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Rev. J. Normand L. Vaillancourt

Rev. J.- Normand L. Vaillan­court, M.S., has been appointedsuperior of the community andshrine director at' La Salette;'Attleboro it has been announcedby Rev. Armand, M. Proulx,M.S., Provincial Superior of theImmaculate Heart of Mary Prov­ince.

Father Vaillancourt joins theAttleboro community after serv­ing in the religious studies de­

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mation. "You'll never deepen aman's faith without deepeninghis spirituality," it emphasized.'

Rev. Eugene Kennedy, 'M.M.,psychologist at Loyola Univer­sity in Chicago, hammered awayat the idea of integral develop­ment of personality-particularlythrough relationships with others-as the ideal ~otmation.

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New Direcl10r'AI Shrine

Personal itySpirituality

Sixty dioceses, 30 religiouscommunities and 110 seminarieswere represented to dialoguewith several bishops, a numberof seminarians and a sprinklingof lay and Religious observers.,The week-long' meeting pro-,

duced no one answer but therewere plenty of ideas., One' theme running through­out the conference was the rela­tionship of contemporary be­havioral sciences to spiritual for-

gregation of the Sacred Heartsof Fairhaven, Mass., will be spon­soring a special, religious' pro-

,gram at the Sacred' HeartsChurch, Fairhaven, on ThursdayEvening June 17, at 7 o'clock.

The program will consist of aprocession of the "Men of theSacred Hearts" with the PilgrimVirgin (an exact replica of OurLady) and the Sacred Hearts, asa family reparation.

A Concelebrated Mass on this,the Vigil of the Feast of the Sa­cred Heart will foIlow with thefoIlowing clergy participating:

The Very Rev. Provincial ofthe Eastern Province of the Con­gregation of the Sacred Hearts,Fintan D. Sheeran, SS.CC., prin-cipal celebrant; ,. Rt, Rev. Msgr. John T. Cox,pastor of St. Peters Church, War­Wick, R. I., homilist;

Rev: Frederick C. LaBrecque,SS.CC. acting pastor of SacredHearts Church, Fairhaven;

Rev. Aurele Pepin, SS.CC. pas­tor of St. Francis Xavier Church,Acushnet;

Rev. Matthew Sullivan, SS.CC. of. St. Joseph's Church Fair­haven;

Rev. Cosmas Chaloner, SS.CC., ,.chaplain. of the Sacred HeartsAcademy of Fairhaven.

'A Meditation Talk will thenbe given by Rev, Matthew Sul­livan, SS.CC., formerly NationalDirector of the Enthronement

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Tom'orrowHeart Feast

Deepen Faith,For Seminary

In reparation for the· sins ofthe world and for a return to apeaceful way of life, the "Menof the Sacred Hearts:' a lay apos­tolate group working with theFathers and Brothers of the Con-

ST. MEINRAD (NC)-How doyou.go about the spiritual forma­tion of today's seminarians­tomorrow's priests-at a timewhen notions about both "spir­ituality" and "formation" arechanging drastically?

The search for answers to thatquestion brought 150 men fromseminaries throughout the coun­try together for the first na­tional conference for seminaryspiritual directors.

BISHOP AT COYLE GRADUATION: Bishop Cronin, with seniors William M. Mc­Caffrey and Gold Medalist Peter. Masi, hear Brother Richard Kiniry, CS~, the 'school prin-cipal, right, describe the yearbook. .

ther a religious and ecclesialreading of the Bible. Fortunately,there is plenty of choice withthree good and approved anno­tated Bibles. .

The Jerusalem Bible and TheNew American Bible are equip­ped with notes prepared byCatholic !icholars. The Oxford

'Annotated Bible, which uses astext the Revised Standard Ver­sion, was granted an imprimaturseveral years ago by the latethen Cardinal Cushing. To gainthe imprimatur, extre'melY slightchanges were made in a handful

.of notes, thus illustrating theconsensus among biblical schol­ars of all the Christian faiths. Ineffect, the Catholic, is free. toread any of the modern trans­lations in their annotated or un­annotated forms.

Let us now review briefly thevarious Bibles and see how they

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The publication last Septem­ber of The New American Bible,the work of American CatholicScholars under the sponsorshipof the Bishops' Committtee ofthe Confraternity of ChristianDoctrine, brought 'to five thenumber of modern EngHsh trans­lations of the entire Bible. Eachof the Bibles comes in a varietyof bindings and formats andsome have notes and introduc­tory articles included.

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An Anchor of the Soul, Sure and Firm-St. Paul

Cardinal Says U~ S. BishopsWell Prepared for 'Synod'

PHILADELPHIA (NC) -, The Cooke of New York, Cardinalfour American delegates to Sep- John Cody of Chicago, Archbish­tember's Synod of Bishops in op Timothy Manning of Los An-

'a Rome{ will be in a position to geles and Archbishop Joseph Mc­make a unique contribution to Gucken of San Francisco.the international gathering, ac- Regarding the second majorcording to Cardinal John Krol topic to be discussed' at the

.- - of Philadelphia. Synod of Bishops, world peaceHe spoke in a television inter- and justice, Archbishop Mc­

view taped for broadcast here Gucken said the surveys ofon Sunday. Other cities will tele- . American priests showed thatcast the program later at vari- American bishops are ahead ofous times. Cardinal Krol said both the clergy and laity in theirthat ~he multi-faceted study of concern about domestic poverty,AmerIcan priests which was re- racial justice and justi,ce to theported to the bishops at their nations of the Third World ofApril meeting in Detroit will developing nations.provide valuable source material Discussing the, question offor the synod's discussion of the priestly celibacy, Cardinal Cookepriesthood; one of the two main said that celibacy is a remindertopics of the meeting. that the priest is "not- his own

Cardinal Krol, one of the four man," that he is "called by God."delegates selected by the Amer- Cardinal Krol stated that theican bishops to represent them at requirement of celibacy is evi-

, the Rome meeting, was chairman dently not an obstacle to voca­of the committee which super- tions since, in the Orthodoxvised the sociological, psycho- churches which have marriedlogical, historical, theological priests, the ratio of priests toand spiritual surveys under the people is one to 2,200, while insponsorship pf the :American the Latin 'rite of the Catholicbishops. Church the ratio of priests to

In the telecast. taped by' De- people is one to 700.troit's WXYZ-TV during the Discussing progress in th~

April meeting for Summer show- Church, Cardinal Cooke said:ing in cities throughout· the "The more people are moti­United States, Cardinal Krol was vated to take an active part, thejoined by Cardinal Terence' Turn to Page Two

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better that is for the progress of, the Church."

Cardinal Krol emphasized thatthe existence of the Church's

, varled'educatiOJlal and charitable, services' is due not to any taxing, power· on the part of the Church,

but to the continued free willofferings of Cathlics. .

"The Church," Cardinal Cookedeclared, "is relevant and is ,get­ting more rel~vant every day." .

. Role of Women' ,

The New York prelate gave asexamples of the relevance pf theChurch the Catholic teaching on

.' war and peace, racial justice andthe distribution of resources.

Cardinal Krol mentioned theChurch's devotion to the concept .of the self-determination of peo- ,pies and the forward-looking.social .pronoun'cements 'of theAmerican bishops after' WorldWar 1. .

On the role of women' in theChurch, Cardinal Krol said thatthere is no groiJp of. women, ,which exercises as much power·and responsibility as Sisters in '

-the Catholic Church."If I.think the wily 1 do," Car;

dinal 'Cooke said, "I ca~ than'kthe Sisters for it." ~,

Asked why a young man grow­ing up today might want-to bea priest, Cardinal K~ol referredto the spiritual and apostolicopportunities of the priesthood

'and stated: ' ."No other group ot" men in the

world has exposed itselt" to suchan . 'X-ray' examination. Aridpriest's have come up as well orbetter than any other group."

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_ He said; however, that Viet­nam was not the major reasonfor his resignation, and he addedthat Bishop McVinney had notcriticized him for his anti-warstand. He noted that he has con­sidered resigning for the past

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i The Place to Gof~r Names You Know ~,I ED. COUGHLIN, Prop. ;

HISTORIC MASS OF ORDINATION: Rev. RomualdoGonzales, center, Who grew up on the east side of ILosAngeles, celebrated, Mass with Bishop Juan Arzube, right,who ordained him in the California,city. The ceremony wasthe first ordination in the United States conducted in Span­ish ~nd in the Mass the ordaining Bishop asked all to prayth~t more. Mexica~ American youths become priests. NCPhot.o. ' ' I ' '

Most Rev. Berna',d Kelly ResignsAs AuxDl.iar~ Bishop and Priest " .

PROVIDENCE (NC>iAuxiliary' will be taken into consideration'Bishop Bernard Kelly: of Provi- by them in the future," thedence said June' 14 ~e had re- spokesman said. "In partiCUlar,signed from the prie~thood be- the Detroit meeting marked only'cause he sees "no hop~" of the the first step in what v.:iIl be anAmerican .hierarchy: updating exhaustive investigatio~. by thetheir attitudes and policies. bishops of the findings and ,rec-

"The bishops," he! told NC ommendation of their own studyNews in a telephoner interview, of the priesthood, including those"are more concerned about inter- sections based on the behavioral'nal trivial affairs thad the great- sciences.)est moral issue facing our coun- ,Bishop 'Kelly said.h~ .W.as un-try today-the Vietn~m war." successful in attempts 'to urge

Bishop Kelly, who has spoken the American bishops to discussout frequently again~t U. S. in- the Vietnam issue at their semi­volvement in Vietnam, said he annual' session.submitted his . letter of resigna­tion to Archbishop Luigi Raimon-

Idi, apostolic delegate in theUnited State~, in Washington.

The 53-year-old bishop, whohas served as auxiliary to Bishop.Russell J. McVinney ~ince 1964,said he did not have any "im­mediate plans" for the future, al­he would not rule out the "pos­sibility" that he mig* marry. .

Bishop Joseph L. Bernardin,general secretary of the NationalConference of Catholic Bishopsand ,a spokesman for; the Provi­dence diocese, both . said theywere, . "saddened" by. BishopKelly's decision. .,

Bishop :Kelly notea that the 'Second Vatican Council calledfor updating the (i;h~rch's formsand institutions, especially thepriesthood.

He said, h-owever~. that theAmerican hierarchy at their April1971 semiannual meeting in De-'troit"studied the priesthood forthreedays and then re"affirmed thestatus quo, ignoring ;the seriousrecommendations of the 'NationalFederation of 'Priests Councils,

, of their own .regional input, and·.of their own scientifiC reportcalling for serious,changes in thepriestly ministry and lifestyle'."

. . I(An NCCB sppkesman in Wash-

ington said, however,! that "Bish­op Kelley is not correct1n sayingthat the bishops ignored thevarious 'sources of ~nput regard­ing the priesthood at their De-troit meeting." "

("All of these' sources were- I

seriously considered by, the bish-ops in Detroit and 1Ando~btedly

The New' English Bible,' thework of British Protestant schol­ars, was published in 1970. Un­like the RSV, it is a totally newtranslation: yet the translatorshave retained "thou" and "thee"in prayers and render all thebooks of the Bible with a statelystyle which the original textdoesnl}t always have. It is with­out dou~t the most beautifullyprinted and designed 'of all 'theBibles, on the market. Unfortu­nately this Bible does not reflectthe many advances of modernscholarship in establishing thetext and philology.

It is the only modern Bibleto make use of our greatiy ex­panded knowledge of ancientt~xtual traditions and of the ver-

'sions. Catholics have 'had achance to test aurally this trans­l~tion since it hl!-s been used for'some time in the new liturgy.Like The Oxford Annotated Bibleand The Jerusalem Bible; TheNew American Bible is published

. in all" its editions with helpful'notes. '

Which Bible should you buy?It depends of course on yourtastes and what you are lookingfor. If you want dignity and aconsistent English style, try tl)eRevised Standard Version, TheNew English Bible, or The Jeru­salem Bible. Do you Want a goodidiomatic American translationwhich is not afraid to reproducethe rough colloqilialism of theBible ? Read the "Chicago Bible;'

. or The New American Bible. Butfor serious and' long-range Biblereading, notes are a necessity.For American. readers with thisintent, The Jerusalem Bible andThe New Americari Bible are thebest.

The New American, Bible. alsopublished in 1970, is the firsttranslation of the entire' Bibleinto English from the originallanguages ever made by RomanCatholics. This Bible breaks withthe tradition of solemn and dig-

- nified translation. It searches forthe American idiom and tries toreflect exactly the tone and styleof the original even if that stylebe colloquial.

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JUNE 20Rt. Rev.. James J.CoYle, P.R.~

LL.D., . i931; Pastor, St. Mary,'Tauntoit ..~ ,.

"~, 'JUNE 21·Rev. Desiree V. Delemarre;

1926, " Blessed' Sa.crament, FallRiver..

Rev. Francis D. Callahan,1948, Pastor, St. Patrick; Ware­ham.

. Rev. Clement~K'iIlgoar, SS.CC.,1964, ,St. Anthony, Mattapoisett.

, JUNE 24Rev. Bernard 'F;, McCahill,

1907: Pastor, SS. Peter and Paul,Fall River. ,

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: JUNE 18Rev. James M. Coffey, P.R.,

,1935, Pastor, St. ~ary,'Taunton.

JUNE 19Rev.:Hormisdas Deslauriers,

19r~, F9under, St. Anthony, New'Bedford. '

Continued 'from Page One ' Distinguished' French Roml!-n·differ from one another. We . Catholics had produced a splen­ought, to start with ,the least did French translation with com­known and the oldest; The Com- prehensive, ~otes during t,he '50s.

. plete Bibl~: An American Bible In 1966, this French versionap;(Chicago: 'University: of Chicago peared in, English dress underPress, 1939). It was produced the, title The Jerusalem Bible.'d~ring the' '20s. a~d '30s ,by The notes were translated fromNorth . American scholars, and the' French but the text waswas the first Bible to empl,oy de- translated afresh from the origj­Iiberately the' American idiom in hal languages by British biblicalprefere~ce to t~e solemn biblical scholars. The translation is thor-

.style ~hich had pr~vailed :until oughly British - an expansive,then. . somEl-times wordy style anQ' set

Of the New Testament: trans-"", in the' British idiom; ,lator, E. J. Goodspeed, Joh.n L. Following the ex~mple of theMcKenzie has written, ':He was French edition the British schol­the. first .t~ break, .out;· of . the ars included i~ their group dis­chams of BIble EnglIsh, and he .. tinguished literary figures suchnot only broke out" he shattered. as Edward Sackville-West and'the chai,ns." All later American . J.R:R. TOlkien to revise thetranslators .have made use of. the' translation. The Bible, despite its"Chicago Bible.... · Before the ap- - awkward size' offers the text inp:arance of The ~ew American '~' single col~mn on the pageBIble, Good~peed s. New Testa- which makes a much more at-·ment was. probably. tile best tractive book. The notes of Thetrahslation available. It is still an Jehisalem .. Bible ,·are withoutexcellent translapon. , doiJbtthe 'best notes of any 'of

The. most WIdely used and the English Bibles, especially inm?st ,:enerable ofI?~der.n ~n- the Ola Testament. Enlightenedghsh BIbles, ?y reas?n of. Its a~- 'Catholic exegesis is presentedcestry of. great E~ghsh Blbles~ IS clearly and concisely, withtpethe Rey!sed. ~tandar? -VersIOn aid' of an 'elaborate system .of(RSV). . Ameflcan Protestant cross-reference.

, scholars produced it in 1952 andsince that time has bec,ome thestandard Bible for most Protes­tants. In its anotated forrn, the'RSV is ',known as' The Oxford

,Anno.tated Bible and containsarticles: indices and maps.

The Revised' Standard Versionis not 'a 'completeiy ,new tr~ns­lation from, ,the original' Hebrew,Aramaic,':and Greek. Rathel:", as.its name suggests, i~, is a version,or revision "of older EnglishBibles. the King Ja~es Bible of1611, the, Revised Version of the1880s and, the American RevisedVersion 'of 1901. The translatorsattempt to bring' up-to-date thegreat, literary tradition of thegreat English Bibles that' have,

" entered sodeeplv into Englishliterature. This Bible is markedby simplic,ity and literalness andby a dignified style' which' alwaysreads well aloud.

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CAPE COD YOUTHS GREET BISHOP: Following the administration of Confirmationin St. Pius X Church, So. Yarmouth, Bishop Cronin was surrounded by the class mem­bers as he went outside, to meet the parishi,oners of the Cape Cod Parish.

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seven months.Asked to elaborate on his

resignation, Bishop Kelly, whohas, been a priest for 27 years,said, "I think my views regard­ing the Church today are prettywell known."

He said; however, that heplans to remain a Catholic. "I

> still believe in the CatholicChurch," he said. "I think it· isthe greatest moral force in theworld."

Church officials in Providencewere surprised by Bishop Kel1y'sannouncement.

Father David P. Reilly, chan­cel1or, said: "Sadly we learnedthis morning that the Most Rev.Bernard M. Kelly, auxiliary bish­op of Providence, has resignedfrom active ministry of thepriesthood. .

"The diocese of Providencedeeply regrets 'his decision. Cer­tainly Bishop Kelly must haveagonized and puzzled over thismatter for a long,time. We real­ize that ultimately he must fol­low the dictates of his con­science and we earrestly praythat he finds peace and happi­ness in his decision."

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The religious who were namedby Bishop Connolly, formerlyBishop of Fall River, will serveon the Senate for one more year;they are Rev. John J. Brennan,SS.CC. and Rev. Raymond M.Drouin, O.P.

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Elect to Senate of Pries.tsGendreau, Rev. Peter' N. Grazi­ano. , ,

Also Rev. James F. Lyons,Rev. Thomas Mayhew, Rev.Joseph L. Powers, Rev. Leo T.SulJivan and Rev. Thomas C.Lopes.

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Peer Groups

The following priests whowere elected at-large in 1970 toserve two years will continue forthe coming sessions in 1970·71:Rev. Henry Arruda, Rev. Msgr.John E. Boyd, Rev. Paul Canuel,Rev. John Cronin, Rev. Richard

The 1935-1950 ordinationclasses will be represented byRev. John J. Murphy, Rev. JohnF. Hogan, and Rev. Msgr. Reg­inald M. Barrette.

Acting for the 10-year groupordained between 1951-61 willbe Rev. Walter A. Sullivan, Rev.Francis L. Mahoney and Rev.John J. Steakem.

Rev. George W. Coleman, Rev.Robert A. McGowan and Rev.Robert J. Carter have beennamed by their peer group of1961-71.

The following priests havebeen elected to the DiocesanSenate of Priests by their peersfor a two-year term, commenc­ing in September, 1971.

Serving the peer group classesof 1908·1934 will be Rev. WalterJ. Buckley, 'Rev. Msgr. Bernard,J. Fenton and Rev. Edwin J.Loew.

The­Parish Parade

Publicity chairmen of parish or·ganizations are asked to submitnews items for this column to TheAnchor; P. O. Box 7. ~all River02722. ~.

ST. JOHN THE EVANGEILIST,POCASSET, "Ye Olde Tyme" Country Fairwill be conducted from 10 to 4o'n Monday, July 5 and will fea­ture games and booths of hand­crafts, food, collectables' andusables, books, flowers and many

,other items.A barbecued ribs, ham and

bean supper will be served in theevening from 5 to 7.

OUR LADY OF THE ANGELS,FALL RIVER

The first meeting of the com­mittees planning the Feast ofOur Lady of the Angels sched­uled for Aug. 5, 6, 7, and 8 willbe held on Sunday evening, June27 at 7 o'clock.

The Holy Rosary Sodality willconduct a penny sale at 7 onThursday night" June 24. It isopen-to the public.

The Pre-Advent Social-Mala­sada Supper and Dance-is listedfor Saturday night, Nov. 20.

ST. JOSEPH,ATTLEBORO

The Sisters of the Holy Crosswil1 be available during theSummer weeks for tutoring andmusic lessons. Interested partiesare ur~ed to call the school at222-1730 or the convent at 226-1224. I

The parochial school will holdgraduation exercises on Sundaynight at 7 in the church.

GUILD OF THE VISITATION,NeRTH EASTHAM

Plans are nearing comoletionfQr our Arts and Crafts Salearid Show, to' be held on Wed­nesday, July 7, at the St. Joanof Arc Auditorium, Bridge Road,Orleans. Doors will open at 10A.M. -

Coffee, cold drinks and snackswill be sold throughout the day.Lunch may be purchased until3 P.M. and Dinner will be servedfrom 5 P.~. There will be manyinteresting displays, a food table,and white elephants. For thechildren, there will be a ScooterTheatre Midway and Shows from12 Noon until 5 P.M.

Mrs. Ann Bowman, chairmanis appealing for volunteers toassist in various phases of theaffair and anyone wishing tohelp is asked to call 255-0131.

Parishioners desiring to makeofferings of toys, books, house­hold items and small used elec­trical appliances for the whiteelephant table may contact Mrs.Penny Duffy at 255-2245.

Mrs. Helen Creonte 'at 255­2650 is accepting donations offood items.

An added attraction will be aspecial booth for first editionbo·oks.

SANTO CHRISTO,FALL RIVER

The parish feast will be heldon Saturday and Sunday, June26 and 27. Saturday's proces­sron will take place at 7 in theevening and the Sunday proces­sion will be at 3 in the after­noon.

Auctions, sales of Portugueseand American foods and a bandconcert.

Rev, Henry Arruda of ·St.John of God Parish, Somersetwill be the preacher at SolemnMass at noon on Sunday. "

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Pope StressesS'tate of GraceF'or Communion. VATICAN CITY (NC)-Pope

Paul VI has reaffirmed the an­cient law that persons who harelost the state of grace must re­cover it through the sacramentof Penance before receivingCommunion.

"There are some today whoattempt to exempt the faithfulfrom this indispensable condi­tion," he observed at a generalaudience June 9. the eve ofCorpus Christi. '

·"But are those who dispensethemselves of it 'faithful'?" heasked. ,

Pope Paul quoted St. Paul'swarning in his letter to theCorinthians: "Whoever eats thisBread or drinks the Cup of theLord unworthily will be guilty ofthe Body and Blood of the'Lord,"

The Pope 'commented: "It i~necessary to have a pure soul; itis necessary to have recoveredgrace through Penance-the sac­rament of rehabilitation-beforeapproaching Christ's embrace."

He also reaffirmed the validityof devotion to the Blessed Sacra­ment outside Mass.

"Eucharistic piety has an ex­tension greater than the briefmoment of celebration of theLord's Sacrificial SuPper." thePope asserted.

Corpus Christl,"The Lord .remains in the

sacramental species.' and thispermanence not only justifies butdemands its own cult; especial1yadoration. Holy Communion out­side Mass if it was not possible'

. during Mass. and the solemn pro­cession that will be the 'riteproper to tomorrow's feast.

Referring to the institution inthe 13th century of the Feast ofCorpus Christi.'which focuses onthe S'acrament of, the Eucharistwithout the sad overtones ofHoly Thursday, the Pope said:

"We must not be surprised atthe belated institution of thefeast and of the widespread wor­of the Eucharistic sacrament ...

It testifies to the Church's pro­gressive awareness of the trea­sures of truth and grace whichit carries within itself, and thegrowing charity with which itresponds to the great and myste­rious divine gift. The Church al­ways had faith in the presenceof Christ in the sacramental spe­cies even beyond and outside thecelebration of Hie Eucharisticsacrifice."

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of the Sacred Heart in the homeand also of the Tarcisian YouthMovement both with headquar­ters in Washington.

Fol1owing the Meditations willbe Vespers fol1owed by refresh­ments which will be served inthe small school hal1 for al1 inattendance and especialiy thosewho have either had the privi­lege of having had the PilgrimVirgin'in their home for a week' 'and/or those who hav'e had theEnthronement of the SacredHearts Ceremony in their home.

Starting at 9 o'c1ock in theevening tpere will be an all nightVigil for those who are inter­ested in making a sacrifice inreparation to the Sacred Heartsof Jesus and Mary for all of thePeoples of the world.

The "Meri of the SacredHearts" and many others of thearea who have made a Cursillo,will watch and pray through. thenight hours until Mass is saidat 7 the fol1owing morning onthe Feast of the Sacred Heart.The public and those wishing tomake, a little sacrifice of theirvery own. are cordially welcome.

Various De.,.,onstrations Leave Huge BinsIn . Nation's Capital

I .NEW BEDFORD PAROCHHAL HIGH: David Bealieu;

Daniel Gallagher and David Rochefort were among the 96graduates of Holy! Family High School who received theirdiplomas on Sunday evening at ceremonies conducted inthe parish Church lof St. Lawrence.

may come and God's :perfectWill "which is our peace" may,precisely, be done upon earth.

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A 'very distinguished French .. Nobel Prize-winner,Dr. Jacques'Monod,has just .writtena book in which hestate~, i?n the basis of his profound. scientific knowledge,that .all natural systems--galaxies,' stars, planets, inanimatematter, all forms .of life--aresimply the ·result of chance,Random ··events, setting' inmotion revolutionarychangesby the adaptation '. and survival,can explain the origins and de"velopment" of the entire cosmos.Science. says Dr.' Monpd, nowknows that· there is. nothing be­yond nature and has, with entirecertainty. :banished al1 conceptof Gt>d-ereator, Father•. ·First

4 !HE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. June 17, 19?1'

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In. other words. the almostunimaginable work of turningthe' vast energies and potentiali­ties of this planet-and we knowilO,t of how many more-is givento man. Man is not going to finda convenient Deity ·waiting "toconvey .the hu.man species acrt>ssevery rough 'spot on every con­ceivable occasion with the min­imum of inconvenience to his or

.her ordinary self-concern andself-love.

In that sense, we do have tolive "as if there were no God"because God has chosen for usthe ultimate privilege-and Jlti­mate anguish-which is to sharefreely and ful1y in the unfin­ished works of His creation. It

Cause, Prime Mover-'-Cal1 Him is. without any disrespect. a do­what you Will but He is simply it-yourself" job. It is both our,not there. .. . crowning glory and our crown-

This sense of 'precise certainty . ing failure.about God's non~existence .:is. of We 'have to let' God grow, incoilrse. very. far from being us so that He can grow in .theshared by"ali .scientists. Einstein world. If we do not feed theW!1S probably the greatest scien- h ng th '11 t b f dIf .'

. tist of our :century 'and he said u ry. ey WI no e e. WASHINGTON (NC) - Thewe do not conq.uer racial hatr.ed. demonstrations agains.t the Viet-

both ,that ,awe ahd the sense I II Ino one e se WI. ove our nelgh- nam war and other 'things heldof mystery are essential' to b f If d Iscience and also that al1 science's or or u~. . we. 0 not seek here in Apiil and May of 'this-own certainties are based on the truth and Justl.ce With the energy year cost the city $3.9 million.faith that "God does not play most of ~s give t? money a~d officials report in a tabulationdice with the tiniverse"-iri other sex, God IS not gomg~ to step m just made public. This. it was

a.nd stop .wars and end revolu- said, is more than twice the costwords. things are not random t on It t Whand law' governs al1.· I s. IS uP. 0 man. en of the other demonstrations held

Christ calls Himself "the Son of . W h' t d' i th- I t" . . m . as mg on unng e as.. Fading God . Man;": He remmds us that the t~o years. "

Y D M d• h'l h tasks of human survival are in- Ad' tit thO .et r. ono s' p I osop Y . .• . n , some pom ou, IS ISundoubtedly 'refleCts the somber escapable. m man s hands. only the part of the iceberg that

I view' of millions of educated men Does thiS mean. then. a picture appears above the waterand women ,in this century. The almost as bleak 'as Dr. Monod's? Nothing has be~nsaid about th~sense of, God 'has faded. The No help, ~o comfort, no support. cost of bringing s6me 10000

no certamty no strength? Of f d' ..' "belief in the Divine Purpose has t 'T ' . e eraI troops mto adjacentgrown 'weak. The old certainties, coburste t'hno 'Ch ?e. cenGtral fa~t areas in case ofem~rgency.t '" ' Id . .. I a ou e rlstian ospel IS Th f d I !.' He 0 mstitutIOns ose th t 't'" deeera government spent

,strength. A heroic figure like a I IS .goo n,ew.s." the news many hundreds of thousands ofDietrich Bonhoeffer, martyred by ~?at .th~ fma.1 p~;n:IPle of c~ea- dol1ars to meet th~ situationthe .Nazis. believed that, "Chris- th

lonISh °Cvhe ~tste i andd th~t man, and no one has come, up with a~

. . . roug ns s estmed to . f ')' , .bans must live ai! though there I Hi' fIG d d estimate 0 what osses busmess-were no God." A vast with- .ove IS m~ o. an : through men in the area suffe~ed throughdrawal. of fait.h. seems' a fact. It: learn to love hiS neighbor as vandalism and sh r d fhimself. ..' a props 0What are we to make of it?' . patronage.

I, wonder whether 'this may Comfort Is Sure All of this takes on an addi-not be the context for which In one of the most' remark- tional significance, when it is re-Our·Lord was preparing us when' able secular enquiries ever made membered that still other demon­

.He referred to Himself so often into the ll)eaning of religion, Dr. strations here are pt-omised forand so mysteriously as ."the Son WilIiam James's masterpiece later this year. And ;some thinkof Man"? So often. in the Gos- "Tlle Varieties of R~ligiousEx- that demonstrations have becomepels.' He seems to be reminding. perience," the conclusion is far a way of life fo~ sbme people,us' that God has, for reason's' indeed from Dr. Monod·s.· It is and, that there will; not be anbeyond our' comprehension, de- not of a chance universe, gov- end' to ,them if 'and 'when thecided to act through men. He is ern~d by random events in which Vi~tnam war is' completelynot going to sail in on'the douds man's only dignity is Ilis illusion ended. I

in glory' and conveniently con- of free choice. And, if demonstrations are tovert everyone. He is not going to ?~ the contrary. according to .continue. leaving hl.lge bills inbe the big; convenient Fixer. He Wilham James, the record of al1 their wakes, who IS going tois not going 'to intervene soob- cultures in al1 ages shows that pay for them? Not" :the demon­viously and continuouslY in the t~ose who turn with complete strators as far as one can see.natural, order that one 'would t~uth and self-forgetfulness to Officials of the Di~trict of Co­have to be a halfwit ~ot to ac- the Source of Goodness ~nd seek lumbia say the local 'governmentcept His presence. help can be sure to receive good can· aJ:>sorb only $2' million of

On the contrary, if"' men do and comfort in return. ,th~· latest costs at imost. Thisnot turn themselves.in the direc- . But notice ·that. Comfort leaves at least $1.9, milliontion of heav.enly' things....:....justice. . means, in the original .Latin which, it is hoped. Congress willcompassion. truth and above al1, "with strength." The. good we .disinterested love;.....no external" receive is not a poultice or a ........."''''''''''''.''''''''...''''''..."..."...·...''''''''·'''''''i''''''''''''......"·""...""...,,...·Power is going .to do the trick ,drug. It is 'the strength to take cation, self-renewal I and awayfor them. Christ heals-y'es, but' up again the task of becoming from the cosy evasiohsand falseby the sufferer's faith. There is"other Christs,", of following. the worshipping of a "religion whicha Kingdom. of Heaven,-yes. but "firs.t borri~' of a new humaJ;lity. 'changes neither ou'rselves norit is within you. You must pray the Son of Man who~ leads us to the world for which, as men, we~yes, but so that this Kingdom the reality of work, truth, dedi- are' responsible. , '

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man concentration camps during-the thirties and forties,"

Quoting a Talmudic saying,Sister Traxler said "if you don'tknow where you are going, anyroad will take you there,"

But Soviet officials know.where they are going, shecharged, "and that road hasbeen taken before by the Pha­roahs of Eygpt, the kings ofBabylon and the military officersof Nazi Germany."

The coalition issued demandsasking that Jews in the SovietUnion be assured the equality towhich they are entitled underthe Soviet constitution.

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TERENCE CARDINAL COOKE, PresidentMSGR. JOHN G. NOLAI\I, National Secretaf}'Write: CATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE Assoc.330 Madison Avenue· New York, N.Y. 10017Telephone: 212/YUkon 6·5840

......."WHAT ELSE CAN I DO ABOUT INDIA?"

o The parishioners gather the stones and dothe construction free·of-charge, under their par­ish priest's direction. That's how in India achurch, school, rectory and convent can bebuilt for only $10,000.... Name the parishfor your favorite saint, we'll erecta permanentplaque asking prayers for your loved pnes, ifyou build a parish as your once·in·a lifetimemission gift. -o Archbishop Mar Gregorios will write person­ally to say where he'll locate it if you enablehim to buy ($975) two acres of land asa modelfarm for a parish- priest. Raising his own food,the priest can teach his parishioners how to in­crease their crop production. (A hoe costs only$1.25, a shovel $2.35.)o In the hands of a thrify native Sister yourgift in any amount ($1,000, $750, $500, $250,$100, $75, $50, $25, $15, $10, $5, $2) willfill empty stomachs with _milk, rice, fish andVegetables.... If you feel nobody needs you,help feed hungry boys and girls!

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We shudder when we see them on TV, thefamilies in India who have never lived indoors.They'live in the streets, painfully, sleep huddledtogether on matting on the sidewalks. The pen·nies they earn buy scraps of food ·and rags....In Calcutta alone they number 100,000. Theyare not drunkards or tramps, these families.All they need is a chance.... "For only $200(for materials), we can give a family a home,"states Joseph Cardinal Parecattil from Erna·.kulam. "We'll provide the supervision, our menwill do the work free-of-charge, and the familywill own it outright once they prove they cantake care of it themselves. We-'ll start the work

, immediately. Can you imagine the happiness a'home of their own' will bring?" .... Here's yourchance to thank God for your family, your home.Cardinal Parecattil will write to say thanks.

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Demand Release Of Soviet Jews

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THE CATHOLIC NEAIlJ EAST WELFARE ,llSSOCIATIDN

CHICAGO (NC)-The Nation­al Coalition of American Nunshas issued a statement of sym­pathy and outrage regarding theLeningrad trials of Russian Jews.

The coalition, composed of 1,­800 Sisters, called for immediaterelease of "Jews unjustly triedand sentenced by Soviet courts"for their part in a plot to hi­jack a plane, from the SovietUnion and flee to Israel.

Sister Margaret Traxler, co­alition founder and chairman,recently told an assembly at asynagogue here that "the roadto Leningrad is the same roadthat lead to 200 or more Ger-

'Synod to ReviewTwo Topics

ST. PAUL (N'C)-The upcom­ing World Synod Qf Bishops willbe valuable but it will not solve~ll the Chur~h's problems, ac­cording to Archbishop Leo C.Byrne, one of four Americandelegates to next Fall's Romemeeting. .

The archbishop of St. Paul­Minneapolis, addressing about200 priests of the archdiocesegathered for a day-long meeting,said the synod would not"change everything." He laterengaged in a dialogue with thepriests.

Archbishop Byrne would notcomment on what he thinks thesynod will specifically accom­plish, although earlier he toldreporters at a mid-day pressbriefIng that he would not besurprised to see the synod pro­duce new world justice effortsdirected toward the local level.

The synod will review twotopics-the priesthood and worldjustice and peace.'

Denis Tetrault .

Votes to WithdrawFrom Federation

PORTLAND (NC)-Portland'sarchdiocesan priests senate, whichearlier repudiated the NationalFederation of Priests Council forits stand backing optional celi­bacy, voted to withdraw fromthe NFPC.

The senate action followed an86-to-57 advisory vote by priestsof the Oregon archdiocese favor­ing disaffiliation.

The senate had referred thematter to the priests, with a rec­ommendation that it withdrawfrom the NFPC.

Following the NFPC Marchmeeting in Baltimore, at whichit adopted a "Moment of TruthStatement" including the option­al celibacy stand, the Portlandsenate denounced the NFPC by~n 1& to 2 vote.

Duet Scheduies~.

Night of Musi~::::.::Denis Tetrault, .pianist . and :

music director of ImmaculateConception .Church, Fall River

..and St. Joseph's Church, NewBedford, will join Al Borelli, for-

. mer' TV personality, and presentan "Evening of Music" at 8 onWednesday evening, June 23 inThevenet Hall, St. Claire's HighSchool, Woonsocket.

Mr. Tetrault made his.debut inJanuary at the New EnglandConservatory of Music. .

precisely in the Deep South thatthe most serious and effectivework for the achieving of a reai­ly jU,st interracial society is beingdone.

Help Whit~ PriestsIn Black Parishes

WASHINGTON (NC) - Whitepriests serving black. parishes

. will learn to shed their mission­ary approach to the black com­munity at a unique institutesponsored this Summer by theNational Office for Black Cath­olics.

"The missionary mind, not un.like the colonial mind, carrieswith it the implications of a su­perior relating to an inferior,"said Marist Brother Joseph M.Davis, NOBC executive director."It is simply intolerable for theChurch to. function that wayamong black people any longer,"he said of the need for the insti­tute.

White priests will be im­mersed in black theology, blackliturgy and the dynamics of thecontemporary black Americanexperience during the institute,July 5-16, at Moreau Seminaryon the cainpus of the Universityof Notre Dame in South Bend,·Incl.

'The Other' .Tom Tryon, the established

movie star, becomes ThomasTryon, the beginning novelist,with The Other (Knopf, 501 Mad­ison Ave., New York, N. Y.10022. $6.95), a Gothic tale setin a sober Connecticut rivertown in 1934.

The Perrys have long been a. leading family in Pequot Landing.But their most prosperous daysare past, although they still ownme big, rambling homestead, itsoutbuildings and acreage.• Central in this declining period

of their history are the 13-year-. old twin boys, Holland and Niles.

Their father .has died suddenlyas the result of an accidentwhich may not have been anaccident: Their mother grievesand broods in her room.

An uncle, his wife, and theirpudgy son are now living in thehouse, which is run by the twir.s'Russian grandmother.

.Too Many Evil DeedsThe more we are told about

the twins, the more differentthey seem, despite their lookingexactly alike. Niles strikes oneas mild, open,. biddable; whereaS'Holland appears to be sly, secre­tive, and a touch ,malicious.

A sequence of untowardevents occurrs in or about thehousehold.

Interest is aroused and sus­pense is sustained, but Mr. Try­on has been prodigal with theevil deeds. There are just toomany of them; they begin t00soon; and there is little effect ofclimax. Their numl:!er and gravityweaken the plausibility of thestory.

The reader is bound to feelthat something decisive shrmldhave been done,' and certainlywould have been done, far earliC'rto get at the' cause and stopthe depradation.

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can diplomats are not practicingup on their Ping-pong, despitepress reports that Red China is'urging the Vatican to establishdiplomatic relations. FedericoAlessandrini, head of the VaticanPress Office, emphasized thatthe People's Republic of Chinaand the Itoly See are not at thestage of formal contacts andthat what a London newspaperdescribed as the "offer from Pe­king" is more than likely theprivate opinion of a Chinesepriest, FatherLQl.lis Wei.

'Yazoo' Revealing ReportOn School' Integrcition

Yazoo City, Mississippi, was among many communitiesin that state which until last year held out against theintegration of public schools. A federal court set a deadlinefor the achieving of integration. Willie Morris was interestedin seeing whether this willoccur, and how and withwhat consequences. He wasthen editor of Harper's mag­azine, and lived for years inTexas, England, and New YorkCity. But Yazoo City was hishometown, and he had deepfamily roots there and elsewherein the South.

He made seven visits to YazooCity during 1970, and he reportson them in Yazoo (Harper'sMagazine Press, 49 East 33rdSt., New York, N. Y. 10003.$5.95). This is a rather shortbook, but it is both uncommonly'revealing and very moving.

Without ViolenceThe order to integrate meant

that the high school "would be42 per cent black, and the vari­ous grade schools somewherebetween 55 and 70 per centblack." There were those whothought that such a situationwould prove intolerable and thatbitter trouble would result.

The abrupt integration of thepublic schools went off unex­pectedly well.' It was by nomeans total. Thus, althoughwhites and blacks were at lastin the same school buildings,they were not in the same class­rooms. ,

And most extracurricular ac­tivities were divorced from theschools and kept segregated. Butthere was no violence, and noraucous protest.

New lOay DawnsMost significant was the re-·

action of the children. At firstcurious about one another, theyfound that, regardless of color,

. they were more alike than dis­similar.. Among the young a slow mu­

tual awakening took place, andboys and girls questioned by Mr.Morris said they recognized thata new day had dawned whichthey accepted and which theywanted to proceed.

The whole community, Mr.Morris found, was undergoinggreat change, and he came to thestartling conclusion that it is

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Another chaplain thought apriest could be handicapped inperforming his ministerial func­tions because he would be con­scious of belonging to the mili­tary system. A priest, he .said,might be freer to. serye ' the

.troops if he w'ere n'ot bound bymilitary regulations and subjectto its orders.-

In a letter to' Cardinal Cookethe NAL charged that the moralvoice of the priesthood has beensilenced through its involv'ementin the military, structure. A for­mer army chaplain respondedthat "the implication that a_ uni­form ,_ muzzles a chaplain iswrong." There are some people;who, think it is wrong to use taxdollars to pay the salaries ofchaplains or build military chap­els, he said.

As long as the draft exists,the priest said, the military must

.offer the same I,;eligious servicesthat are available in civilian life.

All the ex-chaplains agreedthat if chaplains' were demili­tarized and the churches incur­red the costs now paid for bythe government, the shortage ofchaplains would increase.

',' Assert lChaplainsShould RemainIn Uniform

INDIANAPOLis (NC) - Ifmilitary chaplains become civil­ians and lose their rank, it willbe impossible for them to servethe religious needs of service­men, according to former chap-

, lains surveyed by the Indianap­olis archdiocesan newspaper, theCriterion.

A change to civilian chaplain­cy was suggested in a letter toCardinal Terence Cook of NewYork, armed forces militaryvicar, by the liberal NationalAssociation of Laymen.The grQupcontends that military rank andpay makes chaplains subservient .to the military and servants of"Caesar and not of~ Chris~,"

Most of the ch~plains surv~yedby the Criterion thought thatuniform and rank made iteasier to get the cooperation ofother officers in providing reli­gious services to the troops.

A former infantry chaplainduring World War II said hefound his uniform a liability onlywhen dealing with the enemywounded or prisoners. "They feltthe uniform meant Army, a,ndnot priest," he added. Otherwise,"being part of the system'~ wasnecessary to get the job done,he said. '

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Worthy CorrectionIt is' a tribute to the sense of justice of Presid~nt

Kingman Brewster Jr. of Yale University that he praised thejudge who presided at the Bobby Seale trial for his patience,dignity, and immunity from public pressure; Mr. Brewsterhad added to that. .public pressure by saying last year thathe was sceptical that reactionaries could achieve a fairtrial anywhere .in, the' 'United States. . ~ .I

I His recent 'comment,, then, is a worthy correction ofthat previous inappropriate statement.

.. '" And the whQle incident might serve as a lesson to allmen of good }Vill-to let the American system try to workwithout judging J( as 'a failure before it has even been putto the test: Sometimes much effort .and time are consumed I

setting ,up a situation and condemning it before:'the" event ' I. . ' .. --". '~""J' i'

everI~~fsp,~~~~ easy- to say what~ one thi~ks wiil happ~n BhdBusiness ,',;and then' criticize this. It is much harder and requires much In an ~ge 'of; ener~etic and dynamic foreign competi-more patience to attribute go.oP will all around, to encour~ge , .tion the American busmess world seems to be ever falter­this .good will in others, and then to see what .actually does ing ~nd weakening. The golden calf. of capitalism is ~ging

· happen. If the event works out with justice, then there into a sick cow. Unemployment and bankruptcy seemmglyshould be praise: "if, on the other hand, justic~ goes awry, mark the depress~d spirit of . 'then there is plenty of time and plenty of ammunition to· a business market that sup- out managerial chaos. These

fire off in protest,because the fact itself will cry out more posedly was the j backbone ~:~d ~~~~~~e:a~eywtyyp:a~~ g~~~loudly than any comment about it. f h f t t

. 0 t e ree en erpflse sys em. ernmental intervention as out-As the policy of "guns and ?ut- right Socialism. Yet when theter" has broug~t tge Ame!lcan, shoe is on the· other foot, they

. people to the brink <;>f moral de- come crying, even using thes~air, so. now .the iglu~tony of poor workman as an excuse tobig business. Is~urmng the continue to build a plane, as isAmerican dream in~o a ~ight- the case with Lockheed, that ismare. . i. not even using an American

In very typical fashIOn, the engine.wonder hoys ,of management· ' , . "are 'trying to find ab excuse for ,,!he spiral of, 'mflatlOn .andth' greed and Ii.. bondsman to' riSing labor costs has had littleba~:r them out of their present help from American' industry.reverses. They. of dmrse would When the heat gets a little toofirst normally attatk labor' as ~uch for them, t~ey do not hes­the great American evil. However, .Itate ~o le~ve thiS. co~ntry andit would be very ~rribarrassing set u~. their ~actorIes In Europe """""""""'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''"'"to do this wnen Y9u have de- or A~la and In .most ca~es con- the robber barons to the halls of

,elared bankruptcy lind still are ~or~ll~g to the ,regulatIOns of 'Congress, where they will free-collecting a six figure salary to socialist governments. load from the people of thisthe chagrin of all l-who might For years no one m'entioned country. Since they have comehave f~lt sorry fof the Penn the for~ign involvement of Rolls . to the people, let them answerCentral. In an ag~ when the, Royc~ and the Lockheed coop- to the people and the peopleAmerican dollar is truly becom- eration until they went bank- should demand answers.irig the ~'paper tiger," of interna- rupt. Now they want the Amer- Private industry as representedtionalcurrepcy, ,the! most com- ican people to foot the bill. Why by such companies as Penn Cen­plete insult to th~ spirit of can't American aircraft engines tral has lost. all rights to privacy.American labor anq, proguction be made for an American plane? They should stand exposed inmust be the preseI'lt plight of Why -does .the American. tax their totality to the carefulLockheed. This atterript to rescue payer have to be responsible ,for scrutiny and inspection of this./poor management artd ineptness the mistakes of industrial exec- .; nation's Congress. If this nationhas to be one of, th~ most devi-' utives? 'What has happened to is to, rejuvenate its industrialous assoults on thei entire con- the genius,-the ingenuity' and the, .leadership the national govern­cept of a vibr~mt a9d free spirit creativeness of American indus- ',inent must not subsidize badin American industrY. .try? .business. "No one should throw

First,and foremost, it is almost . Before another cent of the good money after bad" might bepitiful to see artd 'witness ,the taxpayers dollars is spent, these an old eliche but it certainlyhypocrisy of big business as it' questions should be answered, applies to the present, crisis of

,.seek~ governmentall-aid "to,-bail We' must- :nof allow a··return"of'·~!AmeriClin:.fu'!lustry~IV .',,;-,

FatherAs 'Father's Day approaches there is sometimes ,the

uneasy feeling that the whole' proposition is a commercialgambitby the business world to sell goods and make money.Certainly the pitch is to show appreciation to father, by

· giving him things.To be sure, these goods are supposed to represent,

love and affection and appreciation. So let these sentiments 'be the thrust of Father's Day. .

The family :and each of its members should showgratitude and appreciation to the fath~r., And he; in turn,should reali'ze his role .and its importance in giving the 'ex­ample of steadfastness, of doing' one's duty, of. servingothers. These may be somewhat un'glamorous virtues, 'butthey are the foundation of strong family ~nd community

'life. '

God ,in Russia .Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is a Soviet writer who received

last Fall a Nobel prize. He has somehow' managed to getout of Russia and cause to be published in Paris what ,he _. ,

calls '.'the most important work of my life." The b<rok,"August .1914," was .. refused .acceptance by ,Soviet·censorsand- the author himself gives the reason:, "Thisbook cannot be published in our country . .. because :ofcensorship for reasons inconceivable to the normal humanmind and,were it for no:other'reason,'because it would benecessary to write the word God in lower case, but I cannotlower myself to that."

Solzhenitsyn is, a' ,decorated officer of World War II,I spent eight years in a prison'camp for criticizing Stalin, .­

developed and recovered from cancer while there, and hisworks have been hailed ~s worthy of place alongside those'of the great Russian literary ma~ters..

And like so many of these', masterpieces, there is· inthis latest of his books a religious undertone that seemsto be part of the Russian Christian temperament.

When there are men, great men, who would risk pres­sure and prison and even worse in order to exercise theirright simply to write about God and to call Him by 'name,then the spirit of "Holy Russia" is far from deai:l.

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Three WeekTour of Europe

'Series ExploresChurch in Action" 'NEW YORK (NC) - How theU. S. bishops and Catholics gen­erally are responding to modernproblems is being told on "TheAmerican CatJlOlic Church inAction," the current series of25 .radio broadc,asts being airedon Guideline, NBC network pro­gram through October.

Father CyrilSchweinberg, C.P.,host of Guideline, is featuring in­terviews with officials of the de­partments of the United StatesCatholic Conference and the sec­retariats of the National Confer­ence of Catholic' Bishops. Bothare Washington-based operations.

The program covers the bish­ops' and Catholics' activities inthe fields of education, interna­tionil1 affairs, soC'ial develop­ment, communications, andhealth affairs.

grant of $55,000 to UFWOC'sDelano office and $31,000 toUFWOC at McAllen, Tex., todevelop educational radio pro­grams for American poor in thesouthern part of Texas.

Marcroft said he was in com­plete sympathy with the bishops'aims of breaking "the hellishcircle of poverty" through thedevelopment fund.

"Catholics throughout the Sa­linas Valley," Marcroft said,"were distressed and shocked tolearn that $86,000 of the moneycollected, intended for the poor,yvas in fact given as a first in­stallment to strengthen the or­ganizational efforts of UFWOC.

"This move to aid and encour­age this organizing committeewith a clear history of violenceand a lack of responsibility inthe Salinas Valley is in directviolation of the conditions underwhich these funds were solicitedas outlined in The Observer (di­ocesan newspaper) as of Oct. 14,1970.

$85 ContributionThe bishop suggested that the

protesters direct their complaintsto the bishop who is chairmanof the Campaign for Human De­velopment. National chairman ofthe campaign is Cardinal JohnDearden of Detroit, national di­rector is, Auxiliary Bishop Mi­chae R. Dempsey of Chicago,and chairman of the bishopscommittee is Bishop Francis J.Mugavero of Brooklyn.

"Computing the amount sentin by this diocese to the HumanDevelopment Fund," said theMonterey bishop, "and consider­ing the protested allocation fromthe entire national amount pro­portionately, we are talkingabout $85 from the entire dioceseof Monterey and $12 from theSalinas area. Hence, I think youwill join me as I suggested inmaking known to the committeeour own personal feelings' andoffer advice for the future allot­ment of these charitable' funds."

Clergy 'HopefulAbo~t ',Synod

QUITO (NC)-"It is amazinglycomforting to see how priests'complaints that were consideredscandalous a few years ago nowhave a place on the agenda ofthe forthcoming bishops' synodin Rome," said the chairman ofthe second national conventionof Ecuadoria~ priests' councils.

The chairman, Father Augus­tin Bravo, said priests' councilsin Ecuador are profiting fromthe efforts begun a year ago attheir first national convention,which dealt with priests' rela­tions with their bishops and withthe Vatican.

Attending the meeting were103 priests; Bishop LeonidasProano of Riobamba and Cardi­nal Pablo Munz Vega at' Quito.

Cardinal Munoz Vega said themeeting "could mean strength,en­ing the mission of the Churchtoday."

Discussions, dealt with "ThePriest and Liberation," a themeincluding pastoral renewal andefforts to achi.eve social jUstice.

Oppose 'Bish.ops' GrantsCatholic Group Threatens Sanctions

Against Monterey Diocese

TAUNTON GIRLS' SCHOOL: Among the 81 y01,mgladies who will receive diplomas with only the name BishopCassidy High School across the top are: Kathy Le Brun,Susan Lindgren, Kathleen Reams and Jane Paulo.

SALINAS (NC) - Economicsanctions against the Montereydiocese have been threatened bya lay group opposed to grantsfrom the U. S. Bishops HumanDevelopment Campaign to theUnited Farm Workers' Organiz­ing Committee.

The threat came at a publicmeeting attended in Soledad byalmost 100 Catholics from theSalinas Valley. The' economicsanctions were proposed byFather Michael Cross, assistantat the biggest parish church inSalinas, and John E. Marcroft,an entomologist working for aSalinas grower.

Marcroft had written to Bish­op Harry A. Clinch of Monterey,protesting the American bishops'

high court decision to the U. S.Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court is alreadyweighing three appeals related tostate aid to nonpblic schools.

Nonpublic school supportersmaintain that the amendmentshould be voided because it wasworded too vaguely on the bal­lot. They claim that accordingto its language, it fanned allforms of nonpublic school aid.

The Michigan high court ruled,however, that the intent of Pro-'posal C was to ban parochiaid,not other forms of state aid,such as shared time and auxil­iary services.

Chief Justice Thomas'M. Kav­anaugh and Justice Thomas Gileswho dissented from the 5-2 ma­jority decision commented, "Thepeople have the right to changetheir constitution but must do, ,it in a proper, legal way.. Therationale of the ~ajority failsto satisfy either logicdr ·law andwe reject it. We vote to void theelection." ,

Budgets ExhaustedCardinal John F. Dearden of

Detroit called the decision "astep backward in harming thetraditional pattern of educationthat has benefitted MjchiganSInce its earliest days."

Michigan's legislature adoptedthe parochiaid measure last July.It took effect last September andprovided funds' for salaries fornonpublic teachers who taughtsecular subjects.

Michigan nonpublic schoolsare not expected to receive thefinal parochiaid payment until'after this school year's termends.' School officials said itwould take as long .to processthe payments.

Meanwhile, Catholic schoolsthat were depending on such aidto ease their financial, ills havereportedly exhausted their budg­lOts and are having difficultymeeting their payrolls. Someschools here are borrowing fromthe Detroit archdiocesee whichin turn, having exhausted itsir.ter-parish loan fund, is nowborrowing from local banks.

Schools Du'e I Last of State Funds;Supreme Court Appeal Considered

Start Clergymen'sDiscoun,t Service

ENCINO (NC)-United Clergy­man's International, Inc., a non­denominational organization toprovide clergymen with dis­counts from business, hotel, res­taurants and other organizations,h.as been started here in Califor­nia.

James W. Smith, founder andpresident, said the organizationalso has established a headquar­ters in New York. Smith, the sonof, a minister, said he foundedthe service to relieve clergymenof the embarrassment of request­ing discounts in transactions.

Membership is confined tobona-fide clergymen at a fee of$25 a year, with a charter intro­ductory rate of $15 to prospec­tive members who apply beforeJuly 31.

DETROIT (NC)-While finan­cially-pressed Michigan Catholicschools' prepared to receive afinal allocation from an abortedstate law, no.npublic school sup­porters said they may. appeal astate high court decision banningsuch assistance.

Nonpublic school teachers willreceive $3.4 million under pro­visions of the law, called paro­chiaid,' which voters rejected in

, last November's general election.Michigan voters approved a

constitutional' amendment, re­-ferred to as Proposal C, outlaw'-,ing nonpublic s~hool' aid.

The Michigan Supreme Court,which later reviewed an electionchallenge, upheld the vote butruled that nonpublic schoolswere entitled to some aid 'appro­priated by the state legislaturelast September.

The' court said that the aidearmarked for teacher salarieswas operative until last Dec. 18,the effective date of the amend­ment adopted in the generalelection.

Two Dissent,Nonpublic school supporters

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Nuns D'issatisfiedWith PI~'y S~~le

sr. PAUL '(NC)-The arch­diocese of St. Paul and Minne­apolis boosted nuns' minimumbase salary to $1,900 a year byan outright raise of $100 and anadditional $100, for educationcosts.

However, the Sisters requestfor $300 per year retirement ben- _efits was denied until a detailedreport- of retirement expensescould be drawn up.

The Sisters are i'very disap­pointed" with the settlement,SIster Rosemary' Rader,chair­man of the archdiocesan Sisters'Council told the Catholic BUile-, . -tin, the diocesan newspaper.

"We're not. sneeiing at -theincreas~s in pay and educationmoney, but the retirement wasthe most important part of ourproposal," she said.'. Currently,teaching 'Sisters have to pay .from their salaries the retirementexpenses of nuns who are nolonger able to teach, she noted.

Denies ImpatienceWith Catholic Hospital,s

TORONTO (NC) - Ontario. Health Minister Bert Lawrence

denied he is "running out ofpatience" with Catholic hospitalsnot providing therapeutic abor­tions.

"To hell with confrontation,"­Lawrence said as Ontario's Cath­olic hospital administrators con­tinued to refuse to permit thera­peutic abortions.

Lawrence said neither he norhis department is consideringremoving financial assistancefrom Catholic hospital!j, for, thei~

day-to~day operations 'or press­ing them'to do anything opposedto their code of ethics.

"It would be very wrong totry and shove this practice downthe throats of any religiousgroup," he said. . ,

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Jesuit Writer Urges Naming St. BridgetDoctor of ChurchI

STOCKHOLM (NC)-+St. Brid-' King Magnus II, whose wife,get, Sweden's patroness, should . Blanche, Bridget 'hao s'erved asbe named a Doctor of the Church, a' lady-in-waiting', "endowed ' a

'Jesuit Father H: W. iFeussner monastery at 'Vadstena, wheresaid in an article in Katolsk Kyr- the saint established her Religi-kotidning (Catholic~1 'Church ous community.News), the magazine'l of the St. Bridget went to Rome inStockholm diocese., ' 1349, and remained ,there until

Making St. Bridget a !doctor of her death.t,he Church, he wrote, ~ould be~ worthy way of observing the600th anniversary of ner death,

- in 1973.' IIf made a doctor oithe Church

St. Bridget .would be¢ome thethird' woman to be given thathonor. ,St. Teresa of Avila andS1. Catherine of Siena were made .doctors of the Church ~in 1970.

S1. Bridget, born abo\.lt 1303,died in 1373 and was canonizedin 1391. . :'

Father Feussner callEid on theOrder of Our Savior (Brigittine,Sisters), which St.; Bridgetfounded, t6 help promote thecause of her being' dckhired adoctor, of the Churcl~. .1

St. Bridget married at the ageof 14 and had eight lchildren.After her husband died in 1344she spent her time as a'ipenitent.She had frequent visiorls, whichshe kept a' record of a~d whichhave become the subject of much

. theological examination iand crit-icism., ' I'

. One of her most starting reve­lations comes when she' writesthat "The beauty industry isderivative. One company's dis­tinction is created by ·an adver­tisig image only; its prices arecompetitive, and its products. areessentially the same as those of~ny other company within thatprice range." '

A similar revelation becamepublic recently, when it was an­nounced' that basically all sun­tan lotions are essentially thesame (and no better than baby

. oil) and that the' only differencethey can attest to is the differ­ence that comes about throughfancy names and fancier claims.

Hypnotic Effect

One aspect of the book thatI particularly enjoyed was thefact that Miss Perutz doesn't·gather a lot of facts and throwthem at the reader in an unread­able package; she mixes hardfacts with interesting tidbit~ (a'1dwe all, know how women love'gossip) about her own experiencein the magical, mystical, cottoncandy world of beauty.

She discusses her experience, at the hands of the experts, Ken­

neth, Lazlo (Jackie's facial man)etc. and gives a more critical,tongue-in-cheek, peek at a busi­ness that fascinates w'omen fromeight to eigthy.

In' fact, the 'hypnoticeffect Ofthe fashion and beauty business'ca'n best be summed up by thefinal paragraph' in the chapter onwomen in prison, when slfe de­scribed how the inmates actedduring a prison fashion show. I

"They walked down the aisleand out back to their cells; fOf a

- moment, they had been lovedan.d beautiful." No better sen­tence sUlns up what fashion andbeauty care do for women, eve~the downtrodden" and that iswhy the beauty industry is sosuc<;essful-,-it gives us a dream.

Miami Catholic PaperWins 'More 'Awards

MIAMI (NC)-The trophy caseat The Voice, Miami archdioce­san newspaper,is bulging at 'theseams.

The paper was' voted fourawards at the Florida, Press As­sociation convention" in Win.terH~ven, ,Fla;, to go' with twoawards received at tHe' CatholicPr'ess Associ~tion, c6nvention inHouston, Tex. _ ,

At the Winter Haven meeting,The Voice received a' first placeplaque- .in the best use of colorclassification; third place for abest sports feature or column foran article' written by JackHoughteling, plus honorable,mention awards' .in the generalexcellence and the excellence iJ:1typography dasses.

At the CPA convention in, Houston, The Voice received a

first prize ,for 'best special is~

'sue;· 'section on supplement for ,its "Right to Life," anti.-abortionsection published May I,. 19io,and an honors citation for thebest front page. .

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Approve;Publ,ic $choolDesegreg¢IHon, - Plans

SAVANNAH (NC)-Plans foracross-the-board public schooldesegregation have met with sup­port of Catholic educators hereand strong segments of the blackand' white communities., The propos'al, made by the Sa­vam:Jah-Chatham: Co'unty~' Boar?of public Education was approv-.ed by'Bishop. Gerard. L. Frey .ofSavannah. . '

Father Ralph' E. Seikel, dioces­an superintendent of' schools,urged pastors and school admin­istI'lltors to,be aware of the pas­sibility that some parents qlighttry to enroll their children inthe Catholic' schools to avoid the,intesrated public schools.

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One of my hang-ups is !eading-everything and any­thing. My mother insists thC!.~ I began this reading bing~

at an early age (all mothers want their offspring to be·pre­cocious) and whUe I <;:an't be sure when the habit tookhold I must admit, that ithas become an integral partof my life for ,more years'­than' I would careio record.I'm so addicted'that when 'placedin a strange situation 'withoutany reading matter (such as· astrange hotel room) I have treenknown to' re'sort to reading theyellow pages of the telephonebook, or' even' rooom servicemenus.,

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To appease this appetite forthe pririted, Word I have a pileof books' on my bedside stand(or even down by the side of mybed) that ,are my before-slumberreading (a ~anquilkind of sleep­ing :pill). There. are generally amystery or two, a half-finishednovel, someone~s' biography andany book I ,can pick'up on beautyand fashion, ,a ·suJ:>ject I find ir-resistible.". ,

A .recent find and one that Ihave been skimming for the pasttwo weeks is 13~yond tI:te Look­ing Glass €A!l1erica's'Beauty Cul­ture) by Kathrin Perutz is pub­blished -by the Willianj Morrowand Co. This'lengthy ,tome is adeeply researched peak at amillioit doiIarindustry that is asmuch"~ part of the Americanwoman as the' flag and,apple pie.. '.' ., \ ,Advertising Image

The picture she presents' is anastounding Qne, and certainly nota very pretty" one especiallywnen she describes the way thecosmetic firmsha~e coerced'mil­lions 9f WOri1e~ to· p.art with mil­lions" of dollars with the dfeam

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o 'panies are working on theper~suasiye adyertising campaign for.a product at the same time theproduct is being developed andat a time when its effects are'still in tl:te planning stage. (Herewe need Nader's Raiders).

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Buzzards Bay D of IRecollection Night

Members of the Mother, Ca­brini Circle, Daughters of Isa­bella, Buzzards Bay planning onattending an Evening of, Recol­lection at Miramar on Tuesday,June 29 are urged to contactMrs. Dante Cremonini or Mrs.Frank Bowen before the 25th ofthe month.

There will be no meetings dur­ing July and August.

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THE A~CHOR- 9Thurs., June 17, 1971

CINCINNATI (NC)-Formationof a national pastoral' council

•ought to wait until there aremore diocesan pastoral councilsin the country.

This is the consensus of aspecial committee of the Cincin­nati archdiocesan pastoral coun­cil formed to study the feasibilityof the establishment of a na­tional representative counterpartfor the Church in the UnitedStates.

Dr. Russell Hannen,. pastoralcouncil chairman, told a councilsession that the c~mmittee's re­port, not yet filed, will suggestthat while a representative bodyfor the American Church wouldbe a good idea, "now is not thetime for it.

Only about 25 of the country's165 dioceses have' pastoralcouncils now functioning, Dr.Hannen pointed out, 'adding thatonly two pastoral councils existin the six 'Ohio dioceses.

"We propose the continuingdevelopment of pastoral councilson the 'diocesan and regionallevel in the coming fi~e to 10'years,"- said Dr. Hannen.

Mrs. Josephine Marino notedthat the recent regional confer­ences of the National Conferenceof Catholic Bishops, with lay,Religious and clerical represen­tation, suggested a possibleframework for regional pastoralcouncils.

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tion of proper, proportion in ra­cially balanced schools.

"To those instances whereCatholic diocesan and or localschool boards will not voluntar­ily assure that their schools benondiscriminatory, the only re­course open to a minority groupseems to be legal means," theconference's statement said. "Inthese instances we feel thatgroups'"seeking court supervision,as an assistance to achieving theChristian principle of brother­hood should be encouraged andsupported."

Msgr. Richard Mouton, Lafa­yette diocesan schools superin­tendent, has flatly denied therace bias contentions.

He said that since 1970 thediocese has taken steps to mergeblack and white schools· to at­tain a racial balance. Putting theplans into action takes time, hesaid. "We are definitely not seg­regationists," he added.

Deplore DiscriminationNun Superiors. Back Suit Aimed at Dual Schools

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COVINGTON (NC)-The Lou­isiana Conference of Major Su­periors, restating its support forschool integration, has endorseda suit seeking to prohibit the La­fayette diocese from operatingdual school systems for blacksand whites.

The case before' a federalcourt in Opelousas; La., "is anexample of litigation by blackCatholics who had exhausted allother possible ways known tothem for securing social justicein the Catholic school system inthe diocese of Lafayette," theconference said in a statementissued here.

Twenty-six communities ofReligious women, all membersof the conference, signed thestatement.

The statement was sent to thestate's bishops, school superin­

·';ncesan schoolboard presidents.

In January, '1970, the heads o,fthe Sisters', orders went on rec­ord deploring racial discrimina­tion in Catholic institutions, in­cluding their own religious com­munities.

"Since that time," their recentstatement said, "not much has',een accomplished to bring about~ocial justice within the Catho­tic school systems of Louisiana."

Black parents and school chil­'ren are contesting two schools'1 Opelousas. They have alleged'1at the' Lafayette diocese dis­'·'-;;"?,t.es 011 the baSIS of race

and has refused to adopt' and.,lplement a plan for school de-

segregation. ,Assisted by attorneys from the

Washington, D.C.-based Com­"Tlittee for Integrated Schools,their petition asks the court toorder the diocese to dissolve thedual school system, and continuea, black faculty and adminis~ra-

COMPLETING FOUR YEARS WITH SISTERS OFMERCY: Margaret Gibbons, ReneeViveiros, Susan Marumand Susan Hinchcliffe received diplomas from Bishop Cro­nin on Sunday afternoon with 63 other young ladies com­pleting their four year course at ,Mt. St. Mary's Academy,Fall River,

Some of the hours could evenbe chalked up to "interior decor­ation." If I move the couch tothe other wall, slide the chairswhere the couch was, crowd theend tables someplace in between,there's room for the playpen ina spot where the baby can'treach the lamps.

Then I got a long cord for thekitchen phone, and could washdishes while I was talking to afriend. But I never masteredholding the phone in the crookof my neck ,and wasn't too neatfolding laundry that way.

So I started talking to anotherfriend. It didn't take any' big

,words, or elaborate phrases. I'djust think about the BlessedMother as if she were standi~gright there, and I, was talking 'toher.

I thought about her as an­other mother who went throughmany of the same problems Ihad. She would understand somany little things about being awife and mother.

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About Little Things

The whole idea grew. If I couldtalk about my problems, whycouldn't I talk about the goodlittle things-and even the in be­tween?

"See if you can keep that babyfrom waking up from her nap,till I get these dishe!\ finished?

"No one was sick today-andeveryone got out to school ontime."

"The boys had such a goodtime fishing with their grand­father."

"Did you see the tulips? They­'re just beautiful this year."

Maybe our religion hasn'tchanged so much. We used torecite, "Prayer is the ' lifting ofthe mind and heart to God." I'mjust learning how to do it'-andthat it is so much easier to do'it through Mary.

Expresses Sympathy

To Turkey, SicilyVATICAN CITY (NC)-Pope

Paul VI sent messages of con­dolence to leaders' in two' areasrocked by natural disasters­Turkey, devastated by an earth­quake for the second time in 10days, and Sicily, where an erup­ting Mt. Etna threatened vil­lages below it.

After a new river of lavagushed down the slopes of thenearly 11,000-foot famed vol­cano experts on the scene saidnine Sicilian villages were im­periled.

Pope Paul, in a telegram sentby his secretary of state, Cardi­nal Jean Villot, told BishopPasquale Bacile of Acireale thathe shared the "suffering, hard­ships and anxiety" of the vil­lagers threatened by the ruinousmolten lava flow.

Cardinal Villot also wired thepresident of Turkey, CevdetSunay, informing him of, thePope's "personal grief and solid­arity" with the Turkish people"in this tragic moment ofdisaster,"

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Sentence Kidn,a'persOf Polish Bishop

SANDOMIERZ (NC)-A Polish ',.court here' sentenced 'three farm­ers from the village of Wierz­,bica to prison terms ranging fromsix to eight months on the un­usual charge of kidaping a bish~ ,op. - .

The accused were the ringieaders of a delegation that call­ed on Bishop Piotr Golebiowski,administrator of the Sandomierzdiocese,asking him to appointFather Zdislav Cos as the newpastor at Wierzbica. ,

When the bishop refused, theydragged him forcibly to a wait­ing taxi and drove off to their

'village. A police patrol gavechase and was able to rescue thebish.op after a 40-mile drive.

Deplores,Apathy

SALISBURY (NC) - A white,bishop who has been outspoken incriticizing the white-supr~macist

government of Rhodesia was justas blunt in scoring the country'sblacks for their apparent polit-ical apathy. .

Bishop Donal Lamont, O.Carm~,

of Umtali said in an interviewhere: "There is a fearful apathyevident among the African peo­ple in Rhodesia at present. Theyseem to believe that it is suffi­cient for them to sit idly by andpermit their lives to be planned

'\", for them without their" having, any. say in the matter.

While urging the blacks' to- be more alert politically, the

prelate cautioned them to fore­go violent means of expressigtheir grievances. He said thereare legitimate means of protestopen to them that would be'more effective in the long run.'"You don't need arms to achieveproper representation in thecouncils of the nation," hedeclared.

Bishop Lamont, who is fromNorthern Ireland, is chairman ofthe Rhodesian Bishops' Confer­ence. He returned recently fromsix months of sick leave:

In words directed to the Brit­ish government; Bishop Lamontsaid the British, if they are toretain world respect, must standfirm against accepting the pres-ent Rhodesian constitution,which he said is designed tokeep the small minority ofwhites in power in the country.

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·were among the 621 seniors receivi!lg, diplomas from theSacred Hearts Ac~d~my, Fall River on Monday afternoon.

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WESTCHESTER (Nd - The speaker said there is a .lot morepurpose of Catholic sdhools is in the Bible about separating theto segregate children from so- "chosen people" from the restciety and protect th~m from of civilization than there is about"the hellish world of bvil and dialogue among all Christians.corruption" according: to the The truth, according to Steb­president of the traditionalist bins "is found in the very op­Catholics United for tHe Faith. posite of today's fashions." The

Before Catholics can igo into answer to the problems ,facing-the world and spread the wor.d ' Catholic schools is a greater em­of God, H. Lyman Stebbins told phasis on God, the supernatural,the CUF chapter here, they must the importance of spiritual life,separate themselves 'froln unbe- an emphasis on the sinfulness,lievers and concentrate I on dis- weakness and helplessness of acovering the truth .ab(;lUt God , man left to his own resources,alone. . and a realization of the over:-

Stebbins contended that dis- whelming compassion and mercytinct and planned religio~s segre- of God. 'Ration upholds the word of St. Until Catholic schools andPaul who said "Bear not :the yolk teachers direct themselves in thiswith non-believers." i way, Stebbins said, they will lose "

"This certainly d~esn't mean ,all their "vitality, appeal and'Join the boys and girls a:t Wood- usefulness by making frantic ef­stock!' does it?" he asked.. Th~: forts to 'be,indistinguishable from

, non-Catholic schools."

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'National Parishes'"the dynamics of Catholic

,school integration' are quite dif­ferent from those of publicschools," NCEA.'s survey reportsays. "Public school integrationcan be carried out by legal man­date with government fundst!?provide the logistics (busing, etc.)Catholic schools operate as ahighly decentralized 'non-syste~'with 'free choice' at every turn."

Local parishes provid'e fundsand d'ictate policies for parishschools, the. report says, and par­ents can choose to send or notto send their children there.

In this "free choice" setting,several national parishes havearisen "in which ,ethnic and cul­tural differences have been asource of unity and" pride 'andnot social stigma." A"inong these"national parisJ:1es" are.J?~edom"

inantly black ones - some ofwhich resist integration ef~orts,

it notes.

'Unfinished Business'"Catholic parishes have been

laid out territorially, followingnatural or political divisions,

, which has tended to make eachparish somewhat homogeneous,"the report says. Children fromCatholic minority group fami­lies who live in a given parishwill usually attend the parishschool, it says, but "few of thesefamilies both live in the neigh­borhood and are Catholic.""

While these factors sometimescomplicate Catholic school inte~

gration, the report says, "noimplication is made here that theCatholic Church, different fromother churches in America, hassomehow been aloof from or un­involved in the injustices of theracist society documented'"in the1968 Kerner Report (on U. S.racial' polarization)."

Religious Leade~s'Condemn Terro~ism

BELFAST (NC)-Cath6lfc andProtestant church leaders inIreland have joined in k state-

, ment condemning acts of terroriJ:l Northern Ireland. .,Cardinal William Conway of

I' Atmagh, Catholic primate of allIreland; 'Anglican ArdhbishopG.O: Simms~Armagh; the;Presby­terian Church moderator, theRev. L.M. Haire; the Rev. JohnRadcliffe~ treasurer of the IrishCouncil. of Churches; dnd theR~V. James Davison, ,pres,ident ofthe Methodist Church, in IIreland,

, joined in declaring: i" "In the face of the reqmt acts

of terrortsm and violencei we callupon all Christian peopl~. to dis­

I sociate themselves completelyfrom such acts, which we con­

SCHOOL'S SECOND GRADUATION: Paul Pieri, Paul demn withouf qualification as.Benoit, 'Mike McCarthy and Conrad Desrosiers 'received' utterly unjustifiable ~nd as

. h 86 'h . f B' h C 11 crimes against God's law,"their diplomas WIt ot er, semors 0 ,IS op onno y '-Bombings and shootinb haveHigh School'and, heard' Bishop 'Cronin encourage them to, already killed eight soldiers this',apply the .beatitudes of Christ to their daily life inexer-' 'year and hundreds of civilians:cises conducted Sunday' night in the Fall River Boy's ,have been seriously woupded in

, School auditorium.. recent weeks. ! '

10 ' .-THE ANCHOR.....DiocElse ofFall Rive!.,:::rhurs. }~rie 17, 1971"

Association Report Rev,eals ,,"F'a«:ts' ,"On Catholic' Sc!hoo~lntegiratBon "

WASHINGTON (NC)- Only lenge to Catholic educators," thefive per cent of U. S: Catholic report notes, urging that quali-

- school students are black, ac- fied minority group teachers becording- to Ii report released by employed in, these all-,whitethe National Catholic Education- schools. ,.al Association here ...." One reason for this, the-report

'says, is 'that Catholic schoolshave traditionally' educatedCatholic children - and onlyabout two' per cent C?f U, 'S"

, Catholics are black.The report notes that many of

the ) 83,844 black' students, 'inCatholic elementary and second­ary schools are non-,Catholics.

Facts on Catholic school inte­gration are included in NCEA's"Report on U., S. Catholicschoois-l970-71 ,". along withinformation on enrollment,

, school 'closings, teacher, sala~iesand lay~'Religiou~ staff propor­tions., The data-gathering effort was

funded by ,the U. S. Office ofEducation,as part of its'five-yearsurvey on nonpublicsch,c;lOls.Publication ,of the 50-page repo'rt'came under a Carneigie' Founda­tion grant. '

'Challenge to Educators'Spanish-surnamed , students

make" up the largest minoritygroup' Catholic schQols serve, ac­cording to the NCEA' report.Nearly f86,000students, or a lit­tle over five per cent, fall in thatethnic category, American, Indi~

. an and Orientai Catholic schoolstudents each, equal ,less thanone per cent of the 2,950,186

,totaL: 'Catholic school ~eacfiers in the

U. S. 'number nearly 166,000.,About 5,300 of these are from

, minority 'groups-almost 2,000'of them black.

,The enti,re New England l:e­gjon has only 19 black Catholicschool teache-rs; the report notes,and no minority group" teachersserve in al1.-wh,ite. Catholic ele­mentary ~schools - where mostCatholic school students are en­rolled.

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BOYNTON BEACH (NC),Three nationally known church­men have been elected membersof the board of directors at theWorld Center for Liturgical Stud­ies here.

They are Msgr. Frederick Mc­Manus, executive director of theU.S; bishops committee on theliturgy and professor of canonlaw at the Catholic Universityof America, Washington, D.C.;the Rev. Eugene L. Brand, execu­tive director of the commissionon worship of the LutheranChurch in America, and Episco­pal Bishop William H. Folwell ofCentral Florida.

The World Center for Litur­gical Studies was founded in1965 for the study of worshipand the problems of the pastoralministry in tiie varied, commu­nions and traditions of the Chris­tian churches and Judaism.

THE ANCHOR- 1!Thurs., June 17, 1971

Asserts' pr~ware

Colleges Requir®Public Support

NEW YORK (NC)-PresidentJames M. Hester of New YorkUniversity, givi'ng the main ad­dress at Fordham University'sannual commencement, called foracceptance of "the seeminglycontradictory proposition thatthe only way to keep private(higher education) 'institutionsprivate is to give them publicsupport."

Closing private colleges wouldput a greater burden on publiccolleges to educate even morestudents, he told an audience of10,000 persons.

Dr. Hester said that, even withthe progressive leadership ofNew York State, "we have notbeen able to work out any ef­fective coordination of the de­velopment of public and privatehigher education in this city andstate." .

The NYU president receivedan honorary doctorate from theJesuit University, along withFather Bernard J.F. Lonergan,Jesuit theologian who holds the1971-72 'Stillman Chair at Har­vard Divinity School; David Reis­man, noted social scientist. andHarvard University professor;and Mrs. Cynthia Clark Wedel,president of the National Coun­cil of Churches.

Senate WithdrawsFrom Federation

SPRINGFIELD (NC) - TheSpringfield Priests' Senate hasdisaffiliated from the NationalFederation of Priests' Councils,following a referendum in whichpriests of the Illinois diocesevoted 125 to 109 to dtop affilia­tion.

After accepting the vote ofthe priests, the senate voiced itsunanimous regret, with two ab­stentions, over the Withdrawal,but said it felt compelled to fol­low the wishes of diocesanpriests.

Before officially Withdrawingfrom the NFPC, the senate spon­sored a general meeting of allpriests at which NFPC president,Father Francis Bonnike, outlinedthe work and programs of thefederation.

The NFPC has been the center'of controversy among many ofthe nation's priests since it ap­proved a policy statement inMarch calling for optional celi­bacy for clergy and other sweep­ing changes in the Church.

IRadical Movementl

President Explains Goals of BlackSisters Conference

IPITTSBURGH (NC) - Under Afro hairdo and often wears long

the leadership of Sister Martin earrings and bracelets, said thatde Porres Grey, a new kind of white Sisterhoods generallyblack Sister is emerging ---:- one don't understand the black nunconcerned with her own dignity who thinks this way, who wantsas a black woman, "soul" as well 'to serve her race and its cause.as souls and her race in strug- They want black Sisters, she ex­gle fo'r equality. plained, to continue working for

As president of the National the Sisterhood's goals.Black Sisters Conference, Sister The National Black SistersGrey has brought black Sisters Conference hopes to change this,together to ponder the meaning however, in part by holdingof black revolution as Religious. workshops explaining the black

She conceded in an interview revolution to white Religiouswith the Pittsburgh Catholic superiors.that many black nuns do not be- These superiors must under­lieve in the conference or support stand what is happening amongits interest in liberating, black black people today, otherwisepeople or being revolutionaries,. their orders aren't going to bebut, she said, conference mem- able to keep their black nunsbers include about 350 black or gain new ones, Sister Greynuns or' an estimated one third predicted. She added that herof all black Sisters in the United own Mercy order has been oneStates. ' Sisterhood that has shown

"The National Black Sisters understanding.Conference is a radical move-ment/' she wrote in an editionof the conference's newsletter.Terms like radical and revolu­tion have made white personsuneasy, she said, but she doesn'tsee why.

Change Essential"They don't seem to under­

stand that liberation is the kindof freedom that Jesus Christcame to establish. He came tofree oppressed people."

Revolution is the work of theChurch by the Church's very na­ture, she continued, declaringthat the word "revolution" is notsynonymous with bloodshed. "Itmeans bringing about change forthe welfare of people."

Sister Grey said that changefor black people in the Church­where'she said they have neverbeen accepted as equals-is es­sential and must be the specialtask of black Religious. -

Explain RevolutionThe work of liberating blacks

and other oppressed people fromdehumanizing roles is whatChristianity is all about today,she declared.

Sister Grey, who sports an

MONSIGNOR PREVOST HIGH: With 47 other youngmen, Michael Andrade, Anthony R. Garand, Claude M.Gelinas and Peter A. Dumais were given their diplomasfrom the Fall River Boys' High by Bishop Cronin at jointceremonies held in Notre Dame Church.

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within the Church's calendar tostart on the quest for such anunderstanding."

Criticize Play

The statement quoted JulesIsaac, a French Jew and studentof Christian-Jewish relations, assaying that in Christian coun­tries the roots of anti-Semitismare probably deeper than any­where else and that "despitepraiseworthy efforts to deal withthem, they remain alive today."

The council's statement alsocriticized anti-Semitism in theOberammergau, Germany, Pas­sion Play" which, it said, wasseen in 1970 by some 530,000visitors from 113 countries.

The play, enacted every dec­ade since 1634 by Oberammer­gau villagers, has often been crit­icized for being anti-Semitic.This criticism" by both Chris­tians and Jews, increased sharp­ly prior to last year's perfor­mance when it became knownthat the old version of the play,with only a few changes, wouldbe used again.

Traditional AtttitudesThe council's statement said

the play's producers had "tooeasily" reached the conclusionthat, because spectators showedso little concern about the play'santi-Semitic aspects, a vote hadbeen "registered in favor of theirchosen but controversial versionof the play."

Close examination of so pow­erful a teaching tool as the Ober­ammergau play is essential, thestatement said, particularly be-

,cause so many youngsters see it.What is at stake, the state­

ment said, 'is not the inten­tion of the people ot Ober­ammergau but the impact oftraditional attitildes and inter­pretations of the Gospel storyon youngsters "entirely unaware'of the extent to which they,themselves are victims of whatJules Isaac described as 'theteaching (however unintentional)of contempt.'''

ResponsibilityTeaching Anti...Semitism

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'i IIi 'SCHOOL'S LAST GRADUATION: Rachel Costa, Jean

Thibault, Elaine Dion, Dianne Valiquette and Lucille Nadeaugather as members of the last graduating class from the94-year-old Jesus Mary Academy of Fall River.

Council EmphasizesTo Avoid

LONDON (NC)-The Councilof Christians and Jews empha­sized the grave responsibilityparents and teachers have toavoid teaching anti-Semitismwhen they explain the Passionof Christ., A recent statement issuedby the council said: "Both theWorld Council of Churches ~nd

the Second Vatican Council havesaid that the historical eventswhich led to, the Crucifixionshould not be so presented as to

_,fasten upon the Jewish peopleof today responsibilities whichbelong to our corporate human­

,ity and not to one race or com­- munity."

The statement went on to saythat "Christians cannot under­stand Christianity without un­derstanding Judaism and Jews.Perhaps Easter is the right time

Express 'OptimismOn School Survival

EAU CLAIRE (NC)-Optimismwas the key word of speakershere viewing the future of thesurvival of Catholic high schoolsthroughout Wisconsin.

At the Spring conference ofstate Catholic high school offi­cials, Bishop Justin Driscoll ofFargo, N. D., set the tone. Hecompared the "great turmoil"prevalent in Catholic high schoolssince 1965 to the unrest broughton in the Church by VaticanCouncil II.

"You may recall the unrest,restiveness and dismay evident inthe first period of the council,"he said. "But recall how thespirit gradually changed, andhow a tremendous consensusand understanding and unity de­veloped as the council reachedits term in 1965."

He expressed belief that thesame dynamics now are at workin Catholic schools. The bi~hop

is former president of Loras Col­lege, Dubuque, Iowa, and formersuperintendent of Dubuque arch­diocesan schools.

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'upon everybody."At the moment they're just

scavenging. Most were under­nourished when they came. Thereis no fuel. Now cholera hasbroken out. The monsoons arearriving, and with those torren­tial rains the roads becomerivers of mud,"

How many of the four millionand more would survive? Therewas no answer.

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Worse Than BiafraHoly Ghost Missionary Describes Plight

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ROME (NC)-"This is worsethan Biafra!" ,

From almost any other sourceI would have dismissed this as­sertion about the plight of somefour million East Pakistani refu-,gees in India:. But Father Ray­mond F. Kennedy's credentialswere impeccable, as I had rea­son to know. We had flown to­gether into Biafra at night, in adarkened plane and into ablacked-out field. And I had lastseen' him in the encircled,doomed republic where he di­rected relief work for the Irishorganization Africa Concern.

Now this priest, born 45 yearsago in San Francisco but a mem­ber of the Irish province of theHoly Ghost Congregation, hadbeen in Bengal to see h0'Y AfricaConcern could best help therefugees.

How worse than Biafra? Werethere not three times as' manyrefugees in the Wes~ African en­clave when Nigerian troops weretightening the noose?

"Ah, but these refugees havebeen dumped in India suddenly,in huge numbers. The Biafran

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been realized with the publica­tion on June 3, of a new Pas­toral Instruction on'the Means ofSocial Communication preparedby an international committee ofexperts (including several Amer­ican bishops, priests. and lay­men) and issued under the aus·pices of the Pontifical CO!Dmis~

sion for the Means of- SocialCommunication. ,

As a matter of fact, I suspect 'that Dr. Stuber will find that thisPastoral Instruction, if anything,far exceeds his fondest expecta-'tions. For my own part, speakingas a concerned amateur in thefield of communications, I wouldgo so far 'as to say that theInstruction is, by all odds, oneof the most important and mostforward-looking documents is­sued by any Roman Congrega­tion or Commission since the endof Vatican II. •

I say this in spite of the factthat several of the Decree's refer­ences to the role of public au­thorities in regulating the media,strike me as being rather fuzzyin the sense that they appear toleave the door open, perhaps un­wittingly, to a kind of govern­ment censorshp which even Vice­President Agnew, for all of hisdissatisfaction with the media,would probably abhor.

'Coming of Age'

Whatever of that, the USCCCommunications Committee wasnot exaggerating when it pointedout, in the opening paragraphof its advance commentary onthe Decree, that "in a real sensethis document can be viewed asan expression of the Church'scoming of age, at least conceptu­ally, in regard to the world ofmodern communications."

This is particularly, true, I'think, with regard to those sec- 'tions of the Decree which' deal,specifically with the problem ofcommunications within theChurch itself.

What these sections of thedocument say about the imp6r- 'tance of public opinion in theChurch' and the consequent needfor free discussion (tempered by'charity, of course) and the re­lated need for the freest possibleflow of information on all mat­ters affecting ,the' life of theChurch is almost too good to betrue:' ,

, American Bishops Helped

in covering the Coun~il proceed­ings.

Even as recently as,1969, how-. ever, at the time of !the second

synod of Bishops; tne Church'scommunication policy, at theRoman level, still left much tobe desired. I

Secrecy RestrictedBe that as it may, the new

Pastoral Instruction! on theMedia gives one reason to hopethat things will be b~tter in thefuture. The Instruction statesvery pointedly that -"When ec­clesiastical authorities are un­willing to give information orare unable to do ~o, then rumoris unloosed and rumQr is not abearer of the truth but carries

'dangerous half-truth~. Secrecyshould therefore be rbstricted tomatters that involve' the goodname of individuals 0li that touchupon the rights of people wheth­er singly or collectively."

If this last sentence fromparagraph 121 of th~ Decree istaken seriously-by the Vatican

'itself, by national conferel'\ces ofbishops, by' individu~l dioceses,and by local Ch~rch lagencies­half the battle to' improve theChurch's internal comhlUnicationpolicy will have be~n won atlong last. I

Human nature being..what it is,however, one would tie naive toexpect t~at thi~ will happenautomatically. The media (and

'the faithful in general) will haveto help make it happen by insist­ing that Church agencies and.institutions, implement;. the spirit,as well as the letter, of the Pas­toral Instruction. We can' becertain, I think, that :the mediawill not be found wanting inthis regard. I '

IDr. Buchanan (HeadsDumbarton C~lIege

WASHINGTON (N<::::) - Dr.Paul Gordon Buchana~;':44, for­mer vice-president of D'YouvilleCollege in Buffalo, ha~ been in­stalled' as president of 'Dumbar-

, . I' .toil Colleg~,liberal aIj1s','collegefor women operated here by theHoly Cross $isters.:CongressmanWalte~E. Faun­

troy, ,a ,black clergyman recentlyelected non-voting" delegate toCongress from .the District of

"Columbia, gave the main addressat the inauguration ceremonies.,He challenged' university-trained

To, be sure, Pope' Pius XII, as women to use their' 'edtication infar back as 1950, had taken 'a "the drama of social redemption"positive stand in favor' of public, to help heal society's urban andopinion, .within the Church. Un- and national divisions.:' ,fortunately, however; the record ' , Dr. Buchanan, a Bostonian,will show that his widely quoted ' t~ughi: at schools in :his homestatement on this subject, while 'city and served at Bryant Col-conceptually very sound, . made lege; Providence, as de~n of ad­relatively little difference in the - missions and then as assistant topractical order., ~he president from 1960 until he

, That ~s to say, the Church as 'went ~o Buffalo in 1~66. Dum-,an institution, starting with the barton College has an enrollmentVatican itself, has, in recent of 400 women and a iO-l ratiotimes at least, put a heavy pre-. of students to faculty. i .,mium on secrecy and" has tend- I

ed, by and large, to be overlysuspicious of the media.

The situation improved' some-, what (but not a great deal), dur­ing the course of Vatican II. This '

,'was due, in considerable mea­':sure',. to the initiative of theAmerican bishops who, once theygot the feel of the 'Council, wentto considerable lengths, to assistthe media, as best they could,

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The Second Vatican Council'sDecree on Social Communica­tions, promulgated Dec. -4, 1963,is' generally thought to be· the.least satisfactory and ,least im­portant of all the Council docu­ments. Most commentators haveshrugged it off as a prematurefizzle-premature in the sensethat'it was adopted too early tobenefit from the subsequent de­bate in the Council on, several

other key documents, ,notablythe Pastoral Constitution on theChurch in the Modem World and'the Declaration on ReligiousFreedom.

The late Father, Gustave Wei­'gel, S.J., was 'being 'uncharacter­istically restrained in his choiceof language when he told theU. S. 'Bishops' press panel inRome on Nov. 14, 1963-threeweeks before the final vote was

, taken-that "the Decree does 'notstrike me as' being very remark- ,able. It is not going to producegreat changes.'1 Other commen­tators ,have been much morese~erE! . in their criticism of ~hedocument. '

Ray of HopeStanley I. Stuber,. an American

Protestant expert in the field ofcommunications, says; for exam­ple, 'in the A~~ott-Gallagher

edition of the Council documentsthat "Unfortunately, this, Decreefalls far short of the high stand­ard established by the other doc­uments ... It ,also presents ,sev­eral propositions which, if takenseriously, would disrupt, if notcurtail, the chief aspects of PopeJohn's ,aggiornamento: As aCath01ic editor has put it, 'it isnot ollly pre-aggiornamento, butdefinitely pre-Pius XII'."

Dr. Stuber was, graciousenough to add, however, that"th'e ,Decree does offer a ra~r ofhqpe, in reverse. It indicates thatnew organizations will be' estab­lished within the Church to fur­ther. the cause of social commu­nication'. If the document, is to

'be considered as a starting pointrather, than an end in itself ..., if 'it will' encourage freedom ofspeech and the mental, supportof such causes as .world pe;1ce,rac,ial justice, the war against r

poverty, the rights of man in a,secular, society, the championingof questioning youth, and ,if itwill encourage the CatholicChurch to cooperate with non.Catholic agencies iJ:l the devel-'opmi!nt of a. modern approachto the instrurperits of social com­,munication, then this documentmay serve as'il way, to somethingfar better and :greater 'than itrepresents in ~nd by itself."

Exceeds' Expectations

, I have quoted at suchconsid­erable length from Dr., Stuber'scommentary on the I:lecree toindicate that, most of his hopeswith regard to ,the implemen.ta­tion of the document have now

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Editor, NamedBALTIMORE NC)-Robert J.

'Sievers, a 16-year-veteran of theCatholic press, has been namededitor of The Catholic Review,Baltimore archdiocesan . news­paper. He succeeds A.E.P..Wall,who resigned recently to becomemanaging editor of The Hon()luluAdvertiser, Hawaii's only morn­ing daily.

Indian CardinalRaps Abortion

COCHIN (NC) -=. Cardinal Jo­seph Parecattil of Ernakulam hascriticized legalized abortion as".violence against innocent life."

Speaking here 'as chief guestat the semi-annual meeting ofthe AII-Indi~ Women's Confer­ence, the cardinal said if Mahat­ma Gandhi were alive today, hewould have raised his voiceagainst "this yiol~mce carried outtoday in many parts of the worldand in India." ,

The ca~dinal spoke shortlyafter the Indian parliamentvoted approval of a governmentbill that legalizes abortion fornon-medical reasons, until now,a crime under the Indian PenalCode. . _

He said he wanted to speakon behalf of innocent lives that

.are terminated eVEm before theyare able to speak..

Meanwhile, the president ofthe Women's Conference, Mrs.Lakshmi Raghuramayya, alsocriticized legalizing abOrtion asa method of birth control, butsaid her organization had noobjection to abortiQ!) for healthreasons.

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tical suggestions which, it said.should be used whenever con­fronting any controversial issue:acknowledge the sincerity of theopponent; listen with an openmind; avoid emotionalism indebate,

Frank H. Brennan, one of thecouncil's three co-chairman saidthe guidelines "make a tremen­dous contribution toward ex­panding the arena in which con­troversial issues can be raised."

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NORTH DARTMOUTH REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL:Michael Hevey, senior class president; Paula Rousseau,Yearbook Editor; and Spencer McMurray, class treasurer;share congratulations as they are about to leave BishopStang High School as members of ninth graduating class.

ROCKVILLE CENTRE (NC)­The Long Island InterfaithCouncil has issued guidelines forcooling off emotionalIy chargedarguments on such issues asabortion or aid ,to, non-publicschools.

The ,council is composed of28 members representing Jewish,Catholic, . Protestant and Ortho­dox groups in Nassau and Suf­folk counties.

The council list.ed three prac'-

Stresses Women'sChristian Goal

RICHMOND (NC) - MargaretMealey, executive director of theNational Council' of CatholicWomen, said here she feels thatliberated women should, not

..separate themselves from family,Church, community, career andcountry, but should deepen thoseconcerns along the lines ofChristian commitment.

"As we become less rigid, lessblindly conforming, less tradi­tionally subservient, we will 'be­come more free to render thereal service that determines howtruly Christ-like we are," shesaid. '

Speaking at a diocesan Coun­cil of Catholic Women Conven­tion here, Miss Mealey said "theliberation of Christian women,which will be included in thegeneral changing lifestyle ofAmerican women, must b eguided by their Christian com-mitment." ,

Religion will "provide the ne­cessary guidelines to keep ,liber­ation from becoming a' pprelyagnostic or humanistic pursuit,"Miss Mealey stated. She said shehoped that Christian womenwould not accept an extremistposition at either end of thefeminist debate, but wouldmaintain more sensible middleground.......;..a tenuous chore whichcontinually includes avoidingpolar positions."

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1) ,Beat the eggs well in alarge bowl, add the salt and milkand continue beating.

2) GradualIy add the flourand baking powder, stirring untilalI flour is mixed in very welI.Mix very, very welI beating un­til dough is smooth and flexible.

3) Knead on a welI-flouredsurface.

4) RolI out on floured surfaceand cut circles with a large tea­cup. Fill with a good tablespoonof the filling. Bring edges togeth­er and lepic' (seal) them.

5) Cook ina large kettle ofboiling salted water. Put theminto water when it starts to boil,when boiling returns time themabout 10 or 12 minutes or untilthey rise to the top of th~ pan.Remove them with a woodensPQon and dra,\n in a· colanderthat has, beeri ,placed momen­tarily'into a ~pan of cold water.This stops the. cooking process.

6) They may be served nowwith melted butter or friedslightly in butter and sprinkledwith buttered bread crumbs.

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This recipe for pierogi dough'was given to me the evening Iattended the pierogi class byMrs. Julia Sowa of St. StanslausParish.

Enjoys Teaching Children,..To Appreciate Gardens

_ ~y Joseph and Marilyn Roderick

We picked our first basket of strawberries June 9.Actually the strawberries were planted by my cousin andpartially tended by my father, so I can take very littlecredit for their presence. But the experience of picking abasketful is stilI one whichgives special joy.

Last week I took Jasoninto the strawberry bed andexplained how he should pickberries, being sure not to stepon the plants and destroy theincoming fruit and he wasthrilled. Each berry he pickedwas more succulent than thelast and each seemed to him toget redder and redder. He wasso thrilled when Marilyn cameout into the yard that he ran asfast as he could to get her aberry.

Fun With GardensNothing is m.ore satisfying to

the gardener than to have hisgarden enjoyed, either becauseof the beauty of his flowers orthe vegetables and fruit whichtake on a special flavor becausethey are home grown.

This year Melissa planted asmalI garden which is doingquite welI. She has several rowsof peas which should be readyby the traditional ripening dateof July 4, two smalI rows ofcorn, two rows 9f radishes, tworows of carrots, five or six to­mato plants. six hills. of polebeans, two rows of stringbeans,12 pepper plants, a few squashseeds, and a 'row of endive.

This was done in a few ses­sions, with me providing thelabor of turning over the soil'and raking the earth smooth.Now I am enough of a realist toknow that I will end up doingthe hoeing and watering, but shedeserves some credit for thework she has done thus far.However, she will gain a greatdeal more from having done herplanting than if she had beenshooed out of the ,garden., My point in alI of this is that

we would have a great deal morefun with our gardens if weplanted things that the childrencould enjoy and they wouldappreciate out gardens alI themore for deriving some valuefrom them. I have often saidthat the way to a child's heartis' through appealing to the eyeand to the stomach and nothing

Romans Hear' PleaFor Jailed Prelate

ROME, (NC) - At a vigil ofprayer for persecuted Christians,a leading Italian layman urgedCatholics to pray -for ArchbishopRaymond Tchidimbo of Conakry,Guinea, imprisoned for life athard labor by the government ofPresident Sekou Toure.

Prof.. Luigi Gedda,.a consultorof the Vatican Council of theLaity and president of CatholicsUnited for the Faith, referred toArchbishop Tchidimbo's .firm'stand against a campaign 'againstthe family. '

It is believed in some circlesthat this is what alienated Pres­

,ident Toure and broughL about, Archbishop Tchidimbo's arrest.

He was one of more than 70persons condemned to life im­prisonment at mass triaJs inGuinea in January. Another 92were condemned to death.

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But then, summer IS special because EVERY DAY is special.Every day celebrates our life in Christ; every day for a Christianis a new birth in Christ {Christmas); every day is an experienceof God's love in others (Easter); every day is a "Eucharist"(Thanksgiving).

..We only need to pause and reflect on the most natural hap­penings of our everyday lives to discover that summer does offerus countless ways to grow in Christian love, especially in themany opportunities to enjoy our families and friends: be it along-awaited vacation or a simple neighborhood cookout!

Because summer is such a beautiful season for fa~ily to­getherness, we would ask you to remember in a special wayyour brothers amd sisters in the missions. Special, because morethan at any other time of the year, the missions suffer mostduring the summer months.

The financial help missionaries so desperately depend on tocontinue serving the poor, and to help even more in these criticaltimes, reaches its yearly low. Schools, hospital-clinics, pastoral­relief-and development programs are affected: slowed down, crip-pled, or forced to cease completely. .

But even more than the missionaries. themselves, it is themission-poor who suffer the most, especially when the only hopemany have ever seen for their lives begins to fade away forreasons they don't ~nderstand, especially those who have justbegun to grasp what it means to share in the life of Christ •••to share in the Community of God's People . . . to know thatlife does have a meaning because others do care; especi,aUy thosewho have nothing of material worth but who have learned thatevery day is special whem live,d in the faith and love of God.

Please make this summer a very special season to sha:re yourlove for God-your .c~lebration and appreciation for your faith- .your thanksgiving for the blessing of every day.

Please send a slllcrifice today for the missions because it isnot Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter in the hearts of allmen, and that makes your gift today so very special.

Think about it ... is there a special "summer spirit?" Summerdoesn't include any special· religious holis!ays that create a wholeseasonal spirit of celebration as Thanksgiving, Christmas, Lent,and Easter. .

Chaplain Leaves San QuentinBELVEDERE-TIBOURON (NC) faction of helping rehabilitate a

-Ten years at San Quentin is man.a long time even if it is spent "There just isn't a lot of re-outside prison bars. sponse,"he told The Monitor,

Recently Father Thomas Ahern San Francisco archdiocesanended a decade of chaplaincy at newspaper, . in an interview. "Athe California prison and re- person might do very well on theturned to parish life as associate inside -as your clerk and thenpastor of Sacred Heart in Sara- fall apart on the outside.toga. "But every once in a while

through the help of some person,Soft-spoken and .middle-aged, something clicks inside one of

he is somewhat reticent about those guys. They 'snap to,' ashis experiences. they put it. They decide 'they've

Like many other chaplains, he got to get with it."found his years at San Quentin Chaplains have served at Santough-lots of frustration min- Quentin since 1858, just a fewgled with the occasional satis- years after the prison opened.

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Governor MandelSays U. S. Needs~rivate Schools

CINCINNATI' (NC)-MarylandGov. Ma!,vin Mandel said herethat the nation needs a privateas well as a public school systemand spoke' with pride .of hisstate's tuition 'voucher plan toaid nonpublic school students.

Gov. Mandel, in Cincinnati toreceive an honorary doctor oflaws degree at Xavier University,told newsmen that he sees twovalid reasons for aiding private'schools and colleges.

"First of all, they serve a veryessential purpose" in the nation'seducational system, he said. "Astudent ought to have the rightof selecting the school he wishesto attend. If you' had only ·onepublic system, the educationalsystem would tend to becomestereotyped."

Moreover, the governor said,"the cost to the state of absorb­ing into the public school systemstudents attending nonpublicschools would be fantastic-notonly jn operating costs, but incapital expenditures."

Tuition Vouchers

Gov. Mandel pointed out thathe had appointed' a commission,including people on "both sides"of the aid to nonpublic schoolpupils question, and that he hadaccepted and the-legislature hadenacted the commission's recom­mendation to provide tuitionvouchers to parents of nonpublicschool pupils.

He said the state has about120,000 students in privateschools. Tuition grants rangefrom $200 per student down to$50, according to the parents' netincome, he' said.Ho~ever, a coalition of groups

opposing the 'fuition grants iscollecting signatures to put thevouc~er plan to a referendumtest on the ballot in the Fall of1972.

SPEAKER: Hon. MiltonR. Silva, Presiding Judge ofthe Second District Court ofBristol, will be the principalspeaker at the Knight of theYears Award dinner to besponsored by the Fall RiverK of C Council No. 86 onSunday evening, June 27 atWhite's Restaurant.

Abortion ReferralAgency Illegal

NEW YORK (NC) - A com­mercial abortion referral agencywas declared .illegal in a NewYork Supreme Court decisionthat could have widespread ef­fects on the multimillion-dollarreferral business here.

Court Justice Sidney H. Aschbarred the Abortion InformationAgency, Inc., from continuing itsbusiness of referring pregnantwomen for a fee to physiciansand hospitals for abortions.

"The law which sought te)emancipate women from servi­tude as unwilling breeders didnot intend to deliver them ashelpless victims of commercialoperators for the exploitation oftheir misery," the justice de­clared. He referred to the NewYork statute which permits med­ically approved abortions up to24 weeks. from conception with­out residency requirements.

Recently, there have beenwell-publicized national meetingsof priests, bishops and nuns.Each has wrestled with problemsof collegiality and democraticvoice within its own ranks.

Unfortunately, none of these'groups has shown interest inthe rights anq role of the laity.When I questioned one well­known and. highly respectedmonsignor on this absence,. hereplied, "But that's your prob­lem. We have our own to workout."

So, Mature Laity, a 'Voice inthe running of our parishes, isour problem. It's up to us todiscover how we can be heardif the pastor and/or his chosenrepresentatives turn us off. It's'up to us to get together ill rna.'ture and peaceful assembly todetermine our alternatives toparish autocracy.

Pastors tend to react tocharges of heavy-handedness bysaying, "My laity won't get· in­volVed so I have to make the de­cisions. I can't even get anyoneto run for parish counciL"

In such cases, I suggest thepastor look to his council. Is itreally free to make decisions oris it a rubber stamp council?

In 'parishes where the councilreally is a decision making body,there's no lack of candidates.Disinterest in. running is foundmost often in. parishes. where the .pastor has already decided onall major issues and either dareshis members to vote another wayor allows them to vote on suchtrivia they stop coming to meet­ings.

Whether we bless or condemnit, Catholic Lib is on its way.People who are free to makedecisions in all other bodies gov­erning their lives aren't going tobe "told" on non-doctrinal mat-ters much longer. .

If we are the Church-if wereally are the Church - as wekeep hearing we are, then whereis our voice on parish matters?Locked up somewhere along withour responsibili~y and decision'­making. power? We can't havethe former without the latter.

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One of the saddest responsescame from a reader who wrote:"Several of us who are unhappywith the CCD program appearedat our parish council meetingand formally" requested a parishvote on the budget. Our pastorbecame so upset at this that hetabled the idea and never al­lowed it to come up in subse­quent meetings. Now, what dowe do?"

I couldn't possibly answer thisman because I didn't have all thefacts. Nor could I answer thegroup of ladies who, after de­veloping a parent-education pro­gram for their parish, were toldby their pastor, "I can't allowit because I can't be there all theevenings' to make sure' you' areteaching the correct doctrine."

If these, and many of the otherincidents reported to me, really'occurred, they are an indicationof the real depth of our parishproblem: our spiritual leadersaren't equipped to handle thegrowing liberation of Catholics.

It's that simple. In instanceafter instance, parish councilswhich "find" to the displeasureof the pastor are dissolved with­out explanation. Complainingparents are written off as weakCatholics or trouble makers orboth. Parishioners who gothrough the same democraticprocedure they do to get actionon a community problem arelabeled militant or radical.

Democracy in ChurchIt's another of those cases

where we laugh instead of cryonly because it releases the sametension. Although Vatican II de­cided firmly in favor of a matureand involved laity, it seems thatonly the laity heard those hal­lowed words. Echoes may havereached the hierarchy but in toomany cases, they were trans­lated as, "A mature laity unlessit interferes with my decisions."

Orthodox Catholics are quickto point their fingers at democ­racy in the Church, charging thatit is heretical. But we aren't vot­ing on doctrine when we vote onwhether or not to continue run­ning a parochial school at theexpense of religious. educationfor three-fourths of the parishkids.

Mature Laity.We aren't voting on theology

when we vote on the times ofMasses; . the size of the parkinglot, the subsidization of the dioc­esan paper and the alleviation ofhunger in our area.

Advocates Stronger L~ity.

Voic:e on Parish MattersAfter my column last Spring on a Parish Voucher

System in which I suggested individual Catholics be giventhe option of allocating their funds to the parochial schoolor the CCD school, I heard from readers the country over.

. Apparently the col u m ntouched a few nerves be­cause it was read from somepulpits, denounced fromothers and deposited in collec­tion baskets along with weeklyenvelopes.

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KNOW YOUR FAITHMeaning of Christianity Stepp.ing Around the Puddles

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around the puddle and give her"make work" jobs instead. Theyboth know it is meaniQgless ac­tivity for which sf:1e is earningmoney but ...

A weak sori wants to' go outfor football but his parents wantto spare him the embarrassmentof being cut from the team ...

A girl wants to wear an out­landish costume she has createdbut her parents are afraid theother kids will laugh ...

A boy wants to discuss sexwith his parents but they are em­barrassed so they steer the con- .versation around the puddle .. ,

A teenager longs to tell hisparents about a drug problembut they want to pretend itdoesn't exist... .

Puddles are there for a pur­pose. We 'don't have to plungeour children into everyone wesee but we must allow them fre~

rein to explore them now andthen. Each new.experience in achild's life has its joy and itsprice. If we give the joys onlywhen 'they are young, they willpay double price later when theyare older. .',·t·

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lLITTL~ GII\L JQYFULLY qREETS rHE SUNSH~~E:

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consequences of stepping' intothem. The more we draw themaside, the more they are drawnto the puddles. If we have ourway, they' will never experiencethe freedom of the puddle or the

. discomfort of wet clothing. Andit's' the wet clothing we mustallow them to experience.

So many of us today try toprevent our children from expe­riencing discomfort or pain thatthey actually grow. up withoutexperiencing it. Sometime in life,they are going to run into thepuddles. Unless we intend tohang onto their hands forever,carefully avoiding. the learningexperiences which lead to matu­rity, they will learn the conse­quences of their pleasure muchtoo late for us to be of help inre-dressing them. How muchbetter for us to let them tastepuddles and the wet clothing ata young age.

Price of ExperienceA boy wants a paper route.

.His parents want to spare himthe misery of those early morn-

"jngs and snowy days so theysteer him around that puddle andraise his allowance instead. Heexperiences no discomfort, nowet clothing. But what aboutlater, when he gets his firs.t joband has Iit.tle confidence in hisuntried self? Wouldn't the earlypuddle have been worth the wetclothing?

A girl wants to try door-to­door seed selling as a moneyraiser :but her parents want tospare her the' humiliation ofslammed doors so they steer her

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moon as speaking of God, pro­t1aiming His glory (Psi 19). ThisJudaeo-Christian tradition is con­tinued in our own tim~ as Vati­can Council II teaches that"... all believers· of whatever re­ligion always hear His! revealingvoice in the discourse of crea­tures" (Church in the ModernWorld, 36).. ~

The Council urges us to try .to acquire the inner silence thatallows 'us~o hear' God! speakingto us of His love, His'presence,

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The snow was m~lting, leav-. I

ing a patchwork of: puddles onour front lawn. I grasped mytoddler's h'and and we set out

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. across the way to deliver an itemto my neighbor. Half,way acrossI noticed our journey1wasn't pro­ceeding 'very smoothly. Instead. .of walking together in a rhyt.hm,we were straining, pll1ling awayfrom, one another.

I looked down and discoveredwhy.' As I caref~lly circh;;daround each puddle, Steve just ascarefully headed fat it. As Igently andsubconscibusly steer­ed him to the dry spots, he firm-

. Iy and deliberately [tugged me. toward the more exciting wet

Iones, II studied his shoes Iand specu­

lated. Was the fun I worth theleather? Yes, I relaxed my pulland I.et him lead. What gloriousfreedom. He headed for the firstslushy pile of snow artd splashedthrough with great: zest: Heshivered with excitement andheaded for the nexti wet chal­lenge. By the time we' reachedour neighbor's shores', this two­year-old Columbus h~d a smileon his face that told! the worldhe had conquered it. Ignoring myneighbor's quizzical I look atSteve's shoes. I c0nlpleted mybusiness on . her front step and

.~e began o~r return. IExperience TeacheS Effects

T)1is time I let Ste~e navigateon his own while I watched.Heediessly; he plunge~ into. pud­dles, leaped into snowbanks and.generally exhausted himself inthe cold muddy mess! He stum­bled on our front stept sat a fewminutes and then cpmplained."I cold." I

"Yes, I'll bet you are," I re-plied. i

"I wet, too. I wanna go in."He went in. He waited awhile

on the rug and loo~ed at meexpectantly. Then,' "i got wetshoes,"

"Uh-huh," I replied.jHe tugged and tugged, finally

asking, "Help me take; my shoesoff." I did and then he wantedhis wet 'slacksoff so ~e workedtogether on those. I' ended up .re-dressing him from bottom out-a process every mother knows-but it was at his request.

I tell the incident because itIS a ll?icrocosm of child develop­ment. While we're· busily steer­ing our children around the pud­

,dIes, they are lookin~ at themlohgingly, wondering about the

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lem he touched upon at the.be­ginning of the letter. Here yousee the two parts of the problem.

On the one >hand, Paul writes,"Christ's message in all its rich­ness must live in your hearts"(3:16). But then,' as if to givesome illustrations of what itmeans to .do and say. everytliingin the name of Jesus, he writes:

"Wives ',be obedient' to y,ourhusbands, for that. it what youshould do as' Christians. Hus­bands, love your wives, and'donot be harsh. with them. Chil·.dren, it is .your Christian dutyto obey your parents always, forthat is what pleases God. Par­ents, do not irritate your chIl­dren, or they might become dis·couraged" (3:18-21). .

Forgive As Christ ForgivesIn the heart of the farnily,

even the Christian family, thereare tensions, failures,even ag­gressive acts that are destructiveof love. In the' Christian family.all-husband and wife, parentsand children - are members' ofof Christ. Yet this special shar­ing in the life of Christ,' who isGod, does not eliminate the pos­sibility of sin's dreadful entrance.

. It is part of the mystery oflife, continued in the mystery ofChristian life, that from an all­perfect God have come .creatures, . ,. .' '"who can sin..

It is simply a fact that evenwith the Christian family the'

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that :;cien~ists consider it ahealth hazard. So you haveto really look' for silence.

Surprisiogly, satisfying silenceand quieting stillness is disQv­ered by many people who· maynever find a break in the relent­less noise of contemporary life.Perhaps for only brief momentsat a time, they are able to findinner peace, and secure stillness.In'these-moments they are ableto listen and hear sO\.llidsofhope, of peace, of life and oflove. There is a level of hearingthat is activated only in' innersilence, aided by precious mo­ments of external quiet, but notwholly dependent on them. .

Learn to ListenJust as we need to learn to

look at ordinary things in orderto see 'how extraordinary. theordinary really is, we also needto learn to listen and hear. Wecan gradually learn to notice, towonder, to see something ofGod's presence and activity inthe visible world. We need .alsoto learn to hear his voice in theconfused voices of our age, thesounds of modern life, and thesounds of silence.

Moses climbed the mountainand heard God's voice in the·midst of the, deafening roar ofa thundersto'rm (Ex. 19:16-25).·'Elijah heard God not in a stormbut in the gentle, whistlingbreez~ (I Kings·19:12). The OldTestament describes the sun and

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It is also a natural season tobe silent---'if. one can find anyquiet in today's _technologicalworld. It is necessary to 'searchout silence, to look for "momentsof stillness. The. din of city nois~

rarely subsides, and even at thebeach the rock beat p'ulses in(:es­santly from transistor radios andportable TV set!! along the shore,drowning out the soothing 'ca-'dence of the gentle waves. Weeven have a new crisis with anew name, "noise. pollution."The environment is literally pol­luted with noise to'.such a level

It is a statement for all sea­sons. Be fair _to yourself, how­ever, ,realize that obviously it isan ideal, not a statement aboutthe fact of every' Christian's life.The fact is, of course, that Chris­tians often .fail to act or speak"in the n;ime of the Lord Jesus."They sin. Therefore'they spendat least some of their time doingpenance and do not always "givethanks thro.ugh him to. theFather.:'. ,The remarkable sentence does

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. .There is "a time to be silent,

t and a time to' speak" says' theOld Testament sage, Qoheleth(3:7). Summer is an ideal oppor­tunity to do both. With the in­creased leisure of the Summermonths there is often more timeto be with friends, with thefamily, to talk. Summer ringswith the sounds of happy conver·sation on picnics, at the beach,

t • on trips, or just around the backyard. Summer is agreat time totalk. ..-

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ABBOTT, S.J

In Search

In Chapter3 of St. Paul's Let·ter to the' Colossians we find. thisremarkable sentence: "Every­thing you do or say, then, shouldbe done in the name of. the LordJesus, as you giv~ thanksthrough him to ..God the Father"(3: 17). I call it remarkable be-

.. cause it is a sweeping statement,covering. all of life, things 'greatand _small, an~, unlike manyother verses of Scripture, it. wasobviously meant to stand by it­self as' well as in its context.

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S!EAKER: Dr. Joseph Leo Driscoll, left, president ofSoutJieastern Massachusetts University in North Dartmouthspeaks with Most Rev. Humberto S. Medeiros, S.T.D. Arch­bishop of Boston, former chancellor of the Fall River Dio­cese, who gave commencement address and received hon­orary degree.

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partment of Assumption College,Worcester, for six years, includ­ing the past year as DepartmentChairman.

He replaces ,Rev. Roland R.Bedard, M.S., who last week wasappointed head of a new voca­tion apostolate aimed at attract­ing college students and gradu­ates, as ,well as "delayed voca­tions" to the Missionaries· of OurLady of La Salette.

The 38-year old pr'iest is pres­ently completing studies at Bos­ton University on his doctoratein Old Testament and has com·pleted study at Harvard towardsthis degree.

The son of Mrs. and the lateAdelard Vaillancourt of Nashua,N. H.; he professed his 'vows inJuly 1953, in East Brewster andwas ordained in Rome, Italy, inOctober 1959. -

He received his A.B. degreefrom the former LaSalette Sem­inary, Attleboro in 1955; theS.T.L. from ,the Angelicum,Rome, 1-960; the S.S.L. fromEcole Biblique, Jerusalem, 1962.He also received a diploma inFrench . studies from .InstituteCatholique, Paris, in 1958.

Ip. 1963, he was appointed in­structor of sacred scriptures atthe Attleboro Seminary -and wasassigned to Assumption Collegeas assistant professor of HebrewScriptures in 1965. He was afaculty member of the Ecumen­ical Institute, sponsored by As­sumption College, and taughttwo Summers at Anna MariaCollege, Paxton. He was alsolecturer· for the· Adult Educationprogram; Diocese of Worcester.

Father .Vaillancourt is a mem­ber of the Catholic Biblical As­sociation of America, CollegeTheology Society, Society of'Biblical Literature, and Knightsof CQlumbus. In the Diocese ofWorcester, he was a member ofthe Priests Senate and CursilloSecretariat.

Father Vaillancourt is a fre­quent contributor of book re­views to the Catholic BiblicalQuarterly and has written arti­cles dealing with Old Testamenttopics for the New. CatholicEncyclopedia.

Personalitysphere." The priests tend tostress formal patterns and reg­ular times of prayer; the semi­narians prefer spontaneity andtend to resist regularly sched­uled religious exercises.

It was thought that at leaston the graduate level, seminariesshould not make religious exer­cises mandatory for their stu­dents-but should at the sametime insist on a high degree of"accountability" on the semi­narians' part with regard to thevalues which the practices ex­press.

The matter is not an "either­or" proposition, Father Mala­testa explained, since both free­dom and obligation have a roleto play in Christian life. Free­dom, he said, does not contra­dict "knowing that there arecertain things due to God" eventhough the best way to satisfysuch obligations is through afree response.

Father Broccolo also said themost helpful thing a spiritualdirector can do for the semi­narians may be to expose hisown spirituality to them, for ex­ample by praying with them.The students should be "allowedto share in the priest's relation­ship with Christ," he said.

Directors are also "primarilychange-agents" whose job it isto bring about growth and atti-'tudinal change in seminarians,said Msgr. Doyle. The directoris the one who helps the stu­,dent "articulate and evaluate"his religious experience, saidFather Malatesta.

Whatever the spiritual directordoes and is, there was agree­ment that he does not have aneasy time. today being it anddoing it.

"These men catch it froin bothdirections ," one observer com­mented. "The students tell them'You guys don't understand us.'Older priests tell them 'Youaren't turning out the kind ofpriests we used to have.' Youhave to admire them for s.tickingwith the job."

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director of the Institute of Spir­ituality at the Gregorian Univer­sity in 'Rome, agreed with theself-fulfillment idea but insistedthat spiritual growth goes"deeper~' than that.

"Self-fulfillment comes throughself-denial in the New' Testa­ment," he said, adding that to

'regard Christian self-fulfillmentin "purely human terms" is notconsistent with the Gospel mes­sage.

The two points of view are notnecessarily irreconcilable. Msgr.William F. Doyle, Director of theadvanced course at the NavalChaplains' School in Newport,pointed out that psychologicalinsights can help "ready'; an in­dividual for spiritual growth.

Priests' ProblemsPriest-participants, meanwhile,

wrestled with another formidableproblem - relating their ownideas about spirituality to theoften quite different ideas ofcurrent ~eminarians.

Auxiliary . Bishop ThomasGrady of Chicago, chairman ofthe U. S. Bishops' committee onpriestly formation called for"language that will relate the'old' spirituality with, the 'new'."

Msgr. John R. Gorman, presi­dent of St. Mary 'of the LakeSeminary, noted that seminariansare "cut from the same clothas their peers"-they have thesame strengths. and weaknessesas other young people today. ,

Among weaknesses he Iis,tedan excessive dependency, a ten­dency to "look for too much per­sonal definition' outside them­selves. Their deepest question is:'Tell me thatI'm JTIeaningful'."

A series of sharp contrastsbetween the approach to prayerof priest faculty members andcontemporary seminarians wasoutlined.

The priests, Rev. Gerard T.Broccolo said, regard prayer as.a kind of "intellectual dialogue"with God; the seminarians de­scribe it more as a "poetic expe­rience, a sense of an atmo-

Sil'ence

Seeks .InterventionIn Migrants' Case

GRAND RAPIDS (NC)-Mich­igan's attorney general plans tointervene in a federal court casechallenging a farmer's allegedrefusal to permit U.S. represen- ,tatives to enter his migrant laborcamps. '

There are "substantial stateinterests to' be protected" in theU.S. government's suit againstJoseph Hassle, a southwestMichigan farm owner, said Atty.Gen. Frank J. Kelley.

The U.S. suit complains thatHassle refused to allow personsto explain federal assistanceprograms to migrant workers inaddition to barring state, localand private organizations, agen­cies and individuals seeking tohelp those workers.

The board of directors of theMichigan Catholic Conferenceunanimously- agreed to supportthe right of collective bargainingby mi&rant farm workers.

that does see it is all the moreclearly a gift from God.

Discussion Questions'1. Why is it essential that the

Christian life begin in a familysetting?

2. What attitude does Paulhave toward singing?

Continued from Page SixteenHis care, His call, in the variedvoices of our time. In the con­fusing voices of our age, thevoice of God can be, heard-butonly if we learn 'to find withinourselves an inner silence. "Bestill, and know that I am God"(Ps 46:10).,

God Speaks Through Creatures

To be silent enough to hearGod speaking to you is not easy.For some it is not possible with­out professional assistance. Noformula can be prescribed' in abrief newspaper column, but oneor two suggestions may helpduring the Summer leisure hours.

First, try occasionally to noticesome particular sound and beptesent to it, attentively listen­ing to it. Perhaps you may no­tice the chirping of a bird, thesteady patter of rain falling, thehappy voice of your child atplay, the sound of a car passingby, the notes of a musical in­strument. Just listen, forgettingthe care, worries, absorbing, ap­preciating the particular sound.

Second, on Q.ccasion, stop mo­mentarily what you are doing,take' notice of whatever sound ismost apparent and in your ownwords speak to God about whatyou hear. You might thank himfor the sound of music, the toneof voice of your husband or wife;praise Him for your ability tohear, for the wonderful varietyof sounds that warn us of dan­ger, make possible conversation,~ntertain us, soothe our troubledspirits. You might ask Him tohelp you learn to listen, to learnto hear' His voice speakingthrough the sounds of life. Youmight ask forgiveness for nottaking time to enioy and appre­ciate the sounds that arc part ofHis creation.

, Learning to hear God speakingthrough the creatures that sur- \round us or through our owninner desires requires an innersilence that must be searchedfor and created. "Be still, andknow that I am God."

ChristianityContinued from Page Sixteen

preacher must plead, as St. Paulkindness, humility, gentleness,does here, "Put on compassion,and patience. Be helpful to oneanother, and forgive one another,whenever any of you has a com­plaint against someone else. Youmust forgive each other in the

, same way that the Lord has for­giv;en you" (3:12-14).

We know from other parts ofPaul's letters and from the Gos­pels that 'we do not 'and simplycannot do all this by ourselves.When we do these good thingsit is the result of a gift from Godwith which we cooperate.

Paul says that God has calledus together in the one body of theChurch to the peace that Christgives. That peace, he says, is tobe "the judge" in our hearts(3: 15). It is not automatic how­ever. Paul has to add, "Teachand instruct each other with allwisdom" (3:16)., Apparently it helps to sing.Twice Paul urges it (3:16). Ap­parently it helps to be fair firstof all to the members of one'sown family. In four differentways he says so (3:18-21).

,Be Alert at Prayer

Apparently there was a con­siderable source of evil in rela­tions between slaves and mas­ters. Paul devotes five sen­tences (in the original Greek) tothem (3:22-4:1).

I am not just playing withnumbers. It just happens that'sthe way Paul wrote. He doesn'tkeep it up. He moves on tosomething that applies to all,"Be persistent in prayer, andkeep alert as' you pray, withthanks to God" (4:2).

Apparently even in the mo­ments of love given to us byGod, when we have the graceto pray, we can droop and fail.We all know it is so. Even inthis pure thing of loving prayerGod has not so bound us to himthat we cannot do otherwise.o

As i f it were not difficultenough to live the Christian lifeto our own and our family's .sat­isfaction, Paul reminds us of thatparadoxical role to which eachof us, even though weak, iscalled:

"Be wise in the way you acttoward those who are not be­lievers, 'making good use of everyopportunity' you have. Yourspeech should always be pleasantand interesting, and you should'know how to give the right an­swer to every person" (4:5-6).

Now, properly dazed by thescope of the painful and gloriousthing it is to be a Christian, youare in a better position to makean act of faith in what it means.I draw your attention to a sen­tence in Chapter 3 which I havedeliberately kept until now:

"You have put off the old selfwith its habits, and have put onthe new self. This is the new

'man which God, its creator, is, constantly renewing in his own

image, to bring you to a fullknowledge of himself. As a re­sult, there are no Gentiles and,Jews, circumcized' and uncir­cumcized, barbarians, savages,'slaves, or free men, but Christis all, Christ is ,in am" (3:9-11).

This new creative and renew­"jng activitityof. God may often

·be hard to discern, on accountQf Christians' failures. The faith I

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Holy Cross", HonorsSocialist Chairman

WORCESTER (NC)~ MichaelHarrington,. author.of "The' Oth­er America" and national chair­man of the Socialist party, washonored at Holy Cross College'sannual commencement exerciseshere for urging the affluent totry to solve the nation's povertyproblems.

Harrington received a citation,praising him for conti,nuing "torouse a rich and powerful peo­ple to acknowledge their own.'invisib1e poor.' "

"For a country grown accus­tomed to 'the full face of afflu­ence, you sketched the stark fea­tures of 'the other America,'where tens of millions go hun­gry, ill-housed and shamefullyneglected," the citation read.

CommunitySa,ves :"Catholic School

WINONA (NC) --'- The wholecommunity got involved in sav­ing Cotter Catholic High Schoolhere in Minnesota, '

Father Paul E. Nelson, princi­pal of the 530-student ,school,spearheaded a fund drive whichraised $47,200-enough to' keepthe financially-sagging schoolopen, and then some.

The drive began when schoolopened last September, and Cot­ter's board of education estab.lished a committee to contactindividual community leaders fordonations of $1,000 each. About$35,000 was raised that way.

Pastors and lay officials of thefive Catholic - parishes hereagreed to increase their subsidies'for the school. The Knights of'Columbus held a fund-raisingdinner. 'Cotter students raised$4,000 through magazine sales,$500 at a white elephant sale,and donated materials and laborto paint the school gymnasium.Donations also came in' from

.Cotter alumnae, solicited by mail.Father Nelson asked for and

got free help from a local pub.1icrelations agency which promotedthe drive. The Winona dailynewspaper printed an_ editorialurging support of the school, andthe Cotter principal was inter­viewed over local TV and radiostations.

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ton, S. C. Catholics make uponly 1.1 per cent of the popula­tion in that state. and the ratioof public school students toCatholic school students is 103to one.

In contrast, in the state ofNew York, which has eight dif­ferent aid programs for nonpub­lic schools, the highest numberin the nation, Catholics are 35.7per cent of the population.

Father Bond told NCN:ews theestablishment of non-church re­lated; private, educational acad­emies by parents and others try­,ing to escape public school inte­gration is another factor block­ing state aid to South Carolina~s

nonpublic schools.

These private,academies wouldbe included in, the category"nonpublic," he said, and someof them offer' "a very' poorquality of education," since theywere hastily established for seg­regationist rather than educa­tional purposes. "The state findsdifficulty in relating to suchschools," the priest said.

'N'CEA ReportStates Without Nonpubl'ic ,School

Have C,onstitutional Problems

NEARLY TWO CIENTURIES OF SERVICE: Jubilariansin the Sisters of 81. Joseph for a total of 170 years joinone another on the occasion of their anniversaries. Sr.St. Jean, SSJ, 50 years; Sr. LOl!ise Agnes; SSJ, 70 years;and Sr. Marie Lu~ie, 50 years,

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WASHINGTON (Ncb - Many'of the states which ektend littleor no aid to nonpubtlic schoolsface constitutional: stumbling

'blocks against such aid, a recentI

study by the National CatholicEducational Association here re-vealed. i.

"State Aid to iNonpublicSchools"-NCEA's 46-page study-reported 36 states I were ex­tending some form of aid to theirnonpublic schools as of May 15,1971. Fourteen states: give non­public schools no assi~tance, thereport said, though some privateschools in these states do re-

Iceive federal aid. i

Among those states I which re­ported some constitutional re­striCtions were NeW: Mexico,Nebraska and Tenness!!e, A newstate 'constitution fori Virginia,effective July I, contains aclause, which' savs state appro­priations are forbidden !to schoolsor institutions of learhing "not­owned or exclusively 'controlled~y 0e state or some spbdivisionthereof." .' i

,An NC News :spot surveybrought out other rea~ons for aiack of nonpublic aid; in somestates; such as smallj Catholicpopulations and; in at ,least twoSouthern states, the existence ofWhite racist private ~cademies.. . I

,Father William Beck, LittleRock, Ark., school soperinten­dent, told NC News' only 2.5 percent of the state's pophlafion is­Cathoiic. Arkansas 'h'as someconstitutional barrier I to" non­public, aid, he said and ithere areso few Catholics in the statethat they have never, pLshed forchanging the constitutibn to al-low'such aid. ':

i .Escape Integrati~n

"Our ,political leverage h~re isn'H,'; said, Father John BOnd,school superintendent in Charles-

Curious Standards

And of course if there is any­thing one learns in· the researchbusiness it is that the chancesof a report having long:rangeimpact are in inverse proportionto 'the purple tones of the rhe­toric in which it is written. I

According to the story, thingsare really much worse than wewere willing to tell the bishops

. and the crisis much more seriousthan we admitted.' For suchcritics the balanced, qualified.language of social research isunacceptable. If one does nofuse the rhetorfc of apocalypseone is selling•.,. out. 'It is notnot enough to ~ay that thepriesthood, has, both 'grave prob~

lems and strong assets. One must, see doom around the. corner.

Semi-Educated Enthusiasts

Never mind that the reportwas read by a number of non­Cath()lic scholars who thoughtthe summary was an accurateprecis of the findings. Either one

. tries to browbeat the bishopsinto immediate policy changeor one is a fink.

By thlHr curious 'stanoards oftruth, the fact that the psycho-

,logical well-being of priests i3,higher'than that of comparableAm'erican males ought to haveb~en suppressed because' only bypainting things in' the blackestpossible Jerms can any changebe accomplished..

The semi-educated clerical en­thusiasts who insist on the rhe-

, torical style of grave crisis in aresearch, report' do not knowanything about research, arty­thing about the inevitably graynature of social reality, or any­thing about the art of persuasion.But persuasion is not all thatimportant to them. Much betterthat you beat the bishops overthe head. '

THE ANCHOR-Dj,ocese of Foil River::-Thurs: June 17, ,197,J. - . - ~ , . . -...- . . "

By

REV.,

ANDREW M

GREELEY

Critics' of' Social' Research. , . .

Resen't ,Qualified Language.I think I'r;n beginning to u'nderstand how Otto Ker,ner

and William Scranton fuust feel. Response toany contro­versial. report is always 'unusual and those Who are respon:sible for the report have no reason to expect that they willbe free'from attempts to un~ ,demirie' the credibility of On the other hand, thez;e is atheir efforts. The reaction;is whispering campaign amongsetting in over, the National 'journalists to suggest that both

the'summary and my presehta­Opini'on Research,Center study tion in Detroit., (which was aon the American priesthood,.,

summary of the summary) weretoned down to curry favor withthe bishops,

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First Of all, the client musthave the report "evaluated" 'by

, other' 'social scientfsts, Havingpurchased time by commission­ing the report the client pur­chases even more.'time by com-

mi~sioning an evaluation: If theevaluators find something wrong-and of 'course the, client is,hoping against hope that they do-then th,e client 'can wash pishands completely of the project.and' figure that 'the, mo~ey iI'-

·vested was 'well worth the costsince' he was provided with anexcuse for not doirig anythingfor. several years and now hasan6ther' such excuse. , .

,\: Dishonorable Behavior...... ... .

I'm not suggestirig that suchreactions to research' r,eports

,hilppen only in the Church, Onthe' contrary, it is an inevitableevent'in the 'research business"A client has every right to havea report ,evaluated-whatever hispurposes are,

What he does n'ot .have thetight to do, it- seems to me, is tomake the distribution of the

, report to his. own colleagues de- 'pendent on evaluation. For suchbehavior is an insult to the re­search:, it 'suggests that the cli- In fact, there are many seriousent has no confidence in the sci- problems in the American priest­tist;s skill arid .integrity and that hood-as the NORC report made

,he 'shouldn't hav,e been hired in clear -:... problems of authority,the 'first place.' sexuality, loneliness," vocation'

, .. ' 'd tn' t th recruitment. J:here is an espe-.. We, ~e.r~ assure,. ' a ~-, cially serious problem of the,evaluatIOn o! the~ORC rep~. polarization of attitudes betweenwas not ~, precondItIOn for: c11s~ bishops and priests a problemtr'b f n of the 'report to the '.•1 U 10, . ..,. certainly not eased by the recent

biShops',·, If I had not'receJ.Ved t" D t ·t·, ' '; ',. , mee 109 10 e rOI .such' an assura'nce, I would not , ,have spoken' at the bishops" But there is a difference be-meeting. I now, find that the .tween saying that the priesthoodbishops were told the exact op- has serious problems and that itposite: They would be permitt~d 'is in a state of collapse-even ifto read .the report ,only after it some of the radical clergy arewas. ':"evaluated." It does seem not ,capable, of graspin'g the dif-'to me,' that- such 'behavior 'is ference. ' . 'someWhat ,di~hononible-thoughit, too, is to be expected in the,research b'usiness. ' '

" " 'Must See Doom

then D~'le Francis ""7""' thatnoted social researcher-is busy

, conducting a survey' of ,his ownbecause he doesn't' believe our'findings. Good luck, Dale oldfellow; everyone else is conduct-, ' They don't want a sober re­ing amateur research; there's no -searcl1er;, they want a patcn:treason for you not to ~ it, .too. medicine man.

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DIRECTING REHEARSAL: Ronald ,Nadeau, director,supervising one of the many rehearsals being conducted for"Oliver". Mr. Nadeau, left, James N. Durbar (Fagin); Elean­or Lindquist (Nancy) and Eddie Lambert (Oliver).

He made his show businessdebut at the age of three and

QuickieBill,

Moral OutrageDOUGLASTON (NC) - Con­

temporary radical students aremotivated by moral outrage, thepresident of the New York CityCouncil of Churches said here."The radical student movementat its b'est has been pleadingwith us .. . to do everythingin our power to promote lifeand not death," the Rev. Dr. M.L. Wilson said at the CathedralCollege of the Implaculate Con­ception graduation ceremonies.

Veto'esDovorce

SANTO DOMINGO (NC)President Joaquin Balaguer hasyielded to pressure from theCatholic Church and vetoed' abill that would have legalizedquickie, divorces for foreignershere.

The bill, Which, President Ba­laguer returned to tlie Chamberof Deputies unsigned, was passedby' both houses of the legislature"in May.

It was designed, its sponsorsadmitted, to create new sources ,of revenue for the DominicanRepublic by attracting foreign­ers-primarily U. S. citizens-tocome and dissolve their mar­riages within a week.

Catholic opposition to the billwas headed' by ArchbishopOctavio Beras or Santo Domingo;his coadjutor, Archbishop HugoE. Polanco Brito; Bishop RoqueAdames of .Santiago de LosCaballeros, and an ad hoc com­mittee composed of more than30 Catholic organizations.

The Santo' Domingo archbish­ops said that the bill, if it became 'law, would be disastrous for theDominican family, unit.

Bishop Adames said' that"when a country has to resortto commercialization of divorceto bring in foreign currency ithaS sold its dignity for a bowlof soup," .

The press was also overwhelm­ingly against the bill, as wasformer President Juan Bosch,who remarked recently that Wallthe country was interested inwas money, then legalizing her­oin, cocaine, and marijuanawould bring in more money thanquickie divorces.

THE ANCHOR- 19Thurs., June 17, 1971·'River

has appeared on the Ted MackOriginal Amateur Hour and wasa grand championship winneron, the Community Auditionstelevision show.

James N. Dunbar who playsFagin, the villainous teacher ofthe schoolboy pickpockets, is areporter for the Fall RiverHerald News. He has playedleads, in Little Theatre produc­tions of "The King and I," and"My Fair Lady," among manyothers.

Eleanor Lindquist, who is afonner music teacher in the FallRiver Middle School, and is wellknown for her roles in LittleTheater productions of "SouthPiicific" and "West Side Story,"plays the female lead, Nancy.

Among the 20 children in thecast are members of Rev. Wil­liam G. Campbell's boys' choirof St. Mary's Cathedral, FallRiver.

The entrepreneurs at St.Mathieu's are hoping' for capac­ity crowds for all three eveningsat 8 o'clock and for the chil­dren's matinee at 2 o'clock Sat­urday. Tickets may be reservedby calling the rectory.

If . this enterprising parish'sdaring plan for financial solven­cy is successful, St. Mathieusmay keep its doors open longenough to enroll the Nadeaus'two-year-oidson in 1975.

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SuperiorTaiwan

JesuitVisits. TAIPEI (NC)-Jesuit SuperiorGeneral Father Pedro Arrupe toldJesuits here that their order isadapting to modern society byemphasizing 'educational im­provement, social action and theuse of mass media.

Father Arrupe was the firstJesuit superior general to visitTaiwan. He was welcomed at theTien Educational Center by ex­ploding firecrackers and thechanting of "Alleluia" by univer­sity students.,

Jesuits staff the colleges oflaw and, business administrationat Fu Jen University here. Some30 Jesuits, 12 of them from theTien Educational Center, teachin government universities here.There are 265 Jesuits on Taiwan.

Father Arrupe had met earlierin Tokyo with Jesuit provincialsbased in Thailand, Taiwan, thePhilippines, Indonesia, HongKong, Australia, Korea, Oceania,South Vietnam and Japan. Theydiscussed ways of making the4,750 Jesuits in Asia more avail­able to all the countries of theFar East in addition to the coun­tries in which they specialize.

The Nadeaus' are directing aiarge cast in the current produc..tion that involves over 100people and includes such pop­ular musical numbers as "Con­sider Yourself," "I'd Do Any­thing;" "As Long as he NeedsMe,"

Old Pro

Eddie Lambert, an eighthgrader from Notre Dame school,Fall River, who plays the titlerole of Oliver Twist, the work­house boy who becomes a pick­pocket in London, is already an

, "old pro,"

"How long can we hold on?"Father Morrissey asked. "Wecannot raise the money from ourown budget. We thought thatinstead of the same old pennysales,and whist parties, we'd at­tempt something to raise moneythat would also provide a cul­tural service·.to the community,','

The little parish that was cutin half by expressway construc­tion may be limited in financialresources, but it has a gold minein talent. The popular vocal teamof Ronald and Terry Lee Nadeauapproached the parish councilwith an idea for a musical pro­duction and they respondedenthusiastically.

The Nadeaus directed a "Trib­ute to Walt Disney" productionthat the parish sponsored twoyears ago with great success.

The young couple, who havecarved out a name for them­selves in opera, oratorio, musi­cal comedy and concerts in theUnited States and Europe. havedonated their considerable talentsto the'parish. :'

Ronnie Nade!lu is a life longparishioner "of St. Mathieu's.After completing his studies atBoston University Conservatoryof Music and Curtis Institute ofMusic, ,he won a Fulbrightschola'rship tq study music inEurope., '

On the ship to Europe he metTerry Lee who had just gradu­ated from Florida State Univer­sity anc,l was also going to study,music', as a Fulbright scholar.Romance bloomed as the twostudied in Germany. While therethe attractive couple werechosen for leading roles in thetelevised premier of a Germanopera.

Here in the United States theyhave sung with the Santa Bar­bara Opera, Philadelphia Operaand the State Opera of Florida.They have appeared under thebatons of Eugene Ormandy,Gian Carlo MenoW and PabloCasals.

How Long?

The hit musical "Oliver" iscoming to t,he stage of FallRiver's Bishop Connolly HighSchool auditorium Thursdaythrough Saturday, June 24, 25and 26. The live version of thewidely acclaimed play based ona Dickens novel, will be a show­case for some of the outstand­ing talent of the Fall River dioc­esan school system.

The ambit.ious production alsorepresents one parish's effortsto keep its school in operation.The musical is being sponsoredby the people of St. Mathieu'sparish in Fall River.

Fr. Thomas Morrissey ,assistantpastor at the North End church,explained how one small parishof 350 families decided to un­dertake such a project. "Likemost parish schools, we are inthe midst of a financial crisis.We have 288 children in ourschool. Only 88 are from ourown parish. We're providing a·service for 14 other parishes. Ifwe have to close our doors, theeffects will be felt all over thecity."

In Light of Past

Now, Father Rigney said,"China shows some indication ofreconciliation. This must be,judged in light of the past. Wemust remember who's makingthat offer," he warned.

The current "ping pong" diplo­matic efforts are "only an indi­cation of wanting to come toterms" with the U.S. on the partof the Chinese, according to' Fa­ther Rigney. He said, "They'renot going to change overnight."

As for recognition of RedChina the United States wouldhave to weigh problems, includ­ing the question of relations'with Nationalist China and theEast-West balance in the United

'Nations, he said.' ..

I=irst LaymanHOUSTON (N,C) - The first

lay schools superintendent hasbeen appointed in the Galveston­FIo).lston diocese. Leonard J.Quinlin, former assistan't super­intendent, was elevated to thedepartment's 'top position byBishop John L. Morkovsky.

Favors ImprovedU. S.. RelationsWith China

DUBUQUE (NC) - A Catholicmissionary who spent 10 years 'in China, four of them in com­munist prisons, said he approvesrecent U.S. attempts to improverelations with the Peking gov­ernment., '

"We can't be forever ignoringChina," Father Harold Rigney,a priest in the Society of DivineWord, said in an interview withThe Witness, newspaper of theDubuque archdiocese.

Although he agrees thereshould be better relations withthe People's Republic of China,he warne" that the United States,must stay on guard.

Recognition of Red China"would create much trouble forus," he said, while noting that"it will come.' It has to come."

Father Rigney was rector ofFu Jen Catholic University inPeking in 1949 when Mao Tse­tung's communist governmenttook over. He was imprisoned' in1951 and spent four years andtwo months in communist pris­ons on charges of spying.

Communism 'Evil'

The account of his torture anddeprivation while being held cap­tive was narrated in a book, en­titled "Four Years in a RedHell," which he wrote after hisrelease in 1955., Last year he wasappointed president of DivineWord College in Epworth, Iowa.

"I personally have sufferedunder the Reds," he said- in theinterview, recallin'g his experi­ence at the hands of his com­munist captors. Nevertheless, "Idon't hate communists, becausethey're human beings." But headijed, emphasizing the distinc­tion" between persons and idelol­ogies, "I hate communism be­cause it is evil and atheistic."" In dealing with Red China "we

must be pragmatic," Father Rig­ney said. "The present Red gov- .

,ernment has insulted us rightand left. They've hated us," hesaid.

"They've stirred up hatredagainst us. They've stolen ourproperty, imprisoned our na­tionals, misrepresented us andsupported our enemies in Koreaand Vietnam."

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Spanish-speaking people wasstarted several years ago by Rev.Gerald Shovelton, formerly at St.Thomas More in Somerset butnow at S,t. Patrick's Parish, FallRiver. The prograin was bothactive and successful, but be­came unoperative without aSpanish-speaking priest to leadit.

Father Murphy, who comesfrom St. Lawrence Parish, NewBedford, and was ordained therein 1962, spent some time as' as­sitant at St. Patrick's, Fall River,before joining the St. James So­ciety. In Bolivia, he did parishwork in La Guardia Parish andwas pastor at Fatima Parish inSanta Cruz. Now, at St. Mary's,he has his work cut out for himin reenergizing the interest andparticipation of hIS specialcharges.

the morning's program with14 y~ars and a coordinator

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OFFERTORY PROCESSION: Two young members ofthe Spanish-Speaking population in' Taunton present t~e

chalice to Father MurPhy at Offertory Procession.

leave their children, and Mrs.Ida Baptista, who is in chargeof School Street School where

. both Portuguese and Spanish­speaking children learn enoughEnglish so that they may attendthe regular schools of the city.

Father Murphy hopes duringtile Summer to come in contactwith as many of the families aspossible. "They need some kindof unifying point,'" he added.They are so much more religious­ly oriented than we are."

He hopes to start catecheticalclasses for children, perhapseven this Summer. "But the areaconcerned in so far-flung a cen·tral meeting point and transpor­tation will be a problem," Fathersaid. "Anyway, I' have alreadyreceived film strips of the Lifeof Christ which I can use if theother problems are overcome."

A program in Taunton for the

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BYMARION UNSWORl1H CURRAN .

; ~;.,_,..COLLATION AFTER MASS: Father Murphy discusses

~amon Cotto, a Spanish-speaking resident of Taunton forwith Father Murphy: in his apostolate. .'

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--Pfiest~ta.tes Culture of Span,ish Speak~ng

People Revolves .L4roundTheir Religi~n

A Mass for the Spanish-• I

speakmg people of the Taunton~rea was celebrated I Sunday byRev. James~urphYiat BishopCassidy High School in Taunton.

This was the fir~tgroup ~c·

tivity scheduled by Father Mur­.phy, ail. assistant at: St. Mary'sChurch, since he 'was placed incharge of the Taunt!:>n Spanish·speaking people justione monthago. . i

Pr:evious t6 his' as~ignment toSt. Mary's, Father Murphy spentfive ,years in Boliv~a, SouthAmerica, as a member of TheSociety of 'St. James; a mission·ary group founded in 1958 bythe then Archbishop Iof Boston,Richard Cardinal Cushing. Before

, starting his duties in Bolivia, themissioner spent three, months in

, Peru learning the Spanish lan-guage: :

In the short month ~hat Father'; Murphy has had to settle back in

the United States, ,he! has begunthe long job of contacting theSpanish"speaking people in thearea. So far he. has Ivisited. 32families which are comprised· ofabout 180 persons out of theestimated 1000 around Taunton.

"These people 'are~ not onlyfrom Puerto Rico,. although the. , . Imajority of them are," FatherMurphy said. "We ialso havesome families from Cuba, Spain

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'and Venezuela." I"Their major problem, of

'course, is the langua~e barrier,"he explained, "but their wholeculture revolves arourtd their re­ligion, and that is where I cancontribute somethingl If theyshould. lose their religion, theycould lose their culture since thestructure of American! society isso different." I

So ' far, ,Father Murphy hasfound the names and: addressesof the families from tither fami­lies pnd from other pe~ple work­ing. in the foreign lang~age field.These sources include: the Wel­!are office, Maria T9rres, whoruns a day care ce!lteJ;' in Taun­ton where working mothers can

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20.~- 'rHE'ANCHOR~Di,ocese of Fall River-Thurs. June 17, 197,1

FOCUS OF SUNDAY MORNING: Father Murphy of­fers the Mass in the Chapel of Bishop Cassidy High School,Taunton.

COMMUNION PROCESSION: Distribution of, HolyCommunion on the Feast of the Body and Blood of OurLord.

MASTER BECOMES SERVANT: In the spirit of Christ,'Father Murphy serves the collation toa group of youngstersspar~ling .with liappin~s~., " . ' .

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