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with neighboring parishes, willsponsor Lenten programs ofadult religious education. A num­ber of programs have already'been finalized, using various for­mats.

Several parishes will use "Fo­cus on Hope," a popular series,one of an increasihg number ofpackaged diS\!ussion programsespecially designed for adults.Our Lady of the Cape, Brewster,Mass. will conduct the Focus pro­gram for parishioners on sevenWednesday evenings beginningFeb. 20. In Falmouth, St. Pat·rick's will center their discussionon' the Scripture and Family Lifearticles of the series on Wednes·day evenings. -beginning AshWednesday, from 8-9:30 in theSchool of Religion Hall.

St. Francis Xavier, in Hyannis,will continue their Monday eve­ning Gatholic Adult Information

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from that dust if man is the will­ing tool of the Holy Spirit!

Liturgy, programs and selfpenance are the Lenten possi­bilities that can bring eachChristian to a full living of theglorious facts of his child rela­tionship to the Father, his andher living of the fact of hisbrotherhood and sisterhood withChrist, the individual's value asa co-worker with the Spirit.

Lent 1974 is a rich invitationto partnership with God comeWednesday. It is a great oppor­tunity to see the needs in thiscivilization and make a unique

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The Lenten season is tradi­tionally a period of renewal­personal and parochial. Manyparishes take the opportunity ofthe "Teachable season" to en­courage religious education forthe adults of the parish and thewider community. The Diocese ofFall River, under Most ReverendDaniel A. Cronin, Bishop of FallRiver, in establishing an officeof Adult Education, is respond­ing to the crucial need for thecontinuing religious education ofall Catholics, of all ages.

The Bishops of the UnitedStates, in their pastoral letter,"To Teach as Jesus Did," empha­size that learning is a lifelongexperience and that "the contin­uing education of adults is situ­ated not at the periphery of theChurch's educational mission butat its center. (No. 43).

Many parishes of the Diocese,individually or in cooperation

Lent Programs Focus·On Adult Education

The efforts at adult education,available to all, can be the pen­itential putting aside of leisureand the undertaking of seriousand prayerful stady for one'sown 'benefit and the eventualbenefit of the entire Church.

The realization that we arebut dust and that we shall re­turn to dust is a reality thateach Christian must face andaccept.

But what did the God of Gen·esis do with that dust! Whatpossibilities Christ made avail­able to man in joining his poorbut sincere efforts to His! Whatriches and vitality can come

Lent, Holy Year AskTrue Reconciliation

"Repent and Believe the GoodNews," the optional formula forthe imposition of ashes to inaug­urate the Lenten Season, is aperfect summary of the Church'splans for Lent, 1974.

To the traditional acts of pen­ance for Lent, this year's FallRiver diocesan thrust is towardPope Paul's great hopes for re­newal and reconciliation for theHoly Year.

Diocesan-wide adult educationprograms increase the personalefforts of many to renew them­selves, deepen their Faith and in·volve themselves in a more'Christian endeavor in the worldabout them.

The announced program fordiocesan-wide participation inthe 1974 phase of the Holy Yearcannot but bring to mind themany hopeful steps of reconcil-

• iation that will bring eachChristian closer to God and tohis fellow man.

The personal acts of sacrificeand penance will purify andvivify the individual Christianto strive to 'better himself andherself so as to better reflect theLight of Christ through the in­dividual's endeavor, the family,the parish, the diocese.

The Lenten fasts and Fridayabstinence touch upon all. Theacts of deprivation make sacri­fice real. The services to theabandoned, the sick, the home­less redouble the. zeal of aChristian's stewardship. The in­creased devotions warm theworship of God and the fellow­ship of man.

It is not activity for activity'ssake that is asked. It is a scrip­turally inspired effort, demandedof all Christians, adaptable tothe individual, that seeks topurify, intensify and makealive one's religion.

MRS. GILBERT J. NOONAN

has been for many years, a pa­parish in that city, is now, and

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Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin,S.T.D., Ordinary of the Dioeeseof Fall River, announced todaythe appointment of Mrs. GilbertJ. Noonan, well-known Falmouthbusinesswoman, as the diocesanlay chairlady of the 1974 Cath­olic Charities Appeal of theRoman Catholic Diocese of FallRiver. This marks the first timethat a woman has headed theAppeal in the thirty·three years'history of the Appeal.

The diocese extends fromProvincetown to Attleboro andthe campaign will cover the fivebig areas of the <liocese, namely,greater Fall River, New Bedford,Taunton, the Attleboros, andCape Co<! and the Islands ofMartha's Vineyar<l and Nan­tucket.

Mrs. Noonan, a native ofBrockton and of St. Edward's

Mrs. Noonan Heads74 Charities Appeal

In 1966 Pope Paul VI issued an apostolic constitution on penancein the Church. Although this wa.s to relax in some degree the Churchdiscipline of abstinence and fast, his primary intention was entirely dif­ferent and more significant. It was to· call upon the Catholic people tobecome aware of the call to deeper conversion of soul and to do greaterpenance. In particular, he stressed individual and community responsibilityto perform not only the traditional acts of physical penance but above allprayer and charity.

At the same time Pope Paul enumerated the penitential times inChurch discipline: the season of Lent as a whole and, as individual daysof penance, Ash Wednesday and all the Fridays of the year. Ash Wednesdayand Good Friday were to be days of abstinence from meat and of fast; allthe other Fridays'were to be days of abstinence from meat. It was leftto the episcopal conferences to transfer these days, if necessary, or tosubstitute other kinds of penitential discipline. .

In the United States, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops didnot transfer the penitential days-which remain as Ash Wednesday andall the Fridays of the year. The conference, however, did alter the canonicaldiscipline on the Fridays outside Lent. While commending abstinence onthese days, the bishops left to individual Catholics the. choice of otheracts of prayer and charity to express the spirit of penance, making everyFriday "a day of self-denial and mortification in prayerful remembranceof the passion of Jesus Christ" in preparation for "that weekly Easterthat comes with each Sunday."

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The bad weather over lastweekend notwithstanding, peopleof the Diocese gave a goo<! ini·tial response to the annual sub­scription and renewal dl"ive ofThe Anchor, the Fall Rivel' dioce­san weekly newspaper about tobegin its eighteenth year of pub­lication.

Since the beginning of theSecond ,Vatican Council, peopleare realizing that they cannot de­pend for religious education upontalk shows and secular news­papers, however well-meaningthese may be. There needs tobe a clear-cut distinction be­tween what is opinion in mattersreligious and what is faith andmorals. Too often this distinctionis blurred when discussing reli­gion and here is where the dioce­san press enters the religious ed­ucation apostolate.

There has also been goo<! re­action from many areas of theDiocese in appreciation of whatis going on elsewhere. Parishesand individuals have taken exam­ple and programs from what theyread in The Anchor. What hasbeen found to be helpful in oneparish has become a pattern forothers.

The next t,wo weeks will findmore renewals and subscriptionsto The Anchor and priests incharge of the drive in the 114

parishes of the Diocese areasked to return the subscriptionaddresses to The Anchor Off.iceso that corrections may be madeand new subscriptions processedquickly.

Bishop NamesHoly YearCommittee

His Excellency, Most Rev..Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., Bishopof Fall River, has announced theformation of a Diocesan CentralCommittee for the Holy Year.

Chairman of the Gentral Com­mittee is Very Rev. Luiz G. Men·donca, V.G., pastor of Our Ladyof Mt. Carmel Parish, New Bed­ford.

Members of the committee andtheir responsibilities are:

Liaison with the Cathedral andLiturgy: Rev. Barry W. Wall, St.Mary's Cathedral, Fall River.

Priests: Rev. Peter Graziano ofSt. Thomas More Parish, Somer­set, and President of the Priests'Senate.

Publicity: Rev. John R. Foisterof St. Louis Parish, Fall Riverand Assistant Director of TheAnchor; Mrs. Charles Landry ofSeekonk.

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Current Lenten

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Current Lenten DisciplineContinued from Page One

The current canonical discipline of penance for the United States,in addition to the general 'character of the Lenten season may thus be 'summed up:

a) Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are days of abstinence frommeaf and also of fast. that 1s, limited to a single full meal. With regardto Good Friday, the teaching of the Second Vatican Council should ~e

recalled :"Let the paschal fast be kept sacred. Let it be celebrated every­where on Good Friday and, where possible, prolonged throughout HolySaturday, so that the joys of the Sunday of the Resurrection may be

,'attained with uplifted and clear mind" (Constitution on the Liturgy,no. 110). '

b) The other Fridays of the season of Lent are days of 'abstinencefrom meat.

c) The Fridays of the year outstde Lent remain days of penance, buteach individual may substitute for the traditional abstinence from meatsome other practice of voluntary self-denial or personal penance: thismay be physical mortification or temperance or acts of religion, charity,or Christian witness. ,

The determination of these few days of obligatory penance-whichmay even be r.educed in number because 9f the occurrence of a ~ol~~ay

of obligation or diocesan regulations-should not be understood as lImItIngthe occasions for Christian penance. The tradition of vigils and emberdays, periods of special need and supplication, and above all the seasonof Lent as a whole should be maintained and respected.

With regard to the obligatory days listed above, however, there isfrequent question about the degree of seriousness of the matter. Theteaching of Pope Paul may be simply paraphrased: the obligation to dopenance is a serious one; the obligation to observe, as a ~hole or ".sub­stantiaHy," the penitential days specified by the Church IS als? s~~ous~

No one should be scrupulous in this regard: failure to observe mdlVldualdays of penance is not considered serious; rather it is the failure to obse~e

any penitential days at all or a substantial number of such days :whIchmust be considered serious. People should seek- to do. more rather thanless: fast and abstinence on the days prescribed; wor~s of religio~.and

charity on the Fridays outside Lent should be c~nsldere~' a mlmmalresponse to the Lord's call to penance and converSIon of lIfe;

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Wednesday evenings, at the Mur­ray Universalist Church. Spon.sored by the Attleboro ClergyAssociation, the program runsfor five weeks and includes:March 6, "Jewish Expectation ofMessiah," Rabbi Phil Kaplan;March 13, "Call to Ministry,"Rev. George Bellenoit March 20,"Teachings of Christ," Rev. Da­vid Dahlherg; March 27. "Eventsin the Life of Christ," Rt. Rev.Msgr. Gerard Chabot; April 13,Resume and Rap-up, Rev. Ber­nard Hanninger.

Taunton AreaThe parishes of Taunton have

combined their efforts for an areaprogram that will meet on Wed­nesday evenings, at 8.00, atCoyle-Cassidy High School. Rev.William Leonard, S.J. will con­duct the lecture-discussion serieson "Changes in the Church.'"Anyone interested in followingthis program will register at hisparish. There will be a $2 regis­tration fee.

A number of parishes will con-_duct local programs as well.

Among these, St. Joseph'sChurch will conduct a variedprogram on Thursday eveningsduring Lent, concentrating onthe sacramen'ts and Lenten devo­tions: March 7, Stations of theCross with representatives ofparish organizations creatingoriginal meditations; March 14,the celebration of Baptism at theevening Mass; March 21, the riteof marriage and the renewal ofvows; March 28, a communal cel­ebration of Anointing of theSick; April 4, a Communal Pen­ance Service; and on Holy Thurs­dav. April 11, the institution ofthe Eucharist. '

Fall RiverThe Cathedral parish will be

using "Focus on Hope" for dis-,cussions in the school after the

-Wednesday evening Mass, begin­ning March 6. This series dealswith Scripture and family life aswell as reflections on prayer inthe life of the Christian.

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Lent ••• Adult EducationContinued from Page One

Seminar in the parish center. Thisprogram, which began in Januaryand continues until May, is opento everyone.

"A Positive Response to Len­ten Sacrifice" is the theme forthe Friday evening programs atSt. Mary's Church, Tarkiln HillRoad. The format includes Mass'at 7:30 p.m., a g·uest homilist,and a social hour and discussionin the parish school followingthe Mass. The first session isscheduled for Friday, March 1and will continue until April 5.

St. Joseph's Parish, New Bed- ,ford. will continue their fulladult education program, inprogress since September, ,includ­ing Wednesday evening lecturesand discussions on the Mass andScripture, and a doctrine seriesentitled "Catch-up." The parishretreats will complement thisprogram during the weeks ofFeb. 24 and March 24.

The Gospel of St. John is the­basis for the ongoing program atSt. Hedwig's, New Bedford. Thisdiscussion, along with a program~ntitled "Keeping Your Balancein the -Modern Church," meetsevery Monday evening at 7:00 inthe Church Hall, and will con­tinue throughout. the Lentenseason.

SeekonkOur Lady of Mt. Carmel Par­

ish, Seekonk, has several- adulteducation programs going at thesame time. Presently two pro­grams are being presented onSunday evenings "UnderstandingChristian Morality," and "LivingOur Faith." Two additional pro­grams will be included duringthe Lenten period: on Sundayevenings, beginning Feb. 24, adiscussion of the Gospel of St.Luke, and on Tuesday evenings,beginning Feb. 26, a mini-courseon the Sacraments.

A program of mid-week Pray­er Services is also heing con­ducted to coincide with the Len­ten season.

Attleboro AreaSt. Theresa's parish in South

Attleboro will address itself toparish renewal and reconciliationthrough a continuing program onthe Scriptures as well as throughspecial homilies throughout theweek, with emphasis on parishsodalities and societies.

St. Joseph Parish in Attleborois cooperating in an ecumenical"program, "Life of Christ" on

pital and vice-president of theFalmouth Council for Civic Beau­tification, ,Mrs. Noonan receivedthe diocesan Marian Award in1968.

Following notifi.cation of herselection by Bishop Cronin, Mrs.Noonan in a telephone conversa­tion with Rev. Msgr. Antony M.Gomes, diocestan director of theAppeal said: "I am most happyto serve as head of the Appeal.I am grateful to Hishop Croninfor giving me this opportunity towork with the priests, religious,my fellow Catholics, and all our.non-Catholic friends of the Ap­peal. This is the Bishop's fourthAppeal and the thirty-third an­nual call for assistance in themany apostolates of the diocese.With enthusiasm, I am lookingforward to a bigger and better1974 Catholic Charities Appeal.With God's help and the untiringefforts of everyone in the south­eastern area of the state, BishopCronin will be able to continuethe apostolates of charity, mercy,social service and educational,endeavbrs to all regardless ofrace, color and creed."

The special gifts phase of theAppeal will be from April 22 toMay 4. This phase appeals to theprofessionll!l, fraternal, business,and industrial organizations forsupport of the Appeal. The sec­ond phase of the Appeal-theparish phase-will be held onSunday, May 5, from the hoursof 12 noon to 2 P.M.. This phaseasks the support of all parishio­ners of the 115 parishes of thediocese. The parish Appeal endsofficially on Wednesday, May15.

PropReligion, by devoting itself to

the elevation of human charac­ter, becomes a prop and s~ay offree institutions.

-Charles W. Eliot

Continued from Page Onerishioner' of St. Patrick's Church,'Falmouth. The 1974 CatholicCharities Appeal chairlady grad­uateCi from Brockton HighSchool and attended SimmonsCollege in Boston. She has beenemployed for many years byLawrence-Lynch Corp. of Fal-

, mouth and has received extensivetraining in secretarial work.

The diocesan chairlady is mar­ried to Gilbert J. Noonan, also anative of Brockton and a grad­uate of Brockton High School.Mr. Noonan,. is general managerof Falmouth Gas Company, Inc.

The chairlady of the 33rd Ap­peal has been most active in dioc­esan, parochial and civic en­deavors in southeastern Massa­·chusetts. She has been past Dioc­esan President of the Council ofCatholic Women, past Regent ofthe Daughters of Isabella and astate officer,' and past Presidentof District Five of the Council ofCatholic Women. She has been apast', President of St. Patrick'sparish ,Womell's Guild, a workerin the parish Confraternity ofChristian Doctrine and a solicitorfor .the parish and area CatholicCharities Appeal for many years.

Mrs. Noonan was an area co­ordinator of the Catholic Char­ities Appeal in 1973. She contin­ues to serve faithfully all theseorganizations.

A trustee' of Falmouth Hos-

NecrologyMAR. 1

Rev. James F. Masterson,1906, Foullder, St. Patrick, Som­erset.

Rt. Rev. Peter L.D, Robert,P.R., 1948, Pastor, Notre Dame,Fall River.

MAR. 7

MAR. 2

Rev. James J. Brady, 1941,Pastor, St. Kilian, New Bedford.

Rev. Antonio Berube, 1936,Pastor, St. Joseph Attleboro.

Rev: Tarcisius Dreesen, SS.CC"1952, Monastery Sacred Heart,Fairhaven.

Rev. Alphonse Gauthier, 1962,Pastor, Sacred Heart, New Bed­ford.

Rev. J. Omer Lussier, :1.970,Pastqr, S'tcred Heart, NorthAttleboro'.

MAR. 3

Rt. Rev. Timothy P. Sweeney,LL.D., 1960, Pastor, Holy Name,New Bedford.

MAR. 6

Rev. John W. Quirk, 1932,Founder, St. Joseph, Taunton.

Rev. Bernard P. Connolly, S.S.,1932, St. Charles College, Mary­land.

Rev. Arthur P. J. Gagnon,1958,' Pastor, Holy Rosary, NewBedford.

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Pontiff DefendsVatican-ItalianPius XI Pacts

VATICAN CITY (NC) - PopePaul VI defended the validity ofthe Lateran pacts between theVatican and Italy on the 35thanniversary of the death of thePope w.ho negotiated them, PiusXI.

Observers saw his defense asa reply to those who want to reovoke the pacts.

,Pope Paul speaking to crowdsin St. Peter's Feb. 10, recalledthat Pope Pius XI died just oneday before he could deliver tothe Italian Bishops "A discoursededicated to serious problems."

That discourse was to havemarked the 10th anniversary ofthe 1929 accord between Italyand the Vatican, the Lateranpacts. '

(It has long been rumored thatPius XI was going to deliver onthat day in 1939 a denunciationof nazism and fascism, but thathe was poisoned before he coulddo so.

(According to his attendantsin the Vatican, however, he diedof natural causes at the age of82 after a long illness. But itis a fact that he had commis­sioned an American Jesuit,Father John La Farge, in June,1938 to draft a condemnation ofHitler and Mussolini and theirracist and anti-Jewish stances.)

Lateran Pacts

Pope Paul recalled the contri­butions Pius XI made to theChurch and to Italy, and thenturned his attention to the Lat­eran pacts, the accords enactedby Pius XI and Mussolini thatrecognized , among other things,the sovereignty of Vatican CityState.

Making no mention of thedivorce issue in Italy, nor anyallusion to the Vatican's conten­tion that Italy unilaterally brokeone of the provisos of the Later­an pacts by allowing divorce,Pope Paul quietly declared:

"As time goes on and we en­counter new and ever-varioustroubles, the memory of Pius XIcan encourage us in our now cel­ebrated religious peace (withItaly), can deepen our awarenessof liberty, autonomy and respon­sibility, he it of the Church orthe state, and can renew theproposal of spiritual harmony,a)ways productive of collabora­tion and progress between thetwo distinct and so di,fferent sov­ereignties, that of the state ofItaly and that of the Holy See."

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Christian stand on vital humanissues.

Most significant single gestureduring the week was a joint eu­charistic service in a north Lon­don Anglican parish church inwhioh the new apostolic delegatein Britai11, Arohbishop BrunoHeim, took part.

Archbishop celebrated Cath-. olic Mass at the central altarwhile leading Anglican andMethodist churchmen simulta­neously celebrated their owneucharistic services at the twoside altars. The service was un­precedented and the participa­tion of the Vatican ,representa­tive was seen as a particularlyfriendly gesture toward the An­glican a,nd Methodist Churches.

It was also seen by many as amute encouragement to BritishCatholics to be bolder in theirecumenical outlook.

The three euoharistic servicesmarked in the most obvious waythe fact of Christian disunity.

The Sw,iss-born apostolic del­egate told the congregation thatsadly "this is still as far as wecan go. In itself it marks noadvance, For we have to remainapart for that which really ex­presses Christian unity-partic­ipation in the Euoharist ...

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Crisis in Britain EmphasizesNeed for United Christian Stand

LONDON (NC) - During theweek of Prayer for ChristianUnity, economic and politicalcrisis now facing Britain em­phasized the need for a united

SIGNING OF LATERAN PACTS: Representing theVatican, Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Gasparri signs theLateran pacts on Feb. 11, 1929, along with Benito Mussoliniof Italy. Pope Paul VI has defended the accord that recog­nized, among other things, the sovereignty of the VaticanState. The defense was seen as a reply to those who wantthe pacts revoked. NC Photo.

Special SocialAt LaSalette,Saturday

The Friends of La SaletteShrine are talking up a stormconcerning a unique experiencethey are preparing for wine andcheese tasters of the Attleborosand neighboring towns and cities.

On Saturday night, Feb. 23, at8:30, a Cabaret of French Winesand Cheese will be sponsoredby the Friends of La SaletteShrine in the Shrine Cafeteria.. The evening will present to the

connoisseur a fine choice ofFrench wines complemented byan assortment of special Frenchcheese. Home baked bread andFrench sticks will be preparedfor the occasion by Sr. Jeanned'Arc of the Daughters of Char­ity, a French Canadian Chef deCu'isine.

Fr. Maurice Viens, M.S. of LaSalette in Worcester and former­'ly of the Attleboro Shrine willbe Master of Ceremonies for theevening. Entertainment will beprovided by Fr. Pat, the La Sa­lette singing priest, and his folkmusic group, The Reconcilers. A

- number of French sidewalk singal,ongs will be part of theprogram.

Sons of IrelandOf New BedfordPlan Night

The annual "Irish Night" din­ner·dance in celebration of St.Patrick's Day will be sponsoredby The Sons of Ireland of Great­er New Bedford on Saturdayevening, March 16, at Gaudette'sPavilion in Acusllnet., "

A full·course corned beef andc'ab'bagediimer starts off theevening at 6:30.

Featured in the entertainmentwill be Tommie Reilly accom­panied by his attractive and tal­ented daughter Alanna singingfavorite Irish, Scottish, Country& Western and folk songs. Melo­dious ballroom dance music willbe provided by The Castle TonesOrchestra. In addition, Irishmovies and travelogs will beshown throughout the evening inthe Surf Room and a low-costcharter flight to Europe will bediscussed.

Tickets are only $6.tlO ($5.00for senior citizens) for this eve­ning of enjoyment and enter­tainment and are available inbusiness locations in GreaterNew Bedford and in parish rec­tories.

Proceeds again will go to TheIrish Red Cross SocieJY for re­lief work among those refugeesdisplaced and distressed by thesectarian strife in the six British­occupied counties of Ulster andto the Discalced Camlelite Mon·astery in South Dartmouth. Inaddition, for every ticket soldthrough a parish couples club,The Sons of Ireland will return$1.00 to that parish for parishprojects.

Relations ImproveMADRID (NC) - The new

Spanish government is workinghard to improve its relationswith the Church, and the Vat­ican relations that were' severelystrained in Church-state confron­tations last year. It was reportedthat Premier Carlos Navarro mayvisit Pope Paul soon and that anew Spanish ambassador to, theVatican has been named.

States, Church Women United isdesignated as the official spon­sor.

The offerings received duringthe service will be sent to th!!Church Women United, NewYork.

The Committee Chairlady for1974 ,is ,Mrs. Lewis Royal of theFirst Baptist Church, No. Attle­boro.

Other members include: Mrs.Cecile Jette, Sacred Heart'Church" No. Attleboro; Mrs. Ste­ven Batchelder, Central Congre­gational Church, No. Attleboro;Mrs. Joan Pestana, St. MarkChurch, Attleboro Falls; SisterMary Ricarda Wobby, R.S.M., St.Mary Church, No. Attleboro.

Readers for the service are:Mrs. Kenneth Lincoln, St. Mary'sChurch; Mrs. Robert Zachman, St.Mary's, Church; Sister Doris Des­rosiers, S.U.S.C., Sacred HeartChurch, No. Attleboro; Mrs. JoanPestana, St. Mark's Church, At­tleboro Falls.

Each year, the Church WomenUnited plan this service to builda better community within thetown of North Attleboro.

FATHER DOYLE

The annual "World Day ofPrayer" will 'be observed by thewomen of North Attleboro at aspecial service to be held at Ma­donna Manor on March I, 1974.

The hostess for the eveningwill be Sister Thomas More, ad­ministrator of Madonna Manor.

The theme for the evening willbe "Builder of Peace" with Sis­ter M. Ricarda Wobby,R.S.M.,vice-principal of St. Mary-SacredHeart School in North Attleboro.

This World Day of Prayer ser·vice has been prepared by thewomen of Japan for the Interna·tional Committee for the WorldDay of Prayer. In the United

Father Doyle OPNow ChaplainAt Annhurst

Rev. Edward Paul Doyle, O.P.,a native of Fall River, was reocently named chaplain of Ann·hurst College, Woodstock, Ct.His appointment became effec­tive on February 3.

Father Doyle holds a B.A. fromProvidence College, an M.A.from Catholic University ofAmerica, Washington and aPh.D. from Aquinas Institute,where his dissertation centeredon the "Moral Obligations ofChristian Youth."

Prior to his Annhurst ap­pointment, Father Doyle taughtat Providence College, at SetonHill College in Greensburg,Penn., at Mt. St. Mary's Collegein Newburgh, N. Y., and at Sien­na Heights in Adrian, Michigan..

At Molloy College in RockvilleCenter, N. Y., he was associateprofessor of religious studies inthe Department of Pastora1 Care.

From 1943 to Hl46 FatherDoyle was a United States ArmyChaplain. He also served as firstpresident of the Dominican Ed­ucation Association, and as di­rector of the School of CatholicStudies of the Catholic Centerat the University of Virginia.

In 1970 Father Doyle was therecipient of a one-year researchfellowship at the Yale DivinitySchool.

A contributor to Torch Mag­azine, Father Doyle is the authorof many book reviews.

At Annhurst he will be avail­able for student ministry on afull-time basis.

Nonpublic School AidAUSTIN (NC)-By a vote of

17 to 2 the Education Committeeof the Constitutional Conventionof Texas has struck down a sec­tion that would remove all finan­cial support {or students in non­public schools. In addition to thestrong opposition expressed byspokesmen for private, non·profit church-related schools,equally strong opposition camefrom private trade schools andfrom the State RehabilitationCommission which contracts withnonpublic schools for a varietyof services.

Continued from Page Onecontribution to the work of theChurch today.

Yes, "Repent and Believe theGood News" or "Remember youare dust and to dust you shallreturn" will, on Wednesday, Feb.27, open a new arena to life foreach Christian. It is filled with

. hope for reconciliation in worldtrials and full life in diocesanefforts.

All is so possible if first manfaces the realistic fact of his ownworthlessness and then relishesand receives the invitation cifGod with Whom we can do allthings.

Criticize Chu,rches'Silence in Crisis

LONDON (NC)-The secretaryof the Christian Association ofBusiriess Executives has crit­icized the British churches forhaving "so little to say in thepresent national crisis."

The statement by the secre­tary, Hugh Kay, appeared in TheTimes of London the day beforeBritain's more than 260,000 coalminers went on strike.

The wage dispute between theNational Coal Board, the gov­ernment agency that runs thecountry's nationalized coalmines, and the National Unionof Mineworkers has caused thegovernment to put most of Brit­ish industry on a three-day workweek to .conserve energy and hasled Prime Minister EdwardHeath to call a national electionfor Feb. 28. '

About 700,000 persons arenow out of work because of theshort work week..

Holy.YearContinued f~o~ PdJ;e One

Ecumenism: 'Rev. Cornelius J.O'Neill of St. John the BaptistParish, Westport, and Chairman.of the Diocesan EcumenicalCommission.

Youth and Education:, Rev,Richard Beaulieu of 5t. JacquesPraish, Taunton; Sister BarbaraMcCarthy, O.P., of the DiocesanEducation Center, Fll River.

Pilgrimage Coordinators: Rev.William B. Davis, SS.CC., ofHoly Trinity Praish, West Har­wich, and Dr. David Costa Jr. ofNew Bedford.

The worship service to be,conducted at St. Mary's Cathe·dral by parish pilgrimages fromthroughout the diocese wasformed with the cooperation ofthe piocesan Divine WorshipCommission. It will be patternedafter a Bible Vigil Service witha Holy Year theme. Eucharisticcelebrations will take place inthe vicariates of the diocese inthe Fall.

Sub-committees to coordinatepilgrimages ,from throughout thedioc'ese are being formed andwill meet at Marian Manor,Taunton, on March 1. The energycrisis as it influences motor fuelhas'made an impact on pilgrim­age arrangements.

The education aspect of theHoly Year will be a Fall pro­gram in all Catholic schools and

, CCD centers. Outlines being pre·pared should be a great help forhomilies, school programs andadult education courses.

She added that her o.rganiza. The priests will have fouron ~ case .by case baSIS other , Holy Year days of recollectionserv~ces which th.e ~C feels m~y. in the spring and fall of 1974qualify as. constltutlO~ally valid and 1975. These will be of spe­forms of aid to parochial schools. cial ascetical value according toAsked .a'~ount ~tate-?ffered p~y- the theme of the Holy Year.chologlcal .servlces m. parochIal Material on the history, bacls­schools, MISS Glass said that th.e ground, papal hopes and ar­~JC has not yet taken a pOSI- rangements for the Holy Year istlon on th~~. She added, h?w- presently being prepared for theever, that m~,ny p~ychologlsts priests of the diocese.and many of us conSider psycho- The Diocesan Central Commit-­logic~l services to be a medical ,tee for the Holy Year has al.benefit. ready had several meetings to

The AJC decision came after coordinate and intensify the in­Heller Hebrew Academy in New dividual, parish, vicariate andYork City asked that the AJC diocesan celebrations.to support its petition for areversal of a disrict school board Lent

. decision denying the academyspeech services. Miss Glass saidthat, prior to the Heller Academyrequest, the AJC had not ex­amined the c~nstitutionality ofproviding such services.

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Health Benefit Services

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Mariani'st ReheatSAN ANTONIO (NC) - The

Society of Mary (Marianists) issponsoring a major retreat-work·shop on justice and poverty atSt. Mary's University here, June16-22. According to Father Rob­ert Mackey, chancellor - of St.Louis-Chaminade Education Cen­ter in Honolulu and coordinatorof the retreat-workshop, themeeting will draw together thefour American provinces ofMarianists "to sensitize theirmembers as to the need' of thepoor in the Third World at homeand abroad."

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GENERAL MANAGER ASST. GENERAL MANAGERRev. Msgr. Daniel F. Shalloo, M.A. qev. John P. Driscoll

4 The ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Feb. 21, 1974

Comes the RevolutionSome will say that: the revolution has finally gone too

far. Some will be glad that it ha's gone to this extreme. Butthe fact is that China-watchers, have seen a rise in' politicalactivity in China recently. The cultural revolution seemsto be entering a new and active phase.

And who should be one of its victims? None otherthan Boston Bruins hockey star Bobby 'Orr. Along withsix other National League hockey players, BQbby has beendenied entrance to Peking. And all that he and his friendswanted to do is to coach China's national and provisionalhockey teams. .~. ' But maybe it is just as well that Qrr and his pals

have been victims of the cultural revolution. One period onthe ice with, their Chinese counterparts and it might havebeen assumed that the real revolution was breaking wideopen. And the 'cultural" part of the idea may have suffereda setback that even Henry Kissinger would have been hard­pressed to correct.

Supplemental Inco~e ProgramPoor families headed by able-bodied men haVe long

been faced with a cruel choice: if the father goes to work,usually at a low-paying job, his wages continue the familyin the ranks of poverty; if he stays home and the familylives on welfare, the morale of the family is severely harmedand the family remains a poor family. It would seem thatsome sort of supplemental income grant is in order.-,

Objections to this have argued that the granting of NEW YORK (NC) - Themoney to the poor encourages them not to work. But recent- American' Jewish Congressly-released statistics give the lie to this line of reasoning. (AJe) a leading opponent ofThe bulk of the evidence shows that a carefully designed government aid to religious

schools, 'has asked the New Yorkincome supplement program that rewards work would City Board of Education to sup·encourage the head of a family to work. His job might be ply speech correction serviceslow-paying but joined to his supplementaUncome it would to parochial sC):lOols on a,n equalprovide his family with more than a basic poverty income. "basis with public schools.

This is just the kind of program that law-makers should In a letter to the Board of ed-ucation, the congress called

investigate. The solution not only answers the economic speech correction services "aproblem but considers the human elements involevd as well. health and welfare benefit.. .

which does not entail any im­proper entanglement of stateand religon or governmental aidto religious activity."- Although the American Jew-,ish Congress has opposed manyforms of government aid to re­ligiously affiliated schools, anofficial said that the letter didnot maark a 'shift in the congress'basic position on school aid. .

The congress has "never op"posed health and welfare ser-'vices to parochial schools, in factwe've encouraged it," accordingto Susan Glass, a spol,eswoman. ,She said that the congress hasno dbjection to government sup­port of parochial school pro­grams with physical or medical'benefits, such as school lunchprograms, school dental' exam­inations or the presence of anurse in school. , 'tion'\Vill be cnrefully examining

Church's RetreatAsh Wednesday is approaching-the Church's annual

retreat is near at hand. ..In recent years the Church has asked Catholics 'to show

enough spiritual maturity to choose for themselves themortification that they will perform during Lent~ TheChurch has not and can not deviate from the command ofChrist that there must be penance.

It is not a matter of doing without just for the sake ofdoing without. Rather there must be the doing of penance"to .curb vices,'lift up minds, giv~ strength and reward."There· must be the doing of penance to enter 'more fullyinto the dying of Christ that there might be fuller participa­tion in His resurrection.

LenUs a time for dying to oneself, to one's faults andfailings, to what~ver in one is unworthy. It is a time toconfonri oneself more perfectly to Christ, and the price isthe price of mortification since this alone can change whatone is to what one should be.

And sacrifice must also have the effect o( reachingout in order to give more to those in need. "

The whole point of sacrifice is to die to oneself in orderto live 'more fully in Christ and for the sake of others.

Lent is the call to make this added effort.

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New Discoveries at the Tomb of MaryShow Signs of Great Spiritual Value

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'Divorced' WidowGrnnted Benefits

TRENTON (NC) - A Catho­lic woman, mllrried in the eyesof God ,but not technically inthe eyes of the state, has beengranted workman's compensa­tion through her late husbandby the New Jersey SupremeCour,t.

tRuth Parkinson and her latehusband Richard were divorcedin 1939 and resumed living to­gether in 1950, but never legallyremarried. A priest had toldthem that, since the Church doesnot recognize divorce, they werestill married "in .the eyes ofGod" and so no formal ceremonywas necessary.

The court ruled in a 4 to 1decision that, except for the lackof a formal ceremony, the cou­ple was in fact husband and wife.So, when Mr. Parkinson diedfrom a work-related accident,Mrs. Parkinson should have beenahle to collect survivor's bene­fits from ,the workman's compen­sation system, according to thecourt.

"We have emphasized that thereason and the spirit of theWorkman's Compensation Actrather than its letter must pre·vail," the court stated in an opin­ion written by Justice MorrisPashman.

The court said that the Par­kinsons should have' obtained anew marriage license in 1950 andgone through "a renewal of con·sent" of their original marriagevows, nota remarriage in theeyes of the Church, but sufficientfor civil law.

But the court noted that bothMr. and Mrs. Pa,rkinson were un­aware of such a procedure andas devout Catholics with limitedformal education had understand­ably taken the advice of theirparish priest.

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texts of Latin, Syriac and Ethi­opian versions exist.

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ing these two statements his­torians have tended to regard theEphesus tradition as more an­cient and to discredit the HolyLand tradition as of a later de­velopment.

God's WishIn 1972 this ancient question

was reopened when, in the .rainyseason of that year, flood watersswamped the church and danger­ously eroded the foundations ofMary's tomb. The Greeks andArmenians who own the churchasked a Franciscan theologianand archaeologist, a FatherBagatti to see the damage andgive his ad~ice. Father Bagattibegan investigating the substruc­ture to discover the authenticityof Mary's last resting place.

The ancient Eastern doc­uments speak of Mary as livingon Mount Zion after the Ascen­sion of her Son. Holy Land tra­dition says she died there and"was carried by all the Apostlesto a newly made tomb in theKidron Valley according to thewishes' of the Lord." Varying

TOMB OF MARY: Deep below street level in Jerusalem·is the church of the Tomb of Mary. The shrine contains thebench.-like rock in which Mary was placed' after' her death,according to tradition. New discoverie~. in the tomb weremade after a flood in 1972. NC Photo.

Join CoalitionAgainst Apartheid

UNITED NATIONS (NC) - Acoalition of 11 church groupswhich own millions of dollars instocks of companies operatingin southern Africa, have askedthe firms to reveal the extent oftheir operations in African na­tions that deny human rights toblacks.

The coalition - the ChurchProject on United States Invest­ments in Southern Africa-wasjoined for the first time by aCatholic group, the FranciscanFriars of the Atonement, who PRINTINGare generally known as theGraymoor Friars. It was the SINCE 1898third year the coalition has filed MAl LINGsuch stockholders disclosure SINCE 1941resolutions.

Dr. Sterling Carey, president WEB' OFFSETof the National Council of' SINCE 1967Churches, said that the disclo- • .sure resolutions were issued be­cause "apartheid and colonialismdeny 38 million Afri<;an peopletheir basic human rights, merelybecause they are black."

JERUSALEM (NC) - Outsidethe city walls of Jerusalem, inthe Kidron Valley, a few yardsfrom the garden of Gethsemane,guides show the "Tomb of Mary,the Mother of Jesus." It washere that Mary is said to havebeen buried and from here thatshe was assumed bodily intoheaven.

The Church of the Tomb ofMary is far down below thestreet level, and inside a huge'flight of steps leads down againto the shrine.

Superficial visitors will seeonly the drab church, of no par­ticular beauty, the dungeon-likeinterior mistily lighted with afew candles. The shrine itself isa crowded little house inside thechurch. There, tradition says, isthe burial place of Mary.

To the informed observerthere are signs here of a greatspiritual and historical treasure.

The very level far below thestreet, indicates a very ancientmonument. For with centuriesof war and destruction the levelof old towns like Jerusalem hasrisen many feet, in parts over40 feet.

Fascinating DiscoveriesThe second feature of the

Tomb of Mary is that in onecorner of the church is a Moslemniche, where even today the fol­lowers of Mohammed still cometo pray at and honor "Sitte My­riam." A pool· venerated by Is­lam indicates the building wasnot destroyed in the many Mos­,Iem invasions.,

,Recent. ~1)~Qlogicl,l1 stu,dies andarcheological investigations havebrolightfascinating discoveriesaJbout the tomb of Mary,

The literature on the "Dormi­tion" or "falling asleep" of Marycreates a confused impression.The Western Christians liter­ature contains an account of thelife of Mary after the first Pen­tecost, and tells how John theBeloved Disciple took Mary withhim to Ephesus. In Ephesus, AsiaMinor, a tradition grew up thatMary died there.

When Western Christian writ­ers came back to the Holy Landin the time of Constantine, theydo not mention a tomb of Maryuntil the fifth century. Combin-

Plan CampaiglnFor School Aid

ST. CLOUD (NC)- BishopGeorge Speltz of St. Cloud hascalled on members of the dioceseto increase parish contributionsin order to preserve the exis­tence of Catholic schools in thediocese.

At a press conference here,Bishop Speltz said that the cam­paign for increased sup.portwould start at the 'beginning ofLent on Feb. 27.

The continued existence ofCatholic education in the St.Cloud area from kindergartenthrough grade 12 and beyond"will depend primarily upon thegenerous support hy all the peo­ple in our parishes," BishopSpeltz said.

No fixed' amount has been setas the goal of the campaign, buta committee of priests of the dio­cese recommended that eachparish contributor increase therate of giving by one per cent ofhis income.

Bishop Scor~~s

Jurist's DefenseOf Decision

FARGO (ND) - Bishop Justin1\. Driscoll of Fargo has accusedU. S. Supreme Court JusticeHarry Blackmun of "shockinglylamenta'ble" sophistry in sayingthe court'~ abortion decisionwas a case it could not win be­cause of evenly divided publicopinion.

In a letter responding to state·ments made by Blackmun in St.Paul, Minn., where the jurist re­ceived an award at the highschool from which he was grad­uated, Bishop Driscoll said:

"Please tell me, Mr. I1lackmun,when does a Supreme Court ofJustice base its opinion or rendera decision on 'public opinion?'As a lawyer, as a judge, as amember of the hilghest judiciaryof this nation, I had hoped .youwould realize that this was aninterpreta tion of the Constitu­tion that was at stake, not areflection of public opinion."

One of Worst MistakesBlackmun had said that the

abortion decision which he wrotefor the court a year ago "will beregarded as one of the worstmistakes in the court's history orone of its great decisions, a turn­ing point."

Blackmun noted that personalabuse has been heaped upon him~

for writing the decision. "I'venever seen such an outpouringof hate mail, a lot of it formmail. It chills me to think thatsomeone can sit down and say,'10 of us must write letters.'''

As to whether the court'sabortion decision would be con­sidered its worst or its greatestdecision, Bishop Driscoll wrote'"I can asure you, Mr. Blackm':ln,your first intimation is the cor­rect one."

Bishop Appointed. VATICAN CITY (NC)-Pope

Paul VI has transferred BishopAlophe Proulz of Alexandria,Canada, to the Diocese of Hull,Canada. Bishop Proulx was bornin Canada Dec. 12, 1927, andwas ordained in 1954. He wiisnamed an auxiliary bishop in1965, and made bishop of Alex­andria in the province of Onta­rio, in 1967. Hull is in the prov-

. ince of Quebec.

Lobbyist\

arena and she said she has foundthe legislators '''very cooperativein giving their time and acquaint­ing me with specific processes."

Aside from her interest inpolitics. Sister Madden said shefeels her work in the legislature"is an opportunity to serve· theChurch. I think there's common~greement that one of the best

"Ways to bring about socialchange is through the legislativeprocess."

A native of Denver, SisterMadden received a doctoratefrom the Catholic University ofAmerica in Washington, with amajor in sociology and a minorin Catholic social principles and

. counseling.

The Department of Public Utilities

has directed fhe Fall R'iver GasCompany to notify its customers

that all decorative outdoor CJasligh'ts sh.ould be shut oft to conserve

fllel during the energy crisis.•So, unless your gas light is needed

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for your safety or protection,please abide by the directiveissued by the McissachusettsDepartment of Public Utilities.

ing information" to key areas ofthe Church in the state, she said."The influence or the pressurewould have to come from thepeople' themselves."

Sister Madden also pointedout, that with her "limited staff"-only herself-it would there­fore be difficult to organize anyspecific programs to influencelegislaton.

The information flow worksthe other around, too. "Any­where I see where the, Churchhas information to throw lighton social issues I tell the legisla­tor, or indicate where he canfind it," Sister Madden said.

This year is Sister, MaddE)n'sfirst experience in the political

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ECUMENISM IN ACTION: In Albany, Anglican Archbishop Michael Ramsey, far left,is seated in the sanctuary of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception as Catholic andEpiscopal representatives sign a Covenant of Mt;ltual Concerns. From left are Father AlanJupin, Episcopal Father Darwin Kirby, R. G'egory Kennison and Kenneth Baechtel. Stand­ing are Bishop Edwin Broderick and Episcopal Bishop Allen Brown. NC Photo.

DENVER (NC)-In a first forColorado, a nun has regilsteredas a lobbyist at the state capitolhere. Sister Loretto Ann Maddenof the Colorado Catholic Confer­ence will "watch legislationwhich affects the quality ofhuman life-a very broad spe~­

trum of interests."The Loretine Sister will also

monitor federal and city legisla­tion, and attend legislative ses­sions and committee ,hearings ontopics ranging, from' mentalhealth to food tax credits.

As a lobbyist, Sister Maddendoes not try to "pressure" legis­lators into' voting any certainway on a particular bill. "I seemy role as more a liaison provid-

Nun

Propose CommissionTo Seek Church Unity

LONDON (NC) - Represen­tatives of the principal'Christianchurches in England have pro­posed to set up a commission towork toward the eventual reuni­fication of Christianity.

The proposed standing com­mission would have responsibil­ity for overseeing' the progresstoward church unity throughlocal initiatives and for fosteringsuch initiatives where they areabsent.

"It is expected that from thesediscussions there will emerge aplan for union between thesechurches able so to committhem, but these discussionsshould also explore the possibil­ity of other forms of visibleunity," said the report issuedjointly by the churches' repre­sentatives."Churches negoti­ating for union on the basis ofsuch a plan should retain thecontinuing partnership of thosechurches which cannot at thattime do so," it said.

they anticipate the end of thatday's quota.

When the sign "Last Gas ThisCar" is hung, the driver of thenext car might find St. Alexiuscan intercede for him. St. Alexiusis the patron of beggars.

There might be some value topraying to 51. Albert. He's thepatron of scientists. Maybe oneof them will find a practical al­ternative to gasollne . . . soon.

Poor Bear BurdenI'm sure 5t. Lucy is busy

pumping out help for all motor­ists, noticing what they are doingto their vision. Everyone is driv­ing with one eye on the road,one on the rear-view mirror, andone on the gas gauge.

I would guess that St. Law­rence and St. Anthony of Paduaare getting the most requests, forit is the poor that are bearingthe worst burden.

I find it difficult to believe thatthis shortage is purely accidental.Someplace along the line, someare responsible . . . and someare profiting from it. Possiblythey are getting help from Sts.Gervase and Protase. They arethe patron saints of haymakers.

But the worst experience I'vehad so far happened the otherday 'when I started off on a shorterrand. On the way I spotted agas station with only three carsin line. I quiokly pulled in, andwonder of wonders, they filledmy tank.

I was returning from my er­rand a little while later, but adense fog had rolled in. Trafficslowed to a crawl. All I couldsee was the car in front of me.

I was silently involking helpfrom St. Christopher when thecar -in front. of pulled up to agas pump. I had accidentally got­ten onto a gas line,

The attendant gave me thestrangest look when I pulled upto the 'Pump, told him I didn'tneed any gas, and drove off intothe fog.

The ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall 'River-Th'urs. Feb. 21, 1974

By

MARY

CARSON

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Catholic Medical MissionBoard Aid $6.3 Million

NEW YORK (NC)-The Cath­olic Medical Mission Board reoported here that in 1973 itshipped 990 tons of medical sup­plies with a. wholesale value of.over $6.3 millon t02,772 medicalmissions around the world.

According to Father JosephWalter, director of the 46-year­old, the 1973 shipments markedan increase of 315 tons and morethan $100,000 in value over 1972figures.

Regular shipments went tocountries in Africa, Asia, LatinAmerica, the Middle East and theSouth Pacific, as well as to someIndian missions in the UnitedStates. In addition the boardshiipped 120 tons of emergencysupplies in response to disasterssuch as the earthquake in Nica­ragua and the drought in Africa'ssub-S,ahara region.

who had waited only a few min­utes while I still had an hour togo on my line.

I started to pray to 5t. Judethat I'd get up to the pump be­fore I ran out of gas, but 5t.Jude is well known as the patronof desperate situations and heprobably already had a longline.

So, as soon as I got home Ilooked up another saint for des­perate situations and found St.Gregory of Neocaesarea. Now1'11 bet hardly anybody knowshim, and the line there is boundto be shorter.

My state has -instituted ,a sys­tem of odd numbered licensenumbers getting gas on odd num­bered days, and even plates oneven days. A friend of minedrives a cab and uses a tankfulevery day; He said his familywould have to start eating onlyon odd days, so I told him aboutSt. Fiacr:e, the patron of cab driv­ers.

Patron of Scientists .It might be a good idea fo.t all

of us to pray to St. Sebastian.Since we'll all be doing morewalking and bicycle riding, hemight include us in his care ofathletes.

Many gas stations have adopt­ed a policy of alloting a quantityto be pumped in a day, and cut­ting off the line of cars where

h,terc·essioln of St. AlexiusMigrht H'elp Gas Line Sitters

The gas shortage has me baffled. Some cities haveplenty of gas wlhile in others people are lining up andwaiting hours to buy just a few gallons. I live where thelines are the longest. This means that in addition to my

, other motherly duties, I amnow also the. family gas linesitter. I. was sitting in a: linethe other day that was fourblocks long. A tanker truckpulled into a gas station acrossthe street, followed by a line ofc~.rs. People were getting gas

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12-Sacred Heart, Fall River19-Fr. Joseph Boehr K.C., Tiverton26-St. Anne Fraternity, Tiverton26-Bishop Cassidy K.C., Swansea

26-McMahon K.C., N.B. (Monthly)Feb. 9-Holy Name. Fall River

16-SI. Theresa. Tiverton23-Fr. Joseph Boehr K.C., Tiverton

Mar. 2-0ur Lady of Fatima, N.B.16-K.C., Newport16-Christopher Rooney K.C., Ports.16-51. Theresa, Tiverton

Apr. 6-Fr. Joseph Boehr K.C., Tiverton2o-sacred Heart, New Bedford

Paul VI and a letter of congrat- of the Diocese of Fall Riverulations from the Most Rev. . were given to the jubila·rians.Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., Bishop

Conference E~dorses

Proposed ConstitutionNEW ORLEANS (NC) - The

Louisiana Catholic Conferencehas endorsed the proposed newstate constitution as a documentwhich "will adequately protectthe citizens of the state and pro­vide them with a constitutionwhich "will adequately protectthe citizens of the state andprovide them with a constitutionwhich will not need wholesaleamending every two years."

Archbishop Philip M. Hannanof New Ol"1eans, president ofthe conference was "particularlypleased with the Bill of Rights,with its guarantee of religiousin the South and possibly in therights of individuals." The con­ference called the Bill of Rights"certainly ... the most advancedliberty and expansion of thenation."

The ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Feb. 21, 1974

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Couple Cel'ebrates 60 Ye'ars'of Marriag,e

60TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY: Mr. and Mrs. Antonio J. Gomes of Holy FamilyParish, East Taunton, second and third right, were joined by their sons, Juvenal of Me­thuen, Rev. Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, pastor of Our Lady of the Angels Parish, FallRiver and Manuel of East. Taunton on the occasion of their 60t.h anniversary of theirmarriage.

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.Rev. Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes,

pastor of Our Lady of the AngelsParish, Fall River offered a Massof Thanksgiving in the home ofhis, parents, Mr. and Mrs. An­tonio J. Gomes of 190 Middle·,boro Ave., East Taunton in ob­servance of their 60th weddinganniversary.

Members of the Holy FamiiyParish, Mr. and Mrs. Gomes re­newed their marriage vows.

Married on Feb. 14, 1914, inOur Lady of Grace Church inthe city of Camara de Lobos,Madeira Islands, Portugal, thejubilee couple were joined onthe occasion by their sons,- Ju­venal of Methuen and Manuelof East Taunton.

Following a dinner in a Mid­dleboro restaurant, the couplereceived members of their fam·i1y, relatives and friends at areception.

,Plans presently call for a tripto Florida and a visit with theirrelatives in the Madeira Islands.

A papal blessing from Pope

Catholics are about 90 percent of Costa Rica's 1.8 millionpopulation, but the constitutionguarantees freedom of religion.

The bishops had sent Oduber amessage saying: "We, offer ourfull cooperation to any moves toimprove the quality of life of ourpeople, particularly those inneed. We pray to God for a gov­ernment of national unity, peace,respect for rights and liberty."

Odu,ber, who was reared aCatholic, told the bishops that"the Christian source of yoursocial ,thought is also ours, andwe share the same inspirationalteachings. I want to coordinatewith you several projects to thatthe spiritual and temporal pow­ers of the nation can achievethe goals that we share for ourpeople." ,

Many observers here see suchChurch-state cooperation possi­'ble in the fields of education, co­operatives, housing and aid torural areas.

Needs DecisiveHelp of Church

SAN JOSE (NC)-Costa Rica'sPresident-elect Daniel Odubertold the country's Catholic bish­ops' conference .that he will need:'the decisive' help of theChurch."

the sleek look of the turban thelarge Easter bonnet is returningand they'll be as lovely as theyused to be. "Dearie, do you re­member" when they used tobroadcast the Easter Parade fromFifth Avenue and the hats com­peted with one another for sizeand decoration. Now when yousee a woman in a hat somehowyou have the feeling that she'sa woman who has a lot of fashionknow·how.

Taunton WomenPion Meeting

The Taunton District of Cath­olic Women will hold an openmeeting at 8 o'clock on Tuesdaynight, Feb. 26 in St. Anthony'sSchool auditorium.

,Rev. Edmund J. Fitzgerald,chaplain at St. Anne's Hospital,Fall River will be guest speaker.Father Fitzgerald is a native ofTaunton and a graduate of St.Mary's School and Coyle HighSchool in Taunton.

Mrs. Andrew Marshall, presi­dent of 081. Anthony's Women'sGuild will head a large commit­tee serving as hostesses for theevening.

Gloves are returning with thehats and they too will give-thecomplete look to an outfit. Whiledollar·wise shopping for Easteroutfits will not be an enjoyabletask, fashion-wise it will be. Itwon't be an impossible task tofind a lovely suit or a coat youjust can't resist; they'll be, onthe racks and in the stores andthe only thing that will hinderthe buyer will be the risingprices.

RODERICK

By

MARILYN

American MoryknollerGets Post in Peru

VATICAN CITY (NC)-PopePaul VI has named U. S. Mary­knoll Father Albert Koenigknechtto be apostolic administrator ofthe Prelature of Juli in Peru.

The American priest was bornat Fowler,' Mich., on May 30,1917, and was ordained in 1945.

For three years he was a mis·sionary in Mexico and thenserved in Peru where he wasrector of a minor seminary inPuno and also a pastor in Arc­quita and Juli.

IIt1iiMl'~'I_'M

What is meant by the use ofthe word "gracious" is thatclothes are simple but elegrant.A good suit or dress is just that"good." There are very few gim­micky outfits. While the pricesof fashion today are astronomical­ly high you will find yourselfgetting three seasons or moreout of a well-made garment, sothat the outfit you choose shouldbe one that you really can live in.

Everything will have a refinedquiet beauty about it that willappeal to the lover of classicclothes. While shirts will be al­most as expensive as a gooddress you will find them a goodinvestment because they caneven be worn with a long skirtfor evenings or even with a well­cut pair of slacks.

Fabrics, too, will have a soft­ness and quiet to them both intone and texture. While mostfabrics will be functional as faras their care is concerned theywill have the look of luxury.Colorwise there will be a strongreturn to the monotone, all ofa color look.

Accessory buying will be justas important as the clothes youchoose because you'll buy themmore frequently. Shoes will havehigher heels, open backs andopen heels. For day they'll be alot of spectators around and al­ready you can see the firstindi­cation of their popularity as theyappear for resort wear.

Hats, Gloves Return

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They are calling the seventies the "gracious seventies"when referring to fashion this year and well they may, fora more refined feminine air has returned to fashion. (Whileit may seem awfully frivolous to talk fashion when thebetter part of our lives arespent wondering where thenext tank of gas ,is comingfrom, it is nevertheless anexciting part of our lives and onethat for just a brief momenttakes us away from the problemsof just existing today.)

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But such an act of despair isno longer the only alternativet.o survival in the Cambodianwar. Since April, 1973, CatholicRelief Services .(CRS), has been 'working in that country to helpthem put the broken puzzle oflife back together again.

Father Philip McNamara, aveteran Of CRS refugee work inSouth Vietnam, crossed the bor­der into Cambodia to coordinaterelief and'resettlement programsin that war-torn country by CRS,U. S. Catholics' overseas aidagency.

Since 1973, this program hashenefitted an estimated 300,0001'Cambodians, all of them ref­ugees from the fighting whichsurrounds them. CRS has pro­vided the homeless civilian vic­tims of the war with food, 'Cloth­ing, blankets and medicines.

Examine DeclineOf Public Morality

BLOOMINGTON (NC)-Dr. v.I.Sterling Cary, president of theNational Council of Churches,and Archbishop Joseph L. Ber­nardin of Cincinnati, will addressan interreligious conference onthe decline of public morality tobe held March 31-April 2 at,I~diana 4niversity here.

Some . 200 Indiana religious. and lay leaders are expected to

attend the three-day conferencewhich is' part of a year-longseries of interreligious consulta­tions. The series will explore thecauses of erosion in public mo­rality and recommend concretetechniques to restore public con­fidence in high moral and ethicalstandards.

Also addressing the conferencewill be Dr. Eugene Horowitz,professor, Hebrew Union Col-

. lege, New York City; Carl Row­an, COlumnist, and former direc­tor of U. S. Information Agency;Jim Roche, columnist and pro­fessor of foreign aUairs, TuftsUniversity Medford, Mass.; andDr. Byrum - Carter, chancellor,Indiana University.

Catholic AgencySupplie~ HopeTo Cambodia

CHICAGO (NC)-She was awidow with four children andlived in a small village. Whenher husband, a Cambodian sol­dier, was killed in battle she wasleft with the responsibility ofproviding for her family. Shewas managing, the job until therockets came and blew aparteverything she owned.

After the attack, as the firesstill burned, she walked to thevillage pagoda and stood help­lessly in the monsoon rain. Anyidea of hope had been de·stroyed with the rockets. Laterthat night: she took a pillow antismothered her four childen oneby one. In her war-ravaged mind,she was saving them from whatsurely would be a slow deathfrom starvation.

And perhaps she was right, atleast in her assumption thatdeath' would come to, her chil­dren slowly and with agonizingpain. Self-inflicted death is notan oddity in Southea,st Asian

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Tax Credit LawBefore Court

MINNEAPOLIS (NC)-A fed­eral judge here has resurrecteda year-old suit challenging theconstitutionality of the state's1971 income tax credit law.

U. S. District Judge Earl R.Larson is decided to ask for theconvening of a three-judge fed­eral panel to consider tempo­rarily stopping the law while theMinnesota Supreme Court ruleson a challenge to th~ law's con­stitutionality.

The action keeps alive oppo- ~

nents' ,fourth attempt to obtainan injunction halting the law,which provides graduated taxcredits to parents of nonpublicschool students.

In the three previous attempts-the opponents lost once in acounty court and twice in theMinnesota Supreme Court-op­ponents were unable to halt taxcredit paY!l1ents under the law.

Judge Larsen, noting that thefederal court and state SupremeCourt could 'be on "a collisioncours'e," said he felt compelled toask for the panel because notcalling fqr the federal courtwould deny' temporary relief tothe law's opponents.

The tax credit law is beingchallenged ,by the MinnesotaCivil Liberties Union, AmericansUnited for Separation of Churchand State and the Minnesota Co­ordinating Committee for PublicEducation.

Urges ListeningTo God in P'rayer

WASHINGTON (NC) - Themorning after delivering hisState of the Union message,President Nixon urged Amer­icans "to pray in silence andlisten to God and find out whatHe wants for us and then wewill all do the right thing."

The President spoke to ,about3,000 congressmen, .governmentofficials, diplomats and religiousleaders attending the 22nd an­nual national prayer breakfastin the International Ba.Jlroom ofthe Washington Hiiton Hotel.

Urging prayers for the nation,the President asked his listenersto pray "that we try to listenmore to what God wants ratherthan to teJol God what we want;that we would try to find outwhat God wants America to berather than to ask Him alwaysto see what we believe Americashould be prevails."

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members or a:bout three-fourthsof the Episcopal House of Bish­ops.

Interest in the charismaticmovement of the recent Angli­can-Roman Catholic Canteburystatement on ministry and ordi­naNon all contributed to theturnout.

"Why are we here? Ws damngood,," commented a youngwoman teacher from the Epis­copal Philadelphia DivinitySchool.

The New York members of theSisters of the Good Shepherd,Sister Mary Elizabeth and MaryLucia, said they were lookingforward to the day when theCatholic and Anglican Churches

,will be united and added that"we w-ill be one when we sharethe same Eucharist."

"Everyone ds interested intheology if it is put in languagethey can understand," observedthe Rev. Leland Hunt of, TrinityEpiscopal Church of Norwalk,Conn.

The major speakers made dif­ferent approaches to the mean­ing of the' Holy Spirit in today'sworld.

Cardinal Suenens, whose book"The Holy Spirit & Our Hope" issoon to be pUblished in Engl,ish,spoke of it as a "revitalizationof what we possess."

Archbishop Ramsey urgedChristians to study it as a meansfor the individual "to be outsideof one's self and among thebrethren."

Together, they attracted whatthe director of the institute, theRev. E. Terwilliger, described as"the largest gatherin~ of theEpiscopal Church in 1974" andcertainly a major theologicalhappening in New York. Theconference, which has grownannually, was preceded by aseminar for bishops' on "TheTheology of the Christian Min­istry" and was attended by 75

said.The statemel1t was issued on

the recommendation of theCTCR's social concerns com­mittee.

The "Ufe Concerns" programis to feature a series of pilotworkshops ,and the publicationof resource, study material onabortion. Missouri synod collegesand' seminaries will offer' specialcourses related to "Life Con­cerns."

At its 1971 convention in Mil­waukee, the' Lutheran Church­Missouri Synod adopted the po­sition that "willful abortion iscontrary to the will of God."

The convention urged peopleto "avoid perverting God's will... through such acts as abortionor euthanasia."

Commenting on the CTCRstatement, Dr. Jacob A.O. Preus,president of the Missouri synod,said it has become "increasingimperative" to oppose abortionand euthanasia.

The theme was "The HolySpirit." The sp'eakers were the­ological superstars: Cardinal'Suenens, an aristocratic progres­sive; the' colorful ArchbishopMichael Ramsey of Canterbury,an, initiator in the current de­tente between the Church ofRome and the Anglican Commu­nion; and Br.other Roger Schutz,

.the pale, quiet white-robed priorof the Protestant ecumenicalmonastic community and youthcenter in Taize,- France.

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MEETING IN W~SAW: Archbishop Agostino Casaroli, left, secretary of the Vati­can's Council for the Church's Public Affairs, is received in Warsaw, Poland, by Alek­sander Skarzynski, minister for religious affairs. Polish representatives and the Vaticanofficial agreed to continue negotiations to bring about better relations between Churchand state. NC Photo .

Lutheran Synod CommissionRestates Anti-Abortion Stand

ST. LOUIS (NC)-The Com­mission on Theology and ChurchRelations (CTCR) of the Luther­an Church-Missouri Synod hasrestated the synod's oppositionto abortion and proposed a "LifeConcerns" program.

In a statement issued on theanniversary of the U. S. SupremeCourt's decision prohibiting re­strictions on abortion in theearly stages of pregnancy, theCTCR said:

"Without a doubt, one of themost critical issues presentlyfacing alm'ost every citizen ofour country is the attitudetoward human life, not only thelife of the child yet unborn, butalso the life of the aged andterminally ill, and of all thosewho may seem to be a burdento family and society."

The anniversary of the Su­preme Court decision "offers anopportune moment to protestthe legalization of non-thera­peutic abortion," the statement

NEW YORK (NC) An Angli­can priest from Sri Lanka (Cey­lon) listened intently to BelgianCardinal Leo Joseph Suenens'appeal from a simple lecternat the front of the vast RiversideChurch here for "a new aware­ness of the presence of the HolySpirit," among Christians.

Afterwards, questioned on hisreaction, ~he 'Rev. J.F. Xavier,now wi~h the Episcopal Depart­ment of Pastoral Care in P.hil­adelphia and a noted ecumenist,commented: "We Anglicans andRoman Catholics are trying tocrawl, with our formulas and ourdogmas. But God is pushing usbeyond that.". The sentiment was articulatedmany ways for three days hereamong 2,000 Episcopal clergy,bishops, students, theologians,Catholic nuns and priests, house­wives and religious activists atthe F.ifth National Conference ofTrinity Institute here.

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'Essential' Nature of Charismatic Renewal

INTENT SPECTATORS: When Lesley Robinson was baptized in 55 Peter and PaulChurch, Norwood, Ohio, she asked her classmates to help plan the ceremony and herteacher, .Margaret Moeggenberg, to be her sponsor. Fellow students watch intently asFather Ferdinand W. Kylius presents the young Christian with a baptismal candle.

Improved Polish Church-StateRelations Called Highly Desirable

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Says Dead WorkersVictims of Greed

NEW YORK (NC)-Nineteenmembers of the Uni~ed Farm­wor,kers of America, killed in anearly morning bus accident Jan.IS in Blythe, Calif., were victimsof "structured greed" in Amer­ica, a leading Protestant minis­ter said at a memorial servicefor them here.

The Rev. Ernest Campbell,chairman of New York InterfaithCommittee that aids migrantworkers, spoke at a noondayRequiem Eucharist at TrinityEpiscopal Church. Members ofthe congregation included Dor­othy Day, of the Catholic Work­er movement, and many farmwor:kers now in New York.

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Citizens for LifeHits Euthanasia

ST. PAUL (NC)-MinnesotaCitizens Concerned for Life(MOeL), an organization thathad devoted its efforts in thelast six years to fighting abor­tion, has condemned mercy kill­ing and "managerial euthanasia."

The MCCL position paper oneuthanasia in effect representsan official broadening of con·cerns for the group, which hasoften been pictured as a "one­issue" group.

The position paper urges hu­mane care for the dying. MCCLpresident Marjory Mecklenburgsaid the paper "distinguishesthree distinct aspects of whatmany people consider to be asingle issue.

"We break the question .intothree categories: death with dig­nity, mercy killing and manage­rial euthanasia (or death selec­tion)."

While MCCL endorses the ideaof "humanizing the dying proc­ess," Mrs. Mecklenburg said thegroup does not "advocate ne­glecting the dying patient,"

Distinguishing between "deathwith dignity" and euthanasia,the MCCL head said that "lettinga dying person die naturally ismuch differen t than killing theill, the handicapped or the aged,".

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He said he became interestedin what is popularly known asthe Catholic Pentecostal move­ment through a request from acouple in his archdiocese to help,them in their prayer.

"Every Christian teacher,evangelist and parent who com­municates t.o another the tiniestpart of God's word," the arch­bishop said, "is carrying out acommission to speak in the nameof God."

Archbishop Hayes also saidthat the charisma~ic movementis a reminder that "real personalconversational encounter withGod is for all Christians" andthat "all Christians are called toa ministry of service in theChurch.". Con~ributions of the charis­matic movement to the Churchinclude, he said, U a deeper un­derstandinl~ of the role of theChristian in the Church," "a newsense of prayer, especially the

. prayer of praise," and a renewed"spirit of joy."

Archbishop Hayes told his lis­teners that the charismatic giftsmust be exercised within theChurch. "To the Church we mustbe faithful," he said, "as faithfulas a husband is to his bride,"he said.

Stresses ObligationOf Imprimatur

PARIS (NC)-Cardinal Fran­cois Marty of Paris, president ofthe French Bishops' Conference..has reminded Catholics of thearchdiocese of the obligation toseek Church approval for booksthey wish to publish on theolog­ical subjects..

"Theological research must bedone in the Church," the cardinalsaid in his a11chdiocesan bulletin."The Christian community has aright to have the bishop assumeeffectively his duty of guardingand promoting the faith. It is agood thing for the theologianhimself to be requestioned inseason and out of season inorder to manifest the coherenceof his writing with the authenticdoctrine of the Church given bytradition.

"The Polish episcopacy fur­thermore deplored administra­tive ,sanctions imposed 'onpriests who celebrate HolyMass in oateohetical chapels sit­uated far from ,the parishchurch."

The bishops energetically de­plored the forced committal toa psychiatric hospital of' a priestof a town near Bialy.stok in theLomza diocese for having cel­ebrated Mass in his own home."The conference pronounced thisstep an abuse of power and adangerous precedent violating thecivil-Iiben~ies laws in force,"V'atican Radio said.

Archbishop James Hayes ofHalifax, Nova Scotia, told. anaudience of about 450 priests andnuns that this charismatic re­newal movement is "not somekind of theological innovation."

The archbishop was speakinga't ',a weekend conference on

Vatican RadiO reported: "Thepr,oblem of constructing newchurches figures among thosetackled by the assembly. Whilethe bishops recognized thatbuilding permits for newchurches were more numerousthis year t'han last year, theycompl'ained that the .permits aregiven slowly and with difficulty,and that they are insufficient forthe real and' of.~en urgent needsof the dioceses.

The bishops said they con­sider Polish Foreign MinisterStefan Olszowski's· visit to theVatican last November "a posi­tive event" in current effortstoward an understanding. Butthe bishops emphasized in theircommunique that administrativedecisions cannot by' themselveslead to normalization, which re­quires a solution of fundamentalproblems such as religious free­dom of expression, the defenseof the moral atmosphere, andequal rights for practicing Cath­olics in social, professional, eco­nomic and political life.

The meeting of the Polishbishops, their 140th plenary as­sembly, was held in WarsawJan. 22 and 23.

VATICAN CITY (NC)-Vat­ican Ra'Ciio, repor:ting in somedetail a two-day meeting of thePolish bishops on their problemswith the country's communistregime, called an eventual nor­malization of Church-State rela­tions in P.oltmd "highly desir­able."

PHILADELPHIA (NC)-A Ca­nadian archbishop said here thatthe charismatic renewal move­ment sweeping through theChurch in North America is as"permanent and .essential" apart of the Church "as the livingbody of Jesus Christ, Our Lord."

Decries GenocideConvention Setback

WASHINGTON (NC)-A U. S.Senate action killing immediatechances for ratification of theUnited Nations convention otlgenocide has drawn sharp crit­icism here from the genera] sec­retary of the U. S. CatholicConference.

After the Senate refused tovote cloture on debate of thegenocide convention - a movewhich virtually kills the mea­sure for this session of Congress-Bishop James S. Rauschblamed the defeat on what hetermed "a narrow conception ofnational self-interest which ig­nores the fact and the moral

. imperative of human interdepen­dence."

The Senate, the bishop noted,has refused to ratify the conven­tion for the last 25 years. Themeasure was first submitted tothe Senate by President HarryTruman.

"Genocide is a heinous crime,"Bishop Rausch said. "The UnitedStates should not allow nation­alistic shEbboleths to stand inthe way of its acknowledgingthis fact and acting ilt its light."

Prize RecipientSees HumanizingRevolution Here

OSLO (NC)-"A humanizingrevolution has star~ed for aworld based on love of truth andman," Brazilian Archbishop HeI­der Camara said when he re­ceived the $250,000 Peoples'Peace Prize here Feb. 10. Theprize was initiated by groups inNor:way dissatisfied with the1973 winners of the Nobel PeacePrize.

Archbishop Camara, who has.been nominated for the Nobelprize by many groups for thepast several years, said that thePeoples' Peace Prize "will beused for promoting a new war,a war without violence and forthe humanizing of the world."

The People's Peace Prize wasvalued at more than $250,000and was colllected in Scandi­navia, Germany, the Nether­lands, Belgium and Italy.

People's Prize

Archbishop Camara, whoheads the archdiocese of Olindaand Recife in poverty-strickennortheast Brazil, urged thoseat the award ceremony-held inthe Oslo city hall-to cooperateacross the borders of religion."Together," he said, "we canpersuade governments to showhuman regard , the technocratsto serve life instead of death,the military powers to beat theirswords into plowshares."

Wearing a pectoral cross ofwood instead of gold, Archbish­op Camara said that part of theprize money would be used forlhe education of poor farmwork­ers in northeast Brazil and tohelp them purchase their ownland.

The archbishop noted that sixNorwegian members of parlia­ment (which select the Nobelprizewinners) have nominatedhim for the 1974 Nobel PeacePrize, and then said:

"I accept the Peoples' Prizeand do not condemn the Nobelprize. But for me to accept theNobel prize would be to insultthose who gave me the Peoples'Prize."

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Catholic Relief AidsCambodia Refugees

NEW YORK (NC)' - About300,000 refugees in Cambodiaare being aided by Catholic Re­lief Services (CRS), according toFather Philip McNamara, CRSprogram director.

The emphasis in the CRS pro·gram has been on self-help agri­cultural projec~s, said FatherMcNamara, who recently re­turned from the Cambodia cap­ital of Phnom Penh, told a meet­ing of representatives from 20Eastern dioceses that CRS can".feed a family forever," but thatthe Cambodians are proud andprefer self-help projects.

The meeting was a planningsession for the 1974 AmericanCatholic Overseas Aid Fund Ap­peal. The annual appeal, provid·ing funding for CRS, papal char­ities, the Catholic Seaman's In­stitute and the Office of Migra­tion of the U. S. Catholic Confer­ence, is made during Lent. Aspecial collection for overseasaid will be taken up in mostchurches on Laetare Sunday,Mar. 24.

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Pray for NationDuring Crisis

LONDON (NC) - A day ofprayer for the nation was heldin many churches in this countryfollowing the government's an­nounced severe restrictions onthe use of power in industry and,commerce.

The restrictions foUow the cutin oil supplies from the MiddleEast coupled with ,a growingshortage of coal due to ana-

,tional slowdown by miners andother industrial unrest.

Archbishop Andrew Beck ofLiverpool was one of the sign­ers of an appeal to aU believersto visit a place of worship andpray for the coUntry in its pres­ent crisis.

"We ask that all Christiansshould in the fellowship of theHoly Spirit quietly tune theirminds to the mind of JesusChrist and ask God Our Fatherto free the nation from the strifewhich burdens or destroys itspeace, unity and brotherhood,"the appeal said.

"We must pray for the creationwith us of a n'ew spirit equalto the new circumstances in ournational life,"

teachers are "very often misun­derstood, and consequently areaccused of being heretics." "Ithink that a1l of this is harmfulto the very people you're tryingto teach and I hope that some ofthis tension will be relieved bythe National Catet{;hetical Direc­tory," she said.

, "I hope we will have a docu­ment that is practical, pastoral,biblical, and theologically andpsychologically sound," SisterFrye said.

"The document should speakto the Church and its problemsin our times and should help torelieve some of the harmful ten·sions which are presently preva­lent in religious education."

The directory, tQ.be ,issued bythe U.S. bishops, will providenorms and guidelines for meth­ods and content in religious edu·,cation on a1l levels. It is expect­ed to be completed by Novemberof 1975. Until that time, recom­mendat-ions and suggestions fromgroups .and individuals will becompiled in- two preliminarydrafts of the document.

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He hailed the conference asan example of new efforts beingmade by nations to work out,their common goals through eco­nomic agreements and negotia­tions 'and said: "God asks us toattempt the impossible so thatthere may be greater justiceamong men,"

Archdiocese OpensPro-Life Office _

DENVER (NC) - The Denverarchdiocese has established an BEFORE YOUoffice to collect and distributeinformation on pro-life activity, BUY - TRYto monitor pro-life projects and PARKto review legislation concerningabortion and euthanasia. MOTORS

The Pro-Life Office, under thedirecton of Msgr. William Jones, OLDSMOBILEarchdiocesan vicar for education,·' 67 Middle Street, Fairhavenenvisions a three-pronger action - ;pla'n to ·deal with ,the problemspresented in the archdiocese as aresult of the 1973 Supreme Courtabortion decision.

The office plans first to devel­op a ·directory of people and or­ganizations engaged in pro-lifework' in the archdiocese and topublish Ii newsletter, especia1lyfor parish councils, on pro-lifeactivities. The office will alsoevaluate pro-life projects spon­sored by arc.hdiocesan funds andreview requests for further fund­ing.

education in an .jnte~iew after.she addressed 50 Sisters workingin the Wilmington diocese.

Children are suffering "be­cause their parents tell them onething and teachers tell them an­other," said Sister Frye. "

"Parents are suffering terri­bly because they think that theirchilprer,t aren't learning the fll,ithas they learned it," she said, and

Pope Paul Stresses CooperationOn International Economic Level

WILMINGTON (NJC) - Chil­dren are being "torn apart," par­ents are "suffering terribly," andteachers are "very often misun­derstood," because of controver­sies over religious education, ac­cording'to the associate directorfor the proposed National Cate·chetical Directory.

Sister Mariella Frye- spokeabout the problems of religious

CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK MARKED: Bishop George H. Guilfoyle of Camden,far left, gets a closeup look at one of 50 highway billboards promoting registration dur­ing Catholic Schools Week in his six-county diocese. With him are Father James R.Tracy, superintendent of schools, and Father Glendon E. Robertson, diocesan secretaryfor education. The state legislature arid Gov. Brendan Byrne have set aside the weekof Feb. 17-23 to recognize contributions of Catholic schools in New Jersey. NC ppoto.,

VATICAN CITY (NC) - Richand poor nations alike can nolonger afford "closed, self­sufficient national economies,"Pope Paul VI told a group ofEuropean and African leaders.

The Pope received about 300participants in, a conference ofparliamentarians of the European-Economic Community and ofAfrican states, which is explor­ing means of economic and so­cial social exchange between the 'two land masses.

Speaking in French, the Popestressed that the various prob­lems afflicting both groups, ofnations today make cooperationon an international economic:level necessary.

"On the one hand the ob·stacles which Africa encounterson the way toward its full de·velopment and, on the other, theener.gy cr,isis and the monetaryand economic problems of Eu­rope, make it clearer than everthat you cannot rely on closed,self-sufficient national econ­omies. Nations· are becomingmore a\yareof their limits andthey are looking for new ap­proaches."

The perils surrounding bothgroups of nations today raisecertain risks that must bewatched, the Pope said.. "Somenations might try to rely onthemselves." He warned alsoagainst the risk that the poormay be made to pay for the de­mands of the present situation.

"The search for profit only,for overproduction and for over-

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Retirement P'lanINDIANAPOLIS (NC) - An

archdiocesan retirement programfor all full-time diocesan employ­ees, including priests, Religiousand laity has been esta'!>lishedby Archbishop George J. Biskupof Indianapolis. A $2 millioncampaign fund will be launchedto assist in the initial financingof the retirement plan.

Catholic EducationGuide Published

WASHINGTON (NC) - "The1973-74 Official Guide to Catho·lic Educational Institutions andReligious Communities in theUnited States," sponsored by thedivision of elementary and sec­ondary education of the Depart­ment of Education of the U.S.Catholic Conference, has beenpublished.

The 15th annual edition of thepublication is a complete listingof Catholic educational institu­tions, including boarding schoolson the secondary 'level, juniorcolleges and universities, nursingschools and Religious orders ofmen and women.

The guide gives admissionstandards, course selections, dis·tinctive programs and degree re­quirements. -It also lists facultysizes and qualifications, enroll·ments, scholarships, employmentopportunities, housing facilitiesand costs. For Religious orders,the guide lists basic informationand admission requirements.

Catholic RegionalSchool Board's'Value Stressed

PROVIDENCE (NC)-The su­perintendent of Catholic schoolsin the Providence diocese hasurged the improvement of theCatholic regional school boardsin, the dioc'ese as the "main hopefor the continuation of ourvalue-oriented school system."

In a statement issued in con­nection 'with the local obser­vance of national Catholic Ed­ucation Week, the superinten­dent, Christian Brother StephenO'Hara said: "It is in andthrough the expertise of themembership of the regionalboards that the best brains infinance, advertising, communi·cation and curriculum develop­ment can be' found in order tobring our schools to the levelof excellence ,that they mustachieve."

He urged the boards' not tobecome "bogged down in theminutiae of 'who has the author­ity' to tell people what to andhow to do it."

The boards, he said, should:Find seats in some school in

the region for children whoseparents want them to have aCatholic education, and to urgeschool populations where neces·sary to provide places.

Have the etIucators on theboard .or in the region set up'curriculum committes to studyways of improving study pro­grams.

Advertise the schools so thatas few vacancies as possibleexist.

Study ways of improving thefinancial operation of theschools.

Study the methods of fundingso th~t as many pupils as needassistance can obtain somegrant-in-aid money.

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The Council of Catholic Womenwill hold its monthly meetingat 7:45 on Monday night, Feb.25 in the Jesus Mary auditorium.

Mrs. Joseph Gagnon, chairmanhas announced that a bingoparty for members only will beheld at the meeting.. Mrs. Roland Allard and Mrs.Normand Tetrault, co-chairmen,have announced that a cake 'salewill be held in the lower churchafter all the Masses on the week­end of March 16-17.

Edward Lambert, scoutmasterof Troop IS, and Gilbert Fiola,cubmaster of Pack IS, have an­nounced that the annual scoutCommunion breakfast will beserved on Sunday, March 3.

The scouts will receive Com­munion at the 9 o'clock Mass andthen proceed to ,the school hallwhere breakfast will be servedto the scouts and members -oftheir families.

For every non-scout over 12years of age attending the break­fast, .ther~ will be a charge of$2.50 and a charge of $1.50 forevery non-scout 12 years of ageor younger.ST. JOSEPH,NEW BEDFORD

The parish Legion of Mary,under the guidance of Rev.Msgr. Henri A. Hamel, will spon­sor a pre-Ienter program inhonor of the Blessed Virgin.

Scheduled for Sunday, Feb. 24,it will open with Benediction ofthe Blessed Sacrament in theparish church at 3 and will con­clude with a "slide show" in theschool hall.

It is open to the public.

ST.. JOHN OF GOD,SOMERSET

The Women's Guild will spon­sor a chicken dinner and a springfashion show at 6:30 P.M. Wed­nesday, March 20 at Venus deMilo restaurant. The chance ofwinning four grand prizes of giftcertificates and cash will be in­cluded in the ticket price andwinners need not be present forthese awards. Additionally, doorprizes will be awarded duringthe evening. Mrs. Manuel No­gueira is chairman.

Th.e Parish ParadePublicity chairmen of parish organizations

Ire 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.

OUR LADY OF THE ANGELS,FALL RIVER

The Holy Rosary Sodality hasannounced that Mass, Commu­nion and meeting dates are asfollows: March 10, June 16, Sept.8, Oct. 6 and Dec. 1. The Sodal­ity is also planning a one daytrip to New York on Saturday,March 30 and it will include anEaster Show in the Gotham city.The Council of Catholic Women

will sponsor a Spring dance inthe hall from 8 to midnight onSaturday night, March 23. Musicwill be by the Jardinaires.

The Holy Name Society willreceive Holy Communion in :l

body at the 8 o'clock Mass onSunday morni.ng, April 7 andit will be followed by a Commu­nion breakfast and meeting.

A mission in Portuguese willbe conducted from March 3-9.

Ashes will be distributed onFeb. 27 during the 7 A.M., 4P.M. and 7 P.M. Masses. Thereis no other time schedule fordistribution.

A malasada supper will beserved in the hall from 6 to 8 onSaturday night, Feb. 23 anddancing will be held from 8 tomidnight.

SACRED HEART,FALL RIVER

The next meeting of the Wom­en's Guild is scheduled for Mon­day night, March 4. A potlucksupper will be served at 6:30 andwill be followed by entertain­ment provided by James Feeley,a graphic artist.

Mrs. John Patota and Mrs.Walter White, co-chairmen ofthe supper have asked all mem­bers planning· to attend to bringa dish or a donation.

ST. JOSEPH,ATTLEBORO

The Knights of the Altar com­mittee will meet at 7:30 on Sun­day evening, ·Feb. 24 in the homeof Ernest Cote.

At 7:30 on Monday night,March 4, Birthright of Attleborowill come to ·the parish hall andspeak to all youths of high schoolage, their parents and all pa­rishioners on the aims of theorganization. I

There will be a general meet­ing and e",planation of thisspring's minstrel and variety at7:30 on Sunday evening, March 3.

OUR LADY OF VICTORY,CENTERVILI,E

The Women's Guild has an­nounced the following scheduleof events. On Saturday, Feb. 23,Mrs. Bea Rockwell will be incharge of a parish social. OnMarch I, the World Day ofPeace will be commemorated atthe Cotuit Federated Church.

The annual covered dish sup­per will be served to aB guildmembers and their guests at theregular monthly meeting onMonday night, March 11.

ST. LAWRENCE,NEW BEDFORD

The Parish Club is sponsoringa dance to be held Saturdayevening at the Hawthorn Coun­try Club from 9 to 1. Ticketsmay be obtained at the Rectory.

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Parish ParadeOUR LADY OF LOURDES,TAUNTON

The annual parish ham andbean supper will be held' in theschool hall, 52 First St., from5:30 to 7 P.M. on Saturday, Feb.23rd.

Dinner music will follow the .supper; dancing from 9 P.M. tomidnight.

CLOSER TO BEATIFICA·TION: The Congregation forSaints' Causes has approvedwritings of Mother Kathar­ine Drexel, foundress of theSisters of the Blessed Sacra­ment, moving her a stepclsoer to beatification. Theapproval insures purity ofdoctrine as expressed by themissionary in her work withblacks and Indians in Ameri­ca. NC Photo.

Servite FathersAsk InformationOn Farah Strike

EL PASO (NC)-A stockhold­ers' resolution seeking informa­tion and a commitment to thewelfare of the workers of FarahManufacturing Co. has beenfiled here with the company bythe Servite Fathers. A supportiveresolution is also expected tobe .filed by the Chicago provinceof the Jesuits.

According to Servite FatherJohn Pawlikowski, a member ofthe Servite's social action com­mittee, the Servite resolutionseeks information on the boy­cott of Farah products caBed bystriking Farah workers, who are!being supported by the Amal­gamated Clothing Workers ofAmerica (ACWA).

The Servites, Father Pawli­kowski added, own about 1,000shares of Farah stock. A requestto file the resolution, he said,came from the ACWA.

Questions StatementFarah, Father Pawlikowski ex­

plained, maintains that it hasbeen giving benefits to its em­

. ployes, "but there is doubt thatany of the employes qualify."

The resolution will be pre­sented at the March 6 stock­holders' meeting in EI Paso.

Consultors of the Chicagoprovince of Jesuits; who alsoown Farah stock, are scheduledto take in the matter of aresolution supporting the Ser­vites' resolution. at their nextmeeting.

A Jesuit spokesman said thata decision would be made beforethe March 6 stockholders' meet·ing.

Evils Still Exist

~ few days after the Jane Pitt­man show, CBS ~!=ored againwith a dramatic presentation,written by playwright TennesseeWilJiams, on the dreadful plightof migrant workers, many ofwhom are the helpless victims ofwhat Dr. Menninger would prob­ably describe as a modern formof slavery.

Dr. Menninger says that "oursociety.is so organized that most.of us don't encounter poor peo­ple except on the televisionscreen." WeB, better that weshould encounter them therethan not at all. Thanks to OBSand to Tennessee Williams, wesaw them on the tube - at acomfortable distance, to be sure,and only for an hour-and-a-half-in all their heart-wrenchingmisery. Once again we werelead to think about "sin as col­lective irresponsibility" andabout our own personal involve­ment, however indirect or mar­ginal, in one particular form ofhuman exploitation.

Dr. Menninger is at pains toremind us that "acknowledge­ment of sin is a start, but it isnot enough." That's perfectlytrue, of course, but if we areever going to make any progressin developing a sense of ourown involvement in collectiveevils and a sense of personal re­sponsibility for. correcting them,we have to begin somewhere.We must first of all becomeaware of the fact that these evilsstill exist, even in this thewealthiest nation in the historyof the. world. Hats off, then, toCBS for having helped us to dojust that, not once but twice inthe course of a single week.

( © 1974 NC News Service)

I kept thinking of that state­ment as I was watching the re­cent CBS two-hour special, "TheAutobiography of Miss Jane Pitt­man." Though this moving dra­ma has been critized by. at leastone reviewer for romanticizingthe evil of pre-Civil War slaveryand post-Civil War reform, itwas nevertheless remarkablygood theatre-by all odds thebest thing I have seen on tele­vision in recent years.

Whatever its limitations fromthe point of view of historicalaccuracy, it must have lead mil­lions of Americans to think se­riously about "sin as collectiveirresponsibility" and about theirown personal involvement in thevarious kinds of exploitationthat still exists in the UnitedStates 122 years after the birthof the fictional Jane Pittman, aformer slave whose life of in­credible suffering (and indom­itable courage) from the CivilWar to the civil rights movementwas portrayed so effectively onthe television screen by CicelyTyson.

Time passes. Memories fade. Per­haps there is a record some­where, but who reads it?"

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rather fuzzy and also rather self­serving and self deluding, wehaven't lost touch with reality.

Dr. Menninger contends, how­ever, that for the sake (If ourown mental and moral healthand for the good of society, weought to revive the word sin forthose transgressions that trulydeserve to be caBed by thatname. "The disappearance of theword sin," he says, "involves ashift in the aBocation of respon­sibility for evil." And this, hesuggests, can be very harmfulnot only to the individual but tosociety as weB.

In the best and most compli­mentary sense of the word, thereis something wonderfully old­fashioned llIbout Dr. Menninger'sapproach to the problem of sin.This is not to suggest, however,that he is a Puritanical, finger­wagging moralist of the oldschool, hell bent on putting thefear of God in recalcitrant sin­ners. To the contrary, he is anamiable and highly realistic re­former, whose primary purpose,as a wise old counsellor who hasbeen studying the human con­dition scientifically for 50 yearsor more, is not to chastise orfrighten his readers but ratherto encourage them to live up totheir own highest standards andideals.

III

What became of sin?In a recent book bearing this provocativ~ question as

its title, Dr. Karl Menninger, the grand old man of Americanpsychiatry, argues that, while the word "sin" has largelyfallen out of favor and, at least in the United States, is nolonger in common usage.there is nevertheless "a gen­eral sentiment that sin is stillwith us, by us, and in us ­somewhere." That's a healthysign, for it would seem to indi­cate that, while our vocabularyin this area may have become

Something Modern

If there is something old­fashioned about Dr. Menninger'sapproach to the problem of sin,there is also something new aboutit, something very modern. Helays great stress on "sin as col­lective irresponsibility," and,under this umbrella-type heading,speaks of our common involve­ment in the coBective sins of war,latter-day forms of slavery, en­vironmental waste, economic in­justice, etc. Because of the com­plexity of modern life, he says,acknowledgement of personal in­volvement in these collectivesins " eludes our attenti.on andseems to make sin disappear."

By that he means "if a groupof people can be made to sharethe responsLbility for what wouldbe a sin if an individual did it,the load of guilt rapidly liftsfrom the shoulders of aB con­cerned. Others may accuse, butthe guilt shared by the many

. evaporates for the individual.

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pointed out was "mostly duringthe hard times when you didn'tget any money for taking careof kids; I guess the Lord justprovided."

Mrs. Hunter remembers herfirst telephone ("it had a handleon the side that you had to turnto ring the operator") and herfirsJ car ("it was square, like abig box, and brown"). Thestreets were unpaved, and peo­ple rode horse-drawn trOlleys,with steps on the side where yougot in."", :Mrs. Hunter's husband died in1932, and she continued in hercooking jobs until 1942. For 10more years, she continued to dothe cooking for herself, and allher own housecleaning.

At the age of 109, Mrs. Huntermade medical history by surviv­ing an operation to mend abroken hip, but the effort tomaintain her own home becametoo much for her, and she becamea patient at Germantown's Sa­cred Heart Manor.

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CENTENARIAN LOOKS BACK: At age 112, Mrs.Lavinia Hunter of Philadelphia talked about the changesshe has witnessed in a life that began on a Maryland farmwith her sharecropper parents. She raised 17 foster children'when you didn't get any money for taking care of kids; Iguess the Lord just provided.' NC Photo.

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came to the faJ:m when I was alittle girl; they had dirty blueuniforms and carried guns").

She remembers riding withother children in a wagon .sev­eral miles to church as a smallgirl; later on, she said, thechildren would run the distance."We never would start out ontime, so we'd have to run," sheexplained.

She recalls having to pump,water and carry it in woodenbuckets ("one on my head andone in each hand") to. big, WOOd;,.en tubs where laundry was done,and .chopping wood for thekitchen fireplace. The childrenwould vie for turns riding onthe huge horse-drawn wagonsloaded 'with corded wood, shesaid. .

During playtime, Mrs. Hunterrioted, the girls had dolls madeof tree branches and bits ofcloth, or corn husks. And, sheremembered, she used to be"quite good" at jumping rope.

As a young girl, Mrs. Huntersaw race horses being preparedfor the track at Bowie, and sheattended parties where she didthe waltz, the "straight dance,"and "other nice dances that Ican't remember the names of.". Mrs. Hun~er met and marriedher husband William in Mary­iand, it was there that her twochildren were born, and therethat one of them, Thomas, diedat the age of three.

The Hunters moved to Phila­delphia in 1897, and Mrs. Hunterfound work as a cook. She soon'was getting more money fromher employler because, she re­called, "they liked sweet potatopie and apple dumplings."

In addition to raising their.own sol} Wilbur, the Hunterswere able to take care of 17 fos­ter children. This, Mrs. Hunter

Recogn"izes God's

He could be amiahle and charm­ing; he could also be arbi~rary

and, overbearing. H~ stubb<?rnlysought his own way, by,. anymeans, including fits of hysteria.It was said of him that he suf­fered from his father's mentalailment, if in a slightly differentJorm.

He secretly 'married a Cath­olic, the twice-widowed MariaFitzherbert. This, of course, wasin violation of English law. Butif he was constant to anyone, itwas to her. Later, he married aGerman princess, the only rea­son being that, he could therebyincrease his income. This woman,Caroline of Brunswick, he treat­ed shamefully, and made no at­tempt to conceal his hatred ofher.

Constant ConflictHe dabbled' in politics, taking

the other side of almost every is­sue from his father. Between thetwo there was constant conflict.Th father always complained ofthe son, the son of the father. .

Momentous iJi.ternational hap­penings are very faint in thebackground of this portrait ofthe Prince of Wales. The Amer­ican Revolution, the French Rev­olution, the rise of Napoleon,the Napoleonic Wars":'-these alloccurred in the time span cov­el'ed by the book, but they arebut brief, vague offstage noises.

The focus is 011 a willful, ex­travagant, foolishly imperiousprince, born to high privilegeand capable of base, conduct. Itis impossible to take him seri­ously, although his people hadto take him seriously indeed.

If anyone has any nostalgiafor the era of kings, it is rudelydashed by almost any hones,thistory of one or another of them.Mr. Hibbert has written a literate,w~lI-paced," cool-eyeil review ofthe formative and deformativeyears of a lightweight monarch.

PHILADELPHIA (NC) - "TheLord deserves the credit not

, me," Mrs. Lavinia Hunter said asshe looked back over a life thatbegan in 1862 as the daughterof black sharecroppers.

The Lord "took care of every­thing," Mrs. Hunter said ,at aparty Feb. 8 marking her 112thbirthday." All I did was live mybest and try to get along with

.'people. And mostly everyonewas good to me."

Attending the party at SacredHeart Manor in the Germantownsection of Philadelphia were Mrs.Hunter's son, WHbur, 76; JohnLucas, a foster· child raised byMrs. Hunter; and several of hernine grandchildren, two great­grandchildren andl two great­great-grandchildren. .

Mrs. Hunter was born tobonded sharecropper parents ona farm near Bowie, Md. She wasbaptized Louisa in the Catholic·Church or' the Assumption, butone of the priests began callingher Lavinia, and that namestuck.

Of her early childhood, Mrs.Hunter has scattered memories­of Indians ("Not when I was areal small girl but later on; theynever bothered anybody, but Iwas frightened")-of doing farmwork ("we grew tobacco, pota­toes, 'tomatoes, sweet potatoes")-of caring for the farm's live­stock ("you had to drive thesheep' where you wanted themto go;)-and of soldiers ("they

Buf there was opposition tothe change which he seemed tohave eUected. Some Soviet offi­cials were against any admissionof wrongdoing by Stalin, andmany who were implieated inhis crimes feared exposure andretribution.

It seemed certain that Sol­zhenitsyn would be awarded theLenin Prize in 1964, but he wasnot. The opposition was prevail­ing: K!trushchev, who was to fallfrom power later that year, hadalready turned against Solzhen­itsyn, and the thaw began tagive way to a resumption of thefreeze.

Literary GrantWhat has happened to Sol­

zhenitsyn since then? His inter­national fame has increasedenormously. This has come aboutthrough the publication in Eu­rope and America of his twolengthy novels dealing with lifein the Soviet Union, The FirstCircle and Cancer Ward, and hispanoramic novel, of the begin­nings of World War I on theeastern front, August 1914. Hehas established himself as oneof the literary giants of the cen­tury.

But not in the Soviet Union.. There; he has been slandered,

spied upon, restricted, threat­ened. As this review is written,he is in danger of arrest andfurther severe punishment be­cause of the publicatiQn in Eu­rope' and' the imminent publica­tion in the United States, of hisThe Gulag Archipelago, which isnot a novel but a compilation ofeyewitness evidence of the mis­treatment and' destruction o~

millions of Soviet citizens, be.'ginning with the day of' Lenin., Mr. Mervedev, now doing re­

search in Britain, and with hisSoviet passport confiscated;gives an outline of what has hap­pened to Solzhenitsyn' between1962 and the present. In doingso, he lays bare the methods ,ofthe Soviets and the atmosphere .of rigid repression which ob­tains in the U.S.S.R.

Prince of WalesWe step back into an earlier

age, and a different scene, whenwe take up Christopher Hibbert'sGeorge IV, Prince of Wales (Har­per &, Row, 49 E. 33rd St., NewYork, N. Y. 10016. $10. Illus­trated):

George IV was King of En­gland for only 10 years. Born in1762, he came to the throne in1820, and he died in 1830. Buthis father, George III, who wasking Jor 60 years, had periodsof mental incapacitation, andduring the longest of these, from1811 to 1820, his son, the Princeof Wales (later George IV) wasRegent of England.

Mr. Wbbert, who undoubtedlywill produce further volumesabout this man, is here consider­ing the years :between PrinceGeorge's birth and his assump­tion of the Regency,in 1811.

Prince George was a voluptu­ary and a prodigious spendthrift.

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"Violence does not and cannot ~xist on its own, it isinexorably bound up with the lie. The link between themis fundamental and entirely natural and organic: violencehas nothing to cover itself with, except the lie, and the liehas no way of maintainingitself except by violence. /...The simple course of thesImple brave man is not toparticipate in the lie and not tosupport lying actions."

This is an exceI'pt from theaddress which Alexander Sol-

zhenitsyn prepared on the occa­sion of his being awarded theNobel Prize for Literature in1970. He .never gave the address,because he feared that, if he leftthe Soviet Union for the tripto Stockholm, he would be re­fused reentry, and plans to pre-

, sent the prize to him in Moscowwere thwarted by the Sovietgovernment.

Nobel Priz,~

Solzhenitsyn's brief hour offavor in the Soviet Union, andhis subsequent harassment anddenigration are traced in a book'by his friend, the distinguishedbiochemist Zhores A. Mervedev,Ten Years After Ivan Denisovich,translated by Hilary Sternberg(Knopf, 501 Madison Ave., NewYork, N. Y. 10022. $6.95).

Born in 1918, Solzhenitsynwas a commander of a Red Armyartillery unit in East Prussia in1945~ He was arrested becausein letters to a friend. he oblique­ly criticized Stalin. Thereafterhe spent 10 years in prisoncamps and in exile within theSoviet Union. His term finished,he became a teacher. He hadbegun to write, but was unpub­lished until 1962.

By then Khrushchev had de­livered his famous speech de­nouncing the excesses of Stalin,and some relaxation of Stalinistabsolutism had taken place inRussia. Solzhenitsyn's first nov­el One Day in the Life of IvanDenisovich, was brought, toKhrushchev's attention, and hewas instrumental in making its

'publication possible.Slave Labor Caml)

Ivan Denisovich was a prison­er ina slave labor camp. The in­justice visited on him, and thehorror of t1te camps, were pow­erfully depicted. So too was thehumanity which resisted brutal­ization and, in some instances,managed to survive it. The bookwas not mere reporting; it wasgenuine literature.

Its publication in Russia was asensation. Millions of copieswere printed and sold. At lastthe unspeakable evils of theStalin era were acknowledgedand could be publicly expressed.Solzhenitsyn's genius. was rec-,ognized, and he became some­thing of a hero.

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I've had similar experiences inclassroom. In one class ·childrenlistened to each. other, took

'care of and shared school equip­ment. In another class there waslittle evidence of respect forthings or other people.

Rights of Other People1t seems to me that one of the

objectives of religious educationboth at home and in school is to

. enable youngsters to becomeaware of their own freedom,

'their own rights. Part of such. learning involves the awarenessthat freedom and rights impliesrespect for the freedom andrights of others. Freedom in­volves responsibilities. The Sec-ond Vatican Council clearlyteaches this basic principle:

"In the use of all freedoms,the moral principle of personaland social responsibility is tobe observed. In the exercise oftheir rights, individual men andsocial groups, are bound by themoral law to have respect bothfor the rights of others and fortheir own duties toward othersand for the common welfare ofall." (Religious Freedom, 7)

Since the young learn bestfrom example, and are movedmore by what they see thanhy what they hear, we need lookat our own style of life as par­ents, teachers, priests. Do wehonestly try to respect the rightsof others? Is our home markedby a sense of freedom balancedby a sense of respect and re­sponsibility? Is freedom encour­aged and respon~ibility expectedin our parish?

In the present climate of ourcountry, few educational objec-,tives are as important and diffi­cult as that of fostering re­sponsible freedom, of balancingrights and responsibilities. Mytwo recent dinner experiencescaused me to reflect on thischallenge. Perhaps you, too, mayalso find ,it worth pondering.

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When I arrived at Harry andJane's shortly before dinner, Iwas delighted to see them andtheir four children. I was' a bitlate, so we sat down almost im­mediately to dinner. The childrenate fast and then left the talble.Two of them sat down on thefloor beside the table and turnedon the television. The other twoplayed games on the other sideof the table. There was almostcontinual shouting back andforth since the TV was quiteloud. Harry, Jane and I wereunable to talk because of thenoise. It was unfortunate andfrustrating because w'e had notseen each other for severalyears.

Pat and Joan welcomed me,a week or two later to their home.Their children were there togreet me, ,too. We enjoyed thechildren for a half-hour or so,before dinner. The two boys atedinner quickly and then wentoff to play in an adjoining room.Pat, Joan and I had a long con­versation as we quietly finishedour meal. It was an enrichingexperience.

Home as EducatorThese two experiences caused

me to reflect on the importanceof helping the young grow bothin a sense of freedom and in asense of responsibility. We needto guide the young in awarenessof their rights and in a respectof the rights of others. Like mosteducation, education to respon­sible freedom begins early, nor­mally in the home, through quiteordinary happenings.

These two experiences maynot be typical of either familyI visited. But I could not helpthinking that Pat and Joan'schildren were being taught torespect thE! rights of otherswhile lea'rning to enjoy theirown rights. Harry and Jane'schildren gave little evidence thatthey were conscious of the rightsof their parents and guests tobe able to converse.

Two recent experiences set methinking about the importanceand difficulty-·of helping peoplegrow up free but responsible,aware of their rights yet respect­ful of others. In both cases Iwas the dinner guest of friends.

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Australia SchoolsTo Receive Aid

CANBERRA (NC) - Catholicand other nongovernment schoolsin the state of New South Walesare to receive about $15 milHonunder the provisions of ,theKarmel Report on education.

(Named after its head, Prof.Peter Karmel, the Karmel reportwas set up by the federal gov­ernment to investigate educationneeds and make recommenda­tions. After a stormy passage,enabling legislation was finallypassed through the AustralianParliament.)

Catholic parish schools in thestate will receive about $7.2million and other non-govern­ment schools will receive about7.9 miUion.

certain hours or certain daysaside for religious practices, fol­lowing particular dietary cus­toms, and so on, are made withreference to' something beyondmerely human practical affairs."

She said that the various reli­gious practices that are impor·tant to Catholics, Jews, Moslems,and Sikhs "seem to those with­out religion to be superstitiousor pointless, the particular ec­centricities of minorities."

human society, if it is to be well­ordered and productive, must laydown as a foundation this prin­ciple, namely, that every humanbeing is a person, that is, his na­ture is endowed with intelligenceand free will. By virtue of this,he has rights and duties of hisown, flowing directly and simul-

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No'n-Christian AsiansChristians ToldBelievers,

LONDON (NC)-Christians inBritain should recognize thatboth they and the Asian immi­grants in the country have a re­ligious view of the world, accord­ing to a booklet published bythe Catholic Committee for Ra­cial Justice in association withthe British Council of Churches.

This religious view, the book­let said, draws Christian andnon-Christian believers togetherand sets them both apart fromthose whose philosophy is pure­ly secular or materialistic.

The booklet, by Ann Dummett,former community relations of­ficer for Oxford University, andMichael Hollings, is entitled"Restoring the Streets," anddeals with the problems causedby the presence of more thanhalf a million Moslem, Hinduand Sikh believers in Britain.

Mrs. Dummett wrote: "Thoseof us who follow a religion havethus a great deal' in commonwith each other, however, ourparticular beliefs vary, in theway we look at the world. Wealso have a great deal in com­mon in that ordinary everydayorganization of our lives is in­volved with our religious beliefs;practical decisions about mar­riage, having children, setting

SeeAs

child of the Father, redeemed bythe Son, filled with the Spirit­each of us possess rights andrseponsibilities which no govern­ment can give or take away.

In the opening of h'is encycli­cal, Pacem in Terris, Pope JohnXXIII emphasized the truthalbout the source or individualrights and responsibilities: "Any

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What is being "locked up," ofcourse, is only the original parch­ment documents of the Declara­tion of Independence, the Con­stitution, and the BiH of Rights.Locking up these precious papersso tightly each evening doesnot mean that we Americancitizens don't continue to enjoyour rights and practice our re­sponsibilities. Our governmentkeeps on functioning.

But what would happen if ourgovernment decided to ignorethe guarantees of rights and doaway with the responsibilities ofus citizens? Would we still havethem. The Christian knows thatit would make no difference atall in the reality of his or herrights and responsibilities. Thesedon't come from governments;they don't exist because somedocuments say so.

,For the Christian, rights andduties in society come directlyfrom human nature, the creationof Almighty God. Because of thedignity of the human person-

FR. PETER

HENRIOT

Each evening a guard inWashington, D. C., locks up therights of American citizens.With a push of a button, theguard at the National Archivesputs our independence, ourguarantees and privileges, ourrights, behind the heavy doorsof a fire-proof, bombproof, steeland reinforced concrete valult.

PRIZED POSSESSIONS: Each evening a guard in Washington, D.C., locks up the·rights of American citizens.... What is being locked up, of course, is only the originalparchment documents of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Billof Rights. A closeup of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill ofRights. NC Photo.

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Plan CatholicC'enter at UN

UNITED NAnONS (NC)­With an assist from the Vatican,plans are being made here for acenter to provide information toCatholic organizations about theprograms and activities of theUnited Nations.

Participants in the movementare nine international Catholicassociations whose observers areconsistentiy involved in variousaspects of the projects ,sponsoredby the UN and its affiliatedagencies:

The Catholic International Un­ion for Social Services; the Inter­national Conference of Catholic

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Vatican approval of the estab­lishment of the information cen­ter was indicated through a com­mitment to provide space for itfor two years in what is current­ly called the St. John's complex-the new buildings into whichvarious elements of the NewYork archdiocesan administra­tion are being moved.

Each of the nine internationalCatholic organizations hasagreed to provide $1,000 towardexpenses of the first year's op­eration.

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values and understand the mean­ing, and significance of truth,justice, charity, and freedo!Jl."

The Importance 'of Responsibility

..HELPING HAND: The most important right a person

has is the right to life-not just animal survival but fullhuman development. That is why it is so important that thegovernments .. " should be concerned about the social andeconomic conditions of its citizens. Fourteen-month-oldCora Ives of Renton, Washington, gets a helping hand fromher father, Edwin C._Ives, symbolizing her chance for fulldevelopment after'being given the gift of life. NC Photo.

Continued from Page Thirteentaneously from his very nature.These rights are therefore uni­versal, inviolable and inalien-able." ,

The most important right aperson has is the right to life­not just animal survival hut fullhuman development. That is whyit is so important that the gov­ernment, the means by which the,people promote the commongood, should be concerned aboutthe social and economic condi­tions of its citizens.

ResponsibilitiesWhat about responsibilities?

Responsibilities and duties arethe ,flip side" of the 1"ights inher­ent in human nature. Because Ihave the right to a decent stand­ard of living, I have the duty tolive in a proper fashion.

For every right that I possessas an individual human being,there is a corresponding duty inother human beings to respectmy right. A Christian view ofsociety demands mutual recog­'nition and promotion of rights.

When we take this view ofrights and responsibilities, asrealities coming from our human,nature, we can then see why theChurch and the individual Chris­tian must always Ibe alert to pro­mote rights. Pope John summedthis up beautifully in Pacem inTerris: "When the relations ofhuman society are expressed interms of rights and duties, menbecome conscious of spiritual

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One kept insisting that he hadbecome a priest to '''serve Jesus"and not to be a "professional."Despite my insistence that inmy definition the opposite of"professional" was "amateur,"he simply would not let me getaway with such a threat to "hispriesthood." Thus went thewhole meeting.

,To this day I cannot figure

out why professional dedication .to one's work is opposed to"serving' Jesus," On the con­trary, it means serving him well~nd not sloppily. But so be it.People with limited intelligencealways have trouble with neW'words.

the word "professional," whichconsumed the rest of the meet­ing. I had quite carefully definedmy term, but a number of thepeople on the board were notready to let me use my defini­tion

Thus the personnel board isa modern structure to which theculture of the people involvedhas not caught up. To 'make mat­ters worse, those who are 'electedor appointed. to such'boards arefrequently "nice, guys," th1it is,­people whose basic approach tolife is amiable and pleasant.Such a mask may be fine if youdo not get yourself in a positionwhere you need courage, deci­siveness, and backbone to resistpressures from above or belowand where imagination and in­genuity are not required to copewitht tough problems.

But if you do get in such aposition you are very likely tofind that affability won't work.'People have a way of becomingquite nasty. Under such pressuresthe "nice guy" personality re­treats behind rules, regulations,procedures, protocol. And ifthere ate not enough rules, thenhe sees that, they are made­even if they are ~he kind the oldchancery types would never havedared to try. The ne\y turns outto be worse than the old.

In the long run, of course, per­sonnel boards will work, but itwill take a generation before wedevelop a clergy committed to thestyle that the personnel boardassumes - men who are moti­vated by internalized standardsof service, who are self-actual­izing and self-starting, who reg­ulate the behavior of their ownProfessional colleagues, and whowill tolerate no bureaucraticmessing with a high quality per·formance in their work. No onecan be blamed for not 'viewingthe work of the priest in such away when he was not trainedin his early years to have thatsort of self image. And we haveonly begun such training.

Effective change takes so longa time.

Personnel BoardsTheir Value

By

REV.

ANDREW M.

GREELEY

DioceseWill Prove

One of the sad disappointments of the Post-VaticanChurch has been the poor performance of the personnelboards established in so many American dioceses. I makethis assertion with a. twinge of guilt. I had something to dowith the resolution callingfor one' of th~ first personnelboards in the country. My'colleagues and I were naiveabout what would come of ourbright scheme.

Wherever one goes, one hearscOmplaints about the personnel

boards. It is said that they areno better and frequently worsethan the old chancery office per­sonnel types of whom it was al­leged that decisions or transferswere trtade by throwing darts ata list tacked to a wall. (I'm surethat this was never done, it onlyseemed that way.)

Personnel board members areaccused of "selling out" or tak­ing care of their friends. It mat­ters little whether the boards areelected or appointed or somecombination of both. One is hardput to find anyone who will saya good word about them.

Serving Jesus

My own feeling is that thepersonalities and motivations ofboard members have only a littleto do with the problem. The dif­ficulty is much deeper and hasto do with structure and culturerather than personality.

It was assumed that by insti­tuting personnel boards theclergy could leave behind thestyle-pa,rt medieval vassal andpart Renaissance bUl'eaucraticfunctionary-that had markedclerical work for so many years,while becoming overnight. com­petent, modern professionals.

I remember the total absenceof communication when the'board in my own diocese decided(only once) that it might be ableto spend some time listening. towhat a sociologist thought. Ibegan by discussing the socio­logical definition of a profes­sional (right out of Max Weber).I was immediately interruptedby an argument over the use of

But to establish a modern pro·fessional institution like a' per­sonnel board does little tochange habits and attitudes ofeither the general clergy or thoseselected to sit on it. Hence therewas an immediate strafn betweenthe universalistic, self..actualiz­ing, client-oriented norms of theprofessional and the particular­istic, passive, super-oriented styleof the preco'nciliar Church. Such astrain could only mean trouble.

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Plan DocumentariesOn Mother Seton

EMMITSBURG (NC) - Twodocumentaries marking the200th anniversary of the birth ofBlessed Elizabetl~ Ann Seton willbe presented on nationwide radioand television in the comingweek, the Daughters of Charityannounced here.

ABC·TV will broadcast "Eliz·abeth. Ann Seton: To Be BornAnew" on its "Directions" series.The film scans the growth of theAmerican Sisters of Charity,founded by Mother Seton, andfollows a day in the life of Sis­ters of Charity who staff anEmmitsburg day care center andschool.

The ABC telecast includesscenes from the opening celebra­tion of the Seton BicentennialYear at the Daughters of Charityprovincial house in Emmitsburg.Mother Seton and her students.

The NBC radio network willhighlight the Seton Bicentennialin a two-part radio program en­titled, "Elizabeth Seton: A Wom­an for Our Times." The pro­grams will be carried on the"Guideline" series, produced bythe U. S. Catholic Conference'sDivision for Film and Broadcast­ing. The script was written byFather Joseph I. Dirvin, C.M.,author of a popular biography ofMother Seton.

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HEADING FOR THE HOOP: Sophomore MarianneCrawford leaps for a layup as she helps her ImmaculataCollege teammates register their 30th consecutive basketballvictory, a win over Stroudsburg (Pa.) State Teachers Collegeat Villanova University Field House. Immaculata, locatednear Philadelphia, has won the National College Girls Cham­pionship for the past two years. NC Photo.

Martha's Vineyard, Chathamand Nauset were the three rep­resentatives from the eight teamloop a year ago and will prob­ably all qualify this year.

Down on the Cape Martha'sVineyard High School is a bigforce in the Cape and IslandLeague. While it receives littlerecognition away from the Cape,the Vineyard contingent has thebest record over the past twoseasons of any school in thediocese. In league play the Is­landers are unbeaten in 27 startsto date.

By PETER (BARTEKNorton Hilh Coach

SCI-fOOLBOY SPORTS

Hoop Campaign Ends FridaySecond Season Starts March 4

The curtain will fall tomorrow night on the 1973-74schoolboy basketball regular season with only a handful oflocal teams participating in the final act. Others will bewaiting in the wings for the opening of the "second season"on March 4" w hen theState championship tourna- ney action vying for the Southment commences. Those crown in Divisions I, II and III.

Teams are placed into divisionsteams that will answer that according to boy enrollment incurtain call include all league grades 10-12. .titlists and any other club that A year ago Durfee High ofwon 65 per cent of its regular Fall River and Taunton qualifiedin-state games. Per usual South- for Division I berths. Tauntoneastern Mssachusetts will be well eliminated Durfee from therepresented in the prestigious tourney and' went on to thetourney. championship.

The format for the playoffs Four area clubs qualified inremains the same this season as Division II in 1972-73. Bishoplast. Competition will be staged Stang High of Dartmouth winnerin three divisions in the state's of the Southeastern Massachu­four sectors - North, South setts Conference Division I titleCentral and West. The winnets led the list. Ironically, Stang wasfrom each sector will advance quickly eliminated while Taun·to the semi-final round with the ton who finished second in looptwo victors clashing in the cham- play went on to the large schoolpionship game. All teams located champi,onship. Dartmouth, Digh­within the confines of diocesan ton-Rehoboth and Somerset alsoterritorial limits will open tour- played in Division II.

Qualifiers Val'Y With One Maior ExceptionMost schools within diocesan games.

boundaries are listed as Division Coach Sal Lombardo's Crim­m schools which accounts for' son and White came from behindthe large number of qualifiers in to wrestle the loop crown awaythat bracket. Last year six from Durfee and Taunton. Theschools contested for the small champions are playing their bestschool crown. They included basketball of the campiagn andMartha's Vineyard, Chatham, should enter the tourney on aNauset, Old Rochester of Mat· high note.tapoisett, Bourne and Bishop Although the area's represen-Feehan High of Attlhoro. tatives to the tourney change

At this writing the final games from year to year one is virtu­of the season have not been ally always there. That is Dur­played, thus it is impossible to fee. The Hilltoppers have qual­name all of this year's tourney ified for the event 27 times inqualifiers. However, it is inter- the past 29 years. While Lukeesting to compare what has Urban was coaching at thetranspired this year with last school on the Hill, Durfee qual­year's results. ified 15 years in a row missing

In Division I Taunton has not only Coach Urban's final year.qualified. Durfee will be Cack Under present mentor Tomalong with New Bedford. The Karam, the record is just as im­Whalers automatically qUli.lified pressive. Coach Karam has hadwhen they won the Southeastern his charges in the tourney 14 ofMassachusetts Conference Divi- 15 seasons. Overall Durfee hassion I title while Durfee won won the state title five times,better than 65 per cent of its the last in 1966.

Little Martha's Vineyard Big on VictoriesIn Division II Bishop Stang of Fall River, Norton and Ware·

was a favorite in 197:3; however, ham, the tri-champions will allthe Spartans had one of their be appearing in the tourney forpoorest seasons ever this Winter the first time in a few years.and will not be in the tourney. Diman, because of its boy en­Crosstown rival, Dartmouth rollment, will compete in Divi­should be among the better sion I. Norton, and Wareham inclubs fighting it out for II hon- III.ors this Winter. To date theIndians are the only local qual­ifiers in that bracket.

Southeastern Mass. Divisionm champion Old Rochester isamong the strongest clubsqualifying in Division III. TheBulldogs moved up a division inloop play this Winter and stillmana3ed to win the champion­ship.

Wit/l Old Rochester movingup, the Conference's Division IVrace was expected to be tight,In the end three clubs tied forthe crown to qualify for postseason action. Diman Regional

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