publlic schools, Sister Ambrosiasaid the enrollment increase wasnot due to the racial issue. "Wehave a high percentage of blackenroIlments," she said, and notedthat it is archdiocesan policy notto accept transfers for racial rea­sons.

The Louisville, Ky., archdioceseis another area where an enroll­ment increase has coincided withgrowing concern about integra­tion in the public schools. Thefirst rise in parochial ~lementary

enrollment in nine years, from19,258 to 20,800, is expected andCatholic high schools are expec­ted to enroll 427 more studentsthan last year.

Father Thomas P. Casper, Lou­isv,iHe archdiocesan superinten·dent of schools, said that theexpectation last spring that bus­ing would be used to integratecity and county public schools"has to be a factor," althoughthe busing plan will not takeeffect now because of a July U.S.Supreme. Court decision. "Wetried to make it as small a factoras possible," he said.

The slowing or reversal of thedeclJne in enroHments in Cath­olic schools is attributable toseveral factors, said ArchbishopWilliam G. Borders of Baltimore,chairman of the U. S. CatholicConference's education commit­tee: .

Catholic education officials"have done a much better job of

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Ecumenical MeetFor R'eligiousEducators

Preparations are complete .foran ecumenical religious educationconference to be held tomorrowand Saturday at Msgr. ThomsonParish Center, St. Francis XavierChurch, Hyannis.

Co-sponsored by Cape Cod re-. ligious ~ducation coordinators

and priest-directors of CCD pro­grams as weIl as by the Depart­ment of Christian Education ofthe Cape Cod Council ofChurches, the two-day meeting

. will emphasize personal enrich­ment of participants for the ben­efit of the total church com­munity.

Major speakers and their top­ics will be Dr. Iris Cully, authorand lecturer at Union Theologi­cal Seminary, New York City,who I will discuss "Change, Con­filict and Self-Determination"; Rev.Stephen Doyle, O.F.M., professorat John XXIII Seminary, Weston,Mass., whose topic will be "ToTeach As Jesus Did"; and Dr.Emma Lou Benignus of the fac­ulty of Inter-Faith MetropolitanTheological Education, Inc. ofWashington, D.C., who will ex­plore the question, "What Do IHave to Celebrate?"

Music for classroom and litur­gy plus a guitar workshop wilIbe directed by Rev. Andre Pate­naude, M.S. of La Salette Shrine,Attleboro.

An extensive resource displayduring both days will includecontinuous previews of shortfilms by Richard Rausch of Es-

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earthly part. This ending oftenbrings a merciful close to terri­ble pain and suffering, for the

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4~6 per cent for Catholic schoolslast year, and last year's nationaldecline was the smallest in sevenyears.

MsgT. Joseph T. O'Keefe, se­cretary of education in the NewYork archdiocese, with thefourth largest Catholic schoolsystem in the nation, predictedthat enrollment 'Would be"stable." Only one elementaryschool out of 304 closed thisyear, he said.

Reports from other diocesestell a similar story. Pittsburghexpects a smalied decrease thanlast year. Cincinnati, Clevelandand Detroit expect enrollment toremain level or even rise. Cam·den, N.J., Paterson, N.J., Peoria,IlL, and Dallas, Tex., all expectslight decreases on the elemen­tary level and slightly higher en­rollment on the secondary level.

New Orleans, Atlanta andNatchez-Jackson, Miss. (whichtakes in the entire state of Missis­sippi), all report that enrollmentwill be about the same as lastyear.

Sister Mary Ambrosia, actingsuperintendent of schools in Bal­timore, said she expected a risein enrollments in parochialschools for the first time in eightyears.

Although the U. S. governmentwithin the past year ordered fur­ther integration of Baltimore's

Death of Children.It Through Experience

YOUNGSTER'S NURSE: Mary Ann Grimm, a nursein a ward for terminally ill youngsters in Columbus (Ohio)Children's Hospital, has witnessed the deaths of between25 and 30 boys and girls. Her position, she said, has forcedher to develop "clear-thinking on death and what it meansand why it strikes innocent children ..." NC Photo.

What is this vivacious Cath­olic girl's thinking on dea1th?

"Death to me is the ending ofthe physical phase of life, the

Catholic Schools Picture:Stable, Morale HighSize

WASHINGTON (NC)-Catholiceducation officials around theUnited States find enrollment de­clines continuing to diminish, oreven reverse, and morale highamong faculty, students and par­ents as the new school yearopens.

Many of the off,jcials also saidthat, although they are deter­mined to seek additional federaland state aid, they realize thatthere is little likelihood thatgreat amounts of government aidwill be given. That realization,however, has led to greater fi-.nancial accountabHity and re­sponsibility, they said.

The officials a.1so noted 'in­creased efforts to recruit stu­dents for kindergartens as ameans of introducing parents toCatholic education at an earlystage in their children's lives.

Reflecting the tightness of theeducational job market, applica­tions for teaching positions inCatholic schools are up sharplyeverywhere. '

Msgr. Francis B. Schulte, su­perintendent of schools in thePhiladelphia archdiocese, thesecond largest Catholic schoolsystem in the country, reportedabout 194,000 students enteringarchdiocesan schools this year, adecrease of 7,000 from last ...year.

That 3.5 per cent decrease isless than the national average of

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Philosophy onYoung Nurse ~iscov'ers

COLUMBUS (NC)--Mary AnnGrimm has spent the past threeyears of her youthful life forgingher own Christian philosophyabout mankind's deepest andmost dread mystsry: death.

The philosophy of the pretty,25-year-Old nurse was not devel­oped in lecture halls.. Neitherwas it built upon the writingsof theologians, philosophers orother scholars. .

Mary Ann learned to reckonwith death by watching it ap­proach children inexorably andseize them pitilessly.

As a nurse in a ward for ter·minally ill youngsters in Colum­bus Children's Hospital, MaryAnn has witnessed the deaths ofbetween 25' and 30 little boysand girls, all of them victims ofblood diseases such as leukemia.

Face Reality"Death is very much part of

my career," she says.'"And because of my close as­

sociation with it, I have beenable -or perhaps I should sayI was forced-to develop clearthinking on death, and what itmeans, and why it strikes inno­cent children:'

The young nurse is convincedthat people intimately associatedwith death as part Qf their workcannot afford the luxury of"jllst refusing to think about ituntil it hits home, as most peo·pIe do today."

"If you're dealing with deathon a regular basis, you had bet­ter develop. some philosophyabout it. That way you can cometo grips with its reality. Other-'wise you wm never be able tocope."

The Pope called the' unaccept­able pluralism 'free examination,'and said it had "'Pulverized theunity of faith in a countlessnumber of useless or arbitrarypersonal opinions."

He said:"Lt is thus that the Protestant

doctrine of free examination, orof the sole authority of the HolySpirit as the authentic interpre-'ter of the Scriptures, opens theway to· radical philosophic­religious subjectivism."

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RejectsPluralism

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CASTELGANDOLFO (NC) ­Pope Paul has cautioned that theterm "pluralism" can have twomeanings when applied to theCatholic Church, and that onlyone of them is acceptable.

"In its first meaning it is verybeautiful," the Pope told a gen­eral audience Aug. 28 at his sum­mer home .here.

"It refers to the fruitfulnessof our Catholic ·doctrine," he ex­plained.

"This doctrine preserves asincere and deep unity of con­tent," he said, yet it has "anenormous wealth of meaningsfor all tongues, for all periods ofhistory, for every age and levelof human life."

"He declared: "This is the plu­ralism of the Catholic Church.To it we can ascribe the streamof exploration, of personal re­search and of individual expres­sion which the Church hasevoked from mystics, theologiansand even artists."

He likened what he called the"doctrinal pluralism" of theCatholic Church to "an orchestrain which the plurality of the in­struments and their diversitycombine to produce a single,wonderful harmony."

-Catholic NursesPlan NewportConvention

Arrangements have been final­ized for the 15th annual confer­ence of. New England DiocesanCouncils of Catholic Nurses, tobe held Friday through Sunday,Oct. 18 through 20 at the New­port Motor Inn., Newport, R.I.,with the Providence DiocesanCouncil of Catholic Nurses andBishop Louis E. Gelineau hostingthe event.

Representing the Fall River di­ocese at a planning session wereSister Helen, Ruth Hurley, HelenShove, Diane Cote, Collotta Rob­inson and Anne Fleming. Theysaid the conference theme, "Carefor One Another," will be devel­oped by three speakers.

They are Sister Lucile McKil­lop, R.S.M., president of SalveRegina College, Newport; Rev.Roger M. Fortin, chaplain and di­rector of pastoral services atRhode Island Hospital; and Lt.

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WASHINGTON (NC) - Aprayer group including PresidentGerald Ford, congressmen,' cab­inet officials, 'and high WhiteHouse aides met in the WhiteHouse recently and prayed '''thatthe President might bring equa­nimity to this country and peaceto the world."

Sen. Harold Hughes. (D-Iowa)delivered a sermon on thePsalms. faith in God and govern­ment. according to a WhiteHouse official who attended theprayer meeting.

,Ford was a member of theprayer group during his years inthe House of Representatives!lind has' gone to Capitol Hill toI,Ittend at least one of its sessionssince he became President.

Hughes, who is giving up hisSenate seat to devote his fulltime to a Christian mission. de­clined to comment on any aspectof tbe service. saying that "theyare conducted in an atmosphereof confidence."

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FR. PAUL ROTONDI, O.F.M.FR. ALBIN FUSCO, O.F.M•.

Franciscans Assum\e PastoratesIn Fall <Riv'er, Ne~ Bedford

Two Franciscan Friars will Semiinary, Olean, N.Y.journey from New York this next Th;e new New Bedford pastorweek and assume the pastorates has had 13 years of previous

.. of two diocesan parishes. Both mini~terial experience at twopriests were nominated to their parishes in the Archdiocese ofposts by Very Rev. John-Marie Torohto, and in Troy. N.Y. as a:Cassese. O.F.M., Minister Pro- prisor chaplain. He was also in­vincial of the Franciscan Fathers strucfor in Columbus Highof tbe Province of the Immacu- Scho<ill. Boston.late Conception whose headquar-. Hi~ most recent assign'~entters is in New York City. was kn associate pastor.·of Mt.

Father Paul Rotondi. O.F.M. Carmbl Parish.' MOUllt Vernon,will become pastor of St. Louis N.Y. IParish, Fall River. on Wednesday. The Franciscan Friars of theSept. 11. On the same day, Father Provi~ce of the Immaculate Con­.A'ibin Fusco. O.F.M. will assume ceptio1r carryon a wide range of

. the pastorate of St. Kilian Parish. Churcr-, ministries. in the NewNew -Bedford. Englamd States and in New York,

Father Rotondi Pennsylvania and West Virginia.The new pastor of St. Louis The\Brothers and Sisters of the

Parish. Fall River. was born in Province also labor in CanadaJersey City.. N.J. where he re- and rltaintain missions in theceived his early education. He is' Centdll American republics' :ofthe son of Michael and the late EI.. S~I.vaaor. Guate!l'!~la, andConcellta Rotondi; his father Honduras. . ".still resides in Jersey City. l

Father Paul was ordained in .. Voting1956 by ,the late. Bishop James The asting of the ballot i~ theA. Griffiths. D.D.. Auxiliary . suprem1e a~t of citizenship. Bal.Bishop of New York. after lot in J1and. the citizen is a sov­completing his philosophical and ereign and' with his fellow­theological studies at· St. Francis citizensr_he decides the destinySeraphic Seminary. Andover, of the lRepublic.Mass., St.. Anthony Seminar;.'. ICatskill. N.Y. and Mount A'ivar- .-A.rchl,)iShOP Ireland

nia Seminary, Wappingers Falls. ~=:::=================~N.Y. ~

He received his Master's dle·gree in English from FordhamUniversity in New York.

The new Fall River pastor hasspent most of his 18-year priestlyministry as a seminary professor.novice master and spiritual di­rector, and has served recently asan official' of the FranciscanProvince. His most· recent pas­toral assignment was at St. An­thonyof ·Padua Parish, Troy. N.Y.

Father FuscoThe new pastor of St. Kilian

ParisI), New Bedford. Rev. AlbinFusco. O.F.M., is a 'native ofSchenectady, N.Y.• where he re..ceived his early education. He isthe son of the late Pasquale andAlbina Fusce; his mother still re­sides in S'chenectady. _

Before entering the FranciscanCommunity. he worked in admin­istrative positions withe GeneralElectric Company.

Father Albin was ordained in1961 by the Most Rev. Bernar­dine Mazzarella, O.F.M., Bishopof Comayagua. Honduras, aftercompleting philosophical and the­ological studies at St. FrancisSeraphic Seminary, Andover,Mass. and Mt. Alvernia Semi­n·ary. Wappingers Falls, ·N.Y.

He has since pone postgradu­ate work at St. Bonaventure

and that 'you don't absorb themby osmosis is a fall-out of theheadline.s:" .

Father William Murphy. direc­tor of the Detroit archdiocesandepartment of education, said,that after; "a period of despair"when hope for state aid ended.support fbr Catholic schools hasincreased.',

Par¢ntal A~areness,. "People' who have stuck with

Catholic schools have reallystucl<with them'," Father Murphy said."The level: &f'support is astound-ing." .

The trend toward recruitingstudents for Catholic studentswas widely ·noted. "You have tosell your, product." said Msgr.William Daly, Newli'rk archdioc­esan superintendent of schools."We stopp~d selling if for a time.We have t6 let parents know wehave what they want."

The St. Louis archdiocese hasa program! called First ThingsFirst said', Father John J. Lei­bricht, superintendent of schools."U's a recr~iting program to getparents . to understand whatCatholic' schools are about andto en~oll 'Ipupils in the firstgrade." S.t. Louis .Cathol.ic

. schools will open 12 to 15 kin­dergartens this year to bring thetotal in th¢ archdiocese to 60.he said.

The kindergarten trend iswidespread. '.cleveland will open16 new kirldergartens, bringingits total to: 67. Pittsburgh willopen 11. for a total of 31. Bal­timore will' open six. for a totalof 32. Camd~n will cpen nine fora total of 2Z. .

Establishi~g kinderg'artens af­fects enrollment. over the longterm. Msgr. I, Novicky of Cleve­land. said. i"Psychologically, ifthey begin i.n the system, they.don't want to change."

No Catholic education of,ficialexpressed gr~at optimism aboutthe possibility of more govern­ment aid. "Everybody's. realistica:bout aid.... '. said New York'sMsgr. O'Ke~fe. "There is no'longer any hope for a massiveinfusion of funds."

Morale GoodArchbishop, Borders said: "I

think there ate still some possi­hilities of state and federal aid.~uxiliary se~vices (transporta­tIOn. textbooks, educational ma­terials) will be broadened much·more." The' archbishop said thatgovernment f¥nding for tuitionis not possibl,e as long as thepresent mem!:>ers of the SupremeCourt continue in office.

Dr. Edward\ R. D'Alessio, di­rector of the O. S. Catholic Con­ference Divisi~>n of Elementaryand Secondary 'Educa'tion, em­phasized that i "what the Su­preme Court has said has not inany way cut off any existing fed- .eral aid prograjns."

."Each school should' take aserious look at existing federalprograms and e~plore its eligibil­ity for participation in thoseprograms," D'Alessio said.

The determination among theCatholic school ',community. oW­

. cials. teachers land parents. to. keep the school going. with or

without more government aid.was repeatedly: expressed.

I·Father H. Rob,ert Clark. super-

intendent of the. Chicago archdi­ocesan school ~ystem, the na­tion's largest Gatholic system.said: "Morale across the boardis very good."

SEPT. 15 -Rev. Henry J. Mussely, 1934.

Pastor. St. John Baptist. FallRiver

Rev. Brendan McNally, S.J.,1958. Holy Cross College.Worcester. Mass.

Rev. John J. Casey. 1969-. Pas-tor; Immaculate Conception.'North Easton

SEPT. 16'Rt. Rev. Jean A. Prevost, P.A..

P.R., 1925. Pastor, Notre Dame,Fall River

SEPT. 17Rev. Thomas F. McNulty. 1954.

Pastor, St. Kilian. New Bedford

SEPT. 18Rev. Luke Golla. SS.CC.• 1945.

Seminary of Sacred Heart. Ware­ham

Rt. Rev. Edmund J. Ward.1964, St. Patrick, Fall River

SEPT. 19Rev. ijenry E. S. Hennis. 1859,

Pastor, St. Mary, New Bedford

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. schools." -"From a financ·ial point of view.'

people are taking a more realis­tic view of the actual cost ofCatholic. education. There is bet­ter cost-accounting."

"The establishment of boardsof education and school boards'forming policy and assuming ·re­sponsibii,ity has involved thelaity more deeply in Catholic ed­ucation."

"Continued difficulties in tilepublic school system. the ten­sions involved. discipl,ine prob­lems" are factors. The element offlight from social integration inpublic schools, he said. "is there,'but not dominant." He notedthat no Catholic school systemwill accept those seeking toavoid integration, but that moti­vations are often diWcult toassess.

Improvement in CatJ:tolicschools. especially _in religiouseducation. and a "deeper under­standing of reHgious fOl'mation."-

Msgr. William N. Novicky.Cleveland diocesan superinten­dent of education. attributed thechange to the acceptance byCatholic parents of tuition as afact of life. "We formerly did

. not have tuition," he said."When we iniNated it four yearsago. there was' shock at first.People are now accustomed toit."-

Msgr. Novicky also cited the"growing disenchantment withpublic education" and added:"The situation in the country isso alarming that people are turn­ing back to the necessity ofstnmg moral and reHgious train­ing....

New York's Msgr. O'Keefesaid: "The realization that moraland spiritual values 'are needed

Parish to Honor New Bedford Pastor

PREPARE FOR DEDICATION: Mrs. Cecelia Weaver, chairman of the parish liturgycommittee; Rev. Leo T. Sullivan, pastor, who will be honored at the dedication; Mrs.June D. Medeiros, organist. .

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President SignsSchool Aid Bill

WASHINGTON (NC) - Pres­ident Gerald R. Ford has signedinto law a $25 billion aid to ed­ucation bill that has been called"truly monumental" by a U. S.Catholic Conference (USCC) ed­education official.

In 11 ceremony at offices of theDepartment of Health, Educa­tion and Welfare, the Presidentsigned H.R. 69, the EducationAmendments of 1974, which ex­tends and amends the 1965 El­ementary and Secondary Educa­tion Act. The 1965 act has pro­vided substantial aid to nonpub­lic schools sioce its enactment.

The new measure was praisedafter its passage of Congress byDr. Edward R. D'Alessio, directorof the USCC Division of Elemen­tary and Secondary Education.

The new law includes a pro­hibition against busing past theschool nearest a child's homeunless a court finds it necessaryto protect the constitutionalr.ights of minority children.

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Diocesan PriestsList ResultsOf Elections

The Priests' Senate has com­pleted diocesan-wide elections ofmembers for the Clergy Person­nel Board and the Senate ofPriests.

Reverends ,Francis B. Connors,Thomas C. Lopes, and Walter A.Sullivan have been elected toserve on the Personnel Board fortwo years.

The following priests havebeen elected by the clergy-at­large to serve on the Priests'Senate through September, 1976:

Reverends Marcel H. Bou­chard, Philip A. Davignon, John

'P. Driscoll, John R. Foister, Dan·iel L. Freitas, George E. Harri­son, Robert S. Kaszynski, MichelG. Methot, Cornelius J. O'Neill,Thomas L. Rita, Leo T. Sullivan,Ronald A. Tosti.

'Priests presently on the Senatethrough Se~tember, 1975 are:Reverends Walter J. Buckley,Robert J. Carter, George W.Coleman, Edward E. Correia,Thomas F. Daley, John F. Hogan,James F. Lyons, John V. Magna­ni, John J. Murphy, John J.Steakem, Walter A. Sullivan,William D. Thomson.

Due to the Diocesan RetreatSchedule the first meeting of the1974-1975 Session of the Senateof Priests will take place on thethird Friday of the month, Sep­tember 20th, at 11 :00 a.m. atthe Catholic Memorial Home inFall River.

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Father Collins said that thehymns finally selected will beprinted and mailed to delegatesbefore the .meeting of the Fed­eration' of Diocesan LiturgicalCommissions in Spokane, Wash.,Oct. 13~17, "so they'll have some­thing to react to."

"It is very difficult," he said,"to compile between the coversof one book music of sufficentdiverse styles to satisfy the var­ied needs of the people of thiscountry. What may be sacredto one may be secular to anoth­er, and what may be secular toone, may be transcendental toanother."

The Second Vatican Council,,he said, encouraged all formsof art that might be useful inliturgy, and this created a loop­hole for music, once consideredexclusively secular.

with cantor and choir at the lit­urgy. A commentary will accom­pany this section. Music of Bach,.Brahm, Peloquin, Haydn, andVaughan Williams will be includ­ed in the dedicatory program.

During the intermission newvestments and sacred veils wiUbe on display for parishionersand friends to view.

Following the Dedicatory Con­cert there will be a receptionin the Education center. The gen­eral public is invited to attendthe concert.

New Hymnal"First, we consider the text,"

he explained. "It is importantthat the music we use on liturgyshould reflect sound contempo­rary theology and spirituality.Many of the hymns are out ofthe 19th century and raflect aspirituality no longer viable to­day. They tend, to be sugary,emotional.

"We'll try to eliminate hymnslike that, but since we can'tthrow out all the hymns the peo­ple know, the task is to rephrasesome of the lines and spruce upthe text."

Schools Closi'ngTo Raise Taxes

ANACONDA (NC) - Closingthe Catholic school system inthis Montana city will cost thetaxpayers $26 for every $1,000of property valuation, accordingto Deer LDdge County commis­sioner.. Most of the increase was nec­essary to payoff the $479,000purchase price of St. Joseph'sgrade school, which was boughtfor conversion into a publicschool.

The Catholic school systemwas closed here because of risingcosts.

In 1970, the Montana SupremeCourt ruled county authoritiescould not use tax money to paysalaries for teachers in the Cath­olic school system.

evening.The new organ, composed of

25 stops, was installed in thechurch during the summermonth3. The organ was madepossible through the efforts ofthe 121 club of the parish.

The program wHI open with aprocession of clergy and choirto the loft for the Blessing ofthe new instrument, followed bythe singing of Psalm 150 by Cae­sar Franck. There will be a sec­tionof the program which willdemonstrate the use of the organ

Criteria ForPEORIA (NC) - Hymns being

se)ected for a new national hym­nal must "reflect good English,sound theology and contempora­ry spirituality, and they must besingable," said the executive di­rector of a national committtenow assembling the hymnal.

The committee director, FatherPatrick Collins, former chairmanof the Peoria diocesan Commis­sion on Sacred Music, said litur­gical music must be measuredby three norms:

Is it good music?Does it fit the litrugy?Is it actually suitable for the

people who are gathered to wor­ship at this time and place?

The National Federation Di­ocesan Liturgical Commissions,composed of, delegate!l from alldioceses of the United States,has called for the national hym­nal, said Father Collins.

His consultors include FatherClarence Rivers of Cincinnati;Joseph Wise of Louisville; Eu­gene Walsh of the Catholic Uni­versity in Washington, D.C.,Robert Twynhan, director of mu­sic at the catr..edral in Baltimore;and James Hansen, cantor at theNational Shrine of the Immacu­late Conception in Washington,D.C.

Father Collins said his 30­member committee is selectinghymns and psalms from the besthymnals and service books inthe English language.

On Sunday evening, Sept. 8,the new pipe organ at HolyName Church, New Bedford,will be dedicated to the pastorof Holy Name, Rev. Leo T. Sui-

.'livan, for his 22 years of lovingservice to the parish. David R.Carrier, organist and choirmasterat St. Mary's Cathedral, will berecitalist with the DiocesanChorale under 'tne d'irection ofRev. Wiiliam G. Campbell assist­ing. A brass ensemble will aug,ment the organ· and chorale' pro­gram which begins at 7:30 in the

NCD ConferenceNow PostponedThree Months

WASHINGTON (NC) - Thesecond of three national consul­tations for the National Cate­chetical Directory (NCD) hasbeen delayed three months.

A letter to consultation coor­dinators said that the secondconsultation will last from Janu­ary 1975, as originally planned.

When the directory is even­tually published by the U.S. bish­ops with Vatican approval, it willserve as the basic guide for reli­gious education at all levels inthis country. In the meantime theprocess of developing the NCDinvolves the largest-scale consul­tation of U.S. Catholics in his­tory.

Msgr. Paradis told NC Newsthat the decision to delay thesecond round of ,consultationwas made at a joint meeting inmid-August of the NCD commit­tee and the U.S. bishops' policyand review committee.

He said there were two rea­sons for the delay. A number ofrevisions are still needed beforethe first full draft is in finalform for publication, he said, andthe committees agreed that thesecond consultation will be moreeffective if it does not coincidewith the Christmas and Thanks­giving holidays.

Catholic GroupsTo Make PlansFor Bicentennial

WASHINGTON (NC) - Rep­resentatives from more than 50Catholic groups will meet hereSept. 20-21 to help plan the 1975­76 consultation on liberty andjustice for the Catholic observ­ance of the 200th birthday of theUnited States.The justice subcommittee of the

U.S. bishops' bicentennial com­mittee is calling the group to­gether. Chairman of the subcom­mittee is Archbishop Joseph L.Bernardin of Cincinnati.

Francis J. Butler, executive di­rector of the committee and or­ganizer of the meeting, told NC 'News that the chief purpose ofthe meeting is "to seek the ad­vice and help of the groups inpreparing for our consultation onliberty and justice."

Major ConferenceThe consultation will extend

into every segment of AmericanCatholicism and last almost twoyears. It will culminate in a ma­jor national conference on liber­ty and justice, tentatively sched­uled for October 1976 in Detroit.

The size of groups to be rep­resented at the meeting here willrange from the Knights of Co­lumbus to the Catholic Commit­tee of Appalachia. They will in­clude almost every major nation­al Catholic organization or asso­ciation, as well as small groupssuch as the Hungarian Priests'Conference.

Butler said participants at themeeting will also discuss withthe bishops' bicentennial com­mittee "how their organizationscan help in the implementation ofthe bicentennial group." In addi­tion, he said, they will breakinto smaller workshop groups todiscuss where the worst problemareas of liberty and justice existon the various levels of societytoday.

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ManWe all suffer for each other,

and gain by each other's suffer­ings; for man never stands alonehere, though he will stand byhimself one day hereafter; buthere 'he is a social ,being, andgoes forward to his long homeas one of a large company.

-Cardinal Newman

Fourth DegreeTo InstallOfficers

,Bishop William Stang FourthDegree Assembly, will hold itsInstallation of Officers on Satur­

",lay evening, Sept. 7, at Steven·son's Restaurant in No. Dart·mouth at 6 p.m.

Following the installation therewill be a dinner served familystyle fOllowed by dancing untilmidnight. Tickets are availableat $7.50 each from any officer ofthe assembly.

State Master Dominic Restainoand his installation team, fromBoston will install the followingofficers:

Faithful Navigator Gilbert C.Amarelo; Faithful Cap t a i n.Charles J. Cullen; Faithful PilotJoseph M. Souza; FaithfulScribe Richard Petit; FatthfulComptroller Dominick J. ~Max­

well, Jr.; Faithful Purser CharlesB. Ney; Inside Sentinel ManuelFreitas Jr.; Faithful Admiral Jo-

• seph Almas; Trljstee John P. Mo­niz; Outside Sentinel Frank P.George.

The Supreme Knight, Dr. JohnW. McDevitt will be honored bythe Massachusetts Committee ofCatholics, Protestants and Jewsat a dinner at the Statler HiltonHotel in Boston on Thursday,

. Oct. 24.Dr. McDevitt will be cited for

his contribution to the cause ofHuman Brotherhood and for hisdevotion to furthering the Amer­ican Way of Life.Councils are requested to forward news itemsto Frank P. George. 3 Halidon Terrace, New­port, R,I. 02840

Holy FatherContinued from Page One

"From the unifying and well. knpwn multi-symphony of Pen­

tecost we would be retreatinginto a confusion of tongues."

Warning against such an inter­pretation of pluralism, Pope Paulasked:

"What ecumenism can thus bebuilt? What unity of the Churchcan be brought about withoutunity of the faith?"

The Pope concluded:"The true religion, which we

believe to be ours, cannot callitself legitimate or efficacious ifit is not orthodox, that is to say,derived from an authentic andunequivocal relationship withGod."

·,·Ed.uc.ators. Meet.Continued from Page One

pousal Center, Waltham; and ahighlight of the conference willbea closing para liturgical cele­bration directed by the GuildPlayers of Cape Cod and basedon the Old Testament books ofEsdras and Nehemiah, "the cate·chists of the Old Testament."

Further information on theprogram is available from SisterAlice O'Brien, O.L.V.M., tele­phone 394-0709, or from SisterMa~ia Laurert, M.S.B.T. 432-3843.

PrincipleMore natural virtue wears

away when men neglect to deep­en it into religious principle.

-Cardinal Newman

Catholic NursesContinued from Page One

Cmdr. Ju~'e Blank, U.S.N., New­port Naval Hospital.

New England BishopsRev. Joseph L. Lennon, O.P.,

vice-president in charge of com­mu'nity affairs at Providence Col­lege, wiN speak at ,a banquetSaturday 'night and the Bishopsof New England have been invit­ed to concelebrate a closing Masson Sunday, at which Bishop Geli­neau will be homilist.

Room re~ervations for the con­ference may' be made directlywith the 'Newport Motor Inn,Middletown, R.t Early registra­tions are being accepted by AnneV. Fleming, 29C ROiling· GreenDr. ,Fall River, telephone672-7085.

discussion and study of a 45­page document proposing ·vari­ous .moderations in the, order'srule. The document touches onalmost every aspect of the lifeof the Dominican order, includ­ing' liturgy, cultural activities,third order vocations and 'meansof communication.

At a pr~ss conference' heldAug. 27 at the sanctuary, FatherBenedetto Fulgione. editor of theDominican magazine "II Segno,"recalled that the Dominican orderwas founded to defend the faithand combat heresy and error. Al­though modern times may re­quire new. approaches to theseproblems, he said, the Dominicanorder will be ever ready to de­fend the unity of the faith.

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NEPLES (NC)-A 58-year-oldFrenehman, Father Vincent deCouesnongle, has been electedthe new master general of theDominicans, succeeding FatherAniceto Fernandez of Spain.

Faljher de Couesnongle waselected by 170 Dominicans tak­ing part in the order's generalchapter, which is being held atthe Dominican sanctuary of OurLady of the Arch.

The Dominicans taking part inthe general chapter represent themore than 8,000 members of theorder in 30 countries.

Father de Couesnongle, who'became the 83rd successor of theorder's founder, St. Dominic, wasborn in 1916 at Quimper, France.

He entered the order at theage of 19 and was ordained in1946. He took degrees in philos­ophy and theology and was aprofessor of theology until as­signed to the order's headquar­ters in Rome to serve as an as­sistant to the general for theFrench-speaking provinces of theorder.

In addition to electing a newgeneral, the general chapter isdevoting much of its time to

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Dominican F~.de CouesnongleEI«~cted New Master General

,POPEl Welcomes HighSchool Musicians

CASTELGANDOLFO (NC)Pope Paul VI warmly welcomedmembers of the Stamford, Conn.,High School chorus and orches­tra to Italy when he greeted themfrom the 'balcony of his summerresidence here Aug. 25.

':We extend a warm greeting tothe members of the orchestraand chorus of the Stamford HighSchool," said Pope Paul.

"It gives us great pleasure towelcome these young musiciansfrom the United States ofAmerica,"

Each.Dayt

There are various :ways of view~ng the Labor Dayweekend.

Some look on it as the end of Sunmmer and the 1?egin­ning of the Fall. It is considered the wrap-up of vacationtime and the signal to. begin the' long ',stretch of Fall andWinter and Spring. It is the beginning of school and thebuckling down to a schedule for those who have beenrelatively carefree over the)ast few mqnths.

It is an ending and a beginning.But each period of time, indeed, each day, is much the

same.. IEach day can be looked upon as tioth an ending and

a beginning. It is either the continuatioq of what has gonebefore-with the same ways, the same Ipatterns, the sameliving of a life-or else it can be taken as a new beginning,the first day of a new kind of life. i

People are usually encouraged, by a~ new beginning. Ifthey can view each day in this way therel can be new enthu­siasm built into every dawn. They can get up in the morningintending to make each day special, something new, a breakfrom what may have discouraged them ~esterday. The very.process of dedicating each day to God with the intent onliving up to one's state in life this day" lean begin the dayon an encouraging note. Whatever failure, difficulties, prob­lems that may have been building up, today is a new dayand by being offered to God it cannot: be wasted, eventhough the problems ancj difficulties will~ not automaticallysolve themselves. '

There is a postel' which proclaims, "rroday is the veryfirst day of the rest of your life." If is that, true enough. Buttoday is also today-the only day given '~ one by God-theonly opportunity at hand here and now to do one's presentwork well and to fulfill one's ultimate destiny, the salvationof one's soul. ':',

iParents and ReligionThere has undoubtedly been mud} preparation for

school, whether it be grade school or seqondary school orthe higher reaches of educational levels.

The same seriousness must go into religious educationas well.

Parishes take religion seriously. Programs for variouslevels .have ben planned and are about to gb into action. Butpriests and Sisters and Brothers and te~chers know onething-little can be' accomplished unless and until parents '

, understand what religi.on programs are all about. The firstteacher still remains the parent. He and sh~ remain the firstteachers in matters religious. The role of the religious educa­tors and the programs they establish is to as~ist parents to ful­fill what is their vocati.on role, th~ir primary r-esponsibility.

, This is the way parents must view iparish religiousprograms. I-

Most parents would be understandaQly frightened ifconfronted with the task ,of teaching relig~on to their chil­dren. And yet, they are teaching religion i'p every attitudethey project, in the words they say and do not say, in theactions of their lives, in their reactions to people and situ­ations around them. They are, indeed, the ,'irst of teachers

,in religion. But this must be fortified, inust be strengthened,must be implemented in greater degree by sqme sort of moreformal programs. And here is where the pa~sh steps in andtries to offer to parents and to their children the reasons forthe faith that is in them, the more structtired answers 0

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questions, the opportunities to investigate'w~at one believes,to discuss its living with others, to look into ~he implicationsand ramifications of being a follower of Jes\ls Christ.

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Philosophy on Death of Children

the Pontifical Commission onSocial Communications. Its pur­pose was to draw up guidelinesfor putting into "practical actionat the grassroots level" the rec­ommendations made by themeeting of the Federation ofAsian Bishops' Conferences(FABC) last April in Taiwan.

The Rev. Monsignor Raymond T. ConsidineDiocesan Director

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villages," they said."We accept that radio and tel­

evision can bring the message ofChrist to non-Christians withclarity and force in a mannerunique among the media."

The consultations of media ex­perts had been called by BishopAndrew M. Deskur, president of

Most Rev. Edward T. O'MearaNational Director

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., Sept. 5, 1974 "5

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"The transistor radio, batteryoperated, inexpensive, has trans­formed Asia, even the remotest

College PresidentTo Resign Post

NEW YO~K (NC)-ChristianBrother Gregory Nugent, Man­hattan College's president, hasannounced his intention to resignhis post by the end of the 1974­1975 academi.c year.

Brother Gregory said that asearch and screening subcommit­tee of the board of trustees,working with representatives ofthe college community's variousconstituencies-alumni, faculty,students, administrators - willmake recommendations to theboard's nominating committee.That group would then report itsown recommendations to the fullboard of trustees.

Brother Gregory, who attendedManhattan briefly before enteringthe Brothers of the ChristianSchools, lias been professionallyassociated with Manhattan forsome 28 years, joining the fac·ulty in 1946 as an assistant pro­fessor of German. He was nameddean of arts and sciences in 1952,academic vice-president in 1959,and president in 1962. '

School GraduatesPeasant Students

LA VEGA' (NC) - The Jesuit·run Santa Maria radio schoolhere in the Dominican Republichas graduated 4,749 peasants aft·er completion of the require·ments for primary and intermedi.ate education diplomas. ', This is the third annual gradu­

ation ceremony for students ofRadio Santa Maria, which be·longs to the diocese of La Vegaand serves peasants and poorfarm workers of the large Cibaoregion. About 15.000 studentshave already com-,Ieted educa­tion courses through the radio'sprograms.

Continued from Page One Then he took a comb from hispatient and for those who suffer jacket pocket and ran it throughwith him. But more important is the matted hair on the head ofmy knowledge that death is the· his dead daughter.spiritual beginning of an eternal' "He needed to do both oflife with Christ." those things," Mary Ann ex-

Life with Christ plained. "Call it reflex action orMary Ann emphasizes that nervous reaction to crisis if you

s"'e is al))e to arrive at these will. But they were importantconclusions "only because my things for him and he did themcv;,(;epc of death is shaped in at a very important moment inthe context of my religious con· his life. It was a very genuinevictions, which tell me that there moment.is a life hereafter with Christ." "I was proud, I guess, that at

The young nurse cautions such a moment one of these ac­against "just grabbing any con· tions was, directed at me-thecept 'of death and its meaning hugging thank you. It was thenthat comes along." that the pieces began to fall into

She ur.ges instead: "Your can· place for me and I suddenly real­cept of death must be your own. ized that I had given of myselfIt must be internalized. I mean and that my giving had helpedit must be living deep wit~in you someone. I also realized thatin the form of genuine convic- this child had added new mean­lions and beliefs." ing to my life through her

Despite her present tranquil- death."ity toward death, Mary Ann is As one after another of herquick to admit that she experi- little patients came into andenced agonizing and frightening slipped out of her life, Mary Annmoments in her search for its said, she began to comprehendmeaning. what her religious training as a

, Initial Fears child had given her.When she first arrived at the, "I am only an average Cath-

olic when it comes to practicinghospital after her graduation my faith," she said.from St. John's College in Cleve· "I make this point, so you willland, she used to contrive all understand that you don't havesorts of excuses to avoid being to be a saint to deal with deathalone for any length of time in as a beginning of life."the room of a child whose time Reactionswas running out. In her work ,she has seen va-

"r was afraid the child might rious reactions to impendingdie while I was in the room death which generally follow thealone and I would go to pieces," five steps outlined in recentshe confesses.

"I didn't feel I could handle it studies as denial, anger, bargain­ing. depression and, finally, ac·

psychologically and emotion- ceptance.ally."

",I see all those reactions,butH~r.~ i,~_!1o~ .Cl:. !.!~i,que problem I don~t 'see them in the children.

among 'new hospit.al·staffers. The 'They are: to'o young "to realiz"eadministration waited about what death is. I see these reac­three months before assigning tions among the parents of theMary Ann to care for a child doomed children and theirwho was expected to die within brothers and sisters and otherhours.

relatives and friends."Mary Ann said the child, Mary Ann describes the death

bloodlessly pale, "just sort of of children as "especially' beau­slipped quietly into death, as tiful." How?though she had gone into a deep "Even more than adults, theysleep. don't die for themselves but for

Comfort to Parents those around them. They die for"Then" rl'lUch to my amaze· their families, for their doctors,

ment, I found I was able to give for their nurses, and for all thesome comfort to the mother and people who care about them.father, through little things I said They die so that their deathsto them and little things I did can help those they leave behind.for them and their little girl." Their deaths should have real

Still reflecting on that critical meaning for the survivors."interval in her life - her eyesnow misty as she fumbled nerovously with a cushion on' thedivan in her apartment - MaryAnn spoke of two other minorevents that took place in theroom that day after Janie haddied.

She said the father stepped toher side, hugged her and whis­pered "Thank you. We thankyou."

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GREEN BAY (NC) - BishopAloysius Wycislo of Green Bayurged Catholics to eat less oneday per week and to contributetheir food savings to U. S. Cath·olic Relief Services (CRS) to aidthe victims of the drought insub-Sahelian Africa.

In a taped address played in215 parishes and insti,tutions ofthe diocese, Bishop Wycislo

.noted ._ that· ·Americans consumemore food per capita than anyother people in the world.

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Le'gion of MaryAnnuO'I Outing

o This SundayLegion of Mary members, fam­

Hies and friends will hold theirannual summer outing from 11a.m. to 4:30 p.m. this Sunday atOur Lady of Fatima Shrine onRoute 126, Holliston. The eventis open to the public.

The program will begin withMass celebrated in the shrine'soutdoor chapel, followed bylunch on the ,grounds. Those at­.tending are asked to bring theirown· lunches and beverages.

Free time to tour the shrine willprecede recitation of the rosaryand Legion prayers, scheduledfor 2 P.M. Also on the agenda willbe a slide 'lecture presented byRussell Pond, who will show andcomment on scenes of the. 1I0lyLand, Rome and the site of:-ap­paritions of the Sacred Heart toSt. Margaret Mary Alocoque atParay-Ie-Monial, France.

Diocesan director for the Le­gion of Mary is Msgr. Thomas J.Harrington, also diocesan coon­cellar.

Urged to IdentifyWith Black Children

LOS ANGELES (NC)-Teach­ers of minority youths should.show so much admiration forand identification with a blackchild that he will say: "Sister, Idon't think of you as white, butjust as natural. You're a. nicelady.. I like you."

That was the advice the Rev.Henry Mitchell gave an institutefor teachers of minority youthsheld at Mt. St. Mary's Dohenycampus here.

The institute was sponsored'by the National Office for BlackOatholics and the Los AngelesArchdiocesan department of ed­ucation.

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"These women ought to be putoff the church grounds," saidJeanette Clooney, a housewife."Our Blessed Virgin wasn't outfighting for equal 'rights."

Women's Rights Day this yearwas held on the 54th anniversaryof female suffrage in the UnitedStates.

"That i: I believe, the termi­nology used by the Church whencondemning a heresy. It may bean excessively free translation tosay it means, 'To hell with it'."

The demonstration by' theCatholic Women for the ERAoutside Cincinnati's St. Peter 'in

. Chains cathedral fueled sharp.comments from bystanders.

Wome:n's IEqual·ity D,ay/Proclamation Comme~orates Anniversary

Of Womens Suffrage in U.S.Catholic women in New York

and Cincinnati marked Women'sRights pay, Aug. 26, by postingproclamations supporting theEqual Rights Amendmen~ (ERA)on the doors of two cathedrals.

In New York, nine womendressed as female saints postedthe Vvomen's Proclamation ontile omate bronze doors of St.Patricl{'s cathedral.

The proclamation, written inthe form of a resolution, calledupon the nation's bishops, theNational Council of CatholicLaity, and the Catholic commu­nity "t large to support theEqual Rights Amendment, whichhas been approved by 33 of the38 states needed to make it ef­fective,

WOMAN'S PROCLAMATION: Charlene Ventura ofCatholic Women for the Equal Rights Amendment, Cin­cinnati, reads The Women's Proclamation before postingit on the door of 51. Peter in Chains Cathedral August 26.

The posting of the proclama­·tion was sponsored by the Cath·olic Women for the ERA.

. Also demonstrating outside St.Patrick's cathedral and St. Thom­as' Episcopal cathedral werewomen of St. Joan's Alliance,~hich was founded in 1911 tofight for women's suffra,ge andis now devoted to achievingequality for women in law, soci­ety and the Church.

They chose Women's RightsDay to ;,>ro.test the declaration bythe Episcopal bishops that therecent ordination of 11 womento the Episcopal priesthood wasinvalid.

Some of the women' wore'but·tons stating, "Sexism is a heresy-Anathema si.t."

When asked ahout the mean­ing of the Latin words, Ms. Fran­

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(For a perky topping, I'd topthis with a can ',of tomato saucewhile it's in the oven, but it'sgood without.) :'

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall Rive,,;..i,Thurs., Sept. 5, 1974,

Rectory HousekeeperRemembers Church

ANTIOCH (NC) - A formerrectory housekeeper for 18 yearsat Holy Rosary church here be­queathed her house to the parish.Its sale netted the parish morethan $17,000 for payment on thechurch debt.

The donor was the late RoseLeal who retired in 1956. On herretirement, she bought a smallhouse nea'r the church so thatshe could attend Mass daJly.

"A car,eer as a housekeeper ishardly a road to riches," saidFather Thomas D. Raftery, HolyRosary pastor, in. a letter . toBishop Floyd L. Begin of theOakland, Calif., diocese.

"We can safely assume thatthe bulk of Ms. Leal's worldlygoods went back to the churchshe had already served for solong," the priest said. .'

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By Joseph and Marilyn Ro~erick

Another season of television will sportly be upon usand from our ratber blase standpoint it will probably bea dud. For the younger children it is a :,new and excitingexperience. Jason, especially, 'is just at ~he age when tele-vision is the most important 'ingredient in his day; it the word is bn everyone's lips, in

everyone's mind and sadly alsomakes his dreams a'reality a part of everyone's budget. Ev.(how else could he be' the ery cloud has a silver lining (orSix Million Dollar Man?). I re- so they say) and Df there is onemember waiting with bated to this particular time in historybreath' back in the forties for it's that peQple are being drawnTom M~ and the Lone Ranger closer together by a commonon radio, while the highlight of problem, survival.Sunday afternoons was The Suddenly' as you walk downShadow. the supermarket aisle you find

Last year the CBS Radio Net· yourself commenting to the mOanwork attempted to revive radio or woman t:lext to you on thedrama with nightly one-hour per- latest price I rise as you shakeformances by some of the best your heads ,in shocked accord.known stars. I listened to a num- People who used to sweep in andber of mysteries at 10 o'<:Iock at out of the tnarket with nary anight in the hope that I could re- word to anyhne 'but the checkergain the fun of ,listening instead are willing fu discuss the latestof watching, but I have to admit price of sugar with anyone inthat they were rather dreary and earshot. While the latest shop­failed to hold my attention. The ping trip is certainly a journey inold magic was gone. frustr,ation, 'it's getting a lot

, 1V Relaxes more friendl~ than it used to be.So now we have Mash and' All I '

in the Family and Good Times Exchan~ Complaintsfor comedy, a sprinkling of mu- Such questions are asked assicals, loads of e~elIent sports "Why should the market becoverage, and a great amount of changing the: price every otherkilling and shooting. The latter day when ini~ially they only paidcauses a flurry of alarm from the first price to the wholetime to time but is still the sub- saler?" (A g{)od question indeed)ject which fascinates the kids. or the frightehing one of "WhereThere Is no talking to Jason is this going ~o end?"when the action gets at its worst 'Psychiatris~s agree that "talk­and ,the bodies are falling in ing things ,out" has 'alwliYsevery direction. Frankly, I can't helped and this new experienceget too alarmed by TV violence, of eX'Changjng complaints at thealthough I have to admit that I market certainly proves this. Notam not overwhelmingly happy that the prices are going to beabout a .great deal of it. any lower \Vhen one hits the

There has been a great deal checkout couqter, but at least bywritten about the impact of tel- that time youlTealizE! that you'reevision on our children and upon not alone in i the battle of theus as adults and I am unable to dollar and as the old saying goes,evaluate most of it. However, I Misery loves Icompany.do feel that for a great many Now that .we're all trying topeople TV serves the very useful find a 'thousand and one ways topurp{)se of letting them relax use ,the cheapest cuts of meat,from their burdens. The level of hamburg has got to be high onentelltainment may be uneven, our buying li,st. Meryl spottedbut for better or wose it is with the picture of, the followingus and Jason is perched in front recipe on ani illustrated recipeof it waiting for the moment card and bec~use she's an avidwhen the Six Million Dollar.Man hamburg fan $he couldn't resistruns 60 miles an hour to capture trying it. The iresults were evena runaway horse. accepted by the family.

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Marian Communications

Center Opens in ChicagoCHICAGO (NC) - A Marian

Communications Center hasopened here to ssrve as a refer­ence library, information center,film, radio and television produc­tion department, and a news ser­vice for all media.

Direct contacts with nationaland international Marian shrinesare expected to be developed.

Jack Mulqueen, public rela·tions director and news editorof the center, said that, althoughthe center is managed by laypersons, religious groups asso­ciated with the center have,pledged their services to theChicago archdiocese and thesurrounding dioceses that will be'served.

Porishes U.niteFor CCD Effort

St. Julie's and St. Mary's Par­ishes in Dartmouth are sponsor·ing a Parents' Night Sunday,Sept. 15, 1974, for parents andstudents enrolling into the highschool CCD program (Grades9-12) for 1974·75. This specialparents' night will be held at St.Mary's Parish Center, DartmouthStreet, South Dartmouth, at 6:45P.M.

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Brooklyn Catholics Participate in VoterRegistration Drive

BROOKLYN (NC) - Eighteen- To hold the drive, parish coun-year-old Joann McKinney got out cils recruited election inspectorsof bed early on the Feast of the and registrars from parishion­Assumption to go to Mass. Then ers. At special swearing-in cere­she went to the clubhouse of Our monies held at night by boardsLady' of Perpetual Help parish of elections· in the two counties,for another obligation of con- more than 500 persons werescience-to register to vote. qualified to oversee the registra­. The voter registration drive in tions in the parishes.which Joann, a graduate"of the "I don't think it has ever beenparisb elementary and high done in any diocese," Fatherschool, participated, was part of Kennedy said.a continuing effort by the Civic At the large Our Lady of Per­and Political Education Commit· petual Help parish, the registrarstee of the Diocese of Brooklyn. worke~ in shifts of two-one a

"We found that in your aver- Republican and the other a 'Oem­age middle-class area, which is ocrat-to assist new voters. Newheavily Catholic, only about 40 York has no literacy test, but re­or :45 per cent of those eligible quires a 30-day residency.were registered," said Father For Joann, who was excitedRobert Kennedy, director of the about the prospect of becoming.Social Action office of the a voter the same autumn as shediocese. would enter Baruch College, the

About 80 of the 228 parishes major disappointment was thein the two urban counties of fact that many of her fellow highBrqoklyn, King's and Queens, school graduates were apathetic.held voter. registration on the about the whole thing.Feast of the Assumption andsome continued over the follow-ing weekend. .The registrantsmay not vOte in the upcomingSeptember primaries but will beeligible for the vote on Nov. 5.

. VOTER REGISTRATION: Joann McKinney, left, reg­isstters to vote at Our Lady of Perpetual Help parish inBrooklyn, Serving as registrar was Mrs. Mary Dillon. The·voter registration drive was part of a continuing effort bythe Civic and Political Education Committee of the dioceseof Brooklyn.NC Photo.

Urges Fasting, PrayerFor Drought Victims

BOSTON (NC) --..: HumbertoCardinal Medeiros of Boston hasurged Catholics in his archdio­cese to join others throughoutthe nation in setting aside a dayeach month for fasting andprayer "that the terrible scourgeof drought may be lifted" fromthe people of West Africa.

"Thus joined in spirit and suf­.fering with our afflicted brothersand sisters," Cardinal Medeirossaid,' "we may free ourselvesfrom the bonds of selfishness and'be better able to follow the ex­emple of our Divine Lord, whofed the hungry multitude."

There'certainly are many morereasons couples deliberately havechildren. Some couples may havechildren because they feel thatis the only reason for marriage.

I remember being taught inschool that the prime purpose ofmarriage was the procreation ofchildren. I don't remember anymention of the need for the cou­ple to love each other. We werenever taught why parents shouldwant a child. The stress wassimply have children. I guess allthe rest was expected to c:>melJaturally. Fortunately, manyWiles, it did.

Today, marriage and parent­hood are su'b,iects being. ques­tioned and reexamined, both byyoung people and scholars ofmany disciplines.

World population is a majorconcern. Casual sex is widelypromoted; contraception hasnever been easier. Yet peoplecontinue to marry and havechildren. I hope we are growingtoward a better understandingof why people should have afamily.

Parents' Love,Certainly the parents love of

each other should be a first con­sideration. They should both sin­cerely want a child, and antic­ipate love for that child. Andthey shoul4 have t~e ~hility, andresponsibility; to raise that childwell.

A child is not a status gymbol.Nor is a child a proof of mentalor emotional maturity. Neitheris a child a guaranteed bond thatwill hold a shaky marriagetogether.

And I hope we've gotten be­yond that old concept ..."she'shad so many children .. .isn't she'marvelous." She's marvelous onlyif she and her husband reallywanted those children, and arecapable of raising them well.

I also hope that parenthoodwill be come a respected profes­sion' and that the best reasonsfor having children are the onlyreasons for having children.

Maybe that will happen whenwe all accept the fact that thesize of a family, in itself, is nocredit or discredit to the couple.

And maybe it's time now toexamine the possibility that thechildless marriage-by choice­might be a good and appropriatestate of Hfe for certain couples.

·But that will have to be thesubject of another column.

By

MARY

CARSON

ANNIVERSARY: SisterBertha Heinzelmann, 92, ofSpringfield, Mo., celebratedher 71st anniversary as anUrsuline nun Aug. 25. "Nowthat my sewing's done andmy work in the kitchen isfinished, I'm going to helpheal the nation with myprayers," she said. NC Photo.

Considlers Reasons C,ouples

Aspire to Becom,e Parents ~Every mother occasionally 'has a bad day with her

children. When I do, I wonder: "Why did I ever have kids?"And on the really bad' days, I can't think ot' a single goodreason. But in calmer moments, I've given serious thought towhy my husband and I didhave our eight children: Itwas not just because wewanted a family. We wantedour children to combine the qual.ities we admired in each otherinto a new life.

When I look back, it was an

ambitious goal. We didn't knowif we had the talent. All weknew was that we loved eachother and each wa'nted childrenwho reflected what we loved inthe other.

But maybe those reasons arewhy, in spite of a few bad daysnow and then, we are veryhappy.with our family.

ReasonsThere are many reasons people

have children. Sometimes it's anattempt to strengthen a shakymarriage. It could be an attemptto prove maturity ... though thatproof is of n.ar!ow.limits".' .some children·, are bOl'n. be­

cause the parents have nothing... and a child is the only thingin the world that belongs tothem.

I've even heard stories of chil­dren being born for financial rea­sons ... a gift of a substantialtrust fund had been promisedfor each child. Financial reasonswere also a reason some peoplehad children years ago, whenevery child was an extra handon the farm.

The noted black minister hasnot lost the inner fire that charac­terized his swift rise withi~ theSouthern Christian LeadershipConference (SCLC), one of thelargest civil rights groups inAmerica.

Some people' think black is areligion, Mr.' Jackson said."'fhat's not so -- black is notsomething to be idolized," hesaid. "We've never in any partoj Africa said white peoplecouldn't drink water or that­white people couldn't use bath-rooms." '

People are either afraid of or'apathetic about blacks, the 32­year-old former athlete observed."Blacks want to be left alonewhich means no welfare," h~said. "We don't want to be ha­rass~d, but~as a' part of the eco­nomic system, we want to be'protected, we want to .havejobs."

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Publishes CampusMinistry Guidelines

WASHINGTON (NC') -- TheNational Catholic EducationalAssociation (NCEA) has pub­lished "Guidelines' for CampusMinistry at Catholic Coliegesand Universities," a 16-pagehooklet intended as a checklistby which to evaluate campusministry programs.

The book-let, prepared by theCommission on Campus Minis­try by NCEA's College a'nd Uni­versity Department, is the resultof four years of self-study andevalu~tion by Catholic collegecampus ministers and adminis­trators in the United States.. The booklet includes adescrip­

tIOn of the Catholic university,drawn largely from "The Cath­olic University in the ModernWorld," approved in 1972 by theSecond International Congressof Delegates of Catholic Univer­sities.

Cathol ics ·AwaitCourt De~ision

On TextbooksJEF'PERSON CITY (NC)

School principals and parents aresitting tight until a Circuit CourtJudge in St. Louis County de­cides how to handle the phasingout of the state's free textbooklaw.

The 1972 law, which providedfree textbooks to students inpublic and -paroohial schools,was declared unconstitutionalJuly 30 by the Missouri SupremeCourt.

On Aug. 26 the Court denied amotion for a .rehearing of thecase and ordered Judge OrvilleRichardS/on of the St. LouisCounty Circuit Court to workout an equitable means of han­dling the phasing out of the lawwithout causing severe hard­ships to school administrators,pupils and parents.

In a BindJudge Richardson declared the

textbook laws constitutionlll Oct.5, 1972, when the case was ori­ginally questioned by two St.Louis residents. T,hey appealedhis decision to the Missouri Su­preme Court on the grounds thelaw v,iolated the Church-stateprovisions of the U: S. and Mis­souri constitutions.

The current wait-and-see sit­uation puts some schools andstudents in a blnC!. When schoolsopened, some public school offi­cia'is were, reluctant to releasebooks ordered last spring becauseappeal was still pending. Nowthat the appeal has been denied,school officials are anxiouslyawaiting Judge Richardson's de­cisio~ ,'tq see what will becomeof the books. '. , . . .

Most students in the diocesehowever, ha've a complete set ofbooks. Prior to the opening ofschool, approximately 20 of the36 schools in the diocese nego­tiated some' sort of plan for useof textbooks, depend,ing on theoutcome ()f the appeal.

On hand for the graduationwere his parents, Joan and Mat"thew Keane of Larchmont N. Y.

While pushing Brendan in hiswheelchair, Mrs. Keane said:

"The di~ference in Brendan isunbelievable. He's been in theprogram for more than fouryears, and now he's much better.He used to be so withdrawn andan underachiever. When he firstwent in, he was very limited. Hewas a special case because hewas so weak.

"He had about 15 operations,and it has been hard for him toget baCK on his feet. But it'swonderful ,what they have done.The occupational therapy had alot to do with it. He's Bearned hisletters; now he understands usand we have marvelous conver:sations together."

In September, Brendan will be­gin school in Valhalla, N. Y.

man would want to change his,.wife. As long as you get along,'

why change? We got along ,andwe love one another."

Added Mrs. Branch: "He getshis breakfast in bed, his lunchand dinner in bed. When hedoesn't feel I,ike getting up, Iserve him all his meals in ,bed." ,

She continued, "Marriage' isgive and take. You can't jump upfor every little thing. We havehad problems, but we lived withthem."

Typical of the graduates was

The hospital is run by the Sis­ters of 5t. Francis of the Missionof the Immaculate Virgin, andthe children's unit, which is af­filiated with the New York Med­ical College, provides compre­hensive rehabilitation services ona daily basis through its infantdevelopment and pre-school pro­grams.

Handicapped Chi~drenAre'Award'edDiplomas After Years' of Therapy.WHITE PLAINS (NC)--Thirty- seven-year-old Brendan Keane, a

SIX severely handicapped chil- victim of spina biffida, a' raredren were awarded diplomas congenital disease which has leftduring special ceremonies at St. him paralyzed from the shoul­Agnes' Hospital here after com- ders down.pleting years of intensive ther­apy at the hospital's ambulatorychildren's unit.

After receiving their diplomas,­the youngsters leaving the hos­pital's program will be attending'Public schools or special classes.But all will be returning to thecommunity as a result of thehospital's concept that early di­agnosis and treatment can meanthe difference between a usefullife and perhaps institutional­ization.

ADOPTION AT 87: Although Foster Branch of St. Annede Beaupre parish, Houston, was 84 and his wife, 63, theyadopted a son, Jonathan, then nine, three years ago. Jon­athan, left, is pictured with his adoptive parents and theirnephew, John Jenkins, 12. The Branches have nine of 14natural children surviving. NC Photo.

"We' had to start all overagain," Mrs. Branch said. "Butwe had the help of some won­derful neighbors and fr,iends."

Advice to CouplesAfter 50 years as man and

wife, the Branches have some. suggestions for a happy marriage,'\I'm a man who never fussed,fought, and never rais~ myhand to strike her and I neverthreatened to strike her," Fostersaid. "You can"t change womenand I ean't unde~stand why any

Houston Golden l(lbilarian Couple.:,Adoptive Parents ofDistinction

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HOUSTO!'f (NC)-Twelve-year-old Jonathan Branch is adopted.He knows iii and he is extremelyproud of hi~ place in life.

"Mother ~nd daddy tO,ok mebecause they wanted me. I cameto live with them when I wasfour month~ old," the slightyouth disclo~ed.

His adopiive parents smiledand nodded lagreement with hisnext revelation: "They tell me allthe time that I'm the most im­portant pers?n in the hou~e."

Later, when Jonathan hadgone to play baseball, his mother,

IImelda Bran~h, reported: "Jon-athan was la premature baby,and he was 'our last foster son.The years passed and no oneadopted him., So, eventually the

, agency let USj adopt him, on Sept.13, 1971." 1

She added:)' "He knew no otherfamily."

Imelda andl Foster Branch alsohave two adoptive grandsons andtwo adoptive: granddaughters.

"Jonathan lis our own," Mrs.Branch mused. "He will be ourfirst child to! go to college. Wehave made provisions for hiscollege educa'tion."

A proud parent, she boasted:"He's a typic~1 boy, loves sportsand helps me: around the house... He's a gOQd qoy."

Dis~inctions

IThere are several distinctions

that mark t~e Branches frommost other ladoptive parents:Foster Branc~ is 87 years old(but in good ?ealth), his wife is66; the couple celebrated their50th wedding! anniversary lastJuly 24; theYI have nine ,of, 14na'tural children surviving; theyhave 15 gra~dchildren and 15great grandchildren.·

Although hei, uses a wheelchairsporadically, Foster doesn't have

'''a bad heart o~ kidney tronuble,"Mrs. Branch said.

Imeld.a Drarch has alwaysbeen a housewife and mother. "Ihave also taken care of the chil­d~ 'of neighborhood working

, mothers," Mrs.1 Branch said.Their nine I natural children

range in age ftom 49 to 28 aridinclude eight I sons and onedaughter. I,

Their golden Iwedding anniver­sary in July, *as low key. AsMrs. Branch pu:t it: "We went toour parish church--St. Anne deBeaupre's -- and renewed ourmarriage vows.:"

Prayer in iDepressionThe Branches: ,50 years togeth­

er have not· been without trou­bles. As Mrs. Branche explained:"Du~ing the depression we had10 children to take care of andthe oldest wa$ 10 years old.Foster was out of work occa­sionally, but' w~ managed some-how." I

J)he credited their survival toprayer and fre4uent attendanceat Mass. :

Branch took ~p the conversa­tion and noted tl;1at in 1940: '''Wegot burned out flat. We had 10children, and w~ lost everY'thingwe had except 'the clothing onour backs." I

The fire broke out in theirmodest dwellihg lat night, and allthe members ofl the family es­caped with the excepti'on of thebaby, Carl. Brknch, howeverrushed back into the burnin~,structure and rescued' his babyson. i

THE ANCHOR--Thurs., Sept. 5, 197.4B

Sees Oppression .Of Blacks StillIn 'America

MILWAUKEE (NC) -- "Manyblacks are becoming cynical andare giving up," the Rev. JesseJackson, dir!lctor of PeopleUnited to Save Humanity(PUSH), said in describing thecurrent status of the civil rightsmovement.

Appearing on a televisionshow here, the black civil rightsactivist said with simple elo­quence that black people are stillbeing oppressed. '

"We feel like motherless chil­dren," he said. "We cannot be 'President, it's very difficult "tobe senators, we cannot makeviable decisions."

Reduces TuitionF()r Senior Citizens

LISLE (NC) -- Senior citizenswill be given opportunities forcollege study at reduced rates atIllinois Benedictine College inLisle.

All full-credit courses will beopened to senior citizens on aspace-available basis beginningSept. 5 for a flat fee of $25 percourse. The fee is a reduction ofmore than 85 per cent for thetypical three credit course.

In addition, the college willeliminate application fees, park­ing fees, and many other feesfor persons drawing retirementbenefits.

He 'caIled black people the. only ethnic force in Americathat were brought here involun­tarily. "Our families were forcedapart, we were forced to workwithout wages, and we were notlegaIly allowed to read, write,or go to schools," he said.

"And in spite of that we didnot- die but multiplied," he con-tinued. '

"Race riots have become thelanguage of the unheard," Mr.Jackson said. "You did not Imowblacks even existed in Los An­geles until they exploded. We donot justify riots but there cer­tainly is an explanation ...

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"But don't make me and riotssynonymous no more than youwould make you and the bomb­ing of Cambodia synonymous,"he said, drawing cheers from theentire audience, black and white.

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Accept Blind College' Honor GraduateAs Seminarian For Columbus Diocese

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The young people today arelooking back to see from wherethey came. They are tracing theirroots. They are probing into theircultural backgrounds to learnabout their beginnings and howto be proud of their roots."

Hdswell traced the foundingof the AOH back to the 1700s inIreland when, he said, the groupwas set up "to protect and serveas honor guards for priests onwhose heads the British had puta price."

As Hoswell sees it, the urgeto join the organization in in­creased numbers today can beattributed in large measure to"the turn-about from what wasgoing on the college campusesand elsewhere five years agowhen there were demonstrationsof all sorts of unrest among th::!young."

Now, he said, the young peo­ple are "in a need to belong-tobe a part of some group that ispositive in its aims and outlook."

Nostalgia also plays a big partin this picture," he explained.

THE ANCHOR-Thurs., Sept. 5, 197.4

Says NostalgiaHelps GrowthOf Hibernians

DAYTON (NC) - The "cur­rent wave of nostalgia" sweepingthe United States is one of thefactors in the growth of the An­cient Order of Hibernians (AOH),according to a national directorof the organization.

John J. Hoswell, a native ofDublin who was recently reelect­ed an AOH director of the or­ganization for Irish-AmericanCatholics, said that membershiphas been increased by "at least10 per cent" in the past fouryears.

Hoswell predicted in an inter­view here that the membershiprolls of t~e AOf! would beswelled by "15 or 20 per centmore in the next four years."

The 41-year-old constructionelectrician and father of twosons and two daughters saidmuch of the membership .increasecame with an influx of "youngmembers-teen-agers and thosein their early 20s."

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cept him-and the results havebeen impressive.

Vaeth has indicated he is capa­ble of meeting priest'ly responsi­bilities by making house calls toconvalescent homes and shut-insand by taking part in the coun­seling sessions and liturgicalevents. His first year at the Jo­sephinum proved him a sincereand more than capable studentof theology and philosophy.

. "As a diocesan priest I willhave tI-,·e opportunity to workwith a .great number of peoplewith a great diversity of back­grounds," Vaeth said. '~I lovethe Church and believe it is flex­ible enough to admit people withimpediments."

So far, Vaeth said, he has beenaccepted by parishioners, shut-insand staff of Columbus St. Aloy­sius', where he is Hving thissummer.

Excels in Music

.. The oldest son of Dr. and Mrs.Edward Vaeth of Columbus, hewent to the State School for theBlind where' he excelled in typingand' music (he plays piano andor,gan). By having his textbookstranscribed onto tape and bytransferring his class notes intoBraille, Vaeth completed the nor­mal curriculum at Whetstonehigh school and Capital Univer­sity, where he majored in Span­ish and history.

The S4mmer before his senioryear in bigh school he took acourse in peripatology (gettingaround with the aid of. cane) atthe School for the Blind, and ac,"cording to the diocesan vocationsdirector, Father Thomas Schone­barger, he can maneuver safelyanywhere in Columbus.

"With a greater patience thansighted people," Father Schone­barger said, "he possesses a reo.markable ability to accomplishwhat must be done."

Ordination to the priesthood isat least three years away forThomas Vaeth and the undertak­ing will require heroic efforts. Ashe learned to adapt to his "nui­sance," so now, with his firstyear of studies completed, Vaeth,seems to have adapted to thedemands of seminary life.

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nouncement of his calling to thediaconate and priesthood in thecathedral. .

Yet another oqstacle faced the24"year-old blind student. Orig­inally Vaeth applied to variousReligious orders but all rejectedhim for reasons of Church law.

The Columbus diocese did ac-

the B Specials under a differentname, raises hopes among Prot­estant diehards for.a return tothe old days of unchallengedProtestant rule in Northern Ire­land.

Third ForceOne foundation for the fear

that the B Specials are being re­vived is a report that MarilynRees, London's minister of statein Northern Ireland, is entertain~

ing the notion of founding athird local security force, beyond

. the Royal Ulster Constabularyand the Ulster Defense Regi­ment. He is reported to havestated this to be the UlsterWorker's Council.

Rees is reported t9 have stip­ulated that this local securityforce be unarmed and under the,control of the professional po-lice or the British army. .Bu~ the Protestant Unionists

demand that this reserve force'be armed and under the controlof the newly constituted Belfast .regional government, for whichelections are expected early nextyear.

The Republic Labor party, aCatholic political group in North- .ern Ireland,has been seeking tomeet British Prime MinisterHarold Wilson in London to dis­cuss this new development.. The British Conservative party,mlW the opposition party, is un­derstood to be strongly opposedto the creation of a third secur­ity force in Northern Ireland.

Northern Irish Catholics Fea rRevival of Anti-Cathol.ic Police

BELFAST (NC) - Concern isgrowing among members of·Northern Ireland's Catholic mi­nority at open recruiting for athird security force made upprincipally of former members ofthe dread and now disbanded"B Special" police reserve.

Under the guise of "loyalisthome guard" and with the sup­port of the anti-Catholic Van­guard movement, which supportsNorthern Ireland's continued un­ion with Britain, enrollment forthe new force has begun in va­rious parts of the province.

Catholics were goaded into theviolence that now plagues North­ern Ireland by arbitrary searchesand arrests by the old, predom-.inantly Prqtestant B Specials,who were. uniformed and armed.Five years ago the British Armywas called on, the B Specialswere disbanded and eventuallythe local Protestant governmentin Belfast was dissolved.

A minister from London wasplaced in control of NorthernIreland.

Now with the failure of aNorthern Irish government setup in Belfast by the British withsome Cathouc representation,and with the rather precariousBritish minority government re­luctant to offend Northern IrishProtestant members of the Brit­ish Parliament, there is talk ofwithdrawing British troops fromNorthern Ireland.

This possibility, coupled withwhat seems to be the revival of

COLUMBUS (NC) - ThomasVaeth, graduate of Capital Uni-'versity magna cum laude, historyscholar, seminarian at the Jo­sephinum, is the Columbus dio­cese's first born blind to preparefor holy orders in the UnitedStates.

Other blind men have been or­dained priests, but they becameblind after beginning their stud-ies. ,)

Because the Church viewsblindness as an impediment tothe priesthood, Vaeth's formalacceptance as a carididate onAug. 25 at St. Joseph's cathedralis the climax of a lengthy strug­gle - personal and canonical ­leaving him "'with a feeling ofsecurity and direction.'

'" see myself like a batter withone strike against him, but that'snot enough to keep me from hit~

ting a home run," said the semi­narian, who is 'less than five feettall.

Friends calls him, "a lion ofdetermination."

"I view my blindness not asa handicap, but a nuisance thatcalls for adaptation. You makethe adaptation and then go on,"Vaeth said.

Special DispensationTo study for the priesthood,

Vaeth needed and secured specialdispensations from the late Bish­op Clarence E. Elwell of Colum­bus and Archbishop Luigi Rai­mondi, former apostolic delegatein the United States. The ambig­uity whether his admittance wasfor study aione or study leadingto holy orders was resolvedthrough the recent public pro-

Peace OrganizationSecretary Resigns

WASHINGTON (NC)-PaulistFather Edward Guinan has re­signed as general secretary ofPax Christi-USA, a Catholicpeace organization.

The resignation came in thewake of a refusal by the organ­ization's governing body to rein­state an invitation to JamesDouglass to speak at its nationalassembly. That assembly, sched­ulted for Oct. 4-6, has now beencanceled.

Douglass was sentenced to ayear's probation in Hawaii fordestroying U. S. Air Force rec­ords in 1972 at Hickham AirForce Base. Hawaii. However, heleft Hawaii in vi,olation of hisparole and is now living in Can­ada.

The Pax Christi governingbody withdrew the invitation asa result of Douglass' parole vi­olation.

Vatican DelegateUrges HearingFor Dissenters

BUCHAREST (NC)-The Vat­ican, in a move to prevent therailroading of drastic antibirthmeasures through the UN'sWorld Population Conference,demanded on the first day of theconference that all dissentingvoices be put on the public rec­ord.

A Vatican delegate, FatherHenri de. Riedmat~en, warnedthat the conference's credibilitywould be jeopardized unless itestablished procedures to recorddissenting opinions of nationaldelegations.

''If doubts exist on this proce­dural point, my .delegation muststate from the beginning that itwould be very difficult for theHoly See to consider itself partof any decisions made by a con­sensus procedure," Father deRiedmatten stated.

A move by the Vatican on thefirst day of a conference-thisconference was meeting hereAug. 19-30-was uncharacteris­tic. It was prompted by fearsthat dissenting delegationswould be associated unwillinglywith any decision arrived at bywide agreement and without avote.

Hea\;'y Resp'onsibilities"All participants at this con­

ference are aware of the heavyresponsibilities which weigh onthem," Father de Riedmatten ob­served to the more than 130national delegations at the con­ference.

"The Holy See is ready to as­sume its part of tI-"e burden, butonly with the assurance that noambiguity will spring up aboutthe positions it takes."

The Vatican sent a 10-memberdelegation to the conference.Heading the delegation was Bish­op Edouard Gagnon, a Canadianwho is president of the Vatican'scommittee for the Family. Othermembers include Father JanPeter Schotte of papal secretari­at of state; Dr. Marie-ThereseGraber-Duvernay, a French doc­tor who has represented the Vat­ican at several internationalmeetings; Dr. Anthony Chullikal,an Indian economist and memberof the Vatican's Justice andPeace Commission, and theworld-renowned French geneti-

. cist Dr. Jerome Lejeune.

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. The Council of Catholic Womenwill conduct a flea market frolll9 A.M. to 3 P.M. on Saturday,Sept. 7 in the church hall on St.Mary St.

SACRED HEART,NEW BEDFORD

A meeting will be held Sundayevening, Sept. 8 at 7:30 in theparish center for all parents in­terested in .having their sons jointhe cub scouts.

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HOLY ROSARY,FALL RIVER

The Women's Guild will havethe following slate of officers forthe coming year: Rita Dearden,president; Marguerite Fournier,vice-president; Ann Pieronisecretary; Mary Mazzoni, trea­surer.

The program for the 1974-75 isas follows: .Sept. 9-Mrs. JeanBancroft, .handwriting ,analyst;Oct. I-coffee membership ·social;Nov. 23-harvest dance; Nov. 4--'Bell Choir Singers; Dec. 2­Christmas party.

Also, Jan. 6-Work Night or'Bingo; Feb. 3-calendar party;

March 3-international night:;April 7-hat show; May 5­Movies in par,ish hall; May 25­Communion Supper.

ST. ANN,RAYNHAM

Rev. Gerald T. Shovelton, thenewly named pastor, will be theguest of honor .at the first meet·ing of the Women's Guild onWedneday nigh~, Sept. 11. A potluck supper will be served at6:30 and the names of secret palswill be revealed.

All par.ishioners are invited 'toa reception for Father Shovel tonon Sunday afternoon, Sepjt. 22from 2 to 4. Coffee will b(lserved.

ST. WILLIAM,FALL RIVER

Rev. John F. Moore, moderatorof the Women's Guild, will offerMass at 7 o'clock on Wednesdayevening, Sept. 11 for the openingof the guild's year.

Mrs. Louis Castanza, pres­ident, has announce<! that acatered coffee hour wiH be heldat 8 o'clock and the evening willconclude with a short entertain·ment fn· the'lail~pif~i>cis'e"ro(;m':.JL, The first card party under the

sponsorship of the guild will beheld at 1:30 on Sunday after..noon, Sept. 22 in the parish cen·tel'. Guild officers will serve ashostesses,

OUR LADY OF FATIMA,NEW BEDFORD

A pot luck supper will beserved at 7 o'clock on Wednes­day night, Sept. n as the Wom·en's Guild opens the 1974-75season.

All parishioners interested injoining the guild are welcome.

ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL,FALL RIVER

The first meeting of the Wom­en's Guild is scheduled for 8o'clock on Monday nigh,t, Sept.9 in the parish hall.

Miss Janice Hurley, p~esident

has announced that the meetingis open 'to all women of the {parish.

ST. MARY,SO. DARTMOUTH

The Women's Guild will con·duct its first meeting of theyear at 8 o'clock on Tuesdaynight, Sept. 10 in the parish cen·tel'.

Rev. John V. Magnani, formerassistant at the parish and nowstationed at St. Patrick's Fal­mouth, will be the guest speaker.

A social hour w!ilI follow.

ST. JOHN THE,BAPTIST,NEW BEDFORD

The parish committee willsponsor a dance from 8 to mid­night on Saturday night, Sept.14 In the church basement hall.

Tickets are available at therectory.

SANTO CHRISTO,FALL RiVER

.' The first dance of the yearwill be held in the newly ren­ovated par~sh hall on Saturdaynight, Sept. 21. For further in­formation' call Lorraine Lima,6-0076; Margaret Dyl, 8-8055;Herculana Raposa, 3-3264; Bel­mira Travassos, 3-4143.

The traditional pot luck sup­per will be served at 6:30 onMonday night, Sept. 23 as theWomen's Guild opens its 1974-75season.

The slate of officers for thecoming year is as follows:Jeanne- Forest, president; LouiseBuckley, vice-president; GladysBalistraci, ,treasurer; SandraCharves,md Jacqueline Langlois,recording and corresponding sec­retaries respectively.

The couples club will sponsora dance at 8 o'clock Saturdaynight, Sept. 21 in the school hall.It is open to the public.

Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Bouchard.are serving as co-chairmen.

STRIKE SETTLED: Father Killian Mooney,. center,pastor in Harlan County, Ky., tal~s with Bishop MichaelBegley and miner Houston Elmore about the plight of localworkers who had been on strike against the Duke PowerCo. whose Brookside mine is in the background. The strikeended Aug. 29 with an' agreement stgned in Washington,D.C. The pact was made one day after a striking miner waskilled by a shotgun blast, culminating more than 13 monthsof violence and conflict. NC Photo.

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Named EditorDETROIT (NC) - Margaret

Cronyn, a writer for The Mich­igan Catholic for 25 years, hasbeen named editor, of that news­paper. She replaces Father WiI·liam X. Kienzle, who resignedas editor and has taken a leave'pf absence to edit a magazin~ inMinneapolis.

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risks, and it requires the accep­tance of responsibilities and awilling delimitation of freedom.But ours is an age of su.pposedlylimitless possibil:ities.

"We are all possibilists now,"he says, ."unanchored and adriftin the sea of the possible . . .Everyone becomes a temporaryperl>on." Which means that apermanent \ ·commitment is re­garded as unthin~able. Also,where everythig is thought to bep~ssible, nothing ever proves tobe good enough.

Divorce appears to bring f.ree­dom, and is in fact look.ed uponas another "stretch of personalfreedom won -by men and womenfrom society." But Mr. Einsteinasks bleakly, freedom for what?

Illusory Freedom."As currently interpreted, it is

most commonly construed asfreedom from all difficulty, free­dom to pursue happiness unen­cumbered by outworn notions ofhuman obligation." The free­dom is illusory.

A principal reason for the fail­ure of many marriages, in theauthor's opinion, is the prevalentsuperstition about sex. Sex, he

. says, "is asked to provide allthat religion, work, aild the fam­ily once provided - somethi!1ggreater than oneself, a means ofrelief from worldly concerns, away of getting out of onesel~ andonto a higher plane of existence."

The sexologists; he observes,do not talk about really humanbehavior but about the behaviorof the sexual apparatus. Sex iswrenched out of the fully humancontext and away from genuinelyhuman feeling. Everything is per- .mitted, and here again nothingis good enough.

The effect on' marriage is dis­astrous. "Where id~ally marriageought to be a relationship in

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Divorce in Ame'rica, TodayAt'23 Joseph Epstein married a divorcee. At 33 he was

divorced ~nd was awarded custody of *s -two sons. He has.been reflecting on his own experienc,e of marriage anddivorce, and has been looking into tqe' whole picture of

marriage and divorce in pres- , which tenderness and sensualityent day America. His impres- find a cortfluence,. each flowingsions and finds he sets out in into and strengthening the other,"Divorced in America: Mar- in practice it seems less and lessri~ge in an Age 'of Possibility frequently: to work out in any­(Dutton, 201 Park Ave. South, thing eve~ approximating theseNew York, N: Y. ~ 10003. 318 ideals."· I

pages. $8.95). 'Sadness, Pllin'Marriage, he says, presents A!bsurd Jxpectations end in bit-

ter disapp6intment. For lack of asense of ~roportion and of wis­dom concerning sex, marriages·founder. !

Mr. Epstein tells us, "The ar·.gument in1 this book, insofar asit has an largument, is that di-, .vorce is often necessary, 'yet IS

seldom atcomplished withoutsadness, pain" and significantloss." i

He is not a religious man, andhe appearS to believe that reli­gion counts for very little inAmerica tdday, but he did lookon mar.riage as something sacred.Yet he, al6ng with innumerable

I 'others, wa~ not prepared for allthat is exacted to make and pre­serve a goold marriage. Thereforehis contention that "divorce 'is.often neceslsary."

I .,As to th~ "sadness, pain, and

significant loss," he has much tosay. The dirorced p'erson, he reoports, has a sense of being 'be­trayed, fee,ls uproted, has. tocolne pain~ully to terms both Publicity chairmen of parish organizationswith the past and with the fu- are asked to submit news items for this

, column to The Anchor, P. O. Box 7, Fallture. The suicide rate among the River, 02722. Name of city or town should

I be included, as well as full dates of alldivorced is, for women, three activities. Please send news of future rathertimes as high as among married than past ,events.

women, arid for men, four times OUII LADY OF MT. CARMEL,as high as ~mong married men. SEEKONK

Mr. Epstein recounts his own f IIefforts at rb,adjustment, and the An open meeting Qr a wom-

en of the parish will be con­effect of the divorce upon his duct:ed by the Women's GlIJild atsons, for whom he had to make' .8 o'clock on Wednesday night,a new homd., Sept. 11 in the parish center,

Aliri'lOny Burden Rte. 44, Seekonk.He writes lat length about legal Mrs. Emma Macedo and Mrs.

grounds for divorce and the sim- AngHe Stanzione, co-cha.irmen,ulation of a case to ,meet their will head the hospitality commit­specificatioJs; about alimony tee for the social hour followingbattles and Ithe lifelong burden the 'business meeting.that alimon)f imposes; about the The following 'officers willugly contention over the custody serve for the coming ye'ar: Mrs.of children and ex-spouses using Jane Damiani, president; Mrs.children as pawns in a continu- Helen Marshall, vice-president;ing warfare.1 Mrs. Nancy Reed, secretary; Mrs.

He contrasts the long-enduring Linda Hal, treasurer.marriage, of ihis own father and Mrs. Donna Motta, programmother withl his own brief mar- chairman; Mrs. Rose Saucy~riage, and wonders about the dif- ways and means; Mrs. Jeannetteference. Of ~is parents" he says, Strzesk, welfare; Mrs. Mary 01­"He was not iher analyst, she was iver, publicity.not his; home life was not agroup therady session; they did ST. GEORGE,not have a meaningful relation- WESTPORTship' but ~ marriage: whichmeans responsibilities owed toeach other ~nd to the childrenthey had brohght into the world.

"With th~ performance oJtheir duties, ~hrough 'liying up totheir respon:sibilities over theyears, the bonds between themgrew stronge\-' The meaning didnot go out ofl their marriage, be·cause duty .and responsibilityconstituted rriuch of the meaning,of their marriage ... Happinessis, precisely, Iwhatever one hap­pens to defipe it to be. Yourparents defined it as living honor­ably. But no~ happiness' meansgetting your own. It: is a .will-o'-·the-wisp." ,

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HIGHLIGHTS OF BUSY SUMMER: Dominican Sisters of St. Catherineof Siena Congregation, only community to have been founded in Fall Riverdiocese, have completed, busy summer schedule. Left, Sister Susan Flynnand Sister Lucille Gauvin participate in liturgy at which they made renewalof promises in congregation. At right is Rev. Andre Patenaude, M.S.,director of The Reconcilers, folk group of which Sister Lucille is member,

which provided music for occasion. Right, Sister Vivian Jennings, a.p.prioress general of Caldwell Dominicans and chairperson of facilitators'committee which aided Fall River community in planning its generalchapter, confers with Sister Elizabeth Menard, newly named director ofNorth Dartmouth novitiate of Sisters.

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Refreshments will be serveddur-ing the evening and all areinvited to attend all or part ofthe services.

The services will be the seven­teenth in a series of vigils inarea parishes, held for peace andhonoring the Sacred Hearts ofJesus and Mary.

Vigil of PrayerIn No. Westport

A First Friday Mass and fivehour prayer vigil will be heldFriday night, Sept. 6 at OurLady of Grace Church, SanfordRoad, North Westport.

The program will begin withconfessions preceding an 8 P.M.Mass of the Sacred Heart. In­cluded in the evening will beexposition of the Blessed Sacra­ment, Holy Hour and Benedic­tion. The Vigil will end with amidnight Mass in honor of the,Immaculate Heart.

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whole parish, with singing bya group of junior high school stu­dents trained by Sister Karen,and fellow religious, students,teachers and relatives acting aslectors and participants in the of­fertory procession.

Golden, Silver JubileesSpecial festivities marked Au­

gust 4, when Sister Louis d'AquinHeon and Sister Marie Ange Se­guin (formerly known as SisterDalmace) marked their goldenjubilees in religious life and Sis­ter Mary of the Trinity Blan­chette, Sister Mary Agnes Shan­non, Sister Theresa Gonyea andSister Annette Roach celebratedsilver jubiless. A Mass of Thanks­giving was offered by Rev. Ga­briel Blain, O.P., prior of St.Anne's Dominican 'Priory, FallRiver.

Polish CardinalTo Visit Germany

VATICAN CITY (NC)-Cardi­nal Karol Wojtyla of Crakow inPoland, will make his first visitto West Germany when he trav­els to Munich in September, Vat­ican Radio reports.

Cardinal Wojtyla is makingthis visit, said Vatican Radio,. tomark the 50th anniversary of theordination of Msgr. EdwardLubowiecki, a Crakow diocesanpriest who is canonical visitatorto Polish Catholics residing inthe German Federal Republic.

At the first session of thechapter, Sister Anita Pauline Du­rocher was reelected PrioressGeneral. With her will serve acouncil of six Sisters: SisterJ oanrie Bonville, Sister LouiseSynan, Sister Barbara McCarthy,Sister Joseph Marie, Sister Noel­la Letourneau and Sister Ger­trude Gaudette.

At a special liturgy celebratedat the Sisters' Novitiate in NorthDartmouth, Deborah Blow ofMooers Forks, N.Y. received th.eDominican habit, while Sister Su­san Flynn of Worcester and Sis­ter Lucille Gauvin of Fall Riverrenewed their promises, Rev. An­dre 'Patenaude; M.S. of La ·SaletteShrine, Attleboro and his group,The Reconcilers, of which SisterLucille is a member, providedmusic. Rev. Roland Nadeau, M.S.was celebrant and honvlist.

A liturgy at St. 'Peter's Church,Plattsburgh, N.Y. also marked afinal vows ceremony for SisterKaren Brunell and Sister Sue El­len Prenoveau, both. parishionersand both assigned in their homeparish for the past two years.Previously Sister Sue Ellenserved at Dominican Academy inFall River.

The ceremony involved the

Dominican Sisters of Park ·St., Fall RiverReelect Prioress General, Hold ChapterThe Dominican Sisters of the

Congregation of St. Catherine ofSiena, the only community tohave been founded in the FallRiver diocese, have had a busysummer. Events have includedthe second session of a three-partGenenil Chapter, reelection of aPrioress General. vows ceremo­nies and celebrations of goldenand silver jubilees.

,Chapter meetings were held atthe congregation's motherhouse,37 Park St., Fall River, said Sis­ter Gertrude Gaudette, O.P., re­porter and photographer for hercommunity. A year in the plan­ning, the chapter began in Aprilwith discussions centering on thegovernment and prayer life ofthe Dominican Sisters. August'sagenda included study of the dis­tinguishing features of voweci lifearid community living. In No­vember the concluding meetingswill consider the fon;nation andapostolate of the Sisters.

All members of the congrega­tion have contributed to thechapter, noted Sister Gertrude,through preparatory discussionsheld during the past year underthe guidance of expert faciltatorsdrawn from outside the commu·nity. They in~luded SisterJacqueline Rumley, LH.M., Rev.Ferrer Smith, O.P. and Rev. Mi­chael Stock, O.P.

Chairperson for the facilita­tors' group is Sister Vivian Jen­nings, prioress general of theCaldwell Dominicans, presidentof the Dominican LeadershipConference and a director of theLeadership Conference of Wom­en Religious.

Serving as chapter consultantis Rev. Leo Arnault, O.P., canon­ist for St. Joseph Province of theDominican Order and liaison per­son between the Dominican Fa­thers and Sisters.

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-R. H. Benson

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The Confraternity of ChristianMoth.ers will"p~n t/J~. yea!; witha special 'Communion '·Mass· at6:30 on Monday night, Sept. 9.

Mrs.. Pat Gagnon and Mrs.Carol Gagnon will serve as co··chairmen for the catered chickenbuffet that will be served at 7o'clock.

Mrs. Lois Gingras will presideat the business meeting.

MT. CARMEL,NEW BEDFORD

A parish bazaar will be heldfrom 6 to lion Saturday eve·ning, Sept. 7 and from 2 to lionSunday, Sept. 8 on the parishschool grounds.

Games, continuous entertain­ment and food will be offered a!'iwell as the drawing for the raf·fle's grand prize of a trip toPortugal.

ST. JOSEPH,ATTLEBORO

A meeting of acolyte super­visors of the Knights of the Altarwill be held at 7:30 on Sundayevening, Sept. 8 in the parishhall.

The first rehearsal for the sen­ior' choir will be held at 11:15on Sunday morning and the ini­tial rehearsal for the junior choiris scheduled for 10:30 on Satur­day morning, Sept. 7,

ST. ROCH,FALL RIVER

A 7 o'clock Mass on Mondayevening, Sept. 9 will open thefall activities of the Council ofCatholic Women and will be fol·lowed by a business meetoing.

The officers will act as host­esses.

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IT WILL RING AGAIN: Father James McKenna, pastorof St. .Mary Star of the Sea Church in Far Rockaway, N. Y"stands beside the 1897 Baltimore bell which was rescuedfrom a fire which destroyed his church Feb. 16. A fundraising drive to build a new structure was spurred by aJewish neighbor of the, parish and three rabbis serve onthe rebuilding committee.NC Photo.. " ,r,~ ~,,(',r";' ~, ' " ':

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BIRMINGHAM (NC) - Reli­gious leaders from northern Ala­bama have pledged to eat lessfood and donate'more money forthe reJ.ief of world starvation.

Bishop Joseph G. Vath of Bir­mingham met with representa-'tiv'es of the Episcopal, Method­ist, Baptist, Church of God, andChristian Churches as well asJewish leaders facing millions o~

people in the Third World of de·veloping nations.

At the end of the meet,ingthey issued a statement pledgingto abstain from one meal perweek for the -next, year and todonate the money saved to inter­national relief efforts.

dropped by, checkbook in hand.:rhe building fund' began to read:First Presbyterian Church,$2,100; Methodists, $1.000; Unit­ed Church of Christ, $500; Epis­copal Church, $500.

Why? Father McKenna said he

Fire,"lnspi,res'Community Action

Anlerican HealthCOll1gress Disbands

CHICAGO (NC) - The recentmeeting of the American HealthCongress in Chicago was the or­ganization's last.

The American Health Congresswas a three-year experiment byfour major health organizationsto told a joint meeting. TheAmerican Hospital Association,largest of the four sponsoring,groups, decided not to continuethe congress because it felt itwas losing its identity.

The other three sponsoringgroups were the Catholic Hospi­tal Association, the AmericanNursing' Home Association(ANHA) .and the Health Indus­tries Association (HIA), whichprovided exhibits at meetings.

FAR ROCKAWAY (NC)--Un­til it was leveled by fire on Feb.Ili, S1. Mary Star of the SeaC!lurch stood like a Catholie is­land in a heavily Jewish year­round seaside community, an air­port away from the rest of theDiocese of Brooklyn.

The late Gov. AI Smith wasa parishioner in its earlier, moreIr:sh days.· Over a 117-year·his­tory, as the oldest Catholicchurch in a community now num­bering about 110,000, the parishheld an honored place in FarRockaway-and never more sothan now.

Within hours of the fiery dis­aster wh-ich totally razed thebuilding, a generous Jewishneighbor, Bernard Feuer, whoruns two nursing homes, called30 or 40 of his businessmenfriends. Then he called the pas­tor, Father James McKenna, andan associate, Father John Regan,to his office.

"Let's get going!" Feuer com­mc,nded.

The result was the Committeeto Rebuild St. Mary's, w.hich hasnow raised about 60 per cent ofits goal of $200,000 toward anew church and bas n9w ex­panded to become a communitygroup. It includes three rabbis,

"The committee wants to im­prove the shopping area, to fightdetereioration and make this areaa place of joy for tourists," Fa­ther McKenna rela,ted.

"Our fire was a shot in t.hearm to the whole community. Itreexamined its'elf, its future andits concerns."

An example of local deteriora­tion is what has happened to FarRoc:kaway's' only other Catholicparish, St. Gertrude's, he noted.Because of long neglect from thecity. slum conditions developedin what was once "a thrivingsummer colony."

St. Gertrude's is subsidized bythe diocese, he said, and staffedby a team of young priests serv­ing a congregation comprised inlarge part of parishioners on wel­fare.T~e 5t. Mary's fire brought

other reactions that astonished.its 1,200 families, a melting potof Irish, Italians, Puerto Ricansand blacks. .

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and quiet, but a sense of bitter­ness and frustration which could

'make the turbulent 1960s andearly 1970s look serene and tran­quil by comparison.( © 1974 by NC News Service)

that the p'resident and his WhiteHouse associates ought to try

I 'too hard to do so. Most Amer-icans-indeed, most people any­where anti everywhere in theworld-would undoubtedly wel­come a bit' of peace and quiet.But peace Iand quiet are illusivegoals and Ilikely to escape tis ifthey are Qonsciously pursued as'end in they themselves.

The goa)s I would like, to seethe Ford Administration pursueare justic~ and compassion' forthe poor as the principal victimsof inflatio~, which is our numberone domestic problem. If thisproblem c4n be solved with jus­tice to all Isegments of our pop­ulation, eSpecially to the poor,we can re~sonably_ hope to en­joy a. bit Of peace and quiet asa sort of fringe benefit. ,But ifthe new ~dministration tries tosolve the ,problem of inflationat the expense of the poor andat the cost lof higher rates of un­employmen,t, the hopes and ,ex­pectations 'of Messrs. Brinkleyand Chanc~llor. are not likely tobe fulfille&

Talent for Reconciliation'President; Ford, from all that

we know about him, is a decent. I

man In every respect-a manwho puts great stock in honesty,openness bnd candor.' Theseeiu~lities Will stand, him and thenation in gbod stead during thistransition p;eriod.

I hope and pray, however, thatPresident Ford will also prove tobe a man of compassionate con­cern for the rights of the' poorand underprivileged and a com­mitted chaJ,pion of civil rightsfor Blacks I and the Spanish­speaking-two groups in our so­ciety who fel~l, with good reason,that their 'legitimate interestsand concern~ were not taken se­riously enough by the last Ad­ministration!

By instinct; temperament, andexperience, ;President Ford ap-

. pears to ha\1e a particular talentfor reconciliation. This, too, wmserve him arid the nation in goodstead in the months that lieahead. But the word recondlia­tion as the Protestant theologian,Jurgen Moltmann, has pointedout, "has .. j become ,cheap andunreal" and; has been 'misusedand betrayed even by "historicalChris.tendom i itself." ,

Ersatz 'Reconciliation"False prophets," Moltmann

says, "speak', of peace and callto peace where there is no peace.rhey comfort the people in theirmisfortune, t~lling them it is notat all so b"d. Appeasement issubstituted ,for reconciliation,'and religio~ (together withpatriotism, he might have added)is misused for the purpose ofkeeping the 'poor quiet so thatthe suffeI:ersl will 'be satisfiedwith unrighteousness and not,protest it t06 strongly."

This' kind Of ersatz "rec:mcil­iation," which I am sure is ab­horrent to Pr~sid'ent Ford, wouldpro<;\uce the, very opposite ofdomestic peace and tranquility.It would brirl,g about not peace

Care for RightsUnderp~ivileged/

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disappointed at the outcome,were relieved that the crisis hadbeen resolved and that they,would no longer have to endurethe almost unbearable strain ofwaiting, day after day, and inthe end, minute by minute, forthe other shoe to drop.

Many Americans-induding anumber of TV commentatorswhom Mr. Nixon had consideredhis enemies - were either tooemotionally drained or toorespectful of the Presi:lency tocome right out and say that eve­ning that they were glad thePresident, however unwillingly,had passed the torch to VicePresident Ford. But 0I1,the fol­lowing evening when the com­mentators came together on theirrespective networks to rev,iewcollectively the events of one ofthe most' hectic and fatefulweeks in the history of the Re­public, they had regained theircomposure and said bluntly whatthey thought about the changeof the guard and what they ex­pected from the new Adminis­tration.

Peace, TranquilityI was impressed-negatively

as well as positively-by a briefcolloquy between John Chancel­lor and David Brinkley at thevery end of the NBC's kaleido­scopic rev few of the week. Mr.Brinkley, when asked as a seniorNBC pundit what he expectedfrom the Ford, Administration,replied· that he-and, in his opin­ion the majority of the Americanpeople-would settle for a' bit ofthat "domestic peace and tran­quility" which the Constitutionpromises to give us but seldomdoes.

He said, nostalgically, that wehave experienced nothing' buttension, and dissent-the veryopposite of domestic peace andtranquility-during the past 10or 15 years. As a result, he slig­gested that the American peopleare out of breath a~d desperately,longing for a change of pace.

Ford's GoalsNBC's anchorman John Cohan­

cellor nodded assent. They bothexpressed a desire for a periodof "peace and quiet."

It remains to be seen whetherPresident Ford and his new Ad­ministration can oblige. For myQwn l'art, I am not even sure

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StressesOf Poor,

One-hundred-thirty-seven million Americans are said,, I

to have watched President Nixon on TV when he announcedhis resignation on Aug. 8. When it was over, you couldalmost hear them sigh collectively, from :Maine to California,with a great sense of reliefthat the nation's most trau­matic peacetime crisis (or, 'asPresident Ford put it the

'next day, our national night­mare) was finally ended. I daresay that even President Nixon'smost loyal supporters, though

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unitive affairs, where controver­sies are settled and community

. maintained. And of course, wesign forth our unity most clearlywhen we break bread togetherin the Eucharist, wit,h Jesus asour common bond.

Creative Phase at MealtimeIn the light of the relationship

between meals and reconciliationin our Christian faith, I wonderif all of us might undertake ayear of renewal on the themeof reconciliation around ourmeals. We are living in a timewhen the family meal is givingway to quick-service hamburg­ers, pizza and TV dinners. May­be we CQuid all put some thoughtand creativity into making our

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MEALS AND RECONCILIATION: "Prayer beforemeals is one way of reminding one another of the needsof our brothers and sisters in the Third World, but itshould not be the only way." A family joins hands to offerthanksgiving around a candlelit table in New Orleans.

of a ministry of reconciliationamong the divorced has onlyvery recently been raised.

Finally there is the matter ofpersonal reconciliation in thelives of all of us. It is here thatreconciliation affects us moredirectly and acutely. What ofreconciliation within f,amilies:between husband and wife,be­tween parents and children, andamong members of the extendedfamily? Could it be that there isno person alive who does notface reconciliation as a personalissue in his own life? It justcould be. •

Specific Theme

What can one do to make thereconciliation theme of the HolyYear come alive? There are prob­ably many different ways oftaking reconciliation seriousiy.Whatever one does, it should bespecific and conc,rete. I wish tosuggest one approach whichcould be used by families tomake reconciliation a real issue.It has to do with meals.

Have you ever noticed howoften in scripture Jesus' ownwork of reconciliation takesplace in the context of meals?He sits down to -eat with Zac­cheus, with Matthew, with "sir­ners." The meals of the gospels,of the entire new Testament, are

By Bro. Michael Warren, C.F.X.

How are we to make sense outof the Holy Year? Even thoughit has an ancient history, withroots in the Jewish jubilee year,some guestion its usefulness forthe present. Is it an anachro·nism, a bit of ancient history notsuited to a time' of speeded·upchange? Time will tell whetherthe 1975 Holy Year had signifi-­cance for the lives of Catholicpeople. 'Meanwhile we eachmust ask ourselves whether weare willing to enter into thespirit of the Holy Year? The fol­lowing are some questions thatmay help us answer for our·selves the personal question ofour place in the Holy Year.

ValidityIs the concept "Holy Year" a

valid one for Christians? In asense, all time is holy for aChristian. The call to give anaccount of our faith, to respond,

. is always a "now" call. In theresurrection, Jesus initiated thenew aeon. The time of salvationis here; the day has arrived. Alltimes are' holy, no one holierthan another. If we have triedto live the Go~pel, we know thetruth of this insight.

However, it is also true thatthe Christian mystery is moreprofound than any particularforms of expression. Aspects ofthat mystery have to be high­lighted, isolated and examinedin themselves. This is what theliturgical year does. And theChuroh, then, has a right, if nota duty to marshall its effortsaround the w<;Jrld and to call onus all to respond more particu­larly to a single aspect of themystery. The Holy Year is atime for doing this, and theaspect we will consider moreparticularly is reconciliation.

IssueIs reconciliation really an is­

sue? There are few needs in thehuman community that are morean issue than reconciliation. Asa theme it is all encompassingand hits at every level of Chris­tian living.

We live in a time when a de­structive nuclear' capacity iswithin the grasp of more andmore nations. Blood still flowsfreely fu'om armed clashes in atime of supposed peace. Furtherand possibly more importantly,the inequities in human reosources, especially food supplies,among various nations of theworld, is becoming an acutematter of conscience rather thanof economic statistics.

Within the church itself thereare many unresolved issues ofreconciliation. There is a needfor reconciliation within variousministries. Women have yet tobe taken seriously and given afull voice in ministry: In additionthere is the painful matter of somany priests who have chosento marry and for that reasonthey are excluded from minis­try. Tensions between a highlyeducated laity and the clergyhave been sharpened over thepast 10 years alone. The question

trine of creation in which thework of God is not finished longago but going on now, and inwhich human persons are activecollaborators. Moreover, it takesa perspective on creation inwhich the world that God makesis always a gift to all mankindand none has the right to appro­priate the' means of productionso as to exclude and impoverishothers, by driving hard bargainsand pressing natural and histor­ically acquired advantages.

This is a hard doctrine to the'Privileged. It is so now and itwas so in ancient Israel. The lawand practice of Israel assumedthat this understanding of manand creation would be given lipservice but honored more bybreach than observance. This iswhy Israel instituted its year ofspecial observance when in thecontext of heightened prayer andreflection on the law of God, de­mands were made to right tl,lewrongs and redress the balanceso as to free the poor and theoppressed from inhuman bur­dens, brutalizing work and con­ditions and constant nagginganxiety.

Message of ConsolationJesus did not say that we who

are His followers could forgetabout all this because salvationis a purely spiritual matter that

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At bottom, however, prospectsfor renewal and reconciliation inthe social order depend onwhether renewal and reconcilia­tion take place in the lives ofcountless millions of individuals.Personal renewal and reconcilia·tion are the foundation of renew­al and reconciliation in society.

Even on the personal level, thequestion of priority is crucial.Renewal comes before reconcil­iation-not precisely because itis more important, but becauseself-renewal is the indispensableprerequisite of reconciliation.

Pauline RenewalWhat sort of self-renewal does

the Holy Year envision? Re­newal in the sense of St. Paul'swords in the letter to the Ephe­sians: "You must lay aside yourformer way of life and the oldself which deteriorates throughillusion and desire ... You mustput on that new man created inGod's image, whose justice andholiness are born of truth."

This kind of "laying aside"and "putting on" is not at all thesame as a change of clothes. Ex­ternal change is not at issue, butrather interior self-renewal. Thisis renewal which begins with aradical change in the way wethink and value and act. It iswhat is called conversion.

Who needs renewal? Perhapsthe better' question is: whodoesn't? Pope Paul, announcingthe Holy Year, suggested that in­terior renewal is needed by "theperson who thinks and in his

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MONIKA K.

HELLWIG

By

Catholics of the whole worldobserve the Holy Year period­icaHy, in continuity with thecustoms in Israel of the Sabbathof years and the Jubilee Year.As in the week we observe Sun­day as a day of rest from ourord,inary work and preoccupationwith personal profit, and as aday of prayer and meditationand wonder at the gift of natureand of our own existence, so inthe years we have need of timesto pause and reconsider what lifeis all about and what society isdoing to realize the purposes ofhuman life.

The prescriptions for such ::lb­servances in Israel included rulesabout leaving the ground fallow,about redistribution of land andcapital assets, about the remis­

'sion of onerous debts, about thefreeing of slaves. This impliesan understanding of the relationof man to God and to the ere·ated universe. It assumes a doc-

RUSSELL

SHAW

By

Thousands of words have beendevoted to the Holy Year. Innu­merable meetings have beenheld, complex preparations havebeen made in Rome and through·out the world.

But whether the words, meet­ings and preparations ultimatelyadd up to a great d,eal-or veryIittle--depends on what does ordoes not happen in the mindsand hearts of individual Chris­tians.

The Holy Year has a two-fold·theme: renewal and reconcilia-'tion. BotJh aspects of this themehave an obvious social thrust.They call attention to the urgentneed for righting social injus­tices, for fostering peace in theworld, for healing the divisionsamong races and social classes.

By RUSSELL SHAW

What does the Holy Yearmean to you and me?

This article is not going to an·swer that question. A book-anencyclopedia even-couldn't an­swer it. The reason is that theanswer, whatever it. is, will begiven individually by each of us.

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PITTSBURGH (NC) - Highschool lay teachers have signeda three-year contract with theDiocese of Pittsburgh, endingthree months of negotiations thatonce seemed headed for strike.

Salaries this fall will rangefrom $6,000 to $13,000 with an­other $400 for teachers with amaster's degree. In the third yearof the contract the range will befr.om $7,600 to $13,700. Depart­ment chairmen will receive anadditional $400 annually. Bycomparison, first year salariesin area public schools now aVer­age about .$8,600.

The agreement, between thediocese and the Federation ofPittsburgh Diocesan Teachers(AFL·CIO), also provides BlueCross and Blue Shield coverage,including major medical insur­ance. It raises the number ofsick days that may be accumu­\oated f·rom 30 to 45. Teachersmay use six of their 10 annualdays for family illness requiring·a teacher's presence at home, a,feature called unique in schoolpacts by federation leaders.

The agreement covers 350 layteachers in 21 of the diocese's36 high schools. The otherschools are priv,ate academies ofspecial institutions not union-'ized. The pact covers all 350 layteachers, although about 200 arefederation .members. The 350compose 60 per cent of the fac­ulties, the other 40 per cent be­ing Sisters and Brothers.

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any of these senses. But wehave. not been left to our owndevices. Reconciliation has al­ready been accomplished for usby Christ. We need only respond hto make it a reality in our lives. T ings

Christ Our Model, In the study Of ,created thingsChrist is our "model" of rec- we must not exercise a mere

onciliation in all the senses men- idle and passing curiosity, buttioned. But he is much more must make them a stepping­than a model. He is also the su- stone to things that are immortalpreme agent of reconciliation- and that abide for ever.the one who brings it about. By '> ~St. AugustineHis teaohing, His life, death andresurrection, and by His contin-ued grace~giving presence,through His Church, in the worldand in our lives, He provides us.the practical means for accom­plishing self-renewal and recon­ciliation.

What, theR, does the Holy'Year mean to you and me? Ev­erything and nothing, depend­ing on what we choose to make,of it. Christ forces nothing onus. He only offers us opportuni­ties. The Holy Year is one.

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ST. PETER'S IN SPOTLIGHT: "Thousands of wordshave been devoted to the Holy Year. Innumerable meetingshave been held ,complex preparations have been made inRome and throughout the world." The spotlight will be onSt. Peter's Basilica when Holy Year events are in fullswing. NC Photo.

Continued from Page Thirteenthought has lost the certainty oftruth; the person -who works andin his work has come to realizethat he is so turned outward thathe no longer really has communi­cation with 'himself; the personwho enjoys .life, amuses himself,and has so many exciting waysof gaining pleasurable experiencethat he soon feels bored and dIs­illusioned."

Pope Paul said modern manneeds renewal because of his"profound dissatisfaction, satietycoupled with, insufficiency, un­,happin~ss produced by false for­mulas for happiness ... dismayat not knowing how to enjoy thethousand-and-one pleasures thatcivilization offers him in abun-dance." _

Is there anyone who can hon­estly say that renewal isn't forhim?

After self-renewal comes ree­onciliation. But reconciliation ofwhom and with whom?

Interior ReconciliationFil'St of all, perhaps, interior

reconc'iliation of warring aspectsof our own' personhood. Recon­ciliation of our actions with ourideals, of what we a,re with whatwe aspire to be. llhis is recon­ciliation in the sense of personalintegrity and authenticity.

The reconciliation in our rela­tionships, individually and col­lectively, with others. Reconcil­iation between parents and chil­dren; between the haves and the,have-nots; among blacks andwhites, yellows and browns; rec..onciliation between social classesand nations. This reconciliationembraces such values as friend ..ship, social justice, and peace.'

Finally, recondliation in ourrelationship with God who­seems "far away" and "hidden"only as long as we choose tokeep him at a distance and notto look for him.

Left to our own devices, wewould have little chance ofachieving reconciliation in all or

own image and likeness, an im­age of life-giving love, of self-giftto others,' of liberation of. others,of the freedom not to grasp andsnatch and put up defenses butrather to encourage and fosterthe freedbm of others withoutfear. I

Nee~ for Holy YearThere are also, many ways

of unders'tanding reconciliation.There is a basic distinction be­tween t~o religious attitudes.One is concerned' with reconcil­ing the cohsciousness of man tothe way things are. This attitudeis literally one of saving soulsout of the world. It is preoccu­pied with 'changing the expecta­tions of ~individuals, to bringthem into line with what is al .. ,ready happening, to tone downtheir desires to ,match tl}e waythe world I already is. This canscarcely qe squared with theChristian message of salvation.The alterriate attitude is con­cerned ,with reconciling whatgoes on in the world to whatought to b¢ in response to God'scall. This is not a matter of sav­ing souls b~t of saving the world.In other words it is a matter ofchanging the world and its waysand its priorities and values tobe more responsive to the call ofGod. It ap~lies to the public de;cisions and policies by whichmen's lives are so powerfl:llJyshaped just as much as it ap­plies to' th~ir personal and fam­ily affa irs. I

To live Iby the light of thecoming Reign of God requires somuch courage and so much de­tachment ;from our personalprivileges and advantages, thatwe very much need a year ofintensified prayer and meditationon the message and call of Jesusto foster tne atmosphere in thecommunity: of Christians inwhich we dan be honest aboutour Christi,an commitment tobr.ing about the redemption ofthe world.' :

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College i Observes1OOth ~nniversary

SANTA F:E (NC) - The NewMexico state legislature sent of­ficial congdtulations to the Col­lege of Sant~ Fe on the occasionof the 1OOtij annive~sary of theschool's incorporation.,

It was inchrporated in 1874 asthe College! of the ChristianBrothers of New Mexico. J

The act: of incorporationpassed by th:e legislation of whatwas then th1e Territory of NewMexico lega,lJy autborized thegranting of degrees, but it wasnot until 1947 that St. Michael's'College was] founded as an in­stitution of higher education. Thename was changed in 1965 tolink the school more closely tothe communi'ty it serves.

In 1947,' Brother Benildus,founder and I first president ofthe college, 'obtained 125 acresof land and ~ar surplus buildingsfrom the f~deral government.The original faculty of 12 Chris­tian Brothersihad one table, fourchairs, a typewriter imd fourmonths to tr*nsform empty hos­pital wards i~to classrooms, clor­mitories and administrationfacilities.

lH~mility

Christ is ~ith those of hum­ble mind, not ,with those who ex­alt themselves over his flock.

--St. Clement

Continued from Page Thirteendoes not enter the realm of ex­perience and awareness. On thecontrary, in one important NewTestament passage. His missionis deliberately placed within thecontext of the Jubilee Year, theliberation of the oppressed andthe breaking of good news to thepoor (Lk. 4, 16-21). The goodnews of Jesus about the Reignof God that does not have tocome down from heaven but isalready within our hearts, if wewould respond in a radical way,is good news to the poor. It isnot intended to tell the poorthat it is really quite nice to bepoor, because they know that itis brutalizing. The good newsthat we call the Gospel of OurLord Jesus Christ is a messageof consolation to the oppressedbecause it promises that thingsare going to change for them.

Twofold Theme. When' we as Catholics cel­

ebrate a Holy Year we are con­cerned with renewal and recon­ciliation. We recall that it isJesus and his message that makeall things new and that reconcileall in his Cross \;Vhich is. the signof scandal and contradiction andultimately the sign of peace.We recall these things and re­flect again in an atmosphere ofheightened prayer and an atmo­sphere to promote ·greater gen­erosity, what these ancient say~

ings may mean in our lives today.There are many possible ways

of renewal, but the renewal ofwhich we speak in the contextof the death and Resurrection ofJesus, is a .leap beyond theclutches of the consequences ofevil deeds in'the history of man­kind-the newness of creationthat responds to the call of theCreat,or God to grow into God's

The Theology of H~ly Y·ear

Holy YearContinued from Page Thirteen

meals "work."Here are some possible ap­

proaches:Make family meals special by,

inviting guests on a more regularbasis. Invite persons from yourneighborhood who are elderly oralone, so your family can beenriched by their presence.

Use family meals to celebrateone another's presence.. I knowa family that each month .cele­brates a different family mem­ber. It's fun and gives all achance to appreciate each ·other.

Use f~mily meals to fostersolidarity with the hungry andneedy around the world. Prayerbefore meals is one way of re­minding one another of the needsof our bro~hers and sisterH in' thethird world, but it should not bethe only way. The meal itselfcould be a reminder either be­cause of its simplicity or becauseof the careful choice- of what iseaten.

Meals might also be ways of,healing painful family rifts, evenlongstanding ones. .

There is no limit to what couldbe done by creative persons whoare willing to !iee reconciliationas a live issue in their own per­sonal lives. There is also nolimit to the possibilities of mealsfor forging human bonds andpeace with one another. What­ever you do, YOU have to do it.The Holy Year will enter yourlife if you enter the Holy Year.

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Secret ElectionsBill Killed

SACRAMENTO (NC) - TheCalifornia legisuature closed itsbusiness for the year withoutapproving a bill that would havepermitted secret ballot electionsfor farm workers.

The measure had been ap­proved by the state assembly, butwas killed in the senate througha parliamentary maneuver by Optponents of the bill.

On Aug. 21 the senate rejecteda hurry-up hearing on the billand there were behind-the-scenesefforts to call a special hearing,but without avail.

The measure, supported by theUnited Farm Workers of Ameri­ca (UFWA) and the state AFL­CIO, was opposed by the Team­sters' union and grower repre­sentatives. It would have allowedfarm workers secret elections toselect union representation or toreject any union. Its demise wasattributed to the fact that it didnot prohibit secondary boycotts,a major weapon in Cesar Cha­vez' struggle against thegrowers. " •

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SermonsPriorities

Foundation Gets$30,000 Gift

CHICAGO (NC) - The Catho­lic Order of Foresters (COF) hasawarded its eighth annual giftof $30,000 to the Catholic Com­munications Foundation (CCF).

In accepting the contribution,Bishop Andrew G. Grutka ofGary, Ind., president and treas­urer of CCF, expressed gratitudefrom the American bishops forthe continuing support by COF.

Louis E., Caron, high chiefranger, presented the gift.

Established by the CatholicFraternal Benefit Societies inresponse to an invitation in 1964from bishops of the UnitedStates to aid the Church 'inworking with broadcasting me­dia, CCF has helped with radioand television programs con­cerned with drug abuse, right tolife, poverty, Ca.tholic educationand other subjects. CCF alsoawards grants and scholarships.

RiGhard T. Tobin, chairman ofthe board of COF and vice presi­dent of CCF, said that "the Cath­olic Order of Foresters, as a fra­ternal benefit society, is interest­ed in people's welfare, and heart­ily supports CCF, which bringsto all people the basic Christiantruths arid ideals through radioand television."

has been given, etc. There shouldbe special awards for: AllAround Worst: The Longest; Thp.Dullest; The Most Innane; TheMost Juvenile; The Least Com­prehensible; The Most Pointless.Winners would receive a weekof retribution. They would beconfined to a soundproof roomwhere the tapes of the winningsermons would be played over,and over, and over, and over,and over."

Laity's RecourseOnly the most naive would ex­

pect a senate of prjests to beconcerned about the quality ofsermons preached in a diocese.That will surely not even appearon the list of priorities to be dil­igently collected by the survey.After all, the laity only pay thebills.

What recourse do the laityhave? Well, they could stop pay­ing the bills, but most of themare too charitable to do that. Asan alternative, they could senda subscription to the bad preach­ers of one of the many moder­ately good homiletic servicesand suggest (ananymously, sincemost of the priests take anon­ymous 'letters more seriouslythan signed ones':""'as in fact dolots of bishops and archbishops)tha,t instead of giving a sermon,

, Father, simply read what's in thehomiletic newsletter.

The 'only trouble is that it isnot at all clear that the worstpreachers still know how to read.If they were reading, you see,they would be giving good ser­mons.

And if they were reading, theywouldn't need a survey to deter­mine priorities.© 1974, Universal Press Sy'd'c't

By

REV.

ANDREW M.

GREELEY

Suggests BetterIn List of New

A priest senate I know of is busily engaged in "takinga survey" to find out what are the "priorities" of the priestsin its diocese. One couldn't ask for a better example ofwhat's wrong with the American Church. I'd be the last oneto knock taking surveys. Butanyone with an elementaryknowledge of survey re­search would know that youcan't set priorities by taking asurvey. Plebiscite democracy isfine (though then you don't needa priests senate), but it doesn'tgive you priorities; at best it

gives you a list of pr00lem5­which is something else alto­gether.

'Priorities are determined byleaders, or visionaries, or plan­ning-commissions-depending onwhat kind of priorities you havein mind. Maybe your prioritiesought to be approved by a senateafter they have been elaborated,particularly if they are planning­commission priorities. But priestsenates are afraid of leaders andvisionaries and they don't knowwhat planning-commissions areall about-and don't understandtheir limita,tions.

What Laity ThinkOf course, vision and leader­

ship is what we have bishops for.And if a bishop isn't laying outa visionary list of priorities forhis priests,' maybe the priestsoU'ght to request a new bishopinstead of taking a survey.

There is an abundance of dataavailable about what prieststhink their problems are; wehardly need a new survey forthat. If a senate is interested ingathering ra,w material for anexamination of priorities, itmight much more appropriatelyfind out what the laity think aretheir problems. But this is a sub­ject about which most groups ofpriests are notably uninterested.Till they begin to 'show such.interest they ought not to betaken very seriously.

I can tell them, though, whatbothers the laity most---'Sundaysermons. (And af.ter that, the reli­gious education of children, towhich I will return in a latercolumn.) The outpouring of let­ters from lay' folk in responseto my recent column on sermonsmay not be a scientific sample,but the sheer power of, it leaveslittle doubt about lay anger.

'Ten Lousiest'Take one example: "I propose

a contest among the laity to se­lect 'The Ten Lousiest Sermons 'of 1974-75.'... Lt could be thecontest of the century! Ima,ginethe monumental number of nom­inations'. From cities, towns andvillages across t.he land, youwould be buried in mountains ofwords that have poured from the

~ pulpit, drowning the laity in apool of prattle ... Certain detailsmust be worked out for the con­test, such as categories, length,number of times same sermon

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