ORO

The annual \Lenten p~blic pot- bus trip and the demonstration ~:enior cheerleaders will par-luck supper sponsored by the will aid the church building fund. ticipate in the diocesan cheer-parish will be held from 5 to 8 ST. JOSEPH, leading finals at 2 Suri~ay after~Sunday night, March 19 in the, FALL RIVER ndon at Feehan High School.school hall. Tickets. 'will be A distl'ict Council of Catholic Parispioners are urged to attend.available at .the door.' . Women's Past Presidents Night A new parish organization, the

An' adult Bibie class is being will be held in the schoQl hall.'. Young Couples Club,- will meetheld at 8' each Wednes9ay nig~t The 'following' . nominating at 7;30' Sunday night in .theof Lent in ,the school hall. " . committee has been appointed school; Any couple under 30 isST. FRANCIS XAVIER, to ,select' a slate of officers forinv,ited to join.HYANNIS " 'the col'liing year... It'consists of Parish Girl Scouts will partici-

M Th ' S 11' h . pat,e in a display at the Arm,oryThe Women's Guild will'meet rs. omas U Ivan, c aIrman;

M W'll' D ' M' D from' 1 to, 4 Satmday afternoon..at 7,30, toni;'ht, wl'th memobers rs, 1 lam oran, ISS or- , . ,&' , '. Knlghts'of'the Altar will SPOIl-

attending Mas's 'l'n 't'he 'church, othy A. Jeff and' Mrs. John, , "sora raff,l,eand pen.ny sale at Bthen gatheripg'in the' parish cen~ . Scanlon. . i.ter. . . ' Plans are being finil1ized for SatLlI'dayl" night;;· Donations of

-. l' t·'· b' ,; d' t' d' pri2:es'an,'d canned goods may be1\ travelogue will be presented a penny sa e 0 e con uc ed " thO thO .. f M' brought to the.r~ctl?ry.or given

by Gary 'an4 E,ugeQe ,Pelkey of. urmg· e ~on 0 a~. " ..to ,m,Y -altar bo~:, R,affle tick,etsHyannis, with countries,featured ST. LOUIS OF FRANCE, ,including those of continental SWANSEA . .' ar~ ~lso ayailable a~ the rectory.Europe, and the British Isles, es- The Ladies 'of St.· Anl)e',s So- ST. THOMAS MORE,pecially Ireland. Irish music will . dality ,will meet in· th'e. church SOMJj;RSET

'be played and refreshments will hall at 6 o'clock on Wednesday The Dinner-Dance of the 1000be selVed by a committee head- night, March 29 ,for their regu- Clu'b wm' be heldat7 on Satul'­ed py Mrs. Kay I:.ycett: lar monthly meeting. An open qay night in, the' Knights of Co-

, Mrs. Yvette Gregoire .and her' meeting, the program-will. cqn- 'lumbusHall, S.wansea. Reserva.­committee' plan a' clothing' bou-. sist of a luncheon, games, and tions must be n'1.ade by contact- ..tique sale in the basement of the 'prizes, Jay Kroll will serve as ing Mrs.. Sophia', Trafka atmain church during April, with master of ceremonies: A dona- ,3-3fi95: . ,dates to be announced. Only tion of one dollar is requested. ' ,Mrs. ,Edna, Altham will serveSpring and Summer clothing in Reservations may be made by as ehairman of the nominatinggood condition will be sold. contacting Clarisse Fl~nnery at committee for the election of of-

,Mrs. John Barrows requests 2-6038; Cecile Levesque a1:";='fice:rs of the coming year.volunteers to visit the Hyannis 8-7439; Mary Sawe*o at 3-0329; Paul Hebert, a representativeNursing Home.Those interested Cecile Couture -at- 8-9450. of the organizaton FISH showedshould contact her at telephone The business meeting will a film on, the activities of thl:l775-2264. ,",. '.', , , ~ollow the program" ~ < group, :,. i ,'1 .~ 'J "J '-': ...... ,'1.\;~~"~::":-:'~':'o~~"__ '!'~~_:'~',::,';.,,::~'!:: ~.~:::-::.;h 11,:._:-.:. ;:~_:=~~.!:- ~~~~-:-~~-.:.~ .....=.,=-~~.;.~!. ~~I

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VATICAN CITY (NC) - TheChurch's top experts in commu­nications media are urging PopePaul to improve the Vatican'spress relations by naming a full­fledged spokesman at the policy­making level here.

Consultors and members ofthe Pontifc:al Commission forSocial Communications proposedat a week-long meeting that arepresentative of the commissionbe placed in the top echelons ofthe Vaticim. be fully briefed andbackgrounded on Vatican events,and be made freely available tothe mass media.

The meeting was called byArchbishop Edward L. Heston,the American who became pres­ident of, the commission lastyear.

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THE HAGUE (NC) - A furorhas arisen in the Netherlandsover the government's proposalto release the last three Naziwar criminals still serving lifesentences in the Netherlands.

The three, who have been inprison for 27 years, were sen­tenced to death after World WarII, but their sentences were latercommuted to life imprisonment.

11hey are Franz Fischer, 69,convicted for his part in the de-,portation of about 13,000 DutchJews who died in German con­.centration' cllmps; Ferdinand Ausde Fuenten, 61, who headed theJewish Deportation Bureau' inthe Netherlands; and JosephKotaella, 6a, convicted of ex­treme cruelty to Dutch prisonerswhile he was a concentrationcamp guard.

More than 80,000 Dutch Jewsdied in concentration camps.Some of their relatives joinedconcentration camp and surviv­ors and others' in 'a crowd ofmore than 40,000 demonstratingin Amsterdam against releasing

, the Nazis.A dayeal'lier outside the par­

liment building here, fights brokeout between passersby and dem­onstrators carrying signs read­ing "No Pardon "for the Three inPrison" and "Over Our Six Mil­lion Dead Bodies,"

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MUlti-Purpose', The Center will consist of twowings. One wing will be a two­level student activity center,containing a grill lounge, a musicroom, recreation space, infor­mal study carrels, reading rooms,publications offices, the' campusradio station, student govern­ment offices, seminar rooms andan area for creative arts. Theathletic wing will provide areasfor two simultaneous basketballgames or could alternately beused for other sports, such astennis, volleyball or handball.The area also can be rearrangedfor varsity basketball withbleacher seating for 2,000 spec­tators. T1}is feature also furnishesthe college potential usage forlarge gatherings, such as majorconferences, convocations, etc.Adjacent to the sports area willbe shower and locker rooms formen and women, athletic officesand equipment storage space.

'Co-curricular'The Center has been carefully

designed. The concept behind thedesign of the structure has beento create a viable area for thenon-classroom "co-curricular"life of the college, as Stonehilllikes to term it. If the educationalprocess is not limited to coursecontent but also includes oppor­tunities for development of theperson, the personality, self­expression and the finding ofone's self, this must still takeplace in the dimension of physi­cal facilities. Some of this isdone in the cafeteria, some onthe playing fields and some inthe residence halls, but there is acarefully designed edifice whichprovides both opportunities forrelaxed, casual contact· as wellas space and environment fororganized activities in keepingwith the highly individualizedand personalized approach toeducation that is the hallmarkof Stonehill.

USCC-NCCB and tailor national­level programs to fit availablefunds. The economic situationspeeded up the process of rear­ranging things inside the twoconferences so' that both spend­ing and staff effectivenesscould be brought into line.

Combine DepartmentsAmong the steps that the

bishops will consider at theirmeeting next month are consoli­dations of closely related depart­ments of the USCC-NCCB andmergers of divisions within somedepartments.

For' example, one proposal isthat the USCC Social Develop­ment Department and the Inter­national Affairs Department becombined, 'on grounds that socialjustice cannot be neatly dividedinto national and internationalsegments.

Also being proposed is a merg­er and restructuring of the AdultEducation Division and the,Divi­sion for Religious Education!CCD (Confraternity of ChristianDoctrine). At present the twoare 'among five separate divi­sions within the Education De­partment of the usec.

Another major change wouldinvolve department directors.The office of "department direc­tor" would cease to exist in itspresent 'form, with supervisionand coordination of the realigneddepartments and divisions to bedone instead by special secre­taries within the Office of theGeneral Secretary. .,

Father Bartell said, "The Centerhas been one of the major objec­tives under Stonehill's 'Develop­ment For The Seventies' Pro­gram - a $15,000,000 ten-yearprogram for the growth and 'de­velopment of the college. Successof the program to date has madeit possible for us to go aheadwith the College Center thisyear. Last year, under this pro-

_gram, we were able to remodelthe cafeteria, renovate the chem­istry laboratories, and erect ad­ditional resident spaces. Thegratifying response to our devel­opment program has encouragedus to proceed now with thismajor undertaking with confi­dence that we will be able', to

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Construction willi begin atStonehill College this Spring ona major campus building to beknown as the College Center-itwas announced by Rev. ErnestBartell, C.S.C., president of thecollege.

The College Center will be amulti-purpose facility for co­curricular actvities, intramuraland intercollegiate athletics, andcultural expression. The buildingwill be the largest on the Stone­hill campus and it is expected tocost approximately $1,350,000.It will be located on the lowercampus in the vicinity of thepresent library.

In making the announcement,

WASHINGTON (NC) - Thenation's bishops will vote attheir April 11-13 meeting inAtlanta on a reorganization planto streamline the inner workingsof the U. S. Catholic Conferenceand the National Conference of 'Catholic Bishops.

The plan is designed as wellto put brakes on the operatingbudget of the two conferences,'which this year stands at $3.7million, including an $800,000 \deficit, and move toward a fullybalanced budget for 1973.

USCC-NCCB officials explain­ed that the idea is to go beyonda thorough study of the confer­ences done in 1968 by a profes­sional management consultancyfirm and come up with bothtighter internal administrativeefficiency 'and more effectivechannels for working with the162 dioceses in the United,States.

According, to conference offi­cials, the 1968 managementstudy' by Booz, Allen &, Hamil­ton, Inc., ,left a number of ad­ministrative areas open-endedfor further implementing.

Executives of the two confer­ences, .which employ about 350persons, decided a year ago that

, more restructuring would haveto be done in 1973.

The need for austerity budget­ing became apparent last Fall,however, when the bishopsvoted at their November meetingto end deficit fi~ancing, ali ~'the,

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The theme of the contest, opento all Catholic boys of highschool age, was "Youth and theParish."

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Bishop StressesAdult EducationIn Religion

PORTLAND (NC)-If childrenare learning things their parentscannot explain, "we have a jobahead of us in adult education,"Bishop Thomas J. Connolly ofBaker, Ore., said at a Northwestregional meeting of the NationalConference of Catholic Bishopshere.

"Many, many of our adultsha\;'e been so shaken by thechanges in the Church that theyhave felt that their old Church,the one they grew up with andloved, is no longer in existenceand in its place there is a newone they cannot explain," BishopConnolly said.

Have you recently asked agroup of parents to explain totheir children the lessons in their'religous education textbook'?All too frequently, the answersthat I have received are 'I don'tknow what they are talkingabout. These books aren't thesame as the old Catechism thatI learned,'''

Lack ClarityBishop Connolly said a recent'

survey in his diocese showedthat "everywhere, the sameproblem cropped up-that by thetime the children had advancedto the sixth grade, it became ap­parent that they lacked clarityand substantial content in theirfaith,"

He said: "There was some­times evidence of a commitmentto a Christian way of life, andthat is a great plus; but therestill is a woeful lack of knowl­edge of what they are doing orwhefE~ they are going."

Bishop Connolly said "the once'p;-oud giant that was the educa­tional system of the Church inthe United States now standsteetering dizzily, nor will a band­aid from the federal branch ofour government stay its col­lapse,"

The one thing that will ensureits collapse, he said, "is a de­termination on your part to puttogether an educational system,for which every other ingredientis present, except only the con­viction that it is worth whilepreserving," he said.

. Also at the meeting, Msgr.Colin A. MacDonald told dele­gates: "Modern day priests needspirtuaHty meaningful to themand helpfUl in their work. Spiri­tuality is the solid basis uponwhich we must work,"

Msgr. MacDonald, director ofthe Bishops' Ad Hoc Committeefor Implementation of the Studyof the Priestly Ministry, saidthat in traveling about the coun­try, speaking with priests, Reli­gious and laity, it seemed that"many of the problems" (includ­ing salary, life style and retire­ment plans) had disappeared,'thr9ugh :,establishment of suchunits as personnel boards.

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optimistic, it is indeed painfulto. be associated with 'pervasivepessimism1," commentea, FatherKoob fromNCENs Washington,D. C., headquarters, "particularlywhen I am personally aware thatsuch attitudes are wreaking veryrea,l anguish among Catholic ed-ucators ..." ,

Noting that "for -too long,'we,failed to squarely face some ofour more severe probl~ms," thepriest said these problems shouldbe faced now, "neither as pessi­mists nor optimists," but as real­ists "who proceed to deal effec:tively with the y~ry,excitingchallenges that .lie ahead."

The strategy included phasing The priest described these andout the schools of dentistry and other belt-tightening meas!Jfesengineering, both largely unde- as "a number of very, 'seriousveloped' at the university, and sacrifices wliich .I think, at ther~ducing non-academic personnel . moment,' are not going to inter­"by about 100;" FatherE.einert' fere w.ith our quality.",said.'· Need Assistance

,Thirty ,full-time ,teachers, out " ,"What, we're. <ioing,'~, Fatherof a. total academic, staff of ' Reinert said, "... is holding theabout 700 were also let' go, he ,line on a short-term basis untilsaid; library assets w!'!re reduced" some of the other things thatand a· new insurance, program, I've recommended in (my) bookwhich saved us about $300,000, come about."was adopted. The priest stated categorically

: , that ,"just putting houses inorder" is not enough.

"I' am convinced that' somekind of assistance nas to beforthcoming 'to these institutions'either directly or indirectly atboth the state and'; federal lev­els,'" he said.

The primary responsibility,however, should rest, with the'state, Father Reinert said, be­cause. "education belongs asclose, tp the local· level a,s '!Ie cankeep it.", 'The' greatest single financialproblem for the. private collegeis its geographical location,' hecontinued.

"If you happen to be in a statethat has done nothing for theprivate, sector ... it (the privatecollege) is almost doomed to fis­

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PATERSON (NC)-A 'perva­sive pes~imism' is afflicting Cath­olic education, the director of astudy' on Catholic educationalgoals and priorities said here.

Robert Bauman, vice-presidentof the Paterson diocesan schoolboard, said this pessimism is re­nec'ted ,in frequent statements01'.1 , Catholic' education~s "uncer­tain future" by nation'al and lo­cal. school spokesrri~n:

As an example, Bauman citeda statement by Father C. AlbertKoob, president of the NationalCa tho!ie E<!ucli\tional :AssoC'iation.

Speaking in Seattle recently,Father Koob said statistical pro­jeetions for 1980 indicate fewerteaching Sisters, fewer pupilsand fewer Catho'He schools, aswell as rising costs and declining

'parish incomes.

'Ine study committee Bau­mann chaired submitted a five­page report str~ssing "strongpreference for a 'parochial edu­caUon for every child" 'whows.nts one, ' "',' ','

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L t 'B b ' Gr w ' WASHINGTON (NC) - Manyas . a yo,s cf the nation's private collegesBy Joseph and Marilyn, Roderick and universities are "living out

their last years," the presidentIt is inevitable that children grow older and there are cf St. Louis University said here,

roadguides that determine the exte~t of the aging process, Jesu'itFath:er Paul Reinert,for parents. This year we have our last First 'Communion" said at a press conference that

, I d the schools are not "crying wolf"which means that we really have' a baby no <,>nget an, about their serious financialthat we are progressing' , ', problems.quickly,through middle age. let ,~he coming' events take care After looking at the, situation

. of themselves, .We also have. our first Con- In the Kitchen across the country, Father Rein-'firttt,ati,on. coin'~n,g :,up as one ert said,. "I am absolutely eon-

, There, is no better way to ap- vinced that there's no e~aggera-'.of our daugh'ters 'enters her preciate your hom'eand family',' , ,,' , ", " , ... ,,' tion.'" ,By June, he said, many,t~enage years:" , .., :, ,'" ',than to spend a few days away

At each le.vel', 9~ .growth ,we'l f b h A hid colleges "will have used up theircannot, help 'but 'feel ·a. sense 'of. rom ot" s t e 'p ane soare last resources-their endowment

, , , , into th~ air at Green Airport my fun,d!' _ ,:,wonder with' the children< They heart (as' usual on, 'a pia,ne ride), '. "t' , , d" '. . The 'Jesuit' noted. there are, ,grow 'm matut:! y, an ,appearc ,missed a coup'le of beats but as' I .' 'hi' 'd ' , s)me 1500 priyate colleges andance a ~Qst, 1111~erceptl Y:, an" the time, moved, swiftiy and we, univer,sities in. the ,country, edu-suddenly we re~l~z~ that cha~ges ", f~undo!Jrselves'circ1.i~g, 9ver ,th~, cating' one-fourth of all collegehav~ take~ plac~ ~nd tha.t w:.a~e. " beautiful 'citY;cif', Washitlgton I students-about two' million ofd?almg wI,th' a, ,~e\'f'"chI1d, I~: ~", ',push'ed ply' sligr~ pa'i1g'of h0rt,le-different st~ge." " . 'siCkness aside and "concentrated them.,

Fath~~ Reinert,' head of. St.,0," No('Static' ' .. o,n, having 'a re\varding and ex- Louis University for 23 years co-

: " , ',', .', \ " . - , , , I, 'citing time a{:a convEmtion 'deai- ord,inated a national series ofThe!"e ·.!s, nothing ,s,tatid '!ibout ing with city ',problemsimd the c)nferences on tl1e plight of

: ,,~~~ent.hood, ~t ~s' t;h~fr?cess ~f solutions that' ,could ,ppssibly' private higher education called. 'wa.tchmg 'your. 'chlld grow ana come if the federal' government Propect Search. ', 'dev~lop that ',is Sllch a marvel decided -to aid the cities through Fipqings and recOJ:nmendations .-, for ,the alert ,parent. I find with reve~ue sharing.:" from the conferences,- attended

all three of: our' children, ,that Every day' of' the :convention by business, education, laborthere is very little on~ can 'gen- was filled with, informative a:ld government officials _ have,eralize about. Each child devel- speeche,s, interesting people from' b~en incorporated in Fatheropsa,ccording toh~s or ~er, :other cities and a star-spangle'd ReInert's newly pubHshed book,modahty and th~re IS nothmg cast of leaders that- . included To Turn the Tide. 'that can be. qone to', al~er the such: charis'matiC indivduals as Belt-Tightening Stepsgrowth rat,e or the, 9irection of 'Ted Kennedy,.' Ge~rge Romney, ,that growth. We as parents can W,ilbur Mills and Ed Brooke., Paramount hi. the Jesuit's rec-'t b' k d' t h d·J , ' , ommendations is that private

SI' ac an wa c an Keep There were moments when I al-alert to dangerous, tendencies, most, had to pinch myself to colleges and upiversities mustb t h th ' .. "l',et their houses in order"·-au we, ?lust ave e patience realize that I wasn't dreaming!' ,a!1d insight to allow the allow- ' suggestion he can make withable and to try to intercede in No Wo~ds credibility because he has done,th~ non-permissible.. .' However, by the--third day, de- it himself. . • •

As we approach our, tw~ spite the fact t1:Ja,t <!aily phone . From a deficit, of $2.3 million,guideposts this year, it is getting calls were exchangecl with the in 1969~70, 'Father Reinert hasa little more difficult to ~aintain ,offspring being capably minded moved, St. Louis University to aour patience in the face of by their gra,ndmothers, loneliness pJ~ojected balanced 'budget forgrowing activites and demands. began to set in. The littie Indian the 1972-73 school year. 'We are suffering growth pains boy in the restaurant" the twoalong with a little aging and the' youngsters in' the hotel'lobby,lack of patience ,which goes all brought 'back' the 'pa~gs of

"along with that process. . "homesickness and by the fourthFor us the next guidepo~t wili' ::. day all' my thdughts 'turned to

be graduations and college and the homeward trip. Words 'havethen inevitably' m'arriage, which not been created yet that couldI suppose is the' hardest pill to express my feelings as I walkedswallow.' But at least we can, ,through myfrontdoor and'Jasonphilosophically sit back, enjoy jumped into my arms.the kids as they are ,today ·and Withiil an llour or so things

took a ,'slightly different turnWins OneCor:-tract, though, and in' no time at all"

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MIAMI (NC) - Ces'ar Chavez' of complaints, and a preview offarm workers ~nion has sign~d ,ll)y busy s<;hedule ~head, won­the first labor contract with a dered just'why I was' so' eagerFlorida citrus grower, but the .to return!union appears'toface strongop- At this season we' very oftenposition from other growers. need something a little different

The new United Farm Work- 'to add color to our dilmer table:,: ers Organizing Committee con- Try this perky salad.

tract covers 1,200' citrus harvest- Spinach Orange Salad Bowlers working' for Coca 'Cola's % cup lemon juiceMinute Maid Corp. Y2 cup orange juice

The contract was immediately Y2 teaspoon, paprikacritiCiied by an official of the 1 teaspoon seasoned saltCitrus Industrial Council who I teaspoon garlic po~der

said, '''I ~oubt it will be a gUide- VB teaspoon black pepperline for either' harvesting hands 1 quart torn, fre~h spinachor harvesting companies." He ,leavespointed' out .that unlike other, '1 ,q!lart torn lettuce leavesgrowers, Coca Cola has "a lot Y2 cup sliced radishes ,of other in'terests bes'ides citrus." 2 oranges, peeled ,~nd cut into

'Chavez' warned union mem- . bite-sized pieces. ' ,bers that since Coca Cola will 1) In a jar, combine I,emonnow be. paying higher wages, -Juice, ~orange juiCe,paprika, sea­the company will be at a com- 'soned salt, 'garlic powder aridpetitive disadvantage 'if the' pepper. Cover tightly and- shake' 'Pres~rip'tion '

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This Vigil, rich with symbolism and poetry,is also mean­ingful for us today, since all liturgy is a reflection and celebra­tion of our lives as the People of God. How often We exper­ience in our lives a going from darkness into light • • • from sinto forgiveness • • • from illness to health • • • from ignoranceto truth . . • from the small "deaths" and sacrifices of life tothe resurrections and blessings! Thus, the Easter Vigil beginsin total darkness and silence • • • we wait . • • unable to seeother people around us or to communicat~ with them. But then,Christ, represented by the Paschal Candle, appears in our midstshattering the darkness, and from the Light of Christ our owncandles (lives) receive the light of new life and faith.

Please send a generous sacrifice for the missions today.

Please ••• take them with you to the Lord's table; rememberthem when you pray to Our Father, and as. you prepare in thesefinal days of Lent to celebrate the presence of the Risen Christin your life at Easter. share. the light of your. faith with .~ose

who need to know you love .them too.

Perhaps one of the most beautiful liturgies we celebrate isthe Easter Vigil between Good Friday and Easter Sunday••••a "waiting" between death and resurrection ,: • • a "watch" forthe day after the night.

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It i!!. to these that Christ fomes today in the person of themissionary, teaching, healing, blessing. And like the Paschal Candleof the Easter Vigil, YOUR SACRIFICE for the missions helps mis­siomiries bring the light of Christ, the Good News of salvationand new life,' to a world yet in darkness.

Liturgy does not only reflect our own personal lives, butthe lives'. of. all men. We are a "catholic" community-a "uni­versal" community that sees all men as our brothers and sisters.If we look at our world today, it is no exaggeration to say thatthe Third World peoples are a world in' vigil • • • waiting fora light to shatter the darkness of their minds and spirits, bring­ing relief ~rom despair and fear, from poverty, disease and oppres­sion. They wait to experience the brotherhood our Faith proclaims;they wait to hear the Good News of Easter; they wait • • • andwatch ••• and suffer.

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This Vigil was of great signifiance to the early Christians,since it was then the catechumens completed their religious. in­structions and were baptized that night with new water . . .going from darkness (sin) into the light (grace).

T~E ANCHOR-Dioces.e of Fall R.iver-Thurs. MClr. 1~.~ 1972 ,15

We now "see" each other 'in a new light, the light of Christwhich lets us see each' other as brothers and sisters-to stand

. together as a community and pray "Our Father" . . . to gatheraround Hi1) table and celebrate the Passion, Death, and Resur­rection of Christ.

CARDINAL RAUL SILVA

"Take those 43 African na­tions with 360 million peopie,whose average life expectancyends at 40 years. Or the 25 ·na­.tions in Asia and their two mil­lion, whose daily caloric intakeis. under one thousand calories.

"Take Latin America, with 100million of its 300 million peopleunable to read and write.

"Do rich Christians know thatthere are 700 million illiteratesin the Third World, and 230 mil~

lion jobless, or that there aresome 390 million near starvationand another 1,300 million under­nourished?" Cardinal Silvaasked..

"As these rich Christians com­memorate Lent, how can theyavoid this question? What havethey done, what are they doingto end this tragic manifestationof world' injustice? Such viola­tion of Christ's' message is' con­demning the poor to underdevel­opment, arid the rich to moralstagnati6n."

'Resentment, Hate'

."The rkh fail to even suspectthe frustrations, resentment,hate and finally violence engen­dered by the contrast betweenthose who have so much an,d thehave-nots, between the' everricher nations and the ever poor­er countries."

Cardinal UpdatesLazarus Story

SANTIAGO .(NC) - CardinalRaul Silva of Santiago appealedto Christians in rich nations toheed the warning of the Gospelon the rich. mim and Lazarus,and let the Third World of devel­oping nations 'come to theirtable.

"The tragic validity of the r.ichEpulon and the poor Lazarus be­comes more alive with everyLenten season," the cardinalwrote in "an open letter toChristians in op'ulent countries."

The Gospel story, as told bySt. Luke, stresses the lifetimemisery of Lazarus and his con-­solation in heaven, while Epulon'i's tortured by eternal 'flames, uf!- \able to save his living brothersfrom their selfishness:

. Cardinal Silva, a key figure inOhile's 'efforts to' effect radkalchange on behalf of the poor,lamen'ted the ignorance of Ohris­tians in the industrial nations, ofthe true conditions in whiCh peo­ple of the Third World live to­day.

"No, they do not know us well.They do not know who are we,how we live, what we need so~adly," he wrote.

230 Million Jobless

slave ships during the week andwent to church and chapel onSundays. The slaving captainsthemselves sat by the wheel oftheir ships in the lonely Atlanticnights .and }"ead the Bible, whilebelow, men and women, chainedto each other, sickened and died.

TheseChristil;m people couldnot see,' given their social con­ditioning, that to deny to humanbeings their full ~ignity,liveli­

hood, rights arid respect was infact sinful-as sinful as to beatthem to death in personal angeror leave them. to starve at thedoor. The evil had become a .so­cial, institutional fact which peo­ple took for granted and felt nopersonal responsiblity to end.·Wilberforce and his friendsspent nearly. half a century edu­cating British, Christian opinionto accept the fact that slaverywas an evil, and to condone itor profit by it' was also. evil in a

. direct ·and. personal way..Institutional Sin

How many of our contempo­rary instituti.ons do we, theChristians of the late 20th cen­tury, take for granted? Howmany involve us 'in this institu­tionalized sinfulness of powermisused, of unchecked greed, ofprofound injustice? If we live ·inNorth America, the'chances arethilt we. 'shall have' a family in­come of at least $8,000. We areprobably chiefly" aware,' of ·the'faxes"we ha've"topay, 'tIle infhi­tion' that is cutting down ourreal·income and all the desirablethings we would be doing if onlywe could push up to the $12,000a year bracket. We almost cer­tainly are not prone to compareour sta,tus< with .the growingmass of unemployed migrants ina South. American favella, whoare lucky if they and their" fam~ily earn $150 a yea~.

Yet the contrast in incomecomes in part from unstableprices for Latin American ex­ports in United States markets,from the protection of U. S. in­terests against some forms ofLatin -American competition,from the .flow of. investmentsprofits out of Latin America andthe lack of economic "traickledown" to the poor from many

'U. S. investments. .Does all this lie outside' the

judgments of social justice? Canwe, for instance, enjoy the cof­fee and forget 'the undernour­ished field hand who producedit? The Bishops at the Synodsaid: No. The Chri.stian has 'bothsocial and persomll: responsibil­ity. Wha.t do we say?·. .

By

WARD

BARBARA

When in the introduction to the Synod's message,"Justice in the World," the Bishops confronted the. issueof exactly how relevant the external 'conditions of "theworld" are to the interior life of the Christian soul, theycame to a conclusion whichis not self-evident to manyChristians. Indeed it playsvery little part in manyChristian lives.

Yet this division canha'vesome odd results. We would notmurder a child. But in war wemight risk dropping a bomb onan orphanage. We would nottell a lie. But we might workcheerfully for a company whoseadvertisements we know to beslanted. We would not steal. Butwe are happy to buy fruit fromgrowers who systematically un­derpay their workers. We would "give a dime to a blind beggar.But we demand lower taxes,even though some schools forthe blind have to be closed as aresult.

Perhaps the cleares't' exarripieof this kind of divided visioncan be taken from fairly. recent'history~from the long 'str-Uggle'to abolish slavery. Wins Inyestlgative '..

In the 18th century, ~. group R .' A' !. d' ,Of. Christian reformers, led by eportlng' '. warSamuel Wilberforce,. began to ST. PAUL.(NC)-The Catholictell the people' of Britain that . Bulletin, .St. - Paul archdiocesanthe whole process of eapturing "weeklY,J:1as been cited for "ex­slaves in Africa, shipping them cellence in investigative report­across the Atlantic to the plan-· ing": for ,astor)' on -abortion r~­

tations of the Caribbean and, ferral.services.using their labor to. produce' ,The Minnesota I':fewspaper As­'sugar and spices fpr'the British sociation award went to Margemarket was' morally' wrong. Roden, a "Bulletin ''reporter who:Many of the plantation owners phoned the referral service pos­believed themselves to be devout ing as. a .,p,regnant un~arried

Christians. ,. Solid merchants fn womiln.' Mrs. .Roden, was ad­Bristol' and Liveq:lO,01 financed . ,vised to hl,lv~ an abortion.

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For Institutionalized Sin

The Bishops firmly extendedthe concept of sin from personalsin to the social consequencesof sinfulness. It is, as the Synod­al document puts it, the powerof the Holy Spirit that "freesman from sin and from its' con­sequences in social life."

This idea of sin becoming en·crusted in human institutionsand the institutions in their turnbecoming the cause of personalsin does not fit too easily intomuch of our traditional Christianteaching. .

Weare all born into particularsocial orders:"- into a nationstate, into a tribal society, intoa particular class or ethnicgroup. We .take 'for grant~d.

three-quarters of the habits and·ideas:. which follow,. from. thischance r c'ircumstance' of' birth',and we tend not to reflect· onthem anymore' than. we do onthe air we breathe or the groundwe stand on. In short, we' arenot. taught to make too muchconnection between our personalacts and the larger social activi­ties which, as voters or consum­ers or .business people, we carryon outside the domestic circle.

Odd Results

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tThe, 'Christian and War, IU The Script~res, and :W~r' II

POLITICAL RALLY'. At bottom, then, ,politics is anexpression of the way in which one asks or answers someof the m,ost functamen.tal questions about human life.

No discussion all year had in­volved the youngsters more in­tensely. Not yet in their teens,these youngsters were seriouslydiscussing moral judgmentsabout war. No doubt some oftheir opinions were immature;others undoubtedly were roterepititions of opinions heard athome. But one thing was clear:they were concerned about themorality of the war in Vietpamand war in general. '

This experience brought hometo me with a new force the edu­cational challenge set forth-bythe Secon'd Vatican .Council:"Those who are dedicated to thework of education, part,icularlyof the young, or who mold pub­lic opinion, should regard astheir most weighty task the ,ef­fort to instruct all in fresh senti·ments of peace" {Church inWorld, No. 82)."

RecOgnize FactsAs these sixth graders grapple

with the morality of war, theyhave a right to receive matureguidance froni the adult Chris·

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in their forties-one a most suc­cessful architect, the other apriest classmate of mine. In ad­dition, three very special chil­dren found themselves suddenlywithoutout their paternal grand-mother. '

,Before the funeral the father,mother and uncle of these ele­mentary and pre-elementaryschool youngsters pondered acommon problem facing sur-,viv'ors in situations like this."Should we bring the' boys andthe little girl to the wake? tothe funeral? to the cemetery?Would these be harmful or help­ful experiences for them?"

Right DecisionThey decided "yes" on all

counts and as I watched thefamily from my sanctuary van­tage point during the service, Iconcluded they certainly hadjUdged wisely.

The little ones participated inthe beautiful burial of a Chris­tian. There were tears to be sure

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, love." It could be our marchingsong.

Geneva and 9Ospel. 'If we actually -started shoot­

ing, we would keep in mind that.~!whatever you ,do ,to the least

,,- cif these my brothers, you do to, me" (Matt. 25,40). Our bombing.niids would not leave peoplewithout homes. Our scorchedearth and defoliation would notleave the least of our brotherswithout food.

A minimum of humanity islaid down in the Geneva Conven­

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Until We Meet Again

Focus on Peace,. Not Wgr

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FR; QUENTIN

QUESNiELL, S.J.

The two boys were actual1lyshouting at each other-in sixth­grade ,religion class! Mike and,Jim, both aged 11, were lookingthrough daily newspapers forexamples' of things that restrictpeople's freedom. Mike saw apicture of soldiers. fighting inV,ietnam, and was explaininghow war and the draft reallykept people from being free. Jim

hymn puts that to music: "They'llkn<;>w we are Christians by our

Mary Finnegan lived a full 77years, but her death earlyChristmas morning still cameunexpectedly, literally in thatmiddle Of the night the gospeltexts mention. She rose frombed at 2 A.M., walked to the liv­ing room of their attractive homeand complained to her concernedhusba,nd about ,"never havingfelt like this before." In a mat­ter' of moments she' sat down,,'~gm;1:rt~n~::.w;ill;~:wi:~'-'-- .I !

stood up, then' sat again, slump­ed over and was gone.

Mrs. ,Finnegan was a refinedlady, a strong person and a goodwoman. She left behind, besidesher 'spouse, two children, sons

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'FR. JOSEPH M.

CHAMPLIN ,

There is no New Testament know ,that yo~ are:my disciples,tE:aching on war. The Christians , ' th~t, 'you have love for one an­who Wrote the New Testament other" '(John 13,35). A mlJdernhad no power, to make decisil)ns 'H"J,%mu.wmJ,.m@I®lll?1~::)about war or peace. They were, " 'not the rulers of nations.' Theydid not even 'have the rightwhich Americans have today ofbeing able to vote for or againstmen who lead their country intowar.

Moreover, wars at that timewere fought by professional sol­diers, not by conscripted dti-' ~il:iillID1f.i®itmrmmt:mllllW~

zens. Consequently, Christiansof that time did not even havette burden of deciding whether0)' not to serve in a war theyfelt was unjust.

War was just a fact of life.RLllers and.;trmies made, war onone another and caused muchsuffering thereby, then as now.But discussions of the morali.tyof war would have been totallyirrelevant to the practical livesof the first readers of the NewTestament.

Still, a teaching on war wouldbe very relevant to our life andtime. Wllat shall we do? Writea New TestimeIlt of our own tosuit our ,needs? Or continue tomeditate on th~ one ~e have?

ForgivenessIf we choose to look for our

answer in the New Testamentwhich we have, then all we can FR. CARL J.do is confront the reality ofmodern war with the general PFEIFER, S.J.;principles of conduct which we "',do find in the New Testament.H)w the two fit together in the- @~%W¥---!§lt:" '

my may be hard to' see. How 'reacted immediately, stronglythey can be brought together in disagreeing. "You're wrong! Thepractice will depend on our per- war is to protect freedom. That'sse,nal practical decisions in indi- what 'our soldiers are fighting forvidUal cases.

and dying for." Mike responded,First of all, as we felt war "I don't believe that." Their feel­

drawing closer, we would ask: ings were strong, and the argu­"How many times can my broth- ' ment grew heated as others iner sin against me and I have to the class joined in.forgive him? Seven' times?"(Matt 18,21). We would remem-bE,r Jesus' answer "Not seventimes, but seventy times seventimes" (Matt 18,22). "If you donot forgive your brother, neitherwill my Father in heaven forgiveYClu" (Matt 6,14). We would ,re­call the prayer we say every day:"Forgive us our sins, as we for­give those who sin against us."

But if the enemy actuallyopened hostilities with a first ag­gressive move, we would thinkof the Lord's command: "Do nottake revenge on someone whodees you wrong. If anyone sla.psyou on the right' cheek, let himslap your left cheek too" (Matt.5,:l9). "If someone does evil toyou do not pay him back withevil" (Rom. 12,17).

If the enemy at,tacks contin­ued, we would strengthen oneanother with "Love your enemiesand pray for those who mistreatyou" (Matt. 5,43). and "If yourenemy is hungry, feed him. If he lrm:mmmKTlllllK1'%:mMcis thirsty, give him to drink.".Do not-let evil defeat you, in­stead conquer evil with good"(Rom. 12,20.21).

If we actually did march outagainst the enemy, our reasonwould be "By this shall all men

nowledge some extreme situa­tions in Which it would be moral­ly permissible to destroy life, butinsist that modern warfare simp­ly cannot fulfill, the Gonditionwhich would legitimatize this re­sort to ultimate violenve.

Less is ·heard these days thanin the past about the "just war"theory but this may simply bebecause the terminology itself isnot so commonly used as it oncewas. Actually, those who admitthat some wars may be moralenterprises and seek to distin­guish these from wars which areimmoral, regularly apply the"just war" principles in makingtheir determination about a par­ticular conflict.

Just WarThe just war position is based

on the conviction that, 'howeverrepugnant ,violence and killingmay be, there may arise situa­tions where it is not only neces­sary but virtuous for a Christianto resort to these extreme mea­sures for repelling violent ag­gression. The' classic examplefrom private life is an attack ona family by.a dangerous killer.In such a case, it is said, thefamily would have a right andduty to, protect its members byresisting-and, if necessary, kill­ing-the aggressor.

Extending this to relationshipsamong nations, the' theory rea­sons that a nation subjected tounjust aggression has a right toprotect itself !?y, going' to war.But even so, war must be truly alast resort, it must' ,not beaggression masked as ~'self­

defense," it must have 'a reason­able chance of success, and itmust observe moral limits (inparticular, no direct" attacks oncivilian populations).

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BY RUSSELL SHAW

Christianity and war - thelinking of the two ideas seemsto many people today to be acontradiction. Is not war, withits hatred, violence, destructionand disruption of life, a denialof all that Christianity standsfor? What stance can Christian­ity take toward war except tocondemn it?

Yet over the centuries manysincere Christians have adopteda different attitude. Acknowledg­ing' that war is an evil, theyhave nevertheless, postulatedcircumstances-self-defense, re­dress of extreme injustice - inwhich it would be possible forChristians to engage in war as a·last resort. And, this.being so,they have sought to establishguidelines fOf waging war ac­cordling to moral norms.

Both strains of thought-'-us­ually referred to respectively as"pacifism" and the "just wartheory"-are very much presentin Christian thinking today. Eachhas respectable antecedents andresponsible argment~ .to supportit. Neither can be disV1issed outof hand as Irresponsible or' un­worthy' of a Christian. Aridneither is without problems.

Right of LifePrompted by' the horrors of

World War I and World War II,the Vietnam war and other con­temponiry conflicts, and thelooming threat of thermonuclearannihiliation, Christian pacifismha's enj9yed a resurgence in ourtimes. Many Christian 'pacifistsstake their position on the abso­lute, value of inviolability of hu~

man life; because God is Creatorand Lord 'of all life; no one hasthe right to take the 'life of an­other. Other pacifists mi~ht ack-

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Conventional War

On the 'other hand, "conven­tional" war of the Vietnam kind,in which civilians are inevitablycaught up iTI the swirl of fight­ing, presents equally difficultmoral problems even in a situ­ation where atomic weapons arenot used.

It is obvious, too, that the de~

fense policies and military ser­vice laws of our country standin need, of continual review andrevision in light of Christianprinciples and changing factualcircumstances. At present, forexample, the draft law givesgrudging recognition to therights of some religous pacifists;it concedes nothing, however, toselective conscientious objectorswho, by their implicit recogni­tion that some wars are moraland others are not, have in ef­fect adopted a "just war" po-sition. .

Lastly, the Christian must askwhether too much attention isnot given now to war and toolittle to peace; Whatever his at­titude toward war may be, the.Christian's first duty is to peace-how to achieve it and preserveit.

The arts of war have becomehighly sophisticated in this cen­tury, but the arts of peace oftenseem to be at a tragically primi­tive stage of development. In thelong run, though, they hold thebest hope for our country andour world.

Discr~tion

One cool judgment is worth athousand hasty counsels. Thething to do ds to supply lightand not heat. -Wilson

Christian, WarContinued from Page SixteenClearcut as these matters may

seem in theory, in practice theyraise immensely complex ques­tions of conscience for Chris­tians, especially in our times.The advent of nuclear arms, withtheir vast potential for indiscrim­inate destruction of life, make itquestionable whether there couldbe such a thing as a "just" warin which such weapons, wereused.

tH~ ANCHOR- 17Thurs., Mar. 16, 1972

Courses Prove PopularAcademy Girls

Six MiniWith Dominica'n

MINI COURSE: Learning how to type is fun for seventhand eighth graders in a mini course at the DominicanAcademy. The instructor is Sister John of the Cross, C.P.,the' Dominican Sisters' bursar and a teacher in MOTAand Model Cities classes in Fall River.

It isn't often that seventh and have been urged onto the courtseighth graders are allowed to for a contest, and getting a team"do their own thing'" in conven- together wasn't easy.tional classrooms. Departmentalization

But every Friday afternoon at Other DA features which' thethe Dominican Academy, in Fall Dominican Sisters stress are de­River, the girls have the oppor- partmentalization from thetunity to learn about such di- fourth grade up and a service forverse subjects as typing, sewing working mothers whereby stu­and French cooking. dents may remain at the school

The mini courses were origi- and have supervised play andnally intended as an experiment, study until 5:15 each afternoon.but have aroused so much en- "Dress up" and "dress down"

,thusiasm ,among bo,th students . days are popular with the girls,'and faculty that they are defi" '- and in exchange for the privilegenitely in for next year. The won- of. not hav.ing to wear theirderful,thing about them, accord- uniforms they make small dona­.jng to the principal, Sister Anne ,tions to a· fund for ,school equip­Louise Levesque, O.P., is that ment. Right now, a new dupli­"the girls are,taking, them be- cator machine tops t~e list ofcause they want to." needs' at the academy.

This semester, the 56 stu:ientsin the two gr:ldes w'2:,~ ;)ffered Princ~pal '

..a choice of six cou.':;es: sewing, In her year as principal,' thelab techniques, guidance, short- . daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Napo-hand, typing 'and French. leon Levesque of 77 East Main

Faculty Street has drawn upon her ownThe teachers include the acad- school experiences as an alumna

emy's regular faculty members of DA, Class of 1960, and as aand also range from the congre-' high school teacher. Althoughgation's mother general, Sister the role of head of the 230-pupilAnita Pauline, O.P., long associ- school is a demanding one sheated with the area's science has found time to complete workfairs, to the principal's sister, for a master's degree in religious

studies which she will receiveMrs. John Conforti, who isdonating her kitchen as well as from Providence College in May.her knowledge of French as a Although a number of Catholicvolunteer instructor. schools have been forced to

Designed both to provide en- close,· the Dominican Sisters arerichment and to introduce the ,attempting, with a tuition in­girls to new fields of knowledge, crease to maintain the elemen­the mini courses are an impor- tary school established by theirtant part of the innovative pro- order in the late 19th century.grams which' the new principal ,Sister Louise feels that, while inbelieves are necessary if the pri- this day "no one, can be sure ofvate girls' school is to survive anything," there is a place andthe current crisis in Catholic a need in the community for aeducation. school like DA.

'Clues to their' success are re- Interest in Sewingvealed in student comments Accepting registration for nextabout fun, freedom of choice, year, the Sisters have beenand no fear of failure. / pleased to learn that many pros-

Utilizing the complete facilities pective students have heardof the school, as a result of ,the about the mini courses. Whileclosing of the' high school sec- the girls' interests vary, sewingtion, the elementary students proved most popular during thenow have the use of the gymna- first semester and now sharessium-auditorium and are excited top billing with typing.over their basketball team and So dedicated are the girls tocheerleading squad,. both of learning how to operate a type­which are coached by a number writer that the class was theof DA alumnae. Their only prob- only one in the school recentlylem now, the principal admits to forego a sewing lecture­somewhat ruefully, is "finding demonstration. The reason? Theyteams their own size to play did not want to miss a typingagainst." Even their mothers lesson!

,Spi~tual Adventure

EVen now, she cannot be saidto have returned to norinal. But

, one doctor remarked that he hadnever seen anyone so severelyinjured who lived. Ginny hasdone far more than that.

This is no mere medical his­tory. Principally, It is a spiritualadventure. It is a testament offaith.

There are, inevitably, somegrisly a.spec~s to the book, justas there are grisly aspects tolife. But the predominant effectis to uplift the reader. This is atruly inspirational work, onewhich is not in the least maw­kish.

It shows ordinary people sud­denly' and severely afflicted, butborne up by their own religousfaith and by the love which wasshown them in a myriad prac­tical ways. Ginny is an appealingheroine. Mary Carson is ashinin~ one.

'[his is'a professiomii .piece of:writing on a subject as littleknown as it is common.' It' con­tains neither fake violence norfake pathos but the real articlein each category.

Mary .Carson's 'Ginny'

Many children figure in Mr~

Smith's book. One child isfocussed u'pon in Mary Carson'sGinny: A True Story '(Double­day, 277 Park Ave., New York,N. Y. 10017. $5.95). Ginny isMrs. Carson's daughter, whowas a six-year-old first graderin Baldwin, Long Island, whenthe events detailed in the book

, begin.That' was in October 1966.

Ginny was' the second youngestof Dan and Mary, Carson's eightchildren. Coming home fromschool she was hit by a truck.Her mother raced to the sceneand saw at mice that ~he uncon­scious child was badly injured.How badly, she would not knowuntil she was confronted by thegrave faces of the staff of thehospital to which Ginny wasrushed. '

Special Surgery

Fifteen doctors were workingon the case, and' innumerablenurses and other personnel. Ittook 25 days for the .child's tem­perature to 'stabilize. 'After'thatcame inching; uncertain'progress,in response to unremitting, ef­forts by many, in getting Ginnyto function on ber own withoutthe assistance of ,elaborate ap­paratus..

The girl had to .learn all overagain, little by little, to eat, tospeak, to sit. to stand, to ,walk.How these feats were 'accom­plished, laboriously you' may besure, is spelled out.

After 143 days in the hospital,Ginny was able to go home, buther rehabilitation was very farfrom complete by then. Therapyhad to continue. She requiredspecial surgery for a kidneyproblem. But 20 months afterthe accident she made her FirstCommunion, and a couple ofmonths later she was back inschool in a special class.

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RT. REV.

MSGR.

JOHN S.

KENNEDY

A young New York City fireman, Dennis Smith byname, is destined for fame and probably for fortune. Hehas written, and well, an extraordinary book, Report fromEngine Co. 82 (McCall Books, 230 Park Ave., New York,N.Y. 10017. $5.95). It covers,some months of his life inand arQupd a firehouse inthe South Bronx.

The South Bronx is a garbage­strewn, verminous ghetto. Thepopulation of its tenementhouses is made up in large partof blacks and Puerto Ricans.They are poor, mostly on wel­fa,re. "There are more homicidesper 'squaremile in thi,s precinctthan anywhere in the UnitedStates; more drug traffic, moreprostitution." Four companieswork out of Mr. Smith's fire­house; they average 700 runs amonth.

Much of the book deals withfighting fires, from blazes intrash cans to confll;lgrationsroaring through old buildings.The danger involved chills the

',reader. But the fire departmentis called upon in emergencies ofall sorts, and these are liberallysampled in the book.

Hostility of Residents

The perils to firemen are notonly from fire, but also' the hos­tility of the area residents, who'on occasion stone the trucksand hurl deadly missiles fromthe housetops.

An uninterrupted meal in thefirehouse is rare. In one periodof three and Ii half months, Mr.Smith never had one such. Thebells ring almost continually,often for false alarms, all toooften for fires deliberately set.Whatever the cause, there mustbe instantaneous response, withthe likelihood of some injury andthe possibility of gruesome death.

The firemen are poorly paid.They must buy some of theirmost essential equipmerit. Theyhave to do all the janitorial workin the firehouse. They are notregarded as the heroes they fre­quently are; indeed, they rarelyget any thanks at all. '

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Why, then, do they stay withit? There is the element of pride.Also, there is a remarkable ca­maraderie among the men, whichMr. Smith deftly conveys. Aboveall, there is a sense of service.'This is especially strong in Mr.Smith's case, but one gathersthat it is shared by his associates.

A sensitive man, he reflectscn the misery of the South Bronxpeople, whose poverty is differ­ent from that which he knew asa youngster. The urban poor ofyesterday may have been iII­used. But those of today "aren'tused at all. They are left to pinein lethargy while their childrenput needles in their arms."

community and in sixth grade aswell., (1) Honest exploration ofthe facts of the case; (2) honestexploration of the teachings andattitudes of the Christian com­munity today and in history re­garding peace; (3) a climate ofmutual respect characterized bylistening to each other in ourmutual search for peace.

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tions; but a set of Gospel Con­ventions would push us towardthe maximum. The general prin­ciple covering our way of wag­ing war would be "love yourneighbor as yourself," (Matt.22,39) or better, "Love one an­other as I have loved you"(John 15,12).' . .

Do those seem like silly direc­tions for fighting a war? Obvi­ously they would not help us

, win. But those are the only di­rections that can be found inthe New Testament.

Perhaps the reason is that ourreal war is "not fighting againsthuman beings, Qut against thewicked spiritual forces in theheavenly world, the rulers, au­thorities and cosmic powers ofthis dark age. So take up God'sarmor now ... put on righteous­ness for your breastplate ...faith as a shield ... salvation fora helmet, and the word of Godas the sword that the Spirit givesyou ..." (Ephesians 6,~2-17).

This is the kind of war that theNew Testament writers thoughtrelevant. Perhaps they found ittoo ,difficult to think about bothkinds of war at the same time.

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teachings on peace downthrough the centuries, factsabout this particular war, thebishops' statement on conscien­tious objection, and similar data.

With such information, asBishop Gumbleton of Detroitstated in the same interview,Catholic adults are better able"to look at the policies of our.government and try to applyour Chr-istian values to thosepolicies." This is the processurged by the Second VaticanCouncil, namely to explore con­temporary issues, the "signs ofthe times," in the light of Christ(Church in World, No.4). It isthis process of discernment thatwe adults. must learn before wecan educate our youngsters withit. Growth in this process re­quires the kind of factual knowl­edge suggested by Bishop Flana­gan's educational program forpeace. More than that it in­volves a genuine sharing andlistening within the Catholiccommunity.

HonestyWhile urging Catholics to re­

flect seriously on what theBishop's have to say about peaceand war, Bishops Flanagan andGumbleton are joined by BishopDougherty of Newark in openlyadmitting how their own· moralstance on the war was influencedby widely differing segments ofthe Catholic community as wellas by authoritative teaching andhistorical study. Dialogue ledthem to further research, studyand wider consultation.

The interview with these threeBishops suggests a model of edu­cation for peace among the adult

HONOR TEACHER: Showered with gifts by Dominican Academy elemen.tary s~u­dents, Mrs. Susan Larrivee shares the joy 0 f anticipating the ar~val of her fIrst ChI~d

with her sixth grade class: who arranged a surprise farewell party In her honor . A baby sdressing table was presented to the teache r from the student body.

Focus on Peace, Not WarContinued from Page Sixteen

tia.n community. Because of theirintense interest in the issue, theyal'<~ ready to draw upon the ac­cumUlated wisdom of the Churchin forming their young con­sciences on a ·very ancient moralissue.

Their right raises an evenmore challenging question. Doesthe adult community in theirparish, in their city, in theUn.ited States as a whole, havean educated stance toward theVietnam war, toward war itselfin a post-Hiroshima world? Howma.ny adults in these youngsters'lives have formed their moraljudgments on war from Christianprinoiples? Just what is Catholic

,tea.ching regarding the war? Istht:re just one legitimate Catho­lic or Christian stance towardthis war? toward all war? Toadmit that there are differingmoral views espoused by in­formed Catholics of good will re­garding war in general, and re­garding the war in Vietnam in

.particular, is simply to recognizefacts.

-It seems to me that the pres­ent ambiguity and lack of con­sensus suggests something aboutthe orientation and the processneeded in forming our COll­

sciences on the issue of war andthe war in Vietnam.

The focus should be on educa­tioll for peace rather than onwar itself. This is the or·ientationsuggested in the passage quotedabove from the' Second VaticanCouncil. It is the orientation sug­gested as well by Bishop Flana­gan of Worcester in a recentlypublished interview: "It seems tome that this Vietnam thing isvery urgent, but it's only part ofa much, bigg~'r picture; and un­less we educate our people topeace, you '. can settle this oneanother one could 'break- out sixmonths later, and the same oldthing could be repeated with usnot learning our lesson from his:-

'tory." " .Education for Peace

He suggests some ,of the con­. tent used in his diocese in an. education for, peace: the theol­

ogy of peac~, a historical lool<at the Church's attitudes and

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Th,:,rs. Mar. 16, 1972

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'Praises Cardinal SuenensAs Bold, Dra'matic Leader

One of the more interesting examples of the old demonof "clerical envy" is the repeated calumny one hears fromAmerican priests again~t Caroinal Suenens. As. soon as t~e

sun comes up in the morning, one can be confIdent that In

conversation in which theCardinal's name is 'men­tioned some priest will say,as though it were unques­tioned truth, tl'lat while the Car­dinal talks about collegiality inthe Church he does not practiceit in his own diocese.

As someone who knows a lit­tle bit about the Archdiocese ofMalines, 1 always ask the priestwho has repeated this bit' ofcalumny where he got his evi­dence. The best that anyone hasever done is to cite a story atsecond or third hand fromsomeone who told someone heknew. In other words, the repu­tation of a brave churchman isimpugned on the most slender ofevidence.

1 happened to have spent sometime in Malines. 1 have watchedthe Cardinal at work with hispriests. 1 have seen how th.eyreact to him. I have talked Withthem about his administration.There are criticisms as there areof any leade,·. But no one hasev,er suggested to me that he isnot a democrat in his leadershipstyle.

On the contrary, his priestsare deeply offended at the cal­umny against him pf which theyare well aware. Some- have sug­gested to me that the Cardinal'sbitter rivals in the Belgian hier­archy are responsible for thefalsehood; others think that thestories may orignate in Rome.

lege professors do--you have avery hate-filled and vindictivecreature,

Scarce RewardsBut 1 think there is more envy

in the clergy, probably becausethe reward system is so limited.The . church has little in theway of prizes with which to re­ward hard work, accomplish-'ment, or .ambition. If anyonegets recognition, he is thoughtto have obtained this "goody"by depriving others of the re­wards they deserved.

"I could have been as famousas you are," says the enviouscleric, "if I had been as ambi­tious as you a,re" (or "as lucky,"or :'had the right friends," or"pushed myself as much").

In such a system of scarce re­wards the only one who is notgoing to be envied is the onewho stays carefully in line anddoes not do anything exceptwhat everyone else does. Theideal cleric, from the point 'ofview of clerical envy, is the onewho never "steps out of line,"which is to say, the one' whomakes systematic mediocrity theaim of all that he does.

Clerical Fault, The religious or:ders have been

particularly good at imposingmediocrity on ~heir more giftedmembers, The community recre­ation room is one of the mosteffective - and most cruel ~means of controlling talent thatthe human race has yet devised,But the diocesan clergy havetheir own forms oLcutting their

. peers ,down to size-though inthe pre-Vatican churchthe~e

techniques did not have to beused very often because pastorscould, be counted on to keepyoung priests "in line," ,

It is all very ugly and alsovery obvious to the laity whomay pretend that they don'tknow that envy is a clerical faultiii about the same way that theyused to pretend that a' priest

Envy, Vanity who had a problem with JohnIt doesn't much matter where Barleycorn was "not feeling very

the stories start. Anyone who well this morning." Clerics whoassumes a position of bold and think that this column is tellingdramatic leadership in the tales out of school should· findchurch is going to have to live' a lay friend who will speak thewith such falsehoods, Leo Sue- truth (if they have any such)nens is no radical; on the con- and ask. whether clerical envytrary, if anything, he is a con- is ..... a dee:p dark secret about

" servative or,at most a moderate. which the laity knows nothing.But he has spoken up on some If a man like Leo Suenens is

of the critical weaknesses of the to be criticized, let the reasonstructure of the church, It is " be that he is too radical-or toounderstandable that his enemies cons~rvative ,- on matters ofin the curia could try to suggest chur~h ,organization, But let the

. that he is a heretic, But it is issue 'not be blurred, by mean,disgusting that those who are nasty, vi,cious:c~eric~1 di~like ofpresumably his allies are fre- anyone who does' anythmg outqenUy more concerned with, im- of the ordinary,.

pugning his reputation than Similar Strugglessupporting his courage,

Are the clergy more subject DAYTON (NC)-The struggleto envy than other groups? Or of blacks for freedom in the U. S.is envy part of the human con- was compared by Archbishopdition? From the perspective of . Paul F. (Leibold, to the Israelitesmy other profession, 1 can re- fight against the Egyptian bond­port that it is by no means age. "With a few changes inabsent from the academy, where 'names,", the two stories areit is reinforced by another. vice ,nearly identical, the Cincinnati­which afflicts the clergy much ar~hbishop to'ld 'cursillo membersless - vanity. When, you mix at a Mass 'in ,st. James Churchenvy with vanity-as many col- here.

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Rescue EffortsTeach Lesson

LOS ANGELES (NC) - Theplight of Anthony Bernardino, asix-year-old who was trapped ina 30-foot deep hole, was com·pared to the condition of an un·born child in the womb.

While Anthony was rescued,Mrs. Joseph Dysart, secretary ofof the Southern Califomia Rightto Life League, pointed out thatmany unborn children die' inabortions.

Mrs. Dysart said that the res·cue of the little boy demon­strated the "grassroots concernand respect for human life thatexists in the hearts of real peo­ple-the workers, heavy equip·ment operators, firemen, police,the man who was lowered headfirst into the hole to try to res­cue the boy."

,"That situation," said Mrs.Dysart, "has a remarkable par­allel. The situation of little An­thony was in many ways very'

'much like that of an unbornchild in a mother's womb.

"Anthony was in a narrowpassage. He did not ask to bethere. He was there by accident.He was dependent for life on alife-support system provided byothers. And every effort wasmade to conserve his life.

"The unborn child in themother's womb did not ask tobe there. He was there by acci·dent. He is dependent on a lifesupport system provided byanother. But the law now per­mits him to be killed.

"Working men risked theirlives to rescue the life of onetrapped child. How can othermen, presumably better educatedmen, doctors, legislators, law·yers so callously condemn otherchildren to death?"

Added Mrs. Dysart: "This isthe thing that makes' abortionso unnatural. The reason somepeople have accepted abortionis because they can't hear thechild crying out in the mother'swomb."

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Meet AgainMary Finnegan in younger daysand to the end had lentcaring, sharing, helping handsto neighbors in need. The homi­list for this funeral liturgy, nowthe Finnegan's pastor, but oncea next door friend, rememberedthose past kind deeds and spokeof them to the congregation.

Erases Fear

The rite of final commenda­tion and farewell at the Mass'sconclusion expresses this ratherwell. During it, a united groupof believing relatives and friendsassembled for the last time tosay "gOOd-by" or, better, "untilwe meet again." "Father, intoyour hands we commend oursister Mary ... Lord, ,hear ourprayer: welcome Mary to para­dise and help us to comfort eachother with the assurance of ourfaith until we all meet in Christto be wilth you and with oursister Mary forever."

It seems tome that fully par­ticipated Christian burial serviceshould have left a lasting andhealthy impression on those Fin­negan children. They must havesensect the full picture, the sor­row and serenity, the beauty andpain of a loved one's death.Later, instead of, fearing thedark and unknown, perhaps theywill be able to say with St. Paul,"0 death, where is your victory?o death, where is your sting?"

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and an occasional cracking ofthe priest-son's voice. But thedominant atmosphere was one ofserene hope, quiet resignation,and joyful anticipation. A greatcrowd of fellow believers-threebishops, priests by the dozens,and a church filled with friends-gathered as a community tobid Mary farewell, temporarily,and to commend her to the Lord.

Jimmy, Patrick and Mauracaught, in their own limited way,all of this drama; They tastedthe painful reality of death andseparation, but also felt thatpositive joy which flows fromfaith in the Resurrection.

These children watched theirfather and mother walk up intothe sanctuary and read the firstscriptural passages. They heardthe strong voices of men (main­ly» and women singing song'swhich in Alleluia terms spoke ofvictory and a,' fuller life afterdeath. "Keep in mind that Jesushas died for us and is risen fromthe dead; he is our saving Lord,he is joy for all ages."

They observed their uncle,vested in white and assisted byeight other priests, leading thecongregation in prayer and con­celebrating Mass.

Silent SignsThen, of course, there were

other silent signs to be noticed.The handsome white pall, for ex­ample, draped over the casket,a reminder of Mary's baptism somany years ago and the presenthope it offers for' her personal

'triumph- over death:' Or. the signof peace exchanged between allthe clergy' in the sanctuary andcarried, down into the pewsamong the congregation. Or thesprinkling of water and burningof incense, the former recaBinga baptismal ceremOny in the pastand the latter promising a bodily

. resurrection in the future. Or theburning Easter candle placed be­fore the bier as a symbol ofJesus' and our conquest of sinand destruction.

True Christian that she was,

IN THE DIOCESE

be a serious challenger.In the Narragansett League,

perennial power Somerset is ex­pected to dominate again.Al­though Coach Jim Sullivan'sBlue Raiders were 'hit hard bygraduation, there is still plentyof talent available.

Bishop Connolly High of FallRiver has developed into one ofthe better basketball schools inthe area. The Cougars have forg­ed into the thick of the battleand are rated along with power­house Holy Family of New Bed­ford and Case High of Swansea.

Much the same situation ex­ists in baseball as the Diocesansnow are challenging Somersetand Case for supremacy in thatsport.

He continues, "If we get goodpitching we'll win our first fewgames, then it will be up to ourhitters to take over."

The season will open for mostteams the third week in April.Pre-season games -J)cheduled be­fore then will be played weatherpermitting. '

The Bristol County Leaguerace should be a three or fourteam race. New Bedford Highand Durfee High of Fall Riverare always strong. There is noreason to believe they will notbe on top again this season. Bothtraditionally are among ,the bestcoached outfits in the circuit andmake very few mental mistakesthat lead to defeat.·

SCHOOLBOY, '.SPORTS

Coach John Pacheco of NewBedford and Durfee's Joe Lewisalways have their teams ready.In 'this, the fin~l 'Bristol 'CountyLeague season, they have addedincentive to do well.

If either Coach Chet Hanewichof Attleboro or, Paul O'Boy ofcrosstown rival Bishop Feehancan come up with a strongmound corps, their charges willdefinitely be in the race.

Bishop Stang of Dartmouthand Taunton will enter the sea­son as contenders; however theymay be a notch below NewBedford and Durfee. UnlessMsgr. 'Coyle-Bishop Cassidy ofTaunton and New Bedford Voca­tional receive outstanding effortsfrom untried talent, neither will

Area Teams "'0 Comp'lete Tourney ActionPrognosticators expect the of Dartmouth and Barnstable

three to contest for this year's will be completing their success­crown. While upsets do take ful tournament campaign.place, the remaining four teams, Barnstable surprised many ob­Holy Family, Westport, Old servers with its exceptional playRochester of Mattapoisett and in Division II of the EasternDiman Regional Vocational of Massachusetts Hockey Tourna­Fall River are expected to battle ment. The Cape Cod Leaguefor fourth place. ' titlists have won 19 in a row

Down on the Cape, ;Barnstable enroute to the finals of thehas dominated the scholastic tourney.sc.~ooll:lpy scene this ye~r. The In basketball, Holy, Family canRest Rai.9~~s have ~arned Cape- advance to the finals of Divisionway Conference championships HI in the State tourney with ain footb.a.!L-and basketball., Its win Qver ,Central Massachusettshockey club at this writing" is champion Notre Dame or Weststill iI) contention for the State Boylston. Central Mass. has not,title. '. at this writing, had its cham-

When the basebail .season is "pionship round. 'over the Red Raiders will prob- Coach John O'Brien's Bishopably have another Conference Stang Spartans will play eithercrown. Fairhaven, l.,awrence Cardinal Spe~lman- of BrocktonHigh of Falmouth and. 'po~siblY or' North Attleboro' SaturdayDartmouth could edge favpred night for .. the 21st Bay StateBarnstable, but it is doubtful. Tournament's 'Class B champion-

While baseball candidates are shop. The game' to be played atgoing through their paces this Brandeis University is ,scheduled\~~e~kl ~oly, Fa!l'!i!y... .1!i~llop. ~~a,ng•. ,t9 .s~~rt ,at 7:1~.. ,.•.. '. _,- .. -r.' •

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The "pop" of ball hitting glove echoes through most'area high school gymnasiums this week as aspiring' can­didates prepare for the approaching baseball season. Whileopening day is still four weeks away, each practice ses­sion is important due to theinconsistancy of ~ew Eng­land weather. Prime consid­eration during indoor drillsis necessarily given to pitcherswith the hope they will carry theclub until the hitters get un­tracked.

Talk to any knowledgeablebaseball fan and he will tell youthat pitching is the key. Highschool coaches place even 'moreemphasis on pitching especiallyin light of the fact that the hit­ters get little opportunity towork on their skills before theseason begins. "We open in fourweeks," says one mentor, "Ourpitchers will throw every day.But, we'll be lucky to get in aweek of good batting practice."

Schoolboy Baseball CandidatesPrep for .Approaching Season

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But sometimes the obvious isn't obvious enough,

, Because we're inclim~d to concentrate on devel­oping the mind and let the body take care of itself.

That's too bad. A well-planned program of'Phys­ical Education in our schools not only improves a child's

,coordination and body development, but it can a,lso helpdevelop a brighter, more alert mind" ,

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And not only that, physical.' fitness at a youngage has a lot to do with a child's future health as'art adult­how well he or she performs. '

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