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Rose HawthorneHome Draws'High Praise

Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross,world renowned psychiatrist andauthority on death and the dying,had words of high praise for theRose Hawthorne Lathrop Homein Fall River which she visitedwhile in the city for a lecture.

She described the home, whichcares for patients suffering fromterminal cancer, during an ap­pearance on a Boston televisionprogram two days later, saying"It was Qne of the most beauti­ful places I've ever seen. I wouldhave liked to put on a white coatand stay there the rest of theday.

"The patients were happy, thenuns were so open and cheerfuland the place looked so beautiful,with flowers and colored sheetson the bed."

The home, at 1600 Bay Street,opened in 1932 and since thenhas cared for cancer patientsfrom all parts of New Englandwithout regard to their circum­stances, absolutely refusing anyrecompense for what may beyears of care.

It is staffed by the communityof Dominican Servants of Relieffor Incurable Cancer, founded byRose Hawthorne Lathrop, con­vert daughter of famed authorNath~lliel Hawthorne.

WASHINGTON (NC) - Whenthe U.S. bishops meet here Nov.12-16, a spirited debate overCommunion in the hand is in themaking.

Three weeks before the meet­ing Cardinal John J. Carberry ofSt. Louis circulated a report tothe U.S. ,bishops opposing thepractice .

The report, released to NCNews with the cardinal's 'permis­sion, includes reprints or excerptsfrom Vatican documents oppos­ing the practice and' cites otherevidence indicating that introduc­tion of Communion in the handin the United States would not bepastorally sound.

But in the past, when the topichas been brought up before theAmerican bishops a majority of

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bishops have sought and receivedauthorization from the Holy Seefor Communion in the hand.

Under the proposal to be con­sidered next month, it would beup to local bishops in the U. S.to decide whether or not to in­troduce the practice in their dio­cese. In addition, the individualcommuniicant would be free toreceive Communion in the tradi­tional manner or in the hand,according to his or her prefer­ence. The proposal originateswith the NCCB Liturgy Commit­tee, whose chairman is BishopWalter W. Curtis of Brid'geport,Connecticut.

The discussions will be incor­porated into a .position paper

'which will be sent to the Vaticanas the American hierarchy's re­sponse to the Synod theme.

The bishops will also elect fourdelegates and two alternates astheir reprsentatives at the Synod.

A much discussed liturgicalinnovation - the reception ofHoly Communion in the hand­will appear on the bishops' agen­da in November. In a vote attheir meeting in November, 1970,a majority of the bishops (117for, 107 against) favored askingthe Vatican for authorization tointroduce the practice, on an op­tional basis, in the United States.But because a two-thirds vote isrequired, the proposal failed to .pass.

For centuries in Roman Ca­,tholicism, the usual method ofadministerinng Holy Commu­nion. has been for the priest orminister of Communion to placethe consecrated Host on thecommunicant's tongue. Since theSecond Vatican Council, how­ever, about 15 conferences of

November 17 -18 Weekend

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WASHINGTON-The 1974 in­ternational Synod of Bishops, aproposed new method of admin­istering Holy Communion, andseveral key elections are items onthe agenda of the.anJ:lual generalmeeting of the National Confer­ence of Catholic Bishops (NCCB)and United States Catholic Con­ference (USCC).

Some 250, members of theCatholic hierarchy are expectedto attend the meeting, which willbe held November 12 to 16 at theStatler Hilton Hotel here.

The bishops will also considerproposed policy statements onthe 1974 Population Year and onprison reform.

The international Synod ofBishops, which will be held inOctober, 1974, at the Vatican,will occupy much of the bishops'attention.

Pope Paul VI announced earlierthis year that the theme of theSynod will be "The Evangeliza­tion of the Modern World." Thebishops will spend a morningduring their meeting discussingthis subject in regional groups.

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men's clothing in urgent need.Children's and infant's clothingis always in demand. Light andheavy blankets, piece goods,remnants and sewing materialsare in need. Donations of newshoes' are welcome but usedshoes can no longer be acceptedas the problem of matching andprocessing them for reshipmentis simply overwhelming.

Ol')ce again the faithful of theDipcese are asked to extendthemselves in this needed workof charity. The clothing oncecollected is taken to distributioncent~rs and there processed andbaled for delivery overseas. Rep-'resentatives of Catholic ReliefServices take charge of theclothing and distribute it to thosein need without regard to raceor creed. The only standard isthat of need.

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Supreme CourtTo Hear Sc:hoolAid Cas'e

WASHINGTON (NC) - TheU. S. Supreme Court agreed Oct.15 to decide whether federalfunds for .educationally deprivedchildren must be spent on non­public school children in Mis­souri at a rate comparable tothat for public school children.

At issue are Title I funds ofthe federal Elementary and Sec­ondary Education Act (ESEA).Under a 1968 provision of theact, local programs "designedto meet the special educationalneeds of educationally deprivedchildren" in nonpublic schoolsmust be comparable to those forpublic school children "withneeds of equally high priority."

The Missouri case was startedby a group of students and theirparents in Kansas City where$50 from Title I funds was beingspent for each nonpublic schoolstudent while public school stu­dents were being helped at therate of $275 per pupil.

State education officials ar-'gued that the Missouri Consti­tution prohibits the sharing ofpersonnel that would be requiredto bring aid to nonpublic school

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Fall River, Mass., Thursday, Nov. 8, 1973Vol. 17, No. 4S

The Thanksgiving Clothing Ap­peal will again be held this yearin the Diocese of Fall River.with collection of clothing in par­ishes beginning on Sunday, No­vember 25, and ending on Sat­urday, December 1.

Trucks will pick up the cloth­ing from parishes beginning onMonday, December 3, with theexception of the Taunton Areawhere pickup will begin onThursday, December 6. As inpast years, parishes in the CapeCod Area and Attleboro Areawill bring their clothing to' thearea depots. ..

The heavy toll resulting fromearthquakes and floods duringthe past year all over the worldhas virtually eJ!:haust.ed the cloth­ing reserves of the Catholic Re­lief Services under whose aus­pices clothing is collected, proc­essed and distributed. The needof clothing is especially acutethis year.

Lightweight clothing of alltypes is the greatest need, with

Schedul(e Clothing. DriveLast Week of November

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Cardinal StartsNew Program- BOSTON (NC)-A program in

which teams of volunteers willvisit each home in the arch­diocese ~o help, "dissolve theapathy and feeling of alienationwhich separate men from Godand from one another" has beenannounced here by CardinaiHumberto Medeiros of Boston.

The new program, Visitors forChrist, is aimed at bringing "thepresence of Christ's warmth andrespect" to the lonely and alien·ated members cif society, accord­ing to the cardinal.

Each parish will have its teamof visitors, he added" who willJ.lndergo training before beingassigned a cluster of houses inwhich each family will be visitedat least six times each year.

Each visitor in the team-,which may include as many as10 individual visitors - will beresponsible for visiting betweeneight and 10 homes per year.

"In the last analysis," CardinalMedeiros said, "the future shapeof our society will depend basi­cally upon the care and concernman has for his fellow man, andnqt merely upon spcial conven­tions' such as culture; educationor system o('law,' vital as thesemay be."

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Somerset StudentsFor the opening of Holy Trin- To Visit Rome

ity as a CathoLic church, 'Bishop. Somerset High School studentsJoseph McGee of Galloway cel- are in the midst of planning aebrated a morning Mass, ,and an trip to Rome during the,Februaryecumenical service was held in school vacation.

F'r C:hristerisen the ,afternoon attended ?y the ' The trip is UDder the directionII I, mayor and town council and of Edward J. Ward, head of the

[» ied,,~:Sundoy ',. '" ./P,r~~Qyterian:: mini~ters.", ,. - ",r~~e~{s:·~~~~a~f~~:P:h~~:~~Rev,· C~ristopher, ,Christensen,:,' ,.,. ,. ,: , ", :', o,ntl ttj'p'to"R:ome'thatthe'C'O(lple

'SS.CC~, '531years 'old; chaplain of: . Office Prepares ': 'has chaperoned.

Sacr.ed ~farts Academy, Fair- For Cuban Refugees Mr. Ward has announced thathaven, d~ef suddenly on ~unday. WASHINGTON (NC) _ The students and adults would be in-

Born ml New York City, he '.,. . . '. c1uded in the group of 25.was ordained a priest at the U. S. bishops dlvlsl.on for ~I- Among the activities planned'Shrine of Ithe Immaculate Con- grants and refugees IS preparmg are an audience with Pope Paulception, \jVashington, D. C., on ~or ab?ut 24,000 Cuban r.efugees ,VI, a full day excursion to Flor­June 11, 1946. He has serVied at m Spam and othe~,c?untn~swho ence and several "people toS1. MatthJw Parish, Mt. Gilead, ?~e e~pected t~ reJom their fam- people" programs among whichOhio; St. 'Anthony in Mattapoi- Ihes m the Umted States. will be a proposed visit to asett; St. ~ranCis Xavier Parish" The Division 'of Migration and Roman high school.Acushnet; Holy Redeemer Parish, Refugee Service, U. S. CatholicChatham; St. Joseph Parish, Fair- Conference, began making prep-

haven. i arations after being informed by ,," . ,,8R.,,'O'OK,L,'A''W.,NA conce~ebrated funeral Mass the' House Juaidary, :Conimittee

was offered f(Jr'. the de-Ceased ',:that:th'e refu,gees would 'sooii':be' fUNERAL"HOME INC.' 'chaplain' y~sterdaY'at'St. Joseph' :'arriVirig' iri-thEnJnitecf SUites:" " R:'MarceIRoy- G, Lorr~ine Roy':Padsh; 'F~i:thaven;:''\~itb'burial ':' ,"The"clivlslon's direCtor, John E. Roger LaFrance _ James E. Barton

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EMPHASIZE BIRTHRIGH1~:: Durink the offertory procession in which each parish"so­: ciet~ offered symbols of their~ervice to Ithe Church,.Mrs. Russell p,artri~ge, organizer of the, Birthright Movement for, Greater Fan Ri,yer, offers Bishop ,Cronin the newcst infant baptized

at St. Louis de France P,!rish, Swansea! Glenn Laroche. Dut:ing the parish visitation Mass,the Bishop was thanked for his forceful statements against abortion and for right-,to life..Mrs. Partridge is assisted by her husbapd and the bishop by Rev. 1.ouis Boivin, pastor.

Maryknoller WinsJournalism Award

NEW YORK (NC)-MaryknollFather Donald J, Casey was one

, of -three journalists 'named 'to re­cei,:e Columbia University'sMaz:ia l\190ts,. ~abot .'pr,ize':,,Jorinter:American' jo'uriuifism here.

The .38-year-old priest whowas recently...' reassigned as acommunications specialist in themissions in Peru, was editor ofMaryknoll magazine and directorof the order's World HorizonFilms from 1969 until Oct. I ofthis year.

;rhe ,award, established in1939, consists ,of a gold medal

,an,d $.1,000.""Throug1r" the, magazine ,·you

': ·e,dit ,and through the' splendiddocJ.lmentaries', you, have filmed,and produced, 'you have donemuch . to further sympatheticunderstanding of the problemsand aspirations of the peoples ofLatin America," says the citationto Father Casey, which was readhere at the' award presentationby Dr, William J. McGill, pres­ident of Columbia University.

',THE ANCHOR.-Thurs., Nov. 8, 1973

First ConfessionBooklet Released

LOCKERBIE (NC) - Membersof St. Mungo's Catholic parishhere recently moved into their

WASHINGTON (NC - The new church-one that has beenU. S. Catholic Conference a Presbyterian house of worship(USCC) has published "A StUdy for 100 years.Paper for First Confession" in In 1929 the Church of Scot-booklet form. ' , , .land . (Pre~byter.ian)-:-~plh '.!jince,

Developed by the USCC's Di- 1843 into 'tw.o., fac,tlons"':"":was 're-vision of, Religious Educat,ion- ,united. Efforts ?a,:e{. c.~rit!!?,~~lIyConfraternity of Christian Doc- been made to umte the congrega­trine (CCD, the study paper was tions in single churches. This fi­issued in September as an aid nally happened in Lockerbie,for developing guidelines and re- leaving the village with a spareIigious education on first con- church. The Presbyterian congre­fession and first Communion in gation was happy to sell its extrathe wake of the Vatican decree church to the Catholic parish ofon the subject last summer. St. Mungo,

, In an ecumenical gesture theThe study paper discusses Catholic parish deCided to kee

Church law and custom on con- Pfession and makes catecheticaland liturgical recommendationsfor bringing children to the re­ception of the sacrament of Pen- .ance.

Ask Cooperation'Among ec tholicNews Age J1cies

ROME (NC)-A three-membermember commission has beennamed py the Internatir nal Fed­eration of Catholic Pn 'S Agen­cies (FIAC) to draft pro):. , ,als forwider exchange of Cathrlic newsthroughoiJt the world.

Suggestions 'will be sought,from Catholic journalists on allcontinents. The commission',is toprepare a plan for closer cooper­ation among Catholic news agen­cies.

The plan will be submitted tothe FIAC membership when the10 World Congress of the Cath­olic Press convenes in BuenosAires, Argentina in 1!>74.

The commission membershipconsists of three officers ofHAC:' Dr. Konrad, Kraemer,president, who is director of theGer'man Catholic news' agencyKNA; A.E.P. Wall, vice president,who is director and editor of NCNews Service, and Mrs. Christinede Schryver, secretary-treasurer,who is director of the BelgianCatholic press agency CIP.

NAMED: Msgr. BernardLaw, 42, vicar general of theNatchez~Jackson diocese, ec­umenist and former news­paper editor, has beennamed bishop of the diocese.qf Springfield-Cape Girar­deau, Mo. ~C Photo.

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PARISH V~SITATION: Most Re\:,. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., Bishop ofFall River, celebrated Sunday Mass at St. Louis de France Parish, Swansea,as part of his diocesan parish visitation. During the offertory.prQcession, the

bishop is pictured receiving the chalice for the Mass (left) from Normand'Le­Comte, parish trustee, and (right) the paten and hosts from Mrs. NormandLeComte. The bishop is assisted by Rev. Louis Boivin, pastor.

Bish'ops Have Pro and Con Arguments for Communion •In Handto a question of pastoral concern,with one side arguing that itwould be better pastorally to in­troduce the option where it iswanted, with adequate educationso that those who disagree, willnot be disturbed; and the otherside arguing that the potentialconfusion and dangers to thefaith would make the introduc­tion of the option pastorallyunwise.

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The case went to a federal ap­peals court in Missouri, which

. ruled last March that, while com­parable equipment, materials andsupplies were being provided forboth groups, the failure to sharepersonnel was an arbitrary denialof funds to nonpublic school stu­dents. The court ordered an in­junction issued against the StateBoard of Education to correct theinequalitie!!.

In August, the education boardasked the Supreme Court to re­view the case, and the highcourt's Oct. 15 action was a re­sponse to that request. .

Ukrainians PicketVatican Official

NEW YORK (NC)-About 100Ukrainian-rite Catholic demon­strators picketed a Vatican offi­cial's visit here, voicing theirobjections to the Vatican's con­tinued refusal to establish anautonomous patriarchate for theworld's largest Eastern-riteChurch in union with Rome.

Carrying placards with mes­sages such as "Unity - Yes!Uniformity - No.!" "Down withLatinization," and "Vatican ­Stop Dealing with Moscow," thedemonstrators paraded andhanded out leaflets in front ofthe New York Athletic Club herewhile a luncheon was being heldinside for the visiting secre­tary of the Vatican's Congrega­tion for Eastern-rite Churches,Archbishop Mario Brini.

Similar demonstrations againstArchbishop Brini had been heldat luncheol}s in PhiladelphiaSept. 27 and in Pittsburgh Sept.28, promoted principally by theSociety for a Patriarchal Systemin the Ukrainian Catholic Church.

Alaska CatholicConference Formed

JUNEAU (NC) - The bishopsof Alaska have formed the Alas­ka Catholic Conference withBishop Francis T. Hurley,of Ju­neau as president.

Bishop Robert Whelan of Fair­banks is vice-president andArchbishop Joseph Ryan of An­chorage is treasurer. The threebishops also make up the boardof directors.

The conference will coordi­nate the activities of the threedioceses in the state in areas ofreligion, health, education andsocial welfare. '

"The ACC is a state versionof the United States CatholicConference," commented BishopHurley: "What the usec at­tempts to accomplish nationallythe ACC will attempt on a statebasis, though our scope will beextremely limited at the pres­esnt," he added.

to determine their feelings on the their hands. Some argue that thois introduction of another optionalmatter. distinction creates an anomaly element into the liturgy would

The St. Louis prelate had ear- today as more and more lay min- further undermine the unity andlier ,conducted such a survey in isters are distributing Com- authority of the Church.his own archdiocese and found munion. "It can lead to divisiveness,tb3t 71 per cent opposed the Other arguments are that the disagreements, unhappiness andpractice while only 29 per cent practice of Communion is aes- distress among the faithful; op­supported it. thetically unpleasing, that it tional factors lead to the under-

The question of a poll was re- causes sanitary concern for mining of obligations, such asferred to the :bishops' Pastoral some, and that it is comparable Sunday Mass, support of one'sResearch and Practices Commit- only to the way babies are fed, Church, obedience to the laws oftee, which' subsequently' ,rejeCted hence. utl.di~nJf.i.e(rror:.ali!JJts:~ . the Church: celibacy of the 'cler-it on the ,ground~ that_.~~.ch a .. ,:"."" " .TI1os.e.cAgai.,n,st.: ,,' . .... g~.~n~,.<?t~~r. ar~a~.:: ," the car-s~rvey. ,wo~14: b~. m~ar!l~~ess While presenting these argu- dInal wrote:WIthout an IntenSIve ~ducatIOn~1 ments in his correspondence to Pastoral Concerneffort to make the entIre CatholIc the U. S. bishops, Cardinal Car- He argued that where the prac-~eople m~re aware of. whoat was berry also pointed out that only tice does exist in the UnitedInvolved In the questIOn. 21 episcopal conferences out of States it is contrary to the disci-

Arguments For 93, plus five nations without pline of the Church. "It wouldProponents of Communion in episcopal conferences, have re- seem that this decision should

the hand argue that this was the quested permission for Commu- involve a serious considerationstandard method of receiving nion in the hand so far. He also of the issues, and not merely theCommunion for the first nine or illustrated with a graph that number of individuals who haveten centuries of the Church's his- after an initial surge of requests taken upon themselves to disre­tory, not a recent innovation in- -11 in 1969, six in 1970 and gard the law," he said.tended to lessen reverence or re- five in 1971-the number of new Thus the lines are drawn upspect for the sacrament. nations receiving permission for for the debate. Neither side is

.They point out that the change the option has dropped to two· arguing that there is anythingto .reception on the tongue. for' in' 1972 and two so far this year. intrinsically wrong with eitherlay persons coincided with a ris- He pointed out that of the 11 practice. Rather, it comes downing distinction between clergy English-speaking nations belong­and laity, in which it was felt ing to the International commit­that only the clergy are worthy tee on English in the Liturgy,to touch the sacred species with. only Canada has initiated Com-

munion in the hand. .The above statistics indicate

that there is no great or rapidmovement toward the use of thispr~ctice and they represent astrong statistical argumentagainst the freque.ntly heard as­sumption that the reception ofCommunion in the hand 'is onlya matter of time.''' the cardinalwrote.

.Opposition GivenHe also pointed out that. the

initiation of the practice in re­cent years is not the result of de­crees by the Second VaticanCouncil, which makes no men­tion of the possibility, but hascome as the result of Vaticanattention to the fact that thepractice has been started in someplaces without authorization.

Cardinal Carberry summed uparguments in opposition to intro­ducing the practice. focusing es­pecially on a concern for lack ofreverence to the sacrament, gen­eral opposition among the laityto the practice, and a fear that

Continued from Page Onethem have preferred introductionof the option. Proponents, how­ever, have not: gained the two­thirds majo'rity required for theVatican to approve the introduc­tion of the practice in this coun­try.

If the bishops do approve Com­munion in the hand for thiscountry, their approval must still

..he r(ltifiecl; by the Vatican b~foreit can. go. i.nto..eff.E:ct., a~~ it..willbe app'roved' ;:>nly unaer strictconditions: .

-That the practice be intro­duced in local churches only af­ter extensive education under thedirection of th€~ hishop and dioce­san liturgical commission, so thatCatholics will not have theirfaith disturbed by the change.

-That in those places wherethe practice is introduced, it willbe strictly optional for individ­uals-the ,trtlditional way of re­ceiving on the tongue will alwaysbe maintained' as an option, forthe sake of those who 'object toCommunion in the hand or preferto receive on the tongue.

-That the practice can be in­troduced in eadi diocese only bythe permission of that diocese'sbishop. •

-That Communion in eitherway will always he distributeddirectly to each individual bythe proper minister of Com­munion, with the use of the usualformula.

Gradull1 Increase

In 1969 the Vatican said epis­copal conferences could requestpermission for the Communion­in"hand option in their owncountries.

When the matter first came upfor a vote among the U.S. bish­ops in November 1970, 54. percent approved the option-inorethan half, but less than the two­thirds needed for approval. Astraw vote by mail before thebishops' April 1972 meetingshowed 60 .per cent of the re­spondents in favor of the prac­tice. As a result of the poll thequestion was not put to a voteat that meeting, but in a floordiscussion Cardinal Carberry rec­ommended a !;urvey of the laity

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RECE~TION: More than 400 Sacred Heart parishioners gathered to honor their for­mer pastor ~nd assistant pastor for over 25 years, Rev. Msgr. Lester L. Hull. Participantsin the program included: (left to right) Most Rev. James L. Connolly, D.p., D.Sc.Hist., For­meI' Bishop of Fall River; Msgr. Hull; Most Rev. James J. Gerrard, Auxiliary Bishop of FallRiver; Rev. William F. O'Connell, present pastor of Sacred Heart Parish, Fall River.

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. imately 100 employees of the na­tional airline, Alitalia, who havestarted judicial proceedings

. against five airline pilots on thegrounds that the latter haveabused or exceeded their author­ity in dealing with certain mem­bers of their crews. In each casethe captain has been accllsed ofgiving a steward or stewardess"a humiliating and illegal orderto disembark either in Italy or ina foreign country."

One case in particular was al­most too' ridiculous to be true.The aggrieved stewardess' hascharged that the captain of herflight, in going through the usualritual of introducing the flightattendants to his passengers,made fun of her family name.When she replied (presumablyover the loud speaker) that shereally couldn't do anything abouther' name, the captain immedi­ately ordered her to' get off theplane. He said he didn't like hav­ing people in hiscrew who couldn'tappreciate his sense of humor

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This simply has to ,be the mosthumorless statement ever madeby an airline pilot in the same or CASCADE (NC) - An anony-

mous donor gave $100,000 andsimilar circumstances" whether pledged a total of up to $500,000in Italy or Afghanistan. If there over the nex~ five years to keepis any justice in this male·dominated world',; the"captain 'In .. the Catholic. h:igh school.operat·

ing in this" small' eastern' Iowaquestion will- get his comeup- . , '.pance from the Roman judge' to community.' -" -':.' ' .whom the stewardess' complaint. Expressing ,thanks for his ownhas bee~ referred. On the other Catholic education, the donorhand, if the judge is so lacking said he was inspired to make hisin chivalry as to rule against gift by the efforts of Catholicsher, he will rightly be held up to in the area to raise funds to keep

I h ... Aquin High School going, afterscorn as a ma e c au~mlst pig. it was announced in October that

the schoool 'board had recom­mended closing the school at theend of the 1'973.74 school year.

Six :ParishesAquir. High School, with an

Mixed~up Case

As, an inveterate air traveller,I can sympathize with the hap­less stewardess involved in thiscrazy, mixed-up case. To coin a'phrase, some of my best friendsare airline pilots. I must say,'however, that by and large theytend to' talk .too much. over theloud speaker and are seldom, if

:ever, as humorous as th~yJieem to think they are.

A little so-called or would-behumor from the cockpit is parfor the course, but when a stew­ardess is penalized for not goingalong with the gag, it's time forwomen's lib to rise up in armsand bring the offending captainto his senses.

In doing so, they will be per­forming a. service to all of uswho resent having to listen, asmembers of a. captive audience,to .a lot of chit.chat from . thecockpit when we would preferto be napping, or reading a .de­tective story, or simply lookingout the window and meditatingon the inscrutable meaning oflife and death.

Pilots, in short, are not evento'be seen, much less to be heard.They have enough to do up frontmonitoring all those electronicgadgets, without boring the pas­sengers-and embarrassing thecrew-with a lot.of useless infor­mation and/or feble attempts athumor.

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GEORGE G.

Some people prefer marijuana, but reading newspapers-good, bad, and indifferent-happens to be this writer'speculiar form of drug addic~ion. That's one of many (let'ssay a thousand) reasons why I always· enjoy visiting Rome. 'Most American cities, largeor small, are' down to twodaily papers, and many, alas,can boast of only one - if

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Says Italian, Newspapers'Offer Fascinating Reading

boast is the proper word to usein this connection. Rome, on theother hand, has too many dailypapers-if such a thing be pos­sible.

To make matters worse (orhcttcr from the addict's point ofview) 'R~man newspaper kiosks,which are among the seven won­c1ers of the world, also display a'plethora of papers published inother parts of Italy and in othercountries as well, including En­gland' and the U. S. A. All thisand I;teaven too!

Local InterestThe fact that many Italian

papers are politically-controlledand are accused of slanting thenews accordingly is, from theaddict's point of view irrelevant.The confirmed addict will devourthem in any quantity 'and ~ithuninhibited relish regardless oftheir political coloration or theiralleged lack of objectivity.

From the little I know aboutItaly, I am'in no position to saywhether or not its papers, bycomparison with their Americancounterparts, are in fact lackingin objectivity. All I know is thatI can't stop reading them.

During the course of the nextfew months,' I may be foolishenough to comment in passing onwhat the Italian papers are say­ing about controversial mattersof international significance­the military coup in Chile, forexample, or the crisis in the Mid­dle East. Meanwhile, let me callattention to a fascinating storyof purely local interest which ap­peared in last week's papers.

Too RidiculousThe story involved - approx-

Anglicans, Catholics.Near Recognition .

LOUISVILLE (NC)-Within afew years, the Catholic and An­glican Churches may be able torecognize each other as "sisterchurches in the Catholic commu­nion," an Episcopalian bishoptold a Cathot'ic congregation here.

Bishop Arthur Vogel ,of WestMissouri said that mutual.recog­nition may follow· the comple­tion of a nllmber of theologicalconsultations between the Cath­olic and Anglican Churches in­cluding the Episcopal Church in

. the United States. .Bishop Vogel was here for the

general convocation of the Epis­copal Church in America, theU. S. branch of the AnglicanCommunron.

LIVELY DANCE CROWD: Lively dancers are a blur of motion at an afternoon gettogether in a senior citizens' club originated by St. Helena's parish in the. Bronx, N.Y. Theclub which began in a storefront two years ago, now has a mailing list of 4,000 and is head­quartered in large quarters atop a restaurant. NC Photo.

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Plan StatementOn FormationOf Conscience

OTTAWA (NC) - Canada'sbishops are expected to producea statement on the formation ofconscience for Catholics withinthe next few months, accordingto Bishop William Power ofAntigonish, Nova Scotia, formerpresident of the Canadian Cath­olic Conference of bishops (Ccq.

Bishop Power said the CCChas produced a draft documenton conscience that is currentlyundergoing a process of revisionin French and English.

"What we have tried to do isto situate for Christians the var­ious dimensions involved in theformation of conscience. We ex­amine the ways a Christian en­deavors to imitate Christ andwal,k in His footsteps under theguidance of the Holy Spirit,"Bishop Power said.

In an interview at the recentsemi-annual CCC meeting in Ot­tawa, Bishop P.ower said thestatement also considers the po­sition and obligation of Catholicsin forming their consciences, de­pending on circumstances andknowledge.

In 1968, when the Canadianbishops issued a statement onPope Paul's encyclical on birthcontrol, Humanae Vitae, theypromised to develop a more de­tailed document on the formationof conscience.

Father Everett MacNeil, CCCgeneral secretary; said the bish,ops have been "wrestling withkey' problems on the new con·­science statement during the lasttwo plenary sessions."

'Half Truths'Commenting on the Scottish

magazine article, T. P. O'Mahony,the religion writer of the IrishPress, said: "Ridden with half­truths, quotations out of context,and even innuendo and relylingfor the most part on the 'alle­gations' and 'claims' of theCatholic Priests' Asociation ofEngland and Wales (an associa­tion which was rebuked by theEnglish hierarchy in a statementissued a few days ago after theirregular October meeting), thisdossier is a most distasteful andprobably libelous piece of gutterliterature."

O'Mahony said the vision ofthe Church propounded by theScottish magazine "is one ofrulers and serfs, a Church inwhich truth is regarded not onlyas something static but as thepreserve ultimately of one man.

"As a consequence anybodywho so much as gives the im­pression of' holding a contraryview is to be purged unmerciful­ly. For the spirit of this doc­ument is totally at odds not justwith Vatican II but with theGospels of Jesus Christ in whosename it pfirports to be issued."

lical condemning artificial birthcontrOl) especially," the Irishbishops have chosen to remainsilent," the magazine said.

"They have done so to the utterconfusion and bewilderment ofboth clergy and laity. They must,therefore, be held responsiblebefore Almighty God for thedoubts, if not loss of faith, suf­fered by many trusting and sin-.cere Catholics."

The magazine also said: "May­nooth has become very much acollege of mixed sexes and someprofessors have had to conveycomplaints to the bishops of un­becoming and even immoral be­havior."

at MaynoothSituation

cialgovernment discriminatedagainst Catholics in jobs, housingand voting. Protest demonstra­tions by Catholics eventually ledto t~e present violence in whichhundreds of persons have beenkilled. Britain abolished the pro­vincial government and took overdirect rule of Northern Ireland in1972.

Although the largest segmentof those surveyed consideredIrish unification the best solu'­tion, 34 per cent 'considered aprovincial .government in North­ern .Ireland responsible to theBritish government as the mostlikely to happen; 26 per cent con­sidered total integration withBritain most likely. Only 20 percent considered the unificationof Ireland as an independent na­tion most likely.

Thirty-two per cent of thosesurveyed considered the unifica­tion of Ireland the solution mostlikely to lead to greater violence;28 per cent considered total in­tegration with Britain most likelyto lead to greater violence and15 per cent thought the provin­cial government solution wouldhave that result.

the Irish bishops appeared in theIrish Press,'a, Dublin daily

The magazine said the situa­tion at Maynooth became soserious that a year or so ago agroup of senior professors sentto every bishop in Ireland copiesof a document in which they pro­tested the state of affairs at theuniversity.

"Despite the constant, repeat­ed and publicly expressed viewsof many Maynooth professorswho are openly at variance withpapal teaching and with Hu­manae Vitae (Pope Paul's encyc-

Hits Orthodoxy

LONDON (NC) - One-third ofBritish voters thinks that theunification of Northern Irelandwith the Irish Republic to forma completely independent UnitedIreland would be the best way ofrestoring peace there," a recentsurvey indicates.

"The survey, carried out by theOpinion Research Center for TheTimes of London, found that 34per 'cent of British voters consid­ered that the best solution.

The survey found that 24 percent of the voters considered thetotal integration of Northern Ire­land with Great Britain the bestsolution. Northern Ireland, nowa British province, would thenbe governed as Scotland andWales are now.

Twenty-three per cent of thevoters said they prefer a provin­cial government in Northern Ire­land responsible to the Britishgovernment - a solution similarto the situation that prevailed inNorthern Ireland for tbe past 50years.

The Catholic minority inNorthern Ireland charged thatthe Protestant-dominatedprovin-

DUBLIN (NC)-The Irish bish­ops' "failure to .deal with unor- "thodoxy in the Pontifical Univer­sity of Mayno'oth is "nothingshort of a national scandal," anarticle in a Scottish magazineclaimed.

The magazine, Approaches, ed-. ited by Hamish Fraser, says it

aims at promoting lay initiativesin the temporal order that are ju­ridically distinct from the bish­ops, but in a spirit of uncompro­mising fidelity to the social doc­trines of the Church.

An account of its attack on

Federation ReportsHigh Dues Payment

CHICAGO (NC)-The NationalFederation of Priests' Councils(NFPC) reported an averagedues-assessment payment of 87per cent over the last three years,a rate that is "terrific for a vol­untary organization" accordingto Father Patrick Carney, NFPCtreasurer.

The five-year-old NFPC ismade up of priests' senates,"councils and associations aroundthe country. Its local councilsare assessed on the basis of thenumber of priests in the council.

Father Carney told Priests­USA, the federation's monthlynewspaper, that the nationaloffice received $336,987 of atotal assessment of $420,157over the past three years.

Says Reti rementMajor PlroblemOf Religiious

WASHINGTON (NC) - "Thecost of providing for retiredmembers is a major, if not themajor, problem" facing religiouscommunities today, according toa task force report sent to theU. S. bishops.

Pointing out that three out ofeight Religious men and womenin the United States today areover 60 years old, the report de­scribed the situation as "alarm­ing."

Recent federal legislation mak­ing Religious eligible for SocialSecurity benefits is "highly ad­vantageous for many religiouscommunities," the report said,"but it pointed out that if all170,000 U. S. Religious joinedSocial Security today, the ini­tial ca.sh outlay would be about$150 million.

(If this amount were to beraised by 1. contribution, it ~ouldrequire $3 from each Catholic­man, woman and child-in theUnited States. The largest na­tional collection each year in theUnited States, .for missions,raises only $10 million.)

The report urged bishops:Future Contracts

-To make Catholics aware ofthe immensity and seriousness ofthe retirement problem for Reli­gious, and especially to makethem aware of the millions ofdollars that Religious give to theCatholic community each yeariil "contributed services," thedifferential between their payscale and the pay scale that laypersons' would :receive incom­parable jobs..

-To include full retirement orpension provisions in future con­tracts with Religious communi­ties, and to find ways to helpmake up for the lack of such pro­visions in th~ past.

The report came as the resultof a year of extensive study bythe Task Force on the Fundingof the Retirement of Religious,which' was established by theAdministrative Board of theUnited" States Catholic Confer­ence (USCC) in September, 1972.

Chaired by.Msgr. Olin Murdick,secretary of the USCC Depart­ment of Education, the taskforce gathered data from '477communities of men and womenwith' a membership totaling108,515-almost two thirds ofthe Religious in the UnitedStates.

Expla ins P~pe'sLetter to JesuitSuperior General

WASHINGTON (NC) - PopePaul's letter to the Jesuit supe­rior general concerning the Jesu­its' general, congregation was "apoint of clarity rather than awarning," according to FatherJames L. Connor, assistant to thepresident of the U.S. Jesuit on­ference.

The congregation-to be heldin December 1974 in Rome-willbring together about 240 electedrepresentatives of the Jesuits todiscuss the future of the societyand changes in its more than400-year-old structures.

Nothing in the Pope's letter,Father Connor said, disagreeswith anytbing that the Jesuitsuperior general, Spanish FatherPedro Arrupe, has said in thepast.

All of the statements in thePope's letter, he noted, were con­sistent with subjects which Fa­ther Arrupe already has "devel-oped at great length." .

In his letter to the Jesuits,Pope Paul said the Jesuits shouldresist attempts to introduce newmethods of decision-making thatundermine the notion of obedi­ence and that will alter the na­ture of the Society of Jesus.

Interested, ConcernedThe papal letter also reminded

Father Arrupe that the Pope'sassociates have "called your at­tention more than once" to "cer­tain tendencies" that, "if fosteredand given support, could lead toserious and possibly irreparablechanges in the essential structure

.' its~lf of your society.".Father Connor said the Pope

, was saying- only 'that, he was"very interested in ana con­cerned about the upcoming gen­eral congregation."

"The Pope," Father Connor ex­plained, "is- clearly supportingthe (superior) general." He add­ed that the Pope, "throughout hisletter ... expresses his affectionfor the society.. ; . He recog­nizes the good work of so manyJesuits throughout the world."

However, the Pope, FatherConnor added, looks upon theJesuits as a, "sort of weather­vane" for other religious orders.Therefore the Pope is especiallyintetested in any new directionthe Jesuits may take, because itmay forecast similar moves byother congregations.

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That the Church may always seek God's king­dom and His will as our first order of business,let us pray to the Lord.

That all the Church's ministers may inspire usto receive the Spirit of God's .generosity, let uspray to the Lord.

That those who have an abundance of thisworld's goods may not close their hearts tothose who have not, let us pray to the Lord.

Lauds Copernicus.That the poor may see God's love manifested in As Man of Faiththe care and concern of their fellowmen, let us

CHICAGO (NC) - Cardinalpray to the Lord. 'John Krol of Philadelphia re-

That all men of good will may~be strength~ned ceived the Heritage Award ofthe Polish American Congress

for their work in God's Kingdom, let us pray here Oct. 14 and praised theto the Lord. Polish astronomer Nicholas Co-

pernicus as a "man of faith."That all the faithful departed, especially (men- Noting that Copernicus, thetion deceased) may now know God's fatherly'· 500th anniversary of whose birthaffection, let us pray to the Lord. is being observed this year, is

primarily known as a man ofscience, Cardinal Krol said:

"He saw no incompatibility inbeing loyal to the Church and itsauthorities, and in maintainingindependence in scholarly re­search in his determined effortto discover the full truth aboutcreation."

Copernicus was convinced,Cardinal Krol said, "that the pur­

. suit of truth would; throughprayer and contemplation, leadhim to a deeper knowledge ofsource of all truth-God, thecreator and master of the uni­verse."

God, our Father, through pur fait!! in your Son,Jesus Cl)rist, your greatest and most preciouspromises are· now a reality for us. Hear ourprayers today and make us see that, because. weknow Je.sus Christ, our lives must be neithercomplacent nor unproductive. (We ask this)throug~ Christ our Lord.

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Let us pray. God solicits our intense and actjvecooperation in the work of helping the poor. Heasks us to act in His Spirit, with His grace. Letus pray for guidance and strength.

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GENERAL MANAGER . ASST. GENERAL MANAGERRev. Msgr. Daniel F. Shalloo, M.A. . llev. John P. Driscoll~leary Press-Fall River.

What' It Really MeansA one-man Senatorial inquiry has gone on in Washing­

ton...:...and has been little noticed by press or people-lookinginto the whole sl>bject of "American Families: Trends andPressures." ,

One of the witnesses was the anthropologist, Dr. Mar;garet Mead, who testified: "The 'country is in terrible shape.Richest and strongest of nations we may be, but we seemto have iost any concern for those who are young or weak,oldor poor ..." Dr. 'Mead went on to say that Americ.a hasslid into "a pit of deterioration, corruption, apathy, indiffer­ence and outright brutality toward the weak, the sick, theyoung and the poor."

Declaring that the time was long p~st for mending thecountry, Dr. Mead sa.id: "We can now take into account boththe dreadful consequences of valuing a budget more thancaring for/people, and cutting services to human beings tosave funds for 'oil subsid~s, strip mining and more and moredeadly weapons." _

The British historian Arnold Toynbee once remarkedthat he thought the Twentieth Century'would go down inthe annals of man as the century ~hen people became con­cerned about the needs of their neighbors and did somethingabout it. -

Th~ Twentieth Century is running out. There is muchtalk about helping one's neighbors. The country is slowly-'­too slowly-becoming aware of the plight of the elderly oninadequate fixed incomes, on the poor who cannot evenbegin to get the training that will help them lift themselvesout of the prison of povery, of the small needed projects soimportant to life but seeming so insignificant in themselves­a well in Southwestern United States, a laundry in a ghettoare~ where there is no hot water, an English-language schoolfor those newly-arrived in the United States, a halfwayhouse to bring someone trying to conquer a problem into·the mainstream of society. '.

There is Just so much that 'the government' wilr'andshould do. It can prov~de. the massive. aplounts' o( money . ''needed'. But 'iegislationand allotinenU;' artd planning 'projects 'FEllEST:involving the government go slowly. And meanwhile, peopleare in need.

And those in need want to know that their .concerns arealso the c'oncernsnot of an impersonal government but' ofmen and women like themselves. This is where the Cam­paign for Human Development comes in. It is a matter ofbrother helping brother to break the hellish circle of pov-ertyand to walk in the measure of dignity and modestcomfort that should be the heritage of every American.It is a matter of funding the small but far from unimpor-tant self-help projects that can give encouragement tothose in need because showing them that there are thosewho care and there are those' whose caring takes theform of concrete help, here and now.

When our Churches ao_nounce the Campaign thiscoming weekend for the November 17-18 weekend, thisis what it really means.

It .means that Catholics and others in this area arewilling to care, to change the shape of the country, to touchthe lives of others for the better, to place into the hands of

, their brothers and sisters the means of breaking the circleof poverty that enslaves' them. It means that they are willingto change an' attitude of indifference and bruality towardthose in need. It means that they are aware of the needs ofneighbors and are doing something about it. This is what,itrea~ly means.

CFM MEETING: Couples active in the Christian Family Movement of St. Mary's Par­ish, MansfielQ. Meetings are held weekly in members' homes, and participants discusshusband-wife relationship, child raising, role of family in church and society.

There's 11 convenientlocations in AttleboroFalls. Mansfield. NorthAttleboro. North Di9hton.North Easton, Norton,Raynham. and Taunton,

Relief Aid SoughtFor War Victims

NEW YORK (NC)-CatholicRelief Services (CRS) needsmoney, medical supplies, blan­kets, clothing and shoes to helpthe victims of the Middle Eastwar, it was anounced here.

Msgr. John Nolan, president ofthe Pontifical Mission for Pales­tine and national secretary ofthe Catholic Near East WelfareAssociation (CNEWA), said hisorganizations were coordinatingtheir supply efforts through CRS,U. S. Catholics' overseas aidagency.

Msgr: Nolan said he received aphone call here Oct. 15 from thePontifical Mission's area officein Beirut, Lebanon, advising himof a "critical need for relief sup­plies."

The need "is increasing alarm­ingly day by day" for clothing,blankets, shoes, hospital equip­ment, medicine and antibiotics,Msgr. Nolan said.

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Jesuit ReceivesJewish Award

ST. LOUIS (NC)-The clergy, <

teachers and parents must beprepared to set good examplesfor children if anti-Semitism isto be destroyed, according toJesuit Father Paul C. Reinert,president of St. Louis Universityhere. '

Father Reinert made his reomarks -after receiving an awardfrom the American Jewish Com­mittee's (AJC) national executivecouncil, which held its annualmeeting here.

"The teacher in the school­room, the priest in the pulpit, thefather at the head of the table,"Father Reinert said, "what theysay, do, and feel bears on thechildren as much as any printedpage, if not more so."

The award was given t(} FatherReinert in recognition of thepioneer leadership given duringthe 1950s by St. Louis Universityin conducting the first systematicinvestigation of the portrayal ofJews in Catholic textbooks.

These studies formed the pasisof a series of memoranda, pre­pared by the AJC and madeavailable to the Second VaticanCouncil. They have been widelycredited with aiding the council'sadoption of its Declaration onNon-Christian Religions, whichrepudiated anti-Semitism andcalled for continued dialogue be­tween Catholics and Jews.

Ask Laity to NameBishop Candidates

CLEVELAND (NC)-Catholicsin the diocese of Cleveland havebeen asked to name candidatesfor the office of bishop as thefirst step in the selection process,it was announced here.

Father James Grandillo, chair­man of the selection committee;said that a list of 10 names willbe submitted by the committeeto Bishop Clarence Issenmann ofCleveland, who then will send alist of candidates to the apos­tolic delegate in the U. S.

The final decision is made atthe Va\i<;an. .

and personal, but they have beenexamining, In the beginning,group actions are" small and per­sonal, but as a CFM unit devel­ops, actions become more in­volved and community wide.

Social Aspects

An important part of the CFMmeeting is a short social periodwith refreshments. This enablescouples to become better ac­quainted and it builds communityspirit.

The St. Mary's Christian Fam­ily Movement is planning severalspecial events during the yearfor its members. An evening ofreflection is slated for the up­coming Advent season. An Epiph­any Pot Luck Supper is sched­uled for a Saturday evening inearly January. On Wednesday ofHoly Week-1974, CFM willconduct a Passover Seder Supperas a means of examining theJewish roots of ChrIstianity. Arummage/yard sale will be heldin the spring of 1974, and theCFM season will wrap up inJune with a Saturday picnic formember families.

Well and LivingParish, Mansfield

Main Parts

The two main parts of theCFM meeting are the "reflection"and the "social inquiry." The "re­flection" involves reading anddiscussing a passage from theBible or other inspirationalbooks. In the "social inquiry,"the couples examine the contem-

~ porary env'ironment, using. atechnique of observe/judge/actto deal with daily life. CFMcouples observe or get the factsconcerning a real life situation.For example they may observethe treatment of elderly people.Then they judge if there is aneed for change. Finally, as indi­viduals or a group, the couplesact to improve the situation theyhave been examining.. In the be­ginning, group actions are small

marriages, their families and thecommunity in which they live.Communication in marriage,"child development and socialproblems are a Jew of the manytopics discussed.

The reasons why people joinCFM vary with each couple.Some couples in the current St.Mary's group are new to theMansfield area and see CFM as away of getting to meet peopleand sinking their roots in thecommunity. Other couples likethe fact that CFM offers them achance to do something togetheras husband and wife. Some peo­ple see the movement as an op­portunity for adult companion­ship and a method for discussingareas of common concern withothers.

In CFM, group discussion andaction are used to enable couplesto grow as people and as Chris­tians. Couples, are involved inCFM over a period of time, whichenables people to grow at theirown pace.

CFM Is Alive and·At St. Mary's

A "CFM Sunday" held recent­ly at St. Mary's Church, Mans­field, highlighted an intensive ex­pansion campaign currently be­ing conducted by Christian Fam­ily Movement members in theparish. '

The day included coffee hoursfollowing every Mass, a displayof CFM literature,' continuousshowing of a CFM slide show,distribution of explanatory leaf­lets and special sermons explain·ing the organization.

Results were "about 200 percent better than expected," saidRev. Mr. William Costello, dea­con at St. Mary's and one of theCFM chaplains ,in the 'parish. Ithad been hoped to recruit abouteight new couples to join thefive parish couples already inCFM. Instead, 16 couples havejoined .the group, and severalothers "are still thinking aboutit. "

What Is It?

What is CFM, to deserve allthis effort? "A new movementfor couples," explained Rev. Mr.Costellq, "it focuses on the hus­band-wife relationship, the rais­ing of children, and the role ofthe family in church and" society.Couples in ecumenkal marriagesare particularly welcome tojoin."

The organization enjoyed widepopularity among Catholics in

, the 50's and early 60's, but hasbeen comparatively unheardfrom in recent years. Its tech­niques are still viable, however,and have scored 'impressively inMansfield.

CFM attempts to improve thequality. of family life throughdiscussion. and action, said Rev.Mr. Costello. Small groups of sixcouples meet in members' homeson a bi-weekly basis. They talkabout things important to their

Marks Anniversary.East Berlin (NC)-The 200th

anniversary of the first post­Reformation Roman Catholicchurch built in Berlin is beingmarked here this, year. Thesecond-century observances atthe church, St. Hedwig's Cathe­dral in East Berlin, include aPontifical High Mass to be cel­ebrated by Cardinal AlfredBengsch of lBerlin, who residesin East Berlin.

School ()fficiaIScores "rendTo Athe!ism

PHOENIX (NC)-The atheistshave taken over public educa60nin the United States with thepassive approval of those whohelieve in God, according to Dr.Weldon P. Shofstall, Arizonastate superintendent of publicinstruction.

While speaking at the dedica­tion ceremonies of a new build­ing at a local private high school,Dr. Shofstall said:.

"The greatest achievement ofthe devil in America today is thefact a state superintendent ofschools may not legally partic­ipate in any activity in a public

. school building for the purposeof overtly knowing, understand­ing and doing the will of God."

Sees MisconceptionsThe trend toward atheism, he

said, is caused by four miscon­ceptions on the part of those whobelieve in God:

A belief that religion is exclu­sively a personal matter.

A belief that separation ofchurch and state includes the:;eparation of religion and educa­tion.

An acceptance of collectivismin the name of its opposite, indi­vidualism.

An acceptance of humanismus theism.

"In countries where the onlyreligion is worship of the state,II theistic or God-centered, reli­gion is allowed only as an ex­clusively personal matter," Dr.Shofstall said. "In the UnitedStates, the atheists and agnosticscontemptuously tolerate religion[IS a persona] matter becausethey consider it is irrelevant indaily citizensl1.ip and in profes­sional and cultural affairs. Un­fortunately, many Christians oe­lieve them and very few knowwhat to say in opposition."

'Personal Matter'Many Christians, he added,

have failed to realize the impacttheir actions have on others.

"We cannot simultaneouslyhelieve in Goel and consider ourreligion a purely personal mat­ter," he said. "A society in which,religion is only a personal mat­ter must be a society of cultural

. barbarism_ and disguised animal­ism."

Turning to the belief that sep­aration of church and statemeans a complete separation ofreligion and education, Dr. Shof­stall saic!: "The (U. S.) SupremeCourt had banned prayer ... andin effect conv:inced the Americanpublic we can educate withoutbelief in a supreme being."

The decisions of the Court ban­ning prayer in public' schools,he said, are not the reasons foratheism in the schools.

. The rulings, Dr. Shofstall add­ed, "are a symptom of the in­ability of the American public tosettle the ultimate consequencesof an atheistie or agnostic state."

Bishop Feehan HighSchool Cafeteria

Every Wednesday Eve. DOORS OPEN 6:00 P.M.

Early Bird Games 7:15 P.M.

Regular Games 7:30 P.M.

humorous posters and a stereoand a television set bring enter­tainment."She keeps in touch with

friends by telephoning or writingthem letters, just like any col­lege student. But writing is some­thing special for Miss Gandy.She said she wants to write mag­azine articles some day. "

With her strong sense of pur­pose, "Janet'GandY"'m"ight be abyline to watch for. But if youdon't see it you can know that"the chair" was not responsible.

Youth Week ManualI

Encourages TrustWASHINGTON (NC)-A sense

of trust that "must take the placeof fear and suspicion"was the aimof the National Youth "Week Oct.28 to Nov. 4. .

A manual published here andprepared for the observancestates that "trust is that specialquality that enables you to freelyplace yourself, your life, ,in thehands of the Spirit and others."

Sections of the booklet exam­ine leadersnip potential, under­standing people and process, ac­tion projects for youth groups,and ways to communicate moreeffectively. .

One of the objectives of YouthWeek since 1952 has been tobring together youth groups ofvarious faiths.

Charges - AuthoritiesWith Discrimination

RIO :DE JANEIRO (!'IIC)Cardirial" Avehir" BrandliO Viiela'of Sao Salvador da Bahia ac­cused Brazilian authorities ofdiscriminating against him.

The cardinal said that a deci­sion to cancel the planned awardto him of the medial of merit ofthe noitheastern Brazilian stateof Pernambuco was "a gestureof public hostility>'

The cardinal's accusation isthe latest in a series of incidentsdeepening tension between Bra­zil's military rullers and theCatholic Church, to which morethan 90 per cent of Brazil's 100million' people belong.

Cardinal Brandao Vilela wasawarded the Pernambuco medalof merit and then the state's gov­ernor cancelled the award aweek later.

Her dormitory room in BriarCliff's Alverno Hall shows thatshe is cheery as well as beinga good student--she carries astr~:mg "B" grade point in sociol­ogy, speech and English. Thewalls of her room are hung with

Vatican Official SeesMission Growth

PITTSBURGH (NC)-Catholicmissions around the world are

"doing very well despite unfriend­ly governments and dollar deval­uation, . according to ArchbishopDuraisamy Lourdusamy, secre­tary of the Vatican Congregationfor the Evangelization of Peo­ples.

While here to speak to the"Pontifical Association of theHoly Childhood, the archbishopsaid:

"Las~ year we took a surveyof mission growth in Africa,Asia, Oceania, part of SouthAmerica, and many other coun­tries covering the past 20 years.Contrary to what we expected,the results were very encourag­ing, not only in the large growthin numbers, but in the quality ofthe people and the increasingnumber of church vocations."

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SURPRISE VISIT TO CEMETERY: Pope Paul VI stands in ~is open car and blesses thecrowd as he leaves Verano cemetery in Rome after a surprise visit on All Souls' Day. Act­ing as bishop of Rome, the Holy Father joined thousands of visitors in offering prayers forthe dead. It was his first visit there since shody after his election as pope in 1963. NC Photo

Vv'h€lelchai'r Col.lege Stud~nt Knows What She WantsSIOUX CITY (NC)-"I know

what I want and I'm gonna getit. I'm not going 'to let the chairstop me."

The chair is a wheelchair. Thewords of determination are fromits occupant, Janet Gandy, 18, afreshman at Briar Cliff College. aCatholic liberal arts college inSioux City. She has been in "thechair" since she was five.

Miss Gandy has osteogensisimperfecta, "commonly called,brittle bone.

."I'm not a true brittle bonebecause I would have to be"physically hit. to break a bone.A true brittle bone can simplybreak his arm by lifting it."A sociology major, Miss Gandy

hopes to work in a referral cen­ter where she can help otherhandl:capped people find jobs,

"r think my condition will bean asset in the kind of job Iwant,"she said. "I know there arepeople in that" type of work rightnow who can't know what it'sreally like (being handicapped).I think I'll be able to relatebetter."

Although she is an Episcopa­lian, Miss Gandy chose the Cath~

olic college here in Iowa becausetwo 0,( her brothers (one a con­vert to Catholicism) attended it."I know the people up here. Iliked the place before I even

" started. The people up here treatme just like anyone else. That'sthe way I like to be treated."

But Miss Gandy is not justanyone else. Afflicted with herdisease since she was six monthsold, she spent most of her lifefrom ages eight to 15 in Shrine·hospitals. She attended highschool in Sioux City for half ayear, but graduated with herpeers because she had beentutored at home.

She wants to get a motorizedwheekhair because she can nolonger move her chair and she isnot expected to walk again. Fel­low students recognize her needsand she apreciates that. "Livingin the dorm up here is an advan­tage. The kids are really helpfulwhen it comes to helping medress and takin~ me to classes."

Schedule ThanksgivingClothing Collection

NEW YORK (NC) -" Sharplyrising operation costs haveforced Catholic Relief Services(CRS), overseas aid agency ofU. S. Catholics, to cancel thisyear1s annual ThanksgivingClothing Collection in 35 West­ern U. S. dioceses.

But despite that setback,American families were beingasked again to check their per­sonal clothing inventory and tocontribute whatever usable itemsof clothing and bedding they canspare to" help poor and needypeople overseas.

The collection will be con­ducted during November in mostdioceses throughout the country.Catholic 'churches will againserve as collection depots.

matico He sampled the menl.then asked, "Did it take youlong to make this?"

Favorite AppetiteTheir tastes puzzle me. The

same kids who-don't like my ex­otic dishes enjoy raw clams, friedeels, and pickled mussels. They'll

"turn up their noses at my splitpea soup, but relish Camembertcheese and pumpernickel bread.

The quick answer might bethat it's my cooking. But God iii'His goodness gave my kids amixture of tastes. While most ofthem like simple, standard food,one has ,an appetite like a sumppump.

I'll concoct a supper out of a.bit of left-over chicken, brothcooked from the bones, andsteamed rice, and my favoriteappetite will say, "MOl!), this isgreat. I love left-overs. Can Ihave more?"

Meanwhile, the rest of themare trying to lose it by pushing

"it around the edge of their plates.Some day I'm going to write a

cookbook entitled: DO I HAVETO EAT IT? .. subtitled, YES.

See ReconsecratedTo Sacred Heart

PHILADELPHIA (NC)"....:.... ThePhiladelphia archdiocese was re­consecrated to the Sacred Heartof Jesus in a ceremony thatcame exactly 100 years after theoriginal consecration.

In the ceremony at SS. Peterand Paul Cathednil here, Car­dinal Krol used the words ofBishop James F. Wood, who pre­sided at the 1873 event, in ded­icating the institutions, "lives,

"labors, thoughts: words, actions .and sufferings"of the people ofthe archdiocese to the SacredHeart. "

In the sermon, Father JohnP. Foley. editor of The €atholicStandard and Times, archdioc­esan newspaper, told the congre­gation of 1,800:

"Because men and womenhave forgotten that God is love,they have become unresponsiveto God's invitation to love Him "and to love others a~ themselves;they have become spirituallycold and socially insensitive." .

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., Nov. 8, 1973

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Tihan Bearns, Brown Bread?I enjoy cooking, especially trying new recipes. My

problem is that I have children who would eat hamburgersor frankfurters at every meal if I let them, and who re­gard anything new with suspicion, If one of my kids hol­lers: "Mom's making hotdogs and beans for supper!"the kitchen fills with hungrychildren immediately. Butwhen I have created some tan­talizing, exotic dish for dinner,I hear comments like: "I'll finishmy homework first and eat

later," "Or, "I thnk I'll take mygirl friend out for pizza tonight."

It's deflating' to my ego.Last night was "a perfect exam­

ple. I made a steak and kidneypie. Admittedly, with food priceswhat they are, it was mostly kid­ney. The bit of steak was just toimprove the name. .

My husband thought it wasdelicious. I thought it was deli­cious. The kids thought .... thingslike, "Yuccch'"

When I told them it was"Cornish Steak Pie"· one com­mented, "You used good steakto make this?" .

You Can't Win

There's a way of getting moremileage from iil ham than thepig did who was originally walk­ing on it.

My 'supermarket had a specialon hams, 'soI bought a wholeone. I had the butcher cut thecenter slices. This gave me theham steaks to broil, two halvesto freeze; and the bones forsoup.

When it was time to use oneof the halves, I cut the excessfat from it and rendered it, giv­ing me a supply of ham fat forfrying as well as the little friedout bits.

That night we had baked ham.No problems.

The next night I took the drip­pings from the baked ham, thebits of fried out fat and madehome-baked beans.

It was a raw day, and thebeans "an~ molasses cookingsmelled good. I got carried awayand made steamed Boston brownbread to go with them and theleft over sliced ham. All I neededwas a good salad.. A recipe for "Frozen Cran­

berry and" Pineapple Salad"sounded just right.

It was a delicious, attractive.wj!ll-balanced, nutritious meal ...

They didn't like it."Mom why don't you make the

canned beans, instead of thiskind?"

'''Why didn't you just makecranberry sauce out of the cran-berries?" "

"Why couldn't we just havehad ham sandwiches ... on reg­ular bread?"

The classic in carefullycouched comments came fromone son who tried to be diplo-

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bowl to Mrs. Emile Cote, chairmanof the hospital gift shop whichshe established in 1960. For thepast 13 years, she has been re­sponsible for raising many thou­sands of dollars for the benefitof the hospital.

Sister Jean Marie poured atthe tea and she was assisted byMrs. Giblin, Miss Dailey, Mrs.Robert Mitchell, Mrs. Pineau andMrs. Turcotte.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese 01 Fall River-Thurs., Nov. 8, 1973

Awo'rds to St. Anne's Hospif1ol Volunteer WorkersFifty-five active volunteer

workers at St. Anne's Hospital,Fall River were honored by thehospital administration at a teaon Sunday afternoon in the hos­pital cafeteria.

This hospital activity is underthe direction of Mrs. John F. Gib­lin, chairman and Mrs. Peter F.Turcotte, co-chairman.

Sr. Jean Marie, O.P., hospitaladministrator 'welcomed the vol­unteers with words of gratitudeand presented the service awardsto the following:

Special Achievement Trophieswere presented to Mrs. FloraCaron and Mrs. William Des-,chenes for over 5,000 hours andMrs. Yvonne Emond for over3,000 hours.

1,000 HoursMiss Valerie Foley, Mrs. Ad·

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Catechetical DirectoryCommittee Appointed

WASHINGTON (NC) - Fourbishops, two priests, two Sisters,a Brother and three lay personshave been appointed to the work·ing committee of the NationalCatechetical Directory, BishopJames S. Rausch, general secre­tary of the National Conferenceof Catholic Bishops (NCCB), hasannounced.

Selected after broad consulta­tion throughout the Church, thefinal 12 were chosen from among300 candidates.

The working committee wiiloversee the education-consulta­t~n process to be used in obtain­ing grass-roots participation inthe development of the directoryas well as consultation with ex­perts in many fields. The com­mittee will also prepare draftsof the document at variousstages of its development. Thefinal 'draft will be submitted tothe bishops of the United Statesafter approval by the NationalCatechetical Directory Policy andReview Committee of the NCC,B.

The development of the Na­tional Catechetical Directory(NCD) is recognized as the mostimportant enterprise in 'religiouseducation in the U.S. CatholicChurch since the preparation ofthe Baltimore Catechism after theThird Plenary Council of Balti­more in 1884, said Msgr. WilfridH. Paradis, NCD project director.

With the return of the shortcocktail dress there's also a re­turn of the ladylike jewelry suchas pearls. These can be wornseparately or in a great jumblefor scads of glamour.

Ladylike PearlsWhile 'I generally only order

a few items from the endlessbrochures that weigh down mymailman, 1 do enjoy browsingthem and dreaming over justwhat might please Uncle Russ orone of the children in the fam-ily. Shopping can be fun butwhen you're trying to decidewhat would please someone, else,all avenues have to be exploredand nothing is more fun thanwindow shopping with th~ cata- ~.;

logues in your own home.

RODERICK

By

MARILYN

Diocesan PastoralCouncil Formed

CHATTNOOGA (NC)-BishopJoseph A. Durick of Nashville,Tenn., officially created a Nash­ville diocsean pastoral councilwhen he ratified the council'sconstitution at the third annualdiocesan lay convention hereOct. 27.

The 25-member council of laity,clergy and Religious was formedafter three years of preparatorywork involving the establishmentof parish, regional a,lid diocesancouncils of the laity.

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is that as usual the luxury giftwill be what, most of the bigstores push-those extras that I F h . . .you just can't live without (but Ho y at er VIS,ltS

somehow you did manage all of Little Sisters of Jesusthese years). Last year it was ROME (NC) _ Pope Paul VIthe natural yogurt maker, this visited a hamlet of shantiesyear it could be a drill for drill- south of Rome inhabited by theing for oil in your own back Little Sisters of Jesus.yard. "I have come to know you."

While most of us can hardly he told the 230 professed Sistersafford to glance at the clothesthe Christmas folio collections and novices, all clad in the light-.

blue denim-like material wornare showing, we must admit that in ·the factories and fields oft}:.~y are Iqvely" breathtakingly Europe.so. How about a pair of creamy He referred to the prayer-lifewhite wool slaeks for a mere

of the man who inspired the$74 or a .shetland wo?1 cardigan foundation of their communitycollared m fox for $280 (there I and t,hat of the Little Brothersgoes the whole 'Club check). . f J '.' Ch I d F Ido esus,' ar es e oucau,

Metallll~ Cloth describing it as silerit love forAll that glitters is not gold, but Jesus,' continual conversation

metallic cloth, and this particular with him, the sense of His pres­fabric can be found in just about ence in the lives of all persons.everything from hostess outfits "This is your charism," he'de-to body blouses. The latter are clared.for th::lse who want just a touchof shine, not a whole waterfall.You'll find the fine threads oftinsel running through a plaidfabric or even an argyle.

Shoes will shine, not to be out­done by the dresses, and theytoo will have price tags in theglitter range. Their h.eight is stillgrowing, with platforms still in,along with the sandal look.

Every woman loves jewelryand from all indications it looksas if this will be a great Christ­mas for that type of gift. Ringsin particular are very fashionableand they come in a variety ofshapes and sizes.

One particularly lovely designis an initial ring, one of whichcomes in diamonds. If you'revery affluent you can get oneeach for four fingers and spellout love. Of ,course most of uswill settle for one and think itgrand!

Metallic Styl,es, S,hoes Hea'd

Fashion List for C!hristmas, The Chri~tmas catalogues are coming in in droves

(didn't I hear somewhere that there was a paper shortage)and there's enough of a rise in prices to make your Christ­mas Club look as if it were meant to pay for a dog license.If you're a do-it-yourselfer,you'll have a fighting chanceto come out at least even.No one who works for a liv­ing comes out ahead of thegame!

What one does gather fromjust scanning the first brochures

Archbishop 'Roasts'Milton Berle

HOLLYWOOD (N<;:) - Arch­bishop Fulton Sheen poked funat comedian Milton Berle on his60th anniversary in show pusi­ne~s.

Friar's Roasts are eventswhere show business stars gatherto pay homage to someone theyfeel deserves' recognition forexcellence in the entertainmentfield.

The idea is .to poke gOO?natured fun at the person beinghonored. Berle took somepretty stinging jabs from fellowcomedians. Archbishop Sheenwas kinder. .

The archbishop's tribute toBerle induded recollections ofthe days when he and Berle hadtelevision programs in the sametime slot on different channels."Berle's sponsor," the archbishopsaid, "was the Texaco StarTheater. But my sponsor wasSuperstar."

Missions RequireDifferent TypesOf Priests

NOTTINGHAM (NC)-Sooner.or later the Church will have to.modify its policy of insisting onunmarried and academicallytrained priests, Holy GhostFather Donal O'Sullivan told thegeneral assembly here of theNational Missionary Council ofEngland and Wales.

That insistence on one typeof priest is the greatest singleobstacle to the completion of themissionary endeavor of theChurch abroad and to the for­mation of authentic communityin the Church as a whole, FatherO'Sullivan said. He is generalcouncilor of the Holy GhostFathers.

Most of the 80 delegates frommissionary orders attending themeeting expressed concerri atthe manpower shortage, a lossof functiort because of the na­tionalization of schools anCl hOs­pitals and future policies formissionaries. At the same time,however, they expressed a will­ingness to adapt to a changingenvironment in the missions.

Layman InvolvementMajor emphasis at the meeting

were on two aspects: first theapproach of missionaries todaymust be different because theyare no longer pioneers. and theyno longer "run the show"; sec­ond, every baptized personshares responsibility for theChurch's mission effort.

One of the problems discussedat the meeting was how theordinary" layman can become in­volved in missionary work.

Twinning parishes with thosein other countries, vigils andfasting were among the solutionsproposed, and Noel Charles, di­rector of the Catholic Fund forOverseas Development (CAFOD),called for a massive educationalcampaign to be initiated by theBritish bishops.

It was g~nerally agreed thateach diocese should appoint itsown director for overseas' mis­sions. It was admitted, however,that a difficulty is the lack ofany agreed upon list of missionpriorities and the absence ofcomparative studies of the rel­ative needs of mission fields.

CAPE COD SCRIPTURE SERIES: Left, CCD teachers from St: Joseph's parish, WoodsHole, St. Patrick's, Falmouth, and St. Anthony's, East Falmouth, before bo.arding bus forBuzzards Bay to attend first in series of lectures on Scripture at St. Margaret's parish hall.

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Experts A.id in Translating Mi~ssal

Ford SpeakerAt Smith Dinner

NEW YORK (NC)-Vice Pres­ident-designate Gerald. R Fordwas the headline· attraction atthe annual Alfred E. Smith .Me­mo~ial Dinner sponsored by thearchdiocese of New York.

The dinner is named after theformer DemocraJic governor ofNew York who in 1928 becamethe first Catholic ever to benominated by' a major party forthe U. S. presidency.

IThe dinner, however, caused

a stir of controversy over thefact that one of four mayoralcandidates for New' York Citywas not invited.

Albert H. Blumenthal, a Liber­al, contended he had been snub­bed because of his advocacy ofthe legalization of abortion .inthe New York state legislature.

But archdiocesan officials saidBlumenthal was not invited be­cause he had not neen a past sub­scriber to the dinner and thesponsoring organization, the Al­fred E. Smith Memorial Founda­tion.

On the dais with Ford wereCardinal Terence Cooke of NewYork and high ranking politicaldignitaries for the state of NewYork. These included Gov. Nel- C

son Rockefeller, U. S. SenatorsJacob K. Javits and James L.Buckley, and New York MayorJohn V. Lindsay.

Ford, the Republican minorityleader in the U. S. House of Rep­resentatives, told his audiencethat government must make a"new beginning" to restoreAmericans' faith that' govern­ment works for them.

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Hope for ImprovedEducation Act

WASHINGTON (NC)-A Cath­olic education official has givenstrong support to the section of afederal act which aids education­ally deprived children, but addedthat Catholic school administra­tors feel "there is much room forimprovement."

The support was for extensionand amendment of Title I of the1965 Elementary and SecondaryEducation Act (ESEA). The actsaid that money was for pro­grams designed to meet the spe­cial educational needs of educa­tionally deprived children. Non­public school children are in­cluded in some of the programs.

Dr. Edward R D'Alessio, di­rector of the Division of Elemen­tary and Secondary Education,U. S. Catholic Conference, notedthat thousands of educationallydisadvantaged youngsters in non­public schools have already beenassisted through Title I.

He made this appraisal in an.address in Boston to the Sub­committee on Program Develop­

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No man can be. a friend .ofJesus Christ who is not a friendto his neighbor.

from the Latin, the first two vol­umes will be printed in 1974 andthe final two the following year.

The reason for the delay, hesaid, is that subcommittees arestudying final selections of reaj­ings from the Fathers of theChurch and medieval and laterwriters.

Furthermore, bishops' confer­ences ~ust give final approvalbefore the texts are printed.

The translation of the Missalhas already been accepted byICEL'S ll-member episcopalboard and the translation hasbeen sent to bishops' confer­ences that participate in theICEL. .

Some conferences have alreadyapproved the translation of themissal and at least five publish­ers will issue editions in 1974.

The U. S. bishops will vote onaccepting the translation at theirNovember meeting in Washing­ton, D. C.

During their eight-day meet­ing, the advisory committee alsodiscussed the English translationof the various Ordination ritesthat are 'now in use in provisionalform, as well as the rite for theprofession of Religious.

The committee also discussedthe' "Christian initiation ofadults." That ceremony, whichsome dioceses have also experi­mented with, confers the sacra­ments. of Baptism, the Eucharistand Confirmation on adult con­verts..

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International CQmmission onEnglish in the Liturgy (ICEL).

Representing 11 English-speak­ing nations, the commission hassince its formation in 1965 beenchiefly responsible for translat­ing into English the Latin textsfor ceremonies and the rites ofthe sacraments provided by theVatican.

The chairman of the advisorycommittee, Father Harold Wins-.tone of London, said that al­thoug~1 all four volumes of theBreviary have been translated

Sister Fleming said the firingof special Watergate ProsecutorArchibald Cox triggered the ac­tion ..

"We wanted to do somethingpositive," Sister Fleming said."\VE felt this would be more ef­fective than picketing or protest-

'ing and more true to the natureof what we are." .

ROME (NC) - When. Englishversions for both the Roman Mis­sal, which contains the prayersfor the celebrating of Mass, andthe priest's daily prayerbook, theBreviary, are published next yearthey will bear the stamp of suchvaried experts as a professor ofclassics, liturgists, a playwright,a history professor, a novelist, a.composer and an expert on thewritings of the Chu.rch Fathers.

These experts met in RomeSept. 28 to Oct. 5 as members ofthe advisory committee to the

. After the prayer was publishedas an advertisement in The News,a staff reporter called SisterFleming for further details andwrote a news story which ran inthe Oct. 27 edition of The News:

The prayer begins by para­The Detroit Free Press picked phrasing the preamble to the

up the story and wrote a similar U. S. Constitution, noting thatarticle. governments are institut~d and

Sister Fleming said the prayer, derive their power from the peo­which was written by Sister pIe.Mary Philip Ryan, historian for ~ It asks God "to awaken us tothe Dominican Sisters of the personal responsibility and ac­Adrian Congregation, was an ef- countability in ourselves and infort by a group of nuns to bring our elected leaders" and "to leadthe nation together again. us to the truth that will draw

Copies of the prayer were sent forth a government of integrity,to a number of Congressmen. where the· rich will not 'prey onOthers went to nuns in a letter the poor, nor the powerful on theover Sister Fleming's signature powerless, but where all willasking them to join in the seelc justice and peace in You."

Widespread .Reac:tio,n ReportedTo Prayer for Good Government I

'ADRIAN (NC) - A group of prayer, seek to have it printedDominican nuns who bought in parish bulletins and to contrib­space in two newspapers to pub- ute financially to the expense oflish a prayer for the Watergate- having it placed in newspapers.plagued federal government were In the letter nuns were tolds~rprised at the. widespread reac- that "the United States govern­tlOn to the proJect. ment is facing one of its gravest

Sister Carol Fleming, public crises" and that the prayer ''Wasrelations director for the Domin- written -"as a response to ac:ionican Sisters here in Michigan, taken recently in Washington,

.said the response to the prayer D. C."which appeared in The DetroitNews on Oct. 26 and the Len­awee Tribune, a twice-a-weekAdrian newspaper, on Oct. 25was "kind of unexpected."

THE ANCHOR-Thurs., Nov. 8, 197310

Hospital Wins Major Legal Decision

MEMBERS OF UPPER CAPE CCD BOARD: Attending the Scripture Series are, front,from left, Mrs. Carmine Cotillo, St. Patrick's parish; Mrs. William Kennedy, St. Joseph; Mrs.Keith Songer, St. Margaret; Mrs. Charles Bardelis, St. Patrick. Second row, Mrs. RobertMosher, St. John; Sister Rita, St. John; Mrs. James Lopes, St. Mary's, Onset; Mrs. LawrencePeters, St. Anthony's. Rear, Mrs. John Roderick, St. Anthony; Rev. Timothy Goldrick, St.Margaret; Rev. Marcel Bouchard, St. Joseph, Taunton, speaker; Rev. John Magnani, St.Patrick; Mrs. Fred Haussmann, St. Anthony.

Teenage MarriageGuidelines Issued

OGDENSBURG (NC) - Teen­agers who wish to get marriedin this northern New York dio­cese will have to undergo threemonths of counseling beforetheir marriage can be approved,according to new guidelines is­sued here.

Bishop Stanislaus Brazana ofOgdensburg said the new rulesare intended "to provide ouryoung couples with sensitive andunderstanding help in this vitallyimportant decision on life."

"At the same time," he said,we hope to reduce the alarmif.lgrate of divorce in teenage mar­riages by encouraging youngpeople not to rush into marriagesfor which they are ill-prepared,particularly in cases involvingpregnancy."

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Prelate OpposesLay Preac;:hers

NEWARK (NC)-In a brief let·ter to priests here ArchbishopThomas A. Boland of Newarksaid that only those who havebeen ordained may preach thehomily at liturgical services.

"I wish to advise that thehomily at Mass and at any otherIiturgical'service at which a hom­ily is preached may be givenonly by a priest or deacon. Noone else may fulfill this role ..."Archbishop Boland said.

The archbishop did not indi­cate what prompted his directive.Recently, however, Wilma Supik,the religion editor of The Rec­ord, a daily newspaper publishedin Hackensack, N.J., wrote of herown experience in preaching atSunday Mass at the request ofa pastor. .

In other cases, Sisters and laypersons have spoken at Masses.Some parishes ha.ve used officersof the parish council to presentthe. annual financial accountingor appe'al for increased contribu­tions.

During an archdiocesan·wideappeal conducted by the LittleSisters of the Poor to raise fundsfor a new bome for the aged,some Sisters spoke during Massat particular "parishes..

The homily is considered apart of the liturgy and is intend-'ed as a commentary on the Gos­pel"message. Regulations provid­ing for the restoration of the per- .manent diaconate empower theordained deacon to preach atMass.

hospital; said.Bishop Eldon B. Schuster of

Great Falls, which includes Bill­ings, said:

"I am very happy to hear ofthe decision. The judge's order(last year's injunction) has spur­red a great deal of discussion inthe Church, and we were lookinginto the possibility of discontin­uing maternity care if continuedto be forced to perform contraryto our religious ethics."

The latest ruling, however, hasnot ended the battle. The ACLUis prepared to carry the issue allthe way to the U. S. SupremeCourt.

"We will appeal' immediatelyto the 9th Circuit Court of Ap­peals," ACLU staff lawyer Rob­ert L. Stephens Jr. of Billingssaid. "If necessary we will con­tinue the fight all the way to theU. S. Supreme Court."

Greg Osborn, executive secre·tary of the ACLU of Montana,said: "The ACLU has made plan'sahead of time to provide fundingfor a protracted fight. The na­tional office has told us, 'Weare going all the way.' "

St. Vincent's Hospital becameembroiled in the battle shortlyafter it and the city's other hos­pital, a non-sectarian institution,consolidated all maternity care inthe Catholic hospital.

~ Joint CelebrationST. MICHAELS (NC)-Indians

in the Southwest will join Fran­ciscan friars of the Cincinnatiprovince in a Mass here Oct. 28celebrating the 75th anniversaryof the Franciscans' work withthe Navajo tribe." Followingthe Mass, celebrated by BishopJerome J. Hastritch of Gallup,N. M., the Navajos and Francis­cans will join in a traditionalbarb~cue.

in taxes on the dining hall­cafeteria, the roofed picnic area,the Shrine Inn (now closeddown); Jogues Manor for housingnuns, the parking facilities andother acreage.

The case before the Court ofAppeals was heard on Oct. 19,1972 and its decision was justreleased, exactly one year later.

"If was a relief to all of us,"Father Egan said. "It really isgoing to mean the difference be­tween developing the shrine andits possible closing. The J,esuitsat Auriesville want to be goodcitizens and cooperate with thecommunity. But we feel we cando much better by developing theshrine than by being forced toclose it."

In their plea to the courts,-theJesuits had asserted that thefacilities "were necessary and in­cidental to the overall purposeof the shrine and to the thou­sands of pilgrims and visitorswho come to it." .

The ruling of the Court of Ap­peals could be appealed to theU. S. Supreme Court. Such ac­tion, however, is not expected.

erties Union (ACLU) against St.Vincent's Hospital.

The suit had been filed as a"class action for all women ofchildbearing age" and had impli·cations for all U. S. Catholicmedical institutions.

The injunction was later re­stricted to apply at St. Vincent'sonly to, women delivering byCaesarian section who wantedto be sterilized simultaneously,with delivery.

"We at St. Vincent's Hospitalare very gratified with thecourt's ruling," Mrs. Ethel Tay­lor, assistant administrator of the

BILLINGS. (NC)-A year-longbattle over whether a Catholichospital here in Montana shouldperform sterilization operationshas resulted in a major legal de­cision in favor of the Catholichospitals.

U. S. District Court JudgeJames F. Battin of Billings dis­solved a temporary injunctionthat had forced St. Vincent'sHospital to allow limited steril­ization operations.

Last year Battin issued thetemporary, injunction' in responseto a suit filed by a Billings cou­ple and the American Civil Lib-

Jesuit Shrine 'Gets FavorableDecision on Martyrs Feast Day

ALBANY (NC) - A recentcourt decision to exempt a Jesuitshrine from taxation came onOct. 19, the feast day of theJesuit martyrs to whom theshrine is dedicated.

The decision by the New YorkState Court of Appeals (thestate's highest court) was "pre­ternatural to say the' least," saidJesuit Father Thomas Egan, di­rector of the shrine at Auries­ville, N.'Y.

"The martyrs used their in­tercessory powers," Father Egan

. said. "I take it as a sign fromthem that they have a messagefor American Catholic peopletoday." '

The shrine, located in upstateNew York, is situated where St.Isaac Jogues -and other earlyAmerican missionaries were tom­ahawked to death by Indians in1646.

The' appeals court ruling af­firmed, without opinion" a StateSupreme Court decision thatcertain parcels of the shrine'sland were not taxable. The casebegan in 1964 when the townboard sought to collect $I30,QOO

Vatican~'s MediaScore Cc)nflictIn Middlle East

vATlCAN CITY (NC) - Allsides in the Middle East conflict- including the United Statesand the Soviet: Union - arewrong. according to an editorialin the Oct. 14 edition of the Vat·ican weekly magazine, L'Osser­vatore della Domenica.

Vatican Radio earlier in theweek declared that recourse to"violence and blood" cannot bejustified by any "ideological dif­ferences, any partisan interests,or any arbitral:y or debatableevaluations of historical, situa·tions."

Longtime Vatican newsmanFederico Alessandrini, who isthe Vatican press officer, said inthe editorial in L'Osservatore del­Ia Domenica that the two super­powers who furnish arms for theconflict will not be able to stopthe war by blowing a whistle.

Stating that many small nationshave suffered because of the an­tagonisms between the UnitedStates and the Soviet Union, Al­essandrini continued: .

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Those exulting in victory to­day, he said, w:1I another daysee the 'other side of war: "moraland material ruins, blood andtears, new injustices added to theold ones,

"In a word, they will see warin its atrocity."

Vatican Radio, recalling theadmonition of Pope Pius XII that"nothing is lost by peace, all canhe lost by war," said that right·thinking men know war solvesnothing.

"Only the sick passions ofman, scorning all human logicand the denials of history frompast to present, can keep alivethe illusion that s~ous matterscan be solved on the field of bat·tie," Vatican Radio said.

The Vatican daily newspaper,L'Osservators Roinano, tamentedthe renewed Mideast war in -itsOct. 12 edition, calling on allthe forces of good to mobilizethrough prayer against the forcesof evil, namely, the presence ofwar in the world.

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"When those powers really reosponsible for the war becomeconvinced of the necessity ofa compromise after a long seriesof disastrous mistakes, the stateof mind and the situations whichthey, in their blind and endlessrivalry, have promoted amongthird parties will be too deeplyimbedded to be assuaged over­night just because the two suo,perpowers then find it conveni­ent."

The United Nations, Alessan­drini said, will doubtless con­demn the war, but such a con­demnation will have no effect be·cause the Soviets and Americansare not in accord on the issue.

American and Soviet arms, AI­'essandrini added, will kill peopleand spill new blood.

As for the Arabs and Israelis,Alessandrini asked:

"How can a just cause be aid­ed and strengthened by resortingto violence and brute force?"

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WASHINGTON (NC)-Dr. R.H.Edwin Espy, the retiring generalsecretary of the National Coun­cil of Churches was praised as aman of "great faith" by his Cath­olic counterpart, Bishop James S.Rausch.

Dr. Espy's "patience, his vision,his sentitivity, his integrity andhis perseverance are well knownto us and deeply admired," saidBishop Rausch, general secretaryof the National Conference ofCatholic Bishops and UnitedStates Catholic Conference.

In the 10 years that·Dr. Espyserved as top administrator forthe NCC, "The. quest for racialjustice and pursuit of peacecame before us as two issuesthat could not be ignored or dealtwith from a distance," BishopRausch said.

"Those who served the na­tional council and its memberchurches knew that in pursuingthese goals they would have toface militancy, backlash, polar­ization and the sheer agony of

·men's consciences, and that theycoul~ use none of these as anexcuse to stop' their' efforts."

.The bishop also pointed outthat during Dr. Espy's tenure theNCC and the Catholic Church,began to work together. "Nosmall. amount of skill has beennecessary to carefully developecumenical collabor.ation and'protect the potential it containsfor the future;" he said.

"There has been one constantduring the past ten years, the per­son of Dr. R.H. Edwin Espy."

Parish' Forms. ClubFor 'Se'nior'Citizens

NEW YORK (NC)-An exam­ple of how a local church canform a: senior citizens' club isthat of St. Helena's Parish here.A huge top floor of a restaurantserves as headquarters for Proj·ect HAND (Helping. the AgedNeeding Direction) which cur­rently serves about 300 seniorcitizens a day on the premises.

The club, which now has 'amailing list of over 4,000 oldpeople, started as a storefronttwo years ago in the Parkchestersection of the Bronx, where 40per ~ent of the residents areover 60 years of age and 90 pe'rcent have incomes under $5 000.

"The center came aboutthrough the combined efforts ofSt. Helena's and other local par­ishes and (New York archdioce­san) Catholic Charities," said Sis­ter Eileen Byrne, who is on' theboard of directors. "It was beau­tiful how the Church workedtogether on all levels." .

The parish-run group has sincegreatly enlarged and it has beentaken over hy a New Yo~k Cityagency. It is open to anyone over60 years of age and a daily hotmeal is free. Over 150 meals are

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She spoke while awaiting thedoctor's call at the archdioceseof Miami's Spanish center wherethe women were given freshclothing. and medical attention.

Since -the group's arrival the'archdiocese-under the directionof Archbishop Coleman F. Car­roll-has taken them under itswing, providing room and boardand taking on their legal fightto stay in this country.

. The 62 Haitians had left theircountry for America "like the Is­raelites crossing to the promisedland," one of them said, 'lookingfor a better political situationand jobs that did not exist ex­cept for a few, and only then ifyou kept your mouth shut aboutthe government,

Since' their arrival in late Sep­tember the women have beenhoused 'at Boystown of Floridawhich is operated by the arch­diocese of Miami. The men werekept at the Dade County Stock­

.ade under the eare of the U. S.Immigration Departnient whichwill determine after a series ofhearings whether they will haveto return to the land they fled.

They have already been ordereddeported, but that is being ap-

. pealed by an archdiocesan attor­ney, Michael Tal~rant, who is rep­resenting them for "humanitarianreasQrJ,s."

THE PROPHET AMOS-Artist Jacques Barosin~ a for­mer inter~ee in a Nazi concentration camp, stands besidehis largef-than-life portrait of the prophet Amos, one oftwelve portraits of Old Testament prophets which are beingfeatured in an exhibition at the American Bible Society inNew York City 't'J"ov: '21~Jan: ll,~ A~flti-\'~ 'o( gig,a,- Latvi~·;.:he came to this country in 1947 and lives in Kew Gardens,. . .N.Y. NC-Photo

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I Fight Ext'raditi'onMAIMI (NC) "There were

many sick,:' said the girl, who­like the other 27 women and 35men-had krrrived in Miami tired,hungry an4 sick after drifting onthe ocean for over a month. They.survived oh a mixture of ocean,wate: and' sugar.

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possess grandeur and beauty be­cause they; mold tomorrow's civ­ilization, Pope Paul declared inhis noontiine Angelus talk.30,

Acknowledging that Italy'sschools, which opened the: nextday, have,: their difficulties, thePope said: i

"Our schools are the necessary ,complemeIlt to the family. thegarden in' which future gener­ations will grow, the laboratoryin which QUI' young will developmentally, 'morally and socially,the way whereby young peoplewill orient themselves to dis-

. cover and' conquer those valueswhich give, to human existencea sense, a seope and art of living.

"In a vlord, our schools givean education which tries to beequal to the true and transcen­dent idea I of .man in con-cretereality and living. experience.Such is the grandeur, such isthe beauty of SChools....

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Pro-Life Attracts9,000 in Me~phis

MEMPHIS (NC) - More than9,000 persons t\,lrned out for thePro-Life Mass celebrated at theMid-South ColisE!um here..

Bishop Carroll T. Dozier ofMemphis said that even thoughthe rally and Mass had been setup to celebrate Respect for LifeMonth, the event took. on moreimportance when Tennessee'sfirst abortion clinic opened hererecently.

One hundred years ago, theBishop said, Memphis was fight­ing a' battle to preserve lifeagainst yellow fever.

Three nuns and four priestsdied in the epidemic, he noted,"because of the value they placedupon life, even to the sacrificeof their own lives."

Hopes for PeaceIn Middle East

VATICAN CITY (NC)-A Vat­ican c'ardinal has told Moslemsof the ,world that Christianseverywhere wish a lasting peaceto the lands of the "belovedMiddle East."

Cardinal Sergio Pignedoli, pre­fect of the Vatican's Secretariatfor Non·Christians, said he hopesthe Middle East will be deliveredfrom the "nightmare of war" intoa lasting and just peace.

The cardinal's sentiments wereexpressed in a letter writtenfrom the Vatican on the occasionof thoe end of the Moslem feast ofRamadan, the annual month-longperiod of fast and penance en­joined on Moslems.

Speaking to "my dear Moslemfriends," the cardinal said:

"I am sure that Christians joinme in a gesture of friendshiptruly fraternal and selfless inoffering you wishes for peace inthe Middle East."

People Needn'tThinkAlikeJust Because They're Wed

I was asked by an editor to write an article from theviewpoint of a couple. "We're getting the viewpoint on thissubject from a priest, a nun, a. bishop, and an unmarrieflperson," he explained. "We would like you to write it fromthe viewpoint of a couple." ,I explained to him that I was the more ,a couple thought alike,

the happier they were. The re­interested in doing the acti- verse of this held that differingcle but. not from the view- viewpoints .made for unhappi­point of the couple. I don't be- ness. Such fears permeated notlieve there is any such thing. (He ,only marriage but politics and re­understood and I'm doing it from ligion, the result being that thesemy viewpoint alone.) subjects were. taboo unless

,.....:, everyone in the group was of thesame faith or party. Small won­der we so little understandothers' beliefs. We were afraidthat disagreement means loss offriendship', rather than an in·crease of understanding whichleads to maturity.

They're. SurprisedSome couple!) avoid discussing

anything.upon whiGh ~hey mightI disagree. As a result they don't

~ .. ,- _._~ l<now each other's thinking on theA couple is made up of two subject and aren't able to re­

people, not necessarily of the examine their own. The surprisesame viewpoint. It's true they of a person in hearing his spousemay hold similar viewpoints on express an idea or attitude newsome subjects but. they're just as to him is obvious to others. Itlikely to told differing ones~ The seems unfortunate that somekind of thinking that pairs the subjects can be discussed amongcouple as one mind has caused couples only when they are withsome basic problems in the past, others. .in family~ church and society. When a husband and wife pre-

For many years we pretended tend to agree on child-rearing inorder to present a united front.to the kids, it's not only hypo­critical but also self-defeating.Children need to realize that twq Ipersons remain. tW? .per~ol1swhen they marry. They mayhave profound influence on oneanother but neither has to be­come the other in order to main­tain a deep and loving relation­ship. One doesn't .have to be awinner and one a loser, either.They can be compromisers,' justas they ,are in other areas oftheir lives. '

A couple is a couple only in .marriage. In everything else, theyremain persons. When I read anarticle in which a couple writes,"We think just alike," I become

·suspicious. I can't envision anytwo people thinking alike for life.At least, it strains credulity. Atbest, it would be colossally bor­ing. A more honest statement, in­dicating that we don't think alikeon all subjects, is, "We thinkalike on this." -

No Coll~ctive CouplesIn our own church, we've clas­

sified people as priest, nun, singleand couple, a rathercontemptu.,ous look at the personhood ofthe married. This image has tobe erased, just as the old. imageof every other priest has dis·,sob'ed. It's become refreshingly.obvious that the priesthood andsisterhood are made up of a widevariety of persons with manydifferent levels of thinking. Thereare those who are still scandal..ized that all priests don't..think alike, but to most of us,it's a welcome relief from pre..tense..

Now that we've given our re ..ligious a right to personhood,let's do the same for the married.Let's do away with the collectivecouple in such phrases as "thecouple will find" and "the cou..pie's viewpoint." We married in­dividuals will find it a welcomerelief from pretense, too.

12' THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., Nov. 8, 1973

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British Parliament, sought tocounter the impression that thesituation in Northern Ireland isimproving.

"Nothing could be further fromthe truth," he said. "The repres­sion and brutality are escalat­ing." Jury trials have been abol­ished, he said, the number of ·in.ternees is increasing and thegovernment operates on the pre­mise that accused persons areguilty until· proven innocent.

McManus said the political ap­proach that has been presentedas power sharing between repre­sentatives of Northern Ireland'sp""tec;t""t l'1a;oritv and its Cath­olic minority 'begins and ends asa pious sentiment. The Britishgovernment retains all rights ifthe political representatives don'tbehave themselves."

"In fact," he said, WilliamWhitelaw, the British secretaryof state for Northern Ireland "isthe military dictator of North­ern Ireland."

HOLY CROSS.SO. EASTON

The Women's Club will spon­sor their sixth annual Holly Fairstarting at 10 o'clock in themorning on Saturday, Nov. 10in the church hall, 225 PurchaseSt., just off Route 138.

Booths will feature silhouettes,woodworking, knitted articles,fresh-baked goods, white ele­phant, toys, holiday decorations,plants and needle-work.

Highlights will include theawarding of a Wurlitzer Organ,a ten speed bicycle and a basketof cheer

Included in the interestingitems for childen will be bal·loons, dart game, spinner paints,and a water game. Santa willgreet all the children.

Mrs. Albert Fleury and Mrs.John Kelly, co-chairman of theaffair, have announced that asnack bar will be open through­out the day.

OUR LADY OF THE CAPE,BREWSTER

The Women's Guild will spon­sor a Christmas Fair from 1 to4 on Saturday, Nov. 17 in thechurch hall. Booths will featuresome-made Chr.istmas gifts andornaments, felt boutique, andfood items.

wastefuluses

Like Dachau"I was shocked to see such

conditions in the civilizedworld," he said. The men werehoused in Quonset huts, he said,adding "you know how miserablethese are," and the floors werestrewn with glass the prisonerssaid came from windows brokenby the guards who bang on thegalvanized walls in the middleof the night.

Against the protests of are·porter for The Times of London,Bishop Drury defended his com­parison of Long Kesh to Dachau,the World War III Nazi concen­tration camp. The bishop said hehad visited Dachau and "when Isaw our men in those huts (atLong Kesh), Dachau seemed adecent place compared to this."He conceded, however, the Brit­ish reporter's point that theNazis had killed thousands ofprisoners in Dachau, but no onehas claimed that the British arekilling prisoners in Long Kesh.

Denies ImprovementMcManus, who represents Fer­

manash and South Tyrone in the

WASHINGTON (NC)-A poli­tician from Northern Ireland, apolitician from the Republic 'OfIreland and a bishop from Texascame to Washington with a mes­sage: In -Irelanq, things are badall over.

The message was delivered byBishop ThomasJ.Drury of CorpusChristi; Frank McManus, a mem­ber of the British Parliament whorepresents a constituency inNorthern Ireland, and RuairiO'Bradaigh, president of the pro­visional Sinn Fein (OurselvesAlone), a Dublin~based politicalparty described as "the politicalexpression of the republicanmovement."

All three spoke at a press con­ference; later the two politicianstestified before a House subcom­mittee on international organiza­tions and movements.

Bishop Drury, a native of Ire­land who has lived in the UnitedStates for 50 years, concentratedhis message on the Long Keshinternment camp used by theBritish army in Northern Irelandfor those suspected of terroristactivities. The bishop, who saidthat as a U.S. military chaplainin World War II and the KoreanWar he had seen prisons "allaround the world," described hisvisit to Long Kesh this pastsummer.

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Recommendations of the con­ference. will be presented to 500Indiana churchmen, and a follow­up study will determine what ac­tion had been taken on the rec-,ommendations.

Among those in charge ofplanning the conference areBishop Raymond Gallagher ofLafayette and Raymond Rufo,executive secretary of the Indi­ana Catholic Conference: ICCHEis an interfaith organization thatpromotes equal opportunities forminority groups.

Plan to ProbeMoral Crisis

INDIANAPOLIS (NC) TheIndiana Interreligious Commis­sion on Human Equality (IICHE)has received $47,150 from LillyEndowment Inc. for a year-longstudy of the crisis in publicmorality.

The bulk of the money willbe used. for a three-day confer­ence at .which 200 of the .state'sreligious leaders will be ad­dressed by a team of theologiansand sociologists. The conferencewill .b~ held at Indiana, Univer­sity March 31, April 1 and 2,1974 The project will exploreconditions which have produced"the erosion of public morality"and develop programs "by whichconfidence might be restored inthe vision of the n~ligious com­munity."

NAMED: Rev. John PeterSheehan of the Birmingham,Ala., diocese, has beennamed associate director ofthe secretariat of the Catho­lic bishops' Committee .forEcumenical and, Interreligi­ous Affairs. NC Photo.

ST. BONIFACE,NEW BEDFORD

The guild will conduct its an­nual Christmas Bazaar from 10A.M. to 6 P.M. on Saturday, Nov.17 in the church hall.

Among the features will beantiques, glassware, handmadearticles, toys and games.

Refreshments will be available.

ST. THERESA,SOUTH ATTLEBORO

The Confraternity of ChristianMothers will sponsor a Christmasbazaar Wednesday and Thurs­day, Nov. 14 and 15, from 2 to9 P.M. with babysitting offeredfrom 2 to 5 P.M. Volunteers areneeded to assist with babysittingand manning booths as well asto assist in decorating the hallMonday, Nov. 12. Donations ofmeat pies and meat balls are re- ,quested for the bazaar kitchen.Donors should notify Ami' Gaw­lick, telephone 761-7963.

ST. MARY,NEW BEDFORD

The art of making Christmasdecorations will be demonstratedby Patricia Gonsalves at a Wom­en's Guild meeting to follow7:30 P.M. Mass Monday, Nov. 12.The Mass will be offered for de­ceased guild members.

ST. GEORGE,WESTPORT

The Couples Club will sponsora harvest dance at 8 P.M. Satur­day, Nov. 17 in the school hall.The public is invited and refresh·ments will be available. Musicwill be by the Bob St. Amourorchestra. 'Chairmen are Mr. andMrs. Andre Fournier, aided byMr. and Mrs. Bertrand Leduc.

OUR' LADY OF PERPETUALHELP, NEW BEDFORD

Tpe Holy Name Society willhold a pierogi sale on Thursdayand Friday, Nov. 15 and 16 inthe parish hall, 235 No. Front St.

On Saturday night, Nov. 17,the Holy Name Society willsponsor a supper from 6 to 7o'clock and a social from 8 tomidnight at the Mickiewicz,2031 Purchase St. Johnny Sowaand his orchestra will providethe music. Tickets will not beavailable at the door.

The Society of M~uy will con·duct a card party at 2:30 01) Sun­day afternoon, Nov. 18 in thechurch hall.

ST. ANTHONY,NEW .BEDFORD

A harvest fair will be held to­morrow and Saturday, and nextFriday and Saturday, Nov. 16and 17. Friday hours will be from6 to 11 P.M. and Saturday hoursfrom 1 to 11 P.M. Features willinclude homemade foods, cakes,knit goods, and games for chil­dren and adults. Refresl1mentswill be available.

ST. LOUIS DE FRANCE,SWANSEA'

The Ladies of St. Anne Sodal­ity will conduct their monthlymeeting at 8 o'clock on Wednes­day evening, Nov. 14 in the par­ish hall.

Mrs. Jeanette Peladeau, man­ager of the Fall River TravelBureau will narrate a half-hourfilm entitled "To Paris withLove." To continue the theme ofthe program, Mrs. Olga Perron,program chairman has planned

.to serve wine punch and cheese.

OUR LADY OF ANGELS,FALL RIVER

The parish council will meetat 7 P.M. Sunday, Nov. 11 in thechurch hall.

The Holy Name Society an·nounces a whist party for 7:30P.M. Saturday, Nov. 10, also inthe hall.

A pre-advent social, includinga malasada supper and dance isscheduled for Saturday, Nov. 17in the hall. Supper will be servedfrom 6 to 8 P.M. with dancing tofollow until 11 P.M.

HOLY NAME,FALL RIVER

Children in the first threegrades of CCD classes will at­tend a Mass at 6:45 P.M. Tues..day, Nov. 13, aecompanied bytheir parents. Religion books willbe presented to them during theservice and a social hour willfollow.

A parish bazaar will be heldfrom 11 A.M. to 7 P.M. Saturday,Nov. 17. Returns of ticket booksfor a raffle to be held at the'event may be made at all MassesSunday.

Unreserved and student ticketsare still available for "An Eve:ning of Music" to be presentedat 7:30 Sunday night ·in thechurch by the Boston Archdioc­esan Boy Choir, directe'd by itsfounder, Theodore'Marier.

ST. MATHIEU,FALL RIVER

A catered supper and dancewill feature the annual Christmasparty of the Council of ,CatholicWomen, to be held at 7:30 P.M.Saturday, Dec. 1 in the parishhall. Music will be by the ArtPerry orchestra.

Mass at 7:15 P.M. will precedethe next council meeting, sched­uled for Monday, Nov. 26 withMrs. Raymond Poisson as chair­man.

ST•. JOHN THE EVANGELIST,ATTLEBORO

The fourth annual HarvestDance will be held on Saturday,Nov. 17 at St. Mary's Parish Cen­ter, Norton. A buffet will beserved and dancing will start at8 and conclude at 1 A.M.

A turkey raffle~ will be heldand door prizes awarded.

ST. JOSEPH,ATTLEBORO

A turkey whist is planned for8 P.M. Saturday, Nov. 17 anddonations of groceries, cannedgoods, turkeys and turkey certif­icates are needed.

Captain Norman Dennis andDon Jorgeson of the ProvidenceReds hockey team will speak ata Sports Night at 7:30 P.M. Tues­day, Nov. 13 in the parish hall.A Stanley Cup film will beshown and prizes will be award·cd.

ST. WILLIAM,FALL RIVER

The Women's Guild will holda turkey. whist at 1:30 P.M.Sunday, Nov. 18 in the parishcenter. Members are asked tobring canned or packaged goodsto the guild meeting at 8 P.M.Wednesday, Nov. 14 for use inprize food baskets. The meetingwill feature a demonstration offlower arranging by Bob Medei­ros of Somerset.

Publicity chairmen 01' parish organlzatlo~s

Irl esked to submit news Items for thiscolumn to The Anchor, P. O. Box 7, FallRiver 02722. Name of city or town shouldbe Included, as well as full dates of allactivities. Please send news of future ratherthan past events.

14 THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., Nov. 8, 1973

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Pope Paul said that holiness isthe highest value man can know,"a victory over death and a giftfor eternal life."

,The Feast of All Saints,' thePope said, offers a "celestialvision that. prompts men togreat ,contemplative thoughtswhich transcend their ordinaryand natural experiences."

This great program of strivingfor' sainthood, the Pope added,is ,open to all ... rendering lifesuddenly good and holy, worthyof divine mercy for all eternity.

Jules' Leger NamedGovernor-General

OTTAWA (NC)-Jules ~eger,

the younger brother of CardinalPaul Emile Leger, was named by

. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeauto become governor-general ofCan'ada in January.

The govern.or-general is a rep­resentative of the Queen of En­gland, Canada ~as 'designated aconstitutional monarchy when itbecame a confederation in 1867).The post.is largely ceremonial,however, and, the governor­general - who must now be aCanadian-has little or no au­thority to act on his own exceptin very extraordinary circum-

. stances.The Queen appoints the gov­

ernor -general, but on the adviceof the Canadian cabinet, whichis named by the Canadian primeminister.

the Second Vatican Council theChurch has come to a deeper un­derstanding of the need, for thisdialogue.

"Women cannot ,be consideredas second-class citizens in theBody of Christ," she said.

"There is a great awarenessamong women in all countriesof their equality with men, anddivine revelation agrees with this. . . the Church is searching tohelp woman clarify her role."

The role of women in theChurch, she said, is one of theimportant areas being studied inthe Vatican. "For instance, Rome'has established a subcommitteeon the possibility of ordainingwomen to the diaconate," shesaid.

"There may well be ministriesfor women in the future. These'could involve ilUch things as min­istries of service, such as teach­ing the Gospels.

"We already have situations in-Latin America, Africa, Belguimand Canada where women, actingas extraordinary ministers, dis­tribute Communion when theneed arises."

Miss BellosHlo urged women inCanada to involve themselves indiscussions and dialogues with

. priests and bishops who are help·ing to change and renew the'Church..

POPE IN "HIS" VlLLAG~New residents lean our windows and watch from balconiesas Pope Paul VI waves greetings during his visit to the 99-unit "Village of the Pope," atAcilia, Italy. Money from the pontiff was the major funding of the housing project, occu­pied by about 500 former inhabitants of sha.ntytowns on the edge of Rome. NC Photo

Po,pe' Gives Directtives for Sainthood'

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VATICAN CITY (N<;;) - Men from the confluence of two fac­become saints with the help of tors.Christ and hard work, Pope Paul "One is freeny given, the graceVI told thousands gathered in of .Christ, _the only genuine.St. Peter's, Square forr.~is, noon- ~~"s9!-lrc~oq~qli1]le~~:an!i qf:)ife..:day blessing on the Feast of All "The other is more difficultSabts, Nov. I, a national holiday for us, our personal strivingsas well as a holy day in Italy. toward moral justice, ~scetic ob-

o servance and evangelic perfec-Holiness, th~ Pope said, results tion."

TORONTO (NC) - True worn­en'~ liberation began with Christand will pe fulfilled when man­kind follows the designs Of God,aocording to Mat:ia del Pilar Bel­losiIlo of Spain, president-generalof the World Union of CatholicWomen's Organizations (WUC­WO).

"Liberation of the human per­s,on demands' education in thefaith and evanglization in theworld," she said ·here. "Liberali­zation requires the changing ofantiquated structures in all coun­tries, abolishing ignorance andovercoming apathy and passivityin both men and women."

Miss BellosiIlo, a member. ofPope Paul's commission studyingthe role of women in the Churchand society, was invited to To­ronto recently by the CatholicWomen's League' as part of herNorth American tour.

She' was also scheduled t6speak in New Orleans, La., at theU.S. National Council of CatholicLaity conference Oct. 14·20.

Women can help foster a trueintimate, working diil.logue be­tween all levels of God's people,she said.

"In the liturgy, the sacramen­tal life of the Church and in thepastoral sphere, particularly,women can bri,ng their experi­ences of reality to the priests andthe bishops."

She said she feels that since

~hinking about too much holidaybaking, it is a good time ·to jogrpemories and to. have my read­ers come up with some of therecipes that they have 'enjoyedsince they were children. Eachfamily has something specialthat means "Holiday" to them.Won't you share your family'sspecial recipe with the othermembers of the diocese?

One of my aunts was of Ger­man ancestry and she had a mar­velous recipe for a GermanChristmas cookie, with just ahint of almond. Christmaswouldn't have been. Christmaswithout those special cookies. Tomy own children the foods ofthis season will have their ownpersonal importance. If asked,however, I'm sure' they wouldmention the Mamie Eisenhowerfudge that their grandmothermakes in abundance in Decem­ber, or the date nut bread that'smy mother's special.

Christmas TraditionsIn our. house cookies vary and

because I like to try all the rec­ipes I can find at this time ofyear, Melissa, just commentedthat she thinks of Christmas

, cookies but of no particular ones.In a world filled with chaos,

deceit, vindictiveness, and dailycrisis our children need some­thing tangible and unchangingto hang on to. Even though suchitems as fruit. dike may taxall of our ingenuity and re­sources at this time, it is stillvery important that we maintainour holiday traditions.

So send your recipes to TheAnchor!

Around the holidays we're al­ways looking for a great cakerecipe and here's one that has anew twist to an old favorite. Itcomes from Anna Lizak of .St.Stanislaus parish in Fall River.

Pineapple Carr?t Cake3 cups flour2 cups, sugar2 teaspoons cinnamon1Y2 teaspoons baking soda-} Y2 teaspoons salt1 teaspoon baking powder3 eggs, beaten ' ,

1Y2 cups salad oil·2 teaspoons vanilla2 cups raw carrots, grated and

loosely packed·

1 small (8% ounce can crushedpineapple, drained but reservesyrup.

1) Mix together the flour,sugar, cinnamon, soda, salt and

. baking powder.2) Add to this mixture the

syrup drained from the pine­apple, eggs, oil and vanilla, blendthoroughly.

3) Stir in the pineapple andcarrots.

'4) . Bake in a greased tube pan,in a 325 0 oven for 1Y2 hours oruntil done.

5) Frost with a cream cheesefrosting.

Deacon ProgramMILWAUKEE (NC)-A per­

manent diaconate program hasbeen started by the Milwaukeearchdiocese. A!,chbishop William£. Cousins said the program willbe operated by a full-time direc­tor, Father Paul M. Esser, whoseoffice will recruit, screen andtrain candidates.

By Joseph and Marilyn Roderick

One of the questions concerning Watergate that is everpresent on everyone's lips these days is "How much more ofthis can we take?" We are inundated with startling revela­tion after startling revelation and we wonder when it winIend. The question posed,however, surprises me in the'sense that I am ratheramazed that we should ques­tion .our durability or ability totake shock.

In my lifetime alone we haveexperienced a horrendous depres­sion, a world war, the atomicrevolution, a prolonged cold war,the Korean war., -the Vietnamwar and an agonizingly rapidchange in our way of living. Itseems to me that in the light ofwhat we have gone through asa nation, the current politicaldebacle, although highly serious,has less seritlus long-term impli­cations for the people of thiscountry.

Too Much PowerIn many respects the current

crisis reflects our political dilem­mas, which have been coming foryears. Too much power is placedinto the hands of the people weelect and those people, because,of our political system, are toooften self-serving and dishonest.But the system can be correctedand it is within reason to expectthat changes can be broughtabout to correct it. One of Water­gate's redeeming. features is thatwe have focused our attentionupon the failings in our politicalsystem and hopefully have' de­termined to do something aboutit.

But to question the Americanpeople's capacity to take theshock, no matter what the con­sequences, is to give them littlecredit for the fortitude they pos-

.' sess, which they have demon­strated in the past 40 years andof course for years before that.We need not be concerned abouthow our people will react underpressure, they have demonstratedthat admirably" the' question iswhat to do in the future to cor-'rect our present ills.

In The Kitchen.With the prices of every food

item skyrocketing, I'm afraidthat holi?ay bakipg is going tobe expensive and even frustrat­ing. The latter will come aboutwhen we.start searching for suchitems as raisins that have all butdisappeared from the market.However, I do believe that people'are resourceful and that holidaybaking will take place.

Last year we were able to, print in the early part of Decem­

ber two pages of holiday favor­ites from readers of the column;and while I haven't approachedmy editors yet, I'm sure that

. they will allow something of thesame this year.

While it is still early to be

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dialogue among tbe warring fac­tions and in 1969 tried to estab­lish contact with all four delega·tions present at the Paris peacetalks.

Alessandrini described theChurch in South Vietnam as a"local Church faithful to its man­date amid tragic circumstancesand one which suffers with itssons."

Alessandrini, the Vaticanpress officer, writes a politicalcolumn for the Vatican weekly,but does so, he insists, as a pri­vate person.

CharityIt has been said that charity

is the pardoning of the unpar­donable and the loving of theunlovable.

The Rev. Monsignor Raymond T. ConsidineDiocesan Director368 North Main StreetFall River, Massachusetts 02720

of South Vietnam in seekingpeace.

The letters, the archbisbopsaid, will also "respond to thedeceitful, calumnious and iniqui­tous propaganda disseminated inthe world against the Church." .

In their pastoral letter of Jan.5, 1968, the bishops said:

"We appeal to the good will ofauthorities of North and Southto seek together the .means ofrestoring peace to the country ...

"There is a need to come to­gether, to gather round, to dis­cuss in all sincerity ..."

The bishops declared in theirletter of Jan. 22, 1964, that theCatholic Church "wished only tobe a higher principle of unionand peace above and beyond anypolitical party."

In 1966 the bishops called for

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••In gratitude for God's many blessings in my life,. I want to share •this month of Thanksgiving with the world's poor, the hungry, =.and hopeless by this gift of $ for all the missionaries wit- •nessing to the Love of God in the world. •••••••••••

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Bishops Made Continual Pleas for Peace

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VATICAN CITY (NC) - "Inthe name of God, stop the war."-

That was the plea of Catholicbishops of South Vietnam to "au"thorities of the North and South"in a 1968 pastoral letter.

Tbe bishops' pleas for peace'began in 1964 and were renewedeach year until 1972.

Federico Alesandrini, writingin the Sept. 30 edition of theVatican weekly, L'Osservatore-della Domenica, said that "theChurch in South Vietnam hasbeen and remains faithful to itsrightful mandate -... testifyingto God and for fundamental hu­man values."

The hishops' pastoral letterswere sent to Alessandrini byArchbishop Paul Nguyen vanBinh of Saigon, who said theyillustrate the work of the bishops

meaning no more than "I like tothink God exists."

But there are two ways inwhich this simplified positivismdoes not work. At the purelyphilosophic level, when a scien­tist says: "Only what is tested inthe laboratory is true," he meansus to understand that his state­ment is true. Bui it cannot betested by any measurements. Itis a statement of belief. The pos­sibility of truth has to be as­sumed before any statement canbe made that claims it. If thereis no such thing as "truth," thestatement is simply: "I prefer tothink everything true istestable in a laboratory."

The second point is practical.When an experiment is testedin a laboratory, it is said to be"proved," in other words to beaccurate and truthful to reality,when it behaves in a predictableway, bears out supportive hy­potheses and can be retested toproduce the same result. Thestatement that H20 is water istrue because, under rigoroustests, water always proves·to bemade up of two hydrogen atomsand one oxygen atom.

Proving Moraiity

But in fact we know a numberof moral truths in exactly thesame-way. We come to recognizea -man ElS'--hon'orable:'by-' seeinghim continue to act with honorin a variety of particular situa­tions. We say love is better thanhatred because we can compareactual experiences of societiesgoverned by love and otherstwisted by hate. We can claimuniversality for such a moral lawas "violence breeds violence" byseeing its consequences acted outin every version of the moral law.

These are proofs as cogent aslaboratory tests and not muchdifferent from them. Iron melts ata certain degree of heat. A saintloves even his enemies. Both aretruths of experience.

It is only when the whole con­cept of a Sacred Order is con­tested by scientific thinking thatthese profound philosophicaltruths come to be examined. Inall previons ages, men lived' bysome kind of faith which tran­scended ordinary material exis­tence. In the last 300 years, firstin the Christian West and nowincreasingly all -over the world,men are being told that there isno transcendent order and hu­man destiny is confined to plan­etary existence. The gods havegone, as dramatically as the tal­low candle or the stage coach.

Christians; however, have livedwith these arguments for morethan -two centuries. They havebeen compelled to think in termsof science's achievements and itspretensions. They ~ould not ad­vance any old argument for thereality of religious truth. Theyhave had to to take up with greatprecision the immense challengewhich scientific thought presents.It is the results of this effort andpreoccupation which they cannow offer to share with otherworld religions as the scientificorder spreads to the wholeplanet.

Scientific Truthsby Experience

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Capuchins Mark100th Anniversary

PITTSBURGH (NC)-The 350priests and Brothers of the Cap­uchin Order's province of St.Augustine, headquartered here,are celebrating the province's100th anniversary.

Bishop Vincent M. Leonard ofPittsburgh and Auxiliary BishopJoseph L. Howze of Natchez­Jackson, Miss., one of the twoblack bishops in the UnitedStates, will participate in thecelebration.

The province is one of fiveCapuchin provinces in the UnitedStates. The order also has a vice­province in California. Capuchinsof the Pittsburgh province workin Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland,West Virginia, ~\1issouri, Kansas,Colorado, the District of Colum­bia, Puerto Rico and PARUA­New Guinea.

Among other activities areparish work, youth counseling,teaching, retreats, and chaplain­cies of hospitals, colleges, inil­itary bases and other institutions.

Christians were the first rt;ligious society to take thefull impact of modern science and to learn to challenge theclaim made on its behalf-that it proves everything increation to be explicable in purely material terms. Belief inGod or a Supreme Being orin "the Way of Heaven" orthe Moral Order is 'simply ahang-over from more primi­tive and childish stages of his­tory. The age of Reason takesover from the age of Faith, firstamong Christian nations but, as

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science and technology advance,in Buddhist, Hindu or Confuciansocieties as well.

But .Christian thinkers havemanaged to show that the con­cept of "the Good" cannot bereduced to pure matehalismwithout eliminating it altogether.If we love our neighbor simplybecause our genes makes us doso, our neighbor may be luckybut we are not "good" in themoral sense. Yet goodness is afact of our experience. Wherethen does it corne from? To this,materialism has no answer.

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The same philosophic defenseof religious insights can be madefrom the side of truth. Some sci­entists and some secular phil­osophies have argued that theonly truth we can know is thetruth of statements which can berigorously tested by scientificmeasurement. vVe can say, withEinstein, that energy equals mat­ter multiplied by the speed oflight squared because every testand measurement bears this out.But God cannot be put in a lab­oratory or a test tube and so wecan say nothin'g "true" aboutHim. He is just a preference or,to use a phrase once popular inacademic circles, a "hurrah noise"

16 THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., Nov. 8, 1973

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by Judeans to preach Yahweh inSamaria prior to the fall of theSouthern Kingdom in 587 B.C.and the exile of Babylon.

The exiles from the Northern.Kingdom never return~d butthose of the Southern Kingdomdid in 538 B.C: and one of the

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his petite sister, Kathleen, age. 3, worried me. I knew she

couldn't reach the altar and pre­sumed she was afraid of fire.

The mis-match, however,turned into a beautiful experi­ence for all concerned. I lit thecandle for Kathy, took her by thehand and led the girl and herbrother over to the tree. Ourcapacity congregation watchedsilently, intently, no doubt con­cerned more about the successfuloutcome of that precarious tripthan the meaning of the candleceremony.

AdventWe introduced this extremely

simple, ,but powerfully effectivesymbolic gesture at the beginingof Advent during the 5:15 Satur­day and 8:30, 9:45 and 11:15 Sun­day Masses. Grades 1-4 suppliedour "candle bearers" on the firstSunday, with each class takingone service. Grades 5-8 fulfilleda similar function on the second,

, high school pupils, the third, andreturning college students, thelast.

The boys and girls, young menand women came equally from

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SAMARITAN: In .contemporary Israel, this Samaritanma,n wears a distigctiye hat, marking, him .as an ,elder inthe small remnant of wh~twas a prominent group. NCPhoto.

YahwehThe new population, probably

from eastern Mesopotamia,brought their own goods withthem, but interestingly enoughaccepted Yahweh when intro­duced to the Hebrew religion bythe few surviving Israelites.There were' even some efforts

I became very nervous duringthe presentation of gifts at ourSaturday night Mass of anticipa­tion on the Fourth Sunday ofAdvent last year. Supposedlytwo college students were to car­ry candles to the altar, lightthem, and then bear theseburning symbols to a triangular

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.,Eddie Verdi offered no prob­

lem. Age 9, fourth grader, newaltar boy - this lad certainlycould pandie the candle bit. But

--JAdvent "tree" located at the side.However, unknown to me, therehad been a communication mix­up and, instead, the usherspressed into service children of afamily previously prepared totake part ill the "offertory" pro­cession.

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Wnen Jesus chose a Samaritanas a:l example of the one whowas the neighbor to the man whofell among thieves on'the road toJericho (Lk. 10:33f) he struck aresponsive chord in his listeners.

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Omri, and particularly his son,King Ahab, converted the hillinto a truly magnificent royalcapital. The Northern Kingdomwas wealthier- than its southernneighbor, Judah, both in naturalresources and because of thepresence of commercially profit­able caravan routes.

The prophet Amos, who wentnorth to prophecy to the res­idents of Israel, had little goodto Bay about Samaria and its res­idents. He criticized its citizensfor their oppression of the poor,their religious hypocrisy and. Bytheir blatant materialism. Anidea of the opulence of this royalcity can be gleaned from theprophet's tirade against excessiveluxury (Amos 4:13-15) in whichhe refers to houses of ivory andebony.

Amos' prediction of the ven­geance of Yahweh for the sinsof Samaria came to pass witt! the.capture of the city by the, AB­'syrians in 721 B.C. and the de- .portation of 27,290 inhabitants(2 Kings 17). The Assyrians notonly deported captured peoples,but also repopulated their landswith deportees from other areas.This was the pattern follo~ed inSar:la:;ia and the Northern King­dom.

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that what happened at homemost influenced 'my own faith,My parents had such a .respectfor other people. They respondedgenerously to neighbors or evenstrangers in need. My motherwent to daily Mass and it wasobvious to all of us that she drewher strength from' that. Actuallymy parents· never gave us ser­mons or religious lessons, but weknew ·their lives centered ontheir relation with God."

Faith1 found that my own experi­

ence as a child confirmed their.impressions. My experience asa religious educator over the To the Jews of Jesus' time thepast 15 years even more strong- Samaritans were the most de­Iy suggests to me that what mat- tested group of people in thetel's most in the growth of faith Near East. The reason for thein the young is normally the mutual hatred was religious, notquality of family Iifc,'they expe- pol.itical. Unfortunately there isrience. Faith normally is nur- no hate like religious hate.tured or stunted primarily at The causes of the alienationhome. It is not so much a matter dated back to the time of theof parents teaching their childrel) exile in Babylonia and before.Catholic doctrines or preaching Samc.ria, the source of the namesermons. Rather, as Jerri and Samaritan, is a hill in that sec­Mary-Ann suggest" what really tion of Palestine between Jeru­influences the faith, moral salem and Galilee. According to .sense, and spirituality of the 1 Kir,gs 16:25 it was owned by ayoung is the way their parents man named Sh~mer. When Omri,face day-to,day living. the sixth k£ng of the Northern

There is a long tradition in the Kingdom, of Israel, decided toChurch of referring to the fam- build a new capital cit>' hei1Y'oa? the. ec;c1esiola,. the.. Iittl.~ chose this hill, purchased it fromChurch. This is not meant in the·' Shemer· and named. it after thesense that the home should be former owner ... hence Samaria.filled with candles and holy pic- - The reasons for Omri's choice

Turn to Page .Eighteen are not difficult to discern.Father John L. McKenzie in his"Dictionary of the Bible" de­scribes the site as "agreeable anddefensible. It occupies the topof a hill which is steep. 011 allsides offering a goodview ofthe Mediterl'anean and expOsureto sea breezes."

Excessive Luxury

I told her, "this is about as realas you're going to get!"

And it's true; family life isreal life. Much of this world's liv­ing takes place in famflies-fam­ilies of all types and descriptions,Each one is unique, a sort ofclosed circle.

Family Influence, Taken together, the influenceof the family is breathtaking.Everybody springs from somekind of family, making it thevery cornerstore of society. Allin all, families are 'an awesomefact of "real life."

Many of us blessed with hap-. py families tend to take things

for granted:-We get bogged downin the nitty-gritty of daily ~ur­

vival, the tumult and the shout­ing - the getting-to-Mass epi­sodes, naps, housework, home­

'work, committee meetings. Some­times family life seems to be justgetting things done, anc~ it takessome small thing to make us re­alize that this is real life.

Sometimes the small thingthat makes us sit up and takenotice is funny. Like the day' aneighbor told me, that her son,an only child, said he liked to'visit us because "they are a realfamily with lots of kinds and ajunk drawer." Success!

Sometimes it is sad. A seventhgrade friend told my daughterwistfully, "You're lucky to havea mother who gets up and cooks

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'Where the Action Is

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FR. CARL J.

PFEIFER, S.J.

Family Life and Religious ,EducationI recently asked two friends­

both parents-what they felt hadbeen the biggest influence ontheir faith as they were growingup. Jerri responded immediately,"My family." Then I asked aboutreligious education classes. Shesaid she did not have any reg­ular catechism classes as a child,except for a couple of weeks be­fore first confession and commu­nion in second grade, and con­firmation several years later.

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Jerri added that she ,feltstrongly that it was af home thatchildren really learn what is mostimportant in life. They sharewith the family such bascic expe­riences as forgiveness, joy, death,concern for others, sharing, theplace of God in life. In her opin­Ion family living involved thechild with the very same themesexplored in religious educationclasses, but in a more immedi­ately meaningful manner,

Mary Ann hesitated a bit beforeanswering my question. She hadattended parochial-school for alleight 'grades. ''I'd have to say

It was one of those Sundaymornings any parent would rec­ognize. We were strainirig towardthe zero hour-that last possible'minute when we could leave forMass and still beat the priest upthe aisle. '

One lad had just announcedthat he was going to churchbarefooted because "those wom­en" (his sisters) had hidden hisshoes again when they cleanedhis room. His shoes, it seemed,were supposed to be kept on hispillow because then he could findthem "even on dark' days." Shoeslocated (on their shelf), weturned, our hand to subduingthree-year-old Ann who was re­fusing to be crammed into adress.

Shoed and dressed, we finallywere ready to take off. My 18­year-old daughter turned' to meand sighed, "How do you sup­posed real life families handlegetting to Mass?"

I couldn't help laughing as Ishoved people out the door."You better believe it, honey,"

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1,500 men, women and childrenparticipated in a "Walk for Life"organized here in Minnesota bya committee of church andschool representatives of the St.

. Cloud area. On the grounds ofthe St. Cloud Hospital, the half­way point of the walk, Gene S.

• Bakke, the hospital's executivevice-president, told the demon­strators that the scale of valuesin the United States has beenturned "upside down" to thepoint where "comfort and con­venience takes precedence over"life itself."

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A SamaritanContinued from Page Sixteen

first things attempted upon theirreturn to Jerusalem was to re­build the Temple that had beendestroyed by the Babylonians.

The Samaritans wanted to par­ticipate in the project but wererefused. The reason is not clearbut it probably was rooted in the'resentment that still persistedover the Northern Kingdom's se­cession from the united Kingdomof David and Solomen.

Reject ProphetsThe establishment by the

Northern Kingdom of rivalshrines to Yahyveh at Bethel andDan and a general tendencyamong Judeans to consider theirnorthern brothers as heretics anddeviationists all contributed tothe rebuff. The mixed bloodlines of the Samaritans wereprobably also a factor.

In any event the Samaritansdidn't take the rebuff quietly.Through various means theyharassed the building of the Tem­ple and succeeded in delaying itseveral times. But to no avail.

Finally, sometime before therevolt of Judas Maccabeus thesplit became complete and theSamaritans built their own Tem­ple to Yahweh atop Mount Gel'­aziril. The Samaritan scripturesinclude only the first five booksof the Old Testament, the Penta­teuch or Torah. None of theprophets are accepted.

The depth of the feeling thatremained in Jesus' time is re­flected by the attempt to insultHim by calling Him a Samaritanin John 8:48. In Lu~e 9:52 aSamadtan village refuses hospi­tality to Jesus and His discipleson their way to Jerusalem fromGalilee.

When Jesus chose a Samaritanfor the hero of His story on lov­ing your neighbor His listenersknew instantly what He meant... your neighbor is not just you.friend, but your enemy as well.It is an interesting postscriptthat Samaria was the first placeoutside of Judea where the Gas-

, pel was preached. Philip the dea­con fled Jerusalem after the mar­tyrdom of Stephen (Acts 8:4ff)and preached in Samaria wherehe won' many converts.

choir and congregation sang aresounding "Alleluia, alleluia"and the church lights wereswitched back on.

This type of service contrib­uted in many ways to the Ad­vent-Christmas celebration atHoly. Family. It involved 34 indi­viduals more intimately in theliturgy, a significant enoughplus alone to justify the cer­emony. It also stirred, the inter­est of other worshippers andg~ve these Masses a fresh, dif­ferent, but the same quality.Above alI, however, it inchedthose present more deply intothe mystery of Christ.

Symbols do that. They reveal,but hide; they draw us closer toan invisible reality, while caus­ing us to understand that theface to face fullness is yet tocome; they enable us to meet, totouch Jesus in faith, yet don'tallow us to embrace or hold onto Him.

Publish Moral GuideFor French Forces

PARIS (NC) - The use ofarmed force, including nuclearweapons, was defended as a les­ser evil in a document publishedat the request of the FrenchCatholic bishop in charge of mil­itary chaplains. The document,however, expresses tolerance forthe views of those who favornonviolence.

Published in the October issueof the influential :iemiofficialquarterly Review of National De­fense, the 20-page document,"Reflections on Defense," wasdrawn up by a national studygroup of Christian military. of­ficers set up at the request ofBishop Gabriel Vanel, Frenchmilitary vicar.

In a preface, Bishop Vanel de­scribed the document as "neitheran official declaration, nor acompleted and indisputable bodyof doctrine."

He described it also as "abafiis for dialo~ue."

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ADVEN1.': "I lit the candle for Kathy, took her by thehand and led the girl and her brother over to the tree."Father Champlin helps Kathleen Verdi, 3, light an Adventtree in his parish in Fulton, N. Y.

gone maudlin, or it could havebecome artificialIy preachy. ButMr. Armstrong never puts a foot,or a word, wrong.. There are heart-breaking bits,as when Mary, finding a scarf ofher mother's insists that hermother must still be somewherein the house, or as when thesame child, volunteering to helpher father witb preparations fordiriner, sets the table with theaccustomed five places.

Everything here fits beautiful­ly together and works powerfulIyon the reader. One shares in theunbearable sorrow, and also inits lifting as faith asserts itselfand the reality of love strongerthan death is grasped. A remark­able hqok, highly recommendedfor reading and giving.

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the local Catholic and the areapublic schools-a happy blen:ling

,to insure that all facets of theparish's youth were represented.

The tree itself was a plain, yethandsome, wooden triangle withindentations for four candles oneach arm and a place forthe Christ candle on top. As theSundays progressed first two,then four, next six, finally eighttapers were lighted.

, Sign ServiceThis Advent ceremony cul­

minated on Christmas Eve at'thepacked 7 P.M. Mass (isn't it re­markable how instantly popularthat innovation became?) andduring Midnight Mass. At each,we turned off alI church lightsbefore the gospel, had altar boyshold candles at either side of thelectern, proclaimed the Nativitygood news, while the choirhummed background music, then ,waited as a parishioner carriedthe flickering Christ taper fromthe rear up the main aisle to thetree now situated in the centerof the sanctuary.

As soon as the candle had beenplaced at the tip of our tree, the

Now, in the 1970s, Wall Streethas instituted some reforms.Whether they will go far enoughand be faithfully maintained re­mains to be seen. Mr. Brooks be­lieves that in any case the daysof Wall Street are numbered.

Mechanization (e.g., tradinnover closed-circuit television)and the abolition of stock certif­icates (with entries in computermemory units as a substitute)will spell the doom of WallStreet as it has functioned, andmisfunctioned, until now.

Much technical material fig­ures in this book, but Mr. Brookshas brought it well within thereach of the non-expert. He Iqysbare mysteries, or mere mysti­fications, which have dazzledand victimized countless Amer­icans, as credulous as they weregreedy. He anatomizes intricateinstitutions and analyzes individ­ual careers with a piercing, pun­gent pen.

Troubled WatersAn altog~ther different, and in­

tensely personal, book is ThroughTroubled Waters by William H.Armstrong (Harper & Row, 49E. 33rd St., New York, N.Y.10016. $3.95).

Some 20 years ago, Mr. Arm­strong's wife Martha died. Theyhad been married for 12 years,and had three children: Kip,about 8; David, not quite 7; andMarY,on the verge of her fifth ­bkthday.

Mr. Armstrong taught (as hestill does, one gathers) at KentSchool, a private school in ruralnorthwestern Connecticut. Heand his family lived on a farmwhi,ch he carved out of theland" and in a house entirelybuilt by him.

Deep Christian FaithThey were a happy, harmo­

nious unit, delighting both inhomely things and in the beau­ties of art and I'iterature. Episco­palians, they were also a trulyChristian family, alert to thedimension of reality which is notearthly, and with a deep, oper­ative Christian faith.

One November evening, Mar­tha Armstrong said goodnight toher ill husband and went off tosleep in another room. Duringthe night she returned, to com­plain of some throat trouble. Herhusband urged her to call thedoctor. She did, The doctor, afterseeing her, advised that she goto the school infirmary. At theinfirmary she suddenly died,

Mr. Armstrong, had to breakthis terrible news to his children,and after that to see themthrough the days, weeks, monthsof adjustment to a different and,in a way, diminished sort of ex­istence.

He tells us how he did so. Hewas, it is plain, kind and patient,ingenious and industrious. Butmost of all he was profoundlyChristian.

Remarkable, BookHe was Christian in his accept­

ance of his loss, and Christian inwhat he told his children and inthe solace and strength he gavethem.

This book could easily have

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JOHN S.

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There is some integrity, but itseems not to be in plentiful sup­ply. Thus, a number of down­right dishonest practices havebeen all too prevalent, with con­sequent heavy losses to investors.

Speculativ.~ BingeAs for efficiency, have you

ever heard of "fails"? The termmeans stock certificates whichsomehow get lost, intentionallyor unintentionally. In December1968, "the fails level peaked outat an all-time bigh-$4.12 bil­lion."

Between 1968 and 1970, about100 stock exchange firms disap­peared, some though outrightliquidation, some through '(arcedmerger. Hundreds of thousandsof customer accounts were in­volved, with a great many cus­tomers unable to recover eithertheir securities or cash.

A speculative binge in the1960's was part of the trouble.There was a flood of new stockissues which, it was foolishly ex­pected, would perform spectac­ularly, and quickly enrich inves­tors. But (!lost of these so-calledglamour stocks, promoted by hot­shot brokers, proved to be gar­bage stocks, in short order,worthless.

Mutual FundsAnother feature of the .jJJ-fated

decade was the mutual fundcraze. The mutual fund's appealwas that it supposedly gave thesmall investor, for the first time,the advantage of expert adviceand fast action in the stock mar­ket. But it did not work out thatway in most instances.

Some of the investors hard hitin the go-go years were by nomeans little fellows. Mr. Brookstells the flabbergasting story ofthe Atlantic Acceptance Corpor­ation, of Canada, in the shares ofwhich millions of dollars werepoured by such institutions asthe Ford Foundation, the U. S.Steel pension fund, the MorganGuaranty Bank, Princeton Uni­versity, and large insurance com­panies. Atlantic was shown upas massively fraudulent.

Days Are NumberedWhere was the Securities and

Exchange Commission during allthis time? It was operating, butdifferently under different Pres­idents of the U.S.A. In general, itappears that the SEC was alto­gether too lenient.

In The Go-Go Years, (Weybright and Talley, 750 ThirdAve., New York, N. Y. 10017. $10), John Brooks contendsthat the 1960s in Wall Street were much like the 1920s,and that in 1970 there was a crash comparable to that of1929. This peppery booktakes one behind the scenesin Wall Street, and what onesees there must be shockingto the ordinary investor who as­sumes that integrity and effi­ciency are the rule in the stockexchange and in the renownedbrokerage houses.

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,Of MissionersBURLINGTON (NC) - A lay

missionary recently returnedfrom Chile said he is concerned"about .tbe safety of dozens ofAmerican and Canadian nuns,priests and ministers" workingamong the poor in Santiago.

Ray'mond Plankey, who reoturned three weeks ago froman II-year stint in Chile, added:"My fears are strengthened bythe fact that many were work-'ing in shanty-town parishes andcommunities in the southern partof the Chilean capital."

Tbis is where heavy fightinghas been reported between work­ers' militias and army units, fol·lowing the Sept. II military coupthat ousted Marxist PresidentSalvador Aliende and resulted inhis death.

Plankey, who himself workeduntil August in small Chris,tiancomunities in the parish of SanMiguel in one of the "callampas,"as the shanty-towns are called,said that the missionaries wouldnot abandon their 'people.

"Knowing them as I do, I cansee the nuns, priests and minis­ters taking care of the injured,helping the families in distress,trying to protect those in need.

"I say undoubtedly they mightfind themselves among the vic­tims."

There are 223 U.S. missionar­ies in Chile, including 116 nunsand two laywomen, 99 Religiouspriests, 'two diocesan priests andtbree la}"IJlen.

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for you, and things." She wastalking about what I consider my

-1fci~ily"Jho~Hliffi:')y'et' sj{lt()'didil'thave it, and she recognized theabsence.'- .

Family life is, so important ithas been dignified by a sacra­ment, and by a noteworthy ex­ample,-too. The son of God grewup in a family. God could have

,chosen any situation for thegrowing up of Jesus, yet he chosea family that had to work, cook,do dishes, earn money, gothrough year after year of "reallife." Just like us.

We could do worse than con­sider the Holy Family when weslip into the doldrums of familyliving. True, it won't change 'ourcircumstances, but it can en­hance our view on days whenthings out of. focus.

Our families, with all our upsand downs, laughter and tears­our crisis centers-are the verycore of society. Our influence islimitless. The world around us re­flects what we are. Our healthand very survival are worth largeamount of consideration, workand prayer.

Besides, I like families. Why,some of my best friends belongto one.

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They are Sisters Claudia Car­len, I.H.M., of, Detroit .andFrances Tobin, R.S.C.J., of SanAntonio, Tex.

Sister Claudia is h~ad libra­rian at the seminary, transferring

,from a similar post at MarygroveCollege, Detroit. She also is ed·itor of the index volume of the"New Catholic Ency'cIopedia."

Sister Frances will be directorof field education in the pastoralformation department at theseminary. She is the first nunto graduate with a master's ofdivinity degree from AndoverNewton Theological School,Newton Center, Mass.

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IF:amily Life and Religious I:duca~ionily circle is also important. Real·istically it seems to me that oneof the major thrusts needed inreligious education today is thedevelopment of creative andmeaningful links between family'and other influences within theChurch. The parish worship andformal religious education pro·grams need to be more realisti­cally related to the day·to-day

'living of families. Priest,· teach­, er,and parents need -to' discoverurvia.bler'w'liys' 'ilf wbriti!l'g£fOge~Rer

to build up the whole:community.

Fr. Collins Retire!;WASHINGTON (NC)-'Sulpi­

dan Father Joseph B. Collins, amajor figure in the Americancaitechetical movement, has reotired after 31 years with tae Na­tional Genter for Religious Ed­uc:ation-Confraternity of Chris­tian Doctrine. The 73-year oldpriest was director of the na­tional center from 1942 to 1H68when he became assistant dirlec­tor and theological andcat!,!chet­ical specialist. He will continueto serve as a special'consultorto the center.

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tm:es. Still less does it mean thatfamily life should resemble mo­nastic or religious life. It simplymeans that it is at home that the

•Christian/faith finds the Soil 'inwhich it grows most naturally.

"SKID ROW" HOMIEFOR MEN: Msgr. Anthony J.O'Keill, right, talks with Brother Mark, directo~ of St.John's Hospice for Men in Philagelphia. The home, whichopened 10 years ago, provides meals, and cH)thing for tran­sients and needy famiies. The hospice is lVIsgr. 0' Neill'sbrainchild!. NC Photo.

Normally the family, tM littleChurch, exists in relationship tothe broader Church community.'The locar Church with its S~.mday

. worship, its· form'ai '·religio~'s ed­ucation pr9grams, and its in­volvement in contemporary is­sues complements family life.The faith of the young <)~m begreatly influenced by the broaderadult Christian community ofwhich each family is a part.

Therefore, while the qualityof family life is normall)' the,most significant factor in {he re­ligious education of tqe young,the influen'ce of other contactswith Christans outside the f8lm·

Moral Blackmail,

But what is intolerable is forthese itinerant theological Marx-,ists to claim that they are speak·'ing for the !'oppressed" of theworld. No one elected themspokesmen. There is no reason tothink that their own experience,is typical of their fellow citizens:,and much reason to think thatmost of the "oppresseo" are notMarxists at all.

To appeal to one's representa­tive status as a'theological cre·dential is merely to admit that

'one is not. sure whether 'one'stheolpgy is good enough to makeit on its own. For some of the"liberatiQn" types such a fear iscertainly valid. If they didn'tengage"in moral blackmail theywouldn't be good enough to keepgetting invited to the transatlan·tic meetings they disrupt.

It is a useful tactic, one sup­pose·s. But it is hardly fair tothose people for whom the itin­erant disrupterse claim to speak.The theologians might make amuch more important contribu­tion if they stopped going tomeetings, put aside their vulgarMarxist textbooks (and spare usany more quotes from Miucuse,please), and actually made a se­rious, non-ideological study oftheir countries.

But that would be work..Moralblackmail is much easier.. '

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pressive when its proponentsgain power. Those who are cap­tilred by the Marxist vision areforced to conclude that those.who wish to maintain their ownpersonal freedom are immoral;therefore they must either beeliminated or forced to be vir­tuous-for thei; own good, ofcourse.

There is currently a romancebetween some Latin American.theologians and Marxism. 'Theso-called "th'eology of liberation"is usually a combination of sec- ,ond-rate theology, fi'fth-rate eco­nomics, and what real Marxistscall "vulgar Marxism." It is anunimpressive hodgepodge, but itenables 'some Latin churchmento think that they are part of the"re\'olution." Whether, the disas­trous effects of religious flirta­tion with Marxist ideology inChile will change their mindsremains to be seen: I

If the Latins want to peddlethis inadequate, theology, it istheir affair. After several cen­turies of messing up the Churchin Latin America, I suppose theyhave the right to try to do some­thing to pretend to be importantto the rest of the world. And iftheir strategy of moral blackmailat internationa,l meetings is suc-

,cessfu! with_'guilt-l'idden" North-. Atlantic theologians; vthen . 'that

is the fault of. those who give into that moral blackmaiL In theUnited States we have learnedthrough painful experience tha tsuch surrender only delays thedevelopment of mutual respect.Perhaps the Europeans will learnthis eventually.

Latin AmericanLiberation'

By

REV.

ANDREW M.

'GREELEY

Police State

It would be a mistake to un­derestimate the power of theMarxist vision. Every Marxistgovernment that has everachieved power (and the West­ern European social democraticpolitical parties are hardly Marx­ist in any meaniJ:lgful way) turnsinto a repressive police state,but the elegance and the in­sights of the Marxist analysisseem to have perennial appeal,particularly' for intellectuals. Andit is precisely this elegance andinsight that makes' Marxism op-

, . The collapse of Chilean democracy is a monumentaltragedy. After establishing one of the longest traditions ofpeaceful, political processes in Latin America the ChUeanpeople now find themselves~overned by an unimaginativeand quite possibly repressivemilitary th/at shows no s-ignof wanting a return todemocracy. What's more, de­spite' sympathy for a socialistgovernment in the world press,it appears from reports on thescene that the vast majority of

the people of Chile are reluctant:Iy accepting the new governmentas the only alternative to chaos.

The media repeated through­out the revolutionary crisis thatAllende was the first democrat­ically elected Mar,xist leader inSouth America: What they usu­ally did not say was that he wasa minority president who carriedonly 37 per cent of the popularvote, a mere percentage pointmore than the right-wing candi­date.· The Christian Democrats-,Chile's ,center party-threw their,~Uppof't, to. All~t:tde.,,~I)~n'i~hepromised to respect the country'sconstitutional processes. Whenhe reneged on that promise theChristian Democrats withdrewtheir support, causing the insta­bility that ended in revolution.

Once Allende had power Chil­ean democracy was finished;Chile would have a police statedictatorship; The only questionwas whether it would be of the.right or the left. You cannot im­pose an ideoJogical Marxist so·ciety on a people the majorityof, whom do not want it-not

,without throwing the democraticprocesses out the window. Rad-ical ,Marxism and representativepolitical democracy have coex·isted nowhere very long. Firmlyconvinced that they are morallyand intellectually right, Marxistideologues must force the people 'to . "correct" behavior whetherthey want to engage in thatbehavior or noL

,Criticizes'Theology 'of

StagesChildhood is ignorant, boy­

! hood' is light-headed, youth isrash and old age is ill-humored.

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member consultative body forthe USCC and NCCB, which iscomposed of laity, clergy, Reli­gious and bishops.

Bishop Rausch cited three rea­sons for the decision to suspendefforts to create a National Pas­toral Council in this country:

-"First, the lack of evidence,after three years of study anddiscussion, Of significant publicsupport for the idea.

-"Second, the position of theVatican's Congregation for theClergy, which has expressed theview that national pastoral coun­cils would not be opportunestructures in the Church at thepresent time.

-"Third, the fact that othernational episcopal conferenceswhich have studied the matterhave arrived independently at theconclusion1hat national pastoralcouncils are not practicablenow."

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JEFl'ERSON CITY (NC)-Theconstitutionality of Missouri'santi-obscenity law has been up·held by the Mussouri SupremeCourt here in a case involvingthe owners of a bookstore.

The defendants in the case,Dick and Edna Bird, owners ofReaders Book Service in Spring­field, Mo., claimed that two sec­tions of the state's anti-obscenitylaw were unconstitutional.

The couple argued that theGreene County Circuit Court didnot have the evidence to labelmaterial sold in their store "ob·scene," and that the materialswere not obscene.

The Missouri State Supreme. Court held that the Missourilaws "ate constitutional and arenot overbroad in their provi­sions" and that they comply withthe recent U. S. SupremeCourt decision on obscenity.

The bo.okstore owners had ap·pealed their case from GreeneCounty Circuit Court which heldthat publications taken from thestore were obscene and "utterlywithout any redeeming socialvalue ."

The Missouri Supreme Courtupheld the lower court's judge­ment, noting that t~e lower courtemployed standards in confor­mity with the U. S. SupremeCourt.

a lack of funds for this purpose."-The NCCB Administrativ'e

Committee decided "to suspend,at least for now, efforts to bringa National Pastoral Council intobeing," and to focus its effortson the parish and diocesan lev­els.

-In conjunction with this theAdministrative Committee ap-

. proved NCCB·USCC cooperationwith a workshop for officers ofdiocesan pastoral councils, to beheld Dec. 3-5 in Parma, Ohio.

The committee decisions, Bish­op Rausch said, came in responseto several proposals ·by the U. S.bishops' Advisory Council, a 60-

Condemn MiiitaryCoup in Chile

PARIS (NC)-A French bishopand a Catholic committee herehave condemned the military

. coup in Chile as an unjustifiedtakeover of a legitimate govern­ment.

The criticism of the overthrowof the government of SalvadorAllende came in separate state­ments from Auxiliary BishopAlfred Ancel of Lyons and theCatholic Committee AgainstHunger and for Developmentwhich is under the patronage ofthe French bishops.

In a statement published inParis Catholic daily La Croix,Bishop Ancel said: "In a countrythat has preserved freedom ofvoting, a revolutionary insurrec­tion cannot be legitimate.

"But even if th~ insurrectionwas legitimate, it had to behumane. But, as the days pass,one truly has the impression thatit has been savage."

WASHINGTON (NC) - Plansfor a proposed National PastoralCouncil, a national consultativebody for the U. S. bishops, havebeen suspended for the foresee­able future, according to BishopJames S. Rausch, general s ecre­tary of the National Conferenceof Catholic Bishops (NCCB) andU. S. Catholic Conference(USCC). . .. ..

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Bishop Rausch said the U. S.bishops' national offices andcommittees will focus their at­tention instead on other aspectsof the pastoral council move­ment.

He announced four specific de·velopments in the NCCB-USCCrelated to pastoral councils:

-The NCCB-USCC Committeeon Research, Plans and Programshas approved in principle a pro­posal to develop a training pro­gram for members of parish anddiocesan' pastoral councils.

-The same committee, how­ever, rejected a proposal to estab­lish a new NCCB staff office onshared responsibility "because of

Halt Plans for National Pastoral Council

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HAVE LEADING ROLES IN CONNOLLY HIGH PLAY: Featured in the play "Stalag17" that will be presented on Saturday arid Sunday nights, Nov. 10 and 11 in the BishopConnolly High School Auditorium, Fall River, are: Russell Abisla, John Hetzler, Paul Biello,Bill Amberg and Marc Mendonca.

IN THE DIOCESE

Attleboro in the Division I pen­nant 'chase. The Big Green roseto the occasion last Saturday toknock Attleboro from the ranksof the undefeated and take oversole possession of first placewith a thrilling 21-8 Victory'. Awin Saturday will clinch thetitle.

Dartmouth appears well on theway to both the league title andan unbeaten season. It wouldtake a minor miracle for the un­dermanned Feehan Shamrock todefeat the Indians, althoughstranger things have happenedin schoolboy football. Dartmouthis at Fairhaven in its final gameof the. Fall Thanksgiving morn­ing in what should be an easywin.

go to the vicoory, if Case can re­main unbeaten a possible postseason State championship gamecould be in the offing and re­venge for last year's defeat.

A year ago ~oach Joe Santo'sCardinals lost the circuit titleto Wareham when the Vikingswon 19-0 on the latt~r's hometerritory. Case hopes to use thehome crowd and field to advan­tage Saturday.

Whenever anyone speaks aboutthis year's Case 'grid corps theword aggressive comes into theconversation. The club is ex­tremely aggressive in all phasesof the game almost to the pointof intimidating opponents. Thereis no doubt that Case can anddoes hit, but rest assured theVikings will not be intimidated.

By PETER J. BARTEKNorton High Coach

SCHOOLBOY SPORTS

In the only other Division IIIgames slated for Saturday NewBedford Vocational is at Norton.The Artisans lost a 32-16 deci­sion to Stang last week and Nor­ton was edged by Dennis­Yarmouth 12-6.

Two Division II games are onSaturday's docket with Dennis­Yarmouth at Seekonk and Fair·haven in Dartmouth to meetStang.

Three Division I games matchBarnstable at Taunton, Msgr.Coyle-Bishop Cassidy at Somer­set and Dartmouth at BishopFeehan in Attleboro.

Coach Carlin Lynch's Dart­mouth Indians enter their finalleague game of the campaignwith a full game advantage over

Division III ~~Super Bowl"

Matches Case and Wareham

Case is a well balanced aggre- ~ontain for a full afternoon.gation. While n,pt extremely· However, W~reham. is not aexplosive on offense, the Car- '. one.man shoW. Quar.terback Joedinals can score. Led by sen. Vasconcelos who directs theior halfback K~vin Walmsley triple option very well can alsowho is complented well by throw long accurately. His fa­speedster Gary Medeiros, the vorite receiver is split end GeraldSwansea eleven can generate a Barrows who must be watchedstrong running game. But, if Case closely. When the outside run­is to win Saturday its defense ning game is stacked up, Waynewill be the key. Mendes is very capable \of

On the other hand, Wareham breaking a long gainer up thealthough stymied. by Stang, is middle.one of the most prolific scoring B k . th' h fac s receive elr s are 0machines in the area. The Vikings

notoriety, but no back can doscore with startling quicknessfrom anywhere on the gridiron. the job without the hard working

and under publicized linemen.When one !;iees Wareham in ac- Some of the area's best will coI­tion he is' impressed most by itsexplosive offense. Iide ~aturclay in Swansea,.

Elusive running back Tom . Ralph Pina, a poteri~ial ~II.Souto rates among the best in state candidate, is worth watch­the Commonwealth. There is no ing at a tackle for Wareham.doubt this boy is college mate- Also keep an eye on Wareham'srial. He has good size, is quick Ron Oliver and Bennie Gomes.and runs to daylight as well as On the other side of the line, bigany schoolboy who has played Bill. Caron and Charles Ashleyin the area in years. The talented lead the Case charge at tacklejunior is virtually impossible to and guard respectively.

Undefeated Case High of Swansea will host WarehamSaturday in the Southeastern Massachusetts Conference'sDivision III "super bowl". Case, one of only two undefeatedfootball teams within the confines of diocesan territoriallimits, (Dartmouth is theother), will attempt to wres­tle the coveted circuit titleaway from the defendingchampion Vikings. However,the Cardinals will have to playat their best to achieve that end.

The two divisional powers en­ter the fray with identical 4-0loop records, although Warehamis 6-1 over-all. The JIm Lanagancoached Vikings dropped a 14-13decision to Bishop Stang Highof Dartmouth two weeks ago inan interdivisional game. Ware­ham was idle last Saturday.

Case tuned up for the encoun­ter with a well. earned 7-6 vic­tory over rival Seekonk Satur­day last. If motivation is neededfor this week's game Case hasplenty. The divisional crown will

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