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An Anchor of the Soul, Sure and Firm-St. Paul
Pick Fa II RiveriteProvince Director
Mrs. Michael J. McMahon, firstvice-president and treasurer ofthe Diocesan Council of CatholicWomen, is the first woman fromthe Fall River diocese to benamed a province director for theNational Council of CatholicWomen (NCCW). She will headthe Boston province of the organization for a two-year term, representing the dioceses of Springfield, Worcester, Manchester,Portland and Burlington as wellas Fall River.
The new province director attended the first meeting of thenewly formed NCCW executivecommittee, held earlier thismonth in Detroit. The committee reaffirmed the stand of itsnational convention, held last October, against the Equal RightsAmendment, and restated its po·sition on the right to life of everyhuman being from conception tothe time of natural death.
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so that by leading an exemplaryapostolic life they become, as itwere, a saving leaven in the human community.
"Since, therefore, the Catholicschool can be such an aid to thefulfillment of the mission of thePeople of God and to the fostering of the dialogue between theChurch and mankind, to the benefit of both, it retains even in ourpresent circumstances the utmostimportance.
"Consequently this sacredsynod proclaims anew what hasalready been taught in severaldocuments of the magisterium,namely: the right of the Churchfreely to establish and to con-
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The Catho.ic high schools inthe Fall River Diocese will holdplacement examinations on Saturday, Feb. 9 at 8:30 in themorning.
Any and all students wishingto study in one of these schoolsshould prese::lt themselves to thehigh school of their choice forthe four·hour session.
There is no need to bring anyrecords of any kind; nor are parents expected to accompanytheir children. All informationas to schedules, programs, scholarship aid, etc. will be madeavailable at this time.
A three-dollar fee will beasked of each student for theexamination·placement session.
The schools participating inthis diocesan-wide program are:
Fall .River: Bishop Connolly,Bishop Gerrard, Sacred Hearts.
New Bedford: Holy Family, St.Anthony, Bishop Stang.
Taunton: Coyle-Cassidy.Attleboro: Bishop Feehan.
sonalities, and finally to orderthe whole of human culture tothe news of salvation so thatthe knowledge the students gradually acquire of the world, lifeand man is illumined by faith.
"So indeed the Catholic school,while it ,is open, as it must be,to the situation of the contemporary world, leads its students topromote efficaciously the goodof the earthly city and also prepares them for service in thespread 9f the Kingdom of God,
CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLSENTRANCE EXAM
Saturday, Feb. 98:30 A.M.
Why Catholic Schools ?Reasons Are Clear!
The establishment of Catholicschools throughout the UnitedStates was an an"wer to a veryclear directive of the Council ofBaltimore. However, 'it is also thepractical application of theChurch's doctrinal beliefs of faith,its deepening and propagation; itsexplanation and application onthe contemporary scene.
The practical aspects of theChurch's teaching role is translated in the Diocese of Fall Riverin the following statistics:
Elementary education: 34schools serving 9,450 studentswith 366 teachers of whom are212 Religious women, one maleReligious, 111 laywomen and 42laymen.
Secondary education: 8 schoolsserving 3,973 youths with 246teachers of which are 91 Religious women, 36 Religious men,95 laymen and 24 laywomen.
Why all this? The answer isgiven to us in the Second Vatican Council's "Declaration onChristian Education" proclaimedby Pope Paul VI on Oct. 28, 1965:
"In fulfilling its educationalrole, the 'Church, eager to employall suitable aids, is concernedespecially about those which areher very own.... Among all educational instruments the schoolhas a special importance . . .
"The influence of the Churchin the field of education is shownin a special manner by the Catholic schools. No less than otherschools does the Catholic schoolpursue cultural goals and the human formation of youth.
"But its proper function is tocreate for the school communitya special atmosphere animatedby the Gospel spirit of freedomand charity, to help youth growaccording to the new creaturesthey were made through Baptismas they develop their own per-
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Insisting on the need for personal prayer, Pope Paul said:"A simple investigation into thereligious habits of the peopleof our time would document sadly for us the total, or almost total, absence of personal prayerby most people, who are averseto and estranged now by everyexpression of interior religiousness."
The Pope told his visitors thatthere are those "who maintainthat modern man is thus, andthat thus he must be, without
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tions-arts. It will also accommodate the growing interest in dramatics at the 1,600-studentcollege.
The theater is designed to double as an auditorium for academ·ic lectures and seminars. Thecushioned seats are fitted withhide-away writing arms that canbe swung into position for notetaking.
The theater is equipped witha centralized sound-and-Iightingcontrol system and projectionbooth. A motorized movie screen
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teacher of faith in the diocese.
In an age when there is somuch questioning of values andsearching for them, the Catholicnewspaper has the responsibilityof presenting in unmistakableterms what is the faith, what isthe moral standard that must beupheld, and it gives, too, thestrength of example in present·ing instances of what is beingdone throughout a diocese andthe world.
Students of modern communications media are coming to theconclusion that no matter howmuch people look at televisionand despite its evident importance, there is also a growinginterest in radio and the printedword. What is put in print bearsa stamp of authenticity and canbe read and re-read with its lineof reasoning examined moreclosely. And it can be given toothers to read.
Pope Stre!iSeS Personal PrayerVAnCAN CITY (NC) - Moc;l
ern man needs to cultivate thehabit of personal prayer to God,Pope Paul VI told a weekly general audience.
"We must enable ourselves totalk with Christ, and throughHim with God," the Pope said.Praising those who daily say theOur Father or a Hail Mary orother traditional Christian prayers, the Pope also stressed theneed to supplement thes,e "brief,conventional prayers," becausethey can become "easily a pure·Iy exterior act."
With workmen this week preparing for the installation of seating, Stonehill College's Hemingway Theater has passed the 90per cent completion mark.
The 265-seat workshop theateris named in honor of Philip L.Hemingway, a long-time collegebenefactor and member of theStonehill Board of Advisers. Mr.Hemingway is chairman of Hemingway Transport Inc. of NewBedford.
The new facility will enablethe college to expand its offerings in the field of communica-
Fall River, Mass., Thursday, Jan.Vol. 18, No. 5 © 1974 The Anchor
Stonehill At CompletionOf Hemingway. Theater
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Cardinal Sees PaperGrowing in Value
When the Archdiocesan Pas·toral Council of Baltimore metto discuss as its prime object ofbusiness the Arcdiocesan newspaper, the members were reminded by Lawrence Cardinal Shehanof the effect the newspaper hasthroughout the whole area. Hestressed "the growing impor·tance of the paper at the presenttime, at a time when there isbeing presented to us the wholematter of Catholic tE~aching
through the consideration of thenational catechetical directory. . . How could you get documents like this before the wholearchdiocese ... when it is so es·sential that all enter into thematter of the formation of adirectory."
This is another instance of thegrowing emphasis being placedon the place of the Catholicnewspaper in the mission of theChurch and the teaching officeof the Bishop, the authentic
UNITY SERVICE: St. Joseph's Church, Attleboro, ,was the scene of a Unity Octave Service which included clergy of various .denominations in the Attleboro area and which waspresided over by Most Rev. Joseph F. Maguire, Auxiliary Bishop of Boston., .
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NB Catholic ClubPresents Dance
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The Ushers Committee of theNew Bedford Catholic Woman'sClub presents Snowball, theirannual mid-winter dance. It willbe held this year on Saturday,Feb. 9 at the Holiday Inn onHathaway Road in New Bedford.
The gala event will begin at9:00 P.M. to the music of theVanAllen Orchestra. A continental breakfast will bring the evening to a close at 1:00 A.M.Chances are now being sold toaid the Club in their many charitable donations. Grand prizefeatures a 2-day Theatre Tourto New York for two.
The Club is looking forwardto a capacity crowd, and tkketsmay be obtained from any member of the Committee or theClub.
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personal prayer." But, he said,those who maintain this are confusing 'the terms "modern manand authentiC man."
The Pope continued: "The authentic man, the true man, andwe add, man if he is truiy modern, that is, a man who is awareof the value of his progressivecultural, social and functioningexperience, remains basically religious and essentially orientedto a serach for and a relationship with God and therefore iseager for and capl~ble of personal prayer."
Pope Paul noted that greatefforts must be made by pastorsand others working in spiritualareas to re-instill belief in andthe practice of personal prayerin the souls "of profane, irreligious and even· atheisticpeople."
as in~ernat:ionalization," whichthe Vatican favored in the past.
"Internationalization," the administration of Jerusalem by aninternational body, "has beenabandoned by the Vatican,"Pragai said, because "it wouldbring in elements that could andwould create chao:;." Mentioningthe Sov'iet Union and CommunistChina, he said that ",the Vaticanis most unkeen to bring in thesepeople."
Israel's point of view is clear;Pragai said. It is tha.t the cityof Jerusalem is the capital ofthe state of. Israel and will remain so forever' and that the cityis unified and will remain so
- forever. The government of Israel is on record that other religious interests should have"complete and totally free" ac- .cess to all religious sites, he said.
lier in January and talkeq to "anumber of Vatican officials,"said that the points of the Vat'ican definition "are importantelements in setting up a situation that would allay the fears ofothers" and allow the Israeligovernment to share the responsibility of administering theHoly Places.
The present Vatican position,he said, is def,initely the same
Criticize Refusal 'Of Visa to Cuban
WASHINGTON (NC) - TheU.S. State Departme"t wassharply criticized here by the Division for Latin America of theU.S. Catholic Conference (USCC)for refusing to allow a Cubanfilm maker to attend an awardsdinner in New York.. Father Frederick A. McGuire,director of the division, and Fa·ther J. Bryan Hehir, director ofthe USCC Division for Justiceand Peace, cosigned a letter ofprotest sent to Jack B. Kubisch,assistant secretary of state forinter-American. affairs.
In the let1!'lr,' they noted thatCuban film maker Tomas Gutierrez Alea had been denied a visato the U.S. ·to receive an awardfrom the National Society of FilmCritics. The award was voted forhis film "Memories of Underdevelopment," which is currentlybeing shown in sE~veral U.S.cities.
The letter said that the embargo against Cuba by the U.S.,and the Organization of American States (OAS); was "a totallyoutmoded and inappropriate policy whose effects' are almost entirely negative." The policy discriminates against both thosewho wish to come to the U.S.,and those who have extended invitations, the letter- said.
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Endorse StatementOn Ministry
VICKSBURG (NC)-The Anglican-Roman Catholic Consultation in the U. S. A. (ARC) hasenthusiastically . endorsed theCanterbury Statement on Ministry and Ordination, issued Dec.13 by the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission(ARCIC).
The Canterbuy Statement.....astudy document that does notrepresent the official position cifeither church-stated that rep·resentatives of both communions had agreed on "essentialmatters" of doctrine concerning'ministry and ordination in theCathoHc and Anglican churches.Many feel that the statementcould serve as an element in aneventual reunion of the twochurches.
WASHINGTON (NC) - TheVatican's position on Jerusalem"is to our liking," an official of,the Israeli ministry for foreignaffairs sa,id here.
The official, Michael Pragai,director of the Church relationsdivision of the ministry for foreign affairs, told NC News thatthe Vatican position, which the"Holy Father has come out ona number of occasions and defined," is that the Holy Placesin Jerusalem "should have aspecial, legal, interna,tional,guaranteed status." .
Pragai, who visited Rome ear-
Vincentians to MeetThe Fall River Particular
Council of the Society of St. 'Vincent de Paul will meet at 7 P.M.Tuesday, Feb. 5 for Mass atSacred Heart Church, LindenStreet, Fall River. A businesssession will follow in the school
. hall.
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Rev. Alfred J. CalTier, 1940,Founder, St. James, Taunton.
Rev. John Kelly, 1885, Founder, St. Patrick, Fall River.
Rev. Ar,thur C. Lenaghan, 1944,Chaplain, United States Army.
_ JAN. 10Rev. Jourdain ChalTon, O.P.,
1919, Dominican Priory, FallRiver.
Rev. George H: Flan,lgan, 1938,Pastor, Immaculate Conception,Fall River.
JAN. 13Rev. Emil Plante, M.S., 1954,
LaSalette Seminary, Attleboro.
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Plan Boys TownYouth CenterAt Univer~,ity• BOYS TOWN (KC) - A Boys
Town Center for the Study ofYouth and Development will beestablished at Iihe Cat! Jlic University of America in Vashington, D.C., Boys Town dfficialshave announced here in Nebraska.
The $11.2 million developmentwill be established i:n accordancewith an agreement signed byCatholic University a.nd BoysTown officials.
The commitment by BoysTown will cover 2S years, with$450,000 avail~ble annually until 1998. After that date ,the support may be continued for anadditional 25-year period.
Boys Town chose CatholicUniversity as its eastern regional research center after morethan a year of consideration ofuniversites which might haveprovided ,the best research potential.
Archbishop Daniel E. SheehanI)f Omaha, president of the Boys
- Town board of directors, saidthat the center will study andresearch such problems as reo.iection of youngsters by theirparents, drug addietion amongyouth, anti-social behavior andinability ,to learn.
Major Projects"~f these problems could De
recognized and solved in theirearly stages, it would elimfnatemany of. the corrective measuresnow necessary to rehabilitatesuch boys and girls," he said.
Clarence C. Walton, CatholicUniversity president, said thecel1l~er would immediately launchtwo major research projects. Thefirst would be a study of adolescence based on a surveyof 1,000 12-through-16-yearaids. The second is a study ofreligious development duringchildhood and adolescence.
The second study "is based onthe fact- that 'many believe themodern adolescent is not greatlyaffected by religion in Hs societal obligation to 'build character' and guard values," Waltonsaid.
"The study will :result in abetter understanding of themeaning and influence of religion in adolescent lives whichmay help religion fulfill the func,~ion American society has assigned it," Walton said.
Middle East ControversyRaises Political Issues
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adopted a resolution urgingNCCW affiliates to combat risingpostal rates which would affecteducational and religious publications.
Many ActivitiesMrs. McMahon, a past presi
dent of the Fall River DistrictCouncil of Catholic Women, theCatholic Woman's Club of FallRiver, St. Mary's CathedralWomen's Guild, Friends of St.Anne's Hospital and the MotherMcAuley Guild, continues to serveon the boards of those organizations and is treasurer of the ,FallRiver Catholic Woman's Clubbuilding committee and of theCathedral guild. In her newNCCW post she is also a memberof the organization's GeneralAssembly.
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When they do travel "the timeaway from the children is wellspent," she says. The Willkestake "the last plane out and thefil1st one back," and while onthe road, every possible minuteis put to use, with as manyspeaking engagements and pub·lie appearances as possible.
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New York ParishesGet $2.4 Million
NEW YORK (NC) - A NewYork archdiocesan commissiondistributed over $2.4 million during fiscal 1972-73 to poorer parishes through contributions solicited . from financially soundparishes.
Since its establishment in 1970by Cardinal Terence Cooke, the,Commission for Inter-Parish Financing has channeled about $8miHion .to needy parishes, according to Frederick G. Stanton,commission comptroller.
Stanton said that parisheswith a school are requested tocontribute to the fund six percent of all their regular Sundayand weekday collections plus,two per cent of the balance ofsavings aocounts and two percent of the market value ofsecurities the parish may own.
know that we help other peopleand they're a part of that."
Time spent away from thechildren is always carefullythought out, she says. Althoughshe and her husband normallywork as a team in public lectures, at times only one of themgoes on a time consuming trip.
.Catholics RespondTo Prayer Program
PORTSMOUTH (NC) - Catholics have been becoming increasingly involved in the Christian Broadcasting Network, Independent, non-denominationalradio and· television programs.
"We've been getting increasing numbers of Roman Catholicsinvolved in the ministry," saidthe Rev. Don Hawkinson of thePastoral Services Division ofthe network. "They have beenjoining us as counselors, volunteers and paid staff workers. Butwe've also experienced a significant increase in calls to ourtelevision programs from Catholics over the past few years."
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Balances Home-Life and Pro-Life
IMPORTANT SESSION: Priests, religion teachers, school officials and laity met atConnolly High School in Fall River to hear a presentation on the national catechetical directory which will contain norms and guidelines for the teaching of religion in the UnitedStates. At the meeti12g were, left to right, Rev. Msgr. Wilfrid H. Paradis, appointed by tl\enation's bishops to oversee the directory; Most Rev. James J. Gerrard, D.D., V.G., Auxiliary Bishop of Fall River; Sister Doreen Donegan, SUSC, of Coyle - Cassidy High School,Taunton; Rev. Michel G. Methot, Associate Director of Education for Adult Education; andRev. George W. Coleman of Our Lady of Victory Parish, Centerville.
reproaching Israel, "disavowingany prejudice while playingaround the edges of bigotry." Indoing so, they are violating boththe letter and :the spirit of theVatican Council's Decree onCatholic-Jewish relations whichstrongly condemns anti-Semitism, "not impelled by politicalreasons but moved by the spir~tual love of the GospeL"
CINCINNATI (NC) - BarbaraWillke is a wife and homemakerwho loves to read books, chatwith neighbors over coffee, andprepare luxurious meals for herhusband and six children.
But that side of her life hasbeen obscured as she and herhusband - Dr. John Willke, aCincinnati physician - travelacross the nation in their family battle against abortion.
Mrs. Willke believes stronglyin the urgency of the pro-life.message, and she belives in com,bining her pIlofessional trainingas a nurse with her speakingabilities--even though she mustforego for now many of the joysof home life.
In the meantime much of herlife is taken up with local andout-of-·town - sometimes outof-country ~ speaking engagements, debates, writing, publication of a newsletter, organizingmeetings, demonstrations, ralliesand special right-to-life projectsand endless phone calls.
Mrs. Willke and her husbandsay that while they are sensitiveto their responsibilities as parents, they also feel a responsibility to ask, "What talents didthe Lord give me that are uniqueand should be used?"
It's a constant effort to balance one good against the other,she says: the good of being homewith the children, who range inage from 9 to 23, and the goodof spreading the pro-life message. Mrs. WiIlke says it's an.issue the children have to wrestle with too, noting that "theywant us home all the time but
Father Sheerin pointed out, "thatanyone who criticizes Israel isnecessarily anti-Semitic, but weneed not be clairvoyant to predict that an anti-Semite will condemn and reproach Israel, disavowing any prejudice whi!!eplaying around the edges of big-otry The Middle East situ-ation has given rise to po-litical issues that are helpingto blur a true Christian persepctive on the Jews. The old miasma (of anti-Semitism) is cominghack in political form."
The old miasma came backwith a vengeance on December30 when King Faisal of SaudiArabia, in his first public speechsince the October war in theMiddle East, called on all theworld's Moslems "to rescue oursacred places" in Jerusalem fromthe "Zionist and Communistmenaces." Taking a very hardline, the King said that the Jewshave no "right" to be in the holycity, and this, believe it or not,for religious reasons.
Faisal is said to be the mostimportant ,backer of Egypt'sPresident Sadat in the Arabworld. As the official protectorof the holy places of Islam, heconsiders that he has a specialresponsibility for finding a newstatus for Israeli·occupied Jerusalem, which includes theMosque of Omar, Islam's thirdholiest place.
That's ~dmittedly a legitimatepolitical objective. Unfortunately, however, the King did notconfine himserr to the politicalaspects of the Jerusalem controversy but instead indulged himself in the worst kind of anti-
. Semitic bigotry.
Faisal's Position
Addressing high ranking pilgrims to Mecca, including several heads of I state, Faisal saidthat the Jews have been "accursed" by God throl,1gti theprophets and have "no right toJerusalem." He took the position that "the Jews have noconneotion with Jerusalem andhave no sacraments there. Whenthe Romans occupied Jerpsalem,they took the Temple with them,and, therefore, the Jews haveno connection or right to haveany presence in Jerusalem or anyauthority there." For good measure, the King added that "TheJews have deviated from theteachings of Moses and attempted to murder Jesus Christ because they do not want the directives of God to be achieved."
Father Sheerin is correct. TheMiddle East controversy has in- .deed given rise to political issues that are helping to. blura sound religious perspective onthe Jews.
My owPl experience leads meto :Believe that King Faisal's nefarious brand of anti-Semitic bigotry is not confined to the Arabworld. It is my impression that,in varying degrees, a numberof Christians both at home andabroad tend to agree with Faisal. In other words, they areusing the political crisis in theMiddle East as an occasion oran excuse for condemnin& and
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Father Daniel Berrigan, S.J. is very much on the defensive these days because of a' speech he made recentlybefore a decidedly pro-Arab audience accusing Israel ofcriminal imperialism and racism, among other crimes toonumerous to be listed in thiscolumn. A number of Jewishand Christian leaders havecharged that the speech wasblatantly anti - Semitic. I as~
sume that Berrigan will pleadinnocent to this indictment. Hewill probably say, in his own
defense, that while he' may beanti-Zionist, he is not anti-Semitic. While I would be preparedto take him at his word in thisregard and would not presumeto judge his subjective motivation, I must say that his speechwas an extremely shoddy performance from almost every conceivable point of view, and objectively speaking, came perilously close to being anti-Semitic in tone as well as in content. Closer, in fact, than anyrecent public statement by anAmerican commentator on theins-and-outs of the Israeli-Arabconflict.
Timely Warning.In other words, if Berrigan is
in trouble because of his recentspeech, the trouble is entirelyof his own making. At the veryleast, he skirted around theedges of traditional anti-Semitichigotry and, in my opinion, added insult to injury by presuming,in a very patronizing manner,to speak for the Jewish community after having viciously attacked its leaders.
This being the case, it's obviously up to him to straightenout the record. His critics saythat he is anti-Semitic. He sayshe is not. Unfortunately, however, he has yet to face up tothe fact that the burden of proofin this regard is his and hisalone. Time alone will tellwhether or not he is capable ofdoing so. Meanwhile his name ismud in the Jewish community,and for this he has no one buthimself to blame.
Berrigan's unfortunate speechon the Israeli-Arab confIictagain, regardless of his subjective motivation-can serve asa timely warning against thedanger of using the Middle East.crisis as a camouflaged.occasionor excuse for stirring up antiSemitic propaganda. Father JohnSheerin, C.S.P. has called attention to this danger in the leadeditorial of the January-February issue of "New CatholicWorld," which is devoted exclusively to an in-depth discussionof Jewish-Catholic relations.This issue of the distinguishedPaulist monthly, which FatherSheerin edited for many years,is required reading for anyoneinterested in the Catholic-Jewishdialogue.
Edges of Big(ltry"It would be absurd to say,"
Servants of MankindThe skillful negotiating of Secretary of State ;Henry
Kissinger in the Middle East is a tribute to careful planningand brilliant explaining and patience in an heroic measure.It is a tribute, as well, to a spirit that war really is not theultimate answer to which reasonable men must turn.
There could have been none of the advances that havebeen made-and those that are still hoped for-unlesspeople in high places were motivated basically"by a desirefor peace ip the settlement of disputes.
All sides in the recent war have paid terrible pricesin the loss of their soldiers. In the face of this, trageuy,the efforts of many persons have been bent to bring aboutsome sort of permanent arrangement that. will outlawfuture similar tragedies. '
Almost unbelievable steps have been made. Many moremiles must be travelled before lasting peace is assured.What stands at present is progress but in a fragile postme.
The prayers and hopes of all people of good will muststrengthen the efforts of those who work for peace becausethey are indeed the servants of all mankind.
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with the Jones of the publicschool system or our pride atoutdoing others in technical facilities and programs. It is ourpride in and our living of theFaith.
And Catholic Schools Weekshould remind us of all this andspur us onward.
Dynamism, Order
The archbishop asserted that, the two types of ministry needed<' in the Church are administration
and inspirati{)n. Both, he said,"are the warp and woof of thefabric of the Church."
Life and liv.ing things "haveboth dynamism and order," hepointed out. "If there is no dynamism then life ceases; if tJhereis no order then the continuationof life becames impossible." Buthe cautioned against expectingpriests and bishops to supply theorder and the people the dynamism. "The most healthy situation prevails when both administration and inspiration coincide in the same person," hesaid.
N{) formula or rule book existsfor starting a charismatic prayergroup or community, said thearchbishop, who feels t'hat therenewal should not be "institu.tionalized," but rather follow theSpirit's lead. Each group, hesaid, muSt be sensitive to discover that the Spirit gives "toone" a gift of leadership, to another the gift of' music and toanother perhaps the gift ofphysical healing."
Archbishop SaysCharisma GiftsBelong in Church
WASHINGTON (NC) - Pentecostal Catholics must integratecharismatic elements into theinstiJ~utional Church, an archbishop associated with charismatic renewal said here.
'Canadian Archbishop JamesM. Hayes of Halifax, Nova Scotia, told participants in a charismatic day of renewal at theCatholic University of Americathat not everyone,'in the Churchis meant Ito be charismatic, butthat the whole Church is meantto profit from the charismaticgifts given to some members.Among charismatic' gifts areprophecy, the gift of tongues,healing and interpreta.tion oftongues.
Wha,t char.ismatics are doing,said Archbishop Hayes, is intro-
- ducing a new spirit into theChur,ch, not new 1?tructures. Hetold a' clergy workshop that"generally speaking, people involved in oharismatic renewaltend to be' more or,~odox andfaithful to the sacraments thanthe average Catholic."
He stressed, however, thatpriests and bishops must be involved in the'renewal to maintainthat or.~odoxy. The "charism ofcharisms" is discernment, ajudgment which priests and especially bishops are called togive for the good of the wholecommunity, according to thearchbishop.
Often in the past priests askedthe Holy Spirit to "fill the heartsof the faithful," the archbishopsaid. "But many were really saying, 'Fill the heads of the faithful.' Our approach was too cerebral and neglected emotionalneeds."
once a true service' offered tosociety.
"The Council also remindsCatholic parents of the duty ofentrusting their children to Catholic schools wherever and whenever it is possible and of supporting these schools to the besto'f their ability and of cooperating with them for the educationof their children.
"Attention should be paid tothe needs of today in establishingand directing Catholic schools.Therefore, though primary andseco'ndary schools, the foundation of education, must still befostered, great importance is tobe attached to those which arerequired in a particular way bycontemporary conditions, suchas: professional and technicalschools,. centers for educatingadults· and promoting social welfare, or for the retarded in needof special care, and also schoolsfor preparing teachers for religious instruction and other typesof education. .
"This sacred synod of theChurch earnestly entreats pastorsand all the faithful to spare nosacrifice 'in helping Catholicschools fulfill their function ina continually more perfect way,and especially in caring for theneeds of those who are poor inthe goods of this world or whoare deprived of the assistanceand affection of a family or whoare strangers to the gift ofFaith."
That is why we have a Diocesan Center of Education, a Stonehill College, high schools, a St.Vincent's Hom E!, NazarethHomes, parish schools.
That is why we have HomeSchool Associations, scholarships, CCD programs, adult education sessions, Echo and Christian Life' Community groups,
It is not simply our competing
Reas'ons, for Catholic Schools
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"And the council calls to mindthat the exercise of a right of thiskind contributes in the highestdegree to the protection of free-
. dom of conscience, the rights ofparents, as well as to the betterment of culture itself.
Teachers Important"But let teachers recognize
that the Catholic school dependsupon them almost entirely forthe accomplishment of its goalsand programs.
"They should therefore be verycarefully prepared so that bothin secular and religious knowledge they are equipped with suitable qualifications and also witha 'pedagogical skill that is inkeeping with the findings of t!)econtemporary world. .
'\Intimately linked in charity toone another and to their studentsand endowed with an, apostolicspirit, may teachers by their lifeas much as by their instructionbear witness to Christ, theunique Teacher.
"Let them work as' partnerswith parents and together withthem in every phase of education
_ give due consideration to the difference of sex and the properends Divine ·Providence assignsto each sex in the family and insociety.
."Let them do all they can tostimulate their students to actfor' themselves and even aftergraduation to continu.e to assistthem with advice, friendship andby establishing special associations imbued with, the true spiritof the Church.
"The work of these teachers,this sacred synod declares, is inthe real sense of the word anapostolate most suited to andnecessary for our times and at~Leary Press-Fall Rjve~
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4 THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Jan. 31, 197.4
Catholic Schools WeekFebruary 3 to 10 has been designated as Catholic
Schoois Week. 'There are those who might say that this is the epitome
of optimism, to observe Catholic Schools Week in the faceof so many difficulties in their financing and staffing.
But, as Cardinal Newman has said "Ten thousanddifficulties do not make a single doubt."
And there is no doubt-nor should there ever be--thatCatholic schools f.,dfill a unique role, in the developmentof boys and girls as not only educated citizens of this worldbut as children of God, meant to conform to the likeness ofChrist and destined to travel on pilgrimage through thislife so that they might go home and live with God forever.
The first school is always that of the family, of course.But the far,nily cannot stand alone.Catholic schools give to their students the truths of
the Faith, what Almighty God has revealed about Himselfand what He wishes His children to believe that they mightshare in His Eternal Truth. ,
Catholic schools aim at forming .themselves into afamily, a community, that will reflect the charity and kindness and spirit of brotherhood that should then extendbeyond the school to the neighborhood, the community,the world. The school strives to be the very model ofwhat' the whole People of God should be.
Catholic schools exist to serve, and, this means toserve by' cultivating the minds of students. They serve bywidening student lives to the wonders of learning. Theyserve by enabling' students to build into their lives thefoundations upon which their futures and their places inlife will rest.
Catholic schools serve by encouraging students to maketheir very lives be living expressions of the admonition ofJesus Christ that people love God and love their neighbor.
In a world of uncertain values and standards, in aworld where there is so much wondering and drifting, ina world, where uncertainty is a way of life for so manypeople, in such a world the Catholic schools reach out toparents and students with a message-God's message forman; with a call to become the family that God wants allmen tQ be; with the summons to service of God andneighbor.
What caring parent can resist this priceless gift thatthe Catholic schools possess and wish to transmit to theirstudents.
Menninger Book AdvocatesReturn to Concept of Sin
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Kouhoutek to the contrary,there is a lively interest in as·tronomy, so much so that twoinstructors are conductingcourses, and. yachting buffs areseen seriously examining a modelsailboat and untangling the difference bet.ween a tack and aluff.
The rise of the woman's movement in the nation is being givenas well as a course of the Christian and his attitude toward warand violence.
The history of New Bedfordmakes citizens aware of the localheritage that is theirs.
Several courses in religion byvisiting priests give students theopportunity to hear new voicesand enter into dialogue on theliving of the faith.
It is a busy week at Holy Family and will hopefully open theinterests of students to fieldsoutside the course loads they arealready pursuing. Now the further hope is that when the regularly scheduled classes resumeagain on Monday, the same enthusiasm and interest so much inevidence this week will continue.
Courses are being carried outfor five days and are beingtaught not only by regular faculty members but by visiting instructors and experts in the field.The courses on Latin America andthe Far East, for example, arebeing conducted by those whohave studied and lived in thoseareas and even taught there,while local lawyers and judgeswill explain the basics and phliosophy of law to interested students. An investigation into alcohol and its effects is being pre·sented by a member of Alcoholics Anonymous who was himselfan outstanding man in his careerwho found it all gone because ofalcohol. Cooking will see thestudents actually making dishesto sample and to sell at lunchtime, and the sewing class willresult in articles sewed and crocheted. There are even coursesin bridge and in the basics ofbasketball for those young menand women who wish to playby the rules and learn the intricacies of correct basketball. A radioannouncer is the instructor oncommunication media.
THE ANCHOR-Dioc~se of Fall River-Thurs. Jan. ~ 1, 197.4
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New Bedford's Holy Family HighSchool looking forward eagerlyto class. No, students have notchanged that much in this generation, but the answer is a weekof- mini-courses.
The high' school is this weekpresenting courses for studentsin law, astronomy, Latin American culture, communications, typing, cooking and sewing, marriage preparation, the etiquetteof letter writing, the Far East,mythology, introduction to Greekand similar subjects not usuallyfound in the regular full-year curriculum.
Charge GovernmentHarasses Priest
WARSAW (NC) - The secretariat of the Polish Bishops' Conference has accused governmentauthorities of harassing a priestwho was confined to a mentalhospital after he said Mass atthe request of villagers in a townnear Bialystok' in northeasternPoland.
Government. authorities arrested Father Piotr Zabielski,34, and placed him in the mental hospital just before Christmas after he had protested aban on his celebrating Mass athis house.
A government statement released more than three weeksafter the hospitalization said thatthe priest was mentally unbalanced but said that he wouldbe released immediately, providing the Church "accepts full responsibility for him and assuressuch care as he may need."
The secretariat of the bishops'conference immediately repliedthat Father Zabielski was perfectly sane. The secretariat saidChurch authorities would neitpromise to accept full responsibility because that would implythey belielle the priest is men·tally ill.
MINI-COURSES: Discussing New Bedford's Holy Family High School week of mini~courses are, left to right, visiting lecturer Ms. Diane Champagne, faculty members JohnFinni and Williapl Gushue, and principal Sister Charles 'Francis, RSM.
Sexual Sin
One will not, then, agree"'witheverything said here. This isespecially true in the mat~er ofsexual sin.
Such reservations being noted,one will find much to approveof in what Dr. Menninger writesabout personal sin. He is mostimpressive when he insists thatsome notion of sin is essentialto the adequate, operative senseof personal responsibility. With-.out it, effective atonement is impossi'ble, and there can be norighting of wrong, no healingand growth. .
In discussing greed, Dr. Menninger remarks that Jesus didnot "cure" the rich young man.Here he seems to be returningto the notion of an involuntarydisorder susceptible of. somekind of psychiatric treatment.The rich young man's excessiveattachment to his possessionshas some element of deliberatechoice which he is capable ofreversing.
which the individual belongs.Each group tends to produce itsown moral code, and there isstrong pressure on the individual "who momentarily expressesdoubts about any of the group'sshared illusions, or questions thevalidity of the arguments....Unanimity becomes an idol."
Rid of the notion of sin, wasmankind better off? Was theindividual better off? The inescapable answer is, "No!"
Looking at recent history andpresent conditions, Dr. Menninger points to an appalling setof horrors. One, for example,is modern warfare, with its un·precedented scope, brutality,and destructiveness. Another isthe plight of the poor throughoutthe world, which steadily worsens as the hellish circle of poverty widens. Still .another is thereckless corruption and poisoning of the environment. Thereare obvious evils, and no oneadmits any responsibility forthem.
Coming to the matter of personal sin, Dr. Menninger looksat the traditional catalogue ofcapital sins. There is some confusion in what he says. Thus,he confuses capital sins and mortal sins. There is a difference.Capital sins are those from'which many kinds of sin stem,whereas mortal sins are majorinfractions of certain divinelaws. He also wonders why somesins are not named in the listof capital sins; in fact, they belong, by inference, to one or another category found there.
Moreover, he does not observethe distinctions' which are tra·ditionally made in the definitionof capital sins. For example, he'makes envy and covetousnessidentical. They are not the same.Envy is a kind of inordinate sadness over the good fortune ofanother. One may not necessarilycovet what another possesses(e.g., want to live in the sumptuous house in which he lives),but may still be sad that hehas it.
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RT. REV.
MSGR.
JOHN S.
KENNEDY
Reasons for Decline
Dr. Messinger discerns anumber of reasons for the decline of the idea of sin. Some ofthese stemmed from scientificdiscoveries. There was, for example, hypnosis, which broughtinto question the fact or degreeof responsibility. There was psychoanalysis, which popularizeda new formulation of humanmotivation.
Sin, he says, was replaced bythe notion of crime. The publicauthority legislated moraHty andenforced its moral law. As personal conduct was increasinglyregula,ted, prosecution and punishment followed. The prevailing impression, in consequence,was that what was not illegalcould not be wrong, that theonly wrong was what the publiclaw fo~bade.
There also was the argumentthat what had once been con·sidered sinful was actually asymptom of some disorder inthe personality, some psychic jH..
ness. It was, therefore, involuntary and inculpable. This ideawas carried to an extreme which,in effect, cancelled out the possibility of sin.
Look at History
Still again, there has been agrowth of group-think, with theimportance and the responsibility of the individual lessened,and total sovereignty invested inthe group, large or small, to
Now he advocates its return.He sees it as needed for personal and social health. He doesnot insist on a precise definition which everyone must accept. "Sin is transgression ofthe law of God; disobedience ofthe divine will; moral failure.Sin is failure to realize in conduct and character the moralideal, at least as fully as possible under existing circumstances;failure to do as one ought todo toward one's fellow man."
He says, "The wrongness ofthe sinful act lies not merelyin its noncomformity, its departure from the accepted, appropriate way of behavior, but in animplicitly aggressive quality-aruthlessness, a hurting, a breaking away from God and fromthe rest. of humanity, a partialalienation or act of rebellion."
The title of Dr. Karl. Menninger's new book poses aquestion, "Whatever Became of Sin?" (Hawthorn, 70 FifthAve., N.Y. 10011. $7.95). In its pages he attempts an answer.He says that when he was growing up, he was taught a codeof conduct by his parents.Experience confirmed thesoundness of that teaching.But in time he came to rejectthe notion of sin, as did manyothers. It became the commonthing to regard the concept asoutmoded, and he was glad tosee it go.
6 THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Jan. 31, 1974 Extends DeadlineFor Sick R'ite
VATICAN CITY (NC) - Because of some difficulties intranslating from Latin into vernacular languages, the Vaticanhas extended the Jan. I, 1974,date set for use of the new ritefor the sacrament of the An·nointing of the' Sick, formerlycalled Extreme Unction.
The Congregation for DivineWorship announced Jan. 22 thatIbecause several bishops' con·ferences had requested moretime to complete transla.tions ofthe new Latin text into modernlanguages the Jan. 1 date hasbeen' suspended.
Bishops' conferences, however,are urged to complete the translations as soon as possible andto establish, a6:er the translations are approved and con·firmed by the Vatican, the dflteon which the new sacramentalrite becomes effective.
The English text of the newrite for use in the United StBiteshas been approved and con·firmed by the Vatican. That texthas been-given to interested publishers and the effective date forusing the new rite will be an·nounced later.
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OTTAWA (NC) - The Canadian bishops are restructuringtheir communications work inthe English-language sector tofacilitate a more local and reogional emphasis, according to anannouncement by Father'EverettMacNeil, general secretary ofthe Can'adian Catholic Conference (CCC).
As part of. the restructuring,the bishops communications office, the National Catholic Communications Center in Toronto,will close. Miss Bonnie Brennan,who has been executive directorof that communioations office,will move to Ottawa Feb. 1 tobecome director of the office ofpl1bl.ic information at the CCC'sheadquarters.
Much of the workload former.Iy handled by the National Catholic Communications Center inToronto will move to the localand regional level, as well as tothe Catholic universities thathave communications courses.
10 said," "to get this abortionamendment before the JudiciaryCommittee or onto' the floor ofthe House itself-not buried onsome political agenda."
Roncallo was an honorarychairman of the National Marchfor Life CommitteE!, which sponsored the demonstration at theCapitol. He was also sponsor oflegislation which forbids the National Science Foundation to appropriate money for fetal experiments. The bill is now law.
'Bread for the· World' .Elects Officers
NEW YORK (NC) - The Rev.Eugene Carson Blake, formergeneral secretary of the WorldCouncil of Churches, and Auxiliary Bishop Thomas J. Gumbleton of Detroit have beenelected president and vice·president, respeotively, of Bread forthe World. '
The newly formed group plansto combat world poverty andhunger.
Organized by Catholics andProtestants;Bread for the Worldhopes to build a membership ofpeople who will contact goverhment officials and congressmenon key issues that affect hungrypeople both in the U. S. andabroad.
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Congressman Calls for HearinHsOn Abortion Amendments
HOLY YEAR SYMBOL: This symbol of upcoming HolyYear, designed for Cincinnati Archdiocesan Council of theLaity by 'Davide CameIe of Cleveland, Ohio, expresses fourpart call "to hear the Good News, accept the Good News,share the Good News, proclaim the Good News." NC Photo.
WASHINGTON (NC) - Thechairman of the House JudiciaryCommittee has been urged byRep. Angelo Roncallo (D-N.Y.)to expedite hearings on a constitutional amendment outlawingahortions.
In remarks prepal'ed' for delivery on the floor of the House onJan. 22, Roncallo said, 'It istime that the voice nf the peoplehe heard on this vital issue."
Thousands of persons demonstrated on the steps of the Capi·tol in support of constitutionalprotection for the unborn whileRoncallo made his remarks.
"Today is the anniversary ofthe Supreme Court decisionagainst life," he added, "and Ithink it appropriate that we renew our commitment to '1ife . . .
"It is time that the voice ofthe people be heard on this vitalissue," the Long Island congressman declared. "We can no longerafford the luxury of time or politics."
In July Roncallo signed a discharge petition seeking to havethe House of Representativestake up a pro-life amendmentwithout having to wait on committee action. The petition, however, still does not have the necessary 218 signatures needed tobring the proposed amendmentto the House floor.
"The time has come," Roncal·
Seton Hall StudentsGet Tuition Rebate
SOUTH ORANGE (NC) - Aspromised, Seton Hall Universityhas given a refund to 4,800 students from New Jer.sey.
Msgr. Thomas G. Fahy, president of the new archdiocesaninstitution, said a year ago thatthe university intended to givesuch refunds if it could do so.
The refund was made possibleby a new state law which channels specific dollar amounts toprivate institutions for eachNew Jersey student enrolled ingraduate and undergraduate pro- .grams and for increased enrollment of students from withinthe state.
Purpose of the legislation wasto help ease the burden on stateinstitutions which might havefaced expenditures for additionalfacilities.
Iy, they wouldn'.t give him theright time.)
By nine-thirty I had some realdoubts. I called the.county policeheadquarters near the campsite.They told me the roads werebad, but not impassable, then offered a new concern. "If, theyhaven't enough gas to make it
. home, that could be the problem.There isn't a drop of gas uphere."
He also suggested I call theState Police; they'd have accident reports.
As soon as ~ hung up thephone, one of my' "unworried"sons asked, "What'd they say?"
The State Police had the !lamereport on the roads, and no, acci·dent or str.anded car fitting thedescription.
Still Not to Worry"Unworried" sons reassured
me that if the roads were tooslippery to drive they probablystayed over. There was no waythey could get. to a phone.
I s'ltggested that both boys getsome sleep. They "had a fewthings to finish" a'nd putteredaround with inconsequentials,stalling, waiting.
By 10 I had another thought.My fath~r h~d some knowl
edge of that area. I called him.He calmly went over all the
facts. The roads could be so icythat it woUldn't. be good judgment for them to drive. Theycouldn't call. They probablystayed over and would caN in themorning. Ifany:thing was w~ong,
I would have heard. There reallywas nothing I could do.
. Dad asked, "Can you go tobed and get some sleep?"
I realized he was right, andtold him that I thought I could.
He said, "That's fine andthat's how it should be ."... but if you hear anythingfrom him no matter wha:ttime it is cal1 me right away."
At half past 10 the campersarrived home.
My son said they had had todrive very slowly and cautiously.He couldn't understand our reliefat seeing him. He knew he wasokay. There was: nothing toworry about.
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MARY
CARSON
Sister Gillen EIE~cted
To Common Cause BoardWASHINGTON (NC) - Sister
Ann Gillen, executive director ofthe Na,tionaI Coalition of American Nuns, was elected to athree-year term on the governing board of Common Cause, the"national .citizens' lobby" here.
Sister Gillen, who formerlyheld a one-year term on theboard, is one of 20 individualschosen by more than 80,000Common Cause members. She isalso. executive director of theNational Interreligious TaskForce on Soviet Jewry. SisterGillen lives in Chicago.
was wrong, they'd eall.They know all the reasons I
shouldn't worry. And they try toset a good example for me by'staying cool and confident. Theytry ...
However, this past weekend,one of the boys went camping.He is a staff member of our localBoy Scout troop and the t1"ip wasbeing led by the s(:outmaster. Iexpected them back around four,or five, Sunday afternoon. Cer
'tainly, by six.Not to Worry
The weather all day Sundaywas bad ... sleet, bail, freezing •rain. The campers were in amountainous area, and the infor·mation we got from news broadcasts was that the roads thereWfilre impassable.
I had great confidence in thegood judgment of the scoutmaster, and didn't worry ... tillabout seven o'clock.
Then eViery ten minu<tes Ithought I heard a car door outside. I'd run to the front doorand look out. But .no one wasthere.
.,My other sons, of course,were not concerned. "Mom, it'ssenseless to worry." "If anythingwas wrong, you'd have heard."
I was worl1ted. "Suppose thecar skidded o.ff the road. Suppose they're in a ditch someplace, and no one (~ven knowsthey're there."
"Mom, worrying, iBnt going todo anything about that, either."
But these same nonchalantsons asked every little while,"You haven't heard from them?""He's not home yet?"
Of course, they weren't wor·ried ... just interested (Normal·
There{s No Point Worrying,Ev,e1ryone Tells Every,one
My three teen-age boys tell me, "Mom, you worry toomuch." I try to convince them that it's constructive. ThingsI worry about generally don't happen ... so I've preventedall sorts of disasters. But when one of them is late gettinghome, even that argumentdoesn't make s,ense to me.My worrying isn't protecting,
, them. Yet there :is somethinginside me that won't rest untilI know they're all safe.
The boys assure me that mywo~rying is needleBs. If anything
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through a prayer service, a slidepresentation, three conferences,and practice in spiritual discernment. The day concluded with aliturgy offered by Rev. MauriceProulx, M.S., Master of Novices.
The conferences were given bythe New England delegates, withSister Virginia speaking on vowsand freedom, Sister Catherine onprayer and comm~nity life, andSister Renee on attitudes of Sisters regarding leisure.
Spiritual discernment practicedand lived by each Sister is anobjective of the post-chapter period. The Sisters have been initiated ancl will strive to continuethe slow process -of habitual practice of spiritual discernment.
tical presentations in dramaticsand experimental theater at theco-educational institution.
Stonehill College has two student-directed theater groups. TheStonehill Theater performs classical and modern dramas. The
THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Jan. 31, 1974
HolyCross Nuns Study FindingsSisters of Holy Cross from the
New Bedford, Westport and Attleboro areas met at St. AnthonyConvent in New Bedfo,rd earlierthis month to share the "livedexperience" of a General Chapterof the community held in Montreal last summer.
Each Sister had previouslyreceived a copy of a "thresh·old - document" entitled Actsof the Chapter." The actsenter into the movement of theCongregation to deepen the religious life of its members. Theyspring from a triple source: research done by local communities; proposals from ProvincialChapters; study and decisions ofthe General Chapter.
Since these acts were preparedand lived out as a spiritual experience, worked out above allas a community of faith attentiveto the Spirit and God's Will, thefirst essential for the Congrega~
tion, was seen to be a reliving ofthis experience in each group ofSisters.
Chapter Mini-DaySisters Renee Provost, Virginia
Grenier and Catherine Poirier,delegates to the General Chapterfrom the New England Province,were delegated to present workshops throughout the Province tofulfill this essential goal. Accordingly the 47 participants at theNew Bedford gathering experienced a mini-day of the Chapter
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The air-conditioned playhouse,which is expected to ,be completed by the end of February, willbe used for instruction and prac-
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College receives workmen's attention. The 267-seat workshop theater is expected to beready within a month.
Symposium PlannedOn Man, Environment
STOCKHOLM (NC)-A symposium on man, the environmentand natural resources will beheld here Sept. 16-20.-
The f-our topics to be discussedat the symposium are the causeand effect of the population increase; the use of natural re~
sources, and pollution; the socialand cultural environment ofman; global programs and national interests,
The symposium is beingplanned by the five Nobel Prizecommittees and is being paid.forby a foundation of the NationalBank of Sweden.
Among those invited to participate is Barbara Ward, a Catholic British economist widelyknown as an expert on development.
Denver BoostsNuns' Salories
DENVER (NC) - Change inlifestyles. as well as Social Security requirements· and. retirement needs has prompted a$1,500 raise for Sisters 'employedby the Denver archdiocese.
The salaries will be boostedfrom the current $3,100 to $4,600during the 1974-75 school year.For most Sisters the raise actually amounts to $500 since Ithoseliving in a parish-owned conventwill be required to return $-l,OOOto the parish for rent and transportation.
The new salary plan was modeled after one implemented bythe Brooklyn diocese. Called the"total sum concept," the planconsiders operating costs for theSisters' religious congregationsas well as local convent expenses. The cost of supportingretired Sisters has prompted Religious in several dioceses to'seek raises.
The $4,600 salary allots $3,600for living expenses and congregational operating costs, including support of currently retiredSisters; $300 for transportation,and $700 for lodging andutilities.
around look. Of course, whatwill make them "new" lookingwill be below the knee hemline.
If they are picked up as afashion "must," I see them beingworn more by the younger generation who feel that fashion isfun and who have taken thelook of the forties for their own.
Already one of my daughtersis telling me that below the kneeis the only length for skirts (uni·form skirts of course are an exception to this role, the shorterthey are the happier the wearer)and that's one reason why I seethis length heing accepted by theyouth' cult, Who enjoy "dressingup."
Nothing is more fickle thanfashion so there is always thepossibility that hemlines willdrop, heels will get proportionately higher and summer of '42,here we come!
By
MARILYN
RODERICK
Named BishopVATICAN CITY (NC)-A Ni
gerian priest who studied at universities in Ireland and theUnited States has been named abishop in Nigeria. Pope Paul VIappointed Father Francis Folorunso Alongo, 38, as auxiliarybishop of Ondo. Father Alongotook degrees in education andliterature from the NationalUniversity of Ireland in Dublinand from Boston College in theUni,ted States.
(Many of us remember thosedays when our thick bobby socksmet the hemlines of our full,bias-cut skirts and girls lookedhottom 'heavy!)
As the role of woman in society is changing, so too fashionshave changed and when pantssuits and the shorter skirt arrived on the scene women welcomed their freedom. Life is hectic for the mOdern woman andshe must feel comfortable onthe treadmtH that takes her fromthe supermarket to the bank,to the nightly meeting with justenough time in-between to whipup a meal.
Wouldn't BU3'Thus the reason for the fail
ure of the midi. Women's WearDaily pushed it, many of usbought them, but the vast rna·jority of women refused to buyand they hung on the rack untilSeventh Avenue realized that itwasn't going to be easy to dictate to women again,
That's why I'm qUitE: surprisedby the sudden appearance of thelonger skirts on the horizon forspring and summer. Despite allintentions to shorten my wjntercoats, most of which are mid-calflength, I never did get around toit and actually I appreciate thatextra material during a blusteryNew England winter.
However, summer is a timewhen comfort moves in the opposite direction and coolness isthe desire and extra length notwelcomed. Because of this fact,coupled with the history of themidi, I will hesitate to predictthat the long skirts will be wornby all.
Fickle FashionThey will be appearing on the
market soon, in materials suchas denim (a big scene stealer forsummer), linen and other firmfabrics that lend themselves tothe bias cut and the wrap
Long S,kirts May Be Back··Then Again T'h,eiy May Not
It has been a little over two years since the midi fiascoalmost ruined the garment industry, but because fashion cannever be stagnant the industry is going to give the longerlength another whirl. Back in the mid-forties Dior tried thelonger look in what he calledthe "new look." It was a'buoyant, post - war periodwhen the American femalewas tired of rationing and short·ages. The luxury of yards andyards of material appealed toher and the fashion caught on.
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charity are trampled underfoot.No reconciliation is possiblewithout education to deep respect for man and nature, a respect that corresponds to God'sown way of acting with regardto man and all creatures,"
The board announced that anICCM General Assembly, to beheld in Rome in Octdber 1975,will discuss how these commitments will be carried on beyondthe Holy Year.
Mean·while, the ICCM has delegated to a small commission thetask of drawing up a memomndum for the wol'ld Synod of Bish,ops to be held next fall in Rome.The memorandum "will set forthsome requirements, charac~eris
tics of adults of our time, withregard to an evangelization thatwill respect particular local cuI,tures as much as possible and beat the same time open to theprospects of more intense relations in international life," thes~atement said.
The board also said the ICCMis planning a document in confirmation of its positions on thefamily, abortion and any attempton human life. The documentwill be presen,ted to the LatinAmerican meeting on Populationand Development to be held atQuito, Ecuador, next June.
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will emphasize ac::ive participation in the Holy Year and a rejection of "the spiri.t and practiceof materialism,"
ICCM board members fromGermany, France, 'Italy, Englandand the United States attendedthe meeting. In a statement issued at the end of the meeting,they said:. "In the harassed pursuit of alleged prosperity, the idea of Godand the supernatural disappearsand justice, brotherhood and
Each month the topic of discussion changes, During themonth devoted to communications,NBC commentator EdwinNewman spoke of his recent tripto the Soviet Union. And tennishustler Bobby Riggs, fresh fromhis defeat on the tennis courtat the hands of Billie Jean King,spoke during physical educationmonth.
Campus Minlistl'ryAssociation Meets
MIAMI (NC)-A national conference of over 250 Catholiccampus ministers was told that,to make their work more effective, they must "reproduce theirministry in others.
The Catholic Campus MinstryAssociation (CCMA) met atMarymount College in BocaRaton to consider how an individual priest or Sister can bemore effective on campus andwhat type of presence the Churchshould maintain there.
Father Gerard Egan, a psychologist from Loyola Universityof Chicago, told participantsthat they must "reproduce" theirministry by inv<llv,ing more par-ishioners in their work.
"You have to get a small number of men and women who arewilling, to m'inister, and trainthem to communicate, learn theskills of ministry to the sickand troubled~in other wordsreproduce your ministry inothers until you have a "ministering parish" where parishioners are helping one another,"
CINCINNATI (NC)~ver thenext two years the InternationalCouncil of Catholic Men (ICCM)will work to promote the HolyYeaT theme of "reconciliationamong men," according to FerdJ. Niehaus of Cincinnati, ICCMvice-president and immediatepast president of the U. S. National Council of Catholic Men.
Reporting on a recent meetingof the ICCM board in Cologne,Germany, Niehaus said that theorganization's 1974-75' program
Men's Council Urges Reconciliation
WOODWORKING, TOO: All is not the three R's in the Catholic school curriculum asboys enrolled in woodworking shop course at Bishop Feehan High School in Attleboroprove.
Educational F'acilities Center'. ,
Has New Materials, TechniquesCHICAGO (NC) - "We just
had to look to other places forhelp, and the center was theplace to go. There's nothing elselike it," said Father Patrick Farrell, director of curriculum forthe Chicago archdiocesan schoolboard.
The "cen'ter" is the Educational Facilities Center, often calleda "wish shop" for educators. Itis dedicated to exploring newideas in education. Members ofthe center's staff travel extensively throughout the U.S. andforeign countries, searching outnew ways of educating childrenin a modern age.
"Quite a few Catholic schoolsare beginning to use the centeras a place for teacher information," Father Farrell said. "Thename of the game in education 'is resources,"
Manufacturers of teaching aidsare invited to display theirgoods at the center, providingteachers with a kind of "grocerystore" of new educational technology.
The division of the Educational Facilities Center which dealswith displaying new productsand educational systems was theidea of the Chicago Catholicschool board, an example of theclose work between' the two institutions.
But the center also holdsworkshops and seminars for students working towards master'sdegrees in, the teaching field.College credit can be obtainedby attending the educationalgatherings.
asked, "Well, are they differentfrom me?"
Prison conditions should bea concern of the Church, SisterDonnelly suggested, because itis "supposed to ,be living theGospel of Jesus, and Jesus saidsimple little things like, 'I wasin prison and you visited me,'and 'Ransom the captive,' and 'Ihave come to pre'ach release tothe captive,"
Ministry to prisoners, sheadded, should not be left up topriests, Brothers, and Sistersbut should include lay personsalso.
,National CoalitionTo Fight School Aid
WASHINGTON (NC)-Twenty·eight educational, civ.ic and rE!!igious organizations that opposepublic aid to nonpublic schoolsbanded together here to form theNational Coalition for Pub!icEducation and Religious Liberty(National PEARL).
The new coalition, whichtakes its name from an organization of nonpublic school aidopponents in New York, includes'the National Education Association (NEA), the American CivilLibenties Union (ACLU), andAmericans United for the Separation of Church and State(AUCUS).
One small Catholic organization, the National Association ofLaity, is also a member.
National Pearl was created asa result of a conference in Washington last spring, when representatives of about 50 organizations which oppose nonpublicschool aid agreed that a nationalcoalition was needed to coordinate anti-aid efforts.
Vatican OfficesTo Cut Expenses
VATICAN CITY (NC) - Thecold wind of austerity is re..portedly blowing down the already drafty corridors of theVatican.
Although unannounced by official sources, it is reported thatCardinal' Jean Villot, Papal Secretary of State, has twice in thelast six months sent letters tothe heads of all Vatican officesurging them to cut expenses andto tighten budgets.
Because of widespread inflation in Italy, the Vatican inJanuary had to increase its cos~
of-living compensation paymentsfor an estimated 3,000 employes,including approximately 1,000laymen and 2,000 priests,Brothers and nuns.
Cardinal Villot's letter' la·mented the fact that the Vatican's income has dwindled ap·.preciably in recent years whileits expenses have continued toclimb, but gave no figures.
Acording to a report in theMilan daily, Corriere della Sera,salaries in the Vatican today,from the highest offices to thelowest, are far less than paid inRome or elsewhere in Italy. Acardinal, living in Rome, butwithout heading a specific office,draws approximately $900 amonth, while those who have anoffice in the Roman curia receive an extra $84 monthly.
SPRINGFIELD (NC) - TheAmerican prison system is amonstrous industry which man·ufactures "insane human beings,"according to Sister DorothyDonnelly, a professor of theologyat the Jesuit &:hool of Theologyin Berkeley, Calif. I
While hele in Missouri to address the St. Catherine Collegeprison refor.m program, SisterDonnelly, a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph, said that theidea of correction has been corrupted into a "monstrous industry" that does not correct or rehabilitate people.
Sister Donnelly teaches agraduate course entitled Captive Structures and takes herstudents to visit prisons as partof the course... ' ,
Only i5 to is per cent of theinmates in prison, she maintained, need to be confined because of "me~lical, mental, physical or psychological dif,ficulties."
By locking up the other 85 perc.ent, Sister Donm:lly added,America is "ruining all the goodhuman potential which our coun·try needs to develOp."
Instead of incarcerating convicted criminals, she suggestedgreater use of paroles. Harsherand longer prison sentences, shesaid, do not deter crimes.
"The answer to dealing withhuman beings, if you want themto be corrected and rehabilitated," she stated, "is hardly toput them under stress conditionsin which they have no chance todevelop human social relationsor new skills.
"If you put me in a cage for'even two days," she said, "I'dbe ready to claw you." She then
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The guide, available free tostudents, teachers, counselorsand parents, contains infomla·tion on financial aid for collegestudents in journalism or communications.
More information is availablefrom the "Journalism Scholarship Guide," The NewspaperFund, P.O. Box 300, Princeton,N.J. 08540. '
Pope Pau I StrEissesConcern for T.'uth'
VATICAN CITY (NC)-PopePaul VI, addressing the C<lmmunications committee of the German Bishop's Conference, summoned Christians to "energeticconcern for truth in information,and an undaunted rejection ofwhat is slanted and false," ,
He called it "doubly serious ifChristians heedless 0:: their re'sponsibilities and lack:ng criticalsense should accept and diffusefalse information,"
The Pope, who re(:eived' thecommittee and its episcopalmoderators Jan. 16 thanked its'members for accepting the Vat·ican's invitation to hold its studysession in Rome. The invitationhad been extended by the Pontifical Commission for SocialCommunications.
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Catholics and other Christianchurches and communities and"laid plans for future action."
Some emphasis wa·s given toa general review because "nineof the 24 member cardinals andbishops who took part were onlyappointed recently to the commission," he said.
American participants in themeetings included Bishop CharlesHelmsing of Kansas City, Mo.,and Bishop Ernest Primeau ofManchester, N.H.
Canon Moeller said that thenew document on common ecumenical endeavors which willcontain the guidelines, was examined in the light, not only ofthe teachings of Vatican CouncilII, but also with the assistanceof observations "coming frommany parts of the world andfrom various Christian organizations, including non-CllItholicones."
Another area of discussionwas the subject of "ministry inthe Church,"-how the idea ofministry is conceived by theCatholic Church and other Christian bodies, its differences, andsimilarities. For instance, a jointdocument will shortly be issuedby Catholic and Anglican representatives on ministry as the result of many years of study, Father Long said.
Canon Moeller noted that itwas stressed during the meetingsthat "until the discussions underway have ibeen deepened sufficiently and competent church authorities have reached a decision on them, changes in the(present) discipline of the Catholic Church are not permitted."
CU Sells LandTo Pay Debt
WASHINGTON (NC) - TheCatholic University of Americahas sold :35 acres of land here topay back a loan made three yearsago when the university wasundergoing financial troubles.
However, the university's financial situation today looksbrighter, according to RichardApplegate, the university's vicepresident for financial affairs.
"We think we've whipped theproblem that caused the deficit,"Applegate said.
The problem came to a climax,he said, during the 1968-69school year when expenses wererising at 13 per cent per year,income rising at 11 per cent, andstudent enroHment was dwindling.
"Things looked· pretty bleakabout three years ago," Applegate said. But with an internalreorganization and an increase instudent tuition, Applegate expla'ined, the situation stahilized.
The money that was borrowedthree years ago to help pull theuniversity out of its financialtroubles, he noted, had to be paidback, th:IS necessitating the saleof the land.
changes must .be made. Investments and production must begeared toward the basic necessities of our people; on the otherhand, it is necesary that unlimited acquisition be replaced byan effective distribution of property among all members ofsociety."
The canon reported on otherecumenical developments and onthe work of the unity secretariatat annual plenary meetings ofthe secretariat which ended Nov.14.
American Jesuit Father JohnLong, an official of the secretariat, said the 10-day meeting reoviewed much of the work byvarious joint commissions of
MEXICO CITY (NC) - TheMexican Bishops Conferencecriticized both ,capitalism andMarxism and declared that theChurch must defend humanrights in a statment of "TheChristian Commitment and Social and Political Options."
The document, which tooktwo years of research and con·tains 10 chapters and 197 articles, analyzes capitalism, social·ism and Marxism and urges political commitment by Christians. It also sets limits on thepolitical activities of priestswhile stressing their duty to denounce injustice.
The bishops said that "Christians must look for better formsof social organization, and indoing so, they will always finddifferent ideological tendencies.. .." In embracing different options, Christians must decide,the bishops said, whether these"are compatible or not withfaith. A Christian cannot makea choice disregarding the demands of faith."
"The abuses of private property" were criticized by the bishops. Christ demands that Christians search for a society inwhich all have participation andaccess to the goods society produces as well as the righ't toparticipate in economic and political decisions, they said..
"Private ownership of themeans of production is a possiblemeans of reaching a more justsociety if it is conceived withinthe values of the Gospel," the'statement said. "But to bringabout in such a system profound
Mexican Bishops' StatementCriticizes Capitalism, Marxism
Vatican Prepares Unity Guidelines
THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Jan. 31, 1974
VATICAN CITY (NC) - TheVatican Secretariat for ChristianUnity is praparing guidelines forecumenical action on the local,regional and national level.
Canon Charles Moeller, theBelgian secretary of the UnitySecretariat, reported that theguidelines are undergoing finalediting and should be ready "inthe not too distant future."
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HARD AT WORK: Far from desks-in-a-row classrooms of yesteryear is this brightprimary grade room at Espirito Santo School, Fall River, decorated by children's art work,books and pictures, but most of all by studious youngsters.
Protest Nixon'sSilence on Abortion
WASHINGTON (NC) - Morethan 30 members of the NationalYou t h Pro - Life Coalition(NYPLC) demonstrated Jan. 21in front of the White House inprotest to President RichardNixon's silence on abortion.
Tom Mooney, national director of the NYPLC, said that thedemonstration was planned at\terthe group was unable to arrangemeetngs with the President,Vice-President Gerald Ford, andSecretary of Health, Educationand Welfare Caspar Weinberger.
Requests for meetings weresent by letter to all three officials, Mooney said. A WhiteHouse staf.f member replied thatthe President was too busy, andno responses were received fromthe other two of£icials, Mooneysaid.
Although the President indicated that he was opposed toabortion in 1972 by refusing tosupport relaxed abortion laws,Mooney said, he has remainedsilent on the subject since then.
same time a sending Churcb. TheAsian missioner knows how itfelt and how it feel,s to have foreign non-Asian missioners in thelocal Church. This must enablethe Asian missioner to avoid themany past missionary mistakesand respond fully to the yearnings for freedom and human dignity, for taking pride in anAsian identity."
Canadian PrelateChalIengesYouth
OTTAWA (NC)-Young people were challenged by Archhishop Joseph A. Plourde of Ot·tawa to take posibive action toimprove social conditions that donot measure up to Christianstandards.
"Criticizing, faul-finding andblaming others is easy," thearchbishop said in his monthly,the Message.
"What is really difficult isdoing something to improve thethe situation. Believe me, thefamily, the Ohr.istian communityand society need more belJievingyoung people and fewer critics."
The archbishop criticized thedestruc'tive-protest mentality.
"Protest is not evil in itself," hesaid. "On the contrary, it forcespeople to stop and think, to reviseand purify their motives and objectives, to redress injustice. Butit must be justified .and, in its ex'Pression, respect the rights ofothers and Christian principles.Moreover, it must not be youronly concern, consuming allyour 'time and energy.
"When one is 16, 18 or 20years old, there has to be something better to do than tearingdown, undermining all tha,1. isgood, and dabbling in drugs andsex."
Most Christian communlitieshave organized sports and cultural activities for young people,he said. But those communities,he said, have pastoral projectstoo, such as assisting the poor,visiting the sick and pr.isoners,hel,piing senior citizens and thehandicapped.
"What exactly are you doingto meet 'these needs?" the archbishop asked young people.
Archbishop BClumVisits Reformatory
WASHINGTON (NC) - Archbishop William Baum of Washington visited inmates in WasHington's Lorton RefoI'matory andsaid that the archdiocese soonwill make concrete suggestionson prison reforms. .
During the visit t.o the suburban Virginia penal institution,the archbishop said that theArchdiocesan Task Force on Justice and Corrections "will becoming up with some concreteproposals ... probably in March."
The National Conference ofCatholic Bishops, ArchbishopSaum noted, issued a statementencouraging prison reform at itsmeeting in November. "Statements," he said, "must be followed by concrete action."
However, the first objectiveof the Church, the archbishopsaid, is to help the inmatesspiritually.
Asian Missioners Can Offer'Solutions to Area's Problems
HONG KONG (NC) -- Asia ofthe 1970s sees itself marked withstrong a'nd seemingly permanentvestiges of colonialism, capitalism, malnutrition, unemployment, ignorance and war, according to three Philippine Sisters who collaborated on a recent article in Dialogue, a quarterly magazine of the Hong Kongdiocese. The article was writtenby Maryknoll Sister TeresaDagdag.
Asians, the article said, arelooking for radical SOlutions, forways to change a system thatthey believe has perpetuatedsuch evils.
The reaction of the Asian missionary to the problems, the ar·ticle said, is one of sympathycoupled with hope, hope basedon a Christian feeling that theremust be a solution.
Asian missionaries, the articlestressed, are awakening to thefact that they have a great contribution to make to the Churchand that they can Emrich thealready existing Western tradition and can discover and offernew ways of being Christian inan Asian milieu. The growth inpride in the Asian identity is aspecial aspect of the Church inAsia' in the 1970s, the articleadded.
Addressing itself to non-Asianmissioners the article said: "Weneed to go deeper into discovering local atthudes, values and thebasic patterns of thought andaction. We need to go beyondsuperficial and formal ways ofexpressing tHese va'lues and attempt to discover the depth andmeaning of Asian values as soonas possible. We also need to attune ourselves to the things andsituations that affect our people,economy, politics, society and reIigion, and the trend these factorstake in relation to the Asianscene, and indeed the even biggerinternational picture."
Asian missioners in Asia, because of the many links theyhave with fellow Asians, areasked to sharpen their sensitivityto the present Church needswhich are familiar to them hecause they have been part ofttjeir own local Church milieu,the article said.
The Asian missioner, it continued, "has the advantage ofhaving experienced being partof a receiving Church and at the
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The conflict -began amost ayear ago when students protested policies followed by the administration 'and the high tuitioncosts. They also demanded thereinstatement of a student Whohad been expelled for earlierprotests.
The students want "true dialogue" with university authorities and "active participation" ofstudents in the university administration, which is opposed by therector.
The university buildings weretaken over bya group of some200 people demonstrators. Policeattempted to oust .them by firingtear gas wbich in some cases explodedagainst 'the bodies of thedemonstrators. Fifteen personswere seriously wounded andmore than 50 received cuts andbruises.
In an official sta,tement theuniversity said that the violenttakeover of the buildings revealed "subversion and ideological penetration as well as political partisanship that threatensthe university's autonomy andthe right of 'the Church to conduct ,its noble -educational .task."
University autonomy is acherished Latin American tradititm according to which no government authorities or law enforcement officials can enter auniversity's campus. This is intended to protect the universityas a place for the free exchangeof all ideas and for objectiveacademic investigation. The autonomy of the universities hasnot been respec'ted in manycountries.
Bishop Eugenio Peyrou ofComodoro Rivadavia, in whosediocese the university is located,and Father Benigno Roldan, rector of the 500-student university, 'are in Buenos Aires meeting withhigh off.icials of the Peronist government.
being swayed by a one-sidedpropaganda."
The note says it is essentialto be aware of "the educationand propaganda campaigns, indeed, even pressures,' which willbe set in motion in a variety ofways by public and private organizations."
Essential VllluesPeople must "develop their
critical sense" in the face ofa "b!1rrage of information, statistics and varying opinions."
The laity, and especially organizations of th(~ Christianlaity, "should be encouraged to
'play their part in the politicaland cultural activities takingplace in different areas." EachCatholic organization is left free"to show imagination in promoting the esential values inquestion."
The note listed the essentialvalues as: "the meaning of procreation, the responsibility ofthose who exercise it, respectfor life and its transmission, thenature of the marriage act,which must remain open to thetransmission of life; the right tolife, the rights of the family asthe fundamental cell of society,the quality of life, the nature andthe just demands of the nationaland international commongood."
Those are values emphasizedby Pope Paul in his encyclicalHumanae Vitae and his encyclical on international justice andhuman development, PopulorumProgressio.
VATICAN CITY (NC) - TheVatican, in a confidential noteto bishops throughout the world,warns that the 1974 World Population Year may prompt someCatholics "to develop conceptstha·t are divergent from those ofthe magisterium," the teachingauthority of the Church.
It also cautioned against atemptation "to think that thetime has come for the Churchto revise her positions." Documents such as Pope Paul's anticontraceptive encyclical Bumanae Vitae "show how' theteaching of the Church is firm,"the 5,OOO-word note asserts.
"Those who deal with suchsubjects without heeding the authentic, established teaching cannot claim to represent Catholicviewpoints."
Vatican Warns on ParticipatingIn World P,opulation Year
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The note was sent by the papal secretariat of state in midOctober to all papal nuncios andapostolic delegates in the world.Those papal representativeswere to hand the note on to thelocal bishops by way of the bishops' conferences.
TIre note was drafted by theVatican Committee for the Family and completed by the state'secretariat.
Bishops' conferences must"closely analyze and pass judgment" on the moral aspects ofundertakings connected with thePopulation Y~ar, the Vaticannote says, "thus protectingChristians from the danger of
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mural they will enter in art contest on theme. "Why go to Catholic schools?" From left,Linda Baillargeon, Dianne Czerwonka, Kim Shea, Kathleen Hackett, Michael Archambault,Mark Shea, Brian Cheney.' ,
COMODORO RIVADAVIA(NC)-The Argentine ministry of
,education has decided .to takeover the Catholic San Juan BoscoUniversity of 'Patagonia 'after alongstanding conflict betweenstudents and administrationerupted into violence.
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Church RadioVoice in Asia
HONG KONG (NC)-A radiovoice of the Church will soonbe heard throughout south andeast Asia-including mainlandChina.
Using the renovated facilitiesof the Church-owned, Manilabased Radio Veritas, the Feder'ation of Asia Bishop' Conferences (FABC) will assume fullcontrol and respor.sibility for theoverseas broadcasts.
A draft agreemp.nt on thatbetween the FABC and the Philippine Bishops' Conference wasdrawn up here at a meeting ofbishops' representatives for social communications from 12Asian countries. The Philippinebishops will remain responsiblefor broadcasts in their owncountry.
The agreement will be submitted to each bishops' conference and is expected to be finalized at the FABC meeting tobe held in April in Taiwan.
Radio Veritas has faced manylegal, ,financial, and, technicaldi~ficulties since its est'ablishment in 1969.
Originally intended for broadcasting throughout the area, theonly places t~at it reached con- I
sistently outside the Philippineswere Korea, Japan and Siberia.
Rev. Raymond E. Brown, S.S.,noted Script!Jre scholar, willconduct a day-long ChristianCulture Institute at John Hancock Hall, 180 Berkeley Street,Boston, on Saturday, 'March 9,on the topic, "Who Do Men SayThat I Am?" -'an evaluation ofJesus in the New Testament. '
A Professor of Biblical Studiesat Union Theological Seminary,New York.' Father Brown iscurrently visiting professor ofNew Testament at the BiblicalInstitute, Rome, and the onlyAmerican member of the Pontifical Biblical Commission.
Biblical CommentariesHe has written many commen-,
taries on ,the Bible, in~luding histwo-volume book, The GospelAccording to John; his otherwritings include books on thepriesthood, resurrection, religious education, and the Ilivinityof Jesus Christ. Father Brownis a member 'of many nationaland international scholarlygroups and organizations and was,past President of the CatholicBiblical Association.
The Institute,' beginning at 9A.M. and concluding at 4:30P.M., will include three lecturesby Father Brown and open discussion by participants, with aview to applying Biblical con·cepts to everyday life.
Admission to the March 9Institute is by pre-registration.Information may be obtained bycontacting Rev. Robert F. Quinn,C.S.P., P. O. 'Box 8579, J.F.KStation, Boston, Ma. 02114, telephone 617-523-6083.
Urges SupportFor Pro-Life Lcnv
OHARLESTON (NC) - BishopErnest L. Unterkoefler ofCharleston h~s requested that allAmericans urge their state legislatures to petition Congress forthe passage of a pro-I'iie amendment'.
Ina pastoral letter, the SouthCarolina prelate stated that abortion is not simply a Catholic issue, but "involved principleswhich cut across religious lines."
CalHng abortion a "blot on national life," the South Carolinabishop reasserted that "thelife of every human 'being is sacred from conception to death."
Bishop Unterkoefler, -citing theSupreme Court's Jan. 22, 1973,abortion ruling, said that "nocourt, no legislative -body, no individual can. assign less valueto the life of any individual orclass of human beings. The courtclearly exceeded its compE!tence."
BALTIMORE (NC) - A Catholic and a Lutheran hospital,which had been the focus of anabortive Pcllicy dis,pute, have.worked out a proposal to buildtwo hospital buildings under acooperative plan.
Bon Secours and Lutheran hospitals have agreed upon a "co- ,operative sharing of resources"in the combined areas ,of WestBaltimore and suburban' Howard County.
The controversy began lastJuly when Lutheran Hospitalwas favored over Bon Secoursfor a permit to build for morebed space.
The Lutheran Hospital hadagreed to perform abortions,and Bon Secours had refused.The state health departmenteventually favored Lutheran forthe building rights but said thatthe abortion issue did not influence the decision.
But Bon Secours Hospital officials were skeptical and immediately announced plans to appeal the decision.
Now that the cooperative proposal has been submitted, Dr.Neil Solomon, secretary of theState Department of Health, willmake the final administra,tivedecision.
Under the proposal, LutheranHospital would construct a 180bed hospital in Howard Countystarting in September and BonSecours would build its facilityof 100 beds adjacent to it inSeptember 1975.
No sHe location is mentionedin the memorandum drawn upby legal counsels representingeach of the hospitals. A keyclause in the memorandum says"each of the institutions shallprovide medical care consistentwith the theological tenets ofeach."
Joseph G. Finnel'ty, Jr., thelawyer for Bon SecOUI'S, said theclause would allow LutheranHospital to perform abortionsand sterilizations, while Bon Secours would not have to acceptsuch cases.
The agreement provides thatthe four hospitals-the two existing hospi,tals in Baltimore andthe two proposed in the suburban area-"operate together toprevent duplication of services.
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Their findings suggest, the sooiologists said, that Catholicschools may have worked betterthan most people thought.
Father Greeley and McCreadymaintained, however, that theirfindings may have come too latebecause, among Catholic educa·tors, "the deterioration of selfconfidence is such now that itis improbable that any good newscan reverse the process."
D'Alessio said the GreeleyMcCready data "confirm thatCath{)lic schools make a significant difference in the lives oftheir students."
He denied, however, their contention that the schools are inan irreversible decline. The commitment and willingness of parents to accept a share of responsibillity for the schools, he said,makes such a contention dubious.
Sulpicians ProposeNew Directions
BAL~IMORE (NC) - Delegates to a meeting of SulpicanFathers here have proposedchanges in seminary training tokeep up with changing modes ofministry and religious life.
The 25 delegates used datafrom bishops' studies and theirown research over the past twoyears in making decisions forchanges.
"The Sulpicans are being urgedto provide more concentratedpastoral training for priests," according to a statement releasedfrom the Sulpican provincialhouse here.
Other demands center on better spiritual formation "whichprepares priests to cope with acontemporary spiritual crisis inboth Church and society," thestatement continued.
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This categ{)ry, they said, "facessquarely the problem of evil ...does not try to cover it over, butstill believes good to be stronger
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While welcoming the findingby Father Andrew Greeley andWilliam C. McCready that Catholics who attend Catholicschools are more "hopeful" thanthose who do not, Dr. Edward R.D'Alessio, director of the USCCdivision of elementary and secondary education, cited recentsurvey results presenting a picture "of Catholic educators whofirmly believe in Catholicschools and intend to continuein the Catholic school business."
The Greeley-McCready findings were published in the Jan.11 issue of the National CatholicReporter. Their data indicatedthat Catholics who attendedboth Catholic elementary andsecondary schools are almosttwice as likely as those who attended public schools to belong
WASHINGTON (NC)-A U. S.Catholic Conference (USCC)official has objected to the recent claim by two Catholic sociologists that "many of thosewho staff and administer Cath·olic· schools today seem willingno longer to believe in what theyare doing."
Educators' Loss of Morale Denied
YOUNG SCIENTISTS: Joseph Walent, seventh grade science teacher, demonstratesprinciple to junior high schoolers at Taunton Catholic Middle School.
THE ANCt-tOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Jan. 31, 1974 11
Need AmendmentTo Protect Unborn
NEW YORK (NC)-"A constitutional amendment to protectthe life of the unborn child isessential and urgently needed,"Cardinal Terence Cooke of NewYork told an audience filling St.Patrick's Cathedral here Jan. 13.
Cardinal Cooke noted theforthcoming anniversary of theU. S. Supreme Court's Jan, 22,1973 decisions "that cheapenedrespect for human life by allowing aboJ:1tion on demand."
"In the -face of that decision,we must reaffirm that what islegal is not necessarily moral,"he said. He charged that "anaboJ:1tion mentality is widespread" in America and "a eu·thanasia mentality is beingfoisted upon society."
"I call upon the Catholic people of New York and all menand women who stand for lifeto be advocates for life," he saidduring the New York archdiocesan family life celebration' Sunday afternoon.
children in religion classes. Withone child, I didn't discuss it atall, just handed it to her andasked her to write a story aboutit. She came up with a coherentpiece on how the two birds wererelated, an important point onher level of understanding.
Our own youngest child, justfive, had a totally different perspective, one that fits his pre·cognitive way of thinking. He deduced immediately that "thecat killed a bird. l
' Hence, alldead birds are caused by cats.
On the reverse side of thepaper was a .tranquil cemeteryscene of two tombstones. Iasked my oldest if they sawany relation betwen the bird andcemetery photos. Our I2~lear-old,
who is beginning to abstract,pointed out that they were actually the same and that both"make you think about whenyou die,"
Quiet Parks
Our eight-year-old turned theidea of a cemetery from a placefor the dead to a place for theliving "because they're so peacefuL" Many parents know thatchildren love to visit cemeteriesbecause of their aura of tranquility and reverence. We gotinto quite a family discussion
I then on the purpose of the cemetery, and my husband and Iwere surprised to learn that allour children regard t·hem moreas quiet parks for the enjoymentof the living than as depositoriesfor the dead.
As parents and as teachers, Ithink we need to be aware ofthis burgeoning interest in dea.thon the part of our children andhelp them express their feelingsabout it. We draw them out, ex·pose their fears, and share ourthoughts with them about deathand af.ter-life. We can take themon field trips to cemeteries, ifneed be. We can do just about
. everything but ignore the subject, and that's what most of u'>are doing.
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Cult RevivedREYKJAVIK (NC) - An an
cient Scandinavion cult that in·cludes the gods Woden andThor has been revived here inIceland and made legal by theministry of justice and churchaf,fairs. The cult's congregation-wit!} aJbout 100 members-isnow entitled to give names tochildren and to perform marr:iages and other religious cereemonies.
Dead Bird
Still, when the Know YourFaith section of our diocesanpaper printed an excellent serieson death a couple of months ago,I noticed our eight-year-olddrawn to a picture of a dead birdbeing watched over by a livecompanion.
"Isn't it sad?" he asked me.I nodded and nothing was saidfor a few minutes as he continued to stare at it.
Finally, he turned to me andsaid, "I think I feel sorrier for.the bird that's alive t.han the onethat's dead."
"Why?""Well, the one that's dead.
knows where he is but the onewho loves him doesn't knowwhere he ~s."
Never one to miss an advan·tage, I u'sed the photo with other
Ition for them. (Now childrenknow more about sex: than theirparents, so they've lost a lot ofinterest.)
Colleges, noting an upsurgeof interest in death and the hereafter, are finding standing roo~
only in courses on the subject.It's a curious turn of events allthe way around.
Our own children are nostrangers to death. By sometwist of fate, our block has hadan unusual number of youngdeaths. Two 38-year-old fathersdied during an open heart surgery; one college boy was killedin an auto accident; a IZ-yearold baby sitter came home fromschool sick and died less than aday later of a strange and sudden disease; a three-year-old boydied of cancer; and our goodfriend and neighbor, a wife of43, died of Hodgkins disease.All of this occurred within aseven-year period in one blockin a culture which has presumably controlled disease.
Parents Can Help ChildrenExpress Selves on Death
Death has become a taboo in our society, a culturethat has been successful in eliminating many of the oldso-called natural causes of death. In our national reluctanceto discuss and admit to death, a curious phenomenon istaking place. The more wehide the fact of death, themore interest our childrenshow in it. It's a lot likesex used to be, in fact. Childrensensed their parents' embarrassment and distaste for discussingsex, so it held a natural attrac-
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LEARNING ENGLISH: Special equipment to aid immigrant children in learning Englishis provided at Espirito Santo School, F.all River, where children are brought into regularschool program as rapidly as possible.
JRLC's interests during thislegislative session include astrong gun control measure andan environment bill which wouldharness unrestricted productionof cans. In the past two yearsthe group has wr,itten, telephoned, leafletted, and buttonholed state' legislators on' issuesas varied as penal reform, freebusing for senior citizens, rurallife questions and nursing homereform.
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Ponder Husbands'Rights in' Abortion
WASHINGTON (NC) - TheSupreme Court has announcedthat within a few weeks it willdecide whether to hear arguments on ·the issue of whatrigqts a prospective father hasover an unborn child.
Petitions have been filed herewhich ask for a review of aFlorida decision declaring thatfatheJ1s have no right to preventa woman from having an abortion.
- A federal court in Floridastruck down parts of a Floridalaw requiring ·it woman to gether husband's consent-or if sheis unmarried and under IS-herparent's consent before havingan abortion.
The three-judge federal courtsaid .that the U.S. Supreme
. Court's Jan. 22 decision on abortilin made it clear that the statecannot interfere with a woman'sdecision to have an abortion inthe first six months of pregnancy.
goal this session is the JointRe)iigious Legislative Coalition(JRLC), a two-year-old ecumenical church lobby sponsored bythe Minnesota Catholic Confer-·ence, the Minnesota Council ofChurches and the MinnesotaJoint Community RelationsCouncil.
The ethics bill, which wouldmonitor campaign contributionsand candidates' finances, wouldalso furnish partial state financing of campaigns for state offices. JRLC chose the bill because it believes that America'sJudeo-Christian principles mustbe reflected in its government.. But JRLC had another reason
for choosing the ethics bill. Lastyear ofticial records showed thatJRLC was the state's highestspending lobby, with expenditureof $3,000. "That's a joke," saidJohn Carr, a member of the Urban Affairs Commission if theSt. Paul-Minneapolis archdiocese,who works closely with JRLC."That figure doesn't amount toone-tenth of what some lobbyistshave spent." Both Carr andJRLC believe that the lobbyingregulations in the ethics billcould be among its most important features.
Peace Pilgrimage. ,
To Begin in Japan'TOKYO (NC)-A Pilgrimage
for Peace with the InternationalPilgrimage Virgin Statue will begin here Jan. 24 and will visitHiroshima, several cities inVietnam and Jerusalelm.
Sponsored by the Blue Armyof Our Lady of Fatima, a groupseeking world peace throughprayer, the statue has visitedmost of the countries of theworld in:a crusade for peace.'
After visiting the peace shrinein Hiroshima, the statue will goto the Catholic basilica in Saigonand then to Tay Ninh where itwill be displayed at the HolySee of Caodaiss, a modern religious cult in Vietnam.
Lobby Pushes Ethics Bill
ST. GEORGE,WESTPORT
The Couples Club will sponsora Valentine dance at 8 P.M. Saturday, Feb. 16 in the school hall.The public is invited, and musicwill be by the Jim Brock Orchestr. Refreshments will be served.Planning the event are Mr. andMrs. Fred Mulcairns, aided byMr. and Mrs. Manny Fernandes.
SACRED HEART,NEW. BEDFORD
Six boys will receive the CubScout Parvuli Dei award at 10A.M. Mas's Sunday, Feb. 10. Refreshments for families andfriends will follow in the parishcenter.
Requirements for the awardincluded attending Mass at adifferent church for eight consec- 'utive weeks, eight hours of religious instruction, collection ofclothing and making of gifts forthe needy.
Receiving the award will beJohn Rainville, James Mercier,Robert Roy, Raymond Gobeil,Brian Belanger and Joseph Bancroft.
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OUR LADY OF MT. CARMEL,NEW BEDFORD
The PTA will hold a Valentinedance from 8 to midnight Saturday, Feb. 9 at the Kennedy Center. Music will be by Gilly Ferro.Special prizes will be awardedand· a continental brejkfastserved, according to announcement made by Richard Barboza,chairman.
EcumenicalST. PAUL (NC)-ln the Min
nesota state capital, lobbying. groups are rarely newsmakers
except when their top legislativepriority is a bill which wouldtighten regulations on 'lobbyiststhemselves.
One such lobby which haschosen Minnesota',s proposedlegislative ethics bill as its prime
HOLY REDEEMER,CHATHAM
"By popular request~' theWomen's Guild will offer a repeat performance of a pot lucksupper'at 6 P.M. Saturday, Feb.2 in the church auditorium onHighland Avenue. Red heartsflowers, together with a "sentimental sing-along" will create afestive, atmosphere for parishioners and friends at the affair.said Mrs. Andrew W. Mikita,guild president. Executive boatdmembers will form the supperarrangements committee.
SANTO CHRISTO,PALL RIVER
Correcting two contradictoryannouncements in last week'sAnchor, the Council of CatholicWomen will hold its installationbanquet at, 4:30 P.M. Sunday,Feb. 3 at the Coachmen restaurant. Busses will leave thechurch for the event at 4 P.M.
HOLY NAME,FALL RIVER
The Women's Guild announcesa Valentine dance for 8 to midnight', Saturday, Feb. 9 in theschool auditorium. Tickets areavailable from guild officersand board members or at therectory. Music will be by the ArtPerry band and there will be afloor show.
The unit has 'scheduled anopen meeting for 8 P.M. Tuesday, Feb. q, also in the hall. Entertainment will be by Rev.Andre ,Patenaude, M.S., singer,composer and guitarist. Refreshments will be served.
Skiers meet at 5:30 P.M. in theschool yard on Wednesdays, returning from Kleine Innsbruckski resort by 11 P.M.
Rev. Edmund J. Fitzgerald,recently transferred from the parish to a chaplaincy at St. Anne's'Hospital, will celebrate the 5P.M. Ma,ss Sunday, Feb. 10 atHoly Name Church. A receptionin his honor will follow in theschool hall.
ST. ANN,RAYNHAM
The Ladies Guild will sponsora whist party in the church at8 tomorrow night. Cochairmenare Mrs. Eileen Alden and Mrs.Anna Keough.
SS. PETER AND PAUL,FALL RIVER
The Home and School Organization will hold a rummagesale in the school basement from6 to 8 P.M. today and from 1 to,4 P.M. tomorrow. The BentonStreet entrance should' be used.
ST. ANNE,FALL RIVER
Bingo is played at 7 P.M. eachWednesday in the school.
The by-laws committee of theparish board of education willmeet at 7:30 P.M. Monday, Feb.4 in the rectory meeting room.'
OUR LADY OF FATIMANEW BEDFORD
1\ business session and ceramics class will feature the meetingof the Women's Guild scheduledfor 8 p.m. Tuesday, .Feb. 5 in theparish hall. The unit will sponsor a Sweetheart Dance and buffet Saturday" Feb. 16, withMrs. Barbara Brightman andMris. Janice Fredette in charge ofarrangements. Tickets may bereserved by calling telephone995-9998 or 995-4571.
Publicity chairmen of parillh organizations.r. liked to submit news Items for thiscolumn to The Anchor, P. O. Box 7, 'FallRiver 02722. Name of city or town shouldbe Included, as we,ll as full dates of all'activities. Please send news I)f future ratherthan past events.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI,NEW BEDFORD
The Women's Guild sponsoreda tea to welcome Rev. AlexanderZichello, new pastor. February,activities will, include a potlucksupper and a' Snowflake Ball,spOnsored by the Men's League,the latter scheduled for Friday,Feb. 8 from 8 to midnight at theNew Bedford Country Club.
ST. PATRICK,SOMERSET
A three-part lecture series onthe history of the Mass will begiven by Rev; Joseph Maguire onMonday evenings at '7:30 at theFisher House, beginning Feb. 4.
All are urged to attend.Henceforward candidates for
confirmation in the parish mustbe at least high school sophomores' and must complete atwo-year course of preparationfor reception of the sacrament.Reasons for the change wereexplained to interested parentsat a meeting held last week.
The Women's Guild, will holda calendar party Tuesday night,F~b. 5. Members may bringguests.
A newly-organized CouplesClub will meet at 8 P.M. Thursday, Feb. 7 in the fisher Houseand will sponsor an intr<lductorydance Saturday night, Feb. 16at the Old Town Hall. Music willbe by the Celebrities and ticketsmust be obtained in advancefrom a member of the planningcommittee.
ST. JOSEPH,TAUNTON
The Women's Guild will meetTuesday, Feb. 5 with Mrs. EstelleMargarido as hostess. Bingo willfollow a business session. A parish penny sale is scheduled forMonday and Tuesday, Feb. 18and 19.
ST. ANNE,NEW BEDFORD
A Winter Carnival dance andbarbecued chicken supper will beheld at the school hall Saturdaynight, Feb. 2, with supper servedat 7:30 P.M. and dancing from9 P.M. to 1 A.M. Music will beby the Silverliners, and chairmenare Mr. and Mrs. RaymondJacques, with Mrs. Robert Lambalot in charge of tickets.
ST. JOSEPH,ATTLEBORO
A planning meeting for a parish variety show will be held at8 P.M. Tuesday, Feb. 5 in theschool building.
Members of the B.E.E. Peoplewill leave the church at 5:30P.M. Saturday, Feb. 2 to attenda Mass in Worcester celebratedby Rev. Richard Delisle, M.S.,formerly of La Salette' Shrine,Attleboro.
Boy Scout Troop 37 will participate in a ciimping trip thisweekend at Camp Willard.
Knights of the Altar will holda "reward trip" tomorrow nightfor those members most faithfulin fulfjIling their duties. The program wilr include attendance at"Showtime Follies" in Pawtucket, a "sleepover" in the parishschool and breakfast Saturdaymorning.
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Christians Cannot Ignore Poverty Poverty and ReUgious Education
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Plan InternationalAssembly in Rome
WASHINGTON (NC) - TheConsortium Perfectae Caritatis,an organization founded herein 1971 by U.S. and Canadiannuns, will hold its first international assembly in Rome Feb.23-March 4.
The subject of the m~eting
will be "The Woman Religious,a Minister of Fai,th." Speakerswill aim at presenting a panoramic study of the special ministry that the Religious life ofwomen affords the Church ofthe 1970s.
The stated purposes of theConsortium Perfectae- Caritatis(AssocillJ~ion of Perfect Love) areto bring together those who accept the Second Vatican Council's decrees on the Religiouslife, subsequent papal statementsand directives from the Vatican's Congregation for Religiousand to communicate and sharewj,tJ} each other experiences inimplementing the conciliar planof renewa'1 of the Religious life.
There's 11 convenientlocations in AttleboroFalls. Mansfield. NorthAttleboro. North Dighton.North Easton. Norton.Raynham. and Taunton.
a life that was so foreign to him.At one point in his exploration,he noticed a small girl playingin the street without shoes. Ashe watched her, he thought ofhis own younger sister who hada closet full of shoes at home.He was so touched by the experience that he quickly droveto a store, bought a doll, anddrove back to find the littlegirl. But she was gone.
Several other teenagers wentback to one of the houses theyhad vhsited. It belonged to a crippled old man. The youngstershad noticed how cold it was in·side on their first visit, andrealized the old man could notdo much about the situation.So they spent about eight Saturdays fixing up his house. Theybought an old, used stove, andinstalled it, replaced brokenwindows, insulated the doors,and then painted the whole interior of the house. They did
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Those were some of the observations of a teenage groupwho visited a section of the citywhere they had never been before. The visit to homes of poorpersons had a mixed impact onthe group. Their first impressions seemed to center on theapparent paradox of obviouslypoor homes with big televisionsets and large cars out front.The visit brought these middleclass suburban youth to face newquestions arising out of a firsthand meeting with disadvantaged inner·city families.
In the following weeks of relgion classes, the teenagers continuea to discuss their experience. They did research intocauses of poverty and unemployment, the psychological effectsof poverty and discrimination,and programs devised to copewith poverty in an affluent society. They searched the Gospelsand other Christian sources todiscover what Christ and theChurch taught about poverty.Gradually they deepened theirunderstanding of the complex.reality of poverty. To some ex.tent their attitudes towards thepoor - and the wealthychanged.
Initiative
What most impressed me werethe spontaneous things they didoutside of the requirements oftheir religion class. One boy tookan afternoon to 'become moreclosely acquainted with the moreimpoverished sections of thecity. He drove and walked alone,attempting to feel his way into
Diocese to HelpFuel Cost Victims
RICHMOND (NC)-The Richmond diocese is making an effort to help ensure that poorfamilies do not go without heatbecause of the soaring cost offuel.
At the recommendation of thediocesan priests council, BishopWalter F. Sullivan decided toask parishes to establish emergency fuel funds for the poor intheir communities.
Bishop Sullivan, apostolic administrator of the diocese, alsomarking $2,500 as an emergencyfuel supplement fund from whichparishes and social service agencies of the diocese can draw tohelp meet the needs of the poor.
"How come poor people havebig TV _sets?" That's the first,time I went into somebody'shouse and found it col~er insidethan outside:' "What struck meright off were the big cars parkedin front of those dingy houses."
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CHAMPLIN
Criticizes QualityOf Television
NOTRE DAME (NC) - Sen.Vance Hartke (D-Ind.) told agroup of bishops here that thereis an urgent need to improvethe content and quality of contempoI'ary television.
Hartke spoke at commencement ceremonies at which 10bishops received graduation certificates from the Bishop's Communication Institute. here. Archbishop Joseph L. Bernardin ofCincinnati, chairman of the U. S.Catholic Conference Communication Committee, presented thecertificates.
"If there is one overridingchallenge which television mustface," Hartke said in his commencement address, "it is theneed to bring people closer together."
He said that television couldalso improve people's association with each other rather thandiscourage such association. "Instead of fragmenting people, television can pull us closer together and make us more tolerant of each other," he said.
thing that seems to be happening now in this country-but itwill not be cured until the rich
'determine that it shall be.
POOR STILL WITH US: Banners no longer wave in thewar on poverty and the war itself seems to have ended ina ceasefire. Children and chickens roam in the muddy frontyard of a tenant farmer's home in the Mississippi delta country of eastern Arkansas. NC Photo.
fact is that poverty imposes somany disadvantages on the poorthat they are nearly powerless toescape from poverty withouthelp. Pulling oneself up by one'sboot-straps is a reasonable selfhelp formula only for the manwho has boots.
The first and essential requirement for eliminating poverty inthis country and aboard is thatthe rest of us must really want
. the poor to become non-poor. Nodoubt many affluent Americanswould insist that they do desirethis. Unfortunately, however,their "desire" is not always expressed in action.
Sharing: The AnswerThere is no secret about why
this is so. The plain fact is thatif the lot of the poor is to im·prove, it will be necessary forthe rich to share more of whatthey have-and sharing does notcome easily. The thought of actually giving up some of ourwealth is hard for most of uswho always were, at heart, pacifists in the war on poverty.
Poverty in the midst of plenty is one of the most painfulparadoxes of our country andindeed of the entire contemporary world. It is a scandal whichno Christian can ignore and forwhich Christians share much ofthe blame. Poverty dm be ignored and hushed up - some-
Does that mean that the problem of poverty has been solved?Hardly. It only means that poverty and the poor, having enJoyed their brief time in thespotlight of attention from public figures and the media, outstayed their welcome: and havebeen elbowed off the stage. Itis not the first time this hashappened, nor is it likely tobe the last.
The poor are still there-between 25 million and 29 millionof them in the United Statesalone, even according to thegovernment's unrealistically lowdefinition of poverty, These arethe people to whom the 1971World Synod of Bishops referredas "silent, indeed voiceless, victims of injustice."
Poor Are Powerless
Even worse than the fact ofpoverty is the attitude of thenon-poor. Many people are notmerely indifferen t to the poorbut actively hostile. They seemto have a strange notion aboutthe subject of poverty-the notion that poverty is the l fault ofthe poor themselves and thatto be poor is the sign of ,badmoral character.
How else explain the slightingremarks so casually and callously made about the poor? "Ifthose people were good for anything, they would take care ofthemselves instead of lookingfor handouts." 01': "There'snothing wrong with people likethem that a little hard workwouldn't cure."
The central fact about poverty, both within the UnitedStates and on the internationallevel, is that it is not the faultof the poor. A second crucial
Supports AbortionWASHINGTON (NC) - A co
alition of 18 religious organizations has been formed here tocombat attempts to nullify theU. S. Supreme Court's decisionlegalizing abortion. The ReligiousCoalition for Abortion Rights,according to the chairwoman,Mrs. Ray M.S. TucJ<er, will begin to form religious coalitionsin key states in which legislative bills threaten to restrict thecourt's decision str,iking downmost abortion laws.
Whatever happened to poverty?
A headline-grabber in theI960s, the problem of povertyhas receded into relative obscurity in the United States today.Banners no longer wave in thewar on poverty and the war itself seems to have ended in aceasefire.
By
RUSSELL
SHAW
14 THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Jan. 31, 1974 Pope Paul CitesChurch InterestIn Music
VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pilgrims attending Pope Paul's audience Jan. 15 here were treatedto a concert by the orchestraand chorus of the Rome Opera.
Pope Paul was among themost appreciative listeners, andtold the orchestra and chorusthat his thanks went to them "asa sign of interest with whichthe Church has always looked onyour profession."
He spoke to the musicians of"the influence you can exercisein educating and forming peoplein good and honest sentimentsand in the love of beauty andtruth." .
The Pope continued: "For art,true art in all its expressions,has this lofty. task of liftingminds above the impressions,of the senses to reach the realmof the spirit, which, though mysterious, is more real, and whichis tailored to man.
"So we put forward the wishthat you will always be faithfulto this ideal of your art and ofyour mission. We hope you willnever yield to unhealthy tastesor to the seductions of deoadentfashions. Rather we ,hope youwill be always conscious of your'responsibilities and always at theservice of man, who continuallyneeds to be helped and taughtto think correctly, to perceiveclearly and to live well."
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, Ao'\ark AnniversaryOf Abortion Ru Hng
WASHINGTON (NC) - Thefirst anniversary of the U. S.Supreme Court's Jan. '22, 1973,abortion ruling will be markedhere with a march and gatheringat the Capitol, while thousandsof red' roses are sent to Congressmen.
The National March for LifeCommittee, a group which is
,planning activities for the anniversary, will sponsor a marchtermed a "circle of Iife"-around_the Capitol '¥hile another circleof Iife-composed of represen'tatives from each Congressionaldistrict in the U. S.-is formedunder the Capitol's rotunda.
After the march, both gmupswill assemble at the west frontof the Capitol for a rally featuring national pro-life speakersand legislative leaders.
Planners of the gathering hopeto send red roses-the pro-lifemovement's symbol of Iife--'-toevery senator and representative.
erty that it is as if Christ Himself were crying O;.lt in thesepoor to beg the charity of thedisciples" (Church in World, 88).-
The Council goes on to remind us that "it is the duty ofthe whole People of God, following the word a,'ld exampleof the' bishops, to do their utmost to alleviate the sufferingsof the modern age." It is onetask of religious educaHon tohelp Christians learn about andfulfill this challenge.. For thatone group of teenagers, comingface to face with poverty intheir 'own city was a first step inmeeting Christ's challenge' tohelp the poor.
Named to PriestlyLife Committee
WASHINGTON (NC) - Ninebishops have been named members of the U:S. Bishops' Committee on pj-.iestly Life and Ministry, and a search was announced for selection of a priestas executive director of its office.
Bishop Thomas J. Grady, committee chairman, made these announcements in letters to alIU.S. bishops and presidents ofpriests' senates in the coun)r'y.
Bishop Grady said there willbe a broad' consultation amongbishops and priests to identifycandidates to be named priestadvisors and to select a priestto serve as executive director of,the Office of Priestly Life andMinistry.
"The bishops' Committee onPriestly Life and Ministry hasthe potential to make an important contribution to the lifeof .the Church in the UnitedStates," he told the bishops."We would like to make a goodbeginning. We appreciate yourhelp and the help of your
. priests."
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this completely on their owninitiative.
In Touch With Life
The whole experience 'of visiting disadvantaged families andthen dealing with their own reactions to poverty was a practical, creative model of religiouseducation that is in touch withlife. Some of their reactions weretypically adolescent in theiridealism and directness. Yet thepersonal, immediate involvementmotivated a great deal of study,discussion, action, and prayer.Through experience they grappled with the reality of povertyand the Christian response to it. '
Religious educators, beginningwith those who are most effective, namely parents, need tohelp their feHow Christians become more aware of and responsive to poverty. The SecondVatican Council urges this "sincethe greater part of th(~ world isstill suffering from so much pov-
Speakers Chos«~n
For ConferenceST. LOUIS (NC)-Three lead
ing Catholic spokesmen will address the 1974 Cardinal Mindszenty Foundation LeadershipConference F~b. 22-24 here.
Jesuit Father Daniel Lyons,editor-at-Iarge for' Twin Circleand the National Catholic Register, will head a panel on "Aggressive Atheism in the UnitedStates."
Also addressing the convention wiII be Clarence Manion,former dean of the Universityof Notre Dame's College of Law,who wiII speak on "The Key toPeace and Freedom."
Dale Francis, editor and pub- ,Iisher of The National CatholicRegister, will speak on abortionand euthanasia.
Poverty end Religion Education
POVERTY IS POWERLESS: The poor are still therebetween 25 million and 29 million -of them in the UnitedStates alone-even according to the government's unrealistically low definition of poverty. A listless dog watches astranger from the back porch of a dilapidated house in NorthMinneapolis, Miss. NC ·Photo.
Dictators'Freedom
Convention Speaker,NEW YORK (NC) - ,Holy
.Cross Father Theodore M. Hesburgh, president of the University of Notre Dame in SouthBend, Ind., will be the chiefspeaker at the 1974 joint con-
,vention of the Catholic PressAssociation and the AssociatedChurch Press, it was announcedhere. The convention will beheld April 23-26 in Denver, Colo.
By
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ANDREW M.
GREELEY
'Self- Ri~lhteousAttack I-Iuman
Two similar :remarkable attacks on human..... freedomhave been made in recent weeks. Charles Isaacs, a collegeprofessor, informed us in an article in the Chronicle of High- .er Education that "History teaches us that ideas have consequences; that the separa- 'tion of thought from action along with the Chinese defini-
tion 'of academic freedom.is a device designed to pro- Come to think of it, it might nottect bourgeois ideology while . be a bad 'idea.rendering its opposition ineffec- Religious Lifetive." Academic freedom, then, The other attack comes fromis "inoperative" when it deals the opposite end of the worldwith matters that are "incorrect" from Father Constantine Kos(as the Marxists put it). ner, the boss of the Francis-
cans. In an incredibly dumb"secret" letter, Father Kosnerannounced that the religious hndgiven up his "rights' as a human person to another person,namely the superior." The religious must also yield his rightsconcerning "gifts received fromGod." And the religIous has noright to decide about "doctors,treatment, and medicine" whenthey are sick.
That's what the religious Iif€:really needs just now. Thereare obviously too many peopleswarming into the novitiates,and Kosner's letter may lessenthe tide.
Where does one draw the lineabout "rights as a human per-"son?" If talent and health areto be abdicated, why not thetotal human body? Among therights of a human person isthe right to be free from sexualassault. Is that freedom to beyielded to the superior? And ifthat is to be kept, then 'howdoes one decide what else mightbe kept? Is sexual integritymore or less important thanphysical health or intellectualdevelopment?
Father Kosner and ProfessorIsaacs have one thing in common: they are both self-righteous, authoritarian dictatorsmore interested in order thanin human dignity and freedom.They don't trust human beings;they don't want to run the riskof. letting people be free.
Isaacs has some grounds inhis faith" for such reluctance.Whenever Marxism has come topower, it promptly abolishesfreedom. But I would be interested to know where FatherKosner finds justifioation for hisposition. In the Gospel? DidJesus really come to tell us thatwe must yield our total personality to the control of another? Did he really tell us thatwe should give up all our humanrights and talents? If he, did, itwould be rather strange. Hewould be telling us to give upthings that his heavenly Fatherhad bestowed on us.
In fact, Jesus said he cameto make captives free.. If he returned, he might have to liberate the Franciscans from FatherKosner.
How freedom of researchwould be any diHerent in Professor Isaac's world than it is inthe Soviet Union (or China) ishard to divine. In one recentmeeting of professors the argument was advanced su,portingthe Chinese model of "freedomof research." Research that benefits "the people" (read, "thosewho control the society, and theprofessors, of course assume itwill be they) is to be approved,research 'that hurts the "people"is immoral.
JeQpardizes ReputationsThe University of California
11t Berkeley has already begun toimpose such a Maoist versionof academic freedom. Researchis to be banned that "may placethe reputation or status of asocial group or an institutionin jeopardy."
Of course hardly a::lY majorresearch project of the last decade failed to jeopardize the reputation of some social group orinstitution. Alcoholism research
\ might embarrass the Irish; reresearch on priests might embarrass the bishops; research oncorporation control might jeopardize the status of' the rich; research on Watergate might em-
, barass the Republicans; research ,on income might embarass theJews; research on acad.emic performance might embarrass men(who don't do nearly so well aswomen); research on racismmight' embarrass Southernwhites.
But of 'course this is not whatthe Berkeley Maoists have inmind. There are some groupsthat must be protected from embarrassment, and they are theblacks, chicanos, the "poor," andcollege professors. These are thegroups that possess specialmoral worth, The Jews used toqualify, but not any more (witness Dan Berrigan's violentanti-Semitic blast at Israel). Asfor,other groups in socie·ty, well,the Berkeley profs couldn't careless whether they're embarrassedor not.
In China, professors ,are sentout into the fields for longperiods of manual work. Ihaven't heard many professorialadmirers of Mao suggesting thatthis practice should be adopted
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"What we need more now,"he went on to say, "is a thoughtful and well thought out planfor changing the federal judiciary."
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"We're going to get nowherewith denunciations and chargesof bigotry."
Lynch, who is now executivedirector of U. S. Catholic Conference Bicen~ennial Committee,said at the time the SupremeCourt last June ruled New Yorkand Philadelphia laws, includingtax credits, unconstitutional,similar legislation in Congresshad enough support for passage.
But the Supreme Court,Lynch saia, was listening toAmericans United for Separation of Church and State's "odious rhetoric of bigotry andprejudice and buying what theyheard, lock, stock and barrel."
By those decisions, he assented,'the Supreme Court made Catholics specifically second classcitizens. Justice (Lewis F.) Pow·ell, writing for the majority,faBed to mention any of theother gnmps who were operatingnonpublic schools other thanCatholics and one passive reference to a Jewish school. Lynchmaintained that "in everyschool-aid case of the 70s, thepresence in any large number ofOatholic beneficiaries almostmade it mandatory that thecourt find against the nonpublicschools."
THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Jan. 31, 1974
nominees for federal judgeshipswho manifest religious prejudice.
James L.J. Pie, deputy citysolicitor of PhHadelphia, criticized Lynch's speech saying:
Football WoesPlague Schools
PITTSBURGH (NC)-A Catholic school official here is worried that: the existence of threeCatholic high schools is beingthreatened by a different kindof power shortage - footballpower.
The three schools have askedto transfer from District 8 toI?istrict 7 of the Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic
"League. Their request has been, turned down by the league. The
schools are Central Catho-Hc,North Catholic and Canevin.
The year-old controversy, ifnot resolved in favor of the threeschools, could bring to an end"the very existence" of thoseschools, according to John Cicco,Pittsbul'gh diocesan school superintendent.
Restrictions on attendance atgames in Distr.ict 8, imposed because of past game incidents,would wipe out the income thatCatholic schools depend on tosupport their athletic programs,said Cicco. The schools simplycannot afford to play football inDistrict 8, he said. "We have toobtain some income from ourfootball program."
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Without a sports program,say Cicco, each school may losefrom 50 to 100 boys. The loss inenrollment would mean incr'easing tuition for the remainingstudents, which would in turndiscourage new students fromattending, he said.
Cicco said he will take the issue to the state legislature ifnecessary. He said that if hislegislative attempts are unsuccessful, he will go to the courts.
Brownsville PriestsSupport Boycott
BROWNSVILLE (NC) - The12·member priests' senate of theBrownsville diocese has voted tosupport the United Farm Workers of America (UFWA) national
.boycott of iceberg lettuce andtable grapes.
The senate resolution calledon fellow priests to support actively the boycott of Californiaand Arizona-grown lettuce andgrapes which the UFWA is nowconducting against certain storesin the Lower Rio Grande Valleyarea.
"I don't think it will have atremendous efifect on the saleof lettuce and grapes," saidFather Gerald Frank, author ofthe resolution. "However, wewant to stand up and be counted,for what it's worth, and we hopethat somehow it will show thefarmworkers' union people, whoare organizing boycotts againstValley stores at the present time,that we stand with them, thatwe support their ef,forts."
Taunton. .Coyle along witl1"Dennis-Yarmouth has one victory to ills credit in loop action.
Dennis-Yarmouth is at Dighton-Rehoboth tomorrow. Dightonis 3-3 in circuit play.
"IT'S IMPORTANT: Important is the word for a Catholic education, being acquired byfifth graders Helen Green and Mark Ledoux at Holy Family-Holy Name School, New Bedford. Sister Eileen Hayes, R.S.M. makes sure those syllables are correctly divided.
Controversy at School Aid MeetingANNAPOLIS (NC)-Two back
ers of nonpublic school aid disagree over the role of the SUopreme Court in ruling out various forms of aid to nonpublicschools. The controversy flaredat a meeting here of the StateAid Group for Education (SAGE),an organization of Maryland
, nonpublic school leaders.The keynote speaker, Robert
N. Lynch, former executive director of Parents for NonpublicEducation, had called the Supreme Court "a crass and arrogant court ·which has lost sightof freedom of religion" and" hadurged his listeners to oppose
IN THE DIOCESE
While Bourne strugg~s to create a stalemate with Old Rochester, Seekonk will try to keepwithin str.iking distance. TheWarriors who are tied withBourne will play host to Msgr.Coyle-Bishop Cassidy High from
A year ago' Old Rochesterrolled to an unbeaten 10-0 season in Division IV. The Bulldogswere rewarded for their successby being moved up a division.As expected they have met thechallenge admirably and lead thebracket with a 5-1 mark. TheRegional can take another bigstep toward another championship tomorrow evening whenthey host Bourne. With onlyfour games remaining, a Bourneloss would drop the Canalmentwo games off the pace.
At the same time Warehamwill try to keep pace as theytangle with Nor,ton on the latter's court. The Lancers havebeen playing well lately andcould surprise Wareham. St. Anthony's of New Bedford will entertain crosstown rival New Bedford Vocational in the remainingdivisional game.
Action has been fast and furious in Division ~ I where thearea's largest schools are com·peting for championship honors.Taunton was expected to win thetitle and it may well do it. However, the Tigers have been constantly tested as no opponent isready to concede anything.
Holy Family and Case High ofSwansea were expected to giveDartmouth· the most oppositionthis Winter. Such has been thecase, although neither appearsstrong enough to upend the favorites. In all probability the twowill battle it out for runner uphonors.
vorite in the division champion.ship race. Big Bob Schoening,Mark DaCosta, Scott Sharek,Peter Carey and Jim CalUns havecombined their talents·· well toprove the prognosticator correct.The tourney bound Indians willplay at Falmouth tomorrow eve·ning.
SCHOOLBOY SPORTS
New Bedford who is tied withDurfee will be in Dartmouth toplay Bishop Stang. The Spartansare winless in divisional play.
Old Rochester Meets Challenge AdmirablyCoach Bob Reedy's l:harges Attleboro and Barnstable round
hold a single game advantage out the docket with their Capeover both Durfee High of Fall meeting.River and New Bedford. It wasreported earlier in this columnthat Taunton was tied with NewBedford following its loss toBarnstable. The Silver City fivehas lost only to New Bedford.
But, th"ey will haVE: their handsfull tomorrow when they clashwith Durfee. The Hilltopperswho were all but counted out aweek ago, have bounded backunder the direction of veteranmentor Tom Karam and aremaking their final charge. IfDurfee is able to defeat Tauntonin Fall River Friday there willprobably be a three way tie forthe top position.
Dartmouth and Diman Regional Vocational Technicalof Fall River enter the stretch run of the Southeastern Massachusetts Conference basketball race as the only unbeatenteams among the 26 league schools. The Green Indians fromDartmouth begin the weekwith a 7-0 loop record leading the eight team Division IIpack. Diman, at 6-0, is thefrontrunner in the six teamDivision IV bracket. Taunton andOld Rochester of Mattapoisettcontinue to top the Division Iand III standings respectively.
Coach Peter Gaudet's Indianshold a two game advantage oversecond place Holy Family ofNew Bedford at this writing.Back to back victories for thebig Green this week will give ita three game lead with only fivecontests to be played.
In most preseason polls Dartmouth was selected as the fa-
Dartmouth and Diman On Top
As Stretch Run Commences
Opponents Will Concede Nothing to TigersCoach Jack Nobrega's Blue tain its one game lead over
Wave was .upset by Bishop Con- Wareham in Division IV tomornolly High of Fall River last row when it hosts Westport. Theweek. Until that time it appeared Fall Riverites, who are enjoyingas though they might catch Dart- their best hoop season ever,mouth, Holy Family, as most should have little difficulty withfollowers of high school basket- the Villagers who have a 1-5ball k now, has Ii rich and league record.deserved hoop tradition. A yearago when it competed in thelarge school Division I bracket,the school sutfered through oneof its poorest seasons ever. Nowthat it is playing schools moreits size (Holy Family is thesmal'lest in the division) it isback among"the contenders.
Holy Family will entertainSomerset tomorrow. Somerset ·istied with Fairhaven for fourthplace ,in the standings. In otherDivision II action sla,ted for Friday, Case takes on Bishop Connolly and Fairhaven is at BishopFeehan in Attleboro. Feehan,Falmouth and Connolly openplay this week tied for last place.
Diman will attempt to main-
Bishop Calls Retreat'Learning Experience
, BEGINNING TO LEARN: Michael Rezendes and Kathy Marotte, kindergarten youngsters at St. Joseph School, Fairhaven, take first steps on road of education under directionof Sister Muriel Ann, S~.Cc.·
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Protests ClosingOf Rad io Station
BRASILIA (NC) - The president of the National Conferenceof Bishops of Brazil (CNBB), protesting the closing by the govern-
• ment of a Church-owned. radiostation, said Church-owned communications media "have beenset up to spread the Gospel, notto destroy peace."
CNBB president ArchbishopAloisio Lorsch~ider of Fortalezamade the protest- during a press'conference at .the end of a fiveday meeting here of the CNBB'sexecutive committee.
The 'archbishop said that "theChurch had made a point ofusing the mass medi~ with respect for 'the laws to help in thegrowth of our country."
Citing "national interests," thegovernment on Oct. 30 closedthe Sao Paulo archdiocese's Ra·dio July 9, the second largestChurch-owned station in Brazil.The minister of communicationssaid that the ·reasons for theclosing were "technical," ratherthan political as Sao Paulo archdiocesan officials had implied. Hesaid. the station's broadcastswere "clandestine," according tonorms for broadcasting approvedin 1973.
A member of Arena, a politicalorganiza'tion supporting the Brazilian military government, saidthe reasons for the closing were"political" because "Radio July 9worried more about critkizingthe government than soreadingthe Gospel." The minister ofcommunications and the Arenaspokesman both said the closingcould not he considered persecution because "the Church hasabout 20 per cent of Brazilianradio stations, some 180."
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we could handle our agenda atour national meeting in a moreefficient way if we were. to engage in two or three days ofprayer and reflection," he said.
"I was also struck. by the significance' of the remark, becauseit seemed to say: 'Do you practice what you preach?' I amwilling to admit that all of usfail in this regard. I am surethat bishops do not practice fra·ternal correction to any significant degree. As a matter of fact,we just do not interfere. withanother bishop's diocese. Andthis would include any directcomment about his sense of theChurch or his style of life withinthat Church."
Bishop Dingm'an said he wasalso struck by the idea of' beginning an executive board meeting with a retreat. "I asked whyyour executive board startedwith' a retreat," he told theNFPC monthly. "Your answerwas that you could handle youragenda more quickly and moreefficiently 'if you had formedpriestly community.
"Could the bishops of theUnited States learn somethingfrom your experience. Perhaps
here, Bishop Dingman said he got.new insights into his own lifeand role as a bishop during the
.retreat at Charlotte, N. C.
His greatest insight, he said,came ,from a question raised byone of the priests: "Do the bishops criticize each other in termsof how well they do I!heir jobs?"
"This question must be understood in context," Bishop Ding~
man said. "I had expressed thethought that the priests wereputting too much emphasis onthe bishop and expecting him tosolve the problems of the priests.It is my feeJ.lng that there oughtto be peer influence. If the priestswere actively engaged in livingout the. ideals of the presbytery as a community, then therewould be a supportive systemthat would include fraternal correction.
CHICAGO (NC) - "I felt we'both had gained," said BishopMaurice Dingman of Des Moines,Iowa, after he conducted are·treat for the 27~member executive board of the. National Federation' of Priests'; Councils(NFPC).
Interviewed by Priests-USA,the NFPC monthly published
THE ANCHOR-Thurs., Jan. 31, 197416
WHERE IT COUNTS: Catholic schools offer valueoriented education, as demonstrated by Sandra Castonguayand Michael Blaise of St. Francis Xavier School, Acushnet,examining religious textbooks.
Sco~e ReportingOf Church t~ews
hi Magazin'eVATICAN CITY (NC) - The
reporting of Vatican B.nd Churchnews by an Halian weekly magazine has excited the ire ofthe Vatican daily newspaper,the Pontifical Commision on Social Communications and theVatican Press office.
Within days of each other thethree Vatican offices, which dealwith public opinion and news,deplored what it called journalistic inaccuracies and baseless reponts published by the Milanweekly Panorama.
The Vatican daily, .L'Osservatore Romano, in its Jan. 23 edition published a comment titled:"The Fantasies of 'Panorama."The Vatican paper accused thenews magazine of "abandoningitself willingly to flights of fantasy" in reporting Church news.
The paper cited a recent instance in which Panorama declared ,that a letter written toL'Osservatore Romano on abusesin legal charges among lawyersadmitted to practice before theChurch's high court was falsebecause the signer of the letter,a Federico Sciano, did not exist.
L'Osservatore Romano saidthat "he does exist, he lives inRome and we know him personally."
L'Osservatore Romano citedalso a "categorical" denial issuedby Federico Alessandrini, head
. of the Vatican press office, of anarticle in Panorama's Jan. 17 issue that claimed the Vatican isconsidering a rQ.llback on theHumanae Vitae encyclical ofPope Paul VI condemning theuse of artificial means of birthcontrol.
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