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The Greater Fall River Coun­cil of Churches is holding an in­terfaith service on Sunday even­ing, Jan. 24, at 7 P.M. at theFiI:st Baptist Church on NorthMain St., corner of Pine. En­titled "Celebration of Christia,nUnity," the service will have abroad appeal for both youth andtheir elders.

The service will feature a var­ied approach with a processionwith banners, traditional hymns,audio-visual presentation, folkhymns and a candle service.Clergy of various denominationswill participate in their sanctu­ary or pulpit robes. Youth groupswill take an ac~ive part in theprogram.

in, collaboration with the WorldCouncil of Churches" Commis­sion 6n Faith and Order, andthe Graymoor Ecumenical Insti­tute.

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press officer at the Vatican saidthe Vatican might be studyingthe updating of, several conceptssurrounding various Sacraments.

Asked what specific changeswould be made in giving Gener­al Absolution, Frederico Ales­sandrini, press spokesman, told

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Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin,S.T.D., Bishop of the Diocese ofFall River announced today theresults of the Campaign for Hu­man Development Appeal thatwas conducted in all parishesof the diocese the weekend ofNov. 21-22.

The offerings from the 114parishes ,amounted to $55,800.

This campaign, introduceathroughout the nation under theauspices of the United StatesConference of Bishops under theguidance of Auxiliary BishopMichael R. Dempsey of Chicagoas national director, w'as a two-

· pronged effort to change atti­tudes and opinions about thepoor and to establish. a newsource of financial capital toeliminate the very sources ofpoverty in the United States.

It is' an undertaking to helppeople help themselves and to.assist the poor of arising abovewhat Pope Paul calls 'lthe hell­ish circle of poverty".

· The fund-raising providedfunds on bpth the national andlocal levels for self-help proj­ects. One out of every four dol­lars collected remains in the di­ocese. As a result, Bishop Cro-

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Begun years ago as a way tobring "separated" Christianscloser together, the Week ofPrayer for Christian Unity isbeing observed this year fromJan. 18-25 as a time for prayerand reconciliation betweenChristians who feel set apartfrom others within their ownfaith by color, age, politics orwealth.

The annual event was startedmore than 60 years ago throughthe "d~sire of Christians to enter'into deepening communion withone another."

,"In 1971 it is evident that thiscommunion has not only not beenfully achieved but that new ten­sions have arisen. Christiansfind that problems dividing themare no longer exclusively confes­sional but 'include rate, age,political views and economicclass.

That appraisal was providedin a message issued by the Prot­estant and Catholic sponsors ofthe Unity Week observance: theNational Council of Churches'Commission on Faith and Order,

'Fellowship of Holy 'Spirit'Theme of 1971 Unity Week

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law books-which Canon lawy­ers call external forum-penal­ties for matters that belong bytheir nature to the "internal for­um" or conscience.

Examples of penalties underVatican study are those placedon Catholics involved in an in­valid marriage and Catholics aid­ing an abortion. .

Prompted by news dispatchesfrom. Rome stating that privateconfession might become obso­lete and that Pop!'! Paul has ask­ed the world's bishops to studythat recommendation, the 'chief

Most Reverend Daniel A. Cro­nin, S.T.D., Bishop of Fall River,met Monday with Launbural W.Spriggs, executive director of theNew England Region of ProjectEquality, and Rev. John F. Ho­gan, diocesan coordinator -forProject Equality, to reaffirm theDiocese's participation in theprogram.

The program aims at maintain­ing and promoting employmentpractices fair to minority groups.The Diocese would aid the proj­ect in seeking to improve hiringand promotion practices on thepart' of employets and to encour­age religious organizations to

"purchase materials and servicesonly from cooperating firms..

"This program, an ecumenicalventure involving all of the ma­jor religious groups in the Stateof Massachusetts, puts theChurch's material resources towork in the fight against dis­criminatory employment prac­tices," Father Hogan explained.

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Bishop to VisitHoly CrossSunday

Parishioners of Holy Cross Par­ish, Fan River, will welcomeBishop Cronin on Sunday, Jan.17 as the Ordin!lry of the Diocesemakes his fifth pastoral visita­tion.

Bishop Cronin will offer Massat 9:30 and then proceed to theparish hall to provide the parish­ioners of the 55-year-old parishan opportunity to meet the newordinary.

whom are Catholics.Dr. John L. Grady, chairman

of Florida's Right-To-Life COht­mittee, a foe of lil5eralized abor­

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VATICAN (NC)-Without anythought of ending private indi­vidual confession of sins, t~e

Vatican is reportedly conductinga general review of sacramentalrules-including those' for Pe~­

ance.Sources say that a re-examina­

tion of Catholicism's penitentiallaws with a view to possible up­dating because of modern moralproblems is currently underway.

The idea is to determinewhether to keep on the Church's

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throughout the country is con­. tinuing to surface.'

In Florida, an obstetrician 01'­p.osed to libenilized' abortionlaws, said that the AmericanMedical Association's (AMA)stand taken last Summer lean­ing in favor of such procedures,as well as liberalized laws arebringing on a psychological andmoral collapse in leadership ofAmerica's medical community.

In Louisiana, a bishop· declaredthat proposals to broaden abor­tion laws "represent a retro­gression in the history of humanrights."

In Cheverly, Md., a suburb ofthe nation's capital, a hospitalofficial admitted a slow down inhandling abortion requests hasoccurred because of religiousobjections of the hospital staffmembers, about 60 per cent· of

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Bishop Cronin will be prin­cipal. concelebrant at a concele­bra ted Mass at 5 tonight in St.Mary's Church, Taunton.

Following the Mass, BishopCronin will remain in the churchin order that people of the Taun­ton area will- have the opportu­nity to meet their new shepherd.

Priests of the Taunton deanerywill have the same opportunityto meeet their new Ordinary inSt. Mary's Rectory, Taunton.

Opposition on' ethical as wellas religious grounds againsteased abortion procedures

RE-AFFIRMS PROJECT EQUALITY: Bishop Cronin discusses minority employmentopportunities with Launbural W. Spriggs, executive director of Project Equality in Mas-.sachusetts in the presence of Rev. John F. Hogan, diocesan coordinator of the project.

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Sister Madeleine Clemence,O.P., dean of SMU College ofNursing, and longtime director ofSt. Anne's Hospital School ofNursing, Fall River, will leaveSaturday for four weeks in Me­dellin, Colombia, where she willbe an advisor to members of her'community who are in the proc­ess of. reorganizing a diplomaschool of nursing into a colle­giate school.

The diploma school is powassociated with the hospital ofthe University of Antioquia. inthe·. Colombian city, explainedSister Madeleine. It will be re­orga'nized into a' degree-grantingcollegiate school somewhat likethat at SMU.

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The Fall River religious willhelp in "streamlining curri~ulum,eva!uating clinical facilities, andfacilitating cooperation betweenthe university and the hospital,"she said. She noted that Latin­American members of her com­munity,. have hitherto had totravel to North America to earndegree's in nur!!ing. "Many hos­pital an~ nursing needs in LatinAmerica are quite different fromthose here, aJ:ld it is more prac­tical' to earn degrees there." .

While in M'edellin, SisterMadeleine will also aid in struc­t~ring undergraduate and grad­uate programs in the nursingfield. She hopes to visit housesof the Dominican community inCol,ombia. She noted .that, theSisters of, the Presentation have"several thousand members" ac­tive in various Latin republic·s.

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Probably most important forDiocesan institutions is a com­mitment to use a Project Equal­ity Buyer's Guide in selection offirms providing the same serviceis available.

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has announced that the .meetingof the literature departinent ofthe Fall River Catholic Woman'sClub scheduled fo'r Sunday after­noon, Jan.' 17 has been shiftedto 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon,Feb.- 7.

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Iiam Yoho, said that' underpresent Maryland law a hospitalcan choose whether its staff willperform abortions. He added thatthe operation involves serious,legal questions, such as Whether'a father has the right t9 sue ahOSpital if it, perfo'rms an abor~

tion on the mother.

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committed the diocese to theproject and appointed Rev. 'JohnF. Hogan diocesa'n coordiator 'in~eptemI::ier, 1970. '

Bishop Daniel A. Cronin hasreaffirmed the commitment .andapproved 'of diocesan institutionsand parishes being asked tosign a "Religious Institution'sCommitment" pledging specificsupport for the program.

The program requests, "em­ployment ,policies that affirma­tively promote equality of op-

, portunity for minority group per­sons at all job levels and in allaspects of employment"; and co'operation with Project Equality,in discussion of policie~, prac­tices and make-up, of total laborforces with respect to ethnicgroups, race and job category'.

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"They 'then stand shoulder and'shoulder with all men - thosewho suffer,those pushed to oneside, victims of discrimination, , ,As the'y grow in love, they ,will grow into the freedom ofchildren of God" Convinced thatwhat matters is to enter intodeeper comrilUnion with the'Father, through the Son, in the 'Holy Spirit, they will be free intheir relationship to every hu­man being,"

Anti-Abortion' Revolt' GrowingContinued from Page are ,saying, in part "nor' shall any

tion laws, said eased abortion state deprive any person of life,laws alreac!y passed in several liberty, or property without duestates, plus the AMA action, is process, of law; nor deny to anyhaving an adverse effect on pe~so,n within its jurisidction theleadershin of the nation's med- equal, protection of the laws."ical c0tpmunity. ,d Yet, the bishop said, "ther~

Dr, Grady of Belle Glade, Fla., are proposals abroad today tosaid there is no scientific 'doubt withdraw the protection of thethat abortion is the "taking of law from the lives of hundredsa human life." He contended a of innocent human person's with­physician 'can rationalize' for a out any semblance of the duetime, put eventually he either process which we accord tohas to reject abortion or' accept criminals. Is this not unconsti­other forms of medical' killing. tutional?"

"Unfortunately," the obstetri- 'At Prince Gcian declared, '!many leaders in " eorge's Generalorganized medicine have today :Hospltal m Cheverly, Md., ad­chosen to accept other forms' of', ministrator' Harry W, Penn Jr.,killing and are calling on do~tors reported a number of women

seeking abortions were turnedto in'volve themselves in a newrole. ,the role of selecting people away chiefly because of religiousfor death." , convictions of hospital staff

members. He estimated thatHe added that medical jour- about 60 per cent of staff, as

nals .today contain editorials well as patients are Catholic. '. urging doctors to prepare to ap- A hospital spokesman later

ply new sets of values to their said nine 'w0!Uen applied forpractice of medicine whereby it abortion during the last sixwould be necessary and accept-' ,months and eight 'operationsable to place relative rather than were performed. One' womanabsolute va.lues on such things withdrew her application, heas human life; and that the role 'said,of the physician would be ex- "Not all of our anethesiolo­panded to include death selec- gists, for religious reasons, willtion and control. participate in abortions" Penn

Bishop Robert E. Tracy of said. ' "",Baton Rouge, La" stated: "Abor- He noted an abortion commit­tion should-be prohibited by law tee composed of six male med­because it is the positive, affir- ical staff members at the hospi­mative, inalienable and most tal review each applicant's case'fundamental duty of any and hefore deciding whether the op­every political state ,to gUllrantee eration may be performed. Cur­and protect ,the right to life. ' rent Maryland abortion law"

"This is not a Cathoiic vallie passed ill 1968, permits womencr a Protestant value or a .J.e~ish . to have abortions at consentingvalue or a secularist value. It is hospitals after a psychiatrist anda human value, an American' another physic,ian declare hervalue," he stressed. mental or physical health endan-

He quoted the 14th amend- Bered by pregnancy.ment of ,the U. S. Constitution as ,The hospital's attorney", Wi):

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Unity, ,Week' 1971Continued from Page One ­

religious Affairs, an agency, ofthe National Conference ofCathoiic Bishops,

In their message, the sponsors, warned that "as contrary points, of view develop, on even local,issues we run the risk ,of losingaffection for each other and ofexclu,ding those who disagreewith "us,"

In'such a situation, the' spon­sors notl~d, the importance of theUnity Week theme, "The Fellow­ship ot.'the Holy Spirit," is real­ized, Thl! primary good promised The theme of the Fellowshipby Christ is the gift of the' Hoi/ of the Holy Spirit was selectedSpirit.,....and communion is man's in Febr.uary 1970 at a meeting -

"acce~tance of God's ~ft,' the in Bari, italY,' by representaUvess,onsors' message declared. of ,the World Council of

Serve AIl Men' , Churches and the Vatican Secre-,. "The Holy Spirit, does not tariat:for Christian Unity, One of'gather a community to have it, .the participants in that meeting

'.: turn in, upon itself; rather He was Father Ralph Thomas, direc­',seeks to renew and' to reunite', tor of the Graymoor'Ecumenical

" all men under a single head, ',Institute, . ,, 'Ghrist, . ,As each one accepts In an interview with NC News. ,God's gifts he develops' much 'Service, Father Thomas e~­

" more his own Godward' gift' -: plained the significance' Of the" thus he becomes yet more' a son 1971 theJ;l1e.·, '

, '" aild, 'in consequence, more truly . "There are no real ~hortcutsa 'brother. to Christian unity," he said..

"To the extent that Christians "There was such a real break in'are subject to the Spirit" they 'the 16th ,Century that it ',willserve all men, Whatever confes- 'take a great deal of suffering"sional 'barriers' the're', may be, talKing, meetings, and discus­Christians Who respond to the' sions before' real unity ispromptings of the Spirit, often achieved,,'

, ,discover' authentic fellowship and, "No, human being; not evenexperience Christ in, a new way t1)e, Pope, knows the blueprintas tl1ey meet him in the poorest of how we will come together:and most humble of his mem- That is whywe must pray'to thebers. Holy Spirit."

BLESSES NEW ceo' CENTER: Prior to his pastoral'Visitation (0 the' 'parishionersof Immaculate Conception, Church, Fall River, Bishop Cronin, assisted by Rev.Fran­cis L. Mahoney, parish assistant, blesses the new Parish, Center which includes four per­manent and three portable classrooms for CCD instructions.

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population belong to the Church.Covington Bishop Richard H.Ackerman, 11owever, sent an un­disclosed amount of' diocesanmoney here to help where need­ed. Local parishes, too, have vol­untarily taken up collections tobe used by, families of the de­ceased.

In an open letter to parishion­ers, Bishop Ackerman wrote thatthe entire diocese mourns. "Ifthis disaster brings to the atten­tion of the citizenry of our coun­try the grinding poverty of Ken­tucky's Appalachia: a pot:ket ofmisery in a land of plenty, thenthe miners of Hyden shall nothave died in vair.

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o The parishioners gather the stones and dothe construction free-of-charge. under their par­ish priest's direction. That's how in India achurch, school, rectory and convent can bebuilt for only $10,000.... Name the parishfor your favorite saint, we'll erect a permanentplaque asking prayers for your loved- ones, ifyou build a parish as your once-in·a lifetimemission' gift.'0 Archbishop Mar Gregorios will write person­ally to say. where he'll locate it if you enablehim to buy ($975) two acres of land as a modelfarm for a parish' priest. Raising his own food,the priest can teach his parishioners how to in­crease their crop production. (A hoe costs only$1.25, a shovel $2.35.)o In the hands of a thrify native Sister yourgift in any amount ($1,000, $750, $500, $250,$100, $75, $50, $25, $15. $10, $5, $2) will

, fill empty stomachs with milk, rice, fish andvegetables.... If you feel nobody needs you,help feed hungry boys and girls! ,

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HYDEN (NC)-"You can 're-'place last homes and clothing,but you can't replace a father,"said a priest assaying the diffi­culty in aiding this grief-strickeneastern Kentucky town where 38coal miners lost their lives. '

"It isn't like the flash flood ayear or so ago when food andclothing were needed," explainedMsgr. Thomas B. Finn, directorof Covington diocese' social ser­vice agency. This disaster, whicht90klives in a coal mine explo­sion Dec. 30, requires personalassistance, he added.

None of ,the mining victimswere Catholic in this area wherefewer than one per cent of the

Course on JudaismAt Catholic College

BALTIMORE (NC)-A Springcourse on Judaism will be givenat Mount Saint Agnes Collegehere as part of a ,special five­semester series on EcumenicalDimensions in Theology. RabbiJacob B. Agus" author, educator"and lecturer, will be VisitingProfessor in charge of thecourse.

The class will cover the originof monotheism, different kindsof Judaism, the separation ofChristianity and' Juaism, andmodern Jewish thought. The ser­ies' is sponsored by the RaskobFoundation for Catholic Activi­ties, Inc.

municatlons console center,"which he said would include TVcameras, microphones, com­puters and a hard-copy readoutdevice. '

Educator's Duty

"Anyone anyhere will be ableto be in touch with anyone elsesimilarly equipped," Father An­drew said. That means religionmust know how to use thechanging means of mass mediato proclaim the unchanging wordof God, he added.

It is the duty of the. religiousedilcator, he said, to make the'Gospels "accepted totally andfrom the heart so they will beclothed in flesh and become rele­vant to our time."

Father Andrew said that in thepast 15 years the Church has"begun communkating with it­self and with others outside theinstitution...

Jews' GratefulFor Clemency

NEW YORK (NC) - Jewishand Chrisitian leaders in theUnited States expressed grati­tude for the commutation of thedeath sentences of two RussianJews convicted of a hijackingplot.

Meanwhile, the Soviet gov­ernment newspaper Izvestia saidthat the men whose lives werespared deserved to die. I

Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld, pres­ident of the :American JewishCongress, expressed "relief andgratification" that the lives ofthe two men had been sparedbut said he saw "little cause forrejoicing in the harsh sentencesstill imposeld for a so-calledcrime that never took place."

In a statement issued here, hesaid that while Jews could "takeencouragement at the worldwideprotests against the death sen­tences," the protests shouldcontinue "so long as the Jewsof the Soviet Union remain acaptive people."

The president of the TexasConference of Churches, Coad­jutor Bishop John L. Morkovskyof the Catholic diocese of Gal­veston-Houston, expressed ap­preciation to the Supreme Courtof the Russian Federation forcommutation of the death sen­tences. In a statement issued inAusin,he said:

"It is our firm conviction thatpeople wishing to emigrate toIsrael or elswhere should be per­mitted to do so."

said, "there will be coming intoevery home and school a com-

NEW ORLEANS (NC)-Com­munications in the field of edu­cation is close to a'nother break­through, and the Church shouldget ready so it can proclaim theGospel in modern, meaningful'terms.

That's what Father AgnellusAndrew, president of the Inter­national Catholic Association forRadio and Television, told dele­gates at the association's audio­visual conference at Loyola Uni-versity here. '

"The Church in the pa'st fewhundred years has done' to'omuch proclaiming and notenough communicating," saidthe FranCiscan from Englandwho for many years worked inCatholic religious programs forthe British Broadcasting Com­pany.

"This has come at a point atwhich communications becomesmore difficult both in the Churchand from without."

Console Center

He spoke' to a conferencecalled NUNTEC I, which met toexplore new ideas in the fast­moving field of electronic educa­tion. It was sponsored by UNDAand Loyola's communications de­partment. NUNTEC-for "nun"and "technical"-stands for Reli­gious Sisters in education fieldsand the possibilities that the newelectronic technologies affordthem. UNDA 'is the Latin wordfor wave.

Father Andrew said that edu­cation has progressed from the"one teacher, one blackboardstage" to the point where it isutilizing video taped cable tele­vision and satellite TV.

"In the next 10 years," he

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Franco ZeffirelIi, film andstage ,director, directed the pro­gram, broadcast over the Euro­vision Network last May. During

. the performance the cameras ex­plore the art andachitecture of

. the basilica, with particular em­phasis on Michelangelo's Pieta,

Walfgang Sawallisch conductsthe Symphony Orchestra of RAI,Rome. Solo vocalists are IngridDjorner, soprano; Christina Lud­wig, mezzo-soprano;' ~Iacido

Domingo, tenor;' and Kurt MoH,bass, ";, The chorus of BavarianRadio is under the direction ofJosef Schmidthuber. AngeloStefanato is the solo violinist.

The solemn Mass' was ce'le­brated in May, 1970, during thebicentennial celebrati9n of Bee­thovan's birth and also for the50th anniversary of Pope Paul'sordination as a priest.

7,000 Present

An annual concert in honorof the Pope is customary, but in1970 it was given in St. Peter'sbasilica rather than in the audi­torium in Via della' Concilizione,Thus, for the first time in thehistory cf the basilica, the cen·tral nave and transcept wereturned into an auditorium to

.hold 7,000 gue!?ts :compo!i~,d ofmembers "of the' diplo'mciticcorps, personalities from theworld of arts, and a large num-­ber of students, Religious andlay people,

Beethovan's Missa Solemnis isa deeply religious composition,writ,ten, in the words of the com"poser himself, to arouse deep

,and lasting reiigious devotion inthe .performers and listenersalike,

The Jan. 24 program will bepresented by the public affairsdepartment of NBC News in as­sociation with the NationalCatholic Office for Radio andTelevision, It is another produc­tion of the NBC Religious Pro­grams Unit. Father RaymondBluett of NCORT was specialassistant to 'director FrancoZeffirelli on this project.

CentennialCharles McMenamy, John Mee­han, Francis Wilde, KennethWood.

The Diocesan priests partici­pating will be Rev. Msgr, JohnE,. Boyd, Rev. Msgr. Henri' AHamel, Rev. Thomas F. Daley,Rev, James Lyons, .Rev, Cor­nelius O'Neill, Rev. Thomas·Lopes,

,Also Fathers Robert Carter,Arthur DeMello, Raymond Robil­lard, Edmund Fitzgerald, Brian,Harrington, Maurice Jeffrey,Henry Arruda, -Richard Gen­dreau, John Gomes, Peter Mullen,

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tiveness because it is national.Can they now. learn to speakfor a calmer reason and moremodest and human sense of whatare the real values of humanityand its precious Planet Earth? '

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The ~pening e~ent of the .Im­maculate Conception Parish Cen-­tennial Celebration in No., Eastonis the Parish Mi~sion to be heldnext week, Jan, 17 through 21.It will be con.ducted under the .direction of Fr: Vincent Dwyer,O.C.S.O., assisted by 20 priests'of the Fall River Diocese.

The two hour. program eachevening from 8 to 10, will con­sist qf a general presentation byFr.Dwyer to the whole assem­bly followed by a more personalpre~entatiori to smaIl' group's bythe assisting' priests, in additionto' u,. liturgical. celebration"

. Due to--t)le unusuaiformat, ithas been given the name of Mis­sion Incr.edible, There will be aspecial Mission program for theYouth of the parish on MondaY:and Wednesday afternoons from2:30 to 4:30.'

The' Parish' Centennial' Cele­bratioliCommittee for Liturgi- .ca.! observances, which will servein planning th~ details of theMission, include the followingmembers: Alice Harvey, chair­man; Dorothy· Berry, 'John Boyle,Marguite 'Carter, Bernard Farrell.

. AI!!o, Manuel' Freitas, JamesMcCourt, Canice McGarry,

PARISH MISSION TO OPEN CENTENNIAL: Alice U.Harvey,. chairman.of the. Religious Observance Cominittee;James H. Healey, General Chairman of the. Parish CentennialCommittee; Rev. Leo T. ~ullivan, pastor of the Immaculate

.Conception Par~sh, No. Easton.

·Pian.. TV Series,On· Drug Abuse

NEW YORK (NC) - A vivideight-hour' series 'of televiHionprograms on dr.ug abuse, "TheTurned-on Crisis,~' will be airedby some 200 public television

·stations across the nation duringprime time in February, .

Sponsored by the Corporationfor Public Broadcastillg, the ser­ies will dramatize' rehabilitationtherapy and explore the reasons

Expect Criticism, _why young' 'people' are using

Bishop Advised drugs,'ROCKVILLE CENTRE (NC)- Confrontations will be shown

Cardinal John Carberry of St. with one program putting to-. Louis warned newly named gether a nurse, an ex-addict, a

Rockville Centre. Auxiliary Bish- reVOlutionary, a narcotics agent.'op. John R. McGann to be ready and a college student who

for criticism. hasn't yet taken drugs. .In a sermon preached at Bish- On another program, TV pan-

op . McGann's episcopal ordina- elist David Susskind will face ation here, the cardinal said: "We rock 'group called the Three Dogmust be men of God-given cour- Night. Golfer Arnold Palmer,age;, and be prepared to be criti- U: S: Surgeon General O.Ccized, to be opposed even from'. Smith, and a group of ex-junkiessources where one would least will also par.ticipate,expect opposition. 'The Turned-on C'risis" con-

"Like unto Pope Paul of today, ccentrates on marjuana, heroin,bishops m~st be prepared to say and other drugs used primarilyat times things which' will not by the young, with an' eye tobe popular, for the truth must . "halting the spread" of thosebe stated openly in the sight ·of. drugs, according to the CPB.God," The public TV project is pro-

ducing pamphlets and classroom, films on drug abuse to go along

with the primary series, with en·couragement for local communi-

·ties to .organize supporti've ac­tivities, . The National CatholicOffice for' Radio and TV is anadvisor on' the project.

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Why Must We?

,Equally; the earlier models ofthe. SST had been laullc!)ed onsimilar arguments, Supersonicflight is now technically possi­ble, It must therefore be de-'veloped, Why? Because thenRussia would "get ahead" ofAmerica,: B'ecause Britain andFrance would gain a round inthe commercial struggle withAmerica's aeroplane designersand producers,

Thus the fascination of puretechnics , , ,"wouldn't it be fun False Priority?if we· could develop transport If the SST is a' false priority,beyond the speed of sound?" . " our Christian judgment shouldis then added to the tribal and discern it. If it 'takes away re­market reasons for going ahead sources from' profound human

· with the experiment,· necessities, our e-hristian senseBut the Senators said some- of justice must be alert to pro­

thing different, They put 'an- ~est. If it endangers, in the nameother standarq of valwls in the of a careless and .competitveplace of the old automatic com- tf;chnology, the precious naturalpetitions and aggressions of na- environment by which we live intional, technological man, Tn es- God's creation, we must recog­sence, they asked the funda- nize and love 'the natural bios­mental question: must we be phere, the untampered earthdriven to do stupid, wasteful which is the human species'and unimportant things simply only ,home,

. because national, competitve and .. Christian citizens. in the de-~echnical !pressures are 'building veloped lands-where the vastup behind the wrong decision? majority of Christians live-

The SST is a fairly clear case,. have been slow' to disengageIt is not important to allow'. theinselves from the intoxica­O.oooql percent of th(~ human tions 'of natural aggrandizementrace to tr.avel faster than sound .and teclmological' intoxication,

· if the vast majority of the human The:(·have gone along wi~h therace still lack good roads in bad ~Gressive cult cfthe big becauseweather- or, even among the At- . it is big,with natiqnal competi-

Can Christians Now .:·LearnTo Speak ..for Real Val,u'es?

When, shortly before Christmas,' the United 'StatesSenate first refused further funds for the SST prograql­

"the program to devqlp in America a supersonic tran's­. port-the Senators took a step which is infinitely more.significantthan a mere hes­itation a.bout pUblic spend-

· ing or ,ibout the speed of·development of this or thattechnological program,

4 THE ANCHOR-"Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Jan. '14;' 197·1

Wasteful, Stupid

It is wasteful· to didcate bil"lions· of dollars-in America,Western Europe and ·B.ussia'--,-todevelo'ping transport for a s·inall ..minority when development mon"ey is desperately needed forhousing, higher education; healthand anti-poverty programs..

It is downright stupid toplunge into the experiment offlight above 60,000 feet whenthe consequences 'of leaving fuelerrlmissions, waste particles' and

For the first time' in the his- vapor trails in the motionless at-tory of Western man-capitalist, mosphere of the stratosphere' is 'communist, East, West, North, totally unstudied and unknown,South-a group of responsible We do know that heavy forma­leaders expressed open doubt tions of cirrus cloud' could, cum- .about three of the dominant ulatively, affect the sun's life­principles of modern Hodety - giving transfers 'of energy, Wethe supremacy of the nation, the do not know what increasing su­Imperative of competition, in personic journeys would do to'trade or .war, and the drive to alt!,!r cloud patterns at so farcarry science wherever discovery relatively unused heights of

.' promised to take it. flight.Predictably, the Administra- To accept supersonic planes

tio'n countered the Senate's sec- as a "necessity" wJ:ten these cal­ond thoughts with .the stock arg- culations are unknown is theuments of three centuries' dur- e::Juivalent .of arguing, in theing which, in the words of the name of' national· prestige, forphilosopher, Francis Bacon,' a process which .ends by destroy­Western man has worshipped ing man and with him, the na­"the idols of the market and . tions themselves..the idols of the tribe." The These reflections are not sim'­American "tribe" could not af- . plv rational ii;'d politic~1. Forford to abandon. the SST be-· Christians,' they have profoundcause the Russian '''tribe'' and implications of moral judgmentthe English and French "tribes" . and human integrity, Christians

' . .were alr~a.dy mak.ing one, Amer- are human~ Unless they are jerk­ican abstelltion could mean e::l out of their ruts by saints andthat the United States would prophets, they tend -simply to

· cease to .be the "foremost" pow- accept ·.the most widespread c41-· erin 'war' or commerce. ,'. tural.vahies c.ui-rent in their ,own.

society. ,Today, the majority of We~t­

ern "Christians accept withoutthinking the idolizatio;' of thenation, of the consumer societyand 'of unlimited scientific and.technological "advance." Butjudged by Christian and hu­mane standards, nation, marketand technology are· not abso­lutes,· They are instruments ofthe good life and for this weneed other criteria-judgment,justice and reason,

THE ANCHOR-Dioc:ese of Fall ~iver-Thurs. Jon. 14, '1971 5

CHILDREN OF FALL RIVER PARISH EXCITED AT BISHOP'S VIS­IT: Teddy Tolan brought The Anchor to Bishop Cronin's visit to theImmaculate Connception Parish and went home with his' new Bishop'sautograph on the photo. Waiting to meet the Ordinary of the Diocese

,is Mrs. Peter Anthony Sullivan in the presence of Rev. Msgr. Arthur W.Tansey, pastor. Center: Alan Francoeur kisses Bishop Cronin's ring. Right:Karen Cobery is jubilant at meeting the Bishop and her parents, Mr.and Mrs. James Cobery £ollow their daughter in the line.

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when I looked out over the landfrom the plane I thought we hadlost our way. I thought we werearriving in Sicily, and when Isaw some of you, Cesar and theothers, I thought again that Ihad arrived home. In truth manyof our problems are similar."

poverished fishing village, wherehe married a fisherman's widowwith five children. There he wenton his first hunger strike, pro­testing delays In getting publicworks jobs for the. unemployed.The strike ·was successful andemergency funds were obtainedfrom Palermo, provincial capital.

In 1965 Dolci .moved to thenearby town of Partinico wherehe lives today. Here' he led thefamous "strike in reverse" inwhich unemployed workers be­gan work on .an abandoned roadproject. Dolci was arrested andimprisoned for 50 days. Whenhe was brought to his trial,Italy's leading writers and in­tellectuals testified. on his be­half.

Finds Similar Problems

Dolci's accomplishments areimpressive. He is credited with

. bringing 20th century farmingmethods into western Sicily;eliminating some of the worstslums in its urban areas; con­struction of the Jato Dam thatwill revitalize 18 poor villages,and establishing a.Training Cen­ter for .Organic· Planning toteach. methods for aiding under­deve,Ioped areas.

I'Aosf impressive accomplish­Il)cnt is Dolci's· war on the Ma­fia. Fot the frist time in historySicilians are willing to testifyopenly in Mafia criminal trials.

Dolci felt right .at home inCalifornia. When he arrived inDelano for his visit with CesarChavez, farm workers unionleader, he said: "This morning

Hunger Strike

Following the war he studiedarchitecture, became involvedwith Zeno Saltini's Nomadelfiacommunity for displaced persons.,In 1952. architect Dolci went toSicily to study the ruins of Greektemples. Instead he saw miseryand want, and decided to stay.

He moved to Trappeto, an im-

The 46-year-old Dolci, a peren­nial Nobel Peace Prize candidate,displayed that same unflappablestyle during his American tour,under Catholic Peace Fellowshipsponsorship. .

Afflicted. with swollen feetwhen his new shoes proved tootight, Dolci borrowed a pair ofbedroom slippers and wore themthroughout his visits here. Hewas accompanied by Tom Cor­nell" CPF member, who servedas his interpreter. .

Dolci's rise to peaceful reform­er fame in Sicily, strife-torn forthousands of years,. followed acircuitous route. He was bornin a village near Trieste in 1924,the son of a railway official.During World War II he refusedto serve in Mussolini's Fascistforces alth9ugh there was no,such category as conscientiousobjector.

SAN FRANCISCO (NC)"":"Dan­ilo Dolci, known as "Sicily'sGandhi" because he successfullydefied the Mafia, Mussolini andsubsequent Italian leaders, saidhe is still living because "I gotfamous too fast and now itwould be too dangerous to killme."

CONCEPCION (NC) - BishopJuan Carlos Ferro and 20. of hisArgentinian priests have chal­lenged the public servants of thecommunity to put themselves­literally-in the position of thepoor in order to understandthem better.

"We invite you to give up' aday. of your customary mealsand eat at the table of a workingfamily, to give up your bed andsleep on the mattl'ess of a groupof poor children," they said inan open letter addressed to pub­lic officials.

"If we. , ,(whose lives are somuch easier) had to suffer theplight of the poor for just oneday, we would be at the veryleast ashamed to pray the OurFather."

They criticized the socio­economic situation in the dioceseand in the nation, saying thatmany persons are out of work"and many of those who dowork do not earn enough to livewith dignity,"

They called upon authoritiesto insure "that salaries are equalto the work performed, that theyenable a man to have access toprivate property and to partici­pate in the economic prosperityof the nation."

Bishop Ferro and the priestscautioned public officials not toconfuse tranquility with peace.There can be no peace in acountry until jobs are availablefor all and all are able to earna just wage, they said.

A!iks Officicil'sTrade PlacesWith Poor

Ecun-tenism'

,@rheANCHORo OFFIClAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF. FALL RIVER

Published weekly by The Catholic Press of the.Diocese of Fall River410 Highland Avenue .

Fall River, Mass. 02722 675-7151

PUBLISHERMost Rev. Daniel A: Cronin, D.O., 5.1.0..

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Rev. Msgr. Daniel F. Shalloo, M.A. . Rev. Johri P. Driscoll~Leary Pr,ess-;Fal/ Ri~e~

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Giyes ReportContinued "from Page One

the c~mpaign's national head­quarters in Washington and$13,900 remains in the diocesefor assistance on the local level.

A nationwide representativecommittee of clergy and laitywill meet this month to deter­mine nationaJ priorities. 0n thelocal level, a committee is beingformed to determine criteria fordistribution of the diocesan quo..tao

Rev. 'Francis L Mahoney, as­sistant at Immaculate Concep­tion Parish, Fall River and di­ocesan director for the campaignstated, "the educational effort ofthe Campaign for Human Devel­opment is an educational and in­formational program aimed atpromoting a greater solidaritybetween those who have a shareof the nation's goods and thosewho are still trapped, in pover-ty". , 0

. Every parish in the diocesewill receive during this week 'atimely and informative kit deal­ing with "the hellish circle ofpoverty" which exists in·a landof plenty.

Quoting Cardinal Dearden ofDetroit, president of the Nation­al Conference of Catholic Bish- 'ops,Father Mahoney asserted,"The campaign' cannot andshould not be simply a fund­raising effort. It must providethe opportunity for recommit­ment to the service of the poor.Our gmil must not just bethe raising of money but thechanging of hearts".

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tial Presidential commISSIOnshould be formed to stop the.interference of the armed forcesinto the political life of thisnation. If the situation is seriousenough Jar the secretary of thedefense to order an investiga­tion, then it is sufficiently seri­ous for the congress and presi­dent to act. All intelligence aC­tivities should be conducted withthe knOWledge of the properagencies of civilian government.

If the military forces are al­lowed continued and unlimitedintrusion into the internal lifeof this country, then Americahas had it"s place in the sun andthe shadows of a dictatorialstate wiII fall on this land.

Suggest NewAbortion Law

PITTSBURGH (NC) - Twostate judges here have ruled thatPennsylvania's 1939 law forbid­ding abortions is unconstitution­al because its vagueness makeslegal application impossible.They called for a replacement

. law to. be written immediately.Judges Anne X. Alpern and

Lorin L. Lewis, both hearing thesame abortion case in commonpleas court because of its com~

plexity, found that the 31-year­old abortion law. is "void on itsface for failure to satisfy therequirements of due process."

The law implies that abortionsare legal under certain circum­stances, but provides no stand­ards for determining when, thejudges said.

The law needs revision to es­tablish effective controls over il­legal abortions and pro'per stand.­ards for legal ones, they said.They called on the state legisla­ture in Harrisburg to enact aconstitutional, meaningful lawwithout delay.

been dressed in the romanticgown of fantasy and make­believe.

When the extent of profes·sional spying is called to ourattention, as in the present sit­uation in Chicago, we react withstaged statements and rehearsedlines. We play the game of notwanting to know because wefear that "big brother" might bewatching us, 'as well he might.The sooner such allegations ofpublic spying are buried in thetombs of official investigationwe feel that the matter willcease to exist and we can returnto .our Disney like world.

Rev. John F. Moore, B.A., M.A., M.Ed.SS.Peter &. Paul, F~" River

themooRlnCj

The recent disclosure of the extent of military involve­ment in public spying on American citizens comes as areal shock and surprise if we are to trust in "official re­ports." Really it is a cryan the part of officialdom withdeep regret and indignationthat such a matter came topublic notice. We shouldn't.be stunned into disbelief.

Founding Fathers Prom,oters of FreedomThe existence of a military es- The military spy .should not

pionage system which routinely become a part of the Americanspies on candidates for public way of life any more than theoffice is offensive to the Amer- looter ·or vanda·1-. The congress,ican concept of freedom and if it still is able to do so, shouldpersonal liberty. -Indeed it is of- act swiftly to cease this aspectfeilsive to the very concept of of military controL Defense offi­America itself. The idea of a cials, investigating the defensemilitary state with all that it im- department, is really not the best:plies has )10 place in the United instrument with which to rootStates and stands completely op- out improper activities. In truth,posed to our founding constitu- the American public has littletion. However, with the growth faith with "self regulation" andof an all powerful federal gov- rightly so. If the military can es­ernment and the ever growing tablish "policies and· practicesdecline of individual liberties, without the knowledge of civil­what can you expect? The rise ian officials how can every rem­in crime, the campus revolutions nant of this milit~ry spying oper-

'imn urban riots-all 'contribute ation be eliminated? .to the acceptance on the part of The congress and the exeCll o

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the public of a military mental- tive branch of the governmentity. This is', wrong. must act: In this case, an impar-

The Spy Crisis'

Ever since World' War II, es­pionage has become a fact of"modern life. This fact we mustaccept. From satellites to JamesBond, most Americans accept'

_the spy game as a public neces-.sity, like they accept city incin­erators and town dumps. Wehave been deliberately led intothe purple patch of believingthat spying is. a mere activity ofthe international playboy club..With . the . additional aid ofmovies and novels, espionage has

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Jan. 14, 1971. ~6

Just a decade ago, many hoped for-but few couldh'ave foreseen- the extent to which. the Week of Prayerfor Christian Unity is now being observed.

In just a few years the tensions of centuries have beenlessened. Priests and ministers are sitting down and talk­ing and planning and praying together. Ecumenical ser­vices no longer excite surprise but are accepted with agree­able participation. Forces. are joined to meet common prob­lems and to help solve community concerns.

But both aspects of the matter must always be keptin mind: common action in areas where there is. no con­fl~ct in moral principles or dogmatic beliefs; recognitionthat there are matters where there is an essential differencein belief or moral' standards.

Ecumenism is not served by pretending th.at obstaclesare" not present any more than it is served by inac·tion"where they can and should be common effort.

· University friorities"The ~ast several years should have taught us that

universities should be rather modest in their capacity tosolve a great many problems of the world. Their majorresponsihility must be teaching and scholarship. That doesnot preclude social action but we must understand ourpriorities.'" "

These words of Dean Derek Bok, who 'has just been"'elected as President of Harvard· University, are wise ones

precisely because they define the priorities of a universi~yIts main business is. and must be in the realm of the in­tellectual. And while this can and will spill over into. actionof many types, the major thrust of a university's role mustremain in the area of learnirg· . .

The last few years have seen many roles thrust uponthe. university. Some"see it in this role that Bok ascribesto it. Others see the university as a vocational school pre­paring people for a job. Others would make the universitya place in which they can find themselves, a sort of groupdynamics center for self-discovery and awareness. Stillothers would see the university as a place for the plan­ning and carrying out of change in society and in exist-

· ing community structures. "

The very confusion of roles reduces the universityto doing none of thl~se well.

And so priorities must be re-established. And Bokseems to set the priorities in right proportion.

As the noted philosopher and economist Sidney Hookhas observed, "Good works off the campus do not sub­.stitutefor good work on the campus." If the universityplaces paramount importance on. the intellectual, then it

" .. is preparing minds for all the other roles that neonle wisht/J fulfill in their lives - the business o.fgetting a job,the awareness of who they are and where' they comefrom and where they are going, the equipment to studysociety arid to test its structures and to bring about changewhere change is. called for.-

,In this kind of a u'niversity the circus atmosphere dis-appears, the brinksmanship environment goes, the play-

· ~evolution attitude is no more-but, in the long run, thetruly effective work is done. Its graduates. are preparedto face all the problems that a world has and wants facedand-hopefully.......solved.

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Young said that only the pris­oners' families have lists of whatmay be -sent to captives, who areallowed one II-pound packageand one letter each month.

-In Denver, a spokesman forthe local Ame:-ican Friends Ser­vice Committee voiced alarm be­cause the Mountain Bell Tele­phone Co. had encouraged cus­tomers to write North Vietnamon behalf of prisoners.

Chester McQueary, a staff as­sociate of the Quaker PeaceCommittee, sdd he questionedwhether Mountain Bell shouldadvise American citizens to con­tact the government of anothercountry to obey Geneva conven­tions "when our own countryhas violated them repeatedly."

Criticize POWMail Campaign

NEW YO~K (NC) -"' Well ..meaning campaigns urging Amer-·icans to send mail to U. S. pris..oners of war in North Vietnamwere criticized her~ and in Den·­ver recently.

Ron Young, a member of apeace group that went to NorthVietnam, reported on his returnthat hundreds of letters andparcels from concerned Ameri­cans actually slow down receiptof mail from prisoners' relatives.

A number of groups, inclodingstudents at St. John's Universityin Jamaica, N. Y., who won sup­port for their idea from the col­leges in the New York metropol­itan area, launched writing cam­paigns during the Christmas sea­son.

North Vietnamese officials toldhim they have to inspect eachpiece of mail, Young said, "ac­cording to their security regula­tions and few of them know En­glish, so it is a very slow proc­ess."

THE ANCHOR- 7Thurs., Jon. 14, 1971

prison camp was AmericanMaryknoll Bishop Patrick J.Byrne, aposljolic delegate inKorea. Bishop Byrne died 'ofpneumonia.

Bishop Quinlan later recalledcovering Bishop Byrne with hisown 'cassock during the marchbecause the bishop had a severecold. -•. Stories of Father Quinlan'svalor and devotiori were told bysurvivors. One of them calledhim the "Saint of the March."

Prisoner of JapaneseBishop Quinlan went to the

Orient as a newly ordainedpriest in 1920 and served inChina. His first contact with the .communists came in the early1930's when he negotiated withthe Chinese Reds for the releaseof captured Columban mission- ­aries. In 1934, he was sent toNorth Korea where he helped tostart a mission at Chun' Cheon,just south of the 38th parallel.

He spent the greater part ofWorld War II as a prisoner ofthe Japanese.

He spent three years as aprisoner of the North Koreans.The question of his release' and·that of nine British subjects wasthe subject of diplomatic moves, .and in March, 1953, when SovietForeign Minister Vachaslav Mol­otov announced that he .wouldtake it up with the North Koreangovernment.

They were released throughSoviet intervention a monthlater-, and Father Quinlan wasrepatriated to Ireland. In 1954,he returned to his mission atChun Cheon.

Irish-Born Bishop Quinlan Had BeenProsoner of North Koreans

'Death March Hero'

larly distasteful specimen, inlarge measure a palpable phoney.He is without discernible sub­stance, and impossible to believein .or care about. The novel'sArchbishop is. a construct oftraits of, and enecdotes about,a real personage, but by nomeans a portrait rounded or indepth. As for the foul-mouthed,unscrupulous politicians whoroar and rampage through thesepages, they may not be libels.

THE LATE BISHOP THOMAS QUINLAN speaks withKorean children. NC Photo.

SAMCHUK (NC) - RetiredColumban Bishop Thomas Quin­lan of Chun Cheon, Korea, ahero of the infamous Red "deathmarch" in the Korean· War, diedhere Dec. 31 in South Korea atthe age of 74.

Irish-born Bishop Quinlan,who spent a half-century in theOrient, had twice been a prison­er of war: in World War II,when he was captured by theJapanese, and in the Korean con­flict, when he WilS taken prison­er in 1950 by the North Koreancommunists.

In Korea he and hundreds ofother missionaries, American,soldiers, diplomats and otherforeigners were marChed morethan 100 miles in a severe Ko­rean Winter to a Communistprison ·camp along the YaluRiver near, the Chinese border.

Hundreds died during thema~ch and others later as a re­sult of the hardships during it.Father Quinlan saw prisonersdrop in their tracks or be shot.He gave some of them absolutionand comforted others.

Among those who died in the

Merton was not held to the or­dinary rule of that house.

The GovernorThe dust wrapper on Edward

R. F. Sheehan's The Governor(World 2231 W. 110th St. Cleve­land, Ohio 44102. $6.95) is dec­orated with pictures of a brightred biretta and a sombre blacksilk hat. It is the latter, presum­ably, which belongs to the gov­ernor.

The fictitious governor in ques­tion is Emmett Shannon. Hisstate is Massachusetts. And thebiretta signalizes a prelateknown as the Archbishop ofMassachusetts. He has no othername. But not a few will thinkthat they recognize him.

In the spotlight here are theIrish Catholics, in politics andin the Church. Mr. Sheehanknows quite a bit about thespecies, none of it is very flat­tering. .

Emmett Shannon's father hadreasonably high ideals, most ofthem borrowed from the Yan­kees. He tried to pass them onto his sons, Emmett and Richardwho were altar boys for th~Archbishop in the days beforehe was Archbishop.

Vaporous, LazyRichard, in time, became' a

priest, who modestly thought ofhimself as the Irish Christ, com­missioned to. set things right inthe affairs of the state and alsoto champion the cause of thepoor. He junketed from parish

. to parish, as howls of- complaintcause a succession of removals.

Emmett thought of being awriter, went to live in Europe,became infatuated with Mozart,developed cultural pretensions,and was.. 'promiscuous in plea­sure. His clean-cut good looksdid not declare the real man(perennial kid?), but they recom­mended him to a political' bossbadly in need of a decent-seem­ing candidate.

First, Emmett was elected toCongress; then, by a fluke, camequick ascent to the governorship.As governor, he was ineffectual,in part because he was vaporousand lazy, in part because hecrossed the boss who made him.

When the boss decided to des­ecrate Boston's Public Garden bybuilding there an enormous tow­er for parking cars, the Yankeeswere outraged, and Emmettstood with them. The archbishop,too, was ambiguously involved.

Palpable Phony. It appeared that the boss

would surely smash Emmett, buta series of convenient melodra­matic twists brought about a dif­ferent denouement. There issome suggestion that Emmett, inpolitical extremis, found himselfand was on t.he verge of a trulynoble phase. Yeah?

The novel is intended to besatirical. But. satire has to bedone lightly, and this is a deplor­ably doughy business. The auth­or is shooting at some targetswhich should not be spared, buthe is shooting buckshot ratherthan elegant arrows, and muchof the ammunition blunders wide

, of the mark.Emmett Shannon is a particu-

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Edward Rice has written, and provided the manyphotographs for, The Man in the Sycamore Tree, whichdeals, in Mr. Rice's words, with "the good times and hardlife of Thomas Merton" (Doubleday, 501 Franklin Ave.,Garden City, N.Y. 11531.$7.95). Mr. Rice, a free-lancephotographer and writer,met Merton when both werestudents at Columbia Universityin the 1930s, and evidently keptin touch with him until Merton'sdeath. In a reference to his stu-

dent days, Mr. Rice speaks ofhimself as then a Catholic, "sort·of." Later he styles himself "amodern skeptic."

He gives us a sketch of Mer­ton's life, some of it drawn fromMerton's own writings, such as'The Seven Storey Mountain,s~me from his association withMerton, some from letters and

. the Observations of others.What is new to the reader is

Mr. Rice's recollections of Mer­ton in the Columbia years andthe interval before Merton's en­tering the Trappist monasteryat Gethsemani.

"The teen-age Merton, theMerton of his early twenties," hewrites, "had been as fat out asthe beat and the hippie." He isvery specific as to Merton's be­ing the reverse of ascetic.

Then came the conversion toChristian conviction, but notimmediately to Christian disci­pline. When finally the latterwas accepted, Merton sough't ac­ceptance by the Franciscans, wasrejected, and turned to the Trap­pists.

One would hardly expect thatMerton would find the Trappistlife easy, but at first he knewgreat happiness. Later came ill­nesses, criticism of what he re­garded as the incorrect applica­tion of the Trappist rule, and dif­ficulties with the Trappist cen­sors over his writings.

Eventually Merton was per­mitted to construct a hermitageon the monastery grounds andto live a largely solitary life. Hebecame increasingly interestedin oriental religions, especiallyBuddhism. He was allowed to goto the Far East to consult withexperts in the religions of thatpart of the world, and it wasthere that he died.

Despite plain evidence to thecontrary, Mr. Rice holds thatMerton had determined neyer toreturn to the monastery, andthat he intended to plunge intoBuddhist mysticism.

This, then, is a curious andcontroversial book about Merton,and one cannot help concludingthat he would deplore much ofit. The photographs, however,are interesting, many of themnew and revealing.

And say what Mr. Rice willabout the supposedly unsym­pathetic treatment of Merton atGethsemani, even he would haveto admit that the extraordinary

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over present religious "lifestyles" and Church changes ingeneral. "In my day we came in'the convent to stay,", she mur­mured.

That she has done, and made',hundreds of her fellow religiousvery happy in the 'process: '

than 16 years, following thatwith nearly 19 years at St. Pat­rick's Convent, Fall River,

"Then I went to Holy Name,New, Bedford, for 11 years. Atfirst I didn't know how I'd likebeing' away from Fall River, but

'I soon made wonderful friendsthere.;' Many of the friends wereon ,hand Sunday at the jubi-.larian's celebration.

The years at Holy Name,werefollowed by three years at St.James' Convent; also in NewBedford, then Sister .Mary Aus­tin returned to St. Patrick's, Fall.River, for two ',years._ At thattime she suffered the hip frac­

,ture that eventually necessitatedher retirement.

Most of her religious life,' sheworked a seven-day week,- said,the religious, at times, COOKingfor as many as' 11'8 Sister's: 'f.!,had the most' people when', 'the,'Sisters came to the Mount .for'retreats," she said. "And 'I al­ways took special care of the re­treat masters, made s'ure theyhad good" hot meals,' well'served,"

For years, she said, she cooked,28 pies a week for her large andhungry "family." Apple,. pecanand leinon meringue pies wereamong her favorites.' "I liked 'to

,'see the Sisters happy,' and I, knew they enjoyed my meals,"sh~ twinkled.

She was happy ,that Msgr.John E, Boyd W<;lS the celebrantof her jubilee Mass. "I knew him

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She reminisc~d' t~(; 'ab~ut thelate Sister Re'gis, longtime cookat ' St" Vincent's Home,' FallRiver, "We used to work togeth­er and she was a beautiful .per-son." '

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'Hold Prayer' CrusadeTo Halt Abortion

UNION (NC)-eatholic Daugh­ters of America held a ,prayercrusade on the Feast of the HolyInnocents to halt the spread oflegaliz~d abortion." ' ,

National Daughters' leaders,Miss Mary C. Kanane of Union,N. J., called upon the group'~

200,000 ,members to "pray forces,sation of abortion, wh~ch shecalled, "the de~truction' ,of mil-

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Gala ,Gowins ,A'dd,.to,'Glamor!Of "'~~,nnu~f'Bish~op' s' :,Ball

It was a perfect evening for thE( grand gala of the- Fall River diocese-The a.ishop's' Ball. The air was crisp

and very, very cold but there'wasn't a ,trace6f snow in,theair and the pe<;>ple of the diocese who, had' come, fromthe far, reaches of the Ca'pe' ,had a good evening for trav- Orie'ntal collar. Rita wore silver

h h lk accessories' with' this dramatic"eling. And' wile t e wa 'outfit that pl~yed up,her silvered';from the, parking lot left', hair'., ' '

one, teary-eyed with cold the Periwinkle Blueloveliness of the ballroom' was A ,f~lIow parishioner of Mrs.worth the walk:' Tlie deeorating Morrow at Holy Name, Mrs.committee ,had truly - outdone Wilfred Driscolf' wore a,' pa,ntitself-a, rainbow had been cap- outfit of 'oyster white pebbledtured and held. However,' as 'crepe. Sleeveless and, trimmedwith every formar' event, the' with jeweled beads around the

'~dr~~~es, gowns, and pant outfits high neckline, this softly fem-'.added to the complete look of a inine evening outfidooked beau­fairyland. ,dful with Gladys' new fringed

hairdO."What' a beautiful color," was

my 'com.ment when I met' Mrs:Margaret ,C~hill'of SS. Peter and,'Paul parish ,'in.Fall River.' Mar~gan;t's 'long crepe gown wasil.'beautiful- shade of peJiwinkleblue, ,accented with royal 'bluesequins that flowed in an offcenter strip down the front .ofthe gown.::' ", . I

Black 'is r,eturning to popular~The very young were I~vely ity and the black gowns seen at

and romantic looking, especially _ the'ball.were quite sophisticated. BY PATRICIA McGOWAN She's always been a cook. "IMary C~nsuela MacDonald, one ' Black velvet ina iong slender never wanted to teach,'" she said,f th ' 't b f ' She e,ntered r,eligious life. more 'o e pr~sen,ees, a mem er 0' ,colum,n with a, long over-tunic,' "but I loved cooking."

C C· h . '. '. h" 'S d" than a,half century ago. Now, " ,, ',orpus nstJ pans' In an -' was lovely on Mrs. Arcade Mar- She also loved babies and. h Th 1 h f thousands'.of pies, ,roasts and 'WIC. e ,( aug ter o,.Mr. and . coux of St. Joseph's parish in whEm she entered the Sisters of

,Mrs. Gerard E. MacDonald, wore New Bedford. Silver sequins turkey dinners later, SistE!r MarYJYIercy' in 1909, she hoped fora white gown with a lace top ,completely' covered - the maO" Austin Walsp, R.S.M.' is cele~ an assignment taking care ofending at an empire waistline, darin-necklined overblou~e, giv" brilting th~golden jubilee' of her children. But there were no suchf II'" ff d' I' "th th I ,'profession day.. Lively and, ale.rt "upu e s eeves WI e ace ing a striking effect to the total openings at the time, and sherepeated at the wrists and a look. ' , ,at age 77, 'and: only ',slightly ,ch()~~,in~tead,~ co()king car~er.long d I· t k' tAd ' ' slowed down by a cane needed, e Ica e s Ir . ress, Black and white were worn , Born in 'Newfo~nd,la,nd jl) 18,93, ,memorl'e . d f b' , ' . , . ~,' sinc,e, s,he ',bJ,:oke' her hip five, , s are rna eo., :":",.. y Mrs. Roy:Mason·:of'St. Julie's . Sister Mary A,ustin, lived in Bos-, ' , ,'.', . ,:year~' ago,t she looks back, on her

Attleboro Presentee parish' in North, Dartmouth.' Her' ton as a young girl, then moved, years of devotion to her com- 'A high neck and qual'nt sl~nder crepe dress, had' black "toTaunton to be with an uncle" . , ,munity and says, "I loved my

Pouffed sleeves gave a "Gone panels in the fronf and black , and aunt, There she met the Sis-, life and I loved the Sisi:ers."With the Wind" look to the very and' white crepe in two side ters of,Mercy, then in charge offeminine gown worn by another panels. Gold and black jewelry Bethlehem Home, a children'spresentee, Miss Brenda McNally completed her outfit. Mrs. Ma~ Sees little Influence shelter on the'site of the presentof Holy Ghost parish in Attie- son's daughter Kathy Ann was ' Coyle High School.' She realized

f th " ' , On Troo'ps~ Morale'boro. The long slender shaft of one 0 e young' women who", that she had a vocation and en-white worn by this daughter' of were presented, to the Bishops: NEW YORK (NC) - Cardinal tered' the community "rightMr. and Mrs. L~wrence McNally Lo~g and lovely was the black' Terence Cooke of New York said where I, am now;" at Mount St.was completed covered with crepe dre~s worn by Mrs. Vinl that 'drug use by American sol- Mary Convent on Second Street,baby-lace. cent Worden of St. Joseph's', diers in Vietnam is not affecting Fall River. ' '

Another young stunner was parish in New Bedford. Tiny troop mora~.' , "Postulant-Cook, Miss Carlene Ladino of St. John spaghetti straps held 'up the "It's a pr$lbi,em 'of our age, ~n- '''In those days," she said, ';the

the Baptist parish in Westport. heart shaped bodice of the long fortunately," he added. postulancy 'and the novitiateShe looked like an early valEm- o\;'ertop, and a burst of' accor-' ,

d· I ' The prelate who I'S ml'II'tary were right here. We didn't ,go totine in a magenta velvet gown, IOn p eats swirled around the '

h I· 'vicar fof. the Unl'te'd States ,the Rhode Island provincialw,ith long tapered sleeve's an'd-a ' em me. , d f 'd h' house until later."sightly scooped neckline trimmed arme orces, rna e IS" com-with white marabou. This lovely Methodists Back 'ments up~n returning' from a The young Sister began heryoung woman had created this 'three-week ,Christmas' trip to lifetime career almost as soongown herself. Lettuce Boycott. military bases in the Far East: He' as she entered the community.

SI'lve'r lame I'S one of the most NASH ,reported that' chaplains in the '''While I was a postulant, theVILLE (NC)-The staff' - .popu'lar and dressy'fabrJ'cs thl's f U' . d M " "war-zone: are doing. everything M.ount, St. Mary cook had too mte ethodist Board of,season and Mrs. Charles Mitchell Evangelism has endorsed the 'within their ,power on the drug go in the hospital, so I startedof Sacred Heart parish I'n Fall U· d F ' problem.' in the kitchen right away." She

mte arm, Workers~ Organiz- . h ',-,' remained at the Mount for moreRiver was extremely attractive ing Committee's boycott of non- ,T e day he returned, to Newin her sparkly silver pant out- union 'lettuce. ' York, published news reportsfit. The long tunic top ,was tied, A board spokesman said; how~ 'said the U. S. ,Army admittedwith a silvered rope tie and its ever, the resolution 'was a com~, that ,drug use among troops' wasshirtwaist effect was accented mitinent among: the' 39 • staff, 70 per' cent greater than firstwith pearl buttons. members and not intended as '<t' ,~uspected. '

Silver lame was also worn bi' directive· to the church at large.iMrs. William Whalen of St. ' The resolution stated in part:Thomas More parish in Somer- "Because the spirit' of sacrificeset. J\nn'spant outfit was sleeve- and struggle on behalf of theless, with a surplice neckline, imd poor are precis~ly the marks ofsilver' trim formed a' cllmmer- Jesus' ministry and because webund effect around her waist.' A are called to follow, Jesus in'grecian hairdo with high curls preaching good news to theon top and cascading slightly poor today, we the staff of thegave a dramatic look to' 'the General Board of Evangelism go'dressy outfit·. ' ,: ' , on record supporting' the nona:

Mrs. Eci~ard Morrow of Holy union lettuce boycott . . . '.;'Name parish in Fall 'River wore ' The Cesar Chavez-led UFWOC'an elegant pant "outfit handmade union has iaun<;:heq the ~oycottin the' P,hlllppines. The iwo~i5iece in an effort to press!lre Califor-;pant outfit, (If. red <.lnd :black silk ,nia ~rowers ,to .recognize ,thebrocade was'-:,sltieveless\vith an union.

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"Justice must be accompaniedby love as the basis for anytrue peace," he said. "Our so..ciety is aware of the power ofmoney, but Mother Teresa isaware 'of the power of· poverty.,This is a power to be used ingaining development."

Mother Teresa could not waitfor money to come to her be­fore helping the poor, he said,"because life and death were tobe seen everywhere she looked."

The people to whom MotherTeresa has dedicated her lifeoften do not count for anythingin modern society, he said, be­cause they are too poor and toosick~ But they counted to MotherTeresa, and this is the truemeaning of brotherhood and thereason why the Pope honoredher, he concluded,

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Mother Teresa's work showsthat money alone does not bringpeace, Archbishop Benelli toldnewsmen.

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"the incarnation of the tenetthat man is my brother,"

The archbishop admitted thatmany international organizationswould have been worthy recipi­ents of the peace prize, but hesaid he felt that they lacked thehuman element of an outstretch­ed hand of help epitomized byMother Teresa.

He called her dedication to thepoor that element of humanwarmth that allows Christ towalk among men.

Casis of PeaceWhile Archbishop Benelli and

others spoke of her missionarywork among the destitute on fourcontinents, the tiny Mother Te­resa sat quietly. hunched over,

Girls' Business SchoolPlans June Closing

ROCHESTER (NC) - St. ~o­

seph Business School for Girlswill end a teaching era 66 yearslong when it closes its doorshere in June for ·financial rea­sons.

Redemptorist priests who oper­ate the school said they wereunable to, meet expenses of theeducational facility which occu­pies a $1.5-milIion, four-year-oldhuilding in downtown Rochester.The 270 students pay an annualtuition of $400 each.

The school was founded in1904 to train elementary schoolgraduates for business positions.It was later expanded to a four­year school.

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Pope John Medalist From India'Also to Work in Harlem

Award to Moth·er Teresa

VATICAN CITY (NC)-Moth­er .Teresa, winner of the firstPope John ,XXIII peac~ prize,told a news, conference Jan. 7that she will use the $25,000prize money to build homes inIndia for some of the 35,000lepers cared for by her Mission­ary Sisters of Charity.

She also said that she willcome to the United States inMay to open a house in Harlemfor work among 'New York'spoor.

The 60-year-Old missionarynun, who has worked among theworld's poorest, was introducedto the press by Archbishop Gio­vanni Benelli, substitllte secre·,tary of state. She received thepeace prize from Pope Paul theprevious day."

Mother Teresa told newsmenthat'everyone loves and respectsher nuns-even in some of thetoughest sectors of the World.The fact that they are RomanCatholics has been no barrierin dealing with persons of otherreligions or 110 religion, !?he said.

Church Rich

The nun won loud applausewhen she explained -how shewould answer the criticism thatthe Church is too rich:

"No one has ever said thatto me. When the poorest of thepoor are dying on the groundand we come to help them, theydo not a"sk how rich we are."

Archbishop Benelli said he feltthat' Pope Paul had found inMother Trresa and her nuns

RADIANT AT WELCOME: Bishop Cronin, left, shares in the joy of his father andmother, Mr; and Mrs. Daniel G. Cronin, center and his sister-in-law and brother, Mr.and Mrs. Robert Cronin, right as 2500 people of the Diocese of Fall River welcome' thenew Ordinary on the occasion of the 16th Annual Charity Ball, held Friday night at lin-coln Park Ballroom'. '

,Plans ConventionBALTIMORE (NC)-The fourth

annual National Federation ofPriests' Councils convention,scheduled from March '14-18here, will have as its theme,"Creative Ministry in the Chan'g­ing Church,"

Puerto Rican BishopsOppose Birth Control

SAN JUAN (NC)-The PuertoRican bishops, 'who last year'gave their qualified approval toa government birth control proj­ect, have now announced theirl,mified opposition to any officialor private promotion, of artificialcontraception. '. The recent statement, signed

hy all six of the island's bishops,i<; intended to "completely clearany ambiguity" caused by pre­vious statements, they say.

In February of last year thebishops conference, with two dis­senting votes, offered their sup­port to a government familyplanning program in exchangefor a government promise to in­clude' the promotion of methodswhich are "not against the doc-'trine of the Church."

But this conditional supportwas misunderstood, the bishops'said in their recent statement,"presenting us as favoring arti­ficial contraceptives, abortionand sterilic:ation,"

ed, they started coming back andwanted' me to give them differ­

, ent ideas. How many ideas couldI come up with in one night?"

Like A MotherSister was sounding more and

more like a mother. ,"Then doyou know what happened?" (Icould just feel' what she wasgoing to say, because I've beenthat route so often, I know whatis around the next bend),

"Then, when I thought all thehomework, and all the specialassignments were all finished,and 1 was trying to get them tobed because it was almost IIo'clock, I just breathed a sigh ofrelief, then one of them came tome.

"Sister says we have to havered, white anq blue poster paint." ,

"Take the box of water colors."" 'That won't work. 'Sister says

red, white and blue poster paints-in jars. You know, the littlebottles that have the paint thatspills out if you knock themover,' "

"I know. That's why you dOfl'thave that kind. Anyway" whycan't you use crayons? Nevermind, I know ... because Sistersays! All right, I'll go to thestore tomorrow and get posterpaints-in little jars,"

"The child started to cry, 'But,we have to have it tomorrow­tomorrow morning!' "

Sister started a midnightsearch of th'e house, mutteringunder her breath something about"don't those Sisters know whatthey do to a household when

• they demand all this stuff ... ,"Now, that's my idea of a mean­

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Author Wins LibraryAssociation Award

HAVERFORD (NC) - TashaTudor, author and illustrator ofchildren's books, has been namedwinner of the 1971 Regina MedalAward by the Catholic LibraryAssociation for distinguishedcontribution to the field of chil­dren's literature.

Miss Tudor, who illustratedsuch classics as "Wind in theWillows," "Little Womc:n," andthe fairy tales of Hans ChristianAndersen, as well as her ownbooks, will get the award April13 in Cincinnati at the associa­tion's 50th anniversary conven­tion.

take care of their six school-agechildren. Sister's parents tookover, but after several days, shegot a phone call from hermotherasking her if she could possiblyhelp out.

Convent freedom pqrmitted,and Sister spent two school dayswith a family of six enthusiasticyoungsters.

While her· narration' of twodays' household life may haveseemd exasperating to her" shewas singing my song.' ,

She told how it was just con·stant running all day long. AsSOO:1 as she had one thing done,two more jobs were waiting.

All That NonesenseSister went on with. her story.

"Things were going pretty well,until they came home in theafternoon with their homework!I couldn't believe it . . . pagesand pages of stuff that I'm surethose teachers were never goingto look at. Why make them writeall that nonsense? (The tune wasso familiar.)

"And then," she went on, "whenthey were finished with theirregular homework - then camethe projects! Oh, it was awful.They are conscientious kids, andreally try to do their work to thebest of their ability .. '. so theywent overboard on the projects!

"Everything had to be perfect.They would get a cover done,then bring it to me, 'Do you thinkthis is right?' Before I could tellthem it was fine, they would cry,'Sister will never think it is goodenough'-and rip it up.

"I could have screamed. It wasgetting later and later; no onewas getting done. When Ithought they were almost finish-

I 'regularly find myself embroiled in differences with'Sisters who teach in, Catholic' schools. I guess I'm notaware of their classroom' problems and they. are',not con­scious of a mother's situation with a houseful ,pf kiqs'.

So I found a conversationI had with a Sister the other,day the mo;:;t ,heartening ex­perience in many years.

Her brother and sister·in-Iawhad a chance to get away for a'little vacation, if someone could

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Donna Marie Perry and father, Gilbert of Somerset

Richard Alix of No. Attleboro with daughter, Joanne

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Asks Intercession'For Prison~rs

MADRID (NC) -.The CubanCenter of Spain, representingseveral thousand refugees, askedPope Paul VI to intercede on be­half of Cuban political prisonerswho, the center said, "have suf­fered horrible tortures.".

"In the name of 'countlessfamilies both in and out of Cuba,we appeal to Your Holiness tosolicit from the Cuban govern­ment a little respect for the hu­man rights of the political pris­oners on the island," the center'smessage said.

The center said it was mostdeeply concerned with the fateof more than 500 prisoners in thepenitentiary of Puerto de Bo·niata ,"who have been held in­communicado for more than ayear."'Many observers here believe

that the Cuban center's requestto the Pope was prompted byhis appeal for clemency for sixBasque separatists convicted ofmurder and other terrorist activ­ities in Spain.'

Pope Paul later expressed deepsatisfaction that the death sen­tences imposed by a militarycourt were commuted by Gen.Francisco Franco.

Predicts Stronger. Church to Emerge

MEXICO CITY (NC)-FatherAniceto Fernandez': former'master-general of the Domini­cans, predicted here that thechurch would emerge purer ands5ronger from the anguish of itscontemporary crises.

Speaking at, the dedication' ofthe Dominicans' new universitycultural center near the Univer­sity campus here, Father Fer­nandez praised young people fortheir rejection of much of· mod­ern society.

"The young' have no use for'our present society of consump­tion, personal well-being andimmersion in pleasure with n'othought of the needs of the un­derprivileged and the financiallyhard-pressed lower classes.

"Youth wants to shake up thesmugness of personal selfishnessand in a way they are gropingfor a spiritual ideal," the headof Manila's University of San'toTomas said.

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others. But this suffering, hesaid, "instead of exhausting the.energy and .the will to help ...renews, these energies and makesthem stable."

Dedicated. to, ServiceThe Pope linked the award

ceremony with his theme for the1971 World Day of Peace:Every Man Is My Brother.

"Today more than ever before,now that the universal con­science has been reawakened,there, is need of immense ener·gies of man for man, energieswhich the powerful and gener·ous undertakIngs of th~ interna­tional community are bringing tobear."

Mother Theresa, he said, "inwhom we like to see the thou- ~

sands and" thousands' of peoplededicated .full-time to the per-

'sonal s!,!rvice of the mo'st· needy,becomes an. example of the dis­covery of .the secret of peace forthe world, which we are allseeking, . It is the discov'ery .. ,that man is our brother."

Honor MissionaryMother Teresa'Symbol of Discov:ery'

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PEACE PRIZE: Pope Paul VI- presents the first popeJohn XXIII Peace Prize to Mother Teresa, foundress ofthe Missionaries of Charity, for her work among the poorand sick of India NCPhoto.

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, By Joseph and M!lrilyn Roderic:k, .During most o( the year we look forward, to : the

.arrival of the mailma':l' There is a certain antitcipation aboutwhat he will deliver; a letter from a fr~end, a 'plant cahtlog,a book for the children, the latest magazine, etc. But rightnow his ,arrival is catastro- . . .. .' !'phic. It means that our pile is The Working, Mother's (iuideof bills gains new associates. to Her Home, Her Family: and

Ch . b'll .. d b Herself (I liked that self ibit).. flstmas. I s are Jome ,Y Written by Alice Skelsey, herselfmsurance b~lls and one, feels a working wife ,and mothe~ forthat th~re wIll be no end to the nearly ,20 years this hint-filledscrimping and saving to ~et rid book is published by Randomof the excesses Qf Chns~mas House. 'good cheer. .. Complete with, ideas on how

Every .year abo~t thIS tIme, to 'get that washing' done', onI emphaslz: to Manlyn that ~ext time, (buy permanent press 'andyear we WIll h.ave to be ~ httle enlist the aid of the children)more. careful m our Chnstmas how to keep at"' least one. step's~endmg, but, ·ev~ry ~ear the ahead of the housework (firstbJll~ cO~,e pourm~ m after things first) and. how to·1getChnstmas an.d I r~ahze that my everyone to bed so that you ':canresolve was In vam. relax and tinwina, just a bit ,be-

.Momen~ ~fTrutq. fore you doze off iii front of :theAdmltte?I~, It IS ~ot her fault, TV (be consistent), this book is

becau~e I ~m as ~U1lty of ov,er- a must on the reading list of knyspendm? .as .she: ISh" The ~hnstf- gal who is thinking about, hasmas spmt. nses, t ~ ~~ahty. 0 applied to join or is already partpresents nses accordmgly, the of our great labor fore ("dliquor flows;. th~ food ~ is con- labor that is). e Pial

~, sumed and the bIlls mount. . \ While I wouldn't b I h: Then the ~~ment of, truth' ar- enough in this time ofre:e:st~n

nves. J~n. 1 IS on us ;and the to suggest you 'go out and buy'co~pames sta~t .•sendmg o~t. this book, for $6.915 ,(that is, tin­theIr, mo~thly blllm~s. ,The. mall- I~ss you received 'a gift certifi- 'man, relIeved of hIS ~hnstmas cate this Christmas from the<:~rd ,~urden, makes. hIS rounds local book store do ask your'li­~Ith.vtlgor and ~elPboslts ou.rhwor- brary to get it, if they' alrea'dynes m 0 o~r mal oxes WIt the haven't or keep a' . t'h. ttl b n eye on egrea es ap o~ . pocket 'book section of ydur,

Fa~hers begm to take ~ on a favorite drug' store (eventuallyworned look as they attempt ~o everything gets printed in a er­fa~hom the. e?,tent of the damage. back). p P"Wives antIcIpate clever quotes: Do read ·it thougf h t b tt' '"W 'll h t t' ht b It ' .. I, W a e ereave 0 Ig en our e s way could you start' off th N:for the next few month~," or Year than by re-e I t' e ~w"B h . C' ,vaua mg your VATICAN CITY (NC)-A 6'0

y t e tIme we get on our feet home and work routine 'a d 't- . -'t 'll b' t t' " ,n gEl year-old missionary Sister wear-I WI e mcome ax Im.e. ting a little more time for "self." ing a white cotton .sari banded

Well, I suPP?se I might as If you enjoy both macaroniwell becQme resigned to the fact and cheese and cht'ese s ffl I with blue. heard Pope Paul VIth t I th' " ou es, proclaim her "an example and

a. as ong as e~e IS then you'll love this shell and symbol of the discovery . . .C!tnstmas cheer there WIll al- cheese puff. ' "ways be post-Christmas blues. I that man is our brotqer."This year I won't ev~n resolve to Shell and Chet~se Puff I In the Renaissance splendor ofwatch spending next year, be- 1 package (8 ounces) small the, Vatican's Clementine Hall

'cause I know it is a futile ges- shells or elbowmaearoni :' Pope Paul gave Mother Teresature. In ,the meantime. though, 6 Tablespoons (% stick) bui- Boyaxhiu the first Pope Johnbill paying sessions will be frus- ter or margarine ,XXIII p,e~ce prize, which in-trating juggling acts in iny home 1,4 cup flour cluded a ch~ck for $25,000.and I am sure in many others in 1Y2 teaspoons salt i The John .XXIII Peace Prizethe diocese. .' 1Y2 teaspoons mustard I was set ,up and funded through

In the Kitchen:, Y2 teaspoon ,paprika i-the $160,000 peace, award thatAre you tired of never having 2 ,cups milk" Pope John himself received in '

a c1e'an shirt ahead for the man Y2 pound Cheddar chees~ 1963 from the Balzan Founda-'of the house, of searc;hing for 'shredded tion, an Italian-Swiss corpora~the' children's leotards": only to 6 eggs separate,d. 'I tion.. Pope John left his prizediscover that every pair they 1. Cook the maca'roni foliowL money fOf that purpose when heown is at the bottom of,the ham- ing directions on package. [:.died the s~me year.per full of dirty clothes, 'or \of ' 2. While shells cook, melt The awarding of the prize, torushing home from work to start butter or margarine in a medH be given once every three years,dinner only, to discover Ithat you urn size saucepan. Blend in flour' ~as witnessed by the corps of.forgot to take the meat out of salt, mustard and paprika' and ambassadors to the Vatican,the freezer., ! cook stirring constantly 'just unf' dressed in gold-embroidered

If you yell a hearty "YES" to til bubbly. Stir in milk; continu~ court uniforms, and, by a dozen'these questions, then 'you can cqoking and stirring until ,sauce car.dinals. the ceremony was ap~obably join me in the depths thickens and bubbles· 1 ,minute.l;· far- cry 'from the slums of Cal­of ,depressions that are quite pe- Stir in cheese until melted. Re.i'cutta with which Mother ,Teresaculiar to working wives and move from heat;, cool. I is more f~miliar.

mothers. Betty Friedan, Robin 3. Beat egg, whites just until! The slightly hunched mission­Morgan, and Gloria Steinem take they double in volume and' formI ary Sister, whose f~ce is linednote it's not all, a bed of roses. soft peaks in a large bowl. I an<;l shows' 1he rigors of lifeIn fact, there are quite a few 4, Beat egg yolk until cream"l among some of the world's poor­needles among those flowers thick in a second large bowl'! est people, was the center of the(darning needles, that is). gradually add colored sauc~ t ceremony, She knelt before the..The other day on one of my stirring until well blended. Stir: Pope-nothing was audible of

"not frequent enough" (if I had in cooked drained shell. : what she said - to receive the,a nickel for every fine I've paid 5. Lightly stir in about 1 cup, award and .with it" a silverfor overdue books I'd be able to' of the beaten egg whites; gently; plaque, a. commendatory scrollbuy that mink that life is too fold in remainder until no i and a statue of Mary, which she'sllort to live without) trips to streaks of white remain. ,I kissed reiJeatedli .the library I picked up a'delight- .JG.~~Pour il1tQ an ungreased";S i. . Pope Paul said' efforts likeful book geared especially for cup' souffle or' . straight-side; Mother Teresa's cail attention 'tothat. harried individual - !he baking dish. :,':i' the "frightening dimensions" ofworkmg mother. ·In f~ct the title 7. Bake in a 350· oven 1 hour. 'f, the needs ·.and sufferings of

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Bishop DonovanNew Chairman

NEW YORK (NC)-Bishop JohnA. Donov,an of Toledo has beennamed chairman. of the board of'the Catholic CommunicationsFoundation. He succeeds Cardi­nal John Krol·of Philadelphia.

In announcing new officers, afoundation spokesman said thatBishop' Andrew G. Grutka ofGary will be the group's presi­dent and that John B. Heinz ofthe Western Catholic Union inQuincy, III., will serve in the newpost of executive vice president.Charles E. Reilly of the NationalCatholic Office ','f()r Radio anpTelevision (NCORT) continues assecretary.

The foundation, established byCatholic Insurance Fraternal So­cieties to aid' U. S. bishops intheir broadcasting mission, ac­cording :to its annual report,plans to publish an extensiveglossary of radio and televisionterminology in February.

The foundation awarded $67,­650 in financial grants for sup­port of radio arrd television pro­grams and services and plans todevelop a training program, in­cluding scholarships.

No P~ansVATICAN CITY (NC)-Pope

Paul VI has no plans at the mo­-ment for traveling to Poland, theVatican said at a week briefingfor news correspondents. "Thereis no ,foundation to theserumors," said Frederico Alles­sandrini, head of the Vaticanpress office, in response to spec­ulation about such a trip.

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ways must be resolved withoutrecourse to violence," he added,"but especially so in this prob­lem which has already dividedmany communities in our state."

Bishop Guilfoyle said he hopedunion's newly created depart­ment would, set the stage forconstructive collective bargain­ing.

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"I fully support this step,:' the .bishop said, noting that he hasresponsibilities 'to both growersand farm workers. "I have everyconviction that differences al-

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SAN ANTONIO (NC)-Auxil­iary Bishop Patrick Flores, whovisited farm labor leader CesarChavez in jail before his release,said the courts are inviting vio­lence if they restrict the farmworkers' union right to strike,picket and boycott,

The San Antonio bishop toldnewsmen here that he went tothe Salinas" County,' Callf... jail'where Chavez was being heldbecause "it was my Christianduty to minister to the incarcer­ated,"

Chavez, who was jailed forviolating a superior court injunc­tion banning most forms ofstrike activity including a lettuceboycott, was released followinga California Supreme Courtorder. The state high court in­structed a district court to re-

. view the case.Bishop Flores, who described

Chavez as a personal friend,said "to many thousands, he isthe only hope. ,He is an imageand a symbol of nonviolence."

Complex Battle,The bishop said Chavez' union,

the United Farm Workers Or­ganizing Committee, involved ina labor dispute with the Team.sters over union representation,has no desire for violence.Chavez' union, he added, haspromised to use legal means intheir efforts.

Bishop Flores added, how­ever, "if striking, picketing andboycotting are prohibited by thecourt, the court is inviting vio­lence."

The UFWOC-Teamster juris­dictional battle is complex, thebishop noted,. But he said results

.of an Aug. 30 election' in theSalinas area supervised by ·theU. S. Bishops' Committee onFarm Labor indicated that thefarm workers "want their own'union." - Most of the lettucegrowers, there, however, havesigned union contracts with theTeamsters.

In a related ,development inStockton, Calif" about 100 milesfrom Salinas, Bishop MerlinGuilfoyle praised an UFWOC

Weapons TreatyVATICAN CITY (NC)-Weap­

onless Vatican City will sign thetreaty for non-proliferation ofnuclear weapons in the nearfuture. According to informationin such circles here, the HolySee has acted at the request ofa number of nations. Its signingis expected to influence othernations that are undecided aboutthe treaty.

Await. DecisionOn State AidTo Schools

LANSING (NC) - The Michi­gan Supreme Court is expectedto rule by the end of Januaryon validity of a state constitu­tional amendment which wouldbar virtually all tax aid to paro­chial and other non-publicschools.

Final arguments on the"issue,known as the Proposal Cease,have been completed before thehigh tribunal. Stuart Hubbell, de­fense attorney, expressed hopethat the court would render its

'decision before the end of Jan-uary, when terms end for bothpublic and parochial schools.

A number of unusual cir~um­

stances are, involved in the is­sue.

During its last session, theMichigan legislature approved a$22 million measure, principalfeature of which was aid to non­public schools by paying salar"ies of teachers of nonreligioussubjects.

Opponents of the aid drew upProposal C, gained the requirednumber of voters' signatures andsucceeded in getting the issuebefore the state's voters in theNov. 3 election. Michigan votersballoted in favor of the amend­ment.

Three QuestionsPrior to the election, Michi"

gan Atty. Gen. Frank Kelley is­sued an opinion holding thewording of Proposal C was toovague to constitute a law.' Hisruling was overturned by a Mich­igan court. The court's decisionwas appealed to th'e MichiganSupreme Court which, in effect,upheld the -rowetcotirt "rilling' byrefusing to hear the appeal.

In the present situation theMichigan Supreme Court is ex­pected to rule on three'questions-whether Proposal C was prop­erly and clearly composed;

, whether Proposal C meets thetests of the frist and 14th amend­ments of the U.S. Constitution,and what is the extent of Pro­postal C's effects.

AUxiliary ServicesRiding with the state high

court's decision is the immediatefuture of some 600 financiallyhard-pressed Catholic element­ary and, high schools 'throughoutthe state which educate some260,000 students. An aid-barrIngdecision, it has been indicated,would necessitiate large scaleclosings of some schools in thestate's five dioceses.

The issue does not involve thebusing of students to nonpublicschools, now provided under·separate legislation predicatedon the state's police power in

• the public safety area.But in addition to the state

aid for teachers on nonreligioussubjects, the case also involvesauxiliary health services, sharedtime and even the tax exemptstatus now accorded parochialschools, legal observers said.

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Father Dwyer, a professor atthe U~iversity of North Caro­lina, holds a doctoral degree inascetical theology from CatholicUniversity. He has conductedseveral retr~ats in the past forclergy of the Fall River Diocese.

Twenty priests of the diocesewill assist him in his 'presenta­tion at Immaculate' Conception;

St. George Women's Guild willhold a Whist Party, Jan. 16 at8:00 P.M. iri the school hall forthe beriefit of the School Fund.Many beautiful prizes will beawarded.

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The Women's GU,i1d will holda membership tea from 2:30 to5 Sunday afternoon, Jan. 24, anda penny sale Saturday night,Feb. 6, both in the hall. Pennysale tickets are now availableand donations of prizes are re­quested. They may be left at therectory or pickups may be ar­ranged by calling Mrs. Helena

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He, described the. visit of a,middle-aged woman who madea trip to the e,cumenical agen­

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According to Charles Lutz, as­sociate executive, director of theoffice here, a number of peoplehave' "just walked' in off .thestreet" to contribute funds.

Their donations were sparkedby relatively brief items in sec­ular newspapers reporting theappeal of the Geneva-based

,World Council of Churches toits 240 member-churches for$210,000 over'the next threeyears for work with Americandraf( exil,es in Canada.

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NEW YORK (NC) - News: commented. He added that thepaper reports of a World Coun- WCC's New York office hascil of Churches appeal for funds been surprised by the unsolicitedto aid U. S. draft evaders and contributions from individuals,military deserters in Canada some of whom are unrelatedhave generated both criticism either to the WCC or any of itsand praise-plus an unexpected member-churches. '

. number of contributions from'concerned individuals, an offi­cial of the WCC's New Yorkoffice said here.

. Self-Ap[)()intedin short, Mr. i~eich cohtlhdes,

the subject in question "is What'. the machine left' after it had its

way." Mr. Novak says that themargins I of his copy of l'TheGreening of Amer:ica" carrY ananguished exclamation mark atthe "ignorance" di~playedj, bythis passage. I

And this, it seems to me, isputting it as lmildly and ascharitably as, possible. In other

'words, ignorance is hardly astrong enough word to charac­terize the incredible snobbery ofProfessor Reich a'nd many of hisfellow-apologists' for the: so-called "counter-culture." ,

The December iissue of the: dis­tinguished Jewish monthly, Com­mentary, in a series of threerelated articles, pays its respectsto these self-appointed membersof the new American 'elite :andlets them ,have it with bothbarrels. Norman Podhoretz': 'in­troductory editorial sets the tonefor this entire sel:ies. I

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By its own account, Mr. Pod­horetz points out,' the counter­culture "opposes the preddmi­nant values of the' American

'. middle class. It has every rightto do so. But 'the fact that itdescribes these values in te~msthat are dr:enche~'in an arrogantcontempt fQr the li'ves of millions'and millions of. people, the Vastmajority of whom are consider­ably less affluent and less privi­leged in every other social ire­gard than the typical counter­culture loyalist, is to' me suffi­cient indication of. the ludicro'us­ness of, the claim of supe~iorhumaneness which it is alwaysmaking on. its own behalf. 1• Iwould have thought that epithetslike insensitive, incurious, tin­imaginative, and smug would ,besomewhat more precise." .

More power to Mr. Podhore'tz.It's 'about time that someone· ofhis stature' in the soccalled int~l­Iigentsia had the nerve to blowthe whistle on the new elite. ',

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men were indicted by a federalgrand jury here on fireanhscharg~s. in connecilion with ~nalleged conspiracy against theUnited Farm '%rkers' Organ~­ing Committee in, the SalinasValley. Assistant U. S. attornhgeneral Bruce Babcock said thesix, accused of violating the GJnControl Act of: H 168, amassJdguns, grenades and dynamitewhich he alleged they intendedto use against UFWOC.:

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. ever was-as witness its, leadeditorial, "E;litist and Hard-Hat,"in the issue dated Monday, Dec.28,' 1970. The point of this edi­torial is that a new form ofsnobbery appears to exist on avery broad scale in the UnitedStates., "It exists," says the Monitor,"on the part of many of those inAmerica' whom it plea~es to be­lieve that they work solely withtheir minds and operates againstthose, who work with theirhanps. This snobbery has cometo be described as -"elitism', aterm increasingly applied to th~

fairly broad spectrum of thoseengaged in specifically intellec­tual ac:tivity of whatever- na­ture." -

Looked Down Upon

The result of all this, the Mon­itor concludes, "is a rising re­sentment, discomfort and frus­tration on the part of those notincluded in this elite class andwho therefore believe' that theyare looked 'down upon,"

The Monitor's point is welltaken. In other words, there isno' doubt in this 'writer's mindthat the sense of alienation be­ing experienced today by manyof the working-class poor in theUnited States, stems, in largemeasure, from the justifiablefeeling on their part that theyare being looked down upon bythe so-called intelligentsia.

Vile Phantasies

The Monitor is not alone indeploring this phenomenon. Anumber of liberal spokesmen­who themselves are generallythought of as belonging to' theintelligentsia .:..- are currently.speaking out very forcefullyagainst this new elitism referred

Ao above. .,Michael Novak, for example,

in a recent review in Common­weal oJ. Charles Reich's best seil­er, "The Greening of America,"pointedlY, reminds his liberalpeers that "one key to our fail­ure lies in the huge perceptualgap, that separates us from theAmerican people and especiallyfrom the worker."

Our phantasies about theworkingclass poor, Mr. Novakcontinues, are ·vile.' To illustratethis point, he then cites a pas-

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Hits' Incredible Sn'ot)\beryOf New American E~litists

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I have always thought of The Christian Science Mon­\tor as being, by all odds, one of the best newspapers inthe United States put, frankly, have never thought ofit as being particularly sensitive to the problems and n:eedsof. middle and lower-middle _ i

. class Americans who work sage from "The Greening ofwith their 'hands for a liv, America" which caricatures: "theing. Dnthe contrary"":"'to be plumbers, gas ,st.ationattenqants,

,and truck, drivers around u,s" incompletely open, about the mat-; Uiemost patronizing ,of termst~~-it h'as alw~ys str~ck me a~ and leaves the impression: thatbemg ~~the~ a~lst9~r.atl~,:~ot,;to:, ' the typical hard-hat is SOQl~ sortsay elItIst, m ItS edltoqal ,p!Jmt; 'of, fascist moron wh'o "has' fled

• 'of view. '.' ," ~ all his life fromconsCiou~ness1~is is no long~~. tr~e of th.e, '. and responsibility . . . is' i~ tur­

Mon~tor, however-If. mdeed It 'moil against h,ls own nature ...(' and) I'n hl's agol'ly., ... has r.e'.cOI'I­.~1f.~~t[%~:~;:~:H$1rfgf;@~1~&gi

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ISOffice of Mayorwith John V. Kenney, countyDemocratic boss, and several cityofficials.

In the statement issued by thecollege's public relations depart­ment, Father Yanatelli said: "ram not considering running forany political office.

"No one has asked me to runfor mayor of Jersey City.

"In' response to an inquiryfrom the press, I did say that if .I were asked to run, it would.take 'a real upheaval' for meeven to consider it."

In the Times account, the 56­year-old priest's possible" candi­dacy was discussed by unidenti­fied county politicians.

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Jan. 14, 1971

Denies SeekingJERSEY CITY (NC) - Father

Victor R. YanitelJi, president ofSt. Peter's College, has deniedthat he is seeking the office ofmayor in this city across theriver from Manhattan.

The Jesuit priest's statementwas in respol1se to a news storyin the New York Times of Jan.6. The Times said Father Yana­telli was "seriously considering"running as a reform candidatefor mayor if there should be amayoral recall election.

The current chief executiveof Jersey City, Mayor ThomasJ. Whelan, was indicted on ex­tortion charges by a federalgrand jury last November, along

The clock strikes twelve, drinks held high, a chorus of AuldLange Syne, tears, laughter, a New Year's kiss. That New Year'skiss ... what a beautiful way to say to others: "Mayall goodthings be yours!"

We will soon leave the old year behind us with its joys andsorrows, pleasures and problems, successes and failures. How sadit must be to be alone on New.Year's Eve to meet the newyear with no one to share our hopes and fears with no one toshare a "kiss of peace" and the wish for good fortune and happi­ness.

A NEW YEAR1S KISS

Let's stop for a minute and think about that as we anticipateour New Year's celebration. We wish others to have health, happi­ness, and peace, not just as a New Year's custom, but in everyday encounters with people. Even now at Mass we give this a"sacramental" significance when we' give each other the "kiss ofpeace." .

But no one IS reany alone! ·For iIi a much deeper dimensionthan flesh and blood we are in communion with all peopleeverywher~. We do not encounter them in our ordinary lives,but we do in the mystery of our faith . . . in our brotherhoodas God's People ... and especially in the SIGN of God's Loveand Presence - the Eucharist.

. Whatever you do to celebrate the beginning of the new year,please welcome in your heart those who are the loneliest of .G?d'sPeople: the poor, the suffering, the hungry, and helpless mIllIonsfacing another year in the human poverty of the Third World.

Dedicated missionaries, serving right now in every part of theworld, depend on your spiritual and financial support today to bringto their people health, happiness, and peae; for the new year.

PLEASE make your first New Year's Resolution be an act oflove for others by sending a generous sacrifice for the missionstoday. What a beautiful way for you to begin the new year! A.ndfor the world's poor and their missionaries, your gift today is lIkea "New Year's kiss"-a greeting and a .prayer: "The Peace ofChrist be with you." Why not do it-right now!

On behalf of all the Church's missionaries: Thanf~ you forfor your continued love and support of the ~issions . '. . G~d

love you and give you His peace alld contmued blessrngs m1971.

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See Plans 'BoardOf Conciliation

SPOKANE (NC) - A diocesanboard of conciliation and arbi­tration for settling church dis­pute's involving clergy and laityis expected to start early thisyear in the Spokane diocese.

The diocesan priests' senatewas to complete a second andfinal hearing on a "due process"proposal containing that recom­mendation. It then will go toBishop Bernard J. Topel for finalapproval.

IFirst proposed at the Senate's

November 1970 session, the dueprocess step, as formulated bythe Canon Law Society of Amer­ica and endorsed by the NationalConference of Catholic Bishops,already has Bishop Topel's gen­eral approval. Only minor mat­ters (jf procedural detail re­mained to be worked out..

The priests' senate has a per­sonnel board, but it is limited infunction. It is entirely clericalin membership and can onlyreconcile or mediate matters per­taining to the clergy. It has noformal arbitration procedures.

Father John Oosterman of thediocesan Tribunal said the ideais to pave the' way to peacefulsolutions "before bad feelings orpolarization set in." Once oppos­ing parties agree to arbitration,the terms will be binding.

Due process will not extend tocriminal cases, dissolution orannulment of marriage, or similardisputes unless specifically sanc­tioned.

NAMED: Father CharlesRoman Koester, 55, has beennamed auxiliary bishop toCardinal John Carberry inthe St. Louis archdiocese.NC Photo.

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Abortion EvilThe Church will continue to

regard abortion as grievouslysinful, and wi'lI not suddenlystart saying that abortions arenot wrong.

But a re-thinking of the pen­alties in the code of formertimes on those who face a mod­ern moral dilemma almost dailycould be in order.

Another modern moral prob­lem so commonplace these daysas to require re-study is the so­called "bad marriage"-one thatis not considered valid by Ca-'tholkism because the coupleswere not married ·before a priestalthough otherwise free to marry.Present Church law has the ef­fect of denying such persons 'theSacraments of Penance and Com­munion, among other things.

New mixed-marriage legisla­tion issued by the Church latein the 1970's allows Catholicshenceforth to marry in certaincircumstances and with 'the lo­cal bishop's permission, in acivil ceremony or before a non­Catholic clergyman. But manysuch marriages existing beforethe new mixed-marriage rulesmust be straightened out.

Church lawyers or Canonistshave been suggesting for sometime that penalties against suchpersons be abolished in the ex­ternal forum in the penal books.It will be more the confessor'sresponsibility to judge in the in­ternal forum of the private con­fessional who is or is not eligiblefor absolution and subsequentreception of Communion.

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that tryouts for a production of"The Sound of Music" will beheld at 7:30 Wednesday andThursday nights, Jan. 20 and 21at Bishop Connolly High Schoolauditorium. Aduhs, teenagersand children will be welcomedfor auditions. The musical,sponsored by the Loyola Club.and Ignatius Guild of Connolly,is scheduled for Spring presenta-'tion.

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Church law dating from the16th century Council of Trentobliges Catholics to confess allserious, or mortal, sins to apriest-a practice that will con­tinue.

As for "internal forum" orconscience type matters, the re­view is expected to look into thequestion of how much can beleft to the prudent judgementof the absolving priest and theconfessing individual.

Severe Church penalties arenow levelled against any Cath­olic~ obtaining an abortion, and

. any and all Catholics who co­operate in this. With many nactions recently enacting permis­sive abortion laws, the case ofa nurse's aide who assisted ineven a remote way in order .tokeep her job could be a situa­tion for the Vatican to study.

Confession Staysin those cases, with the under­standing that the penitent willmention any mortal sins thenext time he confesses individ­ually.

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NC news: "I do not know underwhat circumstances they areplanning to extend this privi­lege."

General Absolution

After individual confessionsand absolution, the group is thengranted a General Absolutionas a parting gesture.

Some Catholics are confusedby the "double absolution".Others are angered by an incli­nation of some priests to mini­mize the need of individual con­fessions. Alarmed by this, Romecould very well be preparing areminder that individual confes­sion of serious sins is still man·datory.

Alessandrini told newsmen,accor(iing to some press reports,that missionary bishops havepetitioned the Pope to simplifyConfession because priests areso scarce in remote areas.

Vatican sources said one wayto help them out could be anenlargement of the permissionthat Pope Pius XII granted inMarch 1944, during wartime,when he said that priests incertain circumstances could for­give penitents as a group with­out having to hear the confessionof each individual.

Pius XII was referring to aChurch law which says absolu­tion is not to be deferred or de·nied if the penitent is sincerelycontrite. The 1944 papal docu­mentary spoke of soldiers goinginto battle and civilians in dan­ger of attack. It also spoke ofpersons not in danger of deathbut who could not go to con­fession individually and wouldbe denied the opportunity todo so for a long time.

Missionary priests ~tnd mili­tary chaplains have authority tosubstitute a General Absolution

A reliable Vatican source saidndvisibility of extending the oc­casions for General Absolutionwas simply under study in vari­ous Vatican departments. At thispoint it is embodied in a Latinworking paper.

The working paper raisesquestions about enlarging thepower for emergency occasionswhen people cannot go individ­ually to a priest for confession.The source indicated this in­cludes such unforeseen events

. as epidemics, or sudden absencef)f many priests.

The source said that the samenorms would hold as for Gen­eral Absolution granted underwar conditions or in missionarylands.

Once the Vatican departmentshave summarized their opinionsthe matter reportedly will besent to the Bishops of the worldfor their suggestions.

One. moral theologian in Romespeculated that the penitentialrite and absolution now con­tained in the start of every Massmight be declared a specificmeans of gaining absolution fromvenial sins.

Experimentation in someforms of penitential rites hascaused confusion among Catho­lics. The Vatican could be pre­paring a clarification, the moral­ist said.

One penitential rite outsideMass is an experiment in whichpersons gather for a group ex- .amination of conscience, led bya priest, and hear a meditationon the meaning of Penance.

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WASHINGTON (NC)-A 'fed­erally funded study of 39' public,private and government schoolsystems in 14 states has recom- ,mended that American Indiansbe given increased authority andresponsibility for the educationof their children.

The three-year study, directedby Robert J. Havighurst of theUniversity of Chicago for theOffice of Education, urged that'a greater number of Indianshold positions on local schoolboards in addition to havingstronger involvement in tribaleducation committees in publicand federal schools.

"The goals of Indian educa­tion," according to the study,"need to be interpreted in rela­tion, to the pervasive, need tolive in two cultures"-thelndi-'an's and the white man's..

A report of the' study askedthat' federal and state, funds bealloted for special .educationprograms in all cities with 100 .or more Indian children. It alsorecommended in-service trainingfor teachers. who have Indianpupils.

Further, it called for creationof a privately financed NationalCommission on Indian Educationto conduct a continuous suryeyof the quality of education forIndians.

The report indicilted that in­creased migration of Indians tourban centers has created neweducational problems for Indians. "It estimated that about 280,000or 38 per cent of all Indianslive in urban societies.

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UTICA (NC) - Paulist presi-'dent Father Thomas F. Stranksy'told 40 Mississippi clergymenhere that t\1e key to, religiouscooperation does not lie in whatthe Church is, but in what itdoes.

"The main tension withinchurches and across borders ofchurches is lack of consensusabout the mission of the Church.I see the mission of the Church'

. as primarily reconciiiation forbridge building across gaps thatprevent men from living in truecommunity," Father Stranskysaid.

He made his remar:ks at athree - day conference - retreatsponsored by the Mississippi Re·figious' Leadership Conference,chaired by Bishop Joseph B.Brunini of Natchez-Jackson.

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Report Archbishop'Of Guinea Arrested

VATICAN CITY (NC) - TheVatican City daily newspaperreported the Holy See has re­ceived w~rd th'at ArchbishopRaymond Tchidimbo of Conakry,Guinea, has been arrested byGuinea's left~wing ,government.

L'.Osservatore Romano notedthat no 'official confirmation ofArchbishop Tchidirribo's arresthad yet arrived, but said the re­port "is a cause of lively worryfor the Holy See."

L'Osservatore Roml!-no also re­ported that about 1900 Euro­peans living in the West Africanrepublic have been deportedwithout warning and had reach­ed wintry European airports stillwearing tropical clothing.

As all, who are fainiliar withthe Sistine ceiling know, theonly effective way to view theMichelangelo Wide-screen, "3-])of its. days" masterpiece wouldbe flat on your back on an airmattress in the middle of thechapel floor. Many visitors to

, the chapel are disappointed withtheir initial glimpse of the mar­velous frescoes, because of twocomplicating factors:

The gigantic figures paintedby Michelangelo (some fivetimes life 'size) are more than60 feet above eye-level.

The haze of dancing dust par­ticles in th~ sunlight streamingthrough the chapel windows cutsdown details in viewing the un-lit frescoes. '

Now through the magic cre­ated by a team of photographersand reproduction experts, theSistine Chapel ceiling can be"seen" for the first time.

'. The end result oJ the currentexhibit of photographic panels,although it may not garner theawards heaped upon its TVcounterpart, should be of tre­mendous significance in terms ofart history.

Charges DioceseWith Racism

JACKSON (NC) - Charges ofracism and indifference to theplight of the poor were hurled 'at the, Natchez-Jackson diocesein a public hearing called hereby the National Association forthe Advancement of ColoredPeople.

The hearing was held, accord­ing to NAACP officials, to "getto the bottom and solve theproblems of STAR."

STAR is a diocesan sponsoredman'power an deducation pro­gram but operates as an inde­pendent corporation federallyfunded by the Office of Econom­ic Opportunity. It is controlledby' a 30-member board of direc-'tors over which the bishop herehas little control.

Bishop Joseph Brunini 'of'Natchez-Jackson said he wasconfident, that any misunder­standing between the state'sNAACP chapter and the diocesecould be smoothed out.

The bishop was out of townduring the recent hearing, butsent three representatives, in­cluding diocesan chancellorFather George Broussard, to ob­serve and then report to him.

Father Broussard emphasizedthat his personal opinion was,that the STAR board of direc­tors, two of whom are priests,is. responsible for running theprogram, not' the Church.

Reproduce 'Paintings' .of SistinePlan. Nationwidie Tour Following New

, ,; I ''PHOTOGRAPH EXHI~IT: A detail of (~,od, from "The Creation of the Sun, Moon and

,Planets," in Michelangelo'~ famed Sistine, Chapel ,ceiling. This photograph is one of 80in an exhibit presented at,the New York ,Cultural Center and entitled, "The Sistine Ceil-ing Seen for the First ti~e." NC Photo. '

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NEW YORK (NC)-The famedSistine Chapel ceiliing has be~n"seen" in fine detail for the firsttime by New Yorkers at an e~­hibit here.

The unique opportunity, npteven afforded to those touristswho have :visited the' world­renowned edifice at the Vatican,was provided by the' New YorkCultural 'Center, in, associationwith Fairleigh Dickinson Univer- 'sity.' " , ,'I, Consisting ,of 80 photographicpanels, of the Michelangelo mas­terpiece, ,the exhibit, present~dthe first, full-color pictures ofthe massive figures taken frotTIas ,close as four feet, about thesame distance the Renaissancepainter ,originally raised hisbrush to the fresco. I

IPlan' Nationwide Tour '

" IThe chance to view the ceiling

very much as Michelangelo ,sawthe actual fresco over 450 yeatsago while' he created it will beprovided ,in other parts of tliecountry as soon as the CulturalCenter' works out ;1 nationwide

,tour for the exhibit. "i

The Sistine Ceiling panels,ranging from one.half to three­quarter scale, with several iJ1­stances of actual' si~:e, are direttenlargements from original 8"ix10" color transparencies. Theywere taken during the filmingfor television of ,"The' Secret Of, . IMichelangel Michelangelo: EveryMan's Dream." !

The project was conceived byThomas Murphy, president ofCapital Cities Broadcasting Cor­poration. It took six years an~more than $500,000 to complete.The result was a highly ac­claimed filin that won manyawards, ,including the coveteCl

~ Peabody Award.

P~oposes SistersFor Diaconcite

WASHINGTON (Nq:-Futuresuccess of the Catholic Church'scampus ministry may dependuponthe admission ofSis'ters tothe order of deacon. '

This was one of the conclu-,sions:' supporting increased rolesfor Sisters, 'in a: report of a two­year study' by the Center forApplied Research in the Apostol­ate (CARA), the Washington­based national Catholic fact­finding agency.

Research was funded by theKnights of Columbus and con­ducted among approximately 100Sisters working in the NewmanApostolate.

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"Hol,d T~p, Posts''In World Union

,'MADRID (NC) - Four U. S.women h~ve been chosen for topleadership posts in the WorldUnion of Catholic Women's Or­ganizations.

Dr. Lillian O'Connor, Wash-\ ' ington, D. C., a ,member of the

international unit's board since1965 has been elected a vice­president. The other 'three, rep­resent the union in the activitiesof the United Nations ,and' theOrganization of American States.'President of the' uriion is

Senorita Maria del Pila'r Bello­sillo of Madrid. Mrs. ElizabethLovatt !?olan, Dublin. <is vice­president general., (Dr. ElenaCumella, Buenos Aires, arid Dr,O'Connor are vice-presidents;Mme, Denise Peeters Le Boul- ..enge, Brussels is treasurer and,Carmen Victory Vda. de Tejel\a,Madrid is secretary. ", Mrs. Anthony Ramselaa,r, of" 'Uthrecht, the Nethe'rlands, isspiritual moderator.,

Other board members comefrom Australia, Austria, Belgium,Canada, the Cameroons, Colom­bia, Denmark, England, France,Germany, 'Holland, India, Italy,Ivory' Coast, Madagascar,

,Mexico, a representative fromPoland living in Great Britain,Spain, Switzerland, and Tartz­mania.

Representatives of two inter­national Catholic organizations,the International Catholic, As­sociation of Servic~ to' Young

. Women and the World Federa­tion of Young Catholic Womenaso serve on the board.

The World Union of Catholic'Women's Organizations has at

the present time four commis­sions: Ecumenical, Membership,Foundation and Education for

: Adults. These portfolios are: headed by women from England,

Belgium, Swi'tzerland, and Spainrespectively.

The three U. S.' Americanswho, are international agencyrepresentatives for the World

'Union are Miss CatherineSchaefer, New York City, at the

" Ul}ited Nations; Dr. Alba Zizza­mia, New York City, at theUnited Nations Children's Fund,and Miss Irma Piepho, Washing­ton, D. C., at the Organizationof American States.

Other permanent representa~

tives serve at the United Nationsin Geneva, Switzerland; the Food

, and Agriculture Organization in"'itome; and the Council of Eu­rope, Strasbourg, France.

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KNOW YOU,R FAITHConfirmatio,n

Estimates SavingCHICAGO (NC) - Dr. Donald

A. Erickson, a university of Chi­cago educator, told a state legis-.lative study group Illinois tax­payers reasonably could expectto save $70 million a year 10years from now if state aidpeg~ed at $300 per student was,provided ea,ch pupil in nonpublicschools.

"What is a sacrament?" In thepast months, I posed this ques­tion to parents in Virginia,priests in .Boston, teachers inSouth Carolina, 'Illinois, Utah­to name just a few groups., Allresponded almost in chorus:",A sacrament is an out­ward sign instituted by Christ t~give grace." Almost every Cath­olic adult, in the United Statesseems to have iearned this defi-

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this sacrament exclusively to thebishop, who, as population in­creased, could not be at everybaptism to administer confirma­tion.

These practices' gradually af­fected the theology, so that em­phasis was now placed on'themes such as "Christian ma­turity," "becoming a soldier ofChrist,", "courage," - themesthat are secondary to the mainfocus of confirmation as thetransition event: between bap­tism and the Eucharist in the

. process of Christian initiation.This understanding of the Sacra­ment of Confirmation as a sac­rament of Christian maturity haslittle basis in, the Scriptures orthe earlier twelve centuries ofthe Church's tradition and prac­tice.

Today there is no unified prac­tice regarding confirmation, noris there a complete consensusamong hierarchy and theologiansas to the real meaning of thissacrament. Some feel that con­firmation is the sacrament of"coming of age," similar to theJewish bar-mitzvah. Such an un­derstanding follows the theologydeveloped in the Middle Ages,and would suggest postponingthe sacrament until a person isable to make a fully maturecommitment.

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ASKED TO MEET JESUS: Whether a person answersthe question "What is Confirmation," in the traditional

rote manner or otherwise, he is still called at any age,in the Sacrament of Confirmatipn, to "Meet Jesus," in aspecial way. NC Photo.

confirmation. The most recentofficial' teaching authority of theChurch leaves the question un­answered, and suggests only that"the rite of confirmation is to berevised, and the intimate connec­tion which this sacrament haswith the whole of Christian ini­tiation is to be more lucidly setforth" (Constitution' on theSacred Liturgy, 'No. 71).

Sequence of SacramentsThe Council suggests what

historical research, and 'a grow­ing theological consensus seemsto indicate. The sacrament ofconfirmation is essentially a partof the sacramental process ofinitiation into the Christian com­munity, a confirmation of thegifts of the Spirit received inbaptism and a final preparationfor the sacrament of the Euchfl­rist.

The sequence of bapti~m­

confirmation-Eucharist seems tobe the important factor. Thissequence has always been fol­lowed by all the EasternChurches. and was the practicein the West until the Middle

. Ages.Time of Shift

The shift in practice began inthe medieval West because ofthe dying out of adult baptismand 'the catechumenate. Thechange was also necessitatea byrestricting the administration of

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nition andyears.

However, a little probingwith more questions revealed agreat deal of confusion and mis­conception underneath the cer­tainty of knowing the definitionby heart.

The simplicity and clarity ofthe definition poes not revealthe unresolved questions in­volved in the traditional Catho­lic understanding of sacraments.Nor does it suggest the stagger­ing differences in the way thesacraments were understood andadministered in different periodsof the Church's history.

Manv adult Catholics think thedefinition mellns that Christgave the Apostles clear instruc­tions about the number and na­ture of the seven sacraments andhow to, administer them - in­structions the Church has fol­lowed without change since thetime. of Jesus.

Often the complexity, ·the his­torical development,' the theo­logical questions come' as a fear­ful surprise when a change inpractice' takes place in a parishor diocese. The sacrament 'ofconfirmation is a good exampleof this.

Time of ReceptionSome dioceses now postpone

confirmation to the age ofseventeen or eighteen, and somepeople would argue for an evenlater age. Other dioceses wait tillthe seventh or eighth grade,while many dioceses hold con.firmation in fourth or fifth grade.In the Oriental' Rites of theChurch, confirmation is receivedimmediately after baptism, evenin the case of infants. More andmore theologians suggest thatthis is the most traditional ap­proach.

The decision as to when peo­ple are to receive this sa~rament

depends on an understanding ofwhat the sacrament is for. Sotheologians ask the question,"Just what is the sacrament ofconfirmation?" From the NewTestament they draw almost noconclusive help..

It is practically impossible todiscover in the Scriptures, or inliturgical documents' of the firstcenturies, evidence for the exis­tence of a separate sacrament of

Priest Puts BlameOn Supreme Court

PHILADELPHIA (NC)-FatherHenry McNulty, pastor of St.Columba's Church here and VIC­

tim of a recent stabbing androbbery, puts the blame forcrime in Philadelphia's streetss!luarely on the U. S. SupremeCourt.

Part of the problem can be,traced to "some people-judges-working within the system,"Father McNulty' said. He saidthat" the problem started withthe nation's, highest court andits 1966 Miranda decision.

In the Miranda case, the courtruled that confessions resultingfrom police, interrogation couldnot be allowed as evidence if adefendant had not been advisedof his legal right to counsel be- .fore making the confession.'

"Ever since then, things havegotten progressively worse,"Father McNulty said. "Therolice and courts are handcuffedby the Supreme Court's .dec:;i­sion.,. And the blacks in. theneighborhood are madder aboutit than the ,whites."

of them in his epistles) for the. sake 'of others,' and for the build­. ing up of. the. whole Church inthe world.

Go,d'S grace, active in each ofthe faithful, has a double dimen­sion. One is the grace of dyingwith Christ, ,a death of sin, ego­ism, greed,. selfishness, and allthe other aspects which kill anddiminish love.' But God's gracein Christ is also related to savingand transforming the world,just as the resurrection of Jesusdid not destroy the once pain- .filled body Of Christ but trans­formed it· through his passionand death. This mission to trans­form the world is the missiongiven to the confirmed.

Confirmation gives the bap­tized person the strength andspiritual force to become thevisible sign of Christ's presencein the world, that men in theworld may see and wonder asmen once wondered when theysaw the first Christians loveeach other so deeply.

Each of the faithful has hisown vocation and his own char­ism to work out this mission ofChrist's presence in the world.The sacrament of' confirmationconfers on us the mission to wit­ness to as well as to' transformthe world in the Spirit of Christ.

As we have seen elsewhere,the Church is ,the historicalpresence of God's mercy andlove' in the world. She has thesame mission the Father gave toJesus. The Church is actualized.and symbolized in the sacramentof confirmation in each of thefaithful who receive this missionof Jesus to save the world andtransform it by . working ~ithinit.

Dis,cussion Questions1. Why are baptism and con­

firmation so closely connected?2. Why is the Spirit ,called the

"soul of the Church?

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was the relationship betweenthe .Spirit and confirmation:

The Acts of the Apostles giveus a clear teaching on the Pente­costal gift of the Spirit to thefaithful. Just as Christ' receivedthe mission from the Father top,o into the world to save it, theChurch and each of her membersis now given the same missionby the "consecration and anoint­ing of the Spirit."

This divine anointing is a spir­itual quality given to the Chris­tian to sustain his whole spiritu­al life and the action of God' inarousing faith in the hearts ofthose who are obedient to hisWord.

It is' the Spirit who is thesource of our love as well as thesource of all charisms or specialgifts in the Church. These giftsbuild up the Church, therebyconsecrating it as the temple ofGod. It is the Spirit who keepsthe Church in unity and commu­nion; he is indeed the very soulof the Church.

From the earliest times thisvisible manifestation of theSpirit in the Church was signi­fied by a distinct rJte known tous today as the sacrament of~onfirmation. Yet, even if wehave seen this reality in the lightof Sc.rintnre a:1d tradition. thisstiO has not given us a cleartheology of the sacrament.

Reason for Spirit's GiftsThe Church in general and

each of the faithful, in receivingthe gifts of the spirit, receivesthe various gifts of the Spirit forthe edification and building upof the Church's presence in theworld. Each of the baptizedfaithful, in receiving the Spiritin confirmation in faith. receivesa special gift (St. Paul lists many

The sacrament of confirmationfrom the earliest days of theChurch has been regarded as ,thecomplement of baptism. Togetherthey constitute the initiation intoChristian existence. In the earlyChurch, when most of those ini­tiated into Christianity wereadults, these sacraments wereadministered together. Confirma­tion was the Pentecost of eachof the bapti~ed bearing 'witnessto faith in the world. What wasclear even from the earliest days

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Others, and this seems to bethe growing.and most traditfonaltrend, view confirmation as anintegral part of the' initiationrites into the Christiancommu­nity, signifying tne' fullness 'ofthe gift of the Holy Spirit. Theywould urge that confirmation bereceived just after baptism andjust before communion, even, inthe' case of infants.

Only further theo.l<:>gical devel­opment· and pa!itoral experimen­tation under' the guidance of thebishops will gradually resolvethe contemporary questions. Inthe meantime, the very question­can help us realize how much weadult Catholics n.eed to .deepenand enrich our understanding ofthe "simple definitions learnedinchildh·ood." . .

. Discussion Questions ,I. In your own words what do

you understand by the word"sacrament?;'. 2. What are the advantages

and disadvantages of d~lay'ing

the sacrament of Confirmationuntil, late adolescence? .

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board' of cardinals that' overseesthe Vatican's banking operations.has promoted 48-year-old Amer­ican Bishop Paul C. Marcinkusto the presidency of the Vaticanbank. Bishop" Marcinkus, ana­five of Cicero, Ill., and a priestof the Chicago archdiocese, is aveteran of the Vatican diplo­matic service and the man whohas arranged most of' PopePaul's trips to foreign countries.

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SANTO DOMINGO (NC)"::"Thelives of todays 'Christians' are notas committed as their :words and"we are sick of the discre'panty,"the bishops of the DorriirdcanRepublic declared in their NewYear's' message to the ·nation.'

, "The loftier, the more progrds'sive the words, the quicker theyslip into inaction and becomesimply defense mechanisms forguilty consciences;" the bishopsadded.. ' .... .

They. urged Dominicans totake seriously the theme of the1971 World Day of Peace'-eachman is my brother-and to "con­centrate on doing somethingabout it."

"Let us live together as onefamily-socially, politically, andeconomically and without dis­tinction of caste, belief, color, orlanguage," they say.

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'The, bishop appealed for vol­unteers to form a human

'bridge by which the young and'middle-aged .can r.each the lonelyold.. He asked' parishioners toshow love for the ..elderly, thebishop said, because "I thinkit's what Christ wanted me todo."

This was the same reason thebishop recently gave when askedwhy he used $2,000 of his ownmoney to bail out of jail twoyouths . arrested for allegedlyselling drugs.

In Ns sermons at four cityparishes, the bishop asked foryear-round commitments frombusy, productive people to de­vote a few minutes each weekto un·busy, un-productive old-

·sters in nursing homes, apart­ments, and rooming houses.

He said the dioc.esan office onaging 'would introduce volun·teers to elderly persons in needof friends. .

The bishop voiced regret thatduring his 15 years as Spokaneprelate he has "done nothingabout this problem." He said hisown awareness of the plight ofthe lonely elderly came after hesold his residence in 1969, do­nated the proceeds to localcharities and self-help programsand then moved into the cathe­dral rectory to live as a parish

. priest.On pastoral rounds he saw

first hand the loneliness and re­jection of the forgotten old whocomprise a major portion' ofSpokane's inner-city population.

Commitment·AsksBishop Tope~ Urges Show of love

For Old, Lonely

FORMER CHAMP DIES: Former heavyweight cham­pion Sonny Liston, who died last week, is shown withJesuit Father Edward P. Murphy when he became championin 1962": Father Murphy helped rehabilitate Liston while thelatter was in prison. He conducted funeral services for Lis­ton Jan. 9. NC Photo.

-SPOKANE (~C) - Love and

compassion to alleviate the lone­liness and isolation of old agewas the theme of a message bySpokane Bishop Bernard J. Topelto Catholics attending Masseshere during the holiday season.

leadership position' in a humaninstitution is weighed down withan incredible amount of routineadministrative tasks. The weightis so heavy, in fact, that theleadership may be able to dolittle besides. carry the weightaround.

It is unfair to impose sucha burden on the papacy~ An 'in­crease in the size of the Vaticanbureaucracy to cope with anever-increasing amount of rou­tine administrative decisions sim­ply adds to the papal office aneven heavier burden ..

I've heard' nothing but unfav­orable comment about the bish­ops' failure to seek the neces·

.sary authority to handle mar­riage and clerical cases, but al­most all of the criticism has arg­ued that by so doing the bishopswere unfair to themselves or un­fair to the priests and marriedpeople seeking dispensations.

As one who thinks the credi­bility of the hierarchy is ex­tremely important, lam worriedabout this' criticism but I ameven more worried that so fewpeople seem to realize that inthe final analysis the centraliza­tion of routine administrative de­cisions is monstrously unfair tothe papacy. '

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Those ~earty souls who are regular. r~aderS of 'i:piscolumn are· already aware' that I am convinced of theneed 'for bishops. Indeed, if the romantic enthusiasts Whowant to abolish the papacy and 'hierarchy wo'uld have th~ir'wctY, J haven't the faintest I , ldoubt that within five years m~de as easy as' walking aroundwe. would be busy creating the .comer. .' '. I·a new 'papacy and new hier- I d~ not thInK Ithat a lI~el9nG

hcommltm.ent should be eaSily set

arc y. 'd d d' h' k h'A Id 'd I" aSI e an I 0 . n.ot tInt atwor WI e re IglOuS com- h . h . . I .

't h Ch . t"t anyone as t e: nght to' claimmum y suc as flS lam y ". . . ' . .' 'C I. ltd "th t th' ImmedIate dIspensatIOn from thesImp y canno . 0 WI ou e . .' '..

I d h' I th t th b' h' promIses attached to a lIfelongea ~rs Ip ro es a e IS op commitment..! , . 1

. I am convinced,however, thatthe process of obtaining such adispensation ough1: to be clear,orderly, and. prediCtable evenl ifit does take time. i

Unfair to Rome iHowever, there, is no reason

why a clear, orderly, and pre­dictableprocess could not takeplace in Rome j'ust.:as· it couldat the level of the ~atiohal :hi­erarchy. Nor, in .the"final ana'ly­sis, is there. an~ reason to be­lieve that Rome will be m6rerigid than the national hierarchy.

.Quite the con:trary, in.,.someinstances one wciuld perhaps tbebetter advised to i trust one's fateto the Roman bt\reaucracy 'th;anto sources of power close Itohome. . '. 1

My problem with the centrkl­ization of marriage' and cleri6alcases in Rome is not that it'sunfair to the national hierarch­ies, nor to the individual (thoughlong, arbitrary, 'obscure and di­.Iatory judicial prbcesses are In"fair to.everyone),.:but rather thatthe centralization of such deb­sions in Rome is' unfair to Rorrie.

Routine .(\I'fairs IThe papacy is easily the most

difficult, complex ',and demandihgreligious' leadership position :in ~

, Ithe world. The man who occup-ies it never esc~pes from thespotlight of intern.ational int~r·est. He has immense world po~­ers and tremendo~s potential ih­.fluence on the cdurse of hum~nevents, both inside and outsidethe Church.: I

He needs around. him an ex- """""'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''',,"'''',,''',,"traordinarily brilliant and welI­trained staff wfib· can .providehim with the skills and inf6r-

. mation that the needs to caqyoff with elegance, iconviction aridwisdom the extr¢mely difficJIttask that is his. : :

He and his staff Uiereforeshould be bothered as little aspossible withadrrtinistrative th.via. While decisions of marriageand priesthood· ar~ not trival to'the people involved they atenonetheless routine· administrk­tive affairs when compared withthe. larger mission and respott­sibility of the papacy. It is notfair for the hiedm:hies of theworld to saddle Rome with thehuge, burden of' administratiJedetail which it presently muStbear. .1 I.

Frce:lom at Top IIt is often argued. that deceii­

traJization according to the prirt­ciple of the "subsidiary functioo:"is required in order that the~emight be greater freedom at the

I 'grassroots of a human organi-zation; but, if anything, the oth­er side of the coin is more irrl­portant. Decentralization is ned­essary in order that, there miglitbe more freedom 'a1: the top ofthe organization. ; :

W;'hou' d",n'pU,.Uon 'hi

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represents locally and the popeinternationally. I am not per­suaded that the present way of. 'exercisin{Lboth these offices isthe most' effective way of doingit in our time, but I have nodoubt-that we heed such offices.

The example of the MethodistC!lurch is' instructive. In Eng­IA':Id, where it began; Methodismhas no bishops. In the UnitedStates,. where Methodism hasflourished, and indeed can layconsiderable claim to being themost "typical" of American de­fiominations, it has not only thebishopric, but in fact its bishopshave more power within theChurch than do other Americanreligious leaders.

A Methodist bishop is electedand he is elected for a limitedterm, but once he is elected. andas long as he serves within thatterm, he has the sort of power

, that would make most Catholicbishops terribly envious. For ex­ample, .the Methodist bishop re­ceives each year the resignationof all the pastors under his juris­diction and can remove or trans­fer clergy almost at will.

Methodism seems to havelearned from American politicsthat democracy and strong lead~ership not only are 'not opposed.but actually require one anoth­er. It is unfortunate that Amer­icart Catholics have yet to makethis dIscovery. If we do not have'leadersjlip' as strong as wewould like the reason is not thatwe have too much democracybut rather that we do nat haveenough.

Orderly Process "It is in the context of this

conviction of mine of the needfor a powerful bishopric that Ifind myself disappointed overthe failure of the American hier­archy to decide at its most" re­cent meeting' to ask Rome forauthority to act in certain mar­riage and priestly dispensationcases.

Let me make clear the contextof this disappointment. I am stillconvinced 'that the Church canrequire celibacy of its clergy.Ev~n though I do not believethat people can be kept in theclergy who do not want to bepriests, I see no absoluteneces­sity . that the process of gettingout of the prieshood should be.

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municant of St: Patrick's Parish,The rugged six-footcr got his

gridiron baptism at Bishop Stangwhere he was an outstandingcenter for the Charley Connell­coached Spartans f9r four sea­sons. He enrolled at BridgewaterfolIowing his graduation in 1968.

LeFavor worked last Summeras a lifeguard for the town ofWareham 'and.following the clos­ing of school this year wouldlike to work for the town'spolice department. _

Phil's activities at State aren'tconfined to the football field.He's a member of Kappa DeltaPhi fraternity, president of theMen's, Athletic Association, amember of the wrestling team,vice-president of the Letterman'sClub and.... a member of theAthletic Policy and Fees Com­mittee.

Bishop Newell's lettcr said:"It is a tragic commentary onour timcs that while we haveprovideQ the initiative for ex­traordinary scientific progresswc have suffered thc corrosionof fundamental human values.The attempts to undermine theright to human life through theliberalization of abortion lawsconstitute an insidious attack onthe dignity of the individual as achild of .God,"

PHIL LeFAVOR

Cathol ic LaymenLead RallyDENVER (NC)-More than 1,­000 persons, rallied here at theCathedral of Immaculate Con­ception to mourn the deaths of"innocents slain by abortion"and to protest passage of stateand federal laws permittingabortion.

Another portion of the obser­vance against abortion was heldon the west steps' of the statecapitol and was initiated by atraditionalist group called the,Catholic Laymen of America.

CLA director Frank Moriss,a columnist for the conservativeCatholic weekly, The Wanderer,said the purpose of the demon­stration atten~ed by members ofvarious faiths, was to "declarethere is no such thing as an un­wanted child." The event re­ceived support from Archbishop,James Casey of Denver a~d

Bishop Hubert M. NewelI ofCheyenne, Wyo.

In a letter from ArchbishopCasey, read aloud by Moriss,the prelate said those responsi­ble for permissive abortion laws"poison human society" and area "supreme dishonor to thc Cre­ator."

straight conversion kicks in onegame.

Phil is the son of Mr. and Mrs.William C. 'LeFavor, 18 MorseAvenue, Wareham and is a com-

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Jan. 14, 1971 19

Star in Bridgewater's Winless ,SeasonSets School Record with 47-Yard Field Goal

If Coach Schofield's club canstay in contention until Bannis­ter 'returns the Islanders maybounce back.

Nantucket is expected to bean improved club, but Coach JoeChampi does have a depth prob­lem. Only two veterans are onthis year's club and inexperiencecould hurt the Whalers.

State high jump champion,Rich Richard, and Joe Vieiragive the new coach a good nu­cleus from which to build, butthere may not be enough time.

BY LUKE SIMSPhil LeFavor was budding

with "optimism as he eagerlylooked forward to the start ofanother football campaign. Hehad devoted most of the Summervacation to conditioning himselffor three months of gridironwear and tear. By Septe'mber,the 6-0, 230-pounder had reac;heda physical peak.

Phil was in his junior year atBridgewater State College, a'school more renowned for turn­ing 'out 'teachers' than footballplayers.

The Bears were coming off a3-4-1 record and like the otherreturning veterans, LeFavor wasanxious to reverse the losingtrend.•

Several tough opponents gracedthe Bridgewater schedule, butPhil was confident the Bearswould win their share of games.Unfortunately, things didn't goas planned:

Eight times Bridgewater an­swered the bell and eight timesthe Bears took it on the chin.'The 0-8-0 record was the' poorestin several seasons.,As LeFavor walked off the

Legion Field battle' pit followinga season finale loss to TrentonState he was so dejected hedidn't utter a single word. Whathad started off as a bad season(opening game loss to HudsonValley) and grew steadily worse,finally culminated in utter disas­ter.

N9 one felt worse than Phil.To him, the entire season wasone big nightmare.

Despite a record-setting 47­yard field, goal, extra point andthe recovery of four fumbles inthe 14-10 loss to Trenton State,LeFavor couldn't as much asmuster a smile. 'Winning wasmore important to the Warehamnative.'

Phil's entire college career hasfollowed a similar pattern. WhileLeFavor shines, Bridgewater cori-tines to fade. " ,

As a sophomore, Phil earnedthe respect of opposing coachesby being named to the startingc~nter position on the All NewEngland Conference All-Starsquad and was later dubbed theschool's outstanding lineman.

This past season, he was anoutstanding linebacker as wellas ballsnapper and place-kickerdeluxe and, as if that wasn'tenough, he eVj;ln washed the tow­els on Mondays.(That was his jobas a part-time employe' at theschool).

His record-setting field goalwas the second' in as manyyears~ Last season Phil hit five

Phil LeFavor 01 Wareham

IN THE DIOCESE

Veteran mentor Charlie Dun­bar of Harwich is fn a similarposition. Bill Crowell and JohnMorris have teamed up well thusfar and given Harwich a strongone-two punch but more isneeded ,in order to stay with thelikes of P-town, Nauset andChatham.

Over on the islands of Mar­tha's Vineyard, Coach Jay Scho­field is faced with the task offinding a replacement for MauryBannister who will be out ofaction for a few weeks. Bannis­ter has been an all league selec­tion both his freshman and soph­omore years and his absenceleaves a big void in the Vineyardattack.

the outside. Although only 5' 9",Santos is very strong off theboards. And, Silva, is a veteranballplayer who always gives asteady performance.

Barring unforeseen problemsP-town will be among the topcontenders' right down to thefinal gun.

Ex-Providence College star,Noel Kinski is expected tomould a competitive uni~ atChatham. Coach Kinski will de­pend primarily on a brother com­bination to keep his club in thethick of the race.

Bob and John Erickson pacedChatham to an upset Victory.over Nauset last week. Bob ledthe team in scoring and Johnquarterbacked the offensive at­tack.

Chatham's win was definitelyan upset and points out CoachMiller's sentiments that all clubsin the loop are competitive thisyear.

mentor has gone to the press asa means of' keeping the oppo­nents off balance and with goodsuccess thus Jar.

Although small in 'physicalstature the Regionals are ex­tremely, quick and, may, "run"to another title. ' '

Provincetown has four start­ers niturnin'g from last Winter'sclub and' appear as a definitethreat to Nauset.

Frank Reis; JoeSarraba, Den­nis Santos and Mark Silva areready to do their best to win achampionship for Coach ElmerSilva in his first year at the helm.

If the old adage "a well disci­plined team is a ,winning team"is true, then the Fishermen willwin their share. For, in additionto handling the varsity basket­ball club, Coach Silva is also re­sponsible for the smooth opera­tion of the entire school. He isprincipal of the high school.

Slight Choice,Islands League

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ProvincetownIn Cape, and

A year ago Sandwich had thebest junior varsity club in thecircuit and if the boys improvequickly Coach Bill Doyle willhave his team in the race.

Paul O'Connell has been im­pressive in the early goingfor Sandwich using his 6' 3"frame to muscle those impor­tant rebounds. With Jeff Lewishandling the scoring capablyagainst P-town last week with a31 point effort the Doylemen al.'most upended 'the Cape-tipsters,Lewis is one of the premierescorers in the loop.

But Coach Doyle will have toproduce three more steady per­formers if Sandwich is to con­tend.

However, it is unlikely thatCoach Silva will have to disci­pline this group of youngsterswho are confident that teamplay and hard work will bringthat cherished championship.

Reis a 6' I" senior is theteam's leader and one of themost prolific scorers in the dio­cese. He surpassed' the 1,000career scoring mark mid-waythrough last season and mayreach the 2,000 point mark be­fore this Winter is over.

In the opinion of opposingcoaches Reis is a definite col"lege prospect. They concur thathe could play for any team inthe area and is among the bestto ever play on the Cape.

Reis is also an excellent base­ball prospect. He is an outstand­ing catcher with a strong armand a potent bat.

P-town, however, is not a oneman ball club. Sarroba is a goodball-handler who can score from

Nauset Regional High of Orleans will have to "press"if it hopes to repeat as, champion of the Cape and IslandsBasketball League. The perennial Cape small school poweris expected to receive strong challenges from Province-

town, Chatham, and Martha's'Vineyard as it attempts tocorral another title. CoachLeo Miller of the defendingtitleists says, "The league' iswell balanced this year, and ona given night anything is liableto happen. Provincetown isstrong and must be considereda slight favorite. It should be avery interesting season."

Jon Donaghue and Jon Ricewill lead the Nauset attack thisWinter, but" not in the samecapacity as for last year's cham­pionship team. A year ago, bothwere guards, Donaghue is nowplaying the center post and Riceis working one of the corners.The bulk of the scoring has beendone by these two six footersthus far as the duo has account­ed for about 50 points per game.

Coach Miller will have torely on good defense to keephis club among the contenders.Without a big man, the veteran

Reis Rat~s Among Cape's Top Prospects

State High Jump Champ Leads Nantucket

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