FATHER HANNA

DETROIT (NC)-Anti-abortionis an all-community effort, the92nd Supreme Council Conven­tion of the Knights of Columbuswas/told here.

In his talk to the delegates,Supreme Knight John W. Mc­Devitt took issue with the notionthat the anti-abortion fight is astrictly Catholic effort.

Such tactics "should not trickzealous Catholic laymen into for­saking their crusade to preservelife," he said.

Many pro-abortoinists, he con­tinued, "try both to minimizeand to discredit opposition to un­restrained killing of the unborn"'by labeling such efforts as aCatholic concern.

"The solution is not to askCatholics to take a lower profile,but to encourage other religiousand civic groups to set a higherone," he said.

Anti.Abortion:More catholic-Than Catholic

ish ministry in I 1970 due to illhea.Jth.

He is survived by three sistersin Rhode Island: Mrs. MargaretCarey (Cumberland), Mrs. LucyFullerton (Rumford), and SisterMary Barbara, R.S.M. (Warwick).,

"Unfortunately su~h a state ofaffairs has produced in manyPalestinians a sense of frustra­tion and, in some, such anguishand desperation as to move themto acts of violent protest whichwith sorrow we have been con­strained strenuously to deplore.

"It seems to us, nevertheless,that this is the moment for allPalestinians to look to the futurewith a constructive, united andresponsible attitude, as the hopebecomes ever stronger that theirparticular problems will be dis­cussed and that a solution tothem wiU be found during thecurrent general negotiations forpeace in the Middle East."

PalestiniansFuture

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Rev. Joseph F. Hanna Dies,Founded Holy Cross Parish

Most Rev. James J. Gerrard,Auxiliary Bishop of Fall River,will' preside at the Liturgy ofChristian Burial this afternoonat 4 o'clock in the Holy CrossChurch, So. Easton, for the lateRev. Joseph F. Hanna, C.S.C.

The former pastor and founderof Holy Cross Parish in So. Eas­ton, Father Hanna died at HolyCross Infirmary in South Bend,Ind. on Sunday, Aug. 25. Burialwill be in the Holy Cross Cem­etery at Stonehill College.

Born in Pawtucket, R. I. onSept. 22, 1912, the Holy CrossFather was the son of the lateJames and the late Anna Harma.

He studied at the Universityof Notre, Dame and was ordaineda priest there in 1939. He' thenbecame a member of the MissionBand and preached in parishesthroughout the country.

In 1958, he was named to theProvincial Council of the HolyCross Fathers' Eastern Province.

In 1966, he was designated thefounder and first pastor of HolyCross Parish, So. Easton. Underhis direction the parish churchwas built and opened in 1967.He was forced to resign his par-

"The work of the Mission forPalestine has been one of theclearest signs of the Holy See'sconcern for the welfare of thePalestinians; who are particular­ly dear to us because they arepeople of the Holy Land, becausethey. include followers of Christand because they have been andare still being so tragicallytried."

Expressing his sympathy forthe suffering of the Palestiniansand his support for "their legit·imate.aspirations," the Pope con­tinued. "May our paternal solic­itude bring comfort and encour­agement, especiaIly to the ref­ugees, who for years have beenliving under inhuman conditions.

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Labor StatementUpholds UtilityOf Unions

WASHINGTON (NC) - Al­though the labor movement hasbeen attacked from both theright and the left during the pastyear, it has taken at least twosignificant steps during thattime, Msgr. George G. Higgins,secretary for research of theU. S. Catholic Conference,' saidhere in a Labor Day statement.

The labor movement, Msgr.Higgins said, "is being told, atone extreme, that it is too weakto survive and, at the. other ex­treme, that it has acquired suchexcessive power that it shouldnot be permitted to survive in itspresent form."

However, 'he said that hethought those views were toosimplistic.

The problems which broughtthe unions into existence, headded, will continue to be ofconcern to workers.

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VATICAN CITY (NC) - Thetime has come for Palestinians,"who for years have been livingunder inhuman conditions," tolook to the future, said PopePaul VI in a letter to Msgr. John

• G. Nolan, president of the Pon­tifical Mission for Palestine, tomark the 25th anniversary ofthe mission's creation.

Referring to the activities ofthe mission "established with ad­mirable foresight and in a spiritof charity ... by Pius XII," PopePaul said in his letter, dated July16:

"We have followed with per­sonal interest this activity in thevarious forms which it has taken.to meet the grave and multipleneeds of the refugees, often incoordination with the activitywhich other organizations, in­cluding those which are 'notCatholic, have commendablycarried out.

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of the priest and in the pastoralneeds of our times." Sessionswill be held at Paray-Ie-Monial,site of apparitions of the SacredHeart to St. Margaret Mary Ala­coque, and at the Basilica of theSacred Heart, Montmartre, Paris.

Speakers will include nine Car­dinals, six Bishops and two lay­men: Frank Sheed and Jean Guit­ton. John Cardinal Wright, Pre­fect of the Congregation for theClergy, which is backing theCongress, will speak on "TheSacred Heart-a persuasive sym­bol." Archbishop William Baumof Washington; D.C., will talkon' "The Heart of Jesus, hopefor peace in the Church and inthe world."

The occasion for the Congress,which is being held in prepara­tion for' the Holy Year, is thethird centenary of the revelationsmade by Christ to' the Churchrequesting a special cult of HisSacred Heart, especially in theEucharist.

Discuss'ing American clergyparticipation in the congress,Father Larkin stated that, "TheEucharistic aspect of the revela­tions and requests made by Jesusat Paray make this congress amost significant and importantone for priests, especially at thistime' when priests. are seeking

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Summer Mass SchedulePages EIGHT and NINE

FATHER LARKIN, SS.CC.

Clergymen AgreeWith GovernorOn School Aid

WASHINGTON (NC) - Sev­eral Protestant and Jewish cler­gymen have expressed agreementwith Maryland Gov. Marvin Man­del's suggestion to them thatthe state would be better off pro­viding aid to nonpublic schoolsthan risking the collapse of thoseschools.

The governor spoke to about15 Protestant and Jewish clergy­men in suburban Kensington,Md., during a day of campaigningfor reelection.

Maryland's public schools could

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Fairhaven PriestFor French

A Fairhaven priest is assist­ing in organization of an inter­national clergy congress to beheld in France Sept. 13 through19. He is Rev. Francis Larkin,SS.CC., national director of thedevotion of the enthronement ofthe ,Sacred Heart in homes,whose headquarters are at 3Adams St., Fairhaven.

He reports that 300 priests,including 11 Cardinals and 30Bishops, have registered for themeeting, the first of its kind,which will have as its theme"The heart of Jesus in the life

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Northern IrelandViolence RoughOn Catholics

LONDON (NC) - At leasthalf the 1,056 victims of politicalviolence in Northern Ireland inthe past five years were Catho­lics, according to t~e Universe,a national ,Catholic newspaperpublished here.

Of the 738 civilians who died524 were Catholics and 209 Prot­estants with five of unknownreligion. The British Army lost264 men, of whom an unknownnumber were Catholics. Fifty­four policemen also died.

This year 127 people have diedso far-slightly more than foura week-as a result of politicalviolence.

Catholics are usually esti­mated to be a third of the popu­lation of Nortl:-ern Ireland.

Job DiscriminationOf the 550 men at present held

in Northern Ireland internmentwithout trial as terrorist sus­pects, about 500 are Catholicsand 50 Protestants.

The Universe has also report-, ed that Northern Ireland's big­

gest employer of labor, the Har­land and Wolff shipbuilders inBelfast, has only 500 Catholicworkers out of a work-force ofabout 12,000. Only two or pos­sibly t.hree of its 230 shop stew­ards (trade union officials) areCatholics.

The British government hasjust granted Harland and Wolffanother $24 mi\lion. The com­pany already has received $168million in government aid duringthe past eight years.

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CARA AnnountesTwo Appointments

WASHrIGTON (NC)-Passion..ist Father Cassian Yuhaus hasbeen named new coordinator forthe religious Hfe research andlplanning program of the Centerfor Applied Research in the

'Apostolate ,(CAR·A).

He succeds Jesuit Father JohnV. O'Connm:, wh() recently be­came CARA's executive director.

CARA .announced' also the ad­dition of Sister Nancy McAuleyof the Society of the SacredHeart to its religious life pro­gram as documentation super­visor. She wiH be in charge ofthe colle<;tion, cataloguing, andcoordination of materials on Re­ligious Hfe as a source of infor­mation ~or CARA's researchstaff, for Religious institutes andnational Catholic organiza1tionsin the United States and abroad.

SCHOLARSHIP: Most Rev. Da iel A. Cronin, S.T.D.,Bishop of Fall River, presents Catho ic University four yearfull tuition scholarship to William J. Kelley, son of. Mr. andMrs'. Thomas E. Kelley of St Joseph Parish, North Dighton,and a graduate of Dighton-Rehoboth Regional High School.Recipient is one of 29 in the country to receive the scholar­ship given by the University in reco nition of the contribu-

. tions ofdioceses to its growth and development.

.Jewish, Christian Students ClashOn Right to: Use SChobl Building

JERUSALEM (NC) - Jewish . Th~llegal title to the classfoo~students ,on Mount Zion have IS qUlt~ clear. It has been Angh-clashed with Christian students can prpperty for over 150 years,over the right to use an Anglican and wlas on lease' to the I1oly,school building, with the result Land nstitute.that a local court .declared a . But an emotional;', historicalmoratorium on further use of the proble is involved. The class­building by either party. room ad been use'd bya'Jewish

The Jewish students,. mostly girls' chool, but in hly theyAmericans, belong to he Dia- left an Christians took over.spora Yeshiva, a college for the The eshiva students consider!:-tildy of the Torah""";the first it out ageous that a' building10 books of the Bible - estab- which was a Jewish schoollished on Arab property near the should again he used by Chris­Christian shrine of the Last Sup- tians. Yeshiva students brokeper. The Christians attend the into t e classroom, put theirHoly Land Institute, a study cen- Yeshiv sign over the entranceter for American college students and put locks on the door. Theywho spend a year or so on bib- then ~Iidely claimed that therelical studies. .was a conspiracy of'Christians

Those t,wo groups of students _agains Jews and a danger thatstarted fighting when the Ye- Jews ould be excluded fromshiva tried to take over a class, Mount Zion,room of the Holy Land Instit.ute. The Israeli authorities werePolice were called in and 14 doubly embarrassed by the inci­of the Yeshiva students who re- dent, b cause Jews had attacked,~isted the. police were arrested, a Chri tian institution and be-with one of their rabbis. cause the Holy Land Institute

itself i a very pro·-IsraeI founda­tion, a d a symbol for the Is­raelis of Jewish~Christian· har­monY'I-

pointed rector of the NorthAmerican C?Hege in Rome.

IBishop Cronin headed the spe­cial commi~tee that includes a

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bishop~meml;>er from each of 'the12 ecclesias'tical regions in thecountry. Jo~n Cardinal Krol ofPhiladelphia) in announcing theappointment:, stressed that theappointmentl'''was the result of avery thorotlgh search' by theBishops' Committee for theNorth American College.

"Many of! the bishops of thecountry . came to know Msgr.Darcy persorally during his dec­ade of diligent work at the ap­ostolic delegation in Washing­ton," the Cardinal said. "Hisyears of outstanding service~ tothe Church\-including his re­cent experi~nce guiding Immac­ulate Conception Seminary-giveus ample ca~se to place our con­fidence iI) his ability to under­take this i~portant responsibil­ity. And our prayers go withhim." I

Bishop Cronin added, "The. Bishops' CO(nmittee is confident~hat, under Ihis leadership, theNorth American College will riseto an even I,high level of excel­lence in its vitally importantwork on behalf of the Church inthe United States."

Born JUlyilO, 1929, in Newark,Msgr. Darcyl studied at O'ConnellSecondary ~chool in Dublin, Ire-'land, under I the Irish ChristianBrothers, and later at Seton Hall

.University ih New Jersey, fromwhich he earned his bachelor'sdegree. He ~tudied philosophy at

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Immaculate Conception seminaryin Darlingt~m (Mahwah, N.J.),and theology at the North Amer­ican collegel Rome. His ordina­tion took place there Dec. 8,1954. i

Returning Ito the United,States,he served in :IParish and chanceryassignments for the Newarkarchdiocese I then returned toRome in August 1957 to studycanon law at the Gregorian Uni­versity, rec~iving his doctoratein June 1960.

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Bible SOFiet)' Elects'Catholi~ Layman'"

HARTFORiD (NC)-'-The Con­neeticut Bible Society, a tradi­tionally Protestant organization,, Ihas elected a Catholic layman asits new president.

IRaymond : E. Donovan, a

Northeast Utilities Co. executive,is the first C~tholic ever to head ,the society--+the oldest group of'its kind in t~e Unit.ed States., The socie~y was established

here in 18091 to distribute Biblesto person's u'nable to -buy them.It was patt~rned after' similar

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groups 10 England.Donovan, ~ctive in ecumenical

affairs in the Archdiocese of'Hartford, saia the basic purposeof the socie~y has nct . changedover the years.

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Vincent'an MeetingThe montq.ly meeting of the

Fall River particular Council,Society of S·~. Vincent de Paul,will be held Ion Tuesday, Sept.3. Mass wHl ~e said at 7 P.M. atSt. John of God Church, Brayton, IAvenue, Somerset. .

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- SEPT. 8Rev.· Thomas Sheehan, 1868,

Founder, Holy Trinity, WestHarwich

SEPT. 12Rev. John' J. Galvin, S.T.D.,

1962, Assistant, SS. Peter andPaul, Fall River

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effective means to revive euchar­istic piety among their people."

The Fairhaven priest cited, aforceful statement by CardinalWright: "I truly believe that itcan be said that the origin of allmodern evils is ignorance of th'eHeart' of Jesus.... We priestsand all men must place our hopein this Heart, asking and expect­ing from it our salvation."

Interested priests and laymenmay make reservations for thecongress with Father Larkin atthe Fairhaven address.

SEPT. 10Rev. Msgr. Felix S. Childs,

1969, Past9r Emeritus, SacredHeart, Fall River

Rev. Hugo Dylla, 1966, Pastor,St. Stanislaus, Fall R,iver

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Necro,l,ogySEPT. 7

Very Rev. James E. McMahon,1966, 'Pastor, Sacred Heart, 6akBluffs

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WASHIGTON (NC) - MostRev. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D"Bishop of Fall River and Chair­'man of the Bishops' Committeefor North American College hasdescribed the newly chosen rec­tor of the Rome institution as"an exemplary priest, distin­guished scholar and capable ad-ministrator." '

BISHOP CONGRATULATES JUBILARIAN: Bishop Cronin congratulates Rev. Msgr.Francis J. Gilligan, P.A., director of the Propagation of the Faith of St. Paul, Minn. as theFall River native is about to offer a Mass of Thanksgiving on the occasion of his 50 yearcelebration in St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River. Waiting to offer felicitations are two ofthe jubilarian's classmates at Holy Cross College, Rev. Msgr. George E. Sullivan, left, andRev. David A. O'Brien.

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Archbishop ArrivesIn Horse, Carriage

BURKETTSVILLE (NC)-Arch­bishop Joseph L. Bernardin ofCincinnati turned the clockback 100 years at the centennialobservance of St. Bernard'schurch here by arriving in theMercer county city in a carriagelast used by Archbishop JohnB. Purcell of Cincinnati a centuryearlier.

I«lnovation of the carriagewas part of the centennial com­mittee's program of celebratingthe parish's 100th birthday.

Arehbishop Bernardin enteredthe horse-drawn vehicle at StateRoute 118 and traveled approx­imately a mile west on MainStreet to St. Bernard's, where hewas met by Church and civicleaders and a band.

Top-hatted, bearded attendantsaccompanied him on the briefjourney.

Planned EventsOf Council 86

Council No. 86 of the Knightsof Columbus of Fall River haveplanned a chess program forsons and daughters of councilmembers. The contest will openon Sept. 28 and continue on thefollowing dates: Oct. 12 and 16;Nov. 9 and 25 and will close onDec. 14.

Potential contestants areasked to contact Donald Gustaf·son at 675-1089.

Installation of officers ofCouncil No, 86 will take pl'aceafter the 5 o'clock Mass on Sept.15 in St. Mathieu's Church. Adinner dance will follow in thechurch hall.

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Laity Shareton urged that the BlessedMother be viewed as the "Ma­donna of the wash tub" as op­posed to the "Madonna of thelilies."

"Because Mary lived so long. ago," he' said "we tend to roman­

ticize her in the pink sunset ofnostalgia." .

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SpiritTo live according to the spirit

is to think, speak and act accord­ing to the virtues that are in thespirit, and not according to thesense and sentiments which arein the nesh.

-St. Francis de Sales

DETROIT (NC}-The laity has"a defined share in the priest·hood of the Church," a high Vat­ican official told the 92nd su­preme council convention of theKnights of Columbus held here.. Speaking at..a·special open ses­sion of the convention, American'Cardinal John J. Wright, prefectof the Vatican Congregation ofthe Clergy, said that there iscdticism in the Church and "theright to raise questions," andthat those realities are not lim­ited to the clergy and theolo­gians "to the exclusion of therest of the baptized. believersand doers of the Word."

Those reaHties, the cardinalexplained, "are limited only byIbuilt-in norms of deference tothe faith, fidelity to the tradi­tions of our fathers in. the faithand a due measure of commondecency, good taste and urbanityin dialogue."·

He urged that" 'Christian con­versation' which St. Paul says,lifts us to the level of heaven,not the level of the gutter­sniping from any direction."

Cardinal Wright. praised theprocedure of the commission forthe U. S. National CatecheticalDirectory, which consulted par­ents and other members of thelaity on both the content andmethodology of the eventualnational catechism.

Other events at the conventionincluded a concelebrated Massat St. Aloysius' church, followedby a march of officers to a mon­ument of Christopher Columbus,where a wreath was laid.

In his homily at the Mass Re­demptorist Father Joseph Man-

Warn ConsensusCannot Be Forced

RIO DE JANE,IRO (NC)-TheBrazHian Bishops' Conference, inwhat is seen as still anothercr.iticism by the bishops of Bra­zil's authoritarian mnitary gov­ernment, has warned that polit­ical consensus "cannot be insti­tuNonalized through force."

The document was made pub­lic at a time when there ap­peared to be prospects of im­proved relations between theChurch and the government ofPresident Ernesto Geisel.

The document, entiled "Poli­tics and the Church," caBed uponChristians .to act effectively forthe, achievement of a more justworld and urged greater popularparticipation in politics.

The wide-ranging document,prepared by the bishops' confer­ence's pastoral commission andapproved by the conference's ex­ecutive committee, reaffirmedthe Church's mission to "pro­claim and defend the basic rightof all men" to participate freelyin political life.

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not absorb the more than 100,000students who now attend privateand parochial schools, the gover­nor told the clergymen.

Mandel did not endorse ap­proval in a referendum in No­vember of a law providing about$9 million in grants to nonpublicschool pupils, but did say theaid program is "a practical fis­cal approach to a major prob·lem" and that he hopes voters"look at the pros and cons of it."

The program would provideaid for transportation, education­al equipment and textbooks.

The Rev. Ronald C. Albaugh,pastor of St. Michael's and AllAngels Episcopal Church in near­by Silver Spring, Md., said heagrees with the governor "on asheer practical basis." Father Al­baugh added: "It makes no senseto have these schools jeopard­ized." He pointed out that theirclosing would overcrowd thepublic schools.

"To keep the choice optionavailable to citizens is importantto me," he said.

Parish Would Approve

He said )le would favor ap­proval of the program on the ref­erendum and added: "Off the topof my head, I guess that thepeople in the parish would ap-

• prove it."The Rev. Tracy K. Boyer, pas­

tor of the Silver Spring UnitedPresbyterian Church, said heagrees with the governor's views,except that he is not certain thatthe nonpublic schools would col­lapse. "It has not been provento me that the system would col­lapse," he said.

The Rev. Mr. Boyer said that. the consensus of .the clergymenat the meeting was that "aidshould be granted in accordancewith the Constitution."

A similar view was expressedby Rabbi Lewis A. Weintraub ofTemple Israel in Silver Spring,who said: "If the Supreme Courthas approved that kind of aid,that's fine. It's perfectly in or­der." Rabbi Weintraub, however,also expressed doubt that thenonpublic schools would collapsein the absence of state aid andsuggested that providing govern­ment funds to them might weak­en the public schools.

4 THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thur. Aug. 29, 1974

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grows distant from the peopleand aloof from the facts of real­ity.

, The church does not live in asocial vacuum. It must be everin the mainstream of the life ofits members if it ever hopes tosincerely witness to the funda­mental faith concepts of. itsFounder. The American hier­archy should set the. example bydeed and fact and not by decreeand mandate. As a collectivebody they should take everymeasure possible' to dismiss thesuspicions of secrecy, the pre­sumptions of hierarchial pri.vi·lege and the misunderstandingsarising from a lack of sincereand honest communication. Asthe chief representative body ofmillions of Am~rican Catholicsthe bishops themselves in eachand every endeavor should re­spond with all due haste to thecall of their people and theirnations for an open church inan open society.

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the labor movement during thepast year, Msgr, Higgins said,was the settlement of the strikeand boycott at the Farah Man­ufacturing Co. in Texas and theresultant recognition of theAmalgamated Clothing Workersof America by the management.

"The Farah case-which wasarrived at the hard way but,even at that, came sooner thanmost observers thought itwould," he' pointed out, "wasonly the first step in what ought'to be and promises to be a full·!'lcale organizing drive, especiallyamong black and Spanish-speak­ing workers."

Also pointed to as a notableachievement was the AFL-eIO'ssupport of the strike and theboycott called by the UnitedFarm Workers of Americaagainst lettuce and grape pro·ducers in California.

Decisive Factor"The decision of the national

AFL-OIO to endorse and supportUFW's boycott and to assist thefarm workers in other ways aswell," he added, "may prove tobe the decisive factor in resolv·ing the California farm lahor dis­pute peacefully and with justiceto all concerned."

Noting charges that the reli·gious bodies that have becomeembroiled in the controversy areprejudiced against the Teamsters,Msgr. Higgins denied the chargesand said that the religious bodieshad become involved only "tohelp the farm workers of this na·tion achieve the right to organizeinto a union of their own choos­ing."

However, ,labor unions, henoted, .should remain open toconstr.u<;tiye criticism... Theyshould also be considering thefuture of the movement. "How­ever, they cannot afford to ne­glect their immediate task of or­ganizing the unorganiZed, whocan· still 'be counted in themilliOns."

Installation' PlansBATON ROUGE (NC)-Bishop

Joseph Vincent Sullivan" auxil­iary. bishop of the Kansas City­St. Joseph diocese, will be in·stalled as the new bishop of theBaton Rouge diocese at cer­emoniesin St. Joseph's cat-he·dml,. Baton Rouge, Sept.' 4 and5. A Mass of installation will becelebrated Sept. 5.

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An Open,' Soc~iety' .. :"~ ';The new spirit of openness' that' il· currently sweeping

clean the dusty we~s of secrecy and intrgue fro~!he WhiteHouse is certainly a refreshing return ~o the baSIC conceptsof the Ameriean spirit. For the past few years one mightthink that we had returned ,,·1,' . ',' ,to the tribunals of the Czars cult tIm, understandmg, In a

very real Iway that's what makesor the Court of the Star America work' as recent nationalChamber, concepts far re- events c1~arIY indicate. This free­moved from the purpose or pur, dom is an essential part of thesuit of the d:mocratic system in American! way of life on all lev­a free republIc. The welcome at· els of this nation's social exist·~ospher: that is now developing ence. I~ [the few weeks of ~ts'm the ,. hIghest: chambers of our brief tenure, the presentadmm·federal government is more· in istration i~ attempting to restorekeeping with the fundame~tal an Ameritlan atmosphere fo~ thecharacter of the AmerIcan American people. For thIs . itpeople. must be ommended. Hopefully

A free peqple in a free society it will no~ serve as an examplewith basic freedoms and rights for all fo1rms of public life onis an ideal that most foreign all levels jOf our society indud­governments have a very diffi- ing the clurch.

Call on Hierarchy to Lead RevivalIf there is to be a revival of oppressio~s of 'foreign lands to

the American spirit it will not live in fr~edom. The church inbe accomplished solely on the America h~s thrived in the opengovernmentalleveI. It must. per- and frankj expressions of thesemeate the very fabric of our so- freedoms.ciety, renewing the fundamental In thes days as th,e peoplebelief~ of our fou~ding fathers of this lard' once more renewespeCIally. the foundl~g fa~hers of and reviv~ their belief in thesethe CathOlIc Church m thiS land. freedoms in the body politic soThe Catholic C?urch in this too must \the members of theland has flOUrIshed because church rerew and revive thisit is uniquely American. Other sense of openness and candorchur~hes in o~her lands compl.ete- in the Am~rican church. If this isI~ faIl to understan~ the umque to be accomplished then it fallshIstory of the AmerIcan church. on the shoulders of the Ameri­The Catholic Church in the can hierarchy to assume the lead·United States has almost never ership rOlel The bisHops of thiswavere'd in its loyalty to the land must take this responsibilityAmerican system while proudly seriously. the recent events, inretaining its fidelity to Rome. our nation!, life should clearJyAmerican Catholicism is. a reli- serve as an .example of what cangion of immigrants who fled the happen ev n to a church that

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HeroesWhere have all the heroes gone?The death this week of Charles A. Lindbergh, the first

man to fly the Atlantic solo and non-stop in 1927, bringsthis question to mind.

Lindbergh seized the imaginations of people in thisnation and the Western world, and he k~pt the aura ofhero throughout his life. Perhaps it was the idea of oneman with courage and daring and faith i~ the "Spirit ofSt. Louis" taking on the ocean and the d~stance and theunknown-perhaps it was this that elevated Lindbergh tothe status of American hero. On the other hand, the astro­nauts seem surrounded with so much complexity andsophisticatd support systems that the image of the singleindividual advancing upon the frontier does not comethrough. , ;

Tragedy and criticism followed Lindb~rgh at 'variousphases of his life. The man himself remained grave andcalm and exuded a strength that was, of l course, 'strong

, character.Lindbergh had ,great awareness of the spiritual He was

not afraid to talk about it.In an address two decades ago to ~ distinguished

gathering of scientists and, techniCians in the field ofaviation ,and just-blossoming space, Lind~ergh remindedthem: "Short term survival may depend on inuclear energyand the' performance of supersonic ·aircraJt. Long termsurvival depends alone on the character of Iman. Strengthis catabolic without wisdom fOf direction artd the Sermonof Christ on the Mount is more essential to our survival

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Lindbergh put the emphasis where it belongs-on thechara~ter of man. And that is character! that must betouched' by the Divine since man is not th¢ natural manbut the man made in the image of God, falJen from gracebut redeemed by Christ, called to be a brot~er, a sister ofChrist, a child of the Father. I

And a person with this awareness, strivIng to measure, , I

up to this calling, is a hero of God. '-. 'That 'is where the heroes are. I

AdviceThe approaching opening, of schools brings with it some

thoughts for students and for teachers a~ well.Students are reminded that vacation is for recreation

in the root meaning of that expression-the re-creation ofthe spirit, of the intellect, the n'ew beginning with all theenthusiasm and all the impetus that a new beginning usuallybrings with it. , i

It is to be hoped that students will ~begin next weekwith this kind of renewed spirit. I

But teachers need some advice as well., And the best advice that can' be .giten them is that

which the late Cardinal O'Hara gave while'1he was presidentof the University of Notre Dame. Speaking at a facultymeeting he told the professors thafthrough the school year

'they should keep this in ,mind: they received their enjoyment·from their brilliant students; they earped their salaries fromteaching their average students; theys~ved their ,soulscaring for their problem students. '

Teachers on every level of education :can profit muchfrom this reminder. Every day can be the mixture of joyand duty and salvation that each day is called upon to be.

HOLY UNION SISTERS HOLD CHAPTER: Participating in the chapter conducted atthe Sacred Hearts Academy, Fall River were Sr. Margaret Higgins, Sister Mary BridgetMcGettigan, Sister Marilyn .Spellman, provincial; Sister Grace Donovan, newly namedDean at Regis College, Weston; Sister Hannah Collins.

Former Provincial Director ofHoly UnionNew.Dean .ofStudents at Regis College

Aids Road-BuildingIn Drought Area

NEW YORK (NC)-U. S. Cath­olic Relief Services (CRS) hascontributed $15,000 in responseto an appeaol from the UpperVolta Famine Relief Committeefor funds to repair roads used totransport foods and relief sup­plies to famine victims indrought-stricken areas.

The CRS contribution repre­sents the first returns from spe­cial collections and fund-raisingdrives being conducted by Cath­olic dioceses across the countryto help the suffering people inWest Africa.

The emergency road repairs,expected to be accomplished inapproximately 10 days at anestimated cost of $50,000, willbe handled by mobilized militaryunit.s.

The lack of adequate roads inUpper Volta, as well as othercountries in the drought-hit Sa­helian zone of Africa, has con­siderably hampered emergencydistribution of relief materials.

Allow Funera'lMass in Latin

LONDON (NC)-The bishopsof England and Wales are allow­ing the Latin Mass of the Coun­cil of Trent to be offered at fu­nerals.

The permission for the so­called Tridentine Mass was an­nounced in a letter from Cardi­nal John Heenan of Westminsterthat was I read at the annualmeeting of the Latin Mass soci­ety in London. The society hasabout 2,500 members,

In 1971, Pope Paul VI gavepermission for occasional use ofthe Tridentine Latin Mass pro­vided the local bishop consentedand "all danger' of division isavoided."

THE ANCHOR- 5Thurs., Aug. 29, 1974

ilyn Spellman, newly chosen pro­vincial director, will lead a del­egation to the parley, accom­panied by four other Sisters, yetto be named. Additional Sistersmay be sent to the meeting aso:Jservers, said Sister Grace.

A native of St. Patrick's par­ish, Fall River, she 'attended St.Patrick's school and SacredHearts Academy. A sister, Mrs.James Walmsley, resides in SS.

. Peter and Paul parish, Fall River,and a brother, William Donovan,is a member of St. James parish,New Bedford.

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Human· Rights·VALLETTA (NC)-In prepara­

tion for the World PopulationConference in Bucharest, Arch­bishop Michael Gonzi of Maltareminded Maltese that solutionsto problems stemming from pop­ulation growth must respect so­cial justice and personal rights.The archbishop's reminder camein a pastoral letter on the eve ofthe conference.

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By PAT McGOWAN She says she is "cautiou~ly

Sister Grace Donovan has a optimistic" about the future ofnew job. Fresh from a three-year religious life, noting that it isterm as director. of the Immac- . likely to take new forms in theulate Heart Province of the Reli- near future. Pointing out thatgious of the Holy Union of the Holy Union Sisters are workingSacred Hearts, on Monday she i~ many new areas and t?atassumed the post of dean of stu- SI~ter Elean~r Mcr:'lally, w.orkl~g

dents at Regi6'\~eH~~~.f(}~~Wom\:".~I~ ,C~~oh<:,~Re.ll:f ServIces Inen in Weston; Mass." , }, . Saigon IS t?e first mem?er of

Her background includes stints our com~umty to work In thein the history departments of East," she stressed that "ourLowell State College and Boston. horizons must widen."College, and she had planned to Time, Treasure, Toilreturn to teaching after her term At last year's chapter meetingas provincial, but when the post _deleg'ates voted to select a spe­at 850-student Regis beckoned, cial project that communityshe decided that a guidance role members would support "within relation to young women time, treasure and toil." Askedfitted well with objectives for for a report on its status, SisterSisters she had helped formulate Grace said that a selection com­as a member of the Leadership mittee is still m.aking a decisionConference of Women Religious, as to what will be undertaken,national. organization for sup~- but added that money earned byri,b!!? ;of p.~. s.is,t~rhqq~s": . '. Sisters this summer at temporary

She sees .per. role at, R.egls ,as jobs has been' earmarked to im­U;'at of "presenting the ',student plementwhatever program' isvoice' to the administration' and chosen. "So we have funds in thevice versa." She will be in charge kitty," she concluded.of career and personal counsel- She said that this week's meet­ing services, cooperate with the ing also served as preparationcampus chaplain on religious f.or next year's internationalprograms and supervise health meeting of the community, slatedservices and dormitory life. to be held in France. Sister Mar-

Complement, Not CompeteAppointment of the Holy Union

Sister to a post at a college op­erated by Sisters of St. Joseph ispart of a new trend in Catholiceducation, said Sister Grace."Communities are tending to gooutside their own ranks in somecases. The spirit is one of com­plementing rather than 'compet­ing."

She will live with, the Regispresident in a former mansionon the college campus. "Catholicorganizations always seem toinherit these places of fadedgrandeur," she observed wryly.

Sister Grace takes with her toher new PQsition insights gainedat her. community's provincialchapter meeting, held this weekat Sacred Hearts Academy, FallRiver, and attended by nearly200 Sisters from 12 archdiocesesand dioceses served by the com­munity.

Bishop To AddressAnglican Synod

LONDON (NC) - AuxiliaryBishop Alan C. Clark of North­ampton, co-chairman of theAnglican-Roman Commission,has been invited to address theNovember session of the GeneralSynod of the Church of England.

'Bishop Clark will speak on thework of the international com­mission as seen from the Cath­olic side.

The commission, which has al­ready produced agreed state­ments on the Eucharist and onMinistry and Ordination, is atpresent deliberating on the ques­tion of authority.

Bishop's ArrestCauses TurmoilIn Jerusalem

JERUSALEM (NC) - The aI'­rtlst and arraignment of a Cath­olic bishop on suspicion of smug­gling arms has thrown Jerusaleminto a turmoil.

Jewish newspapers have takenArchbishop Harion Capucci'sguiltfor granted and have demandedthat he be defrocked by the'Vatican and expelled by the gov­ernment to his native Syria.

But a w.idespread Christian re­action-shared by many Mos­lems is that the patriarchal vicarof the Melkite-rite Church here isinnocent. In the rat.her tense at­mosphere of Jerusalem, whereplots and counterplots are com­mon topics of conversation,Christians and Moslems tcnd towonder if the charge and the ev­idence to support it were nottrumped up.

Archbishop Capucci was firstarrested Aug. 7 when crossingthe Israeli border from Lebanon.Police said they found machineguns and explosives in his car,but he was released that sameday and rearrested by govern­ment order eight days later. Hewas formally charged Aug. 19.

Opposes Occup~tion

Some sources insist that be­twcen his first and second ar­rests, the Israeli government at­temp~ed at a high diplomaticlevel to have Archbishop Capucciquietly withdrawn from Jerusa­lem.

It is certain that ArchbishopCapucci has been a thorn in theside of the Israeli authoritics.Since·~967,when Istael.fibok'·0-vlfrt.ho ,Arab...p.art· 'of Jerusa-Iem" hehal> denounced' the fsrilClj':'occta:pation in publ.ic sermons. He hasbeen one of the few Churchleaders to refuse to accept Israelirule over the occupied territories.Each year he has refused to at­tend a reception given for Churchleaders by the Israeli president.

It is reported that when diplo­matic attempts to get him outof the country failed, the Israeli·police were 'ordered to rearresthim.

That action was precipitatedbecause Archbishop <::apucci was.due to leave .Jerusalem ,for. itsynod in Lebanon. Just. beforehis departure police arrested himand a court remanded him incustody for 15 days.

A trial for the bishop maybring complications. The arch­bishop l.ives in East Jerusalem.which is under Israeli rule butclaimed by Jordan and technical­ly, is "international," accordingto the United Nations. Since thebishop is head of an Ecclesias­tical community, there is a·lso aconflict of jurisdiction.

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FOLLOWERS OF WAY: Member~ of "Followers of Way" concert troupe, to be heardat 8 tomorrow night at B~shop Con~oIlY. High Scho?l, Fall, Rive~, are, from left, ThornJoaquin, Don Bouchard, Dianne Detopnancourt, Peggie Telscher, Jim Ford, John Albernaz.Joaquin, Ford and Albernaz are from raIl River diocese. Also from diocese is Tom Burke,sound engineer, not pictured.

'Followers of Way' Feature,d TomorrowAt Bishop C~nnollyHigh School

Four members of the Fall Riv- people seeking both contempla- senior year at Bishop Connollyer diocese are among "Followers tion and laction in their lives. In High.of the Way," a college-aged mus- preparatipn for this summer tour Tom Burke is the sound engi­ieal group that will present a all mem~ers of the group made neer of the gwup. Tom is, pres­concert at '8 tomorrow night at a pe~so~ally directe? eight-day enUy a member of the Board ofBishop COhnolly High, School, Ignatlan retreat. DurIng the·,tour..'; Directors of the Christian LifeFall River. " personaIlas well as .commu~al Communities·and·a!so the'exec~

They are Jim Ford, North prayer ere emphaSIzed, WIth utive secretary of FltSH the NewWestport, and Tom Burke, John people frbm all the cities visited England Regional COIl~ge CLC.Albernaz and Thorn Joaquim, all invited tq join in daily prayer. Tom wilrl be a junior at S~uth-.of Fall River. Each ~ember of the group is e~stern ~assachusetts Umver-

The group is sponsored by the personally committed to Christ ~Ity pursuIng a course of. studyNational Federation of Christian and involved in this experience In Psychology and EducatIOn.Life Communities, successor to to shareIhis and her vocation John Albernaz is the bass gui-Our Lady's Sodality and active with fell1 W Christians. tarist of the group. John hasin Fall River at Bishop Connolly been active for the past severaland Bishop Gerrard High Jim Ford years in both the high school andSchools. '.. . college CLC movements in New

In concert, the group performs ~Im Fgrd IS the rhyth~ gUI- England. He is presently a soph-music from its first record aI- tarlst and on.e o~ the vocalIsts of omoTe at' Worcester Polytechnicbum, a collection' of original the grou~, JIm IS also a fo~mer -Institute working towards a de-songs about the Christian life. member?f the Boar~ of DIrec- gree in Chemistry. .They will also sing popular songs tors of ~FqLC and IS presently'by John Denver, Cat Stevens, the Editor-in.lf:hief of its newspaper,Beatles, Rogers and Hammer- the COMMUNICATOR. A grad­stein and the creators of God- uate of t~e former Prevost Highspell and Superstar. Their instru- School itt Fall River and ofments include acoustic guitars, Southeastbrn Massachusetts Uni­a piano and a bass guitar. They versity in \the field of psychology,also utilize a 20-foot screen for Jim is employed as a member ofa multi-media show and visual Campus lVIinistry Team at St.effects. Theme of the concert will Louis University.

Ibe community in the person of Thorn foaquim, vocalist andJesus Christ. pianist fo~ the group. is presently

ser,ving as east coast high schooldelegate ,0' the board of direc­tors of die Christian Life Com­munities'l He is entering. his

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Because "Followers of theWay" are linked with a nationalmovement they will be able tooffer a follow-up to the concert,a unique aspect of their nationaltour. For those who will desire

, more than just a concert, a num­ber of materials will be availableon the Christian Life Communi­ties' way of life. The movementalso sponsors a number of fur­ther follow-ups, including faithexperiences, development insti­tutes, a national newspaper andother printed materials, regionalconferences and national conven­tions. Regional conferences willtake place this fall in many partsof the U. S.

Followers of the. way is apraying community of young

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Under Obs~enty Law. TRENTON (N'C)-Police chiefs

in at least ,one of New Jersey's21 counties have been told thatdespite a recertt state supremecourt ruling on' the constitution­ality of the stat,e's anti-obscenity.law, police cannot now begin toprosecute under, that statute.

James M. Coleman, Jr., prose­cutor of Monmouth County, in­fonned the municipal chiefs ofpolice that NeW Jersey remainsunder a federal' district court in­junction from prosecuting under'the obscenity law.

,Coleman's action resulted froma letter he had ireceived-as didNew Jersey's other 20 countyprosecutors - from David S.Baime, chief of the appellate sec­tion of the state superior court.

Baime noted ~hat the state su­preme court added an interpreta­tion to the state's 1971 obscenitylaw making it .constitutionalandsaid a defendant may be con­victed of the offense if the mate­rial falls within the definition.The state supreme court decisionpointed out thad pending amend­ment of the law by the New Jer­sey Legislature Ito bring it intoconformity with the U. S. Su­preme Court definition used inthe 1973 case' of Miller vs. Cali­fornia, New Jersey courts shouldfollow that defirition.

Bags,. BootsFall Fashio!ns

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thur. Aug. 29, 1974

By

MARILYN

RODERICK

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can have a variety of them, in­cluding some great home-madeones, with even a sweater tomatch.

If any of you can rememberback 18 years or so then you canenvision the styles you'll see onthe smartest heads this fall. Theyare slouchy looking, very dra­matic, and many of them sportgreat-looking feathers. Now thatour hair is no longer a teasedbeehive I think we'll see a bigreturn to the chapeau.

While hats give that extra top­ping to an outfit, shoes, bags andjewelry will also be importantaccessory items.

With the marvelous newclothes that are already in thestores for fall, such accessoriescan give you added mileage.Along with the fancy look ofheadgear there are also smallitems that can add a bonus toyour wardrobe.

Dickeys, or collars, are backand with the added plus of cuffsthey give your favorite sweatera new look. The price of courseis not what it was when we wereyoung and a set could be boughtfor $2.98 (collars, and cuffs areselling today for around $15 fo avery nice set), but they are stillvery feminine, versatile and greatfor added fashion zing.

Bigger BagsIf you're anything like me y~u

Shades of a Paris cabaret-berets are coming back thisseason and they'll be worn with your own 'special brand ofpizazz, depending on how you slant it. Thal1ks to our youngpeople, hats are back with a bang and .~ere to stay. Why, Ieven went out and bought a 'turban. Getting back to the don't travel. anywhere, other

than to bed, ~ithout a handbagberet, they are the same felt or sorts, and I'm more than hap-or wool ones we wore when py to announce that if you en­we were young, only they do joy a really big bag, the storesappear to be worn with a mite will be filled with what YQumore chic. If you knit, or have want. With the bulkier look ofa relative who does, then you capes and pyramid coats, bags

have just got i to be big in pro­portion and t,hey really are.

One featurei is that the reallyfantastic ones' have a thousandand one compartments to keepyou organized if you're an or­ganized sort of person (I'm not,but I still like: ,big pocketbooks).

On the footwear scene bootsare in, straight and loose, othershigh and loose. Whatever shapeyou choose, they will be perfectwith the below the knee skirtsand this is of ;course the reasonwhy they are returning to popu-larity. ' !

If you're addicted to countrycasual or even country western,you'll find a ~reat many Texaslooking boots with elaboratestitching. HOlwever:, if yourtaste runs more to the sophisti,cated, then there are also bootsfor you - straight, loose andwide.

For those days when boots atetoo warm, you 'call tie everyth,ingup with a sporty tie-up in naturalleather with c~repe soles or forevening wear a, lovely, very high­heeled sandal. ,

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If you feel that clothes are notgoing to be th~ most importantitem in your coming budget, thenspend some 6f your clothingmoney on accessories and yourfashion dollar ,~ill go further.

Retired Teacher LeavesOver $300,000 to Parish

DUBUQUE (NC)-Miss VivianA. Keup, a retired school teacherwho died last year at the age of82, hras willed the bulk of herestate to Nativity Parish in Du­buque.

The present value of the estateis estimated to be $316,000.

Miss Keup donated the moneyin memory of her parents, Alex­ander and Margaret Keup. From1912 until her retirement in 1955she taught at Lincoln elementaryschool in Dubuque. In her firstyear of teaching she earned $350.

On JUly 21 the parish bulletinof Nativity announced a proposalhad been made by the parishcouncil ,that the principal, $284,­'627, be le~t in a trust fund at aDubuque bank and that the an­nU'al income of between $20,000,and $24,000 be used to defrayparish operating expenses.

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Pope 'StressesName 'Chri1stian'

CASTELGANDOLFO (NC) ­Pope Paul VI has called uponChristians to ponder the meaningof the name Christian and ofChristianity itself in today'sworld.

"Who does not want to be aChristian when this word issynonymous with human":"-withhuman in the' best, natural andreal meaning of the word?" thePope asked a general audience.

"Christian is the name givena man, an action, a philosophicalsystem which refers to originalprinciples of the Gospel and ofthe customs which the Gospel in­spired and generated.

"Christian denotes certain val­ues which give life a fullness,a dignity, an inviolability worthyof being held sacred,"

Pope Paul warned that thename of Christian "must not becoarsely exploited."

He said: "It cannot symbolizean opinion, an ideology, a sup­position. It must be equated withlife, and what a life!

"No one who bears the nameof Christian can remain indiffer­ent or inconsistent, for it stampsa seal, a style, a form on humanexistence."

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DEACON BAPTIZES SON: The first sacrament admin­istered by Robert Ekhaml of San Diego, newly ordainedpermanent deacon, was the Baptism of his four-week oldson, Mark. Mr. Ekhaml's wife, Carol, is holding their son.Holding the candle is the godfather, Richard Ekhaml. Pullinga face ..to the camera is the Ekhaml's other son, Matthew.NC Photo. I ' .

Dialogue With Africa,nTraditional Religions

KAMPALA (NC)-For the firsttime in English-speaking Africa,efforts were made at dialoguebetween traditional religions andCatholic Christianity in a meet­ing at the Caba Pastoral Institutenear here.

The meeting was sponsored bythe Vatican Secretariat for Non­Christian Religions. Participantscame from Kenya, Ghana, ·Mala·sia, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia;Rhodesia and South Africa.

Seven spokesmen for' Africantraditional religions took partin the unprecedented consulta­tion.

"The participants strongly re­ject the claim that there are nointerlocutors for dialogue withAfrican traditional religions," afinal statement declared.

Archbishop AppointedCDA National Chaplain

BATON ROUGE (NC)-Arch­-bishop Philip M. Hannan' of NewOrleans has been appointed Na·tional chaplain of the OatholicDaughters of America (CDA).

The appointment was made byMrs. Winifred L. Trabeaux, re­cently elected national regentof the 200,000-member women'sfraternal organization, who offi,cially assumed her office Aug.19.

Archbishop Hannan succeedsBishop Bernard J. Flanagan of

,Worcester, Mass., as the newCDA national chaplain.

A native of Washington, D. C.,Archbishop Hannan was installedas archbishop of New Orleans in1965. Previously, he served as'auxiliary bishop of Washington.for nine years.

He agreed to take the test. Hepassed.

Constant EncouragementTeen-agers frequently have

trouble with a lack of confidencein themselves. There's no faultin that. Confidence comes fromexperience, and they've had littleopportunity, in terms of a Hfe­time. to have learned from ex­perience. Because they don'thave that confidence in' them­selves, it is most difficult forthem to make honest decisions,for deep down they doubt theyreally have the knowledge andjudgment to make a valid deci­sion.

If they let it develop, lack ofconf'idence and indecision keepfeeding each other until theyerode the abitlity to make asound decision.

1 believe that, as a parent, oneof the most valuable gifts Ican give my children is honestencouragement to' see their ownstrengths and talents, to believein themselves, to face their deep­est feelings honestly, to keeptheir weaknesses in proper per­speC/tive. False humility can bemore damaging than conceit.

off 1 can just help them to behonest with themselves ... to re­spect themselves-... to believe

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CARSON

For example, one of my sonswas due to take his college ad­mission test. He started talkinga'bout the fact that he reallydidn't care if he passed the test;he didn't need a college degreeanyway. .

1 surpjrised him by saying, "Ithink you're afraid you won'tpass."

"Mom ... 1 know I'm not goingto pass." -

"How can you know that ...you haven't even seen the test.Start believing that you willpass!". ' " "Iadvis~d ,him, :~'Go' into ·that

exam really believing that you'regoing to pass. Do your level best.You've got the ability. Believethat yourself!"

"Mom, there are other kidstaking that test who have alot more ta~ent than 1 do. There'sno chance. Do you know howmany kids are taking that test... to fill 20 openings?"

1 didn't know. Neither did he,really. But that didn't matter, be­cause in his own mind he haddecided that he'd be on thewrong end of the selection.

Hunter's Advice1 was afraid that 1 was get­

,ting nowhere, but knew that ifhe didn't build some self-confi­dence, he wouldn't pass. So 1tried again. "Don't you thinkteachers size you up as well asthe results of the test? They;relooking for potential, interestenthusiasm. They're looking forJ<1ids who really want to 'learnwhat the school has to offer. Ifyou know everything, what canthey teach you?"

. "Mom ... you don't under­stand. H's just raw test marksthey look at ... and I'm not goodat tests."

"I may not understand abouttests .. , But 1 believe in you. 1really believe that if you do yourbest, that's all that matters. Andif you do less than your best',you're 'being dishonest withyourself. Besides ... 1 pray."

He was underwhelmed. 1 hadthe feeling he was trying tobrainwash himself not to be toodisappointed if he didn't pass.

Then he began to consider nottaking the test at all ...

I' offered a bit of old hunter'sadvice, handed down from mygreat-uncle, to my father, to me:"If you don't shoot, you've all­ready missed."

One characteristic I find annoying in teen-agers, es­pecially my own, is the tendency to "talk big." It would beeasy to conclude these youngsters are all over-confidentand need to be taken down a peg. Actually, I believe mostof the talk is a cover for alack of confidence. Ratherthan putting down a loud­mouthed teen-ager, I thinkparents can do a better job byrecognizing the talk for what itis, and doing something con­structive to build. the youngster'sconfidence.

Parental EncouragementMost Vital to Children

in Manila. Twenty-five years agohe left the Ateneo to found andhead a college of agriculture atXavier University in Cagayan deOro City, where he is today.

For the past several yearsthe priest has also establishedand run the Southeast AsiaRural-Social Leadership Institute(SEARSOLIN), a leadership andtraining progmm for village andrural leaders throughout South­east Asia.

HYANNIS

ST. FRANCIS XAVIERMasses: Sunday-7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00,

, " 12:00 A.M~ '.Siiturday Eve.-5:00 arid 7:30 P.M..Daily-7:00 and 8:00 A.M.

,SIASCONSET, MASS.UNION CHAPEL

Masses: Sunday-8:45 A.M. July and Aug,ust

EDGARTOWNST. ELIZABETH

Masses: Sunday-9:00, 10:30 A.M. (5:00 P.M.beginning June 30)

Saturday Eve.-4:00 - 7:00 P.M.Daily-5:15 P.M. (Mon.-Fri.)Confessions-Saturday 2:30 - 3:30 P.M.

OAK BLUFFS

SACRED HEARTMasses: Sunday-8:00, 9:15, 10:30 A.M.

Saturday Eve.-5:15 & 7:00 P.M.Daily-7:00 A.M.

MAnAPOISEnST. ANTHONY

Masses: Sunday-7:30, 9:00, 10:00 (Folk Mass),11 A.M. and 5:00 P.M. ,

Saturday-8:00 A.M. - 4:30 and 7:00 P.M.Daily-8:00 and 9:00 A.M. (Mon.-Fri.)

NANTUCKET

OUR LADY OF THE ISLEMasses: Sunday-7:30, 9:30, 11:00 A.M. and

7:00 P.M.Saturday Eve.-5:00 and 7:00 P.M.Daily-7:30 A.M.

FALMOUTHST. ·PATRICK

Masses: Sunday-7:00, 9:00, 10:00, 1l:l5 and5:30 P.M.

Saturday Eve-5:30 and 7:00 P.M.Daily-7:00 A.M. - Saturdays 8:00 A.M.

MARIONST. RITA

Masses: Sunday-8:30, 10:00, 11:15 A.M.Saturday Eve.-5:00 and 6:30 P.M.Daily-8:30 A.M.Friday-Benediction & Rosary 7:00 P.M.

FALMOUTH HEIGHTS

ST. THOMAS CHAPELMasses: Sunday-8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:15 A.M.

Saturday-4:30 P.M.Daily-8:00 A.M.Effective June 22-Subject to change

YARMOUTHPORT

_ SACRED HEARTMasses: Sunday-9:00, 10:00 A.M.

Saturday Eve.-5:00 P.M.

ORLEANS

ST. JOAN OF ARCMa~3es: Sunday-8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 A.M.

Saturday Eve.-5:00 and' 7:00 P.M.Daily-8:00 A.M.

Our Lady of Perpetual Help Novena-WednesdayMorning Mass at 8:00 A.M.

Jesuit Rewarded For Serviceat cJremonies here Aug. 31.

INamed after Ramon Magsaysay,a for~1er President of the Philip­pines who died in 1957, theaward was begun 16 years agoby the Rockefeller Brothers Fundof NeJ. York and has been givento 821 individuals and organiza·tions ~ince then.

Fr. Masterson went to the Phi,l­iPPine[1 shortly after W~rld WarII and was president of the Ate­neo de Manila, a Jesuit university

MANILA (NC)-An AmericanJesuit is one of five winners ofthis year's Magsaysay awards,given for "greatness of spirit inservice to the people'~ of Asia.

Father William Masterson, anative of Brooklyn, N. Y., wasnamed for. the prize because ofhis work in international ruralleadership training.

The awards, which include aprize of $10,000 to each partic­ipant, will be presented formally

CHATHAM'

HOLY REDEEMER

Masses: Sunday-8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 A.M.Saturday Evening-5:00 P.M.Daily-8:00 A.M.

SOUTH CHATHAMOUR LADY OF GRACE

Masses: Sunday-8:30, 9:30, 10:30, 11:30 A:M.Saturday Eve.-7:00 P.M.Daily-9:00 A.M.Full schedule begins June 22-23

CENTRAL VILlAGE

ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST

Masses: Sunday-8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 A.M.Saturday at 5:00 and 6:30 P.M.Daily-9:00 A.M.Sunday Masses Parish Hall: 9:30 and10:30 A.M,

EAST FALMOUTHST. ANTHONY

Masses: Sunday-7:30, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 A.M.Saturday Eve.-5:00 & 7:30 P.Ml

: Daily-8:00 A.M. ., ,

. EAST FREETOWNOUR LADY OF THE ASSUMP'l!'ION eH EL

Masses: Sunday-9:00, 11:00 A.M.Saturday Eve.-6:30 P.M.Daily-8:00 A.M.

WEST BARNSTAiSLE

OUR LADY OF HOPE

Masses: Sunday-l0 A.M. and 4:30 P.M.Saturday Eve;-4:30 :P.M.

EAST BREWSTER

IMMACULATE CONCEPTIONMasses: 'Sunday-8:30, 10:00 A.M.

Saturday Eve.-5:00 and 7:30 P.M.

ONSET

ST. MARY-STAR OF THE SEA

I.1:asses: Sunday-8:30, 9:30, 10:30, 11:30 A.M.Saturday-6:30 P.M.Da.ily 9:00 A.M.

BUZZARDS BAY

ST. MARGARE'll'SMasses: Sunday-8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00, 12 noon

and 7:30 P.M. ISaturday Eve.-5:00 and 6:30 P.M.Daily-8:00 A.M.

Masses: Sunday-7:00, 8:15, 9:30, 10:45, 1~ noonSaturday Eve.-5:00 and 7:30 P.M.Daily--':7:00 and 9:00 A.M.

First Fridays-Ultreya-8:00 P.M.

CENTERVilLE

OUR L~DY OF VICTORY

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Masses: Sunday-7:00, 8:30, 10:00, 11:30' A.M.,and 5:00 P.M. I '

Saturday Eve.-5:00 and 7:30 P.M.Daily-8:00 A.M. except Wed. 7:30 P.M.

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Cuban Foreign Minister ConfersWith Top Vatican Diplomat

VATICAN CITY (NC)·-Cuban touched a wide range of unre­Foreign Minister Paul Roa Garcia solved matters. Those includedmet Pope Paul's top diplomatic restrictions, on the entry ofnegotiator Aug. 14 to review a much-needed foreign priests intowide variety of differences be- CUba, various' questions con·tween Church authorities and nected with Catholic education,the Fidel Castro government. and the restoration of properties

Garcia's visit to 'Arc:hbishop seized from the Church by theAgostino Casaroli, secretary of Castro government.the Council for the Church's On March 27, ,ArchbishopPublic Affairs, is considered an Casaroli flew to Tavana as guestimportant step toward easing of the Cuban bishops, the firststrained relations, between the top Vatican I officia1 to visit theVatican and Cuba's communist island since Castro assumedregime. power in 1959.

A Vatican spokesman said Roa Castro paid Archbishop Casa-Garcia and Archbishop Casaroli roli a visit-and remained to talk '

'for 90 minutes-on the eve ofthe churchm'an's return to Rome.

At that time, Frederico Ales­sandrini, head of the ,Vaticanpress office, 'said the Cuban gov­ernment· had . "approved thevisit." He a~ded .that other op­portune conversations with thegovernment ,were possible.

The prese*'t talk has obviouslybeen one of the opportune occa­sions.

Since 196~, wpen the Cubangovernment 'expelled a' bishopand 135 priests, relations be­tween the Holy See and theIsland have remained strainedand tense. But they have neverbeen broken ,off.

Luis Amado-Blanco was namedby Castro as ambassador to theHoly See and officially ~reditedby the Vatican on Feb. 2, 1962,despite po~erful tensions be­tween Church and state.

He has remained in, that posi­tion through the years eventhough the ,vatican was repre.sented 'oJily I by a charge d'af-faires. '

Today, through s~niority, he isdean of the ~iplomatic corps ac­credited to the Holy See.

In May of this year the HolySee's ch~rge d'affaires, BishopCesare Zacchi was accepted byCastro as a new apostolic nun-­cio, and was elevated by PopePaul to the rank of archbishop.

Nonpublic BusFunds Approved

DES MOINES (NC) - TjleIowa state School Budget ReviewCommittee has approved alloca­tion of nearly $2 million to pub·Iic school districts throughout',Iowa for purchase of new busesto transport nonpublic schoolstudents.

The action was taken to imple­ment a law passed last spring bythe state legislature appropriat­ing $4.4 million for transporta­tion for nonpublic school chil­dren

The committee acted despite achallenge to the 'law in U. S.,District Court here by AmericansUnited For Separation of Churchand State and the Iowa CivilUberties Union, who have askedfor an injunction to prevent im­plementation of the law. The twogroups have also asked that thelaw :be declared unconstitutional.

The three-judge court has notyet granted an injunction norruled on the constitutional ques­tion.

"The U. S. Supreme Court hasruled favorably on providing bustranspol1tation," said TimothyMcCarthy, executive director ofthe Iowa Catholic Conference,"we don't really expect any in­junction on the buses."

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Pope Names CardinalFrom Zaire to SynodKINSHASA (NC) - Pope Paul

has invited Cardinal Joseph Ma­lula of Kinshasa to take part inthe. World Synod of Bishops,which opens in the VaticanSept. 27. '

Evangelization will be theprincipal' synod topic.

The invitation was announcedAug. 18 during a national assem­bly of the bishops of this African.repUblic.

'Synodal regulations' providethat the Pope may name up to 15,per cent of the total of thefathers of the synod. For thefol1thcoming synOd, Pope Paulcan appoint 28 participants.

Mass Schedule for Summer Season

Religious Women Seek PowerAt the outset of the conven­

tion, the delegates sent a tele­gram to the Epjscopal bishops'meeting in Chicago supportingthe ordination of II women tothe Episcopal priesthood.

"We urge you to affirm andrecognize the ordinations..." thetelegram said. "We view theseordinations as a sign of hop~

authenticating the ministry towomen in the Church and a validresponse to the Gospel values

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WASHINGTON ,(NC)-A 61­year-old Redemptorist priest whoserved as an Air Force chaplainduring World War Hand morerecently at Veteran Administra­tion hospitals in Hampton, Va.,and Miami, Fla., has been nameddepu'ty director of VA chaplains.

Father John Waterman, chap­lain since 1970 at Miami's VAhospital i,s a native of Schenec­tady, N. Y., who was ordained aRedernptorist priest in 1939.During World War II he was achaplain at Dalhart, Tex., Peter­son Field, Colorado Springs,Colo., and Bolling Field, Wash­ington, D. C. In 1950 he was postchaplain in Camp Tortuguero inPuerto Rico and from 1954 to1956 was assigned to the 98thGeneral Hospital in Germany.

From 1967 to 1970 he wasauxiliary chaplain at McCoy AirForce Base in Tampa, Fla., whilestationed at Our Lady of Perpet­ual Help parish in Tampa. Priorto his appointment as pastor ofOur Lady of Perpetual HelpChurch, Miami, where he wasassigned from 1960 to 1967,Father Waterman was retreatmaster for retreat houses con­ducted by his community atRochester, N. Y., and West End,N.J.

Buckley suggested at a Wash­ington news conference that itwas "divisive" for Rockefeller toveto the New York legislature'sdecision to reverse the state'spolicy of abortion on demand.Buckley contended that the statelegislature was acting accordingto public demand.

Committee Opposesof Rockefeller

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thur. Aug. 29, 1974

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WASHINGTON (NC) - TheNational Right to Life Committee(NRLC) will oppose the confir­mation of Nelson A. Rockefeller,former New York governor, asVice President of the UnitedStates, a committee spokesmansaid here.

Prior to Rockefeller's nomina­tion by President Gerald R. Ford,the NLRC sent a telegram to thePresident saying that Rockefeller"is unacceptable for the office ofVice President."

The NLRC is a federation ofstate organizations and claims torepresent over 1,000 right-to-lifechapters. .

In May,1972, Rockefeller, thengovernor of New York, vetoed abill that would have repealed the 'state's two-year-old abortion law,which permits abortions on de­mand up to the 24th week ofpregnancy, and would have re­placed it with the former lawallowing abortions only when themother's life is endangered.

Veto MessageRockefeller vetoed .the bill de­

spite a plea from Cardinal Ter­ence Oooke of New York thathe sign it. The cardinal later saidhe deplored the veto and thegovernor's "unfortunate" vetomessage, which referred to "theextremes of personal villificationand political coercion brought tobear on members of the legisla­ture" and suggested that the leg­islature's approval of the bill didnot reflect the will of the major­ity of the people of the state.

Rockefeller's veto was broughtup again in February 1973, afterthe former governor had crit­icized the decision of Sen. JamesBuckley (R.-Cons.-N.Y.) to intro­duce a constitutional amendmentto overturn the U. S., Supreme'Court decision barring most re­strictions on abortion. Buckley'sdecision, Rockefeller said, "hasthe unfortunate potential of be­ing dangerously divisive whenAmerica needs a time of h~aling."

of human dignity, service andjustice."

The bishops later issued astatement expressing their belieftI-.·3t the ordinations were invalid.

In a second telegram sent afterthe bishops statement, theNAWR expressed its "hope fora review of this matter andeventual recognition of' fullparticipation of women in offi­cial ministry."

WESTPORtST. GEORGE

Masses: Sunday-7:30, 8:45, 10:00, 11:30 AM.Saturday Eve.-5:00 and 6:30 P.M.

NORTH FALMOUTH (Megansett)IMMACULATE CONCEPTION

Masses: Sunday-8:00, 9:30, 11 :00 AM.Saturday Eve.-5:30 and 7:00 P.M.Daily-8:00 AM. (9:00 A.M. Sat. only)

ConfeSSions: Y2 hour before Sunday MassesSchedule June 22 to Labor Day

TRUROSACRED HEART

Masses: Saturday-7:00 P.M.Sunday-9:00 A.M.

WOODS HOLEST. JOSEPH

Masses: Sunday--8:00, 9:30, 11 :00 AM.Saturday Eve.-7:00 P.M.Daily-8:00 AM. (9:00 AM. Sat. only)

Confessions: Y2 hour before Sunday Masses

CHILMARKCOMMUNITY CENTER ,

Masses: Sunday-7:00 P.M. (Beginning June 30)

WAREHAMST. PATRICK

Masses: Sunday-7:00, 8:00, 9:00,10:00,11:30 A.M.and 5:00 P.M.

Saturday Eve.-4:00 and 6:00 P.M.Daily-7:00 A.M. and 9:00 A.M.Exposition of the Blessed Sacramentfollows the 7:00 A.M. Mass and continues

until 7:00 P.M.Confessions: Y2 hour before Masses

Tuesday: Mass of Peace and Justice7:00 P.M.

Schedule fQl' July and August

WEST WAREHAMST. ANTHONY

Masses: Sunday-9:00, 10:30 A.M.Saturday-7:00 P.M.

Confessions: Y2 hour before MassesSchedule for July and August

WEST HARWICftHOLY TRINITY

Masses: 'Sunday-7:30, 9:00, 10:30, 12:00 noonSaturday Eve.-5:00 & 7:00 P.M. 'Daily-9:00 AM. & 7:00 P.M.First Friday-Mass'and Exposition 11:00

A.M. "

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UPPER COUNTY ROADOUR LADY OF THE ANNUNCIATION

Masses: Sunday-7:00, 8:30. 10:00, 11:30 AM.Saturday Eve.-4:30 P.M.Daily-8:00 A.M.

WELLFLEETOUR LADY OF LOURDES

Masses: Sunday-8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 AM.Saturday Eve.-6:00' and 7:30 P.M.Daily-7:30, 9:00 AM.

NORTH TRUROOUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP

Masses: Sunday-8:00, 9:00, 10:00 and 11:00 AM.Saturday Eve.-6:00 P.M.

SANTUITST. JUDE'S CHAPEL

Masses: Sunday-7:30, 9:00 and 10:30 AM.Saturday-5:00 P.M.

Confessions: Saturday-4:15 - 5:00 P.M..MASHPEE

QUEEN OF ALL SAINTSMasses: Sunday-7:00, 8:30, 10:00, 11:30 AM.

Saturday Eve.-5:00 and 7:30 P.M.Confessions: Saturday-4:15 - 5:00 P.M.

POCASSETST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST

Masses: Sunday-7:30, 8:30, 9:30,10:30,11:30 A.M.Saturday Eve.-5:00 and 7:00 P.M..Daily-7:30 A.M. .

Confessions: Saturday - 4:00 - 4:45 P.M. andfollowing 7:00 P.M.' Mass

PROVINCETOWNST. PETER THE APOSTLE

Masses: Sunday-7:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 A.M.,7:00 P.M.

Saturday Eve.-7:00 P.M.Daily-7:00 AM. and 5:30 P.M:

Confessions: Saturday-4:00 - 5:00 P.M.

SANDWICHCORPUS CHRISTI

Masses: Sunday--8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 AM. and12 Noon

Saturday Eve.-5:00 and 7:00 P.M.Daily-9:00 AM.

SAGAMOREST. THERESA

Masses: Sunday--8:30, 9:30, 10:30, 11:30 AM.Saturday Eve.-6:00 P.M.

SOUTH DARTMOUTHST. MARY

Masses: Sunday-7:30, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 AM. &7:30 P.M.

Saturday Eve.-5:15 P.M.Daily-7:00 AM.Saturdays only-8:00 A.M.

SOUTH YARMOUTHST. PIUS TENTH

Masses: Sunday-7:00, 9:00, 10:15, 11:30 AM.7:00 P.M.

Saturday Eve.-4:00 and 7:00 P.M.Daily-7:00 and 9:00 AM.

BASS RIVEROUR LADY OF THE HIGHWAY

Masses: Sunday--8:00, 9:30, 11:00 AM.Daily-8:00 AM.

VINEYARD HAVENST. AUGUSTINE

Masses: Sunday-8:00, 10:30 AM.Saturday,Eve.-4:00 and 7:00 P.M.Daily--8:00 AM. (Mon.-Fri.)

Confessions: Saturday-2:30 - 3:30 P.M.

NORTH EASTHAMCHURCH OF THE VISITATION

Masses: Sunday--8:30, 9:30, 10:30, 11:30 A.M.Saturday Eve.-5:00 and 7:00 P.M.

OSTERVILLEOUR LADY OF THE ASSUMPTION

Masses: Sunday-7:00, 8:30, 10:00, 11:30 A.M.Saturday Eve.-5:00 and 7:30 P.M.Daily-7:00 AM.

Confessions: Sa·turday-4:00 - 5:00 P.M.

ST. LOUIS (NC) - Power forReligious women-as individualsand as organized groups-wasthe recurring topic throughoutthe fourth annual convention ofthe National Assembly of Wom­en Religious (NAWR), held hereon the St. Louis University cam­pus.

About 650 nuns attended theconvention of the NAWR, whosepurpose is the formation and ed­ucation of Religious women.

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10 THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-ihur. Aug. 29, 1974'

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group, which left Israel Aug. 11,concluded its trips by attendingmeetings of the Society of NewTe,~tamel1~ ,;~,~udi~s ,;in', Sigtuna"

Sister Adrienne, who first vis­ited Israel in 1970 and who willbe an adul"t education director inCharlestown, R. I. for the comingyear, said, "It is with a sense ofsatisfaction that I recall my firstweek at the archeological site atMeron in Upper Galilee. Al­though the work was strenuous,I felt great pride in knowing thatI was part of a team that is sin­cerely committed to mankind'sbetterment.

"My studies at 'Hebrew UnionCoHege were very interestingand the teachers superb! I leavethe College enriched by my ex­perience and I hope to sharethis newly-acquired knowledgewith my own people, thus·spreading brotherhood and un­derstanding wherever I go."

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NAnVE DISH !FOR BAZAAR ~ORKERS: A Puerto Rico Barbeq~e was held on thegrounds of St. James Convent, Tiverton for the workers who conducted a bazaar for thebenefit of the Puerto Rico populationlof the area. Sr. Carmen Joseph, SUSC, was in chargeof the affair.

Christian-MoslemMeeting in Spain

CORDOBA (NC)-Governmentrepresentatives, religious leadersof the Arab countries and repre­sentatives of the Palestine Liber·ation Organization (PLO), aswell as Catholic and Orthodoxbishops, priests and laymen willparticipate in the first interna­tional Moslem-Christian Con-

'gress, scheduled for September10-15 here.

The meeting, organized by agroup of Spanish and Arab uni­versity professors, has been sup­ported by Bishop Jose MariaGirarda of Cordoba.

The meeting will provide Mos- .lems with the first opportunitysince the year 1236' to pniy inthe old Cordoba mosque, whichwas converted into a Catholiccathedral 'after the Christian re­conquest of the city by theSpaniards. Bishop Girarda hasauthorized the use of the build­ing for religious acfs during thecongress. Other meetings willtake place in the Arab Alcazar(military fortification) of Cordo­ba and other buildings from theperiod of Arab domination of thecity.

individual case there is a suddenswoop. The: accused is thrown'into a cell where there may behardly standing room for all whoare put in i~. Discomfort is at amaximum, fpod and' drink .at aminimum. '

Inferrogation follows. A con­fession must be wrung from theprisoner. He may be' guilty ofnothing ovent, but hasn't he har­bored some anti-Soviet inten­tion? This q.tegory is as elasticas it is vague. If he does notconfess, he is tortured. The meth-

Iods are unspeakable.

Verdict PredeterminedHe is brought into court wherc

there are no adversary proceed'ings. Judge, Iprosecutor, and hisown lawyer cooperate in the taskof destroying him. The verdict ispredetern:Jined, as is the sen­tence.

He is then headed for one ofthe islands of the archipelago, byway of a trarsit prison or camp.

Here-he may meet for the firsttime non-political prisoners, i.e.,criminals from the Soviet under­world. Thes¢ will terrorize himand strip hi":! of the few paltrypossessions he had managed to

· retain. . '. .· Once' arriv~d at a transit pris­on, transit camp, or final penaldestination, he is at the mercy oftrusties," who will subject himto endless abuse. In a laborcamp, he is underfed, over­worked, continually harassed.

Never before have the inner,workings of' Soviet "justice"been presented in such depth andwith such a 'stunning wealth ofconcrete particulars,

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· Presid"nt Deferi'dsAgrarian; Reform

SAN.TO DOMINGO (NC)-Thedecrease in agricultural output inthe .Dominican Republic since1972 cannot ~e directly traced toagrarian reform progr;J.ms insti­tuted then,President JoaquinBalaguer haS: declared in re­sponse to c~arges from largelandowners. I

The main purpose of agrarianreform was not an increase inproduction 'bht "soCial justiceand the need tor righting histor­

'ical wrongs," 'President Balagueradded in a retent speech to the

· nation. His spl(ech aimed at stop­ping increased critidsm of hisagrarian reform by conservativelandowners. . !

President B,alaguer, .who wasinaugurated for a third four-yearperiod Aug. 16, has been strong-·,Iy attacked by opposition polit­icaI parties, who have' chargedhim with electoral fraud duringthe May 16 elections. He wonthe elections with only token op­position after ,the main political.parties decid~d not to ''partic­ipate in it.. The Domini~an bishops have

generally praised the govern­ment's efforts: at implementing

. f I· agrarIan re .onn, although theyhave scored lack of partic­ipation by poor farmers in deci­sions on some: refor{l1 policies.

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JOHN S.

KENNEDY

The Soviet campaign to discredit Aleksandr I. Solzhen=itsyn reached a climax when it became known t!!.'!t the book"The Gulag Archipelago" (Harper & Row, 49 E. 33rd St.,New York, N.Y. 1001(>' 660 pages. $12.50, 'hardbound; $1.95,paperback) was to be pub­lished in Europe and theUnited States. For this workis an expose' of the Sovietsystem of "justice."

Other books had dealt withaspects of the subject. Somewere theoretical analyses, other

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sanctified by the presence andaction of God within him.

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Solzhenitsyn Reveals InnerWorkings of Red !Justice

detailed personal experiences.None made much of an impres­sion in the West, principally be­cause the authors were littleknown.

With Solzhenitsyn, it is differ­ent. He is a world celebrity be­cause of his novels, and he is aNobel Prize winner. He com­mands aHention, and his integ­rity is firmly established. Be hasbeen a political prisoner and hassuffered through the whole pro­cess of arrest, interrogation, trial,imprisonment, confinement inslave labor camps, exile withinthe U.S.S.R. He knows whereofhe speaks, and he will be listened

,to.Outlines Story

But The Gulag Archipelago isnot simply a personal memoir. In

, it, Solzhenitsyn outlines his ownstory. He also presents an abun­dance of evidence collected fromhundreds of others over a periodof years. H~ draws on books,newspapers, records of variouskinds. The result is a massivevolume, with more to come.

"Gulag" is a Russian expres­sion designating the Soviet penal

. system under Stalin. And "GulagArchipelago" refers to the net­work of penal institutions io­cated throughout the U.S.S.R., anetwork of innumerable parts.

Soltzhenitsyn does not confinehimse'\f to the Staiin era. Hedemonstrates that from the verystart of the Bolshevik Revolutionthere was harsher 'and' more ar­bitrary treatment of accused peo­ple than ever had been the casein the worst of Tsarist times.

, Surprise ArrestsThere is truth here which de­

mands to be faced. We cannotunderstand or evaluate our timesunless \Ve are acquainted withone of its most significant fea­tures. The Soviet system hasspread far beyond the boundariesof the U.S.S.R., and so has theGulag Archipelago.

Arrest comes by surprise. Itis a possibility for everyonewithout exception, 'and at anytime, for no reason. But in the

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CLEVELAND (NC)-Joseph A.Breig, eolumnist and associateeditor of the Catholic diocesannewspapers of Cleveland, Toledoand Youngstown, has agreed todonate his papers to the Univer­sity of Notre Dame's Archivesof American Catholic History.

Calling the archives the mostcomplete in the world on thesubject, Notre Dame's president,Holy Cross Father TheodoreHesburgh, wrote to Breig thatthe university "would like tosupplement this collection withpapers relevant to the making ofthe history o( Catholicism in the20th century, mainly on the partof American Catholic laymen.Your papers are an importantpart of this story."

The university's archivist,Fatber Thomas E. Blantz, toldBreig: "You have had a signif­icant influence on the Catholicpress and on recent AmericanCatholicism in generaL"

Breig is the author of eighthooks and numerous articles,stories and columns published innewspapers and magazines. As astudent at Notre Dame in thelate 1920's, he was editor of theuniversity's magazine The Scho­las,tic.

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perience," he said, "for the LaSalette Fathers and Brothers tosee so many give so much andask for nothing.

"It is truly an indication, asign to us, to all the La Salettes,that we are trying to do God'swork and that through the layexample we strive to becomemore perfect in Him.

"If we work for Him, withHim and in Him tben the peaceand joy of the so-called Christi­an community that all of us areseeking so much, will be a real­ity.

"This, then. is What our festi­val is really all about. Joy, laugh­

. ter, hard work, peace and com­munity, with Christ as our moti­vating factor."

Paper Urges PupilsStudy Watergate

WORCESTER (NC)-The Cath­olic Free Press, newspaper of theWorcester diocese, has suggestedthat "every school and schoolsystem in the nation set aside itsscheduled curriculum during thefirst few weeks of the comingschool year in favor of explain­ing, in detail, what actually wenton between the ExecutiveBranch, the Congress, the Su­preme Court, the people, thepress during these months."

In an editorial commenting on"the dark chapter of our historygenerally titled 'Watergate'," thediocesan weekly said: "Seldom,if ever, in our history, have thevarious forces that make up oursociety been so dramatically dis­tinguishable arid identifiable.The opportunity the events pre­sent should be seized by all ed­ucators to reassure each Amer­ican of the strength of his consti­tutional government."

.Mass., ha,ve organized a midwayof 70 individual booths, a: gigan­tic flea market, IS rides and anIndian village, combining tomake tbe festival one of the larg­est in Southeastern Massachu­setts.

'Special People'Aside from the activity and

excitement that surround the fes­tival, Father Delisle was quickto point out that those who workand support this effort are "veryspecial." They are Christ-filled,spirit-filled people. They arepeople filled with the love ofGod and they truly show thislove by giving us their hands,their backs, their heads and theirhearts.

"It is a genuinely humbling ex-

Lay People Aid La Salettes PrepareFor Second 'Super Summer Festival'

FESTIVAL PREPARATION: Jack Flynn, Rev. Richard Delisle, M.S. and Marilyn Flynnprepare for second annual "Super Summer Festival" to be held tonight through Labor Dayat La Salette Shrine, Attleboro. Event's theme will be "The Fest Goes West" and featureswill include cowboys, Indians, a frontier fort, Indian village and stagecoach and pony rides.

The La Salettc Shrine in Attle­boro 'opens~"its; sec6'lid AnnualSuper Summer Festival this eve­ning and girds itself for the longLabor Day weekend.

The Festival, a five day event,will run from tonight tbroughLabor Day, closing at midnightSept. 2.

Rev. Richard Delisle, M.S.,general chairman, along with 500volunteer lay people, compriseone of the largest committeesever assembled for an event qfthis type.

Father DeHsle said the sloganfor this year's, event is, "TheFest Goes West." The festivalwill have a completely Westerntheme: cowboys, Indians, a Fron­tier Fort, Indian Village, stage­coach rides, pony rides, live ani­mals and many Western arti­facts.

Booth co-chairmen, Marilynand J~ck Flynn of Plainville,

Religious Education'Agreement Reached

TRENTON, (NC) - An agree­ment marking "a new milestoneof cooperation" in the field of re­ligious education has' beenreached between the Diocese ofTrenton and Princeton Theolog­ical Semin;uy, a Presbyterian in­stitution.

De,tails announced by BishopGeorge W. Ahr of Trenton andDr. James I. McCord, seminarypresident, are highlighted by thefollowing:

Princeton seminary will openits various summer courses toCatholics effective immediately.

Princeton seminary will acceptmore full-and part-time 'Catholicsof the Trenton diocese for itsmaster's and doctoral programsin religious education.

Federat.ion ThemeIs Reconciliation

WASHINGTON (NC)-The ex­ecutive board of the NationalFederation of Priests' Councils(NFPC) set "Reconciliation: Risksand Possibilities" as the theme ofthe 1975 NFPC convention in St.Petersburg, Fla.

In other actions during itsplanning session here the 28­member board:

Approved plans for nine re­gional symposiums on corporateresponsibility sponsored by localpriests' councils;

Approved plans to cosponsorworkshops on problems of min·istry in rural areas.

OUR LADY OF PERPETUALHELP, NEW BEDFORD

Parishioners will hold their an·nual family festival Saturday andSunday, Sept. 14 and IS, at theparish hall, 235 N. Front St.Donations of prizes to be usedat booths are requested from in­dividuals and parish organiza­tions. American and Polish foodswill b'e served Saturday, begin­ning at 5:30 P.M. Sunday's sched­ul~ will begin at II :30 A.M.

Previous to the festival, a saleof Polish foods will take placeWednesday and Thursday, Aug.28 and 29, at the hall.

ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST,NEW BEDFORD

The parish committee willsponsor a dance from 8 to mid­night on Wednesday night, Sept.4 in the church basement hall.

Tickets are available at therectory.

TheParish ParadePublicity chairmen of parish organizations

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

SACRED HEART,NEW BEDFORD

Parish Cub Scouts of Pack 5 'will benefit from a "KickoffDance" to be held from 8 to 11P.M. Saturday, Sept. 28 in theparish center with music by theNovas. Refreshments will beserved.

Tickets are available from JimJenkins; -telephotie," 993~9045 '0:' 'from Batbara Holden, 993-1556,chairman and co-chairman re­spectively.

HOLY NAME,FALL RIVER

Volunteers are needed for boththe Girl Scout and CCD pro·grams in the parish. ProspectiveGirl Scout leaders may contactMarietta Booth, telephone 672·7250 or 676-9473 and CCD work­ers may call Sister M. Romana,

Reservations may be made atthe rectory this week for a week­end of prayer and song Oct. 18through 20 at the Trapp FamilyLodge, Stowe, Vt.

The 1923 Club will begin Sun­day, Sept. 8, continuing throughJan. 19, with a dinner-dance tobe held Jan. 25.

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-fhe Men's Club will sponsor aLas Vegas Night at 8 P..M. Sat­urday, Aug. 31 in the schoolhall. William Diskin is chairman.

Mrs. Annette Golembewsk. isin charge of arrangements for afall penny sale scheduled forSaturday, Sept..28. Donations ofprizes may be left at the rectoryor convent at any time.

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to prove it by supporting the oneand only bi'll that has a realisticchance of being enacted intolaw. If they fail to support thisbill-or if they try to scuttle itin the California Senate by load­ing it down· with restrictiveamendments-they will have lostall credibility with informed ob­servers of the farm labor situa·'lion in California. Moreover theywill have no one but themselvesto . blame if the UFW then de­cides-as it will be forced to dounder the circumstances-to con..linue its boycott of lettuce andgrapes until free elections areheld:(© 1974 by NC News Service)

LaughterHe WI:lO laughs at everything

is as big l a fool as he who" weepsat everything. .

- -Gracian

AIJBAINY (NC)-Rita Ploufflies in a third-floor hospital roomwith one arm stiffened st~ajght

out behind her head and theother tucked under a sheet, posi­tioned between her thighs. Her,legs lie lifeles's under the sheet,in Whatever way the nurses haveplaced them. She can lift herhead to turn it toward visitorsor toward the window. Her eyesfocus only an arm's length andher hearing is bad. When sh~

talks· she has difficulty formingthe sounds she wants. One of thefew things she can do with easeis to smile. .

On so-called good mornings,after she has been fed, the nurses].ift her' to a stretcher-type wheel­chair and strap her body downso that she can have a few hoursout of bed. If she is strong onthose days, someone brings herto the hospital chapel for a fewminutes of prayer and wheelsher to the ·rooms of friends.

For Rita, 43, of Albany, :,iferhas been much like this sinceWorld War II, when she wasplaced in the Home for Incur­ables with a disease her doctors'diagnosed as muscular dystrophy.Then II years old, Rita was get­ting worse and worse, until shecould no longer stand on herheels. By the time she was 15she could no longer stand at all.In the 'years since, she has lost'control of her legs, her arms andher torso. Last year Rita wastransferred to Child's Hospital inAlbany when the Home for Incur·abies closed.

In the past 32 years, 'Rita hass~:nt all:b.ut.!F ~qur:sfjn;t:bl~h9s~plta{, Sh~ fini.she~:.~rad~,. schoplthere and crammed for her highschool exams. She has madethousands of friends there and'Passed from childhood and youthto middle age.

A visit to Rita dm be a joltingexperience. Not for her-she'slived with pain since she was sixyears old and has accepted herway of life. But for the visitor­to see her lying there, immobile,yet smiling, friendly, trying :0put you 'at ease by asking aboutyourself,: your family, your job.Without embarrassment she re­peats her questions again andagain unti,1 she sees you have un­derstood:' Her ·mind- is so' differ~ent from her body;· reacts imme­diately to your response and hereyes sparkle knowing she ismaking you her friend.

I do a lot of praying and make

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paper,'I said .that, while it pur­ports to be "fair to both un­ions," it is heavily slanted infavor of the Teamsters andgrowers and against the UFWA.I also charged that it includes anumber of statements which are~ither misleading or completelycontrary to fact. By way of ex­ample, I cited two such state­ments for .the record. This weeklet me call attention to an evenmore glaring inaccuracy inFather Humphrys' treatment ofsome of. the legislativE. aspectsof the California ,farm' labor di:S~

pute.In this area, Father Humphrys

says, among other things, thatchurchmen (he refrains fromspecifying that this includes' theNationa·1 Conference of CatholicBishops) are supporting the boy­cott until free elections are held."What· they do not realize," hecomplains, "is that free electionsthat would be legally binding areimpossible for the. next threeyears. The reason ·is that thegrowers in the Coachella Valleysigned four-year contracts withthe Teamsters in 1973. Theselegally binding contracts do notexpire for· three more years.Therefore, any election held be­fore that time would have nopower .to invalidate the contractsnow in force. If elections wereheld before that time, they wouldbe no more than polls of workerpreference."

States FactsFather Humphrys' position is

not borne out by the facts. Thefacts are: On August 7 the Com­mittee on Labor Relations of theCalifornia State Assembly metto vote on four pending free elec­tion bills, including AB 3370,sponsored by the United ,FarmWorkers and the California StateAFL-CIO and being strongly sup­ported by the California StateCatholic Conferenc~, amongother outside organizations.Chaired by Leo McCarthy, thenew speaker of the CaliforniaAssembly, the committee intro­duced several amendments toAB 3370, all of which were ac­ceptable to the sponsors of thebill.

One of the amendments havingto do with prior contracts addsclarifying 'Ianguage to permitemployees on a given ranch orfarm to petition for a' decer,tifi-

12 THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River':-Thur. Aug. 29, 197.4

Says Free Elections LegallyBinding for Farm Workers

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Last week I referred criticaily to aposition paper onthe California farm labor problem written by Father RichardHumphrys of Coachella, Calif. This pa~er was summarizedrecently in a full-page advertisement I in the New YorkNews and paid for by the 'Free Marketing Council of cation el~ction if the workers

wish to have a new vote onNewport Beach, Calif., an or- tb~ir choice of bargaining agent.ganization which is known In effect. this amendment wouldto be strongly opposed to the permit the UFWA to organizeUnited Farm Workers of Amer- farm workers on ranches underica. Teamster Icontracts and would

In criticizing Father Humphrys' give UFWA the right to-tree se­cret ballot elections on theseranches if a majority 'of the

,workers so petition. In otherwords, Father Humphrys is com­pletely off the track when hesays that: free elections thatwould be, legally binding areimpossible, for the next threeyears.

The amendments referred toabove were approved by a five tothree vote:' Chairman McCarthythen allo~ed MI'. Howard Bel"man who was the co-authorof one Of' the remaing bills, towithdraw. I his bill and to benamed as i a co-author of AS3370. Without further commentor testimony, the chair thenasked the secretary of the com­mittee to take a roll-call vote onAS 3370 Js amended. The billwas voted 'out of committee bya five to three margin.

IPassage Predicted

Mr. Bobl Wood, co-author ofthe. origi~~l_ Ber.m\l~-Wpo.d.. ;bm;deClined to -submit Ii.i.~. oil'f'JQthe committee for a vote. Inother words, since he had lostMr. Berm~n to AB 3370, hechose to ~Iithdraw his bill. ,Mr.HQoward Du'ffy, the author of themost restri<;tive of the biBs, wasnot present at the committeemeeting, apd no one rose to

. move on ,th'e bill in his stead. Ittherefore died in committee. Mr.Kenneth M'addy, author of theTeamsters bill, spoke in favor ofhis bill and~ asked for a vote onit. It was defeated by the samefive to' thre'e margil).

As AB 3370 now goes ,to, theAssembly IWays and. MeansCommi-ttee' where certain pas'·sage is prddicted. It will thenmove to the Assembly floor forfinal debate I and vote. There is agood possi~i1ity, if not a prob­ability, that, it will be enacted bythe Assembly before' the end ofAugust.

Electio~s Possible NowThe ,California State Assembly

wHl have to Iintroduce a compan­ion bill for hearings and a vote.No ,flccurate predictions' areavailable at this time as to what'kind of bill ~he Senate will sup­port, although there is again atleast a possibility if not a prob­a'bility, that 'it will go for some­thing comparable to AB 3370.

If all goes well, it is entirelypossible - F~ther Humphrys tothe contrary notwithstanding­

. that free el~ctions can and willbe held, not three years fromnow, but before the end of thecurrent seas6n. I say "if all goeswelL" Much, depends on what-the Teamste~s, the growers, Gov­ernor Reagan-and people likeFather Humphrys-decide to doabout this m'atter.

They have: all said· that theyare in favor of free elections.They now hliVe an opportunity

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FAITHII Openness to Love and Life Johnny Ran Away • • •

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so we asked Bruce to tell usabout it. He said, "When I was alittle boy, Mom and Dad insistedtha~ all of us, and there wereeight. carry out certain chores. Ihad to empty the garbage andkeep my room clean. Then whenI wa'S 15, Dad introduced me towork. So every summer I laboredon a construction crew. Themoney I earned was mine tospend however I wished. But Icoul(1 no longer expect my par­ents to buy my clothes or giveme spending money.-

"It didn't seem so 'rough till Icame here as a freshman. But itwas hard to take when I sawmy friends receive $100 weeklychecks from home. And I realtythought about those summersahead -of me clear through col-

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pari: of healthy growth, but itmust be both consistent andkind. And then, there is respon­sibility. We should give our chil­dren more and more responsibil­.ity, leading them slowly and pa­tiently until, f.inally, they areable to go' forward without us.

Whenever teaching responsi­bility comes up, I rememberBruce,. ~ mid-western universitystudent. I knew him through allfour years of his undergraduatestudies. Most of the boys camefrom upper-middle class familiesand some from wealthy families.But I had always thought ofBruce as one of the very averageones. His wardrobe was adequatebut ordinary, and he spent nomore than a reasonable amountof money for recreation.

Imagine my surprise when,upon graduation, I met his par­ents who had arrived by privatehelicopter. Later that evening,they had an elaborate dinnerparty for their son.

Greatest GiftBruce's toast to his parents

went something like this: "ToMom and Dad who gave me agift that can't be matched-re­sponsibility. Theirs is a gift, notjust for today, but for always."

This provocative toast inter­ested everyone--espedally thoseof us in the role of parenthood;

BY ANGELA M. SCHREIBER

Outside the wind blew softlythrough the trees; the sunbrought brilliance to the goldenchurch dome; the sound of musictouched the senses.

Inside the church John andEmily exchanged forever vowsand bands of gold. Arm in armthey wa1ked down the weddingaisle, into life, down the pathof time, destined to make theirpersonal history together.

Like young couples every­where and in every age, theirhopes were high and their expec­tations of marital bliss great.Th~y looked forward to sharingfun, building a house, and intime, having children.

But the road was long andsometimes difficult to travel. It.had moments of shining lightand it had moments of deepest'black. It's brightest moment wasthe day their son was born. Asymbol of their love. And timewent on.

Gray moments came when lit­tle things went wrong - Johnwas late for dinner-Emily wastoo tired to clean the house. Butthe gray moments grew and be­came darker-John stayed at theoffice late all the time-Emilywas busy about finding herself­little John got on her nerves soshe stopped listening to his child­ish prattle. FinaJ.ly it was pitchblack-the day Johnny ran away.

Though John and Emily. wereyoung, their ga.it was slow, butthey began to reach and struggleto fin~ a light along the way.Once more they went together,this time with tarnished bandsof gol~----would they find theirJohnny. in the darkness?-or hadhe gone too far?

All .'too .many people aresearching for their "Johnny .inthe darkness," afraid that hemight have gone too far.

Pre-CanaSince it's a relatively common

problem and proportionatelylarger today than it was 20 yearsago, we are forced to ask"Why"? At least some of theanswer lies in a lack of knowl­edge about what marriage en­tails. A couple being open tonew life and loving one anotheron their wedding day is notenough. They must also have abackground that has preparedthem for the real world or theyprobably won't be able to cope.A"nd being a parent brings built­,in responsibility.. A lot of our conditioning forlife and what we expect comesthrough today's dressed-up me­dia and a life preparation for thebest in material things. This isnot good grounding for parent­hood.

Teach ResponsibilityBeing a good parent requires

emotional stability, commonsense, and the ability to commu­nicate. Without these things, thebasic requirements are too hardto fulfill. What are these basics?f,irst of all, selflessness enoughto love a child, not resent thetime he takes. Discipline is a

Part-Time ParenthoodPart-time parenthood is sup­

ported indirectly when the gov­ernment provides more taxbreaks by allowing certain child­care cost to be deducted. If bothparents work full-time, or if asingle parent works full-time,and accumulated income is$18,000 per year ·or less, theycan deduct up to $200 per monthfor one child, $300 per month fortwo children, and $400 permonth for three or more children.If such families make over$18,000 they can deduct a lesserper cent, but still a substantialamount.

Another force behind part-timeparenting comes from apartmentowners who sell child-care ser­vices to bait working parents.Such promotion helps to collectinto one place a large per centof single parents or workingcouples who have children. Italso provides an opportunity forthe Church community. to bringsome of its people's talents andeducational experience to bearoutside the parochial interestsof parish school and CCD. Fewsingle parents frequent parishfunctions, nor are they apt tofind an organization of unwedmothers and fathers very invit­ing if a parish were to try thatunlikely route. So the Churchcommunity will need to go out

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proved himself a learned andmerciful physician; if he shallgive any advice, you wi.Jl actupon it and follow it."

Church's WisdomOrigen was a learned man,

schooled in the Chr,istian way oflife which was "foolishness" tothe pagan phiiosPl)hers of hisday, but the only wisdom thatcould set men free, the truthwhich CI1lone could truly liberatemen's conscience. Origen hasbeen called a "man of theChurch," loyal at aU times to theteaching of Christ as interpretedby the Church.

A "learned physician" will nottell his penitent that the teachingChurch is wrong in condemningartificial contraception as an evil,as a disorder. On this point thebishops of the Catholk worldagree with Paul VI that contra­ception can never be recognizedas a good, no matter how goodthe purpose in practicing it. Likekilling, even in self-defense, theact. of closing love to life cannever be regarded as a good. Theend can never justify nor canon­ize the means.

There is not the same agree­ment on the gravity of the evil ordisorder in particular cases.Here, the "learned" physicianmust apply the "traditionalwisdom" of the Church's bestmoral theologiatlS.

American BishopsThe priest, according to Ori­

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BY GERARD A. POTTEBAUM

Day care, apartment living,and single parents are central toany discussion about responsibleparenthood today.

An increasing number of chil­dren are growing up in single­parent families. The parent iseither divorced, separated, wid­owed, or was never married.

Many of these people live inapartment communities. Therethey avoid having to keep a yardtrim in summer, or' .Having toclear a driveway of snow inwinter, or having to attend tothe year-round details of homeownership.

Usually they have to holddown a job. This means eitherf.inding someone to babysit, orputting the children in a day-carecenter. In either case, a majorportion of their salary goes tosomeone else in the business ofraising children.

The effects remain to be seenupon children who live withpart-time parents-be they fromsingle-parent or two-parent fam­ilies. Whatever the effects, thenumber of children in centers isapt to continue to grow. Someexperts prediCt that at least 5.3million mothers with childrenunder the age of five will beholding jobs by 1980. Some sixmillion children under age sixnow have working mothers.

It is not my purpose to res'olvethe problem for those who aretroubled in conscience. Only apriest-confessor can effectivelydo this in the context of a sacra­ment in which the Holy Spiritis . present and operative withHis grace. I can only commenton the qualities needed by a"good" confessor in handl,ing theproblem.

'Back in the third century, Ori­gen, the most learned' and com­passionate man of his time, toldhis people: "Search out diligent­ly the one to whom you' oughtto confess your sin. First ap­prove the physician to whom youshould manifest the cause ofyour trouble, one who knowshow to be weak with the weak,to weep w,ith one who weeps,who has learned the art of sym­pathy and compassion. If in shorthe shall say. anything and has

Artificial contraception orbirth control is still an agonizingproblem for many Catholic cou­ples who feel unable to exerciseresponsible parenthood by open­ing their love to new life.

By

REV. PAUL F.

PALMER, 5.J.

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Open to Love and Life

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Knights of ClaverOppose Abortion

SAN ANTONIO (NC)':"- Res·olutions opposing abortion and

. supporting the alleviation ofdrug abuse were approved 'at the59th annual convention of theKnights of Peter ClaveI' heldhere.

Headquartered in New Or­leans, La., the fraternal order isone of the oldest black Catholic,laymen's organizations in theUnited States. .

The abortion resolution alsodeclared strong support of thegroup's previous sta'nd againstthe deaoth penalty.

Explains StateConference Role

HERSHEY (NC)....,.Although theChurch's mission is spiritual, its"polItical aloofness" should notresult in "inaction and disen­gagement on the part. of (Cath­olic) citizens ... or failure to par­ticipate in the life of the nation,"Cardinal John Krol of Philadel­phia told the recent meeting ofthe Pennsylvania Catholic Con­ference (PCC), held here.

The Cardinal, PCC chairman,said that the conference is not"a mere political and lobbyingagency" or an unwarranted in­trusion of the Church into theaffairs of the state."

The Church "normally ex­pre,sses itself in positive termsof teaching and exhortation," thecardinal said, but "occasionsmay arise when the Church mustresort to healthy criticism to de­nounce injustice courageously,with charity."

The bishops of Pennsylvania,he said, "organized what is nowthe Pennsylvania Catholic Con­ference asan instrument throughwhich citizens who are laity,fai.thful to ecc1esial life, couldmake their presence felt at thestate legislative levels."

The cardinal said that the sin­gle purpose of state Catholicconferences is '''injecting into oursociety the tenets of divine lawand will, so that all human lifeand activity would be harmon­ized unto 'God's glory."

A state Catholic conferenceshould "give witness to spiritualvalues in public affairs," he said,while providing an agency forcorporate Catholic service to thestate-wide community All ...efforts must be related and sub-

"ordinated to thf;l)lt.imate goal ofpromoting God's Kingdom."

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Men's ConferenceNames Secretary

WASHINGTON (NC) - Xa··verian Brother Thomas MorePage has been- named executivesecretary of the Conference ofMajor Superiors of Men, suc­ceeding Father Francis Gokey,who was elected superior generalof the Society of St. Edmlund.

He is currently serving as ex­ecutive director of the U. S.Catholic Mission Council inWashington.

,The Parish: Godl,'s D~y.Care CenterContinued from Page Thirteen such communities, we can expect

to meet with these parents on to fin~ new depths and expres­their terms, and under their liv- sions Iof. Goa's grace at working circumstances. among hIS people. We can also

The objective of such an out- expect to discover from withinreaching is not to pass judgment, the. eJl:perience of these commu­nor to promote church morals ~ities l~hat ~scen~l'al,~o .the p~r­which have obviously been vio- Ish cobmumty. LIturgical actIOnlated by people who have chil- which I makes tangible <. thedren out of wedlock. The task is moverhent of God's Spirit amongto avoid standing above while his . p~ople. Suc.h action cannotsuffering with these people as be Im~orted or Imposed. It ~ust

they work the best they can with gr?w Ifrom out of the relatIOn­what they've got. Sometimes ships .t1eveloped among the peo­the~r needs are as simple but. as pIe inIthese communities.baSIC as ho,w .to, select and pre- Dra'fing peop1e out' of thesepar7 no~nshmg. foods.. Thennatura\1 gatherings in' order toagam, ~helr need .IS f~r rehef. . sustain only the parish model 'of

ConSIder the slt~atlOn, for m- comm+nity tends to make ofstance, v.;her7 you ve worked ~11 these people simply church-goersd~y. You re tIred. Y?U seek qUIet ratheI'I than community builders,rest. You face a chIld (or more) part-Hlne members in God's fam­demanding.~our ~t,tention. Under i1y. B~t as every faithful personthese c.o.~dltlOns It s .tough to be knows! God is not a part-timea sen.slt!ve, responSIve, and re- parentj He has' only full-timesponslble parent ... even when children. And the local parish isyou have a spouse, much less not Hili day-care center.alone.The Church, community can ~--!" -.

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necessity be the ideal of Chris­tian marriflge as a graced cov­enant of love and fidelity. Theideal is b~sed not so much onthe law of 'nature as on the "lawof the Go~pel," which illuminesnature's law. Not only is thisideal consonant with nature, butthe "constant effort towards theideal" ·has been made possible bythe grace of Christ which, as theCouncil ofi Trent teaches, "per­fects natural love ... and sancti­fies the hJsband and the wife."

Johnny Ran AwayContinued from Page Thirteen

lege-haulirg bricks, hammering,coming home tired and dirty. Iresented it ,and came to the con­clusion that Dad didn't love me.Neither didlMom, or she wouldn'thave stood for it. .

"But as the year went on, lotsof my friends played more and,more and :flunked out. Then Ibegan to realize what he wasteaching me. He had made mepartially responsible for my ed­ucation; hel paid the tuition andboard, but I certainly couldn't goto school if I had no clothesand the fun I had was up to metoo. No, pa:rents couldn't' g,ive ason a better gift!"

As the evening progressed, Wi

noticed that Bruce and his par­entis were often engaged in livelyconversation. So, at an oppor­tune moment we told Mr. andMrs. Thomas that it was so re­freshing to see what seemed tobe an ideal parent-son relation­ship. Mr. Thomas said, "Youknow, we're very fortunate. Ourfamily comjnunication is good,but I'm not sure why, are you,Fran?" His I wife paused a mo­ment, then smiled and said, "Bill,I think it's i'because you and (never stopped talking to eachother. And ~e've always. talkedto them, too."

That evening has given me'food for thought over the years.Children who have been taughtresponsibility, have a stablehome life, and are loved are aptto turn into' responsible parent'sthemselves. :

These usually aren't the John­nys who might have gone "toofar."

Continued from Page Thirteencian." The quality of that mercywill never be so strained as todiscourage' the penitent from re­turning to the sacraments.' Onthis point there is completeagreement between Paul VI andthe bishops of the Catholic world.

In his encyclical, HumanaeVitae (Of Human Life), Paul, VIsays of those still strugglingwith the problem: "And if sinshould still keep its hold overthem, let them not be discour,aged, but rather have recoursewith humble perseverance to themercy of God, which is pouredforth in the sacrament of Pen­ance." The American Bishops intheir pastoral on Human Life inour Day (1968», without denyingthe "objective evil of artificialcontraception,:' urge "those whohave resorted to artificial contra­ception, pever to lose heart butto continue to take fuB advan­tage of the strength which comesfrom the Sacrament of Penanceand th~ grace, healing and peacein the Eucharist. May we all bemindful of the invitation ofJesus: 'The man who comes tome I will never' turn away' (In.6:37)."

'Merciful Physician'The Italian bishops in their

own pastoral response regard theencyclical as the "courageous ex­pression of what is the ideal,"but they exhort the faithful notto be disheartened because ofpossible fajlure. "The Church,whose task it is to declare good­ness in the totality of its perfec­tion, is not unaware that thereare laws of growth in goodness,and that at times one passesthrough stages stiH imperfect, al­though with the aim of loyallyovercoming them in a constanteffort towards the ideal."

A "merciful physician" with­out compromising the Christianideal will not "quench the burn­ing flax," nor discourage the weakby imposing "insuperable bur­dens." With the grace of thesacrament hoe will fan the dyingspark of "good will" into a flamethat wiJ.I lighten the burden, andbring light to those who are con­fused and troubled in conscience.

Openness of the marital em­brace to love and life must of

Bishops' ConferenceApproves Amnesty

WASHINGTON (NC) -- Pres- vice because of their conscien­ident Gerald R. Ford's declara- tious convidions."tion that he favors leniency in ",President Ford's remarks,treating draft evaders and de- which amou~ted to a call forserters as a way "to bind up the what has often been called "con­nation's wounds" was hailep as ditional am~esty," came in aa "welcome sign" and a "con- speech he delivered to the na­structive step" by Bishop James tional conv.erltion of the VeteransRausch, general secretary of the of F'oreign Wars (VFW) in Chi-National Conference of Catholic cago. I

Bishops (NCCB) and the U. S. . He said he is convinced thatCatholic Conference (UseC). "unconditional blanket amnesty

President Ford's approach for anyone 'Vho illegally evadedseems to be fully supported by or fled mjlitary service isthe 1971 and 1972 statements of wrong," But ihe repeated his .be­the nation's Catholic Bishops on lief expressed when he took histhe topic, Bishop Rausch said. presidential oath of office, that

He added, however, that in there is "a power higher than theview of the present national people, who commands not onlyneeds and the time that has righteousness' but love, not pnlyelapsed since direct American in- justice but ";Iercy."volvement in the Vietnam War, Of those who have fled Arner­"it may also be that consider- ica or gone u!,\derground he said:ation should be given to uncon- .... want them to come backditiona.1 amnesty at least for home, if they want to work theirthose who resisted military ser- way bac\{." .'

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"is not afraid. to change hismind" and he pointed out thatthe Grand Rapids area is "ex­tremely conservative," ethnicallypredominantly Dutch with largeChristian Reformed church con­gregations.

"I think that Gerry Ford inCongress felt he had to take alook back and see what the peo­ple were feeling."

Pittsburgh HospitalGets Large Loan

PITTSBURGH (NC) - PiUs­burgh's Mercy Hospital will soon'begin 'a far-reaching construc­tion, renovation, and expansionprogram because of a $7,606,277federal loan.

The announcement of theloan was made by Gorham L.Black Jr., director of the regionthree of the U. S. Department ofHealth, Education, and Welfare.

The hospital plans to replace396 medical/surgical beds andopen a new operating suite,

II refugees,' he had extensivedealings with Ford, who was firstelected to Congress in 1948.

"He gets things done withoutflourishes," the priest said, anddiscounted contentJions that thenew President lacks intellectualbrilliance. "What the New YorkTimes and the Washington Postmight consider brilliant, I mightnot," Msgr. Whalen said.

Discussing assertions thatFord has been weak in his sup­port for civil nights, Msgr. Wha­len said: "I think, that some of hisstands on civil rights were tdlt­ing more toward Republican polo.liey than his own convictions.He is more liberal in person thanhe could be as House minorityleader."

In his personal dealings with'Ford, the priest sa'id, "I neversaw one flicker of an anti-civilrights stance.

"He is probably no flamingliberal on civil rights, but he willbe eminently fa'ir."

Msgr. Whalen added that Ford

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WASHINGTON (NC) - Pres­,ident Gerald oR, Ford is "an ex­ceptionally thoughtful and con­siderate Christian gentleman,"according toa Catholic priestwho has known him personallyfor 28 years.

PreS'ident· Ford is "the epitomeof thoughtfulness," said thepniest, Msgr. Joseph C. Whalenin a telephone interview. He ispastor of St. Joseph's Church inWright, Mich., and former editorof the Western Michigan Cath­olic, diocesan newspaper ofGrand Rapids, Mich., the pres­ident's !lome town.

Msgr. Whalen said he consid­ers Ford "an exceptionally com­petent individual" who, as Con­gressman, "served everybody,Democl'at and Republican."

Ford "doesn't wear Christian­'ity on his sleeve, but there is nodoubt about his beliefs," thepriest said.

Msgr. Whalen said that whenhe served as diocesan resettle­ment director placing World War

what the English did to the Irishfor a thousand years. As far asI can remember, the Anglicanchur.ch has never expiated forthe' million Irish who died in thefamines of the I840s. Nor am Iholding my breath before theyfeel any collective guilt over thatone.

Except Catholics

'Protestant guilt, you see, ap­plies 'to everyone except Cath­olics - Jews, blacks, Chicanos,native Americans. (Indians toyou), young people, homosexuals.To all of these reparation mustbe made. But make reparationsto Catholics? Don't be silly;they're lucky we let them in.

We were forced to live inslums, discriminated against inemployment, compelled to. giveup our language, pressured togive up our religion, excludedfrom the best schools and thehighest jobs, even for a longtime, the presidency. Our con­vents and churches were burned.Our schools were denied support.Even today we are absent fromthe boards of the bi'g corpora­tions, the major foundations, theelite universities. Our schools arestill refused aid to which theyhave a right (and by some ofthe 11]0st twisted legal opInionsin history), and we can't be partof the senior faculty of majoruniversities-unless we disaffil­iate from the Church.

What's more, we have beenblamed for war, racism and' mostof the other ills of the sixties,and our neighborhoods and ourjobs have been turned over toother groups, more deserving ofexpiation than we.

Catholic Plot

If Ms. Randall and her sup­porters feel any guilt over thiskind of past and present discrim­ination, they don't show· it. Onthe contrary, many Protestantsrespond by suggesting that theCatholic effort to modify theabortion ruling is some sort ofsecret, evil campaign. Mind you,their efforts to get the rulingwere just part of the normaldemocratic processes..But ourresponse has to be a dirty Cath-olic plot. .

So if there is serious intent onthe Nationa'l Council of Churchesto make amends for "the offensesof the past, I would imagine thata church-going Irish (or Italianor Polish) Catholic will be hiredfor one of the new jobs. Short ofthat, one will be tempted to con­clude that there is more than atouch of hypocrisy about thewhole thing, and that the Na­tional Council is on its waydown the same faddish pathtoward becoming a' freak showthat Union Theological Seminarybegan to walk a few years ago.They'll make the Curia look likea paragon of efficiency.

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new general secretary somemonths ago. Ms. Randall hasnow dismissed five of her topassistants-all of whom, as the"New York Times" observed,had a number of things in com­mon: they were over sixty, theywere white males, and they hadserved the Council for twentyyears.

Sacrificial Victims

Their jobs were "abolished,"but everyone fully expects thatnew people will be brought into do the same things they didand that these new people willbe young, non-male and' non­white. As evidence that this iswhat will happen, a sixth manwhose job was "abolished" waspermitted to stay on in anotherposition. It turns out he wasblack.

Tough luck, fellas; you servedlong and well, but you don't hap­pen' to meet our current quotarequirements, so out you go. Ofcourse, you'll get a generouspension. What more should awhite Protestant homosexualmale expect?

A Protestant friend of mine ad­mitted that it was all too bad,and agreed with the namelessEpiscopalian quoted by the"Times" that the style was allwrong. But, he observed, womenand blacks had been excluded fora long time and some sort ofexpiation had to be made. Tough,of course, on the sacrificial vic­tims.

Collective Guilt

One must understand that theconfession of guLlt and expiationis an essential of Protestantpractice. I remember a meetingwhere virtuaHy all the Protes­tants present were confessingguilt and demanding expiation.I asked an Anglican bishop sit­ting next to me why so muchguilt and expiation. Drawinghimself up to his full six feet twoof silver-thatched dignity, he re­sponded with just a hint of atwinkle in his deep blue eyes,"Young man, obviously youdon't understand what it meansto be a Protestant."

I couldn't help think of thebishop when his church decidedto pay "reparations" to JamesForeman for what Anglicans didto blacks. I was tempted to callhim and ask if they were goingto pay reparations to me for

Sometimes we get so upset by the way authority ismisused in the Catholic Church that we forget that otherhuman institutions are also plagued with the abuse of pow­er. Recent events at the National Council of Churches arean interesting reminder thatwe have no monopoly on thearbitrary exercise of power.

Clarie Randall, it may beremembered, is the militant sup­porter of abortion-on-demandwhom the Council-in a burst ofecumenical sensitivity-made its

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