New Bedford Native Marks Golden Jubilee'As Cloistered Maryknoll Religious

Vatican's Congregation for Di­vine Worship and approved byPope Paul VI, was made publicin Rome Dec. 20.

According to Father McMan­us the new set of guidelines andregulations "proposes radical ac­oommodations of the ordinaryrite of Mass to the mentalityand spiritual growth of children,while retaining the principalparts and structures of theMass."

Among the principal changesproposed by the new directoryare such Items as:

-The separate celebrations ofthe Liturgy of the Word (thefirst part of Mass, through thecreed) for children and adultsat Sunday Mass, followed by ajoining ~f the two groups forthe Liturgy of the Eucharist.

-The simplification or adap­tation of many parts of the Masswhen it is celebrated principallywith children.

-Adaptation to a lesser de­gree when the Mass is celebratedwith adults but children are alsopresent.

-Adaptation within the guide­lines for the physically or men­tally retarded.

-Emphasis on a balance be·tween activity and calm for chil­dren, with recommendations forthe use of audiovisual tech­niques, as well as adaptation ofwords, to maintain children's in­terest and involvement in theliturgy.

"The guidelines are forMasses with children who havenot yet made their first Com­munion and children who arestill considered preadolescents,"said Father McManus. "One im­portant added feature is the pos­sibility of using similar adapta­tions of the Mass with groupsof retarded children, and this isexpressly mentioned in the di­rectory."

In the Liturgy of the Word thedirectory provides for the use

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in some other countries. I askedthe cardinal what he thoughtabout it.

"[ see no objection at all," hereplied. "Opponents mention allsor;:s of abuses that might followfrom communion in the hand, butanyone who wants to abuse the

, Eucharist can abuse it underpresent circumstances. I've seenno ev.idence of abuse of the Eu­charist in the archdiocese. Manyyoung people feel there's some­thing more natural about receiv­ing communion in the hand."

The idea of resolving problemsin the most natural, relaxed way-as long as essential teachingsof the Church are not compro­mised-seems to many obsrversto be characteristic of Balti­more's cardinal. He has not sim­ply weathered the changes in theChurch; he has been quick toprovide the pastoral leadership

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life while participating in activemission work. As secretary tothe first two mothers general,she had traveled around theworld, visitlng every Maryknollhouse. Sisoter Theodore Farleyspent five years in the Philip­pines, was novice mistress for

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visions thus far, to recognize thespecial needs of Christian chil­dren and to remove the princi­pal obstacles to their full shar­ing in the liturgy."

The most striking feature ofthe directory, said Father Mc­Manus, "is the concern for the.evidence of contemporary psy­chological research" in the de­velopment. of Mass liturgies ap­propriate to children.

The directory, written by the

was absolutely necessary. TheChurch would have become asort of museum piece if that hadnot taken place. "The changes inthe liturgy have all been good.

"Some mistakes were madein the way they were broughtabout; the suddeness, for onething. We were unprepared. Allof us were unprepared.

"Practically all of us at theCouncil (the Second VaticanCouncil) realized that oncechanges in the liturgy were pro­posed, they were inevitable. Theuse of the vernacular, for in­stance, was long overdue. "Butwe were not prepared for therapidity of the change, or theextent of it. The first decisiondidn't contemplate anything likeit."

Recently the U.S. bishops voteddown a proposal to allow com­munion to be received in thehand, a practice that is common

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other things are of lesser impor­tance. We ·try to open ourselvesto a growing experience of Godand through him to our cloistercommunity, the wider Maryknollfamily and to the world."

Sister Teresa Marie, like aUher companions in the cloister,fellt a call to the contemplative

CardinalVigorousBALTIMORE (NC) - CardinalLawrence Shehan, 76, a priest formore than half a century, seesvigorous movement ahead for aChurch that chooses not to be­come a museum.

In an interview in his study, aspacious but fully utilized roomin the rectory of the Basilica ofthe Assumption in downtownBaltimore, the white-haired arch­bishop spoke of his personal sen- 'sitivity to the great changes thathave taken place in Catholic lifeduring the past decade.

"I'm very sensitive to the greatchange," Cardinal Shehan said ashe turned out all of the lights inhis study, except for a singlelamp on his desk, speaking in anaside of the energy crisis andthe need to conserveon electric­ity. "I'd rather speak of a greatchange than of a revolution. Cer­tainly the change was necessary.

"The change in the liturgy

WASHINGTON (NC) - Thenew Vatican "Directory for

. Masses with Children" was de­scribed here as a "bold and farreaching" document by a spokes­man for the U.S. Bishops' Com­mittee on the Liturgy (BCL).

Father Freder,ick McManus, di­rector of the BCL secretariat,concluded that "the directory isa thorough attempt, bold andfar reaching by the standardsof all the official liturgical re-

Marking her golden jubilee asa Maryknoll Sister this year isSister Marie Bernadette Mathieuof New Bedford, who entered themissionary sisterhood in 1924and after eight years at themotherhouse was one of 10 reli­gious who formed a cloisteredsection of the community in re­sponse to recognHion on the partof Mother Mary Joseph, Mary­knoll foundress, that there wasneed for a group to "uphold thearms of our missioners by theirprayers," as Aaron upheld thearms of Moses.

With five of the original mem­bers of the group and 15 otherswho have joined through theyears, Sister Marie Bernadetteaids in the chief activity of thecloister, making altar breads formore ,than 80 New York parishes.

At times, say the Sisters, morethan 200 applications from activemembers of the Maryknoll com­munity to join the cloisteredgroup have been pending, bear­ing out the contention that"missioners must all be contem­pBatives to some degree.

"Contemplation opens on real­ity," explains Sister Teresa MarieViveiros who joined Maryknollin 1930 and the cloister commu­nity in 1959. "H is a healing thingfor the individual, a deep elementof the Christian life. It is com­pletely satisfying to me. All

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Fall River Area: Deborah A.Almeida, Merces R. Santos,Denise Bergeron, Joan Leger,Jeannine Francoeur, ELizabeth A.Teixeira.

Lorraine Poisson, Anna Hrycin,Cheryl A. Pobzeznik, KathrynA. Cassidy. Pamela Greenhalgh.

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Fall River, Mass., Thursday, January 3, 1974V I 18 ....1 1 $4.00 per yearo • ,1"'II1II0. © 1974 The Anchor PRICE 10¢

Thirty-eight young ladies willbe presented to the Most Rev.Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., Bishopof the Diocese of Fall River, atthe 19th annual Bishop's Char·ity Ball on Friday, Jan. 11, atLincoln Park Ballroom, NorthDartmouth, in one of the manyoustanding events to take placeat the most widely known socialand charitable event in New En­gland.

The Ball honors Bishop Cronin,who will be the guest speaker,and also commemorates the 70thanniversary of the establishmentof the ctiocese of Fall River.

"These presentees representparishes from all five areas of thediocese," said Rev. Msgr. An­thony M. Gomes, diocesan direc­tor of the Ball, "including Prov­incetown on the Cape and SacredHeart in North Atleboro. Everyy~ar, one third of the 115 par­ishes of the diocese are given thishonor."

The winter social event benefitsthe four Nazareth Hall schoolsfor exceptional children and fourmodern summer camps for theunderprivileged and exceptionalchildren. Mrs. James A. O'Brien,Jr., of Fall River, chairman ofHie presentation committee, hasannounced that the presenteesand their fathers are scheduledto meet Sunday, January 6, at2:30 P.M. in Lincoln Park Ball­room for a rehearsal of the im­pressive presentatJion ceremony.

Names for the, various cate­gories of the Charity Ball Bookletarrive daily at Ball Headquartersand may be submitted until Jan­uary 7. Tickets for the Ball maybe procured at all CatholicChurch rectories and from mem­bers of the Ball Committee, mem­bers of the Society of St. Vincentde Paul and the Council of Cath­olic Women:

This year's presentees are:Attleboro, Mansfield, Norton

area: Helen F. Lavallee, PatriciaM. Roach, Pauline G. Ducharme,Katherine Murphy.

Cape Cod and the Islands area:Jacqueline' White, MargueritePreston, Gail M. Bennett, Karen

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Miss SilViia , a junior, is ma­joring in accounting and is' amember of the Business Societyand is business manager of theyearbook. Miss Pacheco, a junior,is majoring dn history and is amember of the Cultural Commit­tee.

Delta Epsilon Sigma seeks torecognize academic accomplish­ments, 'to foster scholarly activ­ities and to provide an intellec­tual meeting ground for itsmembers.

Directors of Holy CrossFathers Retreat House, 490Washington St., North Easton,announce three forthcoming re­treats.

Two Sisters' retreats will beheld Sunday through Friday,Feb. 17 through 22, and Sundaythrough Friday, April 14 through19, under the direction of Rev.Richard H. Sullivan, C.S.C. andRev. Thomas E. Lawton, C.S.C.

A priests' retreat is scheduledfor Sunday through Friday,March 3 through 8, under direc­tion of Rev ~ Frank MacNutt, O.P.of Merton House, St. Louis, Mo.,aided by two other retreat teammembers. The theme for theweek will be "The Ministry ofHealing."

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Nothing in the act, the state­ment contended, allows theCOLC to regulate business prac­tices, which is the effect of theproposed regulations.

In fact, Sister Maurita noted,"the intent of the new rules im­plies that the hospitals can con­trol the number and type ofadmissions when in fact suchcontrol is dependent on a num­ber of factors over which thehospital has little or no control."

If the regulations are adopted,.the action committee's state­ment continued, half of, the na­Hon's hospitals will find it nee­essa,ry to ask the COLC for ex­emptions.

Hospital Assoc:iations OpposeProposed PI1(~sce IV Regulations

AWARDS CEREMONY AT THE CATHEDRAL:Among the 98 individuals from all sections of the diocesereceiving the Marian Medal from Bishop Cronin at ceremo­nies held on Saturday afternoon in St. Mary's Cathedral, FallRiver was Henry W. Benoit of St. Theresa's Parish, So.Attleboro. Rev. John J. Hogan and Rev. Joseph L. Powerswere chaplains to Bishop Croniri for the ceremonies.

WASHINGTON (NC)-A c:oali­tion of Catholic and Protestanthospita,ls threatened legal aetionunless the government's Cost ofLiving Council (COLC) changesproposed Phase IV regulationsaffecting hospitals.

The National Protestant-Ca~h­

ol'ic Hospital,s' Action Commit­tee announced its position at apress conference here.

Sister Mary Maurita, execlltLvevice-president of the CatholicHospital Association (CHA) saidthe Phase' IV guide!'ines "'willcause ,health administrators tomake decisions cutting back onservices wherever possible in aneffort to maintain rates andcosts."

The CHA and the AmericanProtestant Ho~pital Association(APHA) have established thecommittee, which represents 50per cent of the nation's generalcommunity hospital beds.

"L. Rush Jordan, chairman ofthe action committee, said that"the COLC makes no provisionfor hospitals to pass on increasedcosts for food or other suppliesand services." ,

The COLC, he said, has failedto stem the continued rise ofprices, while Congr,css haspassed legislation_ requiring em­ployers to pay more for theiremployes' social security. How­ever, he added, the COLC is nowproposing limiting hospitals to a7.5 per cent increase in ratesfor inpatients and·6 per cent foroutpatients.

A statement issued by the ac­tion committee, said that theCOLC is attempting to changethe way physicians treattlheirpatients. This, the statemEmtadded, is beyond the scope of thepowers delegated to the COLCunder the Economic StabilizationActs, which allows onlyregula­tion of prices.

Memorial MassA memorial Mass for the late

Sister Mary. Felicita, RS.M.,longtime diocesan school super­visor, will be celebrated at 12:05P.M. Saturday, Jan. 5 at 51.Mary~s Cathedral, Fall River. Herfuneral was held at the Sistersof Mercy Provincial House, Cum­berland, R 1., and many FallRiver residents, unable to attend,requested the opportunity of pay­ing their respects to the religiousat a local Mass.

bility of it," he said, "but I thinkit is exetremely unlikely."

The cardinal thinks there maybe an upswing coming in priestlyvocations.vocations. "We're getting moremature people for admission tothe priesthood of the archdiocese."I don't think we will ever goback to the old system of takingboys in any number from gradeschool for a junior seminary, orminor seminary as we used tocall it. "Most vocations will comefrom high school or collegestudents,"

"In 'Baltimore, we have hadour number of losses, our priestsapplying for dispensation, but wehave kept up with our parishpersonnel needs pretty well.through ordinations."

And that has happenedy hesaid, in the face of an improvedretirement system. The archdio­cese of Baltimore consulted anactuarial film not long ago, andset aside $4.5 million of diminish­ing reserve funds to create a re­tirement program that will giveeach retired priest a pension of$5,000 a year.

What about the cardinal's ownretirement, a subject that fromtime to time causes ripples ofrumors and, in Baltimore andelswhere, some concern aboutbis possible successor.

"I submitted my letter on my75th birthday," Cardinal Shehansaid. "I was inforlined that, whenthe Pope is ready, he will namea successor.

"I'm ready to go. I'll have no,definite plans until I know whowill succeed me and how I canfit in with bis plans. I hope toremain active and to do someuseful pastoral work that willin no way infringe on the rightsof the new archbishop of Balti­more."

I asked the ,cardinal about thedecline ,in conversions in recentyears, about the effect that newattitud~s may have on· foreignmissions and about a reporteddrop in Sunday Mass attendancein this country.

Missionary I~ndeavor

"I think a decline in conver­sions could be foreseen in thedevelopment of ecumenism," thecardinal sa,id.' "Conversions werepartly due to polemics in the olddays. Nobody feels that it isnecessary to carryon warfarewith our separated brethren anymore.

"The field for missionary en­deavor has been restricted to aconsiderable extent. China,wbere our main mission thrustwas in the past, has been ,com­pletely closed, and'many Africancountries are to a 'great extentclosed to new missionary activi­ties. I don't think there has beenany dramatic decline in the atti­tude of our people toward the

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He scoffs at la ,els and willhave no part pf them. But thoseclose to him see Cardinal Shehanas a social ptogressive, a theo­logical conser,;,ative an:l a skilledadministrator who is alays con- ,scious of his tole as pas..or. Hispersonal influence extE?nds wellbeyond the bdrders of l,ther hisarchdiocese Pl1 his nation.

He has confidence in the grow­ing role of the laity, a changehe ranks with I liturgica I changesin its significance for ~;he futureof the Church.'

"This has been more gradualthan the changes in the liturgy,and it also has been more diffi­cult," Cardinal Shehan said.

"Here we are, eight years afterthe Council ended, and only lastmonth did we get our Archdioc­esan Pastoral Council really or­ganized. It fai~ed at first, partlybecause it was appoint,cd.

"It is headed toward, successnew because ,we first insistedthat all parishes organize parishcouncils. Then Iwe established 12regional councils, which electedmembers' of the archdiocesancouncil. I have the rigi1t to ap­point four me!J1bers a:'ld I ap­pointed four women."

That led to ~hc next question:Are we likely ~o see the ordina­tion of women I before, long?

"Personally,": said the cardinal."I don't see it. I think Our Lordtaught not merely by WOJ'd butby action and example. We lookat the Last Supper as the time ofestablishing the Eucharist andestablishing HOlly Orde! s. Therewere no women present.. not evenHis mother or ~ny of the womenwho served Him so faithfully. Itseems to me tHat He taught ussomething by thlat.

Married ClergyI

"Some say the absence ofwomen' reflec~ed the socialstructure of the times, but that 'is not tr.ue.' His 'moth~r, and thewomen who ac~ompanied Him,played a very i!J1portant role inHis life."

Cardinal Shehan said he doesdoes not exp~ct :to see a marriedclergy in the Latin rite during thenext century. "I: admit the possi-

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Following 6 p.m. Mass and reoception of Communion, membersgather. for supper in SacredHeart School cafeteria, t~n heara speaker, usually on a religioustopic. The entire program is con·cluded before 8 p.m.

Monthly Speaker

"No initiation, no ritual, nouniform, no dues, no projects:just one phone call each month,good company, and the manygraces promised by our Lord tothose who participate in thisvery special devotion," saysNewbury.

"Are you interested?" hequeries. "Get your name andphone number to John Romano·vich, telephone 674-6830 or toJohn Morgan, 674-3008, and youwill get that monthly call."

Religious CelebratesSixtieth Jubilee

Sister Mary Theophane (Cath·erine) McLoughlin, RS.M., a na­tive of New Bedford, celebratedher ~Oth anniversary of entranceinto the Religious Sisters of Mer·cy on Tuesday, Jan. I, in St.Edward's Convent, Providence.

Sister taught at Holy FamilyGrammar School in New Bedfordand is well-known throughoutthe Diocese of Fall River andthe Providence Diocese for herdevotion to the education of theyoung.

eucharistic prayer, and to theextent possible the presidentialprayers.

For the time being, the direc·tory says, only the four euchar·istic prayers presently is use maybe used, "until the Apostolic Seemakes other provision forMasses with children."

In Masses with adults wherechildren are present, the direc­tory says, permission of the localbishop is required to use anyof the adaptations recommendedfor children's Masses.

"Although specific variationsin the familiar order of Massmay be of greatest interest,"said Father McManus, "the docu·ment is actually more concernedwith better communication withchildren in the liturgy. It speaksof developing the human valuesin common celebration as ~ell

as deepening young faith throughprayer, activity and reflecting si·lence. Atcommodating to theneeds of children is seen as a

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"The Marines are looking for afew good men-and so is theFirst Friday Club of Fall River,"says its president, Tom Newbury,who is seeking both new mem­bers and old ones who mightwish to renew their associationwith this unique group of Cath·olic men.

Current members representmost Fall River parishes, "plus agenerous sprinkling from Tiver·ton, Swansea and Somerset.Ages range from the teens to 90plus," notes Newbury.

He says the prime requisite formembership is devotion to theSacred Heart of Jesus. Appropri·ately, members meet at SacredHeart Church on Linden Streetin Fall River every First Fridayof the year, except for the sum­mer months of July, August andSeptember.

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. of other Bible readings in placeof the readings for the day, whenthe regular readings are con·

. sidered unsuited to the capacityof children, and it is permissibleto drop one or two of t~ read·ings. The Gospel reading, how­ever, should never be omitted,the directory says.

The Apostles' Creed may besubstituted for the Nicene Creedin Children's Masses, accordingto the directory, but childrenshould be gradually introducedto the Nicene Creed to preparethem for participation in adultliturgies.

The introductions to prayer bythe presiding priest and the hom­ilies should be adapted to theunderstanding of the children,without becoming childish. Attimes the homily should be indialogue form, the directorystates.

A number of elements shouldalways remain as they are, evenin children's Masses, the direc·tory says. Among these are thegreetings and the responses ofthe people, the Lord's Prayer,breaking of the bread and invi·tation to Communion after the

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and Center, South Dartmouth, with seminarians of the Fall River Diocese home for Christ­mas. Left photo, Bruce Neylon of St. Patrick's Parish, Fall River, Bishop Cronin, and Ste­phen Menard of Our Lady of Fatima Parish, Swansea. Center photo, the,Bishop celebratesMass in St. Mary's Church. Right photo, Bruce Cwiekowski of Holy Family Parish, Taun­ton, John C. Ozug of SS. Peter and Paul Parish, Fall River, Philip Buckley of St. Mary'sParish, Nantucket, and Stephen Fernandes of St. Mary's Parish, New Bedford.

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agreement was reached by dem­ocratically elected representa­tives who deserved the supportof everyone who believes indemocracy.

Bishop William Philbin ofDown and Connor called theagreement "an implicit appeal to.everyone to insist that the pol­icies of atrocity and destructionshall have no place in ourfuture."

Praise for the agreement wasfar from unanimous, however.Loyalist extremists in NorthernIreland who are determined toresist any change in Protestantdominance of that province and­members of the outlawed IrishRepublic Army (IRA) seeking ademocratic socialist republic forall of Ireland both denounced theagreement.

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German CatholicsAid Vietnam, Africa

BONN (NC) - German Cath­olics contributed a tota'i of al­most $12 iniflion to collectionsfor Vietnam and the Sahelianzone of Africa.

For humanitarian projects inboth North and Soul:h Vietnamthey gave about $5.5 million, anddonated $6.4 to aid vi<:tims of theextreme drought in the Sahelianzone.

to a parallel body to be set upin the republic.

The Irish Republic ,also agreed-'that there could be no change

in the status of Northern Irelanduntil a majority of its people de­sire a change, although the re­public's constitution claims juris­diction over all Ireland.

The agreement also providedthat persons accused of violenceanywhere in Ireland would betried by courts in the jurisdictionin which they are apprehended.

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Cardinal William Conway ofAJ1Illagh, president of the. IrishBishops' Conference, said the

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POPE BEGINS BUSY WEEKEND: Pope Paul VI began a busy Christmas weekendon Friday, Dec. 21, the day the Middle East peace conference opened in Geneva, with apledge to aid Mideast peaee efforts. After greeting the Cardinals resident in Rome, thePope stressed his right and duty to work for a solution to the "status of Jerusalem andthe Holy Places in Palestine." NC Photo. .

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. DUBLIN (NC) - The newlyagreed-upon Council of Irelandthat is to link the governments ofNorthern Ireland and the Repub­lic of Ireland was hailed in astatement by Bishop Cahal B.Daly of Ardagh and Clonmacnois.

"The Council of Ireland cre­ates new possibilities for makingthe notion of alI-Ireland a realand meaningful one, not just forone community," Bishop Dalysaid.

"Violence will indeed be seenas counter-revolutionary in -thesense of obstructing the genuine

-Irish revolution now needed, andnow possible in both structuresof power and attitudes of mind,"said the bishop, who wa.s bornin Northern Ireland and whosediocese is in the Republic ofIreland.

The Council of Ireland was onee)ement of an agreement workedout in four days of talks at acivil service college 27 mileHfrom London by members of thEfBritish government, the govern­ment of the republic and thegovernment of Northern Ireland,

Room for Compromi!.e

The new council is to consist:of a council of ministers, sevenfrom the Dublin government andseven from the newly formedProtestant-'Catholic executiv,e inthe North, assisted by a consul­tative body comprised of 30from the Northern Ireland assem­bly.

The council's powers were notclearly defined, in order to leaveroom for further compromise,but it is to be consulted aboutappointments to the NorthernIreland PolLce Authority" theprincipal police body tqert~, and

Apostolic StyleTo a greater extent than any

other' Catholic organization lhave ever come in contactwith, Pro Civitate Christiana'tries to serve as a bridge bet'weenthe Church and modern culture,including the world of art, liter­ature, drama, the cinema, thepress, etc. Its apostolic style,which is based on the gospelmessage is orie of dialogue andpersonal witness in an atmo­~phere of friendship and serviceto all.

A serene optimism~ free of anypolemical or political overtones,characterizes the movement andits dedicated members. I canhO!1estly say tha't I have nevermet a more optimistic and morejoyful group of Christians in anycountry I have ever visited.

The headquarters of Pro Civi­tateChristiana is composed of aseries of eight buildings. Thetotal complex is known 'as Oit­adella Christiana. Housed in thecomplex , which fits beautifullyinto the terrain of ancient Assisi,is a priceless collection of con­temporary religious art contrib­uted to Citadella Christiana bysome of the world's leadingpainters and sculptors, inCludinga few who would probably clas­sify themselves as unbelievers oreven atheists.

The members of theassocia·Non consecrate themselves to­taBy and for life to. makingChrist known to the men andwomen of today. They make apromise (not a vow) of poverty:chastity, and obedience and com"mit themselves full. time to theapostolic works of the associa­tion. A small group of priests(four at the present time) arealso attached to the group on abasis of equality with the laymembers.

Bridges GapThe center also houses what

is said to be the finest Christo­logical library in the world, to­gether with a collection of ap­proximately 40,000 photographsof art works from all ages on thelife and mission of Christ lmda .similar collection of musicalrecordings on religious themes.• In addition, the center pub­lishes a monthly magazine, "LaRocca," which is one of Italy'smost advanced and most infiuen­tial Catholic periodicals.

So far _as I am concerned, itwas worth coming all the way toItaly just to get acquaintedwith Pro Civitate Christiana. Tothe best of my knowledge, wehave nothing quite like it in theUnited States. That is to say,we have no organization orassociation which so effectivelyserves to bridge the gap betweenthe Church and modern culture.

It may be hard on our pride­but, by the same token, good forour humility--to admit that theChurch in Italy, with alI its prob­lems and alI its limitations, hassomething very important toteach us in this regard.

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American PriestsPope's Co-Workers

VATICAN CITY (Nq-';PopePaul VI hailed a group of Amer­ican 'priests who have beenstudying in Rome as his co­workers and underlined the unitythat exists among all priests.

About 50 American priestsfrom dioceses throughout thsUnited States were presented ata papal audience by BishopJames Hickey, rector of theNorth American College in Rome.

The priests have. been attend,ing a three-month refreshercourse in theology and othersubjects at the Institute for theContinuing Education of theClergy sponsored by the NorthAmerican College.

In welcoming his guests, PopePaul declared: "You are our co­workers in the Gospel, and all ofus together are ~o-workers withChrist in the building up of Hiskingdom of justice and love. Allof uS are united in the doctrillethat we profess and in the 8.pOS­tolic teaching which we havereceived in the Church and whichwe are charged to preach to thisgeneration and to transmit in itsfullness to the generations yetto come."

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and not only shared the latter'sclear-sighted vision of' theChurch and' the world in his ownvaried apostolate a number ofthe reforms that later came intotheir own at the Council ca.lledby John.

Though Don Giovanni is now86 and in declining health, hestm s~rves as president of ProCivitate Christiana. He is widelyesteemed in Italy as one of thenation's truly great spiritual'leaders. '

Lay OrganizationPro Civitate Christiana, as in­

dicated above, is a predominant­ly lay organization. Technicallyit ,is known as an association.It is made up, at the present time,of some 75 men and women, allof whom have a university de­gree and, in addition, have takenat least three 'years of graduatework in theology.

The 40 ·Am.erican priests attending the fall session ofthe Institute for Continuing Theological Education at tpeNorth American College in Rome recently spent three daysin Assisi at the headquarters of a remarkable .Catholicorganization known as ProCivitate Christiana (For aChristian Civilization). Thisis a lay apostolic assoeiationfounded in Assisi in W3H byDon Giovanni Rossi, ,a M:ilanesepriest who was a long-time per­sonal friend of Pope John XXIII

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THE ANCHOR- 5Thurs., Jan. 3, 1974

CAPE TOWN (NC)"":"'Divisionswithin South African Christianchurches on the racist questionhave':>ecome acute, particularlyin th.e churches of the Dutch Re­formed tradition, according tothe news service of the SouthAfrican Council of Churches(SACC).

The news service-in an ap­praisal of the situation-reportedthat 100 ministers of the DutchReformed Church in Africa, ablack offshoot of the Dutch Re­formed Church, recently openlycriticized apartheid, South Afri­'ca's official policy of strict ra­cial segregation.

The official theology of theDutch Reformed Church, towhich most Afrikaners, SouthAfrica's dominant white group,belong, has provided the princi­pal ic.eological basis of the apar­tbzid system.

Until now, churches in theDutch Reformed group have ac­cepted the principles of racialsegregation in their affairs, ashave the South African Lutheranchurches.

Faces Breakaway

"Some blacks," the SACCnews service sa-id, "are willingto admit merit in the system ofsegregation, which allows peopleto worship in their own indige­nous way. However, they in­creasingly react against a typeof apartheid which seems to holdthem at arm's length on the basisof color alone, and which doesnot even allow them to worshipin many white church buildings."

The Indian Reformed Church,also part of the Dutch Reformedgroup, faces an imminent break­away if the white Dutch Re­formed Church does not acceptthe principle of mixed worship,the news service said. The ser­vice also reported that black Lu­therans have demanded that thewhii:e Lutheran churches unitewith the black churches.

South AfricanChurches SplitOn Racism

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or their priestly mission in doingso.

The consensus of the meetingwas that '''it is not desirable forpriests to participate actively iii).politics· nor should the Churchcommit itself to anyone party.The Church should feel free todefend the Gospel, denounCeabuses, promote the rights ofman and the common good, evenif this means taking some risks,"

Precise Image

The meeting said that thescal'city of new priestly voca­tions stems from the lack of aprecise image of the priesthood.As one solution to the vocationcrisis, the meeting suggested newforms of service to the Churchcommunity for youths.

It was also suggested thatformation programs for perma­nent deacons be established.

At the opening of the meeting-held at Our Lady of BethlehemParish here-the Catholic weeklyEI Piloto urged the priests to"push with resolute vigor a pro­gram of recruitment and forma­tion of permanent deacons:"

The weekly cited· the lack ofnative priests and the fact thatmany of the local priests areelderly and said that if perma­nent deacons are not ordained"the loss of the Puerto RicanChuroh in the next 10 years isinevitable. "

PenitentNo true penitent forgets or

forgives himself: an unforgivingspirit toward himself is tbe veryprice of God's forgiving him.

-Card. Newman

In a pastoral letter issued be­fore the meeting Cardinal Aponte-Puerto Rico's first cardinal­said that "human structures needmaintenance,' readjustment andrevision. The structure of theChurch is human, and, althoughalso divine, it needs updatingand revision."

Needs RevisionThe priests' meeting also dis­

cussed Church involvement inpolitics, the scarcity of vocationsand the permanent diaconate.

The meeting said that priestshave the right to participate inpolitics but that they should notendanger the Church's mission

gents will be buried in potter'sfield then going as a group andpraying for that soul. I think weshould find out which prisonersand which of the elderly in nurs­ing homes have no visitors then

'we should go there . . . as agroup.

"I'm proposing that HolyName members call on theirpastor when he is ill and offerto help him around the house: cuthis grass, fix his food and soon," Flanagan continued.

"I know a lot of men turntheir noses up and say they justdon't have ,the time. But, that'sthe whole problem. We've got tomake the time. I'm terribly sorryto have to ask our men to giveup their Sunday football gamesor maybe have their afternoonnaps abated. But when our Lordcalled on the Apostles, He didn'tassign special hours for them.... If we do this as a group, Ithink we'll find that enthusiasminfectious,"

New President Urges Holy NameM'embers to Get Out and Work

MOBILE (NC) - The HolyName Society will come alive ifits million members in this coun­try get off their backsides andwork, said the society's newlyelected president James T. Flana­gan:

"What we need now are notacts of mercy or prayers of mer­cy but works of mercy.... Andlet me strongly emphasize thatword 'works,'" said Flanagan ata parish meeting here in Ala-bama. .

"When I hear pastors say thatHoly Name is dead, I jokingly saythat about one-half of the pas­'tors I know are dead," he said."But, you can believe that wewill be dead if we don't get offour backsides and get to workaround this country.

"It's not enough anymore tojust go to Mass every secondSunday and call ourselves HolyName men. What I'm proposingis an entirely new thrust for HolyName men in the United States.What I'm proposing is that HolyName men go as a group afterSunday Mass to deliver newspa­pers to prisons, hospitals, nurs­ing homes and half·way r.,ouses.

"I'm for contacting the coro­ners and finding out what indi-

SAN JUAN (NC) - CardinalLuis Aponte Martinez of SanJuan and 250 of his priests madea public confession here in whichthey said they felt "responsiblefor the anemia that is devouring"the Church in Puerto Rico.

"We have abused our author­ity," they expla.ined at the clergymeeting, "we have been paternal­istic and despotic. We havesought our well-being and com­fort instead of the people's well­being."

Auxiliary Bishop Juan de Diosof San Juan also attended themeeting, which aimed at a "col­lective reflection."

ATTLEBORO AREA RECIPIENTS OF MARIAN MEDALS: Mrs. Rose Turcotte, At­tleboro; Mr. Ernest J. Glode, Attleboro Falls; Bishop Cronin; Mrs. Mary D'Agostino,Mansfield; Mrs. Mary Brennan, Attleboro; Felecian Brochu, Attleboro.

English PrelateTells MeaningOf Renewal

True Center"But far more important is

the pilgrimage into our ownhearts and minds. That is thetrue center of Christendom. Thatis what is meant by the renewalof the Church."

"The principal task of theChurch in 1973-as in the 'year2,000-is the same as it was onthe day of Pentecost," the bishopsaid. "It is a call to put our ownindividual house in order be­fore anybody else's.

"Of what use is it to pray forpeace in Northern Ireland, if weare at variance with God? Ofwhat use is it to plead for thelives of unborn babies, if we areslowly extinguishing the lifeof grace in our souls by serioussin?

"What is the purpose of pro­moting Christian unity, if wecannot tackle the disunity inour own family? ,

"The world's problems are theproblem's of the Church, but theirsolution is only possible by thosewho are at one with God. Ourprincipal task is to become holy.God and the world demand thisof us."

Archbishop CamaraLauds Americans

HOUSTON (NC)-Catholics inthe United States are· movingahead in addressing themselvesto the problems of the world, avisiting South American prelateknown for his efforts among theunderprivileged observed here.

Archbishop Helder Camara,who heads the archdiocese ofOlinda and Recife in northeastBrazil, was among participantsat a meeting "to explore humanreality" conducted here lastweekend at the Rothko Chapel.

Also attending the meetingwas Dr. Jonas Salk, developer ofa polio vaccine.

The archbishop is an out­spoken advocate of economicchanges to provide Brazil's poorwith a higher standard of living.He has called for socio-economicreforms and opposed capitalism.His efforts have brought aboutstrong negative response fromsome businessmen, and many ofhis statements have been bannedfrom publication by the Brazilianmilitary government.

SHREWSBURY (NC) - "Wehave become so concerned aboutthe world, that we have forgot­ten, or avoided, the world insideeach of us," Bishop Eric Grasarof Shrewsbury said in a pastoralletter for Advent.

"We have prayed for Christianunity, joined in ecumenical activ­ities, rallied to have abortionbanned, pornography outlawed.

"This is not only good, but" necessary. We have a duty to

turn the world upside down."But first we must turn our­

selves inside out."This is what the (Second)

Vatican Council means by te­newal and reconciliation. Andthis is why the Holy Father hasproclaimed the Holy Year."

Commenting on the 1975 HolyYear, Bishop Grasar said:

"A pilgrimage to Rome maybe a wonderful experience andmany may want to go there in1975.

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,ism and secularism is a very dif­ficult atmosphere for "the Churchto live in and to carry out itswork. Many of our people areaffected by this atmosphere, evenunconsdously.

"At the same time there ,is alessening of available personnelto do the job that needs to bedone."

And what answers would thecardinal'offer to those problems?

"We must carry on a muchmore effective program of re­cruiting for the priesthood andthe Religious life. We must fur­ther the establishment of thepermanent diaconate. We mustutilize the la,ity much more as,for instance, in serving as ex­traordinary ministers of the Eu­charist and in teaching."

Cardinal Shehan, a priest formore than 50 years and a bishopfor 26 years, paused to reflect onthose years. Then he said, "Theweakness of both materialismand secularism is becoming moremanifest.

"We must become more sensi­tive to it, and present in responseto it a Christian way of life thatembodies the teaching of theCatholic Church."

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MLNNEAPOLIS (NC) - Oppo­nents of Minnesota's income taxcredit law, losers three times instate courts, have turned to thefederal courts in their efforts, toblock payments to parents ofnonpublic school pupils.

Attorneys for the MinnesotaCivil' Liber,ties Union (MCLU)and tbe Minnesota Public Edu­cation Coordinating Committeehave asked that a three-judgefederal panel be established toissue a temporary injunctionagainst the law.

The injunction would preventthe state from honoring tax cred­its until the Minnesota SupremeCourf rules' on the' law's' consti­tutionality.

The state high court is expect­ed to hear oral arguments inMarch on the 1971 law, whichprovides graduated tax credits toparents of non public school stu­dents. Some $15 million in taxcredits have been claimed by tax­payers during the law's first twoyears.

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LivingI have lived too much in the

sweetness. of God and forgottenHis sorrows.

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Scripture-that it includes both'Scripture and tradition. TheScripture scholars are consciousof this.

"When they analyze a scrip­tural text, they take ,it for grant­ed' that anybody reading theiranalysis knows that Scripturehad to be viewed together withtradition, and that it .has to beinterpreted in the light of theChurch's traditions.

Study of Scri.pture"There is a tendency for some

to become unduly exdted be­cause they do not understandthat tbe scholars must be pre­occupied _ with what might becalled their 'exclusive' study ofScripture."

Will the criticism interferewith scholarly studies?

"No. But it will make thescholars more carefUl of whatthey say on mindS that are sen­sitive to particular noints, butI don't think it will interferewith the scholarly study ofScripture."

r asked Cardinal Shehan howhe would describe the presentperiod in relation to n.early 20centuries of Church history.

"Possibly as difficult a periodas the Church has ever knownhas occurred within my own life­time, although there have beenother periods just as difficult.The period that just precededand followed the First VaticanCouncil was as painful to theChurch as the present.

"The development of the me­dia of communications has givenus the double difficultv of meet­ing attacks on the Cburch thatare instantly broadcast. Much ofthe secular society in which welive is unfriendly toward theChurch."

More RecruitingThe Cardinal spoke of two pri­

mary difficulties today: "Thegeneral atmosphere of material-

Continued from Page T,womissions. Our Propagation of theFaith collections have in­creased."

What about the reported dropin Mass attendance?

"The two parishes I'm directlyconcerned with have had no de­cline, and at the new ,cathedra:I note a large number of youngpeople."

Cardinal Sb~han was a memober of the papal commission thatstudied the birth control qu~s­

tion, reporting to Pope Paul VIbefore the controversial encycli­cal Humanae Vitae ("Of Huma.nLife") was issued. The eardinaldiscussed the question in somedetail in a recent three-part ar·ticle he wrote for Homiletic &Pastoral Review. I asked himabout it.

Develc'}:Qnent of Doctrine'''The questions iI raise in the

article indicate that some furtherdevelopment may be possible,but I offer that as my privateopinion.

"It seems to me that possible, research in medicine and biology

could lead to further develop­ment of doctrine. I believe theGhurch ought to be thinkingabout this, and theologians oughtto be considering wbat mightdevelop."

I asked him about another cur­rent controversy, the argumentabout Scripture studies.

"It seems to me," Cardin~l

Shehan saiq, "that the rathersharp dispute is largely due toa lack of understanding aboutwhat the Catholic Scripturescbolars, who are certainly loyalto the Church and the Holy See,are doing. .

"They are concerned withScr-ipture alone-what Scripturesays and, what can be proven.They understand that revelation,for a Catholic, is not limited to

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Year of SalvationIt is very easy for people to grow sentimental as one

year draws to a dose and another begins. There seems tobe something about throwing the last page of the calendaraway that causes tears in eyes and tugs at heart-strings.

There is, of course, no need to be a Scrooge about this,to pretend that one, day is just like another, one year is nodifferent from another. People throw the calendar pageaway and look for~ard to a new beginning. There is some­thing about a renewal" of enthusiasm that gives a personhope and courage a,~d strength.

At the same time, thihgs just do not happen automatically.This new year of 1974 is not going to present happiness andpeace and goodness just by th'e fact that a new digit isadded to last year's date.

What is needed is realization that' the combinationspoken of by St. John of the Cross is a good one-Pray as ifeverything depended on God and work as if everything'depended on oneself.

Pope John' used to say that when a situation is com­plicated and se~ms to admit of no solution, one' must dowhat the lumberjack does·-get into the pictur~ and removea log, change the pattern, add a new dimension of prayerand work and sacrifice. And the changed pattern is onethat will admit. of solution and one that inches closer toan answer.

We bring our own selves into 1974. ,Perhaps the answeris to change the self--to begin with enthusiasm and hopeto be better in the family circle, at the job, in the com­munity; to take on a healthier and kinder attitude towardothers; and, above all else, to spend a little more time anda little more effort with respect to God.

This would make this New Year of 1974 truly a Yearof Salvation.

6 THE ANCHOR-Dioces~ of Fall River-Thurs., Jan. 3, 1974.

God-ManWith the exquisite balance that is to be found in all

his addresses, Pope Paul on ChristriJ.,as Day: pointed outthat 'today many people substitute anthropology for theolo­gy." He cautioned against the world's infatuation withmodern humanism, a cosmic utopia that sets up man asman's god."

The Pope has seen throughout the last decade theconcern of those within and outside the Church with man-and that is all to the good-but the concern has been withman apart from his Creator, apart' from his own imperfec­tions, apart from his final destiny.

Even those within the Church-at times priests andrel~gious-havebeen so caught up in the humanity of manand of Jesus Christ that they have ~ometimes emphasizedthis aspect to the neglect of the calling of man to be achild of God and to the neglect of the Divine Nature ofChrist. Some of this may be due to the fact that they havefelt that previous ages have stressed the divinity of Christ'

. to the neglect of His human nature. The Holy Father quiteproperly shows that there must be attention to the wholeGod-man, to the Second Person of the Trinity Who in timetook a human body and soul to Himself and became man sothat men might be united to the Father through Himself.

To neglect the fact of man's need of a Savior and toemphasize exclusively the humanity' of Jesus and to placeattention on man in himself is to~ ignore the reality-thereality that man. is in need of redemption, the reality thatJesus Christ must always be considered and that He is~he focal point of theology, the reality that man can onlybe saved and, find his fulfillment with and in and throughJesus Christ. Any treatment of man apart from Christ isan exercise in anthropollogy.

AMONG THE 98 MARIAN MEDALISTS: Mrs. Dorothy Grenier, Brewster; Mrs.Katherine Walsh, Osterville; the Ordinary of' the Diocese of Fall River; Mrs. Nora De­Coffe, Mattapoisett; Stanley A. Mastey, New Bedford; Mrs. Barbara Lynch, New Bedford.

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Detail MozambiqueMassacre Charges

MADRID (NC) - Two Span­ish missionaries who spent near­ly two years in prison in the Por­tuguese African territory of Mo­zambique confirmed here thatthey had personal knowledge ofmassacres ,by Portuguese troopsin Mozambique.

The two priests, Fathers Al­fonso Valverde and Martin Her­nandez, were released under aspecial pardon and spoke at apress conference Nov. 26, the'day after their arrival here.

They also said they personallyknew of hundreds of politicalprisoners starved and beaten byPortuguese police in Mozambiqueto obtain confessions.

The priests said they were ar­rested Jan. 2, 1972, ,in Rhodesia,where they were visiting fellowmissionaries on a Christmas va­cation. They were taken to Salis­bury, the Rhodesian capital, in­terrogated and placed underguard on a plane to Tete inMozambique. There they werehanded over to Portuguese po­lice. There were no extraditiondocuments or procedures, theysaid.

Bishop Insta liedIn Missouri

SPR1NGFIELD (NC) - Msgr.Bernard F. Law was ordained abishop and installed Dec. 5 asfourth bishop of the diocese ofSpringf.ield-Cape Girardeau.

The second Catholic bishop in­ducted into office in Springfield,Bishop Law received episcopalordinat.ion from Bishop JosephBrunini of Jackson, Miss., andwas installed as Ordinary of thediocese hy Cardinal John Car­berry of St. Louis.

Born in Torreon, Mexico, Bish­op Law previously served as di·reCtor of the secretariat of theU.S. bishops' Committee for Ecu­menical and Interreligious Af­fairs in Washington, D.C., beforebeing recalled 'in 1971 to the dio­cese of Natchez-Jackson to be­come vicar general.

"Ever mindful of the scandalof Christian division," BishopLaw said, "I pledge my best ef­forts to hasten that day whenall Christians can celebrate theEucharist together with full in­tegrity of faith."

However, he added that he will"vigorously affirm" his Catholicfaith.

"When bishops, priests, and allthe faithful gather to celebratethe Eucharist together, they showforth most perfectly what theChurch is," Bishop Law said. "Itis in the Eucharist that our unityis manifest, and it is through theEucharist that our unity is deep­ened."

. THE ANCHOR- 7Thurs., Jan. 3, 1974

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Jubilarian .Sisters nor the surroundings areaustere.

In addition to making altarbreads, the Sisters have individ­ual specialties. Sister Rose Im­maculata Smith, for instance,designs cards which Sister RoseTherese Werner prints on anoffset press in the basement. Sis­ter Rose Therese also has chargeof a carpenter shop where suchi~ems as venetian blinds, lampsand clotheslines await repair.There are domestic chores to bedone, and gardening. The com­munity raises its own vegetablesand cares for the grounds withthe help of 'a small tractor. Tosee the Sisters at work is to seethem at prayer.

Visitors come frequently­Mass, for shared prayer on Mon­day evenings, for talks with theSisters. There are no longergrilles in parlors and chapel."When the changes came we hadvery little to pare off," explainsSister Teresa Marie. "There weremany external practices in clois­ter life that we had neveradopted."

One change has been a simpli­fied habit. There are two organ­ists in the group and three gui­tarists to accompany liturgicalsinging, both traditional and upto date.

And in the prayer of thesehappy contemporary contempIa­tives, New Bedford and its peo­ple are always sure of a specialplace.

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Confirm DelegatesFor Bishops' Synod

WASHINGTON (NC) - Thegeneral secretariat of the Na­,tional Conference of CatholicBishops (NCCB) here announcedit has received word that PopePaul VI has confirmed the elec­tion of four delega~es and twoalternates to repreent the U. S.bishops at the 1974 World Synodof Bishops.

The delegates and alternateswere elected by the U. S. bishopsat their annual meeting here inNovember, but papal approvalwas needed to make their selec­tion official.

The four delegates are Cardi­nals John Krol of Philadelphia,who is president of the NCCB,John Carberry of St. Louis, andJohn Dearden of Detroit; andArchbishop Joseph Bernardin ofCincinnati. The two alternatesare Cardinal Timothy Manningof Los Angeles and CoadjutorArchbishop Leo Byrne of St.Paul-Minneapolis.

The 1974 synod, to be held inRome, will be the first suchmeeting of bishops from aroundthe world since 1971. Us topicwill be evangelization, thespreading of the Gospel message.

'Daily Life

The Sisters rise at midnight topray and again for Mass at 6:45A.M. They follow the Church',>daily cycle of liturgical prayerwith Terce at 9 A.M. Sext at11:30, None at 3 P.M. Vespersat 5 P.M. Compline follows recre­ation in the evening. Betweenmorning and. afternoon prayers,they do assigned work. Theykeep silence except during recre­ation and when talking is neces­sary. They eat no meat; 'theirrooms are adequate but plain;they sit on stools during meals'and recreation. Yet neither the

Jesus die on the cross for loveof God or for others? The Churchis made one and whole by bothelements."

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To Sister Consuela "the life isa gift, a call from the Lord, anexperience of the Lord workingin our lives. It is a Person weare involved wi'~h and our life isa life of faith. It is hard to findwords to express God .revealingHimself in prayer, the union ofone person with another. Thereis a dynamism, a hidden powerin prayer. Our lives are trulytouched by one another. Our loveis one and our lives are one. Thelives of all Christians must beroo~ed 'in prayer; we are notunique in this. For most thisunity of love is expressed in ser·vice to others. The service toothers flows out in a direct way.For some this service to o~hers

is in apostolic prayer."Expressed in such terms the

contemplative life strikes a re­sponsive note even in those whodo not choose it, for we knowthe happiness of deep, intimatepresence to those we love thatdisposes us to love all others andinspire enthusiasm for giving.This is the love and enthusiasmthat makes the Maryknoll Clois­'~er so vibrant-there is concen­trated, consecrated living withinthe brick enclosure that containsthe house and acre of land.

"Our life expresses both close­ness and apartness-which is thelot of all people," reflects SisterRegina Catherine. "Our choiceshere are stripped and simplified.It is not an isolation or with­drawal but an atmosphere inwhich this closeness and apart.ness can be expressed, ourunion with ,the suffering andneeds of o~hers. This is the ten­sion of Jesus on the cross. Did

,Continued from Page Oneeight years and finally realizedin 1945 an early calling to thecloister. Sister Regina CatherineMcEvoy is a nurse and has spent13 of her 19 years at Maryknollin the cloister. Sister ConsuelaTorrecer grew up in Maui, Ha­waiian Islands, was still in her20's whtm received into the clois­ter.

Division to IssueTopical Booklets

WASHINGTON (NC) - TheKeyhole Series-topical bookletson subjects concerning LatinAmerica-has begun publicationhere by the Division for LatinAmerica of the U. S. CatholicConference.

Each booklet will containtranslations of documents whichwill have a common topic. TheKeyhole documents will be as­sembled from documents appear­ing in the Latin American divi­sion's documentation seriesLadoc, which is not arrangedtopically.

The Keyhole booklets will costone dollar, and each will be ap­proximately 64 pages.

The first four editions willconcern educator "Paulo Freire,""The Theology of Liberation,""The Latin American Indian,"and "Priests and Sisters for LatinAmerica."

Italian DiocesesMark BeginningOf Holy Year

VATICAN CITY (NC) - Ledby the melodious bells of St.Peter's Basilica, church bells ofItaly ushered in the Holy Yearfor Italian dioceses at noon onthe first Sunday of Advent', Dec.2.

Moments after, Pope Paul VIsaid from his window to thou­sand in the square below:

"The bells, did you hear them?"At this hour throughout tflis

land the simultaneous sound ofour bells wishes to announce tothe people that the Holy Yearbegins on the local level.

"Listen to this concert, listento' this concert."

The bells, the Pope said, werethe voice between heaven andearth and a metallic song "whichsoars on high to invoke for usbelow the effusion of God's bless­ings."

The Holy Year observancesin local dioceses, the Pope ex­plained, is the prelude to thatyear, "singular in all the world,.which we will, God willing, cel­ebrate in Rome in 1975."

On Christmas Eve of 1974,Pope Paul will open a sealeddoor in St. Peter's Basilicathrough which will pass the HolyYear pilgrims throughout 1975.

Joyous, Living MessageAnnouncing the Holy Year

last spring, the Pope said thatthe Holy Year in Rome wouldbe preceded by a Holy Year inlocal churches throughout theworld.

In the intervening months thePope has spoken often of thetwin themes of the Holy Year,renewal and reconciliation.

"You already know what theHoly Year is, but we will explainit to you again," the Pope toldthe crowd, most of whom hud­dled under the arched colon­nades of St. Peter's Square toavoid a freezing, pelting rain.

"Holy Year is a period of reli­gious and moral renewal _.. apractical examination of the gen-

, uineness of our Christianity ... adeepening of our spirit.ual aware­ness and a stimulant 'to the ir.~­

plementation of our socilal char­ity."

That, the Pope concluded, iswhat the bells are saying today.

"Listen to them, my children,"he said, "as ·a joyous and livingmessage."

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The first volume was compiledand edited by Georgina Pell Cur­tis, who wrote in her introduc­+;on:

."Diff.iculties, obstacles and dis­appointments were not lackingas the work progressed. Therewere those who thought they sawin it pride, vanity and worldli­ness; others insisted it was tobe a mere social register; stillothers, who knew they ought notto be left out, refused to go intothe book; a fourth class werethose who were utterly indiffer­ent to the whole scheme.

"Again and again, through theCatholic press of the country,whose editors with only threeexceptions lent to the book intel­ligent comprehension and noblesupport, the editor of the ACWWhas stated what the work is, andwhat it is not; that it is designednot to exploit the ,individual assuch, but to individualize himin order to show in the concrete-to each and to the non·Catho­Hc world-what Catholics havedone and are doing to add to theprestige, dignity and power ofthe Church."

Some of the 1911 purposesremain valid today, Wall said,while others have changed. Buthe stressed that a major effort\ViII be made to include Catho­lics representing a wide rangeof vie"Ypoints and activities.

Health CoordinatorsTo Meet in Florida

WASHINGTON (NC) - The29th annual mid-winter meetingof Catholic diocesan coordinatorsof health affairs, sponsored bythe Division of Health Affairsof the U. S. Catholic Conference,is to be held in St. PetersburgBeach, Fla., Jan. 15·17.

Euthanasia, health care inrural areas, and national health'insurance are amOng the topicsto be discussed,

Speakers include John A. Mc­Mahon,president of the AmericanHospital Association, who willspeak on "The Economic Stabil­ization Program and Other Gov­ernmental Controls--Their Ef­fect on the Voluntary HealthSystem," and John D, Porter­field, executive director of theJoint Commission on Accredita­tion of Hospitals.

James Gibbons of Baltimore. Hesa,id in part: "I take pleasut:e inrecommending it as a work emi­nently useful and of great inter­est not only to Catholics, but tothe public at large."

Alabama SterilizationLaw Unconstitutional

MONTGOMERY (NC)-An Al­abama law allowing state offi­cials to sterilize mental patientswas held to be unconstitutionalby a three-judge federal courtpanel.

The law "clearly and obvious­ly" violated a patient's constitu­tional rights, the court said, be­cause it contained "no provisionfor notice, hearing or any otherprocedures for safeguard."

Patients in an Al~lbama mentalhospital brought the suit. Theywere joined in the suit by theU. S. Justice Department, whichaIleged that state off,icials havenot adopted adequate proceduresfor safeguarding the rights of thepatients.

Fourteen persons, the suit al­leged, had been sterilized overthe past 10 years in violation oftheir constitutional rights.

WASHINGTON (NC) - NCNews Service has acquired theAmerican Catholic Who's Whoand will publish an expandededition late in 1974.

The American Catholic Who'sWho, which was first publishedin 1911, was acquired by NCfrom a corporation that is beingdissolved.

"NC News Service sees theAmer,ican Catholic Who's Whoas a natural part in its continuingefforts to provide not only thenews of the moment by wire, butto provide excellent resource ma­terial to editors, researchers andothers," said A.E,P. Wall, direc­tor and 'editor-in-chief of NC.

Wall also will serve as editor­in-chief of the American Who'sWho. _

The first edition of ACWW,published in S1. Louis in 1911,included a letter from Cardinal

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FALL RIVERITES RECEMNG AWARDS: Stanley W. Novak, Mrs. Edna Duffy andTimothy J. Murphy are ,congratulated by Bishop Cronin on being selected as recipientsof the Marian Medal.

Deny Forced Droppin~1

.Of 'Birthright' NameSYRACUSE (NC)-Officials of

a pregnancy counseling servicehere denied the claim by Toronto­based Birthright Internationalthat the Syracuse organizationhad been forced to discontinu~!

use of the registered name"Birthright" after Dec. 31.

Although the organization herehas changed its name to Support,Daniel McMahon, chairman ofits' board of directors, and SisterMarguerite Tierney, director ofthe counseling service, issued astatement saying that they "didnot feel threatened or coerced inany way by Birthright In~erna­

tional to change our name."Earlier this year, Birthright's

international board of directorshad retained legal counsel to haltwhat it considered a serious in­fringement of its name by theSyracuse group and an office inthe archdiocese of New York.

McMahon and Sister Tierneysaid they had told Birthright In­ternational officials and theirlawyers that a name change hadbeen under consideration forsome time.

three different ways. If they hadto get together and decidewhether or not the push-buttonphone is new, they would prob­ably get into an argument thatwould prove fruitless.

But they could agree on someother points: all three can usethe push-button phone to com­municate; or they could commu­nicate just as weIl with a dialphone; or with one"using thenewest and another the oldestmodel. If they reaIly want tocommunicate, it's not importantwhich kind of phone the othersprefer.

This agreement would aIloweach to· get on with his work inlife. Progress could take placewithout constant divisive argu~

ments.I think this ,parable has mean­

ing for the Church today.We are in a time of rapid

change and development. The re­sult is that some get so enthu­siastic about their ideas they in­sist that everybody accept thembefore they are perfected. Othersare more comfortable with theold equipment because it workedfine fpr' them, and they object toanyone trying to take it away.

Changes in the Mass are a casein point. The old Latin Mass wasthrown out bodily when the En­glish Mass came in ... but wehave been constantly making re­visions in ttte English Mass be­cause the first versions neededmore work.

Now some parishes are re­spondjng to the pleas of thosewho preferred the old rite. Butinstead of the old Mass, they areusing the newer "dialogue" Mass... in Latin. This is, according tosome, .the least satisfactory ar­rangement of all.

Charity NeededI think a lot of the pain that

has accompanied these changescould have been avoided if wetook a more charitable approachto each others' preferences.

I, for one, enjoyed attendinga solemn high Mass occasionaIlyand was delighted to hear PopePaul caIl for a restoration' ofGregorian chant.

I a'lso enjoy attending a guitarMass with my teen-age children.

But the way we generaIly set­tle our differences, we'I1 prob­ably restore Gregorian chant~ith a rock beat and guitar ac­companiment. Inste.ld of tryingto make provision for differentpreferences, we try to cram allfeelings into one bouillabaisse ofa solution.

So I have a suggestion. As weprepare for the 1975 Holy Year,let us stop stewing about de­tails and concentrate. on the im­portant things.

Jesus Himself told us 'what isimportant. Love God. Love oneanother. And He made no quali­fications. It includes both theswingin' liberal and the. rock­ribbed conservative.. If we accomplish that in 1975,all the other differences will be

. settled easily.Living in harmony becomes

easier as wisdom develops.

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MARY

8 THE ANCHOR--Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., Jan. 3, 1974

Living in Harmony wit,h AllMuc,h Easiier wit'h W'isdom

A business man comes to work one day and finds anew push-button telephone on his desk. He considers thisphone up-to-date and modern. A worker on a telephoneassembly line, that same day, is making a phone whichis a different shape from theone on the business man'sdesk. He hasn't worked onthe push-button model inover a year and considers it abit out-of-date.

But an engineer who designstelephones is spending this same

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day working on a phone with acompletely different internalmeohanism. He finished design­ing the push-button phone sixyears ago, the one on the assem­bly line three years ago, and theone he is now working on is theone he thinks is up-to-date (al­though he still isn't sure if it willwork). The engineer considersthe business man's phone com­pletely obsolete.

So here we 'have, at the sametime, three people regarding theidentical piece of equipment in

Priests Get TopJobs inuDiooeses

ALBANY (NC)-While Sistersoutnumber priests by ratios offour or five to one in many dio­ceses, pr,iests outnumber Sisters'·in decision-making posts of thedioceses by ratios of as much as

·ten to one.That was a key result of a sur­

vey by a task force on the roleof women Religious, according toSister Janet Walton of Albany,who conducted the survey as amember of the task force.

Sister Walton pointed out that.in the Albany diocese only oneof the 35 top decision-makingjobs is held by a woman.

"We found that women nearlyalways hold subsidiary positionsin diocesan work, even thoughthey are often better qualifiedthan the men who hold the toppositions," said Sister Walton.,

The task force surveyed the di- .diocesan posts in Philadelphia,Pittsburgh, Chicago, Baltimore,St. Louis, Bridgeport, Conn.;LouisviIle, Ky. and New York.The top person in every majordiocesan office, was surveyed ineach diocese. "Almost all the dio­ceses had the sameproportions ofmen to women as did Albany.There were no significant differ­ences."

"We found no one diocese sin­gularly determined to give wom­en real leadership positions,"said Sister Janet.

The'survey was sponsored by anindependent ecumenical researchorganization caIled the Center ofConcern in Washington, D. C.The survey concluded that the'"present staffing trends on thediocesan level show a strong

" clerical bias-and injustice to­ward women Religious."

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educational, as well as political,reasons, the students cannotenter the five universities innearby Israel, which are basedon a different system with He­brew as the medium of instruc·tion.

The best students, therefore,attend universities abroad,where,after completion of their studiesand having acquired a taste forthe West, they see little incen­tive to return home, especiallybecause there are few jobs higherthan a teaching post available tothem. Thus, doctors, lawyers andengineers from the Holy Landremain abroad and their homeland is left without potentialleaders.

The new university is de­signed, in curriculum and con­tent, to meet the special needsof the area. The basic entrancequalifi<;ation is the Arabic maotriculation exam called tawjihi,on the first-year-college level.The language of instruction is

,Arabic, except where the natureof the subject demands a Euro­pean language. The coursesavailable include the standardfour year undergraduate pro­grams in liberal arts, sciencesand business administration. Inaddition, there is a course, veryappropriate in today's Bethle­'hem, in hotel management.

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northern New Jersey. However,Sister Redempta said the proper·ty would not be sold.

The Sisters of St. Joseph areturrently negotiating the sale ofSt. Joseph's Village in suburbanRockleigh with the Bergen Coun­ty Board of Special Services. Thevillage, built in 1958 to servehom.eless children, is located ona 52-acre tract.

Bethlehem University wasstarted in response to the press­ing demand for a center of high­er education for the West Bankcommunity.

For many years this commu­nity has been losing the best oftheir young students in whatamounts to a giant brain drainof talent.

The local educational systemis based on Arabic and so for

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., Jan. 3, 1974

Sisters of St. Joseph to CloseEnglewood Cliffs, College

ENGLEWOOD CLIFF (NC)­Englewood Cliffs College, openedhere in New Jersey in 1962 bytbe Sisters of St. Joseph ofPeace, will be closed by the com­munity in June.

Launched as a house of for­mation for members of the con­gregation in 1962, the junior col­lege was opened to general en­rollment in 1967 and had a peakenrollment of 700 only two yearsago. The current enrollment is250 full-time students and 30 ona part-time basis.

Sister Redempta McConnell,college president, attributed thedecline to competition from twonew publicly supported collegesin Bergen County and the trans­fer rate out of Englewood Cliffsby students deciding to take afour-year program.

Tuition at Englewood Cliffs is$1,100 a year. Tuition at thenew Bergen County CommqnityCollege in Paramus is $410 an­nually.

Sister Redempta said no deci­sion has been made as to the fu­ture use of the college building,which is situated atop the Pali-sades overlooking the HudsonRiver. Its location in a woodedarea of the Palisades next to un­developed parklands being pre­served as a wild life sanctuarymakes it one of the more valu­able pieces of real estate in

MARIAN MEDALISTS FROM TAUNTON: Bishop Cronin meets three of the 12 re­cipients of the Marian Medal from the Taunton Area. Mrs. Anne B. Sowiecki, Mrs. AnnaMarie Correia and Louis H. Chaves.

C,hri'stia,n Brothelrs Start New UniversityJERUSALEM (NC) - A few

days before the outbreak of therecent Middle East conflict, agroup of Christian Brothers fromthe United States started a newuniversity in !3ethlemen.

On Oct. 1, 90 Arab students,men and women, from Jerusalem,Bethlehem and the West Bankof the Jordan river were acceptedfor courses leading to a bachelorof arts or science degree.

cony, but we can still learn agreat deal from H.

You just knew that the vampof "Good News" would end up atthe Varsity Hop in a flamingred dress and the sweet innocentheroine in palest pink, andBrooks did not disappoint us.Here we can take a leaf fromhis book for our own use andrealize just how color does makeus feel and react.

I defy anyone to feel sweetand demure in flaming red or bythe same token vampy in ruffledpink. We should remember thiswhen we're buying clothes be­cause a certain dress shouldmake us feel a certain way.

The new community now hascenters in the archdioceses ofHartford, Conn.; Detroit; andVancouver, Canada; and in thedioceses of La Crosse; Boise,Idaho; Grand Rapids, Mich.; andJuneau, Alaska.

N1ew. CommunityFormed by N~ns

LA CROSSE (NC) - A newcommunity of 55 Sisters has beenformed here in Wisconsin withthe name of the Franciscan Sis­ters of Perpetual Adoration ofLa Crosse.

Sister Grace McDonald, in an·nouncing the Formation, said thenew order was begun in responseto the Second Vatican Council.

"Among the efforts of renewaltlhe (La Crosse Franciscan Sistersof Perpetual Adoration's) generalassembly of, 1969 aHowed agroup of Sisters to begin an ex­periment in religous living," Sis­ter McDonald said. "This exper­imental group was given thestatus of 'provisional province'in 1970."

Glitter, Shine

For teenagers this season,glitter and shine was the orderof the day and my older girl hasone outfit that would give com­petl~ion to Captain Marvel's girlfriend. All I can think of whenshe wears it is that I expect tohear the shout of Shazam anda great puff of smoke arise fromthe woodwork. I know tha'~ whenshe wears this outfit she doesn'tfeel the same as when she'swearing her dungarees!

We should all remember whatDonald Brooks knows and WillShakespeare wrote about thewhole world being a stage.CIO'~hes can set a tone, a moodand a feeling-a good philosophyto remember when buying them.(Of course, we may all be wear­ing sackcloth and ashes whenthose Christmas bill,S arrive!)

" With the concurrence of thecongregation of the FranciscanSisters of Perpetual Adoration,the new community, she added,asked Rome for permission tobecome an independent commu­nity, to be known popularly asthe Franciscan Sisters of theEucharist, will be directly sub­ject to the Vatican Congregationfor Religious and Secular insti­tutes.

By

MARILYN

RODERICK

Archbishop to AcceptAlternate Peace Prize

OSLO (NC) - Brazil's contro­versial Archbishop Camara saidhe will accept an alternate peaceprize that has been initiated bygroups in Norway dissatisfiedwith> this year's winners of theNobel Peace Prize.

Joint winners of the NobelPeace Prize this year were NorthVietnam's chief peace negotiator,Le Duc Tho, and U,S, Secretaryof State Henry Kissinger. Le DucTho declined his portion of theprize and Kissinger, although ac­cepting, said that the pressureof international affairs will pre­vent his appearance at the awardceremonies.

Archbishop Camara - widelyknown at Dom Helder - headsthe archdiocese of Olinda andRecife in poverty-stricken north­east Brazil. His efforts on behalfof the poor and the workers inhis area, as well as his appealsfor socio-economic reforms andbis opposition to capitalism,have aroused strong campaignsagainst him hy right-wing busi­nessmen and large landholders 'inBrazil. He has been accused ofbeing a communist and his resi­dence has been machine-gunned.Most of his statements have beenbanned from publication by thegovernment.

costumed a sizable number ofBroadway shows and TV spec­taculars.

Certainly his fame will hit itspeak when "Good News" reachesNew York and without a doub~

his influence on fashion couldreach an all· time high.

Return to 30's

Don't be surprised to see areturn to the look of the thir~ies

(we already have some of itaround, but expect more) whenpeople cast an eye on the great·looking plaid coats, 'the littlesweaters with matching caps orweskits' and the nostalgic andromantic bathrobes that are suchan important part of the show.

But for the most part Brooksachieved the feeling he waslooking for in each scene by theperfect use of color.

Stage design, of course, is agreat deal more flamboyant anddrama'tic than anything wewould wear in everyday life, be­cause it has to reach the ticketholder in the last row of the bal-

C,ostume's Offer LessonsF,or Eve!ryday Dressing

Very often we forget the impact color can have, espe­cially in the area of clothing. Last evening we went to see"Good News," a revival of the musical of the thirties, andwhile the whole 'evening was quite delightful the impactthe Donald Brooks costumescertainly added a great dealto the total effect of theshow. Brooks is best knownas one of America's greatestc1c'~hing designers (he was theman who brought back the littleblack dr-ess this season) and also

Asks Federal CourtTo Uphold Decision

RICHMOND (NC) - BishopWalter F. Sullivan urged a fed­eral appeals court to uphold alower court decision, invalidatingVirginia's policy of denying wel­fare payments for unborn chil­dren.

Denial of the payments "en­courages the pregnant mother todecide in favor of abortJion andagainst life for her unborn child,"Bishop Sul1ivan said in a friendof the court br,ief. The brief' sup-'ports a suit attacking a statepolicy of cutting off welfarepaymen'ts for unborn childrenwho had been counted as depen­dent children.

Fr. MoraczewskiHeads Pope JohnResearch Cenl'er

ST. LOUIS (NC)-DominicanFather Albert S. Moraczewski ofHouston will take over as fulltime president of the new PopeJohn XXIII Medical-Moral Re·search and Education Center.

Father Moraczewski was elect­ed president of the new centerby unanimous vote of the 15·member board of directors here,and he immediately began mak­ing plans for the center, althoughhe will not be back to take overon a full-time basis until Feb. 1.

There are a lot of plans to be 'made, as Father Moraczewskiwas the first to recognize. In aninterview with the St. Louis Re­view, the archdiocesan news­paper, shortly after his election,Father Moraczewski said thathis role would be to concentrateon identifying long-rangemedical--moral issues.

"Father Kevin O'Rourke hasbeen concentrating on the short­range issues and he will continueto do that planning," FatherMoraszewski,' said. "Abortion,for example, would be a short·range issue."

What would be a long-rangeissU€? Well, that is ;part of theproblem, he said.

CHA-Sponsol'ed'"One of the difficulties is that

things move so fast in sciencethese days that matters whichare long-range one day havemoved to short range the nextday," he said. "As an example,take cloning-reproduction with·out the female. You already.havecloning with frogs:- scientistshave been able to reproducefrogs without the use of fe­male frogs. What if this werepossible with humans-as it mostprobably some day will be. Atleast it will probably be possib.1etechnically. The question isshould you do something merelybecause technically you are ableto do it. That is the moral di­meQsion that the center will bedealing with."

The center which he will headhas been established as an inde·pendent agency by th~ CatholicHospital Association. A budgetof $20,000 has been set for thecoming year.

Father Moraczewski said thatin practical terms what the cen­ter would try to do would be tokeep abreast of what was beingdone or planned in science andtechnology so that there couldbe some early thought given tothe moral ramifications of thescientific actions.

·Reunion at St. JosepJI '8 Church"Occasion Review ofParish History

Sisters ContributeTo Drought Relief

NEW YORK (NC) - TheLeadership Conference of Wom­en ReHgious (LCWR) comprisedof 650 major superiors of com­munities of Sisters has contrib­uted more than $22,000 for therelief of victims of the droughtin West Africa, Catholic ReliefServices (CRS) announced.

CRS, the overseas aid agencyof U.S. Catholics, said that theLCWR's cont~ibution to thedrought relief activity is the lat·est of several contributions thatthe confer.ence has made.

In 1972, the LCWR contribut·ed $327,106 to CRS for the reliefof refugees returning to Bang­ladesh after the Indo-Pakistaniwar. In 1973, the LCWR gave$5,826 to CRS for the relief ofIndian famine victims.

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ORLANDO (NC) - In a re­sponse to the energy crisis, thepresbyterate of the Orlando dio­cese urged creation of "a neweconomic system that is notbased on the philosophy of ex·panded consumption of goodsand services."

The presbyterate, a group ofelected and appointed pf'\iests,serves as a deliberative and con­sultative body to Bishop WilliamBorders.

Concerning the economic sys­tem, the Florida group's state­ment said:

"In view of the present situa­tion in which we realize the re­sources of the earth are indeedlimited, the continued expansionof our Gross National Productwill not only mean less goods forother peoples of the world, butis sure to lead to economic dis­aster."

The presbyterate said that thebook of Genesis "clearly indi­cates that God has entrusted toman the responsibility of caringfor the earth and its resoul'lCes;yet, must we not admit that weas a nation and as a people havehecome far too excessive in ouruse of the earth's goods?"

Suggesting that the energy cri­sis is "a blessing that will, hope­fully, bring us to our senses,"the group called on all priests toprepare people through the Sun­day homily for whatever meas­ures may be demanded of them,and to protect particularly those

, who may be the victims of in­justice during the cutback.

In the 1930's the Church bl!-se­ment was excavated to provide aparish hall. It was renovated in1957 with the panishioners doingmuch of the work. In this sameyear, St. 'Joseph's Women's Guild'and the Immaculate ConceptionAltar Guild were organized.

Guilds OrgaJl1izedThe famed St. Joseph's bells

were a gift from the late Mr. andMrs. Frank R. Llllie. The largebell is named Mendell after aCatholic priest and scientist; itsinscription reads, "I will teachyou of life and of :life eternal."The small bell is named Pasteur,after the 19th century physicianand scientist. Its inscriptionreads, "Thanks be to God." The60-foot granite bell tower ringsthe Angelus daily at 7:00 A.M.,noon and 6:00 P.M. The electricaldevice which controls the bellsfrom the rectory was designed bythe late Wallace K. Butler.

The tower is across the streetfrom the Church 011 the shoreof Eel Pond. St. Margaret's gar­dens which surround the towerwere cared for by the late BenCavanaugh for many years. Theyare presently maintained by Nel­son Cahoon of Woods Hole.

St. Joseph's parishioners havebeen led through the years bythe following gentlemeni: TheReverends CorneliUS McSwiney,J. M. Cof.f.ey, Thomas F. Kennedy,Hugh A. Gallagher, Thomas J.McLean, Thomas J. Calnan, JohnJ. Casey, Thomas J. Stapleton,Bernard H. Unsworth and forthe past 13 years by the presentpastor, Rev. Edwin J. Loew.

GloryProvided that God be glorified,

we must not care by whom.-St. Francis de Sales

in 1915 in what was orig,inallythe Casino. The Casino was pur­chased by St. Joseph's on Sep­tember 3, 1920 and the Chapelwhich serves North Falmouth,West Falmouth, Hatchville andthe summer communities has re·mained part of St. Joseph'sthrough the years.

Cemetery UnionDrops Key Demand

NORTH ARLINGTON (NC)·­Striking cemetery workers havedropped the key demand in theirdispute at Holy Cross Cemeteryhere in New Jersey but thechange in position has not ledto a settlement of the strike, nowmore than 10 weeks old.

The Cemetery and, GreensWorkers Union dropped its de­mand that workers be requiredto join the union upon employ­ment. It also dropped a demandthat continuing union member­ship be required.

Instead, the union said itwould accept an arrangementwhereby workers could with­draw from the union withoutpenalty at two specified timesduring each year. Sources closeto the negotiations said this isclose to the position advancedby the Newark Archdiocese, be­fore the start of the strike. The

'cemetery is one of 13 conductedby the archdiocese.

AT PARISH REUNION: Principals at reunion of present and past parishioners of St.Joseph's Church, Woods Hole, are, from left, Mrs. Christos Bezdaris, Mrs. William L.Dalton, Mrs. Donald B. Lehy, and Mrs.' William .J. Buckley, organizers of the event, andRev. William Ducey, Wareham and Rev. John Buttimer, Harwich, weekend assistantsin the parish.

A recent reunion of past andpresent members of St. Joseph'sparish, Woods Hole, was the oc·casion for, much reminiscingabout the third oldest parish onCape Cod. A history prepared forthe occasion follows:

St. Joseph's Church was ori­ginally a mission of CorpusChl'listi Church in Sandwich,which is the oldest parish on theCape. In 1882 St. Joseph's wasset up as a separate unit withRev. Cornelius McSwiney pre­siding for a number of years.It is the third oldest parish on theCape, the second being in Har­wich, which was establdshed in1869. .

The first Mass celebrated inWoods Hole was on December8, 1882. The first baby baptizedwas John Duff on July 20, 1883.He was the son of John Duff andMary Linehan. The first marriageon record. was between ReubenBearse and Anna Larkin onNovember 4, 1883. Rev. ThomasF. Kennedy was considered thefirst pastor, coming to the parishqn May 20, 1905.

St. Joseph's history is one' ofgrowth and subdivision. In 1899,St. Patrick's Church was foundedand became a separate parish in1928. In 1902 separate parisheswere established on Martha'sVineyard and· Nantucket. St.Thomas Chapel in FalmouthHeights was founded in 1918 andland was purchased on June 4,1920. It later became a part ofSt. Patrick's parish.

The Chapel of the ImmaculateConception in Megansett opened

THE. ANCHOR--Thurs., Jan. 3, 1974,10

HEATLESS APARTMENT: Sister Susanne LaChapelle, a registered nurse, holds amonth-old baby as its 16-year-old mother (right) heats a pan of milk by holding a candleunder it. With them are a few of the other eight persons who live in the heatless apart­ment which has no light and little electric power. The Sister was able to relocate the EastHarlem family with help from Catholic Charities. NC Photo.

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Fujen Observes10th Anniversary

TAIPEI (NC) - Fujen CatholicUniversity celebrated the 10thanniversary of its reactivationhere on Dec. 8.

"Ten years ago we startedwith just over 400 students," saidCardinal Paul Yu Pin, presidentof the university. "Today thereare almost 9,000 students en­rolled. We have, thank God, comea long way."

The cardinal, the exiled arch­bishop of Nanking, addressedTaiwan bishops, professors andstudents at a ceremony markingthe occasion in the universityauditorium.

Fujen University was orig­inally established in Peking in1925 by the Benedictine Fathers.Later it was entrusted to theDivine Word Fathel'ls. After thecommunists came to power onthe Chinese mainland the uni­versity was taken over by thegovernment.

In 1960 Pope John XXIII en­couraged Cardinal Yu Pin to re­activate the university on Tai­wan and opened the drive forfunds with an initial contributionof $100,000. In a short time$1 million was collected, in greatpart due to the ef,forts of the lateCardinal Richard Cushing ofBostor.. Since then much assis­tance ha,s come from varioussources , including generous helpfrom the German bishops. Thethree colleges of the university­liberal arts, natural sciences andforeign languages, and law andbusiness-are confided, respec­tively, to Chinese secular clergy,Divine Word .Fathers, and Jesuits.

Crackdown UrgedOn Indecency

HONG KONG (NC) - Catholiclay leaders, supported by 68nondenominational organizations,have asked the government toput teeth in local laws againstobscenity and immorality, unlessit is prepared to accept indecen­cy as u a way of life" in HongKong.

An analysis of the pornograph­ic content of 48 Chinese news­papers and 48 Chinese magazinessold openly by news hawkerswas recently com!,>leted by theHong Kong' Catholic CentralCouncil of the Apostolate of theLaity and sent to the governor,Murray MacLehose, with a re­quest that the responsIbility ofsuch publications for the growthof "crime and indecency" in thisBritish crown colony be studied.

The 68 supporters of the coun­cil's petition ,ranged from the So­ciety for Protection of Animalsand Birds to the Children's Play­ground Association, and includedlabor and business groups as wellat the Kaifone (neighborhood) as­sociations and tbe Clansmen As­sociations (people with commonancestral homes or names).

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the $2,500 recently awardedthem by the U. S. bishops' Cam­paign for Human Developmentwill go to enlarge its. fraternityprogram.

"We work a long time with thefamily unit," Sister Leonard said,"and once they know us and weknow them it is important tobring them into contact withothel' family units so they canmeet together in a group forma­tion and help one another. Wecall this our fraternity program."

Every day the sisters come'across severe health problemsranging from asthma to pre-natalcomplications brought on by im­proper nutrition. There is alsomuch alcoholism, ment'al retarda­tion, drug addiction and chronicdisease. But much of their timeis spent in educating the peopleon how they can help themselves.

As might be expected, the sis­ters have more cases than theycan handle. They currently see

. about 300 families a year whichmeans that many have to beturned away.

of the room to catch the waterfrom a leaking ceiling.

Contacts OfficialsMeanwhile, Sister Ann had

contacted Father James Gilhool­ey, of Catholic Charities, for hishelp. Father Gilhooiey, who op­erates a series of "Little CityHalls" that deal mostly withtenant problems, knows he cancut a lot of bureaucratic red tapesimply by bypassing the welfaredepartment and putting the prob­lem into the hands of electedofficials. So he contacted citycouncilman Carter Burden.

Helping the indigent has beenthe hallmark of the apostolate ofthe Little Sisters who have beenaround since 1890 but who onlybegan to concentrate their workin the Harlem area seven yearsago. A nursing order with rep­resentatives in several easternstates as well as 27 countries,they are specifically geared tofamily health problems.Th~ Sisters-nine of them are

attached to the Harlem agency­work closely with local doctors,hospitals and social agencies,who refer patients to them.

"Then we have a number offamilies who have no doctor sowe make contact with them,"said Sister Margaret Leonard, theagency director. "We have agroup of doctors from MountSinai Hospital who come hereto examine whole families at atime."

Fraternity ProgramShe added that because their

focus is primarily on the family,

Nursing Order AidsLittle Sisters Assist

NEW YORK (NC)-Qne grayafternoon, two East Harlemwomen appeared at the head­quarters of the Little Sisters ofthe Assumption in Manhattan.

Inside they met· with SisterAnn Hayes, a gentle-voiced Bos­tonian, who is an assistant socialworker. She patiently listened tothe complaints of the woman andher 16-year-old daughter andturned them over to Sister Su­sanne Lachapelle, a nurse.

The women had serious prob­lems that demanded quick action,a situation typical of those whoseek out the family health ser­vice provided by the Sisters.

The mother had eight children;a month before her' daughtergave birth to a girl. All wereliving in a four-room hovel forwhich the welfare departmentwas paying the rent. The buildingwas condemned, and they werethe sole remaining occupants.They had neither heat nor hotwater, and because of defectivewiring, there was electricity onlyin the bedrom.

Sister Susanne followed thewomen to the building, and foundthe baby to be in good health.But she warned the youngmother that the infant might betaken away from here until thefamily could find a decent placeto stay. She cradled the baby inher arms in a darkened room asthe mother attempted to heatthe baby's milk by using matchesand a candle. Nearby several ofthe youngsters were busy watch­ing a rat drown in a pail thathad been placed in the middle

Driverless SundayHas Carnival Mood

ROME (NC)-A carnival moodsettled over most of Italy onDec. 2, the first Sunday on whichthe government banned drivingof private cars as part of its aus­terity program, proving thatItalians can literally take theirtroubles in stride - and evenlaugh about them.

Indeed, when Italians "take tothe street" ,to prove a point, riotpolice are never far behind, butthis Sunday, Italians paraded onfoot across their towns and vil­lages, or invented motorlessmodes of motion that drew ap­plause from happy pedestrians.

Bicycles, a rarity in Italy'sclogged traffic, had a field dayon near-silent streets as theywere pedaled proudly past pedes-trians. ,

Bicyctegl·built4'or-two werecommon enough, but one cyclisthad a message in his invention:a sidecar for his bike made outof an oil drum.

Pope Paul Says'Peace DependsOn You, Too'

VATICAN CITY (NC)-"Peacedepends on you too" was the cryof Pope Paul VI in his messagefor the Jan. 1. 1974, World Dayof Peace.

"Listen to me again, you whohave arrived at the threshold ofthe new year 1974," the Popebegan. "Listen to me again: Iam before you making a humbleentreaty, a strong entreaty."

He reaffirmed his message oflast year, that "peace is possi­ble," and said it is more thanjust possible-it is a duty, amoral necessity, a "supreme eth­ical objective."

He scored the politics of fearand of balance of power, sayingit operates on "the outspokenand sceptical conviction that, inpractice, peace is impossible."

"Peace is the ideal of mankind.Peace is necessary. Peace is aduty. Peace is beneficial" thePope said. "It is not a fixed andillogical idea of ours; nor is itan obsession of an illusion. Itis a certainty. Yes, it is a hope:it holds the key to the futureof civilization and to the destinyof the world. Yes, peace." .

Repression Not PeacePope Paul denied that peace

is the "pale and timid abstrac­tion" of contemporary politicalexperience and thought, and hedismissed the idea that man is"a permanently insoluable prob­lem of living self-conflict" as a"crude ... realism" which thinksforce is all that matters.

The Pope argued against "theconfusion of peace with weak­ness (not just physical but alsomoral), with the renunciation ofgenuine right and equitable jus­tice, with the evasion of riskand sacrifice, with cowardly andsupine submission to others' ar­rogance, and hence with acqui­escence to enslavement."

"This is not real peace," hesaid. "Repression is not peace.Cowardice is not peace. A settle­ment which is purely externaland imposed by fear is not peace.The recent celebration of the25th annivel'sary of the Declara­tion of Human Rights remindsus that true peace must be basedon a sense of the untouchabledignity of the human person,from which arise inviolablerights and corresponding duties."

12 THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs." Jan. 3, 1974·

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NOTRE DAME (NC) - TheUniversity of Notre Dame's"highest and also its· most dis­tincJive priority is to understandand to adhere to its evolvingCatholic character," said a re­port .of a committee- on univer­sity priorities formed 15 monthsago.

"To survive without its uniqueplace in the minds of believersand without its Catholic witnes~in the larger pluralistic society,would be not to survive as NotreDame," said the report submittedto Holy Cross Father TheodoreM. Hesburgh, president of uni­versity.

Among the highest pr,ioritiesof the university, the 14-membercommittee chaired by Holy CrossFather James T. BurtchaelI, uni­versity provost, listed commit­ment to freedom of inquiry andthought, a faculty and studentaffairs staff among whom com­mitted Catholics predominateand great emphasis on the uni­versity's endowment in the allo­cation of income which is not re­quired to be spent for specificpurposes.

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.Group Hits LegaISnag on Funds

NEW YORK (NC) - Citizensfor Decent Literature, Inc. (CDL)ran into a legal snag here whenNew York state Atty. Gen. LouisLefkowitz charged that it hasspent more than two-thirds of itscharitable contributions for fund­raising and administration.

CDL executive vice-president,Thomas Blee, 'told NC News thatthe charges were based on a mis­understanding of CDL's natureand purpose and accused Lefko­witz of harrassment for personalreasons.

A New York city court hasordered the non-profit anti­pornography group to show-that its money is beingused properly for' the purposesfor which it was solicited. IfCDL fails to satisfy the court, itwill lose its New York registra­tion as a charitable organizationand be prohibited from furthersolicitation in the state.

CDL's troubles apparentlystarted in mid-1971, when ithired Richard A. Viguerie Co.,Va., to conduct a massive fund­raising effort to support CDL'seducational and legal activitiesagainst pornography.

According to Blee, CDL itselfreceived $300,000 a year in 1971and 1972 from the mail solicita­tions. This money was used forthe organi":ation's administrativecosts and legal battles against

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Bishops to TeachCourse on Chur·ch

WORCESTER (NC)-The bish­op and auxiliary bishop ofWorcester will soon assume theduties 6fteachers here.

Bishop Bernard .1. Flanagana.nd Auxiliary Bishop Timothy J.Harrington will conduc:t a non­credit course entitled "Conver­sation with the Bishops" atWorcester Polytechnic Institute.

According to the institU'~e's

catalogue, Bishop Flanagan wiIIhost two day-long conversationswith students interes'~ed in dis­cussing "problems in the field ofreligion today." Bishop Ha.rring­ton, the catalogue said, wiII dis­cuss "authority in the Church ...youth alienation ... Churchdoctrine and other topics re-lated to the place of religion insociety."

Father Peter J. Scanlon, dioc­esan vicar for campus comm,uni­ties, said the aim of the courseis to give the participants theopportunity to discuss openlywith the bishops, issues thatare not clear or whose explana­tions are not satisfactory tothem.

and make it shine with a newbrHliance."

Worship CommitteeAt. St. Joseph's the parish

Worship Committee is makingarrangements for the Jan. 17presentation under the directionof Miss Doris Thibault. Non­parishioners are invited to attendthe showing, which will be theonly one in New !Bedford. The

.church is on Acusbnet Avenuein the north end of the city,across from Brooklawn ,Park.Tickets are now available at therectory, 51 -Duncan St., telephone995·5235.

Tickets for the Taunton per­formance are available at SacredHeart .rectory, 29 First St., tele­phone 822-1525, and all Taun­ton area residents are invited toattend the Jan. 19 performance.Miss Virginia Wade, chairman ofthe Spiritual Development Com­mittee of Sacred Heart parishcouncil, is in charge of Tauntonarrangements.

Give Ancient Mystery Play.In New Bedford, Taunton

PLAN MYSTERY PlAY: Rev. Walter Sullivan, pastorof Sacred Heart Church, Taunton (left), and :Wsgr. HenriHamel, pastor of St. Joseph Church, New Bedford, aremaking arrangements for presentation of a 300-year-QldSpanish mystery play centering on the Mass in the sanctu­aries of their respective churches. New Bedford's perform­ance is scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 17, Taunton's for Sat­urday, Jan. 19.

A 300 year old mystery playcentered on the Mass will be pre­sented in the sanctuary of St.Joseph Church, New Bedford, at8:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 17, a.ndat Sacred Heart Church, Tam:­ton, at 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 19.

Both presentations of "TheMystery of the Holy Mass" wiIIbe offered by the Munich Mys­tery Players under direction ofMr. and Mrs. Ernest Jurina ofMunich, Germany, who s:lince 1949have toured the United Statesand Europe with their company.

The group has specialized in,the mystery plays of Calderon dela Barca, a 17th century Spanis!lpriest. presenting "The Mysteryof the Holy Mass" more fre­quently than any other in itsrepertoire.

Secret of SalvationThe play, presented in the

sanctuary and including in itscast Christ, Adam, Moses, Paul,John the Beloved and threecharacters representing Disbelief,Ignorance and Wisdom, demon­strates, say its producers, "that:the essentials of the Mass haveremained the same through thecenturies, even in our time ofliturgical renewal."

The main principle broug:,tout, they note, ·is the fulfillment1n the Mass of Christ's command:"Do this in remembrance of me."

"The mystery play is," theypoint out, "in its deepest sense,no longer theatre but an intro·duction to the religious truthhidden in the sacrament and lit­urgy. Characters portray the se­cret of salvation: cause, promise,fulfillment, testimony and trans­figuration in the Ught of truth,and the relationship betweenman and God in the Old andNew Testaments.

"This new staging of the per­formance for our timell is espe­cially enhanced by the strikinglighting effects in the darkenedchurch and has provided a deen·lyreligious and artistic experiencefor many people.

"There can be no doubt thatone can never exhaust the pro­fundity of the Holy Mass .in aplay. However, a performancemotivated by. respect can takewhat has :become commonplacl~

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Diocese to DeleteAbortion Coverage

EVANSVILLE (NC)-The Ev­ansville diocese has requesteddeletions. of covellage for abor­tions and sterilizations from itsBlue Cross-Blue Shield medicalplan.

"We need to' put our moneywhere our mouth is," said Msgr.Orner Meyer, diocesan treasurer."Since we preach against abor­tion, we should follow this up inaction."

The diocese will drop the cov­erage when its contract withBlue Cross-Blue Shield is re­newed in December. The abortionand steriliZiation coverage, partof the maternity benefits underthe policy, is automaticallyavailable with any family planmembership. There are currently62 holders of family member­ships under the diocesan plan.

of irrationality: If I don't knowabout it,' it doesn't exist.

The principle isn't isolated tothe coffee klatsch, either. It canbe found'in newspapers, at boardmeetings, in faculty lounges, ontelevision-just about anywhereone finds people.

A group of teachers complainabout a lack of good art mate·rial. "What we really need is ..."they go on.

"We've already got that," re­plies one who keeps up with herhomework, does her professionalreading, and v.isits textbook ex·hibits instead of dress shops duroing conventions. Knowle.dge ut­terly defeats the principle, "If 1don't know about it ..."

No InputA citizen complains to a will­

ing reporter about dogs runningwild in his neighborhood, adding,"There oughtabe a law." Thefollowing day, the code enforcerpoints out that there has been a,law for years but there has tobe a complaint by way of aphone call to put the law intoeffect. The machinery the citizendesired was there all the timebut his input was missing.

"Why doesn't the Church keepus informed ?" ask adults whohaven't looked at a religiouspaper or b~ok in years. "Why is

. my conglomerate so imperson­al?" complains a junior executivewho never got ariund to readingabout the personal assistancegiven his fellow workers theprevious year.

The list could go on, but it'sthe foolish thinking I'm tryingto expose, not the examples.We're long on complaining be­fore we check our facts. Wehave lots of helping agencies butwe can't expect them to knockdaily and say, "We're here. Whatdo you need?"

It may be others' responsibil­ity to set up the laws and theagencies, perhaps, but it's our re­sponsibility to keep aware ofthem. Otherwise, we can't faultthem. for saying anything aboutus, "If we don't know aboutthem, they don't exist."

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Conversation swirled on, from neighborhood divorcesto Watergate. Eventually, of course, it got on to schools.(For the benefit of those non-suburban parents reading this,the subject always gets around to school in middle-classmomism circles.) "Well whydon't the schools do somereally exciting things?" com­plained a' mother who hasnever explored the nearby canalwith any of her children or al­lowed them to fingerpaint. "Imean, why don't they bring in-

Priests to ElectPersonnel Board

BUFFALO (NC) - The priestsof the Buffalo diocese will nom­nate members of a diocesan per­sonnel board that will adviseBishop Edward Head on clergyappointments.

The board will include two pas­tors, two associate' pastors andone priest who is working out­side the parish framework.

In two ballots priests will nom­inate a slate of 16 priests to fillthe five positions. .

Bishop Head will appoint theboard members from that slate.A sixth board member, a person­nel coordinator, wiII also be ap··pointed by the bishop.

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I~~~~..::.~~-~teresting people into the schoolto talk to kids and give them'some ideas of different kinds ofwork and that?"

"Tohey do," replid the mothernext to her. "Don't 'you knowabout the VIP program? Theyask anybody with a specialty tosign up-to come and talk toclasses. The schools call themVery Important Persons. Jenny,you're on the list as a cartoon­ist,aren't you?" .

Jenny nodded, but the firstmother didn't want to heal' aboutany real program. Nursing hergrievance, she shrugged it offwith, "It must be on paper only,then, because my kilds haven'thad any of those interesting localspeakers."

Lots of People

"Oh, yes, your Timmy has,"offered another mother. "He'sin Gary's class and they hadlots of people last year. Youknow the marine biologist who'brought all the tropical fish forthe kids to see? And the cityhus driver who told them aboutthe funny things people leave onbusses, remember? And a jockey,and a newspaperman and-"

"-well, if they had them, whydidn't I hear about them?" inter­rupted her aggrieved neighbor."If I don't know about them, Ihave to figure they don't exist."End of conversation-and logic,too, for that matter.

This is a kind of thinking pop­. ular in our culture. BasicaHy, itcan be reduced to this principle

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CHRISTMAS MASS FOR SHUT-INS: Bishop Cronin delivering the homily at theMass he offered for shut-ins over Channel 6, New Bedford on Christmas morning.

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Catholic ReliefPARIS (NC) - The Catholic

Committee Against Hunger andfor development (CCFD), com·posed of 21 Church movementsand organizations, collected $2.8million last year, the CCFD an·nounced here. During the year,the CCFD gave $500,000 to com·bat the effects of drought inSahelian Africa, the area justsouth of the Sahara Desert.

THE ANCHOR- 13Thurs., Jan. 3, 1974

Cancels InsuranceIn Abortion Protest

EVANSVILLE (NC)-In a sec­ond and more dramatic protestagainst abortion coverage, theEvansville diocese has can­celled its insurance contract withBlue Cross-Blue Shield whichcovered all 129 priests of thediocese.

Earlier the diocese had asked,the insurance company to dropthe abortion and sterilizationcoverage which had been in­cluded in the 62 family insurancepolicies covering its lay em­ployes. That action was chal·lenged by some who opposedgiv.ing suppor.t to an insurancecompany which provided suchcoverage.

The announcement of cancel·la.tion of the clergy policies wasmade by Bishop Francis Sheawho said "our consciences andour public stance concerning themorality of abortion make itmandatory, in my opinion, thatwe give this kind of witness toour convictions."

The Indiana diocese enteredinto a new clergy insurance con·tract with the Golden Rule In­surance Company of Lawrence­ville, m., which has a policy ofnot providing abortion or steril­ization.

l'ubllclty chairmen of parish organizations.r. ISked to submit news Items for thiscolumn to The Anchor, P. O. Box 7, FallRiver 02722. Name of city or town shouldbe Included. as well as full dates of .11activities. Please send newl of future ratherthan past events.

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Combined societies of the par­ish will sponsor their annualOplatek-Christmas Wafer dinnerat 1 P.M. Sunday, Jan. 6 in theparish hall. The event is open toall parishioners and their friendsand tickets will be available atthe door.

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Mrs. James McKnight and Mrs.Herbert Boff will serve as host­esses for the calendar and swapparty of the Women's Guildscheduled for 8 o'clock on Wed­nesday evening, Jan. 9.

Each member is requested tobring a gift for the "swap party."

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rate; the decline of juvenile de·Iinquency; the lessening of theproblems of poverty; etc. It canbe said without' fear of contra­diction that during the time thecontraception movement hasflourished, most, if not all, ofthese problems have increased.

"I am not here implying thatit can be proved that contracep­tion itself has caused or increasedthese problems," Cardinal She­han continued. "I am simplypointing out that, contrary to theprediction of the contraception­ists, these problems have in­creased in the contraceptivesociety."

Support PositionHe cited numerous arguments

against contraception from nat­ural law and from divine revela­tion in Scripture and tradition,and argued that the whole as·semblage of arguments, alongwith consistency of the Church'steaching against articificial con­traception and the practical ex­perience of contraceptive soci­eties, seems solidly to supportthe present Church· position.

At the same time, he said,"My real conclusion, which is myprivate opinion ... is that thereremains a number of questions tobe answered which seem to leaveroom for development of theChurch's doctrine on family reg­ulation."

He suggested the possibility offurther scientific and medicalrefinements that may make itpossible for some couples to live

,within the Church's teachingwithout facing the severe hard·ships they must face in presentcircumstances.

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deoision on the abortion issue isinfluenced by many factors, in­including her personal beliefs, theattitude of supervisors and peersand her concern for good patientcare. As a result, "the decisionis often difficult to make in theHght of all these considerations,"the panel said.

A survey of University ofIowa nursing students conductedearlier in November supports thepanel's impression that the abor­tion decision is more' diffficultfor older nurses, the memberssaid.

Over,82 per cent of the seniorstudents interviewed said theyhave "no obj~ction to caring forpatients undergoing abortion,"but 15 per cent said they didhave some reservations. The stu­dents wnh reservations charac­terized their reasons in the fol­lowing areas: religious (22 percent), ethical (11 per cent) andsocial (10 per cent).

sion that advised the Pope onthe encyclical.'

Problems IncreasedA major argument in favor of

the Church's teaching that arti­ficial contraception is in itselfobjectively evil, he said, can bedrawn from the theory of "anassemblage of concurring andconverging probabilities, such asNewman posited as the basis ofcertitude on the fundamental re-

,ligious truths and moral princi­ples of the natural order." Car­dinal ,John Henry Newman wasthe greatest English Catholic

,theologian of the 19th century.In the light of that theory,

Cardinal Shehan argued that"contraception has failed to pro­duce any of the advantages itsadvocates foretold with so muchconfidence: the stability of thefamily; the fall of the divorce

NEW YORK (NC)-CardinalLawrence Shehan of Baltimorestrongly defended Pope Paul VI'sdenunciation of artificial birthcontrol in his 1968 encyclicalHumanae Vitae ("Of HumanLife"). At the same time, how­ever, Cardinal Shehan suggestedseveral possible ways theChurch's teaching may be devel­oped to meet the problems ofextreme hardship faced by somecouples in trying to live up tothe Church's teachings.

Writing in the November andDecember issues of Homileticand Pastoral Review, a NewYork-based monthly magazinefor priests, Cardinal Shehan re­viewed some of the major objec­tions raised by opponents of theencyclical and cited argumentsto show that the objections werenot convincing. The cardinal wasa member of the papal commis-

Student Nurses Request RightTo R'efuse Abortion Participation

IOWA CITY (NC)-A studentpanel from the University ofIowa School of Nursing wil1 askthe American Nursing Associa­tion (ANA) to recognize theright of nurses to refuse to par-

'ticipate in abortions or to carefor abortion patients.

The panel of five senior nurs­ing students announced recentlythat it has prepared a resolubionwhich it will ask the ANA toadopt at the organization'sspring meeting.

The resolution states that, ex­cept in emergency situations,"nurses have the right to refuseto assist in the performance ofabortions and/or sterilizationprocedures in keeping with theirmoral, ethical and/or religiousbeliefs," and that their refusalto do so "should not jeopardizethe nurses'employment."

The students said their per·sonal opinions on abortion differ,but they agree that "guidelinesshould be set forth to help thenurse perform her role in keep­ing with her own beliefs and at­titudes." They said the guidelinesare necessary because a nurse's

Archbishop BacksFarm Workers

TORONTO (NC) - "I believein the right of all men to belongto the union of their choice. Ipray that the justice of yourcause may soon prevail," Arch­bishop Philip Pocock of Torontotold a group of striking membersof United Farm Workers Union(UFWU) from California who arein Toronto to gain support fora boycott of non·UFWU tablegrapes.

Archbishop Pocock spoke tothe group in St. John's chapel ofS1. Michael's cathedral here pri­or to celebrating a special Massfor the group.

The union is striking to pro­test the California grape grow­ers' refusal to recognize theirunion and the growers' signingof so-called sweetheart contractswith the Teamsters' union.

Archbishop Pocock said hedeeply regrets the efforts thathave 'been made to replace theUFWU with a union that "hasnot operated in the best interestsof your fellow-workers."

Shrine AssistantPresents MaryAs 'ReaI Person'

WASHINGTON (NC) - Pre,senting the Blessed Virgin Maryas "a real person" is the primarytask for Sister Joan Noreen, thefirst nun on the staff of theNational Shrine of the Immacu­late Conception here.

"Mary has always been pre­sented as someone to admire, butimpossible to imitate; there hasbeen an overemphasis on the pe­tition aspect of her role and ondoctrines like the ImmaculateConception," said Sister JoanNoreen. "But she was a realperson, someone who had tostruggle with fwith on a day-to­day basis. She didnt see all theway through from the Annunci·ation to the Resurrection. Shewas called to tremendous acts offaith."

Although her duties will cOY­er all of the shrine's activities,Sister Joan NOreen intends toconcentrate on areas related toyoung people, especially educa­tion.

For Young People

"It is our goal to reach out tothe youth of our country to ef·fect and deepen their knowledgeof and devotion to the BlessedMother," says the soft-spokenSister. "Our program is for youngpeople from grade school to col­lege, the seminary, and housesof Religious formation. A largepart of it will be centered onthe bishops' pastoral letter onthe Blessed Mother," releasedNov. 14.

The letter, "BehoOld Your Moth­er," reaffirms basic teachdng onMary and calls for a renewal ofdevotion to her.

"Our board of trustees is al-'ready studying means of imple·menting the pastoral," SisterJoan ,Noreen says, "and we hereat the shrine will be resourcepersons. We hOpe to work withdiocesan priest-pilgrimage direc­tors to encourage a redirection ofdevotion to Mary."

Sister Joan Noreen, now anassistant to shrine director Msgr.John J. Murphy, had served asdirector of religious education forthe Richmond, Va., diocese be­fore coming to the shrine.

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14 THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., Jan. 3, 1974

may seem very trite in a worldtorn apart by wars; corruption,and selfishness I personally likethe homey values of good food,and nowhere do you find ac­counts of better dishes than youdo in the pages of this particularpublication.

Something ElseAll this was brought to mind

. this holiday season because whilemy favorite is the most elegantmagazine imaginable, its sub­scription department is some·thing else again. Everyone on myChristmas list who enjoys goodcooking gets gifted with a sub­scription to this publication, butnever a year goes by that I don'tend up worrying that they arenever going to get it because al­most invariably the notificationof renewal doesn't end up in mymailbox (or the mailboxes of thepeople I'm gifting) until Decem­ber 24. This year they didn'teven arrive on that date and ittook il phone call to New Yorkto make sure that the four giftsand my own renewal would beforthcoming for '74.

While I may ha.ve to read itby the light of the fireplace andtry out its recipes over an openfire, the stability of my worldremains intact as long as mymagazine arrives mon.thly!

Every holiday season 'finds metrying out new recipes. Some aregreeted with acclaim by my fam­ily, while others are left to mold.This cookie recipe was enjoyedby almost everyone (you can get100 per cent results in anyhousehold) and the ease of mak­ing will keep it on my "favoriterecipe" list for a while longer.The cost of the almonds doesmake this' a "not everydaycookie" but it's s!ill a good one.

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margarine in a medium sizesaucepan, remove from heat andstir in honey, sugar and milk.

2) Add flour, candied fruitsand almonds, stir until well­blended.

3) Return saucepan to verylow hea'1.. Cook, stirring constant­ly, until.mixture begins to. thick­en (this really didn't take morethan a minute).

4) Drop by teaspoonfuls 2inches apart on very wellgreased cookie sheets. Bake in a325 0 oven from 12 to 15 minutesor until golden brown. Coolslightly on cookie sheets, thenremove carefully with a widespatula to wire racks and cool.

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Each cell is essentially a three­room cottage with a large studyarea and an adjoining "closet"where the hermit eats his mealon a plain wooden bench. Thesiinple bedroom consists of a bed,toilet, sink and shower.

RAF OfficerThree hours on the highway

gives one ample time to conjureup images of hermits: world­fleeing malcontents who hatelife, perhaps bitter and crushedsouls injured by life's unfortu­nate events. Father Robert, whoserved as an intelligence officerwith the Royal Air Force in En­gland during World War II andwas a printer for 12 years, fitsnone of these descriptions.

Eminently cheerfUl - perhapseven childlike - Father Rob­ert was ordained a priest at 38,later became a trappist monkand then committed himself tothe eremitical life at age 45. Al­though his awareness of theworld remains, his desire for itseems completely extinguished.

"In a way, we're closer to theworld and to nature than youfolks," Father Rober said. "Atrue hermit's relationship to lifeis not 'you and GOO'-but "you,your neighbor and God."

The other three full~fledged

hermits '1iving with FatherRobert include a former Bene­dictine priest, another' formerTrappist priest and a formerFranciscan. Recently a success­ful German journalist, age 45,abandoned his worldly life anden~ered Holy Family Hermitageas a novice.

•Inof the flesh," said Father Robert,the 65-year-old guestmasterwho's spent the last 20 years ofhis life as a hermit. We undergoausterities only to expand thedomain of the soul. To look uponlife as misery wou1d be un-Chris­tian."

Holy Family Hermitage con­sists of nine individual cells en·circling an architecturally mod­ern chapel, a guesthouse and acommons· where food is preT)aredand a vast library is housed.

Although the hermitage for­bids radio, ,televi.sion and allforms of music, diocesan news­papers keep the brothers in­formed about . contemporaryevents-even, much to their dis­appointment, Watergate.

GovernmentThe most successful govern­

ment is that which l.eads its sub­jects to the highest a.im by meansof the greatest freedom.

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Ask ReconciliationWith Palestonians

BOSTON (NC) - Forty-twoMassachusetts clergymen, includ­ing 26 Catholics, have urged theIsraeIi government to seek recon­ciliation with the PalestinianArabs.

In a statement issued at apress conference here, the groupasked that Israel "accept theparticipation of an independentPalestinian delegation in theMiddle East conf1.ict. They alsourged that Israel allow Palestin­ian Arab Christians and Mos­lems to rerurn to their home­land, in acceptance with article13 of the Universal Declarationof Human Rights which states:"Everyone has the right to leaveany country, including his own,and to return to his country."

The clergymen maintained thatIsrael refuses to grant thatright while demanding the rightof Russian Jews to leave theSoviet Union. They said this"represents a selective applica­'1.-ion of the Universal Declarationwhich precludes justice for the ­Palestinian people and therebythe very peaceful settlementsought by Israel."

One of the signers, Paul Shan­non, a Jesuit novice, said heunderstood the statement tomean a return by the PalestinianArabs "with full pomical rights."Such a step, he said, would have"tremendous implications for thepolitical structure oJ!' IsraeL"

Monks Live Life of Silence

HERMITS FOLLOW ANCIENT PATH: Their cottages have gas furnaces, but like Des­ert Fathers, monks live a life of silence and solitude in Holy Family Hermitage in southernOhio. Nine cells surrouno the chapel. At far right is the commons, housing the kitchenand library. In the foreground is a guesthousE~ for male retreatants. NC Photo.

BLOOMINGDALE (NC) _. Atthe end of superhighways, high­ways, country roads and, fin.ally,gravel paths, tucked "way backon rollhlg Ohio farmland andvirtually hidden from the outsideworld, live five hermits.

Having renounced worldly iifeand forsaken f.riends, family,comfort, prestige and worldlysuccess, these five hermits of the'Camaldolese Order-a branch ofthe Benedictines-live in com­plete isolation at Holy FamilyHermitage on 161 acres of landin Bloomingdale, 15 miles fromSteU'benville.

The visitor is suddenly trans­ported centuries into the past. Hehas entered ancient corridors ofChurch history and is gratefulnothing has changed in the cen­turies.

It's true that today's hermitslive in cottages with gas fur­naces, instead of caves favoredby S1.. Anthony and the otherearly Desert Fathers. They alsogo into town occasionally forsupplies and medical care. Theyeven enjoy electricity and run­ning water.

But beyond that, few conces­sions have been made to themodern age. Today's hermits stilllive in solitude and almost com­plete silence, practicing auster­ities that would drive most mencrazy.

The Camaldolese priests andBrothers dress year-round intheir age-Old white habit consist­ing of a tunic and scapular withattached hood. They e'at aloneand must request permissionfrom their superior to breaksilence. They observe Lent twicea yea,r, six weeks before Christ­mas as well as Easter and duringthese periods sacrifice eggs andmilk products from their alreadylargely vegetarian diet.

In the words of Blessed PaulGiustiani; a Camaldolese father"... for th~ restless helmit, thecell is a prison and a torturechamber, a source of great an­guish. But for the hermit who iscalm and mindful of sta'bility, thecell and silence offer a safe r(~f­

uge against all temptations, aplace of refreshment, a beginningof Paradise."

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Gives AdviceOf Christmas

By Joseph and Marilyn Roderick

Flowering plants are ~n every home after the extrava­gance of Christmas giving. Poinsettias, cyclamen, begoniasand gloxinias are the most common, so I will devotethis and the next article to the proper care of these houseplants so that they can bemade to bloom again. Be­gonias are rather easy. Withproper watering and reason­able feeding they should stay inbloom from now until the timethey can be planted outdoors.In the home they can take asunny window, feeding with afertilizer once a month and reg­ular watering. The latter is espe­cially important because begoniasneed moisture. Just stick yourfinger in the pot and determinewhether the soil is wet 01' not;if it is dry, give it some water,and be sure' that you do not letit dry out.

Gloxinias should bloom forweeks after you receive them.They need reasonable heat, be·tween·65 and 70 degrees, shouldbe kept on the moist side butnot soggy wet. They need no t beplaced in a sunny window, butthey should be rotated to keeptheir symmetrical shape. Whenthe flowers die down and theplant begins to wilt, the leavescan be cut back to the crown,leaving one or two small ones.

Will Bloom AgainThe gloxinia and cyclamen

can be stored after blooming..The gloxinia should be kept onthe dry side in the basement un­til it can be repotted and beginsto show new iife.

The cyclamen will bloom andthen begin to wilt. As it wilts,it seems to disintegrate beforeyour eyes. The leaves die backto the crown and it appears to .have died completely. At thisjuncture, treat it as you wouldthe gloxinia. Withhold water,giving it only enough to keep itfrom drying out completely, andplace it in an out-of-t.he-wayplace in a cool basement untilit begins to show some life. Thenrepot it and give it a cool sunnylocation with ample water untilit flowers again. The cyclamenlikes a cool area now while it isin bloom and can be placed in acool room in a northern exposure.

All of. the above are a delightin the house and with a littlecare can be made to bloom again.Their cycles require that they begiven some rest but all too oftenthey are discarded directly afterthey bloom. This is rather sadbecause they will bloom againwith a minimum of care.

In the KitchenThey can raise my gasoline

prices (this I may object to, butI suppose I'll still pay the higherprice) and force me to put onan extra sweater in the evening,'but as long as some things re­main the same, I feel we'll beable to make it. One thing I hopewill never change is the publica­tion of a. certain food magazine.

This magnificent publicationfor food lovers has been amonthly treat at my house formore years than I care to remern­,bel' and the thought of a monthwithout it would have me think­ing the world has come to a badpass indeed. While all of this

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Father Tardiff said that theproposed family life educationcenters "would offer, along withmarriage preparation and mar­riage enrichment, a total rangeof information and services rel­ative to child-bearing, child­rearing, in an atmosphere com­patible with Christian principlesand values."

which to make informed, Chris­tian decisions on responsibleparenthood.

"The board is saying," FatherTardiff continued, "that sincePope Paul and the Canadianbishops have endorsed responsi­ble parenthood, the Christiancommunity has the responsibilityto make available to couples themeans via family life educationprograms and services that in­clude the many facets of familyplanning."

wastefuluses

Father R.M. Tardiff, NCCSSexecutive secretary, explainedthat the new statement is notintended to be a comprehensiveor a theological document.

The statement, he said, "arisesfrom the need expressed by mar·ried couples of having basfc in­formation and knowledge on

family planning clinics and coun­seling services, the NCCSS said.

The NCCSS defined familyplanning as "the process bywhich a couple can determine, ifthey wish, the timing, spacingand number of children' to beborn by them.

"In our view, it is an essentialaspect of responsible parenthood.The method chosen by one cou­ple should be a decision based oncarefUl study, and reflection onall relevant information."

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., Jan. 3, 1974

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ECUMENICAL ·SPIRIT AT CHRISTMAS: Mr. and Mrs. Duke Baptista are servedChristmas dinner by Mrs. William Saltzman in St. John the Baptist Hall, New Bedford.Jack Gould of the New Bedford Council on Aging headed groups from the New BedfordJewish Community, Salvation Army and the Council on Aging in providing Christmasdinners to senior citizens. Transportation was provided and hot dinners were brought tothe shut-ins of the area.

Urge Centers for Responsible ParenthoodOTTAWA (NC)-The Canadian

Catholic Conference (CCC) ofbishops has been asked· to en­courage support for Ithe creationof new family life education orthe strengthening of existing.family planning centers in theirdioceses.

In a statement on "FamilyPlanning and Responsible Parent­hood," the National CatholicCouncil of Social Services(NCCSS) asked the bishops toioster family life and marriagepreparation courses that will pro­vide information on f?mily plan-

.' ning ... in order that marriedcouples may' make responsibleand free decisions on parent­hood," according to the state­ment.

This information should alsobe made an integral part of fam­ily life education programs,

Haunting Phrase

Self-determination is a haunt­ing phrase. It is enshrined in theSoviet Constitutoion and in theUnited Nations Declaration' ofRights. The Chinese talk of it,too, and suggest that the borderpeoples are restive under Sovietdominion. The massive presenceof Soviet troops on the Easternfrontiers is a reminder thatempires, however disguised, con­tim:e to generate the risk of con­flict.

For Christians, the Portuguesecolonies are a particularly tragichangover from the age of em­pires: In terms of world securityand the risk of general war,Mozambique and Angola. are ofcourse, as nothing compared withthe dangerous tension along theSino-Soviet frontier. But thereis an agonizing dilemma forCatholics in the fact that Portu­gal is a self-described Christianpower and so evidently deniesthe fundamental right of. itscolonial communities to achieveindependence-a right which allother European powers-B'ritain,France, Holland Belgium-haveaccepted.

It is not to be supposed that inthe century. of colonial liberation,the vast African majorities in thePortuguese territories do not feelwhat Mr. Harold Macmillan oncecalled "the winds of change."Even if only a minority try toachieve liberation by force-asdo guerilla groups such as Fre­milo - their activity unleashesforce in return, and with force,the virtual certainty of suchatrocities as the massacre of vil­lagers by black and white Portu­guese troops at Wiryamu - amassacre which Catholic mis­sionaries brought to the world'sattention.

The Portuguese, less guiltythan any white power of racial­ism, could repeat in Africa theachievement of an independentmulti-racial society-as in Brazil.But there is a precondition, to ac­cept the fact that empires, likeslavery, belong to an earlierstage on man's evolving sense ofhis personal and social order.

But if the price is a genuineliberalization of internal politics,may not Khazaks and Georgiansand Khirgiz and Turkish-speak­ing communities and Armeniansand Mongols begin asking forliberal policies such as nationalself-determination and the rightto independence? One reason forsuppressing . the Czech exper­iment of "socialism with a hu­man face" was the fear that thesame human face could be dan­gerously attractive in Tashkentand Samarkand-and even Kiev.

Certainly the Soviets have notdisadvantaged their minorities.Education, advancement, all­Union service are open to them.A Khirgaz herdsman does notface the tragic destiny of a Bantufarmer trying to subsist in anovercrowded reserve. But theSoviets cannot be sure that ed­ucation, income and promotionare all the minorities want.

Tragic Remnants

for Power·

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By

BARBARA

EmpiresOf Urge

Throughout human history, the fundamental rights ofcommunities have been most frequently overriden by con­quest. The rise and fall of empires largely makes up therhythm of the human record and until the American rev­olution - virtually the daybefore yesterday - no oneparticularly questioned theprocesses of empire-buildingor empire losing. The race wentto the strong. St. Augustinemight say, as he contemplatedthe fall of Rome, that great em-

pires were simply thieves writlarge, but on the whole, conquestwas as habitual as day and nightand the returning seasons.

This fatalism has been ban­ished in the last two centuries.From the concept of "naturallaw," itself derived from Chris­tian humanism, the FoundingFathers of the United States de­clared that a community had theright not to be run by others sim­ply because they were strongeror claimed control.

This "right of self-determina­tion" was a time bomb tickingin the hold of all Europe's mari­time empires. In the 20th cen­tury, it exploded and one by one,the imperial ships went down.

Legacies of Past

But not all of them-and to­day the worst areas of tensionin the world are all legacies ofa still unresolved imperial past.If France had settled with Ho­Chi-Minh - as General Leclercproposed in 1946-the long ag­ony of Indo-China would havebeen avoided.

If British imperial power hadnot planted Protestant settlersin Ulster 300 years ·ago, the des­perate tragedy and scandal ofconfessional killing would notnow be blackening the Christianname.

Again, if after the Boer War,the British had not concededmore and more power to a mi­nority of white Dutch-speakingsettlers, South Africa would notnow be a powder keg of repres­sion and hatred.

If Britain in World War I hadnot promised Palestine to boththe Arabs and the Jews, the dan­gerous deadlock in the MiddleEast might never have arisen.The trouble is as acute in placeswhere it is not ,the legacy but thefact of imperialism that disturbsthe place. Much that is hard tounderstand in Mr. Brezhnev'spolicies makes more sense if weremember that the Soviet Unionis still in control of the Czar'sEmpire.

The Soviets undoubtedly de­sire to lessen the risk of nuclearwar and give their citizens great­er access to the kind of techno­logical benefits enjoyed-if en­joyed is really the word - byWestern citizens.

16 THI: ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., Jo"n. 3, 1974

KNOW YOUR FAITH-

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claimed and efforts have beeamade to establish structures fortheir protection and realization.

Yet for all the lip service paidto equal rights and opportunities,both are constantly denied intheory and practice. Why shouldthis be so?

The obvious explanation ishuman selfinshness, the tendencyshared by all Of us to deny toothers what we claim for our­selves. But "selfishness" is toobroad an answer.

People often take for grantedthat they have a "right" to what­ever they already possess orcan reasonably hope to get. Topossess something confers a"right" t() it. This applies mostobviously to .material posses­sions-money, property, and soon-but not only to them. Thesame attitude exists with regardto political, intellectual and spir­itual ·possessions: "What I haveis mine, and because I have it,I have a right to it."

Fair ShareThis is not the Christian under­

standing of "rights." A moment'sreflection makes it apparent thatmerely acquiring something doesnot by itself give one a right to it.Despite the old saying, possessionis not "nine-tenths of the law"and it counts for still less as abasis for rights.

To what, then, does a personhave a right? Basically, one hasa right to his fair share of whatis available to all members ofthe community for the preserva­tion and promotion of humandignity and development.

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"HAVE-NOTS": "Yet for all the lip service paid toequal rights and opportunities, both are constantly deniedin theory and practice." A tearful man consoles his weepingdaughter after they were evicted from their home.

By

RUSSELL

SHAW

Independence through the UnitedNations Declaration on HumanRights and beyond, rights ofhuman persons have been pro-

Few ideas have received morerecognition in modern time,; thanthose of equal rights and oppor­rtunities. From the Declaration ot

ebrant had checked their final­ized product and made onechange in it, the planning com­mittee contacted other parentsand assigned roles to variousindividuals. They carefully at­tempted to involve every boyand girl in some part of the rite.

The Sadlier publication, "PeaceI give You," setved as our basictext for the children and also asthe primary source book for thisservice. It also became the titleof a participation booklet assem­bled and produced by one of thefamilies.

We stressed in this ceremony,Jesus, the light of the world, par­ticularly emphasizing the Easter

.candle and" using small candles(with paper holders to catch drip­pings) for each of the 10 children

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A First Confession Service

large stone outcropping close tothe Acropolis, that the apostlemade his spe,ech before the lead­ers of Athens announcing thathe was proclaiming the "Un­known God" to whom they hadbuilt an altar.

His speech was pretty muchof a failure, although he con­verted one member of the Areo­pagus CounCil, Dionysius, a wom-"an named Damaris, and a fewothers.

An ancient tradition recordsDionysiL~s as the first Bishop ofAthens, martyred in "95 A.D.'

By

FR. JOSEPH M.:

CHAMPLIN

Our four-session summer pilotparental preparation program forFirst Confession concluded witha Common Penance Service on aMonday night in September.

The ceremony was a joint ven­ture. Two Sisters of St. Joseph­parish helpers 'at Holy Family­met with several of the parents,offered suggestions or ideasand then let them develop thespecific format. After the eel-

of American citizens. Discrimina­tion exists in Americtan societyand in the Church.

If the first 'half of the el:Jua­tion suggests how people' tendto divide the world into "we"and "they," the second half ofthe equation reveals one of themajor tasks of religious educa­tion. Religious educators--suchas parents, teachers, preachers,writers - face the challenge ofhelping" people realize that all

I men are brothers and sisters, de­, serving equal respect, equal

rights and equal opportunities.That is part of what Christiansmean when they call God "our"Father.'

Pauline DirectiveJesus said that we are to love

others as we love ourselves. Thatis another way of saying that"they" = ..us.... Jesus goes :fur­ther and urges us to love othersas He loves us - as He lovesthem! St. Paul reminds the firstChristian communities that thereshould be no discrimination be­tween rich and poor, male andfemale, Jew and Gentile-all areone in Christ. His message is re­stated in very clear terms by theSecond Vatican Council:"With respect to the funda­mental rights of the person,every type of discrimination,whether social or cultural,

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Alllti-Preiudice "Formula

Museum and elsewhere. Othersare still in Athens.

On his visit to Athens, St.Paul undoubterdly viewed themagnificent temple but there isno reference to it or to the_Acropolis in Scripture. The altarto the Unknown God that at­tracted Paul's attention was lo­cated on the road leading fromthe Athenian port of Piraeus tothe Agora or public square andmarket at the foot of theAcropolis.

Paul's Pulpit)t was atop the Areopagus, a

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II"We + They = Us!" I recently

came across that simple formulain an article I was reading. Ijotted it down at the time (un~

fortunately, without a referenceto its source) and hung it on my

"bulletin boatd. It is so simple,but so suggestiv1e. "We + They= Us!"

Discrimination

As our language betrays ourinner attitudes, so does our ac­tion. While "we" have certainrights, enjoy definite opportuni­ties and prLvileges, "they" areoften prevented' from sharingthe same rights and opportuni­ties and privileges, "they" are

. often prevented from sharing thesame rights and opportunities.A careful look through the dailynewspaper will show how wide­spread a reality is" the lack ofequal rights fo~ large segments

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FR. CARL J.

PFEIFER, S.J.

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The first half of that cleverformula lays bare the preju­dices that find unconscIous ex­pression in our daily conversa­tions. "We," of course, are' peo­ple who share "my" views andfeelings. 'They" includes justabout everyone else. If I amwhite, "they" may embrace allnon-whites. If I am a man, "they"can take in the other half of thehuman race, women. If I am rich,"they" may be poor. Just the op­posite naturally holds too. Tothe black, "they" may be allnon~blacks. For women "they"may refer to men. To the poor"they" can be the rich.

You can go on substitutingall kinds of groups for the "we"and "they" to fit your own ex­perience. Whatever the specificgroupings, "we" are normallyO.K., to be trusted, appreciated,rewarded. "They," for somereason are viewed with suspi-

,cion. "They" may be "lazy,""ambitions," "heretical," "closed,""conservative." In any case "we~'

and "they" are felt to be differ­ent.

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STEVE

LANDREGAN

It would be difficult to saywhat is the most familiar struc­ture in the world. The Eiffel Tow­er, the Leaning Tower of Pisa,St. Peter's Basilica, the Sphinxand the Pyramids at Giza, allwould be in the running, but eachof them would be challenged bythe classical grace and beautyof the Parthenon at Athens.

Most school children can tellyou that the Parthenon is apagan temple that is the mostdominant structure of theAcropolis, the seat of classicalAthens. Few would know thatit also had been a Christianchurch and a Moslem mosque.

Officially the temple is knownas the temple of Athena Parthe­nos, or Athena the Virgin. It

.was built by Pericles and wasdedicated in 438 B.C. after 10years of labor. It took an addi­tional six years to complete theintricate carvings and decora­tion.

It was dominated by a colos­sal statl:le of Athena, the patron­ess 'of Athens, and is regardedas the outstanding example ofthe Greek Doric style. The de­signer, Ictinus, incorporated anumber of optical illusions inorder to give the temple a moreperfect appearance when viewedwith the naked eye.

Christian EdificeScarcely a surface of the

building is truly vertical or hor­izontal, each being carefullycurved or thickened to compen­sate for the distortion of per­spective. It is a rectangularbuilding with two sides havingeight evenly spaced columns.The other two sides have 17evenly spaced columns. Thelength is double the width, plus"one.

It was in the fifth centurythat the temple was converte~

into a Christian church, ded­icated to Hagia Sophia, HolyWisdom, as was the great churchin Constantinople.

In 662 it was rededicated tothe Virgin Mother of God andunderwent substantial remodel­ing of the interior. When theTurks captured Athens in 1458,the Parthenon became a mosqueand a minaret was built on thesouthwest corner.

Two centuries later when theVenetian army was beseigingAthens, the Turks used thetemple as a' powder magazine.One of the Venetians' heatedcanonballs struck the powderand the building was severelydamaged. It deteriorated fromthat time onward through plun­der and neglect. Many of itssculp.tures were removed and arenow in the Louvre, the British

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IDEAL LAUNDRY

Anti-PrejudiceContinued from Page Sixteenwhether baseq on sex, race,color, social condition, lan­guage, or religion, is to beovercome and eradicated ascontrary to God's intent."(The Church Today, 29)An important part of religious

education, then, would seem tobe the effort to help individualscome to grips with their preju­dices. To be a Christian impliesthe recognition of the dignityand rights of every human be­ing. We need to educate our­selves, our young, our old, to re­sist every form of discriminationand to resist acting our personalprejudices.

Christ's CommandThe command of Jesus to love

one another needs to be trans­lated into language that relatesconcretely to the "we" and"they" in our own lives.

In addition we need to help ourpeople recognize the existence ofinstitutionalized prejudice suchas racism or sexism. It is onething to come to grips with one'sindividual prejudices, and quiteanother thing to face the factthat certain social, political and.religious structures or institu­tions are radically discriminatory.We need to help our people looknot only at their own hearts butat their institutions, including theChurch. This is particularly im­perative in adult religious edu­cation--to move beyond erad­icating personal prejudice toovercoming institutionalized orstructured prejudice. We havethe challenge to enable individ­uals to realize that "we + they= us!" and then to draw per­sonal and social conclusions fromthat realization.

Banks Cancel DealWith South Africa

NEW YORK (NC) - Four of10 American banks involved ·ina recent ser.ies of loans to theSouth A,frican government haverevealed they are pulling out, ac­cording to the Rev. Dr. SterlingCary, president of the NationalCouncil of Churches (NCC).

The action by the banks fol­lowed publication of a report bythe NeC's Corporate Informa­tion Center-research agency for,church and other groups con­cerned for corporate responsi­biHty-documenting the banks'involvement in the loan seriestotaling $70 million.

In the case of the four banksannouncing a policy shift, theyeither withdrew from presentloan plans or from any involve­ment in future loan commit­ments.

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Vocations Called'Totally Inadequate'

WASHINGTON (NC) - Thenumber of vocations to the dioce­san priesthood is "totally inade­quate to meet the institutionalneeds" of the Church in the Unit-.ed States, accoNling to the presi­dent of the National Conferenceof Diocesan Vocations Directors(NCDVD).

Msgr. Andrew McGowan toldthe U.S. bishops Vocations Com­mittee that "clearly, unmistak­ably, despite rumors to the con­trary and occasional evidences ofgood news" vocations havedropped so low it is impossibleto fill present needs, much lessthe increased needs of the future.

This shortage "is to a greatextent our own fault," Msgr. Mc­Gowan said in a talk to the Com­mittee during the bishops' meet­ing here.

With vocations dropping, thepriest said, the Church is reduc­ing rather than increasing its ef­forts to attract candidates to thepriesthood. He criticized the ap­pointment of part-time, .ratherthan full-time, diocesan vocationsdirectors and complained thatthe responsibilities of these di­rectors are often unclear.

ties will become a reality onlywhen the "haves"-both individ­uals and groups-are prepared toshare more generously with the"have-nots." Or when the "have­nots" rise in frustration andanger and seize some of whatthe "haves" now possess. Thechallenge for Christians is starkand clear: work to extend equalrights and opportunities to allor be prepared to accept theconsequences - whatever theymay be - of injustice.

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Gheddo, there is no true human­isms apart from Christ. Thereforewe cannot attempt to bring im­personal vrdues to the thirdworld.or materialist standards ora justice which is without love.

For me, this book provided anew perspective on a vexingproblem. Father Gheddo has laidhis finger on some root-factorswhich are commonly overlooked,and has contributed to a moreprofound understanding of theplight of the underdevelopedland~ 4(W1 peoI!les.

"HAVES: But the principle of 'fair share' is surelybeing violated in a nation-or a world-like ours in whichsome people enjoy a super-abundance of goods while othersscrape by with little or nothing." Vacationing couples onmotorized bikes tour a resort island which features a plushgolf course and a luxurious hotel. NC Photo.

Extending Equal Rights To AllContinued from Page Sixteen

"Fair share" is, to be sure, anelastic concept which leavesplenty of room for honest dis­agreement about its meaning in

.concrete situations. But theprinciple of "fair share': is surelybeing violated in a nation-or aworld'--'like .ours in which somepeople enjoy a super-abun­dance of goods while othersscrape by with little or nothing.

Opportunities

The problem is even moreacute with regard to "opportuni­ties," People who are willing intheory to concede equal rightsto others often balk at takingthe next ~tep and extending tothem the opportunity to realizethose rights. .

. Sometimes this refusal takesthe form of discrimination andoppression. But often it is donemore subtly-for example, withthe paternalistic attitude thatother individuals or groups arenot really "ready" for certainopportunities which the rest ofus enjoy.

Some people believe the prob­lem of unequal rights and oppor­tunities will solve itself as thequantity of goods of all kinds in­creases and the resulting abun­dance spreads to all. Unfortu­nately there is little evidencethat this is happening now andno certainty that it will happenin the future. Even if it weretrue, generations would have tosuffer the penalties of"inequalityin the interval.

Equal rights. and opportuni-

man has not prevailed. Societydoes not evolve; it is static andfatalistic; the status quo must bepreserved unchanged. Medicalscience has been extremely prim-

. itive, an·d other sciences alongwith modern technology, havebeen virtually unknown.

Gradual DevelopmentTo some extent, the old style

of colonialism has been responsi­ble for such conditions. Thus itused colonies for the benefit ofthe mother country, and did notpromote their evolution. Andtoday's neocolonialism makesinvestm'ents in underdevelopedcountries, but worth an eye to itsown gain, which has meant thatthe investors have, in profits,taken out of underdevelopedcountries far more than they putin.

It is essential that we under­stand why the underdevelopedcountries are as they are. Wemust not ignore their history, theconditions which have prev.ailedin them. We cannot simply writethese people off as stupid or lazyor inherently lacking in the ca­pacity for growth. Nor may webe either pessimistic and defeat­ist in their regard or overopti­mistic as to their prospects., They can be helped, but theirdevelopment will have to begradual. They will have to ac­quire a whole new mentality andoutlook. This can come only witheducation. By that is meant notjust formal schooling. The poormust be made aware of theirpoverty, their human dignity,their rights. They must be shownhow to help themselves, to effectchange.

Opposes RevolutionThis definitely does not mean

the promotion of violent revolu­tion. Father Gheddo is stronglyagainst anything of the sort. Awork of love, he says, cannot beimplemented by hatred, and vio­lent revolution too often meansno more than a change ofmasters

He is equally opposed to thekind of agitation which, suppos­edly the work of sympathizerswith the poor, is actually exhibi­tionism on the part of agitators,a way of publicizing and makingheroes of themselves and allow­ing them to vent their own frus-

·trations which have nothing to dowith the cause they say they arechampioning.

What he advocates is our as­sistance in a revolution of con­science" which enters thoroughlyinto man and transforms him.Then man can gradually trans­form the society in which helives. A revolution from outside,imposed with violence, remainsinef.fective if men are not pre­pared to build a new society,"

For Human GrowthMaterial help is undoubtedly

needed and in order. The devel­oped countries, like our own,could readily give it. Considerwhat we expend on arms, whatwe waste. But we should see toit that whatever we give goesto the people and is used fortheir human growth,

Folt the Cbtistiai1, says father

By

RT. REV.

MSGR.

JOHN S.

KENNEDY

Any American of Christian conviction and consciencefeels that his highly advanced and prosperous countryshould be doing something to assist the poor people in theunderdeveloped countries of the world. But just what shouldit be doing? What preciselyis the problem, and how,practically; can it be met?Some basic answers are sup­plied in Why is The Third WorldPoor? (Orbis BoOks, Maryknoll,N. Y. 10545. $3.95) by FatherPiero Gheddo, translated byKathryn Sullivan.

Book Provides PerspectiveOn Third World Problem

What is a developed society,what is an underdeveloped one?An exhaustive artswer would bequite lengthy.

But Father Gheddo sums upthe difference when he says,"The sign of a society's develop­ment ... is the march forward,the movement toward concreteopportunities for betterment"whereas underdevelopment char-

. acterizes a society which doesnot offer its peOple "the basicconditions for human growth and(is) not yet on the way towardrealizing them." .

Development is not merelyeconomic or technological. Sothat aid to the third world is notmerely a matter of money orequipment. "The principal ob­stacles to development are foundin insufficient human preparationand inadequate formation of thehuman factor. Thus, underdevel­opment in the last analysiscould be defined as the cultural,psychological, and social failureto accept modern progress withall its exigencies."

Four RevolutionsIn developed societies or lands,

the people have experienced fourrevolutions unknown to those inunderdeveloped countries. Theserevolutions stem directly or in­directly from the Judaeo-Chris­tian religion, "which gave a cor­rect idea of man and his relationto God and nature: man createdin the image of God; man, king ofcreation, with an end superior tothat of any other creature; manfree to determine and shape hisown destiny."

The first revolution broughtout the idea of the equality ofall men and the dignity of each.The second consisted in progress,the advance "towards a level oflife more worthy of man," bydominating nature and making itserve his needs. The third was inthe improvement of medical sci­ence, to protect and preservelife. The fourth lay in the realmof science and technology, pro­viding the means of man's dom­inating nature and making itserve his needs.

In general, the third world hasbeen untouched by these revolu­tions, or has only lately begun tobe affected by them. There, forexample, the notion of the dignityof. man an(\ th,. lVlIlrth of. each

18 THE ANCHOR--Diocese of Fo'll River-Thurs., Jo".3, 1974

Says 'Liberation Theology'-Out of Place in Amer1ica

ContessionsContessions followed in our

special room and in a sacristyspace. Each place oHered theoption ot kneeling anonymouslybehind ·the priest or ot sittingacross from him tor a face toface encounter. Most of the chil­dren and adults (the two of usheard tor a solid hour) chose thelatter arrangement. I tound theconfessions beautiful-open, spe­cific, paintul in thEY healing man­ner they should be.

Penitents told what they haddone, why they did these thigs,and asked or suggested how theycould improve in the tuture. Ourprogram of preparation and ourpenance ceremony had, I thought,succeeded tar beyond our ex­pectations. The happiness andquiet exuberance downstairs atthe coHee, Kool Aid and cookiescelebration indicated parents andchildren agreed.

First ConfessionContinued from Page Sixteen

making their tirst Confessionthat night.

ServiceThe small congregation (about

30 persons) met at the church'sentrance and at 7:30 began aprocession to the front pewssinging "Kumbaya."

After a brief greeting by thecelebrant, Ed Foley, father otEddie, read a few paragraphswhich explained the sign otpeace. All then exchanged thisgesture ot forgiveness and recon­ciliation,

Next, the celebrant delivered ashort homily, introduced the lightservice and asked James Weissand Eileen Bixby to come for­ward with their candles. Theylighted these from the Paschaltaper, returned to the pews, andpassed the flame on to the otherboys and girls.

After each child had a burningcandle, one father said: "Everytime we decide to do what weknow is wrong, there is less lightin the world."

Laurie Narewski rose at thistime with flickering taper in handand read: "When boys and girlsare playing, and one child de­cides to push, or fight, or be un­fair, all the children become un­happy. TherEl is less light in theworld." Speech completed, Laurieblew out her candle.

The congregation responded:"Jesus forgive us for letting yourlight grow dim."

This litany-like period ot re­flection or examination ot con­science quite effective visually inthe darkened church, continuedwith'six children standing, read-

. ing,extinguishing their' candles.The priest concluded: "Jesus is

here with us-He. is our light. Itis Jesus who says, 'Peace I give

, you.'''

All present finally joined inthe Our Father, spent several mo­ments in a "Time tor Thinking"and recited a child's act of con­trition.

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tion is not a good thing is inNorthern Ireland. There it issenseless religious strite.

Sure.© 1973, Inter/Syndicate

'SeCUlarist Diehards'Commenting on the brief, Rab­

bi Morris Sherer, executive pres­ident ot Agudath Israel otAmerica, an Orthodox organiza­tion, said the position ot theseven organizations involved "isnot the position of the Jewishcommunity as such."

Describing the seven organ­izations as "§ecularist diehardswithin the Jewish community,"Rabbi Sherer said that "the Or­thodox Jewish community, theonly sector within AmericanJewry which has a broad educa­tional program, has a standdiametricaT-Iy opposed'" to thatexpressed in the brief, He saidhis organization is preparing an

Allowing Federally Paid TeachersIn Nonpublic Schools Opposed

WASHINGTON (NC) - Seven amicus curiae brief that will takenational Jewish organizations the opposite position.hlive .asked the U. S. Supreme The Missouri case was broughtCourt to rule in a Missouri by a group of !ionpublic schoolschool aid case againstalJowingst,udents and their parents fromteachers paid with federal funds Kansas City, where $~j8 per pupilto teach eyen nonreligious s:.lb- was spent on children in Title I

-jects on the premises of nonpub- ESEA programs .in nonpubliclic schools. schools and $2ni per pupil in

In an amicus curiae (triend at public schools.the court) brief filed in Wheeler The paren1ts sought to requirev. Barrera, the groups claimed the state education departmentthat school aid programs under to provide more than the after­Title I· of the Elementary and hours services and equipmentSecondary Education Act of 1965 being made avai.Jable to their(ESEA) violate the Constitution children in the state's Title I pro­it they are conducted on the jects, such as remedial readingpremises of sectarian schools, for educationally deprived stu-

T.he brief was filed by the dents. .. .American Jewish Congress, Anti- In March, the EIghth ~IrcultDefamation League of B'nai U. S: Court of Appeals In St.B'rith Jewish Labor Committee LOUIS ruled that tederal fundsJewish War Veterans. Nationai were being arbitrarily denied toCouncil ot Jewish Wo~;en Union the nonpublic school students.ot American Hebrew Co~grega- The court t-?und t!ha~ whi.le com­tions and United Synagogue ot parab,le equlpme,nt, materIals ~ndAmerica. supphes were glve~, the sharmg

of personnel servIces was ex­cluded.

The court also said that sum­mer school programs and pro­grams after regular hours "werenot nearly as successful as the"programs conducted during theregular school hours."

The court said lack of coop­eration between public and non­public school personnel had ledto the neglect ot "the only in­tended beneficiary ot the act­the disadvantaged child."

serious retlection ,on the Amer­ican political experience has be­come impossible. (One hesitatesto think of how R,einhold Niebuhrwould react to the political freakshow. that Union Theological hasbecome.)

Still the American politicalexperience-<iespite our presenttroubles--'has been an extraordi­narily rich and important one.A wide va-riety of different peo­ples havec'ome together to cre­ate a stable polity and society.This stability may be relative,but as nations go the UnitedStates is one of the most stable,and surely the most stable of thelarge and heterogeneous ones. Inthe process of creating such sta­bility we have developed a sys­tem of compromise, coalition,and collective bargaining (politi­cal, not labor) -that is unique inthe worJd and which may possi­bly represent the only way thata stable world pluralism canever emerge.

Racial' FailuresIt is fashionable currently to

insist that_ the American "sys­tem" is corrupt because of itsracial failures. Undoubtedly thesefailures have been serious, al­though it seems to me that theyare more the result of not usingthe system for blacks rather thanthe system's having failed them.However, as blacks achieve moreand more political power in theUnited States they automaticallybecome. part of the coalition­building process, Furthermore,one cannot think of a multiracialnation in the world where theminority group can capture themayoraJ.ties in cities like LosAngeles, Raleigh, Atlanta, De­troit, Newark, and Gary. I won­der when the freaks at UnionwHl give the "system" creditfor that.

CoalitJion politics is necessarilyreconciliation politics. It figuresthat it js much better to haveothers as your allies than as yourenemies. Are there absolutely notheological implications in suchan 'insight?

In the Precinr.tsThe primary locus ot coalition­

building is the precinct - theplace where ordinary peoplelive, these least of my brotherswho are supposed-to be the Lord.It one theologizes about Amer­ican politics one might be welladvised to leave the hallowedivory towers of divinity sohoolsand seminaries and go into theprecincts where all the hard-hatracist slobs live. Theologiansdirty their hands with such peo­ple? Don't be silly.

A theology of the precinctsmight mean a lot to a worldlooking for reconciliation, aworld . where a Metternichianpower broker like Henry the Ex­cellent becomes a folk hero be­cause he· ca'n end shooting andkilling. But don't hold yourbreath. Our contemporahry the­ologians seem to like killing, aslong as it is done in the nameot "liberation" and with quota­tions from Camillo Torres on thelips.

By

REV.

ANDREW M.

GREELEY

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It seems that "liberation theology" has become thenew fashionable gnosticism for a number of Americanclergy. Characteristically they have discovered this latestin the seemingly endless fads that sweep through the post­Conciliar Church just at thetime that our Protestantbrothers are becoming mostuneasy about the weak­nesses - both theological andsocial scientitic - of liberationtheology. Many such clergy areupset to no end by my attack ontheir toy.

They are as innocent of social,political, and economic realitiesas the manic Marxists (or would­be Marx-ists) who have producedthe new so-called theology, Chile,for example, is a country soobviously split in half by itsbasic social class divisions thatto "liberate" one halt trom theother halt without splitting itapart would be, I think, a prodi­gious teat. Only a political coali­tion that is able to combine themore moderate elements in bothclasses has any hope of holdingsuch a country together and ofmaking economic progress.

What Chile needs is not atheology of liberation but a the­ology of reconciliation. In otherLatin American countries thepattern may be different, but itis unlikely that resolut!ions (un­less they are economically under­written by foreign superpowers,­as in Cuba) are going i to solvemany of the economic problemsthat beset that troubled conti­nent.

But whatever is to be saidabout the social and economicrealities of the various LatinAmerican nations, it ought to beclear that liberation theology hasrelatively little to do with theAmerican situation. Any "revolu­tion" in the United States is like­ly to come from the right. not theleft (Genera~ Haig ordering .in abattaNon of paratroopers todisperse Congress?). A revolutionhere would be even more clearlythan in Latin America a tyrannyof _a minority over a majority.Besides Paolo Freire, with ch'ar­acteristic arrogance, has told usthat not only people fl"Om thethird world can develop a lib­eration theology: North Amer­icans need not apply, Sorryabout that, fellows.

Political TheologyIf theology is to take place in

the context of the political andsocial reaHties in which the the­ologian lives (and in principlethere seems to be no reason whyit should not), then any Amer­ican "political theology" ought toarise out of reflection on theAmerican political environment.Of course, the "hate America"cult is so strong now amongProtestant theologians and theirCatholic fellow travelers that

IN THE DIOCESE

By PETER J. BARTEKNorton Hi&h Coach

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., Jan. 3, 1974 19

Connolly High Wins Hockey Tournament

BRISTOL CATHOLIC LEAGUE: Sponsored by the c.Y.a. a new hockey league opensat the Fall River Skating Rink. In pre-game moments, director John Carey of Fall Rivergives instructions to John Godhue of Fairhaven, Dave Whitney of Somerset, Michael Kae­terte of New Bedford, Daniel Charest of Fall River, and Tom Correira of Taunton. The 4team league is in action every Sunday night at 10 P.M. playing an eighteen game slate.

Stang's strength lies in sharp­shooter Billy McMillan whomay be the best individual per­former in the area. However vet­eran mentor O'Brien will have tocome up with a supporting castif Stang is to have another suc­cessful basketball campaign.

SCHOOLBOY S PORTS

The 26 Southeastern Massachusetts Conference basket­ball teams open league championship competition this weekwith their sights set on four divisional titles. With most non­league and festival games behind them coaches have estab-lished their starting lineups .and ironed out many of the has found the going a little rough

bl F against non-league opponellts.early season pro ems. rom The Spartans are small and willhere on in each game is criti- have to rely on their speed tocal as all teams vie for circuit offset the height disadvantage.honors. Coach John O'Brien's Spartans

The newly aligned Conference will play New Bedford tomorrowwill feature play in four divisions night in the Whaling City.with six teams entered in Divi­sions I, III and IV while eightwill battle for the Division IIcrown. All league games will beplayed on Tuesday and Fridayevenings here through Feb. 15when the season ends.

Defending Division I championBishop Stang High of Dartmouth

S.E. Mass. Hoop Conference

Begins Champio~ship Races

Old Rochester in III and Wareham in IV

Taunton Eyes Another Successful YearTaunton enjoyed its best hoop vassas, Fran Ferraz and Bill

season in years last Winter when Coury will have to carry mostit advanced to the finals of of the burden for the hopefulstate championship competition Hilltoppers.before losnig. Coach Bob Reddy In the remaining Division I con­has three starters returning from test slated for Friday Barnstablethat club who should lead the is at Attleboro. Both clubs haveTigers to another tourney appear- the potential to challenge for theance and possibly the loop title. top spot but will have to resolveJim Cunnningham at 6'6", Walt - a few problems that appearedHarrigan a 6'4" senior along during non-league games to gowith 6'2" Matt Wayslow give all the way.the Tigers size and experience, New Bedford, who like Durfeetwo attributes that opposing Di- is returning to local league com­vision I teams may find impos- petition after a year's absence,sible to combat. can not be counted out. If Coach

Taunton will entertain Durfee Sal Lombardo's boys can put aHigh of Fall River tomorrow. few victories together early inDurfee is competing in the cir- the campaign they may developcuit for the first time this Win- that confidence necessary to be-ter. come champions.

But, in days gone by, the Hill- Dartmouth has emerged fromtoppers dominated play in the pre-season playas the team toold Bristol County League and beat in Division II. The Indians,appear to be contenders for have been very impressive asleague laurels in the new loop. they have combined good defenseCoach Tom Karam's Red and and potent offense into a win­Black was impressive in the New- ning combination. Dartmouthport Holiday Tourney losing by will be in Fall River Friday toa point in the finals. Mike Tra- take on Bishop Connolly High.

INCORPORATED 1937

..The cardinal said the varyingamounts given to the 32 religiousorders were arrived at on thebasis of the number of full-timeReligious in the 176 elementaryschools and 10 archdiocesan highschools, and full-time ParishSchool of Religion Religious per­sonnel. Early this year, when thisnew project was added to thegoals of the Development 'FundCampaign, -it was announced thatthe goal would be $400 in retire­ment support for each Religiousin the arcb:liocesan schools or infull-time Parish School of Reli­gion work.

this contribution we are tryingto show the concern of all peoplewho gave to the DevelopmentFund."

7 to 3. Rockett again scoredthree goals; with Bouchard,Kitchen, Raymond and Stringereach having one goal.

A large share of the credit forthe Connolly triumph in the tour­nament must go to their goalie,Barry Shea who made 56 saveswhile allowing only 7 goals dur­ing the entire tournament.

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Registered Civil and Structural EngineerMember National Society Professional Engineers

FRANCIS L. COLLINS, JR., Treas.THOMAS K. COLLINS, Seey.

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ST. LOUIS (NC) - Checks to­taling $384,000 have been sentto 32 religious orders who havemembers teaching in the arch­diocesan schools, the Archdioce­san Development Council has an­nounced.

The mailing of the checks byCardinal John Carberry of St.Louis completed a promise bythe cardinal and the Develop­ment Council when they addeda new major item to the goalof the 1973 Archdiocesan Devel­opment Fund Campaign-archdi­ocesan assistance to religious or­ders for retirement purposes.

In his letter, Cardinal Carberrysaid, "We are fully aware of theretirement needs of Religiouswho have served God's people sodevotedly over the years, and by

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ment play, Connolly defeatedNew Bedford by tallying fourgoals in the final period to makethe score 7 to 3. Rockett scoredthree goals; Burke scored twiceand both Raymond and Stringerhad a goal apiece.

In the third round Connollymet the host team, TauntonHigh School, and defeated them

Bishop Connolly High Schoolof Fall River scored three goalsin the final period Sunday after­noon to beat New Bedford Voca­tional High School and capture'the ChampIonship trophy in theFirst Annual Silver City HockeyTournament sponsored by theRotary Club of Taunton.

The final score was Connolly4 Voke 1 but the tense game hadremained tied since the middleof the first period. At 3:09 inthe first period. Steve Gonnevilleput Vocational on the scoreboard and, within two minutes,Gary Bouchard with an assist byTom Burke tied the game forConnolly. Both teams remainedfairly evenly matched until 3:01in the final period when BradRaymond on a pass from SteveRockett scored what turned outto be the winning goal for Con­nolly. Steve Rockett and BradRaymond scored the final twogoals with assists going to TomKitchen on the first and to bothSteve Rockett and Gary Bouch­ard on the second.

The Silver City High SchoolHockey Tournament was spon­sored for the first time this yearby the Rotary Club of Taunton.Sixteen of the area high schoolswere invited to participate. Theentire tournament was held atthe Family Recreation Center inTaunton.

After Sunday's game, Mr.Richard J. Crespi, President ofthe Taunton Rotary Club, pre­sented the first place trophy toNorm Theberge, the Connollycoach. Tim Stringer was also pre­sented with a personal trophy asthe most valuable player forConnolly because of his out­standing play dUl1ing the fourgames of the tournament.

In the preliminary round, Con­nolly defeated Old Rochester 10to O. Barry Shea in goal for Con­nolly had his first shut-out ofthe season. The scoring for Con­nolly was Brad Raymond 3; TomBurke, Steve Rockett and TimStringer, 2; and Gary Bouchard 1.

In the second round of tourna-

but in the third bracket. The BullDogs who have a veteran squadready for action could run awayfrom the pack for the secondstraight year. The Mattapoisettfive will host Dighon-Rehobothtomorrow.

Dennis-Yarmouth will meetMsgr. Coyle-Bishop Cassidy Highin Taunton and Bourne is at See­konk.

With Old Rochester moving upa division this Winter the Divi­sion IV race should be tightlycontested with Wareham andDiman Regional of Fall Rivergiven a slight edge. However, allsix clubs in the division appearto be relatively even.

In tomorrow's action St. An­thony's of New Bedford is at NewBedford Vocational, Diman playsin Westport and Wareham enter­tains Norton.

While the Green has been in­stalled as favorite in the DivisionII race, they are not expectedto have an easy time. At leastfour of the remaining seven clubsin the division have to be ratedas strong challengers.

Case High of Swansea andHoly Family High of New Bed­ford perennial powers in the oldNarragansett League can not betaken lightly. Neither can Fal­mouth nor Somerset.

Three games in addition to theDartmouth-Connolly contest areslated in II tomorrow with Bish­op Feehan High, defending cham­pion, at Falmouth, Fairhaven atSomerset and Case at Holy Fam­ily in New Bedford.

Old Rochester who won theDivision IV crown last Winteris expected to repeat this year

20 THE ANCHOR:-Di~cese of Fall River-Thurs., Jan. 3, 1974

Nineteenth Annual

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