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Can the government seize ma­terial as obscene if it was im­ported for the private use of theimporter only?

The proposal for an all-out re­view of the nation's obscenitylaws stems from several unset­tled court cases, many of whichinvolve disagreements betweenstate and 'federal interpretationsof the same law. In Georgia andVirginia suits have challengedthe state's authority to condemnbooks and films felt to be ob­scene if that material is notshown to juvenile audiences.

An even larger question hascome from CaHfornia: what com­munity's morality is to be usedas the community standard to beused in judging what is obscene?

Further complications in theobscenity dispute have arisenwhen the Justice Department dis­agreed with a Los Angeles courtdecision that it is not illegal topossess obscene material for pri­vate use. The federal govern­ment maintains that it has theright to seize the material butdoes not have the right to pun­ish the owner.

In Wisconsin, another state­federal dispute has arisen in ,thecase of interstate transport of"obscene" materials. A WIscon­sin court dismissed a case in­volving the transportation of 83obscene films from California.

Can the federal governmentallow interstat~ shipment of ob­scene material regardless ofwhether it is to be sold or usedprivately by the shipper?

Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin,S.T.D., Bishop of Fall River, willgo to Portugal next week to at·tend meetings of the PortugueseEpiscopal Migration Commissionwhich will discuss the pastoralcare of Portuguese migrating tothe United States.,

The meetings ,will take placeon July 13 in Angra do Heroismo,Terceira, and on July 17 in SanMiguel, Azores. Called by MostRev. Antonio dos Reis Rodrigues,Bishop of Mandarsuma, the meet·ings are concerned with Portu­guese emigration to the UnitedStates and Canada and will in·quire into the possibilities ofmutual collaboration in their,pastoral care. Host Bishop willbe Most Rev. Manuel Alfonso deCarvalho, Bishop of Angra. It isexpected that bishops or theirrepresentatives from areasthroughout the United States andCanada that have large Portu­guese settlements will attend.

Bishop Cronin will be accom·panied by Very Rev. Luiz G.Mendonca, pastor of St. John ofGod Church, Somerset, and VicarGeneral of the Fall River Dio-_cese, and Rev. John J. Oliveira,chaplain at Coyle-Cassidy HighSchool in Taunton.

En route home, the Bishopand his traveling companionswill visit continental Portugal.

Harkin served previously inSenegal from August, 1968, toJuly, 1970, with the U.S. PeaceCorps, and after a year as ateacher in New Orleans, he en­rolled at Syracuse University asa Maxwell Fellowship student.He received his bachelor of artsdegree, with magna cum laudehonors, from Providence Collegein 1968.

Catholic Relief Services, thelargest private voluntary over­seas aid agency in the world,conducts programs in 70 coun­tries throughout Africa, Asia andLatin America. Over 30 millionneedy people, of all races andreligions, benefit from the agen­cy's programs each year.

Mr. Harkin has four sisters.They are Mrs. Mary Caron ofBerkeley, Miss Ann M., a sen­ior at Roger Williams College;Kathleen A., a sophomore atFordham University; Joan C:, afreshman at' University of Mas­sachusetts.

He has also one brother, Thorn·as F. Harkin, Jr., a junior atDurfee High School.

swer such questions as:Should a national standard

take precedence over statestandards in the area of obscen­

, ity?Can a state close theaters

showing "adult" films?

JAMES M. HARKIN

plement socio-economic d~vel­

opment projects which providework and training in skills thathelp the needy to help them­selves toward, future economicviability and improved livingstandards.

Bishop To PortugalFor Migrant Talks

High Court Plans MajorWASHINGTON (NC)-The Su­

preme Court has set the stagefor a major review of the na­tion's obscenity laws next Octo­ber.

The review, involving six dif­ferent cases, will attempt to an-

TO VISIT PORTUGAL: Bishop Cronin details itineraryof his trip to the Azores, Terceira and Lisbon to his travel­ing companions, Very Rev. Luiz G. Mendonca, center, pas­tor of St. John of God Parish, Somerset and Vicar Generalof the Diocese, and Rev. John J. Oliveira, chaplain at Coyle­Cassidy High School and assistant at St. Anthony's Parish,both in Taunton. '

James M. Harkin, the son ofThomas F. and Alice Shaw Har­kin of 22 Byron St., Fall Riverand members of St. Patrick'sparish has been assignedoverseas duty with Catholic Re­lief Services in Senegal, WestAfrica, Bishop Edward E. Swan­strom, executive director of theAmerican Catholic overseas aidagency, announced here today.

He will be accompanied by hiswife, the former Lucille Boilardof St. Louis de France Parish,Swansea. Mrs, Harkin is grad­uate of Regis College, Westonand received a master's degreefrom Tulane University, NewOrleans. Her parents are Mr.and Mrs. Emile Boilard of 110Buffington St., Swansea.

Harkin, who currently residesin Syracuse, will begin his newprogram that benefits some 50,­000 impove;ished men, womenand children each year through-out Senegal. .

His duties will include the su­pervision of food, clothing am~

medicine distribution programs.He will also organize and im-

mobilize resources in the com­munity."

Other needs he cited are "deal­ing constructively with the po­larization that exists" amongpeople and a better "integrationof liturgy and catechetics."

Concerning polarization, Fath­er McDonald said reli'gious edu-,cation is "a very hot focal pointof the struggle taking place insociety at large." What is need­ed, he continued, is "reconcilia­tion and interplay . . . a matterof where you don't alienate alot of people."

Father Mc'Donald said develop­ment of specific programs is notforemost in his thinking now.' "Iwould like to bring to the nat­ional scene the involvement wehave created" through the Nat­ional Conference of Diocesan Di­rectors of CCD, he commented.

He said the Vatican's GeneralCatechetical Directory, publishedlast year, refers to local religious

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VATICAN CITY (NC) - TheVatican has firmly squelchednews reports that Pope Paul VIplans to retire when he becomes75 years old in September.

Archbishop Giovanni Benelli,papal ~ndersecretary of stateand intimate aide of Pope Paul,authoritatively denied retirementplans in an interview on VaticanRadio.

"The Pope has never givenany reason to think that hewould retire at the age of 75,"said Archbishop Benelli. "More­over, he has declared expresslythat he will not 'do so."

Archbishop Benelli told theVatican Radio interviewer: "I amnot here to repeat the variousreasons why the Pope considersit his duty to remain at his postas '-,the 'Servant of the Servant

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LOUISVILLE (NC) - Whilereligious education programs areusing more professionals, theparish CCD volunteer is not onthe way out, according to a topreligious education official.

"We need total participation"in religious education, FatherCharles C. McDonald said in aninterview here. "I see profession­als becoming managers of teamsand ,working with volunteers. Isee professionals enabling volun­teers to become more effectiveand to have a voice in religiouseducation."

Father McDonald, a priest ofthe Louisville diocese, is direc­tor of the U.S. Catholic Confer­ence's Division of Religious Ed­ucation-CCD.

Father McDonald was namedto his new post in June afterserving for a year and a half asexecutive secretary of the Nat­ional Conference of Diocesan Di­rectors of CCD in Washington.

Discussing religious educationneeds across the country, FatherMcDonald said a top priority onthe diocesan level is "to developmore systematic organization inorder to exert more control overthe situation and to enable vol­unteers to be more effective."

Local offices "seem to be tooconcerned with production ofservices," he said. "They shouldbe more concerned about organ­ization of people . . . trying to

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Referring to the gUldeiinespublished in MIlY, Msgr. AugustJ. Kramer, interim administratorof the archdiocese, said "we haveillready set some of this in mo­tion."

But he told the ArchdiocesanPastoral Council everyone invol­ved in the consultation is requir­ed to keep the matter secret.The Vatican document declaresthat secrecy ''is demanded by the .very nature of the matter and bythe respect due to the· personsbeing considered."

Msgr.Kramer also told thecouncil that the consulting is tobe done "individually, not col­lectively;" and that the effort isnot so much to obtain a list ofnames but to determine theneeds of the diocese arid thetype of person qualified to fulfillthem.

The report of his. consultationswill be given to the apostolicdelegate in the United States,Archbishop Luigi Raimondi.When a bishop is to· be appoint­

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"Our society is pretty,' com­mercial," he said. "And it is im­portant for people to see them­selves as people."

The Capuchin priest and hisvolunteers try to show about 50people who drop in five days aweek what Christian living is allabout and that others believe inthem. He tries to build hope andseCurity into the people he works-with.

Father MacDonald, a shy butfriendly man of 38, makes visi­tors welcome with a cup of cof­fee or tea.

Seven years a priest, he has .taught high school, worked atthe Good Shepherd Refuge, beenchaplain at the Port of Toronto,and has spent three years atShoppers' Drop-in.

He said he believes that in theChurch "we stress the socialGospel too much." Priests, besaid, generally, try to help peoplesocially. He sees himself moreas an evangelist.

"I preach and I pray," he says., "I can identify with those I'm

helping-I'm not a case worker.I try to re·create and' re-chal­lenge.

"The answer is with the Lord.We. should introduce people to

, the Lor.d. It is a good thing theChurch is chang'ing-where thereis life there is change.

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. pers' Drop-In downtown Torontois like an old-fashioned "comerstore."

It has an informal.atmosphere,everyone is known by his firstname, and there's a sympatheticear when someone wants to talkabout his· problems.

Capuchin Father Joseph M.ac·Donald describes his drop-in as"a retreat" from the bustling meof Yonge Street, one of the ·city'sbusy commercial thoroughfares.

And in his contacts with visi~

tors he tries to encourage inthem a sense ~f worth,. . . as aperson, not as an item of com­mercialism..

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of God'even after having reach­ed 75 years of age."

The archbishop, one of- the topofficials of the papal secretariatof state, said he thought it ve,rystrange that rumors continue tocirculate about the possibility ofthe popes retirement. "The,serumors have never had anyfoundation," he declared.

The 51-year-old archbishop isamong the most influential pre­lates in ·the Vatican, a memberof the inner' circle of advisers·and aides to Pope Paul and hasa reputation of never sayIng any­thing publicly without havingfully weighed its consequences.

, Asked about the Pope's 'health,the archbishop said that "Ule.Pope is very well . . . The in­tense activity he carries on everyday is the best proof, and it caneasily be verified, of his excellenthealth." ,

Speculation on the possible re­tirement 'of Pope Paul has heenfrequ.ently .aired in the press forthe P;ist several years, despitepersistent denials from Vaticanofficials.

The'rumors started in 19E16when he implemented norms pub­licly recommending that bishopsretire ,at the age of 75. '

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Votic~n Observers to ParticipateIn Co~ference on Security

ROME (NC)-Vatican; obser- could produce "some visible re­vers will Iparticipate in the suIts which can contribute con­Conference on Security and cretely to. international securityCooperation in Europe, scheduled and encourage the efforts toto be heldtnext year. make the conference itself a first

Archbish p Agost.i:lO ~asaroli, in a series of similar gatherings."secretary 0 the Vatican s. <;:oun- "Archbishop Casaroli said thecil for the ublic Affairs of the- conference should spell out aChurch, in ~n interview with tht;! balanced arms reduction "for allDaily. Amirican, an English- European countries and all typeslanguage. a.per pu?lished in of arms," as well as reaffirm "at

,Rome, sa1d that Vatican repre- the same time that the disarma­sentatives are expected to take ment process must not producepart in the I.prepar~to~y ~eeting 'imbalances' to the detriment ofto be held in Helsmkl, Fmland, . any participant or group of par­later this y~ar, as well as in the ticipants."coriferen~e ftself. .. " .The Vatican diplomat also called

Archblshqp Casaroli IS among for a."study of the means tothe. Vaticanis top diplo~a~ic n~- avoid or solv<e conflicts." NotinggO~lators ard a specI~lIstm that in the past guarantees to NEW BEDFORD SE:RRANS HONOR BISHOP: Prin­E~stern E~ropeall affairs. H.e. respect other countries' indepen- ~ipals present at the club's annual event of honoring Mostsaid he thllkS that the summit dence or to refrain from inter. Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, Ordinary of ~he Diocese of FallRiver,meeting in Mosc?w. a~d the ferring with internal affairs have. were: Atty. Maurice F. Downey, outgoing president·, Bishopagreement 011, limitatIOn of been ignored, he said:strategic uc1ea.r arms has "H~wever often such pledges' Cronin" the honored guest; Most Rev. James J. Gerrard,helped c.rea~e a climate favorable may have been broken in the ,AWdliaryBishop of Fall Ftiver and pastor of St. Lawrlence'sto holdmg a E~ropea~ confer· past, the Holy See feels that it' Parish, ,New Bedford; Clinton Rimmer, newly elected presi-~:~: to d~ I with major prob- would be, niost helpful if the d~nt. ' .'. .. .conference approved an 'ethical

The archblshop warned agamst code' of int fib h .expecting 10 much from the" erna IOna e aVlOr.conferenc.e, which has had the Such a d~cument C.OU~d h~vewarm supp rt of most commu- a moral and also a practical Im­nist countriJs in Europe. He said pact, particu!~rly if drafted. inthat disappdintment miglit result rather specific t~rms whichif pepple etpect too much. "In would also take m~o accountview of th~ different political .~ome rece~~ sad expenences here

- regimes prJvailing in Western m Europe. 'and in .'Eas~ern Europe, respec-tively, the limpact and conse· Little IRock Hasquences co~ld not be the sameon both sides," he said. New Ord.e,nary

'E~< ieal Code', .If the c nference, however, WASHINGTON (NCr - Pope

were well repare.d, he said, it Paul VI has accepted the resig-nation ,of Bishop Albert L. Fletch·

CCDn er, 75, of Little Rock, Ark., forrlrofessiona I reasons of health and age and

Continuetl from Page One named ,as his successor Msgr.education ohices as being part Andrew McDonald, vicar generalof the "diodesan curia," adding of the Savanriah, Ga., diocese."this is the brganization through The resignation and appoint­which he (the bishop) teaches." ment were announced hereby

"A lot ofl work needs to be Archbishop Luigi Raimondi, ap­done" to d~velop this, Father ostolic delegate in the United'McDonald said, since in rriany States.cases now the religious educa- Bishop-elect McDonald, 48, istion office is not considered to a native of Savannah,where hebe part of the "diocesan curia." attended Marist Grammar School.He said he FOUld like to build He studieeJ ·at seminaries in Bal­this idea at the national level timore, the Catholic University'and also fatilitate dialogue be. of America in Washington, D.C.,tween bishops and religious edu-· and the Lateran University incation directprs. Rome, whre he· earned a doctor·

Father MfDonald said there ate in canon law. He was or­now "seems ~o be a growing sup- dained in .1948, has held a vari­port" for C~D at the local level. 'ety of diocesan posts and alsoDiocesan dir ctors, he added, are ' served as pastor of Blessed Sac­"becoming c ncerned about nat- rament Church since 1963;ional matte IS" and they "will Bishop 'Fletcher, the first na·have to stand togethe'r to exert tive Arkansan ever named a bish·influence on] religious education op, 'was borni in Little Rockin the futur .", "where he attended college and

the seminary. He' was ordained. ,in 1920. He served as president

N,crol~gy of Little Rock College until 1925ULY 7 and then taught theology at St.

Rev. Jam~s E. Lynch, 1965, John's Seminary until 1939,First pastorj St. Joan of Arc, when he was named auxiiiaryOrleans. ' bishop of Little Rock. He became

ULY 8 bishop in 194El on the death ofBishop John B. Morris. .

Rev. Edward J. Murphy, 1887, Bishop Fletcher will continuePastor, St. ~ary, Fall River, as administrator of the diocese

JpLY 10 until Bishop-elect McDonald'sRev. Pie ·Marie Berard, O.P., installation.

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throats to chest pains. Peopleevidently save up their symptomsuntil their day off; on 'Saturdayat one hospital, 80 per cent ofthe cases crowding the emer­gency room are self-referrals.

As youthful in spirit as theblush of spring on a Burgundyhillside, Sister Madeleine never­theless is concerned with theproblems of geriatrics.

"Nursing can help a great dealin helping to keep the elderlyfrom being discouraged," shesays, putting a lilting upwardaccent on the last syllable, "andhelping to make them want tolive."

"But there are so many ques­tions that need answering," shecontinues, and a tiny frown ofpuzzlement dimples her forehead."Fot instance, why is it that thecreative people of this worldseem to live longer than others­the Charlie Chaplins, the GeorgeBernard Shaws and, "of courseshe hastens to add, "the MauriceChevaliers."

Not all of Sister's time is de­voted to problems of SMU, thecommunity and the aging.

Known to some on campus af­fectionately as "SMU's FlyingNun," she may be off to SouthAmerica' to serve as consultantto the fledgling School of Nur-.ing at the University of Antio­quia in Col"'Ubia and to a nurs­ing convention in Chicago ashort time later.

To honor her first graduatingclass of 14 nurses, Sister Made­leine brought in the top nursein the U. S. to receive an hon­orary degree at this spring'scommencement: Admiral Jessie·M. Scott, Assistant SurgeonGeneral and chief of the Divisionof Nursing of the U. S. PublicHealth Service.

Sister, a lady on the go whoexpects to expand her collegeto 400 students within the nextfew years, lives with four otherSisters and a Mother Superiorin Dourdan, near Dighton, sim­ply and with Burgundian fru­gality.

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of Nursing at St. Anne's Hospi­tal in that city until she tookover SMU's College of Nursingin 1969.

When she first came over,Sister, as she's known to mosteveryone on campus, had diffi­culties with the language.An in­veterate knitter of things forfriends, she says: "Because Icouldn't understand English verywell, I threw away the patternsand learned to knit by eye."

In the meantime she learnedEnglish quickly, built up an im­pressive list of academic creden­tials: a Ph.D. from Boston Col­lege, an assistant professorshipin the graduate department ofnursing at Boston College and avisiting lectureship at Yale Uni­versity School of Nursing.

Sister Madeleine has led herCollege of N.ursing at SMU witha dedicated belief in its involve­ment with the community. Twicea year she holds nursing confer­ences on campus to which sheinvites more than 200 nursesfrom hospitals, extended carefacilities, health agencies andnursing homes in southeasternMassachusetts. The conferences

\ are planned with thfil completecooperation of local hospitalsand nursing agencies.

"Improvement in health carein our community," she empha­sizes, "goes hand in hand withthe growth of the college. Thequality of the curriculum andthe caliber of the students edu­cated at SMU will, hopefully,contribute to better health carefor all the people of this area."

In a senior course entitled"Nursing and the Community"Sister Madeleine's students pur·sue projects in the community.One of them, doing research con­cerning the different ways thatJohn Q. Public obtains medicalcare these day~, came up with astartling conclusion: in areaswhere the doctor shortage isacute, more and more people areusing the emergency room of thelocal hospital as their familydoctor for everything from sore

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"The walls of our home werethree feet thick-very good forsetting up a dark room. Myfirst camera was very primitive,just a' box with a hole in oneend-a simple camera obscura.I remember I had to hold myfinger over the hole until I wasready to take the picture. ButI wo'n some prizes from E~stman

Kodak."Sister Madeleine is considered

quite a capable photographerand particularly enjoys filminglandscapes,' animals and hersister nuns.

Before entering the Dominicanorder at the age of 22, she trans­planted herself from the richearth of Burgundy to the intel­lectual atmosphere of Pariswhere she received her degreefrom the Universite, the oldestand most prestigious in Europe.

There followed a year as staffnurse at a hospital in Tours andthen, in the year 1936-not agood vintage year for peace-a _tour of duty at the HospitalFrancois in Barcelona, Spain,smack in the middle .of the Span­ish Civil War from which shefinally escaped via a Spanishport by destroyer.

With the. outbreak of WorldWar II , after a three-year stop­over as head nurse at the Clinicadella Presentazione in Rome,Sister Madeleine came to Amer­ica to settle with her DominicanSisters in Fall River.

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Donat'e $1 00,000For Education

WASHINGTON (NC) - TheKnights of Columbus have do­nated $100,000, to the newlyformed Parents for NonpublicEducation.

Robert N. Lynch, executive di­rector of the new Catholic or­ganization, said the associationwas formed to lend support toan interfaith group called Citi­zens Relief for Education by In­come Tax (CREDIT).

CREDIT seeks to obtain reliefthrough income tax credits forparents who send their childrento nonpublic schools.

The group, headed by RabbiMorris Sherer of Agudath Israelof America, stresses the humanright of parents to educate theirchildren according to their re­ligious conscience and empha­sizes the value of nonpublicschools in a pluralistic society.

Commenting on the $100,000grant, John W. McDevitt, chiefexecutive officer of the Knightsof Columbus, said "Nonpublicschools are performing an im­portant service to all Americans. . . however, rising costs areplacing an increasingly intoler­able burden on these schools andtheir supporters.",

'Parents for Nonpublic Educa­tion has been endorsed by Cardi­nal John Krol of Philadelphia andCardinal Terence Cooke of NewYork.

beauty," Sister Madeleine remi­nisces. "All around us there wasbeautiful countryside and alsosome of the most beautifulcathedrals and churches inFrance. And then, my guardian,my uncle, was an ar,chitect andgave me a very good sense ofaesthetic values when I was a.young girl."

It's not surprising then thatSister turned to photography ata very tender age.

She is a Burgundian.When she laughs - which is

often - her eyes reflect thewarmth of the late August sunthat ripened the grapes in thev~neyards of her native "la belleFrance." When she walks­which is usually fast - shestrides with the enthusiasm of aGallic miss anticipating the ex­citement of the village winefestival. When she talks-in ac­cents that conjure images of pop­lar - lined country lanes andnames like Dijon, Chalon, andNuits St. Georges-she bubbleslike the sparkling spirit thatbears the name of her birthplace.

She is also a nun, and asAmerican as a chocolate cake­with a prayer candle on it. Sheowns a dog which she did notname Cognac." To prove herAmericanization, she calls i~,

"Whiskey."Nearly any day she can be

seen, white and black habit ·fly­ing, hurrying across the campusof Southeastern MassachusettsUniversity to her office on thethird (Ioor of the AdministrationBuilding. Sister Madeleine Clem­mence Vaillot, Dean of SMU'sCollege of Nursing, is a lady onthe move.

Almost single handedly thispetite package of dynamismbrought the College of Nursingfrom a scarely noticeable band­age on the burgeoning body ofthe young University to a viablefactor in its educational process.It has grown since 1968 fromfour transfer biology students toan enrollment of 119 today.

This spring, Sister Madeleinehad further cause to celebrate­perhaps over a modest glass ofvintage Burgundy, She gradu­ated her first class of 15 stu­dents and received a grant of$80,000 from HEW.

It was a long and sometimesarduous trip for Sister Madeleinefrom the walled town ofVilleneuve-sur-Yvonne, datingback to the 10th century, to thespace-age cement buildings ofSMU.

She smiles a tender faraway'smile when she talks about theancient fortifications, long agoturned into gardens, amongwhich she grew up.

"It was wonderful. Burgundywas country. We lived in a smalltown in a part of Burgundy thatwas a very old civilization. Ifyou remember your first yearLatin, she said, "about the GallicWars-well I was brought upa few miles from where Ver­cingetorix surrendered to Ceasarand also where the Second Cru·sade was preached in Vezelayby St. Bernard in 1040. So itreally gave us the role in historythat maybe we miss over here."

Villeneuve - sur - Yonne (NewCity on the Yonne River) is oneof hundreds of "New Cities" inin France dating from the 9thand 10th centuries when thepeople freed themselves from tilefeudal lords and set up fortifiedcommunes. The Velleneuvesignalled the end of feudal timesand t he emergence of thebourgeoisie or Jrliddle class.

01,1."She sums up her early girl-hood in World War I with Gallichumor. "I was torn by the ideaof being either Joan of Arc orEdith Cavell. I thought wewould have to take to the woodsand I kind of liked the idea."

"We were sl:lrrounded by

Arrangements MadeFor Sudan Relief

NEW YORK (NC)-The Su­danese government and three re-

·ligious relief organizations, in­cluding U. S. Catholic ReliefServices, agreed on terms for de­livering aid to· about 500,000refugees in three southern prov­inces of the Sudan.

The agreement was signedhere . in the office of BishopEdward E. Swanstrom, executivedirector of CRS. Abdalla el-

· Sheikh, Sudanese informationminister, acted for his govern-

· ment; Wilhelm Van Hoogstratenrepresented Church World Serv­ices and Bernard Confer repre­sented Lutheran World Relief..

Under the provisions of thecontract, Sudan authorities will.waive import duties on the car-.goes of food, clothing, medicines,tools and other equipment enroute or awaiting shipment tothe area.

They will also be responsiblefor transport of. the suppliesfrom the port, and their di'stribu­tion to local· communitiesthrough the recently established

· Relief and Rehabilitation Councilof the newly autonomous south-.ern region. Visas and permitsfor field workers of the three·relief organizations will be expe­dited, although these staffs willbe limited in number.

P'olitical PrisonersO~ Hunger Strike

SAO PAULO (NC)-Politicalprisoners in Sao Paulo, includingthree Dominican Brothers, wenton a' hunger - strike to protestpoor jail conditions.

As the strike reached its tenthday, the Brazilian Bishops Con­ference mediated with the minis­try of justice to urge improvedconditions.

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Members of the CYO havescheduled a weekend campingtrip starting Friday and endingSunday at the summer camp ofRichard Boucher, who will alsosupervise the' project.

The Norton Country Club willbe the scene of the four divisionCYO golf tournament plannedfor Wednesday, July 12. The

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The annual parish picnic willbe held from lOin the morningto 7 in the evening on Sunday,July 9 on the grounds of OlirLady of the Lake Camp,. EastFreetown.

Parishioners and their familiesar.e requested to furnish theirown lunches, tables and otherneeded items for the fun-filledday.

The program under the super.-'vision of the :ommittee will in­clude a father-son softball gameat 10:30 and a variety of racesand games with prizes to be·awarded at the conclusion of theprogram.

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The Feast of the Holy Ghostwill be held on Saturday andSunday, July 29 and 30 at thePortugese Social Club on FlynnSt.

The crowning will take placeduring the 11 o'clock Mass onSunday morning, July 30 ~n OurLady of the Angels Church anda procession will start at 1o'clock..

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Plans are being formulated bythe board of directors for a·lawn party on Friday, Saturdayand Sunday, July 28, 29 and aoto be conducted at the cornerof Reed St. and Braytgn Ave.

James O'Neill of Swansea R.,'will serve as chairman and Mrs.Raymond Lapointe as secretary.

The following are serving (Inthe board: Leo Barboza, LionelMedeiros, Frank Medeiros, Mrs.Manuel Nogueira, Miss AnnMonteiro and Mrs. Frank Thom­as.

Meetings will be held everyWednesday night at 7:30 in therectory in order to finalize plansfor the affair. Proceeds will beused for the building fund forthe new church.

PROPOSAL: Henry A. Ra­mirez, Chairman of the Cabi­net Committee on Opportun­ities for Spanish SpeakingPeople calls for more Spanishspeaking bishops in the Uni­ted States. NC Photo.

Ministry Is ModelIn 'P'eace Education

SYRACUSE (NC)-The recent.ly formed Catholic Justice andPeace .Education Ministry hereis being used as the model foran ecumenical program teachingopposition to all wars.

Headed by Father Richard Os­borne, the Justice and Peace Ed­ucation Ministry in the Syra­cuse diocese will soon spreadthis philosophy into the Protes­tant and Jewish communities.

The proposal to extend FatherOsborne's program was made byan ecumenical task force headedby the Rev. Paul Flucke, pastorof Plymouth CongregationalChurch here. Father Osborneworked on the task force withrepresentatives from the Epis­copal, Lutheran, Jewish, UnitedChurch of Christ, United Meth­odist, United Presbyterian, andAmerican Friends Society com­munitities.

eightieth anniversary of Pope. Leo XIII's great social encyclical,

Rerum Novarum.That is to say, they were ex­

ercising "careful judgment" indistinguishing.. between thoseforms and features of socialism·which are compatible withChristian social teaching andthose which are not. This kindof careful discernment, the HolyFather noted in his ApostolicLetter, will enable Christians tosee the degree of commitment(to socialism) possible alongthese lines, while safe-guardingthe values, especial1y those ofliberty, responsibility and open­ness to the spiritual, whichguarantee the integral develop­ment of man,"

This is what the French Com­mission set out to do and what.Michael 'Harrington has alsoattempted to do-and, in largemeasure, has succeeded in doing,......in the book referred to above.A careful reading of the Frenchdocument and of Harrington'sbook will help American readers'to play a more intelligent andmore constructive role in thecontinuing world-wide debateabout the future of socialism asa visible and legitimate socio­economic system. .

'Careful JUdgm~nt'

This conclusion will undoubt­edly come as a surprise to manyAmerican Catholics and a severeshock to others. They will wantto bear in mind, however, thatthe members of the Commissionwere doing precisely what PopePaul VI advised al1 Christians todo in his Apostolic Letter of May15, 1971 commemorating the

Radical Break

The Commission reports thatal1 of the workers consulted hadrejected capitalism and hadadopted a form of socialism. Forthem, a unified human develop­ment was possible only by meansof socialism. Most of the work-

.ing class leaders believed thatthe transition from capitalismto socialism would involve aradical break. They were in prin­ciple against the use of force,but were afraid that. the resist­ance of the ruling dasses wouldma~e violence inevitable.

The Commission then went onto say, in its owil name, that"there are major elements ofMarxism . which have beenadopted by Christian workers,and which do not seem to beincompatible with their faith."It concluded that "the economicand political system of socia1ismis whol1y reconcifilble with-Chris­tianity, so long as' human rightsare guaranteed . . . This firstattempt at discussion with mili­tant Catholic workers who havechosen socialism shows us yetagain how distant despite al1good will - we are from theworking class, its language, cul­ture, spontaneous responses andbasic aspirations."

HOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., July 6, .1972

ontinuing DebateFuture of Socialism

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Michael arrington, who' has been a leader of thesocialist move ent in the United States for many years,is best known erhaps as the author of "The Other America,"which was n only a best seller in its day but is alsocredited with hkving ~parked ,the so-called War on pov- favori.ng ~ocialism for ~atinrt I the ldng ruhhow- Amenca-Is rat~e:r dramatically

e y. ~ ~ , . indicative of thiS trend. Thoseever, hl~ rec~ tl~ pU~,hshed Catholics in the United Statesbook entlt.led oClalism (Sat- who may be inclined to write offurday ReVIew PiSS, New York, this particul.ar meeting as a rag­emm'ffsm::CmIY_ ,. . tag gathermg of unorthodox

Christian radicals or revolution­aries have something to learn, Ithink, from a lengthy document,on socialism issued by the Fr~nch

hierarchy at the very time that"Chr~tians for Socialis~" weremeeting in Santiago.

This French document (inten-. tionally dated May 1, the tradi­

tional feast day of the inter­national working class) is entitled"First Reflections of the Epis­copal Commission on WorkingClass Affairs in Dialogue WithMilitants Who. Have Opted forSocialism." The full text is re­printed, in French, in the May 21edition of "La DocumentationCatholique." An adequate sum­mary, in ~nglish, is available inthe May 20 edition of "The(London) Tablet."

The document is addressed tothe bishops of France by anEpiscopal Commission (of 15)presided over by ArchbishopMaziers of Bordeaux. The pre­amble states ~hat the Commis­sion wished merely to "hear theviews of militant Christianworkers and to respond t~ theirquestions."

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This being the Icase, H-;'rring­ton's book-the best thing of its.kind on the marktt_iS requiredreading for seriou ~minded Amer­icans. I say this not because Iam interested in promoting so­cialism in the Uni~ed States, butbecause I am convinced that weAmericans owe it to ourselvesto try, at the ve1least, to un­derstand why soc~'lism has suchgreat appeal in m ny if not mostcountries of the orId.

.In this writer's judgment,Harrington is unboubtedly cor­reet in arguing t~at it has such

·an appeal and that "it's tremen­dous resonance ObJ~iOUSIY tel1s of

. a deep yearning f r fundamentalchange among hu dreds of mil­lions of people"

Perhaps the cle rest sign that· its appeal is growirg rather thandeelining is the falt that so manyCatholics 'in other lands are nowopenly espousing some form ofsocialism or, Shoft of that, areat least openly' c ,ntending thatdemocratic social'sm is a per­fectly legitimate 0 tioit for com­mitted Christians.

. French Document

The recent "dhriStians forsocialism" meeting in Santiago,Chile-which wen on record as

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$12.50) wil1 und6ubtedlY be re­garded as his ~ajor work and.his principal cla m to fame asa writer and s cial reformer.

Harrington is a dreamer inthe best sense of the word, buthe is also a hard-headed real­ist. .While convinped in his own '

.' mind that SOcialf·sm (democraticsodalism, be. It oted) is desir­able and necess ry, he knowsvery wel1 that i is not inevi­table and is the first to admitthat, if it starts 'Irom the wrongpremises or tak!es the wrong'turn, it can betome-and, in­deed, has becom~ in many cases-a curse to hJmanity ratherthan a· blessing.

Harrington is Iso very real­istic concerning the future ofsociaiism in the United States.

·While arguing in his new bookthat "most of th people in theworld cal1 the hame of theirdream 'socialis~:" he notesthat the United States is the"great exception" in this regard.

The U.s., he s ys, is "almostthe only country on the face ofthe globe where socialism' 'is abad word."

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meeting of the Organization ofAfrican Unity.

As a result of their talks, ar­rangements for the exploratorymission were made, Waldheimsaid. Upon its return and afterhearing the members report, hesaid, decisions will be takenabout the nature and form of aidthe world organization can ex­tend, probably through the UNHigh Commissioner's office inGeneva.

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Waldheim Sends Mission to BurundiUNITED NATIONS (NC) -UN

Secretary General Kurt Wald­heim is sending a three-man mis­sion to Burundi to discuss withthe government the extent andtype of relief measures to beundertaken in the wake of therecent tribal conflicts.

Waldheim pointed out that UNhelp to any member country canbe extended only by invitationfrom its government. No suchrequest had been received fromBurundi, he said, until he hadarrived in Rabat, Morocco, andhad a conference with ArtemonSimbananiye, Burundi's foreignminister who was there for the

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., July 6, 1972

ROSE HAWTHORN HOME HAS VISITOR: Home's staff meets with Bishop Croninduring· his visit with the patients. Front: Sr. M. Dolores, Sr. M. de Montfort, Sr. M.Daniel, superioress, Sr. M. Matthew, Sr. M. Denise and Sr. M. Albert. Rear: Sr. M. Ed­win, Sr .M. Bernardine, Bishop Cronin,. Very Rev. Thomas J. Harrington, chancellor andchaplain at the home; Sr. M. Margaret. Center: The Ordinary of the Diocese distributesHoly Communion to patient with the assistance of Father Harrington. Bottom: Follow­ing the Mass, Bishop Cronin enters the sun porch on his rounds of the home. Witness­ing the visit is Bruce Zcaplla, an orderly, standing.

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Georgetown NamesNew Directors

WASHINGTON (NC)-FatherEdmund G.' R.yan, S.J., has beennamed executive vice-presidentfor educational affairs at George­town University here as part ofan administrative restructuringof the Jesuit university's boardof directors.

Father Ryan, former executivevice-president of St. Peter's 'Col­lege in Jersey City, N.J.,' willserve as deputy to universitypresident Father R.J. Henle ineducational matters.

Three additional executive vice­presidential positions were ere·ated in the restructuring. Thesevacancies have been filled withpersonnel already in the admin­istration. The new executive vice­presidents are James F. Kelly,administrative affairs; MatthewF. McNulty Jr., medical centeraffairs; and Malcolm C. McCor­mack, university relations.

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'Vote to LimitPastors' Terms

CHEYENNE (NC)-The priestsof the Cheyenne diocese havevoted to limit the' tenure ofpastors and to require all priests .

, to retire at. 75.The new policies say that,

priests under 60 wjll be limitedto a maximum of two five-yearterms as pastors. Assignments ofolder priests will be changed onlyif the bishop ,believes they "areneeded in an alternative assign­ment."

Priests of the diocese approvedthe new policies by a 40-15 votein June, following six months ofconsultation with priests, Relig­ious and laity. The policies areeffective this Fall.

The guidelines include a max­imum four-year term for assist­atit pastors and provide for vol­untary retirement at 70. Amonthly retirement benefit of$250 will be provided by thediocese.

Before they were approved, the"new policies were reviewed andapproved by the diocesan pas­toral council.

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Electink Bishops. It is i~eresting to hear the rallying cries that rise up

regularly, p omising all s.orts of new hope for the CatholicChurch in e United States.

. The la est one seems to be that almost all ills will becured if bishops are elected by the people. '

It is tI1Ie that in the early Church this was the method'of selectionf It is also-true that the communities in the early'Church we~ reasonably small·and in such a small group theprocess of electing a bishop was a fairly easy one With. thedeserving en standing out quite clearly. '.

New atican directives for the selection of bishops· urge consultation with laymen, priests and religious. At least

fifty Ameribm bishops-and the Diocese of Fall River didthis several years ago-have asked priests to send in recom­mendations for bishops, and some dioceses have asked laityand religio s for confidential suggestions. '

So the process is being opened to wider participation.But im gine.the prospects if the whole thing came down

to a matter of election? .James Michael Curley once said that the only thing

lacking in ~is own education was four years of theology.· Imagine t] activity of an election for. bishop. Television

networks ould bid for convention coverage rights. (Thatmight be of m,ore than casual interest' to a diocese in finan-

· cial straits.) Parties cQuld be formed backing different candi­dates. A gr at challenge would arise in the matter of raisingmoney for bewspaper and television promotion. .

Men b~ing considered for the post would submit. them­selves to television interviews. Careful distinctions wouldhave to b~made between the man who presented a goodimage and ielded questions well and the man who lackedchari~ma b t could do the job. '

.' And Iho would vote for a bishop? Would it be abaptism cettificate or a confirmation record that wouldserve as voting credentials? Or would it be regular Churchattendance knd, if so, how to keep a record of this?

, FatherJAndrew Greeley, the sociologist, has been onthe election of-bishops-kick for a while now. He is ~minenf

in his field and has written excellent artides.Once in awhile he se ms to stub his toe and when he said, as he did,that bishops in the United States' are intellectually andspiritually aJnd morally bankrupt then one·would have everyreason to sfspect that he is not all that objective when it A .Resnonsible Presscomes to~t matter of bishops. r

As a atter of fact, a clerica~ member of a religious By the first amendment of our national constitution,group that oes elect its bishops has given this word of the people of this land have been guaranteed freedom ofadvice: Do 't jump at this thing too quickly; we usually the press. This past week, the Supreme Court again upheldend up electing someone whom no one has anything against, this freedom by indicating in its decision the basic concepta ·nice guy, hnd some one who wi!l leave us alone. of all freedom, that a free

Hardly he qualifications for a successor of the Apostles. .press is a responsible press lective; How often in daily living. So the present rallying cry of electing 'bishops could with basic duties and obliga- do we hear the all-too-familiard bt dl t d t d 1 t · d th ht quotations "I read it in theun ou e s an a grea ea more scru my an oug. 'tl'ons l'n'cumbent on all citi- newspaper" or "I saw it on TV."

D"z·vz·n Sa' ~~t~1f izens of America for the common zens of th,is nation and not J'ust• , J' .., h h Very often w~en they quoteqnce a ain the nation is waIting for a final death toll :~~d~a~e:;ti~et:~~Jec~t~~: the news media as an authority a ~~~:~::~~ be sure, if the.y

f ' th 1 k d 'd t ttl . f for their own argumentationrom e 0 g wee en aCCl en 0 a . ' decision of the highest court 0 are honest and sincere, shouldI • h h they fail to realize that their,The St te of California is presently pursuing several . the' land by .statmg t at t e not become the victims of pri-

f 1·· local newspaper or tele'li1sioncourses to r duce traffic accidents. Fixed objects. near travel statement 0 the court was Imlt- station is nothing more than the vate whims and personal fancyI b . d h' Id d b d'l B king, constraining and restricting. -:-be it their own or their em-anes are ngremove or S Ie e y guar ral s. rea - In addl'tl'on, those' w.ho do hold ' mere _ spokesman for a local

b . d f . . dl l' h' C . h b' f ployer. If they submit themselvesaway supp rts are emg use or SIgns an 19 ts. urves this view would, to a gr~at ex- power-block. From t e, las 0 a tho d d f .b d f b d h local rural newspaper to the to IS stan ar 0 reportmgare eing gr ove or etter traction. Freeway me ians ave tent, now lead us. to believe that they most certainly have lost

b . 'd H' h f d f h garish news room 'of one of ourconcrete a ers to prevent crossover aCCl ents. 19 ways the basic ree om 0 t e press their own freedom. No Constitu-d d 1 d television giants; the news mediaare outline with reflective markers and stripes in the has been impaire an essene.. tional . amendment and, no

h h f l in general foisters its own views,center and on the edges. Plants and fenCing shut out on- There are many ot ers w 0 ee opinions and judgments on an Supreme Court decision can helpcoming heatllights from parallel roads. Signs have been that thi~ decision of the Su~ unsuspecting and credulous pub-. such a man in his search for

~preme Court has once more basic independence and funda-

improved a d safety inspections made more frequent. renewed and revived a basic con- lie. mental liberty.All the e safety factors can be imitated with profit. cept applicable to all' citizens How many reporters must be True Freedom is to' be a cer-But th individual driver must also' be aware of his of this country, namely, that to careful not to offend the news- tain paradoxical harmony of

grave respo sibility and take his driving as a matter of be free one must be responsible' paper owner and/or his friends? independence and dutie~i>owerand accountable. The notion that How many newscasters are

conScience. Ihich it is.. true fr'eedom' resl'des l'n a com- . 11 and impotency, autocracy andmerely reading a philosophlca y service. Yet, it is in this paradoxpletely non-accountable news edited script? How many editors that each and every member of

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are a most trusting and at the dom? Is this true responsibility? We must always be diligentsame time a most gullible col- Is this true accountability? and watchful that our priceless

f.reedoms, especially that of the

OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE .OF FALL RIVER Reaccountability and Responsibility ~~~s'pr~~:rv~e~~eda:~o:.anX~~Published weekly by The Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall River The opinion of the majority circumstances that the news countability and responsibility

I PUBLISHER,. report of the Supreme Court does media should be reminded of its, only serve to increase and en·Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, D.O., S.T.D. - , 'serve to remind the news media total public responsibility. That, courage this freedom which is

, GENE AL MANAGER ASST. GENERAL MANAGER that they do not possess complete each and every newspaper, radio our nation's heritage. A trulyRev. Msgr. 0 niel F. Shalloo, M.A. Rev. John P. Driscoll certainty of action and infalIibili- station and television studio has free press is not ~fraid to accept....lelI'Y Prill ,Fill River ty, of thought. There are times arid an accQunt,ability to all the citi· these obligations.

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Keep Inner CitySchools Open

CINCINNATI (NC)-The Cin­cinnati Archdiocesan PastoralCouncil has approved grants ofmore than $350,000 to help 16inner city. schools survive atleast for the coming year.

At the same time the councilindicated that it will developlong-range plans for the con­tinued existence of the needyschools.

The council adopted unani­mously a report by its inner cityschool committee cal1ing for out­right subsidies to nine' parishesand creation of a reserve fundfor seven others.

Paul C. Mecklenborg, commit­tee chairman, said that subsidiesto nine parish schools will total$287,050. Reserve funds for theother seven amount to $80,600.Mr. Mecklenborg explained thatthe latter schools are uncertainabout their financial needs in theyear ahead.

"The primary concern of thecommittee was to keep the innercity schools open in 1972-73,"Mecklenborg said. "While it isrecognized that this first attemptwas, at best, a stop-gap meas­ure, the committee feels thatconsiderable progess was made"in the three months since thecommittee began work.

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Permits PriestsTo Talk Politics

OAKLAND (NC - Priests inthe Oakland diocese may preachon some political topics, but theymust give opponents equal time,according to guidelines approvedby Bishop Floyd Begin and theSenate of Priests.

The guidelines allow priests touse the pulpit to discuss "moralissues with pclitical implica­tions" and their own applicationsof moral principles in politicalareas.

But in such cases, the guide­lines say, the priest should "pro­vide a forum for discussion after·Mass or on another convenientoccasion so that persons withdiffering viewpoints may freelyexchange thoughts and under­stand the reasons behind each 0

other's conclusions."The guidelines say that while

priests should preach the socialdoctrine of the Church clearlyand forcefully, they must not usethe pulpit "to argue personaljudgments on partisan politics."

The guidelines also tell prieststhat when they apply moral

J.principles to politics in a sermon

they must "make it clear wheth­er their application is that ofpersonal judgment or of a higherecclesiastical authority."

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BANGALORE (NC) -:- A na­tional conference on Indianiza­tion of the Church called here ;.for "e~periments in daily living"in which Catholic priests andnuns will reside in Hindu monas­teries and Hindu Religious willlive in Catholic monasteries andconvents.

The conference, however, wasnot able to agree on a clear-cutformula on the relation of Chris­tianity to Hinduism and othernon-Christian religions and sim­ply declared that there is "anurgent need to study the problemin depth."

The six-day conference washeld at the suggestion of a followup committee of India's nationalseminar on Church renewal whichwas held in 1969.

The confesrence, held at theCarmelite Dharmaram seminaryhere, was attended by priestsand Sisters from the whole coun­try who are working for Indian­ization in the field of theology,liturgy, music and church archi­tecture.

Parents Charg'e Civil LibertiesUnion With Discrimination

PHILADELPHIA (NC) - Par­ents of nonpublic school studentshave charged that the Ameriean.civil Liberties Union (ACLlDsupports religious discriminationby opposing aid to nonpublicschools.

-The parents group has filed afederal court brief here in an I;\t­tempt to intervene in an ACLUsuit challenging a state law pro­viding aid to parents of nonpub­lic school students.

The brief argues that parentsof nonpublic school students are·governed by two absolute com­mands: "the Compulsory Attend­ance Law and ... their religiousconscience."

Pennsylvania's Parent Reim­bursement Act (Act 92) providespublic welfare benefits to par­ents who suffer economic hard­ship .by sending their child tononpublic school while financingpublic schools with tax dollars,the brief states.

According to the parent group'slawyers, those objecting to thelaw "say that these parentsmust be excluded from participa­tion in the public welfare benefit. . . solely on the ground thattheir children fulfill the Com­pulsory Attendance Law require­ments by attendance at reli­giously affiliated schools." Thus,"they set up religion as thestandard for determination inpublic welfare ben~fits."

Equal OpportunityThis, the lawyers argue, is in

direct violation of the Constitu­tion's guarantee of equal pro­tection under the law.

According to the attorneys,parents of nonpublic school pu­pils 40 not seek a subsidy forreligion. They merely want equalopportunity to receive publicwelfare benefits.

In the brief, the parent groupexplains that if "the Legsilature. . . has determined to providepublic welfar~ benefits to all

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ST. LOUIS (NC)-Missouri'sfirst attempt to provide aid tochildren in nonpublic schools hasbeen challenged in a suit filedhere.

The suit seeks to block distri­.bution of textbooks to nonpub·lic school students under thestate's free textbook program.

'The law, due to go into effectAug. 13, would have publicschool districts purchase bookswith state funds and loan themto nonpublic schools.

In the past, only public schoolshave received free .'text booksfrom the state fund, which is fi·nanced by a special tax on out­of-state insurance companies do­ing business in Missouri.

Filing the suit were Philip J.,Paster, a St. Louis lawyer, andJames F. Hornback, executivesecretary of the Ethical Societyof St. Louis. They filed the suiton behalf of their sons, who arepublic school students.

The suit claims the new lawviolates church-separation pro­visions of both the Missouri andUnited States constitutions. Us­ing public funds for books fornon-public school children, ac­cording to the suit, will "ad­versely affect the rights, bene­fits and privileges" of the plain­tiffs.

Among the arguments made insupport of the legislation wasthat although the special taxproduced $12.3 million in reve­nue last year only $9.2 millionwas used for public school text­books. Cost of purchasing' booksfor nonpublic school studentswas estimated at $1.2 million andcould be met by using the sur­plus funds.

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Mrs. Shriver Urges Adoption Campaign,As Way of. Fighting Abortion

ATLANTIC CITY (NC)-Mrs. are "desperately wanted byEunice Kennedy Shriver pro- ,thousands of Americans whoposed a campaign to fight abor- cannot have children' of theirtion by recruiting one million own."persons willing to adopt "un- She warned the delegat~s thatwanted" babies. those who joint the campaign

"'One million for Life' would must be willing to adopt handi-be clear evidence to every capp,ed babies and babies of a:n­mother-to-be that the child-even other race. "But if, we believeif undesired by her-is wanted in life," she said, "we cannotby a 'family willing' and able to draw the line of color or intel­raise it as its own," Mrs. Shriver lect or fitness. We must be ontold delegates to the first annual the side of life all the way."convention of Birthright-USA If the campaign succeeds, Mrs.here. Shriver said, the "unwanted

Mrs. Shriver urged Birthright baby" argument will have beento register couples wishing to answered and abortion advocatesparticipate in the campaign, and will have only the argumentthe 150 delegates agreed to pre- "that life can be taken for thesent the proposal to local Birth- simple convenience of others."right groups. '

~."'~"", ""',..,..,..".,', , , ~..,Mrs. Denise Cocciolone, Birth-right executive director, said theorganization would act on theproposal later. '

"One Million for Life" wouldbe an answer to claims thatabortion is the only solution tothe / problem of an unplannedpregnancy, Mrs. Shriver said.

"I want to tell the thousandsof women facing an unplannedpregnancy that .there is indeedanother choice-a choice of lifeover death, of love over fear. Iwant to assure them most ear­nestly that the life they are bear­ing is not unwanted."

Mrs. Shriver said that through"out the nation the number ofbabies available for adoption "isdwindling drastically" and babies

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Apparel CareConsumer Protection courses

are being offered in area col­leges, consumer information col­umns are spring up in news­papers and the big push' is onto inform the consumers of theirrights., One important law has re­cently been passed by the FederalTrade Commission-a law re­quiring manufacturers to sew in"care labeling directions" iri eachof the garments that they manu-.facture. Basically, this soundseasier than it is because nowthe manufacturer must not onlybe concerned with the design ofthe garment, he must also beaware of the perf()rmance of thematerial that' he uses" in theitem. . , . 0

. Hemus't' know how this mater­ial acts with certain tempera­tures of water and methods oflaundering or dry (:Ieaning. Whilethis certainly will be an annoyingnuisance as far as the manu­facturer,is concerned, it is goingto be a big plus for the buyingpublic.

Catholic De,legatesAt Swedish Meeting

STOCKHOLM (NC)-The Cath-,olic Church will participate of­ficially in a meeting of all Swe~

dish 0 churches to be held inGothenburg Aug. H-13.

There will be 36 Catholic dele­gates at the meeting, called "G72," which is being organizedby, the Swedish Council ofChurches. The Catholic Churchhas been a full member of the

. council since Jan. 1 of this year.Plans for the meeting were madeduring the 1968 assembly of theWorld Council of Churches atUppsala. '

In describing the purpose ofthe meeting the late LutheranArchbishop Ruben Josefson ofUppsala said that it "will take'up some of the most burningproblems that churches and indi­vidual Christians are trying tosolve at present. They are all insome way variations on the ideaof estrangement: toward yourown' 'established' church, be­tween Christians of different.,traditions and confessions,in ,re­lation to the immigrants who aretaking root in our country, and,finally, toward global moralquestions and future problems."

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Lauds ReconsiderationOf U. S. Inv Ivement

WASHINGTO (NC) - TheSenate has take a "responsibleapproach" in pas ing a motion topostpone a deds on on financial Catholic; Confer~nce

cutbacks in Unit d States dona- Has New He,odtions to the Un ted Nations, aU. S. Cathol c Conference LANSING (NC)-Thomas OM.(USCC) spokesm n said here. Bergeson, acting executive di-

In a letter to en. Allen Ellen- rector of the Michigan Catholicdel' (D., La.), c airman of the Conference since Feb. 1, becameSenate Appropri tions Commit- executive director on July 1.tee, Father Jame Ra,usch, USCC Bergeson, 46, joined the Con­associate gene al secretary, fe~ence in 1966 'to establish itspraised the Sen te action, call- retirement program. He will con­ing ita reflecti n of "the con-: tinue to head the program.cerned ,support or. the U. N., Bergeson succeeded Peter V.for which Pope aul and other Hasbrook who' resigried to be­church leaders h ve consistently -. come president of a computer(failed." service company.

Protect on -for Consum,ersWelco ed by All Buy,~rs

Someone s finally listening. Consumers take heed, "no.longer are yo a lone voice crying in the wilderness o~ ';In­interested top brass." Hopefully, all the years of takmgit on the chin are over for the consumer because laws toprotect the p blic are ap­pearing on Ie islative rollsacross the co try. Now, atleast, the buy r will be ableto have a fifty- ifty chance toget what he p ys for, be in-

- formed how to' are for it cor­rectly and all i all get' a fairshake on the b ying end.

.Consumers, no longer are will-- ing to be fooled I' cast aside as '

second class citi ens. When theyreceive a piece l' inferior mer­chandise, sign a ontract,.or evenconsider a large purchase theywill now be in rmed of their

,rights and they ill have some-one to turn to.

New reed"Younger, shr wder, better in­

formed' and mol' suspicious," isthe way Willi m M. Batten,chairman of J. . Penney Co.,describes the n w young con­sumer who is i a large partresponsible for ese strict newregulations tha protect the

'. public. "They 1'0 a new breed.Their tolerence is down. Theirexpectations are up. They willnot be kicked .a ound the mar­ketplace."

Because of the pressures exer­cised by these oncerned indi­viduals, offices of ConsumerProtection are pening up in

.major cities acr ss the co'untry.Here in Massach setts the officeis part of the At orney General's

- office, with satel ite offices scat­tered throughout the state. 'Pres­ently an office to handle con-.sumer complain s is being 01'­

gan'ized in New Bedford. Thisoffice will be fun ed through theAttorney GeneI' I's office andstaffed with Ie I' help plus aknowledgable tr ined staff. Als,oin the offering i a' smaller Fall

. 'River office that ill open in theFall to be' staffe with volunteerworkers (this h s come aboutthrough a united effort put forthby the Fall Ri er League of

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Orthodox JewsOppose Abortion

LAKEWOOD (NC)-The Rab­binical Council of New Jerseyadopted resolutions opposing lib­eralized abortion laws and favor­ing tax deductions for parentsof students in non-public schools.

The council represents Ortho­dox Jewery in New Jersey. Inits resolution on abortion, itstated that the termination ofpregnancy could be justified onlywhen its continuation endangersthe life of the mother.

That had been the law in NewJersey until this Spring when athree-judge federal court said thelaw was unconstitutional be­cause it infringed on the rightsof women and their doctors.

New Jersey is appealing thedecision and in the latest devel­opment the federal court declin­ed ~o enjoin New Jersey fromenforcing the law while warningthat its ruling applied only to theseven doctors who were partiesto the original court challenge.But it warned those doctors thatif their challenge was overturnedby a higher court, they wouldbe subject to prosecution forabortions performed during theappeals precess.

Meanwhile, the state attorneygeneral's office has instructedcounty prosecutors to keep arecord of abortion complaints intheir areas, but not to seek in­dictments until the court issuehas been settled.

Santa Fe PersonnelBoard Resign's

ALBUQUERQUE (NC) - Theeight members of the Sante FeArchdiocesan Personnel Boardresigned after Archbishop JamesP. Davis announced the newestlist of clergy appointments.

Father Robert Sanchez, chair­man of the board, told the News

pay, the Catholic weekly here,that many of its recommenda-

, tions had not been followed inthe assignment list, but he de­nied that this had caused theresignations.

"The board felt it had put alot of effort into the recommen­dations, but the archbishop hadthe final decisions, and we re­spect them. He often has infor­mation we do not," Father San­chez said.

He explained that the boardhad extensive personal inter­views with priests, and open dis­cussions about their qualifica­tions for particular assignments.

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VATICAN CIlY (NC)-"Is it the Pope has received first com­true, Holy Father, that you feel municants and, more recently,all alone?" vacationing schoolchildren in

To this question, asked by a special audiences in the Vaticanlittle Italian boy at a recent following his regular generalaudience, the Pope replied to audiences on Wednesdays.thousands gathered in St. Peter's Recalling those visits of theSquare recently that he never children, the Pope said:felt alone during his many au- "My dear little children, youdiences for children. are indeed very near us. You

T!le Pope drew a big laugh surround us with your life, withfrom the crowd in recounting your youth, full of open-mind­the instructions by another little edness and hope."boy who presented him with a The Pope said he is gratefultiny lamb at a recent audience. c to the young for their visits and

"This is for you, Holy Father, said he interprets the visits as abut don't you kill it," the boy genuine effort "to keep us com-said. pany."

For the past several months Pope Paul spoke only of theyoung during his five-minutespeech, confining his remarks tothe "immense pleasure" he, re­ceives when surrounded by"these innocent, happy, carefreeand noisy children."

The Pope concluded by tellingthe young:

"Be happy in your youth, andas you grow up know how toconserve that youthfulness inyour faith, in your purity, andin your ability' of playing andlearning."

HAPPINESS IS ..... Pope Paul has often commentedon the' "immense pleasure he receives when surroundedby innocent, happy, carefree and noisy children." NC Photo.

Spanish SpeakingSupport Fi Ims

DENVER (NC) - Spanish­speaking audiences in the UnitedStates are paying $5 million ayear to see Spanish-languagemovies, and high among them

. are those with a religious theme.Figures of a survey released

by Azteca Films of Hollywood, adistributor of Mexican-producedfull length movies, show that"Jesus Our Lord" and '''Heavenand You" grossed a large pro­portion of the total, with "Zap­ata" leading in popularity.

Emiliano Zapata was a leaderof the Mexican revolution earl­ier this century. He fought forthe rights of the landless farm­workers.

"Heaven and You" deals withthe life of a young priest whotries to help a band of youngrebels. "Jesus Our Lord" stressesChrist's compassion for thosewho struggle for a life of humandignity.

The Azteca Films report waspublished here by La Luz, amonthliy national magazine forthe 'Spanish-speaking.

Paraguayans ResentDrug TraffiC Charges

WASHINGTON (NC) - TheParaguayan government has re­quested "formal and explicit"explanation of charges that highofficials in Asuncion, its capital,are involved in the internationaldrug traffic.

Paraguay's Ambassador RoqueJ. Avila asked U.S. Secretary ofState William P. Rogers to issue"an official word" regarding the

,drug charges by Washington col-umnist Jack Anderson.

The Paraguayans base theircomplaint to Rogers "in thisserious instance, on the fact thatAnderson claims to draw the in­formation from a report by' theU.S. government's Central Intel­ligence Agency."

The regime of President Al­fredo Strossner has also beenaccused of persecuting Churchpersonnel and lay teachers, par­ticularly those engaged in ruralprogress, by Paraguay's bishops.

In recent years it has expelledseveral priests on charges ofsubversion.

Summer Sunset

But then there are other eve­nings when my husband and Isteal a few minutes from theendless chores. and walk throughthe yard together. The yard ismuch the same as it's been for18 years ... but in the eveningit looks different. It's lush, glow­ing in the soft pink light.

We sit together, and share afew moments with the eveningsong of a bird, and the back­ground music of children'slaughter. These evenings arestolen moments for them, too.

The sunset seems to linger,just to give us a bit more timeto enjoy it. I'm sure if Godwanted to, He CQuid have de­signed some other lightingsystem of the world, But eachtime we watch a' long summersunset, I'm glad he didn't.

one of them is back in, yelping."Mom, I was minding my own

business . . . and she squirtedme with the hose. '. . and I'msoaking wet . . . and I'm freez­ing! Mom, make her finish thejob by herself.;'

"Get back out there, and stopthe nonsense."

Two minutes later, the otherone is in. The melody soundsthe same. "Mom, I was doingmy share . . . and he soaked mewith the hose . . . and I'mfreezing. It's cold out tonight.Mom, please, can't we do it to­morrow? It'll be warmer duringthe day."

Feeling sorry that they are sochilled, I relent . . . with thepromise that it will be done thefollowing afternoon without any'arguments.

"That's great, Mom. As longas we don't have to wash thecar, can we go swimming?"

I find my own reactions toDaylight Saving Time rathermixed, too. There are manyevenings I wish it were darkearlier; things would settle downearlier.

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Move National VocationCenter to 'Detroit

CHICAGO (NC)-The NationalCenter for Church Vocations willmove its office from Chicago toDetroit with the appointment ofa new executive director.

Father Edward J. Baldwin ofDetroit will succeed Father JohnJ. O'Neill effective July 15. Thenew office will be in the Detroitauxiliary chancery building.

The vocation center was found­ed in 1969 by the National Con­ference of Catholic Bishops, andthe Conferences of Major Su­periors of Women and Men.

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To D~ayliglhtI'd like an explanation of the effects Daylight Saving

Time has on children. There should be a normal 24 hourcycle to the needs for food and sleep. Calling an hour byanother name should not change that cycle. So how comewhen you move the clocksand add an extra hour ofdaylight to the evening, thekids wake up earlier in themorning, stay up later at il'ight. . . and are always hungry?(Come to think of it, when wemove the clocks the other way

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in autumn, they get up earlier,stay up later, and are alwayshungrier. If this keeps up, inexactly 2Y2 more years they willbe awake 24 hours a day, eating'nine full meals with six between-

, meal snacks.)Whether it's the effect of solar

energy from that late evening'sunlight, or just normal kid en­thusiasm, I don't know. But,' Ido know that when the sunshines after supper, life is dif­ferent.

"We can't go to bed yet ...it's still light out!"

"It's nine o'clock ... it's bedtime!"

"But the sun didn't go to 'bedyet."

"Well maybe the sun's motherisn't tired . . . but your motheris! Now get to bed! Good Night!"

'Listen for It'

But that only works with thelittle ones. With the other chil­dren, I find a very mixed reac­tion to all those extra hours.,The mixture is' in what I thinkshould be done with those hours. . . and what they think.

"Hey, Mom' ... all the kids areplaying baseball. Can I go?" '

"How can they be playing?It's too dark to see the ball."

"We listen for it!""If you have that much energy,

why don't you mow the lawnbefore this place looks like thelost forest?"

"It's too dark to see.""Well .... listen for it ... you

can hear the wind rustlingthrough the weeds."

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and pain of life. Through' mis­guided love some parents sap thestrength of their children andforce them to face life weakenedand maimed. Such children' areperfect prospects for the .easy"cop out" which may very wellbe drugs.

UnderstandingIn order to achieve, anything

near the love I mention theremust be communicatio.n in thefamily. We've been brain-washedinto believing that communica­tion means to agree. If this weretnie, communication would be

. almost impossible, especially be­tween parents and children.Communication means to under­stand why a person' is saying ordoing something; we don't neces­sarily have to agree with it. Par­ents must take the time andmake an effort to listen and trYto understand. So many peoplehave something to sell today,so many are fanatically pushinga cause, so many are filled witha neurotic obsession to be heard.Gift~ with a self-styled char­isma some people are alwaysready, able and obligated tostraighten you out.

But nobody has time to listen.If we did, the generation gap inthe family" would not be such achasm. Even the young people,immersed as they' are in the cru­sade for communication, haveforgotten the art of listening.And if we don't listen how canwe hear the sounds of love.

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butterfly, the scientist had beenan enemy.

How often do parents feel thesame way about· their children?They hate to see them struggle;they don't want to see them hurt;they can't stand to watch themsuffer. As a result, they nlakethe same mistake the scientistmade. They step in and decideto shield them from the struggle

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Example

This point is well illusJratedby the story of the scientistwatching .a butterfly emergefrom its cocoon. The poor but­terfly -struggled desperately toget free. The pain seemed sogreat, the young scientist took aknife and made the hole at theend of the cocoon a little biggerso that the butterfly could slipout. He had ended the butter­fly's struggle, but when the but­terfly emerged from the cocoonit was a cripp1e. It's wings weremisshapen and it couldn't fly. Allit could do was flop aroul1d onthe ground and wait to die. In­stead of being a friend to the

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love was going to solve thisproblem and that one. Here youare facing this quality in reality-not in conversation-and youcan't even recognize it. The realreason is because they love you.But all that comes across to youare two people curtailing yourfreedom."

Loving

We have to start loving eachother again.

The affectionate expression ofthis love is also markedly absentfrom many American homes. Weare practically the only countryin the world where a son andfather are embarrassed to hugeach other after the boy .is 12years old. That's how sophisti-·cated and stoicaJ we've become.More 'than one addict has toldme that he was never sure ofparental love. 'The willingnessand freedom of children and par­ents to demonstrate their loveaffectionately is one way to re­move such doubt.

Care must be taken by par­ents, however, that these, exter­,nal signs of love are not merelysubstitutes for. necessary paren-

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Screen C ndidatesFor O'rdi ation

ATHENS C)-The directo-rate of Nation 1 Security here isplaying a powe ful role in screen­ing candidates for ordination inthe Greek Ort odox Church.

A governm nt circular tellsOrthodox bish ps that if a se­curity investig tion "shows thatthe ordiminds re loyal, and pro­vided that the have the neces­sary legalan~ other quali~ica­tions, you ca then proceed totheir ordinatio as priests."

There appea s to be little dis-_satisfaction w th the screening

procedure amo g the Greek Or­thodox hierar y. In an inter­view publishe in May Ar:ch­bishop lerony os of Athens em­phasized that the church hadgained freedom of action with theriSht to legisla e on its own af­fa1rs.

"Already," h said, "thanks tothe Constitutio al Charter of theChurch in 1969 all church mem­bersare settle by the churchwithout the pa ticipation of thestate."

Solid fami y life is, sustainedby a simple motion, complexlydefined, call d love. Now theAinerican ho e may be unravel­ing the splic of unity nurturedby genuine 1 ve. Magazine arti­cles are droo ing with love. Youget the impr ssion we're goingto love each ther to pleces. Asaving conce t, b:ut sadly untrue.

What prev nts this .maximumrealization' 0 mutual charity,especially in the family, is thepre~alence o~ soupy, saccharinrhetoric prea hing a shallow andwearisome go pel that will neverreplace con ideration, under­standing, acceptance, tolerance,patience, forg~eness, respect andperseverance-rthe grlt and gutsof honest lovp. .

I'm talking about the love thatdedicates a ~ther to earning aliving, devote a mother to her

. family, and' spires the childrento accomplish ent.·

SefishnessuDo your 0 n thing" is a good

philosophy w en kept within the'limit of love.- We should do ourown thing, b t not at any cost,The last phr se is most impor­tant. If mem ers of a family dotheir own thi g at any cost, theyenter the re 1m of selfishness.And selfishne s is a binding and

".joyless slave . Selfish people,parents or children, destroyfamily living nd are also more'vulnerable to drug abuse, be­cause drugs re a self-centeredscene.

I asked a 1 -year-old girl, whowas a heavy arijuana smoker:'"Why do you ink your parentsdon't want y u to become in­volved with grass?" Withoutmuch hesitati n she answered:"They say it' illegal, that I'llget in trouble in school, and I'llprobably go on to somethingworse."

"Do you r ally believe thoseare the reas ns your parentshave for not anting you to getinvolved?" I asked. She an­swered, "Yes.'

"Here you re 15 years old,"I replied and 'I'll bet you can'tcount the tim s you sat aroundwith your bu dies rapping how

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I believe kids today are intelli­gent, idealistic, and generous,and they long for commitment toa truly great idea or cause. Theirwhole being cries out that theproducts of technology are notenough. There must be more tolife than that. They really longfor spiritual insights. They wantto get deep down inside them­selves and scoop up handfuls oftheir own religious identity. Theywant to take mystical leaps intothe hidden places of their being.At times their efforts are abra­sive and unorthodox to us, butwe must ~ try to understand theunderlying motive.

Growing Pains

Every young generation goesthrough its own physical andemotional growing pains. Thepresent one has the added ohal­lenge of dealing with the pubes­cent pangs of a modern Churchand a democracy in the adoles­cent stages of its development.With this in mind, parents donot always have to agree withtheir children, but they must tryto understand. Then, maybe, thekids will start looking once againto the family, the school, and theChurch for some answers. An­swers they'll never find if theyslip off into the drug scene.

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must be rendered before a youth­ful skepticism concerning reli­gious truth deteriorates intohardened cynicism or bizarrecultism. Then, spiritually un­armed, a son or daughter maystand in the throes of rebeIlionagainst the empty materialism ofa world they never made. Piti­fully ignorant of the fulfillmentand excitement of a truly God­centered life, such teenagershave mistakenly turned to mind­bending drugs to help them reachout beyond themselves.

Adult Example

At no time in the unpredictablehistory of man has happy, Chris­tian adult example been of moreimortance. We have to be thebest Christians since Christ ifwe are to convince young peoplethat formal religion' can producea moral life, and a moral lifecan produce happiness. Throughpersevering dedication to whatthey believe parents can influ­ence their children away fromgrave or irreparable mistakes injudgment. Knowledge and judg-

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lationship with God. Man hastemporarily stolen center stagefrom his Creator. Our advancedscience and technology offeryoung people many shiny, dis­posable delights and promiseeven more wonders to come­Utopia, here and now. Withouthelp, catching a clear outline ofGod amid such glare is difficult.During these periods of headyinnovation some never regaintheir sight.

Adults, especially parents,must caution young people thisscene has been played before inreligious history and it is sureto be dramatized again. Duringperiods of rapid advancement,man is a master at sweeping thechips from his clay feet underthe rug. We must shout fromthe rooftops-"don't throw thebaby out with the wash water."There are changes, adaptations,and revisions to be made but we

. are not going to solve all ourreligious, social, and politicalproblems in this generation .

Our encouragement and advice

"Father, I can't get my kids togo to Mass any more." I usuallyreact to that statement by ask­ing, "00 you go to Sunday ordaily Mass yourself? Fathersplead early and long hours ofwork as an excuse for not goingfaithfully. Mothers reply: "I wastold I'd be a better wife if Istayed home and tended my fam~

~ly." I wonder how many moreeggs have really been fried orbottoms powdered since thatpiece of advice became generallaw?

Young ,people are not losingtheir faith, they're losing respect,respect for parents who lackconviction in the very thingsthey accuse children of ignoring.Parents wail about religious yes­terdays--cries that are unsub­stantiated by present perform­ance. Certainly, religious aber­rations of the past should not bedefended, but there was muchthat was reasonable and good.If parents preserved the goodthings in practice, not just words,the kids still might not followthem to Mass next Sunday, butthe parents' example would be asteadying force in years to come-especially when the childrengrow to realize that healthychange can only take place inthe present when there is awholesome respect for the pastand tradition.

CrisisYoung people are going

through a faith crisis and I canunderstand why. I may not al­ways agree with how they ex­press it, but I do try to under­stand. Therefore, I feel I cancommunicate.

They are growing in an anx­ious and desperate society, a cul­tural giant mystified and unableto cope with its sudden growth.Nothing seems permanent. Theground is shifting and dogmaticmortar appears to be comingloose between the granite blocksof religious truth. Mysteries areshattered everyday; medical sci­ence is on the brink of breakingthe genetic code; men are walk­ing on the moon. The suddenand brilliant flash of humanprogress has blinded many to.the steady light of the world.And, usually, the ones most im­pressed are the young.

Center StageWhy shouldn't they be a little

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After the' congregation had leftthe church following a SundayMass, the man jumped onto thealtar and knocked down statuesof Christ, the Blessed Mothera·nd St. Joseph. The statues brokeinto pieces when they hit thefloor. The man then attackedthe sacristan with candlesticks.

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satisfaction, Msgr. 'MacDonaldsaid.

Rather than celibacy, he attrib­uted .the exodus of priests to "acombination .of reasons" - asense . of powerlessness, littlevoice in important decisions and·unclear goals in s0!l!e jobs.

On vocations, he said a sharpchange in structure and attitudesis required to reverse the pres­ent picture.. Offering a mild defense for the

controver:sial . vocations ad inPlayboy magazine several monthsago, he said the Church is "usingevery means available" to in­crease vocations. Acknowledging"a little static" over the ad'!!appearance -in the magazine, hesaid "most priests simplylaughed, sOIJ)e were uptight."

Minority GroupsHe said the ad did bring re­

sults, possible 12 serious candi­dates for the priesthood, andsaid a partial explanation for thead's success in such an unlikelymedium -is a revolt again~t "asociety getting sick with itself,"·

He also predicted a larger rolefor women in Church activities,although not necessarily ordina­tion to the priesthood. .He saidthere was a good possibility ofthe ord-ination of married men·within the next 20 years.

On the issue of vocationsamong minority groups, he saidthe Church has been "largelyneglectful," He called for morebishops from minorities; particu­larly blacks 'and chicanos.

Msgr. MacDonald's cautiousoptimism paralleled the analysisof Serra President Edwin Bor­serine; who told delegates Mon,day that "Serra's work is justbeginning."

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ST. PAUL (NC) - Throughdeath, retirement. and disen­chantment, the American Church .~

is losing priests twice as fast asnew ones are coming in, one ofthe bishops' experts 011 thepriesthood told a Serra Interna­tional convention here.. ·

The converition was attendedby 1,500 members of the lay­men's group dedicated to pro­moting religious vocations. .

Msgr. Colin Macponald, whoheads the U. S. bishops' officestudying the priesthood, said hehas found "a renewed sense ofhope and confidence" amongAmerican clergy, but he sees nocure-all for the problems affect­ing the priesthood.

Responding to questions fromthe press, Msgr. MacDonald said,.the bishops' studies have shownthat the Church in the UnitedStates loses 2.3 priests for everynewly' ordained one. He quicklyElxplained that the figures in­clude priests who retire or die,as well' as those who leave thepriesthood for personal reasons.

.He sees the trend continuingand said he doesn't "know whenwe will reach the bottom,"

Authority IssueThe priest said the Church is

"still in troubled waters," nam­ing the period from 1966 to 196~

as the most turbulent years forthe priesthood in a genera.l pe­riod of unrest following the Sec­ond Vatican Council.

Authority in th.e Church·-notthe question of optional celibacy- is the biggest issue withpriests, Msgr.. MacDonald foundin his travels, which have takenhim more than 85,000 miles dur­ing the past year in his role asexecutive dire~tor of the Officefor Priestly Life and Ministry.

In his talk· to Serrans, thepriest .said the desire to marry ­can often be the last straw,prompting those already pll:!guedby loneliness and discouragementto leave the priesthood.

Combination of ReasonsBoth studies and talks with

priests -around the country haveconfirmed his belief that celibacyis far down the list of majorproblems of priests. But celibacycan become "the end factor"when accompanied by "dominantproblems" of loneliness and dis-

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Prelate StressesYouth's Idealism

MAROUBA JUNCTION (NC)-Archbishop James Freeman ofSydney said there is "a' solidstrain of idealism and generos­ity" in\modern youths and that"we ask and expect too little"of them.

"If rather than being turnedin on themselves by selfishnesswithin or by criticism from with­out, they could be made to see'the claims of Our Divine Lord asa challenge to their idealism, theneeds of their fellow men ·as achallenge to their generosity,and the decadence around themas a challenge to their dignity,they would startle us by theirresponse, If the Austra}iian prelatetold a school ceremony ·here.. "That growing boys and girlstoday have difficulties cannot bedenied," the archbishop said."Some. roundly condemn themand leave it at that. Others claimthat they cannot understand"them, and make no effort totry,"

The archbishop said that thereare many youths "who in spiteof the world in which they liveare models of generosity and in­tegrity.

"If they are seldom heard of itis often because the news mediado not always consider them-newsworthy."

In addition to the normal dif­ficulties of adolescence, he said,the young person today "has tocontend with a mass-marketwhich tries to promote him andhis fellows into a lucrative prop­osition in terms of dress, amuse­ments and attitudes.

"He has to contend also withthe demands of his own peergroup, which often makes .de­mands on him that border ontyranny, even in matters of reli­gion and morality, and which tryto reduce ~im to a rigid con­formity."

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S.uggests Church S,ocieties,Help Alleviate Loneliness

The orId is full of dichotomies. Last month I hearda regional board of altar society women wondering aloudwQat they could do as a group tQ give themselves a pur­pose. App rently, ·women aren'(.j~jning just to join 'anymore. At 0 e time the parish .school hel them together. On':. one hand, we're looking

At anoth r time, entertain- for ct:edible Christian activitiesfor the altar society and on the

ment need kept the organ- other,··.:we're paying people toization viabl . Any Catholic who -call our lonely oldsters. Howmoved into own had an auto- myopic:..we've become~ We'vematic "club" Bridge, fashion become ", so institutional-mindedshows and b zaars met the needs that we:can't consider the idea_w;~~=~.:::""", of being 'responsible ourselves for

just one.' other person in need.If we can't put it in the budgetand the minutes, it's not Chris­tian action.

Work at the Roots

We have an epidemic of lone­liness loose in this country. Soserious is it becoming thatwe're beginning to make moneyoff of it. "Pay us and we'll callthat lonely old widow' whodoesn't have any relatives whofeel duty bounq to check up onher." Duty begone! We're Chris­tians, not bureaucrats. If there'sa need, let's fHl it and stop wor­rying about boards, resolutions,officers, budgets and pul?licity.Let's abandon ,all those in favor'of people.. I'd like to set all the churchwomen's societies in this countryabandon all other projects forthe next five years and spendtheir efforts in alleviating thecauses of loneliness. Not just'loneliness for the ,old, . althoughthey are the most lonely, butalso for the divorced, the retard-'ed, the alcoholic, the imprisoned,the hypocondriac, the beaten.child, the unloved child, the sol­dier, the celibate, the insecure,the addict and the failure.

.Until we work at the roots ofsome of these term'imll cases ofloneliness, we won't get beyondthe "pay us to caU him" stage.

'1 am sure that many desperate- .ly lonely people will welcome acall from· a commercial outletor from a patio roofer, for thatmatter. A call indicates life,

../ .something that the lonely havelost.

Ju~t One Person

But to use a call as a substi-tute for people is not only de­

. meaning, it is unchristian. In a.nation filled with Christians, wehave enough people "looking forChristian activity" to adoptevery lonely person in the land.Just one person. We don't needto get an orga'nization togetherand get lists of lonely. Weknow the lonely. If we are newin and aren't aware of some ofthe people, we can give a call tolocal nursing homes, welfare of­fices, jails, school counselors,hospitals, and discover theneeds.

Discovering the needs isn't·enough, however. Meeting theneeds of just one lonely personis enough. It will give more' pur­pose to the Christian's life thanall the bridge luncheons everdevised.

That's because we're baptizedChristians, responsible for oneanother. It's because we takeseriously Christ's words, "I wasa stranger and you made mewelcome; naked and you clothedme, sick and you visited me, inprison and youcslme to see me,'.'

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Edgar Holden h s been appointeddevelopment di ector of the U.S.Catholic Conf rence's Divisionfor Latin Arne ica. Father Hol­den, a· Francisc n, had been de- .velopment dire tor at the Centerfor Applied esearch in theApostolate her and was direc­tor of his com unity's mission

. development ogram' for 2'1years. He repl ces Kenneth E.Boxler.,

12 .TH ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs.~ ~uly 6~ 1-972

of Catholic omen. I've said itbefore here b t so accepted were

. these three ctivities that one. woman said 0 me, "You don'tplay bridge? How can you beCatholic and not play bridge?"

Yesterday read our Sundaypaper's want ds under Personal.I wasn't look ng for any anony­mous messag but I find a whole .

, spectrum of r, e passing throughthe Sunday P rsonals, .. There' are the "Get RichQuick" offer trying to meetsome poor suI's dream. Thereare th!,! "pers nal advice" offers

. for those wh are afraid of orcan't afford p ychiatrists. Thereare those sad leas from parents,"Do'nnie, plea e come home. Wemiss you. All s forgiven."

Christ an Action. There are a s speaking to themetaphysical, the pornographic,the vegetari n, the unwedmother, and t e ·lonely. Most ofall, the lonel . The dating bu­reaus do a hea business in theSunday Per onals: "Lonelyrancher, 50, eeds petit non­smoking wid w. Call Date-a-'match"; or '.'Tired of sittinghome on Satu day night? So isthe one desti ed for you. Call

. Computer-Wed" And so on.But the ad I saw yesterday

really tears at my heart. Here itis:

"Friendly· V ices Gives YourLoved Ones P otection. FriendlyVoices is a ew- organizationthat calls your loved ones daily.Talks with the to be sure theyare all right. e call older peo­ple and anyon who is confinedto their home or who simplygets lonely. T is is a 'Lifeline'for them andl ou will be morecomfortable k owing they are.contacted da Iy. Reasonablerates,"

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U.N. ENVIRONMENT TALKS: Ambassador Alfonso Santa Cruz, of Chile, chats withFather Henri de Riedmatten, head of the Vatican delegation to the U.N. environment con­ference, during a break in the proceedings in Stockholm, Sweden. In a speech, Fatherde Riedmatten stated "Harmony can be restored between men and nature." NC Photo.

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THE ANCHOR- 13Thurs., July 6, 1972

IDEAL LAUNDRY

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"But we could collectively pol­lute the planet not 'with a bangbut a whimper'-by the small,steady accumulation of longlast­ing poisons and pesticides, orchemicals and tailings, of erodedsoil and detritus and reach, al­most inadvertently, a creepingplanetary disaster to which allhave separately made their cu­mulative contribution. No singlenation can avert this risk asnumbers and activities rise. Itscontrol will be achieved by na­tions acting together-or not atall....

"The relentless pursuit of sep­arate national interest by richand poor alike can, in a totallyintendependent biosphere, pro­duce global disasters of irreversi­ble environmental damage. . . .

"We can damage the entirebiosphere. Resources are not un­limited. States acting separatelycan produce planetary disaster."

Ward said that "the greatethical system of mankind-inIndia, in China, in the MiddleEast, from the benign wisdom ofConfucius to the passionate so-.cial protest of the Hebrewprophets"-all seek "to expressan underlying moral reality, thatwe live by moderation, by com­passion, by justice, that we dieby aggression, by pride, by

. rapaCity and greed."

Collective PoUution

"If our 'airs and oceans canstand only so much strain beforethey lose their capacity for self­purification, it will help no gov­ernment to say that others wereresponsible. The most flagrantcase is clearly the risk of nuclearconflict and planetary nuclearpollution. We may rejoice thata number of intergovernmentalagreements now limit atomict~sting in the air, keep nuclearweapons from the seabed, outerspace and Antartica. . . .

It is true, she said, "that thecumulative effect of the separateactions of separate soverigngovernments can, over time, in­jure the basic national needs ofall of them.

10Wl mystery of molecular chem­istry . . . impinge on the finebalance and mechanisms of thetotal system in ways and withconsequences that we too oftenare in no position to judge."

One point is surely clear,Ward said. "There are limits.'Phe biosphere is not i'bfinite.Populations must become stable.So must the demands they make.

"But in that case, whose up­ward aspirations must first bechecked? Given finite resources,we cannot evade this basic socialissue. Where are the restraintsto be put? What is to be re­duced, the luxuries of the richor the necessities of the poor?What are the pr·iorities-a de­cent human environment for thewhole human species or riohesfor some and squalor for themajority? . . . as nations, as aplanet, we are compelled to con­front the fundamental issues ofchoice and justice."

Vatican Concerned

He urged the conference to re­member "those living in theslums, the workers in conditionsof starvation or brutalizationand the innocent victims of warsand conflicts."

Father De Reidmatten con­cluded by saying that the Vati­can is concerned and feels re­sponsible for the deteriorationof monuments and works of art.The Vatican museums, he said,

,have launched scientific studieson how to preserve better suohworks.

Vatican laboratories, he said,have developed an electrochem­ical treatment of bronzes thatlessens the effects of corrosion.

In another talk at the environ­ment conference, Barbara Ward,British Catholic economist, listedthree concepts being forced uponus that offer us "a startlingbreak from past patterns ofthought and accepted wisdom.-It is possible to make the

earth a planet unfit for life;-There are strict physical

"limits to growth" and popula­tions "must become stable;"

-The "effective' instrumentsof judgment, decision and actionare separate national govern­ments" and nations must act to­gether to prevent "a creepingplanetary disaster."

Ward said that "air, soil andwater form a totally interdepen­dent worldwide system or bio­sphere sustaining all life.

The economist, also a column­ist for NC Features, said that"our suddenly and vastly in­creasing numbers, our enormousrise in the use of energy, ·includ­ing nuclear energy, and our fabu-

'YaticanAgent Avers Pollution is MiseryBy RUNE THURINGER

STOCKHOLM, Sweden (NC)­"Harmony can be restored be­tween men and nature" only ifman is willing to be more in­stead of wanting to have more,

. the head of the Vatican delega­tion recently told the UnitedNations Conference on the Hu­man Environment.

"The present technologicalcivilization has compromised thebasic interrelationship betweenman and his environment,"Father Henri De Riedmatten toldthe meeting, and has made manwant to have more.

Father De Riedmatten alsoheads the Vatican's Cor Unumoffice, which coordinates thework of Catholic relief' agenciesthroughout the world.

Environment and development,the priest said, are not two in­dependent values. "Every attackon the environment," he said,"reveals an imperfect conceptionof development. ... Environmentand the proper management of itare' indeed a part of develop­ment, influencing in a decisivemanner the satisfaction of man'sfundamental needs: survival,health, education of the indi­vidual-the cultural and socialbalance of the nations."

Father De Reidmatten criti­cized the lack of young peopleparticipating in the environmentconference. The implementationof the things discussed at tneconference, he said, will dependon the yo~nger generations.

The worst pollution, the Vati­can representative said, is mis­ery, and "the most destitute aresuffering the heaviest from thedeterioration of the environ­ment."

Colombian BishopsReturn to School

MEDELLIN (NC)-Colombia's60 bishops are going back toschool for refresher coursestaught by theologians and others,including French Cardinal JeanDanielou.

For five weeks in July andAugust the bishops will attendstudy sessions and workshops onVatican II Church renewal direc­tives as they apply to Churchneeds in Colombia.

Among the lecturers, besidesCardinal Danielou, are· BishopEduardo Pironio, secretary gen­eral of the Latin American Bish­ops' Council; Father RogerVekemans, a sociologist; FatherJoseph Ratzinger of the Univer­sity of Regensburg, Germany;and Colombian theologians,Fathers Alberto Galindo, DavidRapkin and Fernando Velasquez.

Cardinal RickettsAsks RotariansAid Third World

HOUSTON (NC)-The futureof humanity depends "to a greatdegree" on the countries of theThird World, the underdeveloped~ations, an archbishop fromLatin America told the conven­tion of Rotary International here.

Cardinal Juan Landazuri Rick­etts of Lima, Peru, told the Rota­rians that he comes "from acountry which belongs to the so­called Third World or is in theprocess of development," accord­ing to the Texas Catholic Herald,diocesan weekly here.

"I do not mean by this that itis the only problem of human­ity," Cardinal Landazuri said."But I have the personal convic~

tion that this problem is the mosturgent since it affects two-thirdsof humanity and even its ownsurvival. And such a situation ofanguish cannot but affect the de­veloped countries inasmuch astheir' own well-being is condi­tioned by the growing integra­tion of all peoples.

."It is within the countries ofthe Third World and in their tur­bulent awakening toward an in­tegral development that the fu­ture of humanity is at stake to agreat degree," Cardinal Landa­zuri said.

The Rotarian ideal of "serviceand fraternity," he said, can helpsolve the problems of developingnations.

Ideal of ServiceCiting the problems of poverty,

illiteracy, . and malnutrition.throughout the world, he said,"We cannot remain indifferentbefore such an unjust situationwhich affects millions of humanbeings, living in misery, hunger,and subject to oppression. Itwill be precisely those who pos­sess an ideal of service and fra­ternity who will seriously ponderthese problems and will strugglemore generously to find a solu­tion.

"Sometimes we may have theimpression that the most practi­cal help to be extended to a dis­tant country is a financial con­tribution or a contribution ofmaterial goods. It goes withoutsaying that these aids are of im­mense value. But of greatervalue would be a change of men­tality with regard to the mostserious problems of humanity.The well-being of mankind willfollow from that change of per­spective rather than from anyconcrete help."

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"In so doing, the schoolsSpecific Legislation would reduce the number of low

The significance of the letter, and moderate income familiesCardinal Krol sai~, is that it who could afford to send their"puts the; administration. belJ.ind '_ childr~n _to nonpubli,c scl!pols.specific legislation." Weinberger, ,The '100 per cent up to $200'he. said, is "an administrative credit gives dollar-for-dollarRepublican supporting the con- credit and may thus completelycept of Mills' bill." The cardinal or nearly completely pay for tui­pointed out that in Jhe letter tion in the case of many low"some modifications are sug- income families with childrengested and recommended with having scholarships or attendingthe hope of improving tlhe bene- low tuition schools." .fits proposed by the bill."

Weinberger said that, "rather"The President was extremely _than provide a 50 per cent credit ­

sympathetic" to' the plight des- up to $400, we would urge thecribed by the report, Cardinal use of a 100 per cent credit upKrol told NC News. to $200 per child per year. The

50 per cent credit up to $400Noting that the President has contained in H.R. 13491) would

in the past endorsed the princi-ple of aid to non-public schools,Cardinal Krol said that Nixon"used the occasion of this meet­ing to take a second step."

The President told the cardinaland Gurash that Caspar W. Wein­berger, director of the Office 'ofManagement and Budget, hadwritten to Rep. Wilbur D. Mills(D.Ark.), chairman of the HouseWays and Means Committee, toexpress the administration's sup­port for "the intent of H. R.13495."

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DISCUSS PAROCHIAL SCHOOL AID: White House: Cardinal John Krol, of Phila­delphia, center, and John Gurash, left, are shown at the White House (6/22/72) as theydiscussed possible aid to parochial schools with PrE~sident Richard M. Nixon. NC Photo.

Nixon, Endorses Tax' C:redit ,Legislation,WASHINGTON (NC) - Presi­

dent Nixon told Cardinal JohnKrol of Philadelphia at a meetinghere that the administration has'

. endorsed· legislation proposingtax credits for parents of childrenattending non-public schools.

At the White House meeting,John Gurash, chairman of a Phil­adelphia archdiocesan committeethat analyzed the financial situa­tion of Catholic schools there,presented a copy of the commit­tee's report to the President. Thereport predicts that PhiladelphiaCatholic schools, now $4 millionin debt will be $55 million in,debt by 1975.

That bill proposes a limitedcredit against individual incometax for tuition· paid for the non­public and elementary and sec-

'ondary education of dependents.."Alternatives to the public

see to it that our summer life -isa more carefree one than ourwinter one, especially in the area·of food:

Garden FreshAs the roadside stands fill up

with the bounty of the summergarden, we find that most ofthese vegetables and fruits needlittle adornment-their freshness

. and natural flavor are enough.Here you <:an cut down on thework. . Serve your famliy thesefoods at their peak and leave' allthe fussing for ,the dull wintermonths.

Another delight, especially inthis area is the abundance offresh seafood that is available.Scallops, cl~ms, lobster (if youcan afford to spend your weeklyfood allow,ance on one meal),cod, salmon-the list goes on andon and the pleasures do too.

July and August are themonths when cooking should bekept at a minimum and ouraccessibility to the bounties ofneighboring farms and waterscan do nothing but help us inthis area.

This is the season when wejust can't get enough of thebounty of the sea, therefore weare always looking for unusualways to· serve them. This fol­lowing recipe comes from Mrs.William Ferry of Dighton and Icame across it in a gem of acookbook, the Dighton HistoricalSociety Cookbook.

Stuffed Quahogs'1 med. onion '8 stalks of celery

10 medium quahogs (cooked)1 egg

16 slices old bread or% Ib.soda crackers

2 to 4 teaspoons (depending ontaste) poultry seasoning

1 Tablespoon parsleyY2 to % cup juice from quahog1 teaspoon red ground cayenne

pepper or Y2 pound chourico1) Grind the onion,celery

and quahogs together.2) Mix with this mixture the

remaining ingredients and moist­en with enough hot water tomake it have the consistency ofdressing. '

3) Fill the shells, close andbake in a 350· oven for 45 min­utes. ,

Violence PostponesSolving I~roblems

VATICAN CITY (NC)-Resort­ing to violence only postpones anequitable solution to problems, aVatican Radio editorial.stated incommenting on the ceasefire or­dered in North,ern Ireland by themilitant ProvL'iional wing of theIrish Republiean Army (IRA).

The so-called Official wing of .the IRA ordered « ceasefire inMay.

"One can only hope that theparties (Catholics and Protest-­ants) in'Northern Ireland' profitfrom the truce by convincingthemselves that the ways of.vio-

"leil'ce o<orify'"liostpone" 'equitablesolutions," thl~ editorial said.

HE ANCHOR-Diocese oHall River,-Thurs., July 6, 1972

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'By Joe and Marilyn Roderickof the joys of the garden can be found in repro­

ducing lants of ~ome value so that from one plant youcan end up with twenty or more over the: years. The processof 'repr duction is ordinarily slow but with some plantsa great eal can be done ina short eriodof time. Wehave al ays been very suc­cessful ith azaleas and ourmethod f llows. .

There re a number of waysto reprod ce azaleas - but theeasiest a d most successful isthrough ounding. The processis simple. Merely take a branchwhicn fal s close to the groundand impl t the stem poition inthe grou d so that the leavesrise up a ve ground. This canbe done b using a stake to holdthe stem down (I use a bentclothes ha ger in the shape of aU upside own) which holds thestem in lace.

The ne t step is to moundgood soil ver the stem (a hand­ful of pe t moss can be addedto the soil and place a flat rockover the ound. The rock onlyserves to urther the branch inplace. In a year or two, theazalea sf will take root andproduce it own rooting systemand may then be disconnectedfrom ,the other plant to be re­planted in the garden.

P inIess WorkThis me hod works extremely

well and i painless. Nothing elseneed to b done until the timethe plant s to be moved., Froma beginni g of one azalea it isconceivabl that one can repro­duce as m ny as ten full-grownspecimens in five years. In 'ourgarden we have at least ten full­sized Mill s which were repro­duced in t is way and a numberof smalle plants which willreach full size in a couple of'years.

In the WtchenThe ba is for reproduction,

however, h s to be a full-grownparent pIa that is in good con­dition an a 'stem which illre~sonably tender and not anovergrown, older stem. The more,florid the tern, the bigger theplant that can be reproducedand the qui ker the plant will beproductive.

Summert me is fun time. Thetime of. th year when we getsome of t ose books read thatwe wanted to read, manage toattend som of the areas' sum­mer theate s, and all in all livea much m re casual existencethan we do uring the hectic fall,winter, and spring seasons whensociai oblig tions overwhelm us.

If I beii ed in reincarnationI would sw ar that at one timeor other I' been a seagull fornothing rna es me feel more athome than walk along a sandybeach and the sound of thewaves po nding against the,shore of an number of beauti­ful beaches in this area.. 1 keepsuggesting 0 Joe that it mightbe fun to ecome beach bumsand let the est of the world goby but pro ably the dreaming

, about this i more fun than theactual livin of it would be. '

While rno t tif us can't spendthe r whole ummer walking themiles and m les of sand to forgetthe troubles of the world, we,can

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A unanimously passed resolu­tion stated that "every diocesewhich has a population of 35per cent or more (of Spanish­speaking) should have an Ordi­nary-bicultural and bilingual­or, in the absence of an Ordinary,an auxiliary bishop with full au­thority to work with the Spanish­speaking community."

Sedillo stressed that this Is thefirst priority of efforts in Span­ish-speaking communities in theimmediate future.

"For the first time in the his­tory of the C3tholic Church inthe United States, Hispanos fromBoston to Wyoming, and Miamito, California are making unitedefforts toward thIs goal," hesaid.

Notably absent at the Encuen­tro was the word "Chicano"which in the past has been usedfor members of the Mexican­American community. Leadersexplained this by ~aying they areseeking to make the larger Span­ish-speaking cultural community,including Puerto Ricans andothers, the focus of their efforts.

Ihis Provinee so all you have In do IS pic'k Ihem up.You don'l have to huy anything. You don't evenhave to asl< for them. Just pick up Ihe pamphlel'and read them until you stan 10 understand some ofthe Ihings Ihal an: going on.

Then ,tan looking around you. Seriously. l.ookfor kids whose eyes look lilo.c thc-y'n: SOIllC,," hl'fC

else. They probahly are. Look for kid, who arehorrnwin!! more money than is usual. Kcl'p onlooking and looking and looking. And Ii'ten. LISten10 whatlhe kid, have to sa~. Wh~ Ihe~ arc sa~ ing II.Then sian doing ,omelh ing. Because tha"s whatthis whole thing is aOuul. Doin!! smllclhing ahoUI aserious and widespread problem.

Seriou, hec'ause thi, problem i, self·inll.c'led.Serious because sOTllcwhcrc stlllk,thin!!. is \'en V"'Hl!!.when the alternative is a oru!!.. S\.·rillu,~hccau~l.·;1 101"­of good kids arcn'c so !!OOU ;:;n~ more.

They're our kid,. I.e", help them. ~ollighlthem.

Division. officials estimatethere are 20 U. S. dioceses wheremore than a third of the Cath­olics speak Spanish.

"Should the Church in theUnited States have a separateset of con.cerns and pastoral di­rectives for the Spanish-speak­ing?" Sedillo asked. "Should itestablish a group of bishops en­tirely devoted to their spiritualand social needs?"

"The discussion showed anevident frustration that theSpanish-speaking community isnot being served adequately bythe present structures of theChurch in America," Sedillo said.

At one of the sessions Auxil­iary Bishop Patrick Flores ofSan Antonio, Tex., remarkedthat "we have been victims ofoppression, discrimination, semi­slavery,. poorly paid for ourwork. . . . And yet the Churchkeeps silent."

First PrIorityEvidently Spanish-speaking

leaders want more spokesmenlike him.

A lot of good kids are using drugs. Our kids.Niee kids. And Ihey're laking lOiS of lhem. Theysniff them. They smoke them. They shoot Ihem withneedles in") veins. They swallow them. The)' gelso they ean't live without them. They get hun.Pushers gel rich. And Ihe kids'? They die. Or .mayhe even worse. Ihey damage Ihemselves forever.

What do you know ahoul drugs'? Do you knowwhat speed is'! What il can do'? What LSD is'! H,,,,it few.:I!'>? 00 you know what amphetamine!'! arc"!Heroin'! Cocaine'? Mescaline') Hashish'? DMT'?Do )'OU know what a "head" is'! A .. Hi .. ··! A "Drop",?Or --Ac'id"'! Well. you should know. All of us hadheller find out and we'd heller lind oUI fast. just whalwe"re doing. And no one i~ immune Ixcau~c drugahuse is happening everywherc.

We're trying In help. We've put allihe drugfacts we can Ihink of in easY-lo-read pamphlels. Andwe've pUlthe booklets in almost every drugstore in

Doyou know whatyou're doing?

Spanish-Speaking Seek Bil ingual Bishops

Ifourkids don'ttake~,then howcome there's snella serious drug problem?

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WASHINGTON (NC)-Leadersof the country's 14-million Span­ish-speaking Catholics want moreSpanish-speaking priests ap­pointed as bishops in every dio­cese with 35 per cent or more of"Hispanos."

Mexican Americans, PuertoRicans and other Latin Amer­ican immigrants are called "His­panos" because they use theSpanish language and share cul­turid traits inherited from theirIberian ancestors.

Religion is one, and whetheror not their ethnIc characteristics .will survive for several moregenerations, they want specialattention from the Church.

The desirability of such specialattention was one of the mosthotly debated topics at the firstEncuentro Hispano de Pastoralheld here, according to Paul Se­dillo, head of the Division for theSpanIsh-Speaking of the UnitedStates Catholic Conference(USCC). The division sponsoredthe meeting of some 250 leadersin mid-June.

state, flirting with old fashionedimperialism-with fleets in theIndian Ocean-and reluctantlyconceding to its people the carsand consumer goods the Atlanticstates have long enjoyed.

In short, the vast revolution,the visions' of Marx, the dreamsof Lenin, the ugly terror ofStalin, are all producing a bu­reaucratic vision of marryingand love, it is an anti-climax.As a_ version of the future, it isfrankly rather a bore.

Not China Either

So radical hopes have shifted toChina where certainly cleanli­ness, order, shared poverty, fac­tory managers cleaning floorsand barefoot doctors in thecountryside make up a more

.attractive and puritan picture.Yet here too the hold of historyand the emergence of traditionsuggest not the automatic prog­ress of all mankind under China's"revolutionary vanguard," but ahard struggle to prevent theideals of 1949 from beingswamped by "Mandarin" bu­reaucracy at home and by typi­cal Gr~at Power interests abroad.

It was hardly the heroicChinese supporters of the down­trodden peasantry who support­ed Yahya Kahn's attempt asPresident of Pakistan to suppressby massacre the poorest peas­ants In the world, the tragic peo- .pIe of Bangia Desh.

But what of the market econ­omies? We too had our theorythat with enough capital mobi­lized at home, with a critical in.put of foreign aid, the develop­ing nations would follow usthrough "stages of growth" ­from subsistence to preparationsto take off to sustained growthto high c(\nsumption. Then final­ly the whole world would enjoyversions of the Atlantic economyof mass consumption.

But two things have happened.On the one hand, the rich na­tions' contribution of capital hasnot grown. On the contrary,official aid to development isnow less than 0.3 per cent a year(during the Marshall Plan,America gave away 2 per centof a much smaller GNP).

Not AutomaticMoreover, the obstacles to

modernization - high populationgrowth, an exploding labour forceconfronting industry that re­quires more machines than men,vast urban migrations and stead­ily rising unemployment - allprove that the tasks of modern­ization are longer and more dif­ficult .than the theorists imag­ined. Above all, they are' not"automatic" in any sense.

So we face the fact, as theSynodal Document reminds us,that all theories based on theidea that "history will do it forus" are exploded. Developmentis not wafted to us on the wingsof chance or resolution or as aby-product of pursuing the eco~

nomic interests of already richlands. It is a task, a duty, a des­tiny, a right, a "categorical im­perative." It passes to us thestark question: What will wedo?

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BARBARA

EgoismConceit causes more conversa­

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Problems of ModernizationFar 'Harder than Expected

When in the Synodal Document, "Justice in the World,"we turn to the section "the right to development," we en­counter a lot of extremely difficult, dense writing in whiChthe. effort is made, in ,a few paragraphs, to describe allthe current dramas and di­lemmas of the developingnations. At the core is theirsearch in the last half of thetwentieth century, to "modern­ize" their economies and socialstructures and enter - for goodand ill-the kind of world made,

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possible by science and technol­ogy.

But even if the language isvery difficult, what is being saidis of decisive importance forChristian conscience and humandestiny. First of all, the text re­minds us that the old 19th cen­tury idea of progress-the "de-

- terministic and automatic notionof progress"-is simply no long­er credible. However much thethrusts of market economies orof socialistic states suggest thatevery nation will, in some prede­termined fashion, move awayfrom subsistence agriculture tohigh technology, from earlydeath to good health, from illit­eracy to education, from back­breaking work to pressing but­tons and flicking switches, thisis not in fact the way thingshappen.

Two Kinds of Progress

By something of a simplifica­tion we can say that two kindsof "automatic progress" havedominated men's minds in therecent decades. We can look firstat the Marxist version. Each so­ciety, Marx maintained, hadwithin it the seeds of its own'disintegration and its replace­ment by new social forms.

Under feudalism, for instance,the merchants, lending money tokings and profiting from therivalries of the barons, grewstrong and pursued the capital­istic system. But within thatsystem, the massing of workersin factories, exploited, underpaid,growing continuously poorer asthe rich grew richer, could leadto explosive revolt and the birthof the socialist order. Hence,howev.er, the newer laws of dis­integration would cease since,under socialism, no one coulduse economic power to exploitothers . There could be no morerevolts. All' would share, "fromeach according to his capacity,to each. according to his needs."

Of course, after 50 years ofRussian communism, we knowthat this kind of automatic prog­ress does not take place. Theconcentration of economic andpolitical power 'in a Byzantinebureaucracy produces a slowmoving, centralized, traditional

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there are exceptions, but wekeep looking for some ess~ntial

psychological differences.' .Marriage today demands much

more of the individual than wastrue in the past. It's much easierto stay single 'now than ever

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and how our limits are deter­mined.

It is relatively easy for manyof us to realisticaIly see our tal­ents as well as our shortcomings.We can spend a considerableamount of time charting assetsanc;l liabilities from our personal"reflection. We can obtain quitean adequate picture of ourselvesfrom the inside out. That picturedoes not always match the onewhich others see as they look atus from the outside.

It seems a natural desire formany people to want to leadothers to something. Many ofus try to convince ourselves thatwe can save the world by reach­ing the masses. We drive harddaily to collect the data andtechniques with which to im­press our audience.' We haveuntiring energy for this.' produc­tion package which we will handout. Nothing is too milch forthe cause.

Limit and EliminationTh~ area we need to'limit to

make this possible is the are~ of.Turn to Page Eighteen

tion.Now I go out on a limb again

and suggest that a companionvolume, "Christian Readings,"also produced by the Catholic.Book Publishing Company inNew York, will meet with com­parable success. This meansthat it, too, should assume a sig­nifieant and integi'al role in theprayer life of many priests, reli­gious and .lay persons.

Somewhat AwkwardThe volume (paperback, $3.50)

is first in series which will coverthe -two-year cycle of biblical ex­cerpts as listed in the AmericanInterim Breviary. In addition,this .particular text, which runs.lor four months from Easter to

: the 17th Sunday of the Church 'Year, includes a different non·biblical passage for each day ofthat period. Subsequent similareditions will be issued at inter­vals later until the total two yearpattern is in print.

The "Prayer of Christians,"for all its excellent qualities,limps rather badly in the Officeof Readings. The person prayingthis breviary either repeatedlyreads the few biblical and non­biblical selections contairied inthat relatively compact book ormust look up the specific scrip-

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Limits ar'l a Fact of Life

JOAN

HEIDER

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The speed limit is set at 70m.p.h. What is the challenge intrying to exceed it? The answercould ,vary from one perg,:>n tothe next. For one it could besee how often it can be donebefore the highway patrol im­poses a fine. 'For another itcould be the fact that the roadis a straight road clear of wateror ice. For another it could! be adefiance of law and authority.

The fact that limits are set isa fact of life. We- need .limits.Some of our limits are imposedfrom outside ourselves. Otherlimits we impose upon our­selves. The consideration ·wehave to make is not whether weneed limits, rather what, where,

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CHAMPLIN

A famous radio announceronce made weekly "Predictionsof Things to Come." I am notsure he gave faithful reports onthe accuracy of his glances intothe future, but those' sometimeswell-founded, sometimes wildguesses certainly kept listenersinterested. In this week's article,I want to comment on a pastprediction of my own and offerone for the coming months,

Just prior to last Christmas I

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wrote in these pages that the"Prayer of Christians" or "Amer­ican Interim Breviary" wo~ld

"enjoy great success around ournation." I also ventured the viewthat both clergy and religiousbrothers or sisters would quickly

. make this volume "a regular andimportant part of their dailyschedule." - Initial sale of thisrevised breviary (over 30,000according to reliable sources)confirms, I believe, my predic-

image we might place on, a cer­tain task.

Today's DemandsIn the past, we have acted

pretty much on the premise thatcertain traits and abilities areparticular to one or the other

. of the sexes. Under examination,

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Where is the logical· place tobegin such a subject? Whereelse but with the woman. In ourpresent society, woman is facedwith -all sorts of conflicting sig­nals about her role. The mediapresents her with so many varie­ties of life styles and diversevalues, that what she sees isconfusion. She reacts, and feelspressured. If she operates onemotion, she is called a reac­tionary female; if she operatesby logic, she is called unfeminine.

The most obvious example isthe woman's movement-whichcarries both positive and negativeforces. On the positive side, itattacks discriminatory laws andunequal occupational opportuni­ties. To accomplish this, womenare seeking the help of men. Onthe whole, this is fine with themen, especially if the battle isfought out there, somewhere,without getting too close.

However, the movement pre-'sents a negative tone when itturns its attention to the rolestructure in marriage and familylife. Then we are no 'longer ask­ing men to help us correct socialinequities, but to be themselvesthe object of our actions.

Equilibri~ UpsetThis comes too close to home.'

The security of programmedlearning from past generations isno longer adequate. Equilibriumis upset. .No matter what valuejudgments we have chosen, wemust prove them right, if only

- for our own peace of mind. ,Weask ourselves questions like:Who are we? What are we doing?And why?

Frequently the one asking th~

questions is the male of the spe~

cies. He is also confused. Hethought, this whole man-womanthing was pretty predictable.Now he finds that the words hehas been seeing in print may be­come part of his life. Words suchas: "her self-fulfillment;" "hercareer;" "the problem ofhan~

dling separate' incomes;" "theoption of being a workingmother;" "continued education;""shifting role responsibilities."

No wonder he's frightened.His mother didn't talk this way.After all, he was raised to belooked after. Now he finds him­self with a whole new set ofrules. He is told marriage shouldbe a partnership: -1:/Wo equalpartners should blend their tal­ents; each of them is somewherein the process of maturing; andeach looks to the other for ac­ceptance, ,affection and encour·agement.

Certain things are inherent inthis plan: '

1. When it becomes necessary,one party would carry the load·of the other. .

2. The husband and wifeshould be secure enough in·themselves to tolerate the exist­ence of this equal partnership.

3. That the responsibilities ofhome and family be' dividedagreeably between, the partners-regardless "o~ the male/fe~ale

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SION BY TIME: Traveling takes us into dif­ferent time ones, adding to the confusion of time. SesameStreet, thro gh its unique style of presentation, has beenable to dea up some of the confusion reigning in' children'sminds on any topics. In one dialogue, they attempt toclear up th confusion surrounding Daylight Saving Time.

and clocks are set to· differenttime zones. Because the sun

(One of t e more confusing travels from east to west, sothings to ad ust to dilring the must the hours 'be adjusted sosummer mont s involves time- that .when it is noon in Newespecially wh n we start dealing York it is still morning in Cali­with Daylight Saving Time. Are fornia, So everyone set theirwe one hour ahead, or behind, watches to Seasame Street timethe next state. Traveling takes us which is two o'clock.

\ into different ime zones, addingto the confusi n,' Seasame Stree', Grover: Now we are all happy.through its u ique style of pres- ,Oh, }-Jerbert, you are such aentation has een able to clear .. good expert.up much of t e confusion reign- Herbert: Well, don't forget toing in childre 's minds on many set your watch~s back one hourtopics. In this dialogue, they at- tom?rro~... ?

tempt to c1ea up the confusion BIg BIrd. Why. . .surrounding Daylight Saving , Herbert: ~ecause t?at It. IS theTime.) end of DaylIght SavIng TIme.

Hellooo, ev rybodeee. This is Gr?ver: ';hat do you mean,your old pal, rover, Yeah. And HerbIe baby.today we are oing to talk about . Herbert: Wel.l, Grover, Day­time. Do you know how to tell hght SavIng Time mea~ thattime? Are you ure? Do not make yo~ allow yourself more sun­a mistake. W at is it, Big Bird? shIne .hours.

Big Bird: W 11, that's easy. I'll ' Erme: Sort of like sunny incheck my wat h here. It is three the

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o'clock. er~: ErnIe..Cookie Mo ster' Oh no no Erme: Rays III pay,

no. It. is four o'c1~ck.·'Tim~· fo; Bert: ERNIE!cookies. Herbert: Anyway, last spring

Ernie: I'm s rry, but it is two you set your clocks ahead oneo'clock. hour. Which means the light you

Bert: No. 0 e o'clock. used to have at five o'clock, youGrover: Wa t a minute, wait get at six. In addition, the ro­

a minute (whi h is 60 seconds). tiltion ~f the earth brought even. Something mu t be wrong. Your more hght as June aproached.mommies wo ld not be proud All: Huh?of you. Accord ng to my watch it Herbert: Trust me. So now weis Thursday. . come to winter, we put the hour

Big Bird: it. Let's ask the back So now it will be lighterexpert-Herbe t Birdsfoot. in themorriing and darker in the

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CINCINNATI (NC) - SisterMary Antonita Mettert has beennamed the first nun - and thefirst woman-to serve as admin­istrator of Drake Memorial Hos­pital, an institution ~or the chron­ically ill operated by HamiltonCounty.

The 44-year-old Sister willturn over her $20,000 a year sal­ary to her community, the Fran­ciscan Sisters of the Poor.

Robert Reckman, Hamiltoncounty commissioner, said hesaw no church-state conflict inSister Mary Antonita's appoint­ment. "I 'just see this as theappointment of the best possibleperson," he said.

Big BirdContinued from Page Sixteen

Big Bird: Who started this?Herbert: Well, Ben Franklin

:;;uggested it in 1784.Ernie: Add a year to it so you

have more daylight.Bert: Ernie, will you stop it?Herbert: But the idea didn't

catch hold until this century.Ernie: Add a decade or two.Herbert: England used the idea

first. It was adopted during the.war years to allow for more pro­ductivity. Other countries pickedit up and America started it inthe Forties.

Big Bird: But what has thisgot to do with us? We don'twork.

Grover: I know, B.B., but thesystem allows us to have moretime to play and be together withour daddies and mommies. Wecan go outside and romp.

Ernie: Romp? Like in RomperRoom?

Bert: Yes, Ernie. The hourgives us time to play during thesummer. During the winter whenthe yecchy snow is around, wedon't need it.

Grover. And the children lovethe hour because they stay uplater and do not go to sleepwhen it is light.

Big Bird: 'Maybe the mommiesare happy when Standard Timereturns.

Grover: So we should all thankMr. Franklin for the idea whichallows us to have fun in thesummertime.

Bert: So, Ernie, now do youunderstand it?

Ernie: Sure. But, tell me,where do we get that extra hour?

Bert: Oh, Ernie.

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and in the history of the regionwhere he has spent his manyyears. He has taken pains totrace the family back throughseveral generations, and he de­lights to tell who they were,what they did, and what hap­pened to them. At several points,the book is, as it were, turnedover to him for one of his reci­tals. '

The more intimate and humanside of the Nyes and their rela­tives comes out in Vanessa'sobservation of her own genera­tion, and, her grandparents' gen­eration.

It returns one to previousperiods in American history ­the Cincinnati and Ohio Rivercountry, for example, of the timeof William Henry Harrison. It isgood, too, in its depiction oftimes less complex and perhapsmore innocent than our own.

and loving their children. Par­ents today must prepare theirchildren to meet a most change­able world. Many of the pat­terns of their society, and thejobs they will hold, don't yetexist. So, the most creative, con­fident and secure people willsurvive best.

Think for a moment of themagn'itude of the situation. Be­fore we can be loving, we musthave been loved. Before we canbe accepting, we must first havefelt accepted. And before we caninstill security, we must first,ourselves, be secure.

Those who deny that the rolesof wife and mother can be "ful­filling" are terribly misguided.Today's woman should be in themiddle of things. She should livein the moment, be interested,and respond by being involved.She shares all she is with thoseshe loves, and-as a result­broadens their outlook. The se­cret of her success is openness­willingness to assume many roles.

How long will' it take fo ad­just our image of "husband" and"wife"? Probably a long, longtime.

Husband and Wife in MarriageContinued from Page Sixteen

before. Women can supportthemselves, be free to travel,and pursue their own interests.They no longer search out thesocial and financial security ofmarriage as a matter of survival.

For the guy~the world is hisoyster. It's made for bachelors.Why should he complicate hislife by assuming responsibilityfor anyone else?

So just in getting married,this couple takes a stand. Hope­fully, they have looked at them­selves and their life togetherthrough the eyes of reality. Theyhave at least begun to know theother person's true self.

They will need a strong self­image and enough confidence toresponsibility add the names"husband and father," "wife andmother" to their identity. It isin these words, "father" and"mother" that we find the realchallenge. In very few ways willthe world of our children com­pare with the world of our child­hood.

Creative and ConfidentA parent today only begins

their job .by feeding, clothing

the reader's interest. Some funnylines and sequences are to befound in the book, but most ofit is like the track at Hialeahduring the nightmare team's,stay.

Dead of the HouseHannah Green's The Dead of

the House (Doubleday, 277 ParkAve., New York, N.Y. 10017.$5.95) is presented as a novel,but actually comprises threelengthy sketches drawn from"memory, record, and imagina­tion."

The narrator is a youngwoman named Vanessa Nye,who has been brought up in asmall town near Cincinnati andhas summered for years in theMichigan woods. The focus ofher recollections is her Grand­father Nye and his house.

Grandfather Nye has alwaysbeen interested in his ancestors

MOTHER'S ROLE: When speaking of the evolvingroles of husband and wife ip marriage, the logical placeto start is with the woman, says Mrs. Joan Wren. She,points out that today's woman "should be in the middleof things, getting involved; the secret of her success isopenness~the willingness to assume many roles."

Blaine says far less. But thissupposedly foc!proof system ofbetting, based on archives andcalculations rivaling the Penta­gon's, doesn't work. The writer,weary of Jennifer, losses heavilyat the track as the rain poursdown day after day.

There is an unexpecten twistat the narrative's conclusioDl,·clever but insufficient to revive

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in the village, Rosa Maitland,leaves for an extended stay inCanada. Margaret goes up toLondon for a few days to seeRosa off.

Returning home, she noticessome minor items in the housewhic!l are not now as she recallsleaving them. But when a neigh­bOr, Major Felix Palmer, dropsin, speaks of dangers even in soquiet an area as theirs, and of­fers any assistance she may needin an emergency, she is annoyedand virtually dismisses him.

But then she has to summonhim in the middle of the nightwhen she suspects that there isan intruder somewhere in thehouse. Palmer comes, they makea search, and in the attic theydiscover a girl of 16 who saysher name is Chris. She is one ofthose scrawney hellcats withmesmeric eyes whom one meetsquite often in fiction.

Palmer is all for calling thepolice and turning Chris over tothem. But Margaret demurs,Something about Chris appealsto her. She decides to let thegirl stay with her for six months,an arrangement which Chris'sfather later approves. Palmer,on the other hand, could hardlydisapprove more.

Altruism is not the governingfactor in Margaret's decision.She is lonely and needs someoneto need her. Chris seems to fitthe bill perfectly. Margaret willlook after her, give her advan­tages, improve her.

Chris is not abjectly grateful.She takes all that Margaret of­fers,'but is often sullen and edgy.She begins t::> manipulate theolder woman. The reason for herconduct slowly emerges.

With Chris when she enteredthe empty house, was a youngman, Ray Halloran. They werefleeing from the police whenthey came upon this perfect hid­ing place. Hailoran is still con­cealed on the premises.

Margaret accidentally findshim, and the two make her theirprisoner. They ingeniously man­age to keep the village fromknowing her plight, and plan todispose of her. You must readthe book if you want to knowhow this situation is resolved.

Literate, EntertainingIs it worth reading? Well,

more than 35 years ago I saw aplay, entitled Kind Lady and

Margaret Starr, a middle-aged English widow, is thepivotal character in Jon Godden's new novel, Mrs. Starr

- Lives Alone (Knopf,501 Madison Ave., New York, N. Y.10022. $5.95). She does indeed live alone, in a spaciousold house in the Kentish .countryside. She gets into adapted from a novel by Hugh

bl . I h Walpole, which bore many simi-trou e not entIre y as t e larities to Miss Godden's novel.title suggests, because she It was literate, entertaining, notlives alone. too plausible, and of very minor

She has two sons, both far importance. The same can beaway, one in Malaya, the other said of this book.in Africa. Her only close friend Margaret Starr is in some re- ,fi:t.~W''1<m(<&~1ia¥k!!!I!!!ii!l!1 spects admirable. Certainly she

is a kind lady. But she is notvery bright, or at least she isnot at all prudent. One can

, credit her with charity for seek­ing to. help ~omeone who in­vaded her home. But not' incom­patible with charity is consulta­tion of the police on theoccasion of a crime.

But maybe the decision not toget in touch with the police wasmade for Margaret by the author.After all, how could the plothave thickened and the suspensetautened if a call had been putin to the police when it shouldhave been-right in the middleof page 45?

In the case of Chris and Hal­loran, Miss Godden manages toconvey an intense sensual rela­tionship without going into ana­tomical sensationalism. Not soJoe McGinnis, author of The SeI­ling of the President, in his firstnovel, The Dream .Team (Ran­dom House, 457 Madison Ave.,New York, N.Y. 10022. $5.95).

The most frenetic passage ofthe sort comes at a point wheresuch story as there has been issuddenly collapsing. But eventhe very blue business does notdisguise the collapse.

The narrator is, a writer whohas had an outstanding successwith his very first book. He isnearing the end of a long andexhausting promotional tour. InSan Francisco he is interviewedby a girl reporter named Jenniferand by a nasty radio celebritynamed Barnaby Blaine.

Week in FloridaBlaine and the writer - find

that they have in common apassion for horse, racing. On thespur of the moment the writerjoins Blaine on a trip to Florida,for a week at the Hialeah track.The writer telephones his wife,in the East, to tell her his returni.s delayed, anri then takes Jen­nifer with him. There is to be"wild and sudden fun withstrangers." But there isn't.

The idyllic week in Floridaturns into disaster. The inces­santly babbling Jennifer drivesthe others to distraction. She isalways saying things like "Ihave such enormous potential

. as a human being. It would becriminal to waste an ounce."And, "My weaknesses are ,hardto figure out ... I look in themirror. I look into my soul andwhat I see is so good it scaresme'."

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SOUTH BEND (NC) - FatherTheodore Hesburgh marked his20th .anniversary as president ofthe University of Notre Dame onJune 28 'and, in an interviewwith the Associated Press, stated:

"I can't think of a time whenI didn't want to be a priest. Thismeans more to me than anythingelse."

The 55-year-old Hqly Crosspriest, who holds the chairman­ship of the U. S.' Civil RightsCommission and some 40 honor­ary degrees, said that NotreDame's students and campus ­and he himself - have changed'over the past 'two decades.

"The students have changedbecause the world has changed,but I think they have comethrough it surprisingly well de­spite all the problems they havefaced," he said.

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daily interruptions of seeminglyunrelated consequences. We can­not take the time out for coffeewith the person who simplywants coffee and light conversa­tion just for the sake of beingin our company. We. also haveto greatly limit our natural needfor rela'xation.

If the limits we have to setmake us appear less human andmore mechanical; then we haveset the limits in the wrong areas.If the only way we can become"outstanding in our field", is, toleave other persons standing outfrom our concerns; then our lim­its are misplaced.

The fine imposed is a gradualperson by person withdrawalfrom ours as a life-style to befollow·ed. If the only way weaim to be "outstanding" is byincessantly working on thEl me-'chanical methods; then thestraight, road of analytical de-.velopment will be an unreason­able idea to those who value the,human person in the message. Ifthe ,only way we can be recog­nized as "outstanding" is in thetensions we display; then our de­fiance of the law of human na­ture and its needs will soon beseen by all.

There is no doubt that man islimited in what he can qo. Howhe limits and who he eliminatesin the process should be hisguiding lights.

refer to Mary: the Mother ofGod and the -Mother of theChurch.

Mother of AllThe role of Mary in the life

of mankind is supported by thewords of holy scripture We havehistorical facts, but they ,are notmerely details of history. Theyreveal Our Lady's character andher part in the salvation of men.She is a common Mother for allmen because she is the Motherof the divine Redeemer who diedfor all men.

Pope John XXIII was fond ofspeaking of this dual motherhoodof Mary. Thus he stated: "TheMother of Jesus who is ourMother too-oh how I love toassociate these two tiilles!-isone of the richest sources ofconsolation, the richest afterJesus, who is oj Hi~ very naturelight and life. She is rich in com­fort and joy and encouragementfor all the children of Evewho have become her ehildrenthrough the redemptive sacrificeand will of Christ. This explainsthe whole world's devotion to theVirgin whom her saintly cousinElizabeth truly hailed as 'blessed'in reply to Mary's confession ofhumility in the Magnificat, whichremains the everlasting eanticleof .mankind redeemed, the songof the past, present, and future."

Mother of UnityFr. Paul James Franci!l, S.A.,

who founded the Society of theAtonement at Graymonf, Gar­rison, N.Y. was fond of stressingMary's role in salvation history.He' called her Our Lady of theAtonement to emphasize'her partin the mystery of salvation. Thenhe added that she is Our Ladyof the At-one-ment, of Unnty andReconciliation. She is the perfectmodel of man's relationship withGod.

Throughout All History of HumclnityMary Remains The Unique Wornan

OUR LADY OF THE ATONEMENT,

By Titus Cranny, S.A.

Let us put together severalnames, Nazareth, Bethlehem, thetemple in Jerusalem, Cana, inGalilee, Calvary, the UpperRoom, the Book of Revelation.Then we ask the question: howare these words related? Whatdo they have in common?

The answer is: they relate tothe Virgin Mary in a uniqueway' biblically, theologically andspiritually. Mary was the maidof Nazareth who received the

tmessage from heaven that shewould be the Mother of God. Shegave birth to that Son in thevillage of Bethlehem. When atthe age of twelve he was' lostshe found Him in the temple in

. Jerusalem teaching the doctorsand the wise men. She was pres­ent at Cana for the weddingfeast, as was He. When the vin­tage ran short she turned toHim: "They have no wine." Itwas a woman's concern for animportant part of the nuptialfeast. Then she spoke to the headwaiter: "Do whatever He tellsyou."

On Calvary Mary stood at thecross when her son was crucified.She suffered and died in spiritwith Him. If He is the Master­Martyr for all the world, she isthe Mother of all martyrs whogave their lives for God and re­ligion. She is the first memberof the Church, not in time butin . holiness and excellence; sheis the Mother of the Church. ,Shereceived the Holy Spirit in aspecial way in the Upper Roomat Pentecost. •

Mary is the "great sign" whichappeared in the heavens as theBook of Revelation tells us-"awoman clothed with the sun."Some hold that this passage doesnot refer to Mary but only tothe Church. We think it does

In an art:lcle of the same issue,Samuel McCracken quotes oneof the population enthusiasts,a certain Martha K. Willing, aswondering whether those with astrain of diabetes in their genesshould be permitted to havechildren. Mrs. Willing concedesthat we can treat such peoplenow and that they can be "valu­able and happy citizens," but,she says, "in a disruptive naturalor unnatur,:l1 disaster, this vul­nerable population would notmake it. 'Why, then, encourage,or permit them to expand theirnumbers."

McCracken notes ironically,"It is possible to distinguish thispassage from your stock socialistin one way only: Mrs. Willingdoes not think that defectivesare limited to a particular race."

Genetic Endowment TestI suppose I feel particularly

threatened by this kind of eu-- genies because there was some

diabetes in my family back­ground, and neither I nor mysisters nor my nieces ~nd neph­ews would be permitted to livein a society which Mrs. Willing'and her friends controlled,

But then, gentle reader, Iwouldn't be the only one. Youprobably wouldil't make it either.Are you lefthanded or nearsighted? Is their a cardiac con­dition in your family back­ground? Do you have a tendencytoward obesity? Do you havethe Rh factor in your blood?

If you have any of these lia­bilities, beware; you might notbe put to death, but you will notbe permitted to expand yournumbers. If you are so pre­sumptious as to have children,they will not be permitted tolive unless they pass the Gene­tic Endowment Test. ' -

One might wish that thebishops showed more awarenessof population problems, but onthe "right to life" issue they aresolidly on the side of humandignity and freedom. Some oftheir opponents, no matter howliberal or progressive or ecologi­cally conoerned they may be, arebut one step away from beingNazis.

City to Aid ParishSchool Student~ ,

ELIZABETH' (NC) - Some$500,000 in public funds will beearmarked for services for stu­dents at parochial schools here.

ClimaXing a .long series ofvotes and meetings, the CityCouncil approved restoration ofthe $500,000 to the school bud- 'get. While approval of the schoolboard is necessary, this is con­sidereda formality now eventhough the board had cut thosefunds from the budget earlier.

The original budget, drawn upin February, had included $505,­000 for services as remedial in­structors, physical educationteachers, audio-visual aids and

, supplies. Provision for that bud­getary item stemmed from talksbetween school board membersand parochial schcool officials.

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Po uJati,on Controllers'Ha e Other Things in Mind

very much afraid that the recent statement of the .Americ hierarchy on the report of the President's popu­lation c mmission went largely unnoticed even by Amer­ican Ca holies. The credibility of the Church as a teacherof sex a d morality has beenso <lama ed that even devoutCatholic respond with amild "h hum" whenever thebishops s eak out on such mat­ters.

Such a ituation is unfortunatebecause owever serious world-

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wide problems maybe and h wever desirable somekind of z ro population growthwill ultim tely bElCome in thiscountry, any of those who areso enthu iastically supportingpopulation limitations have otherthings in mind.

Norman Podhoretz, 'the editorof Comm ntary, recently madesome telli g points on the sub­ject in th May, 1972, issue. Hewrites: "A ter all, the intellectualleaders of his movement are notpure popu ation controllers con­cerned on y with numbers andwilling to let a stabilized or'reduced p pulation do what itwanted w th space which hadbeen secur d for it. They tend tohold stron views on the natureof the go d life, and most ofthem, by eir own admission,would be singularly unhesitantabout imp sing these views onothers if ey were ever giventhe chance."

Podhore goes on to describea meeting e attended in whicha number of scientists arguedfor "positi euthenasia"of mon,goloid inf nts.· "One very dis­tjnguished scientist," Podhoretzsays, "told me he saw no reasonwhy anyon who accepted abor­tion shoul balk at infanticide,particularl when the infant inquestion ' as known to be de­fective, wh reas fetus to be abor­ted may b nermal and sound."

Soci ist Agencies

Podhoret 's reply is at leastas forceful s anything the Cath­olic Church has ever said on thesubject of • right to life." "'Cer­tainly,' I sid, 'mongoloids aredefective, b t so are many otherkinds of pe pIe. Some are blind,some are eaf, some are halt,some are I mC', and some havemissing li bs. Some are givento madness and some are preyto disease. f mongoloids can beput to deat , why not these andthese? Wh not everyone 'whofails of bsolute perfection?'Not overly bothered by any ofthis, he sh ugged and went onto tell me colleague of his, amolecular b ologist of the great­est renown who believes thatno newbor infant should bedeclared hu an until it passedcertain test regarding its gen­etic endow ent. If it fails these,tests, it forf its the right to live/"

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CENTER WILL BE MISSED: Irish immigrants in the large industrial city/of Bur­mingham, England will miss the Irish Welfare Center-a combination store and socialservice facility run by a Catholic priest and nun from Dublin. Sister Dominic Saviostands in front of the center which will be torn down later this year. NC Photo.

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tural passages in an availableBible. The latter alternative,somewhat time-consuming andawkward, also eliminates aplanned program of readingsfrom contemporary and ancientChurch writers. "ChristianReadings" solves the difficulty.

Rome's General Instruction onthe Liturgy of the Hours out­lines the function of biblical pas­sages in our breviary. "Thereading of sacred scripture hasbeen traditionally performed inpublic during the liturgy, notonly. at eucharistic celebrations,but in the Divine Office as well.It should be held in esteem byall Christians. The Church pro­poses it not suit the choice orinclination of individuals, but toenable the Bride of Christ to un­fold the whole mystery of Christ... Moreover, in liturgical cel­ebrations, the reading of sacredscripture is always joined toprayer (especially the psalms) bemore fully understood and be­come a greater aid to devotionbecause of the reading."

Ideal PossibleA prayerful, reflective reading

of the whole ·Bible according to acarefully integrated systemseems to be the goal here, anideal now easily possible withthis new publication.

For centuries, however, thebreviary has likewise incorporat­ed into the Office of Readingspassages from Church Fathersor writers plus selections which"discuss the saint being cel­ebrated or which are rightly ap­plied to him, whether an excerptfrom the saint's 'own writings ora narrative of his life." TheChurch draws upon these com­mentaries, "brought forth inevery age," so we may acquirean ever "deeper understanding ofthe holy scriptures."

"Christian Readings," follow­ing that tradition and thoseprinciples, includes the best ofthe past and the present forthese non-biblical texts. St.Augustine is there, and ThomasMerton; St. John Chrysostomand John Courtney Murray, St.Thomas Aquinas and BarbaraWard, Cardinal' Gibbons andCardinal Suenens, Pope St. Cle­ment of Rome (third successor ofSt. Peter) and Pope Paul VI,Documents from Vatican II andthe recent General CatecheticalDirectory, St. Francis of Assisiand Pope John XXIII.

Centeron a regular basis in certainhomes."

Additional BurdenBirmingham has an Irish com­

munity of more than 100,000.The vast majority do well. Bll.tthere are always the others ­the tiny minority that for onereason or llnother cannot sur­vive despite state welfare-andthese are the people most in needof the center's many services.

In addition to being a head­quarters for social welfare, thecenter also sells religious goods,Irish records and knitwear. Thishelps to earn part of the moneythat keeps the center going. Therest must come from donationsand fund-raising.

The present situation in North­ern Ireland has thrown an addi­tional burden on the city of Bir­mingham, which has to bear asignificant influx of refugees.Many of them come with verylittle in their pockets. Without apermanent address they can re­ceive no social security benefitsand it is often difficult to find alandlady willing to take in anentire family.

This is the sort of apparentlyinsoluble problem that the IrishWelfare Center deals with week­ly.

Miss

Asks Church HelpSpanish-Speaking'

WASHINGTON (NC) - TheCatholic Church "is the Motherwho should cry out in defenseof her Spanish-speaking childrenwho are oppressed," AuxiliaryBishop.Patrick Flores of San An­tonio, Tex., said here.

"We have been victims of op­pression, discrimination, semi­slavery, poorly-paid for our work.We have lived in conditions'sometimes worse than the ani­mals in the ZOO," he stated, " ...and yet the Church keeps silent."

Bishop Flores was a majorspeaker at Encuentro Hispano dePastoral-a June 19-22 workshopon ministry to the Spanish­speaking community sponsoredby the U. S. Catholic Conferencedivision for the Spanish-speak­ing.

Before launching into what hedescribed as "some strong con­struction criticisms of the NorthAmerican Catholic Church,"Bishop Flores underlined his"great love and dedic~tion to theChurch and (my faith) in thevalue which Christ in. His Gos­pel has for our development."

And all of this is only part ofwhat was being done. In addition,bread was delivered twice week­ly to 25 families, a surprisingrequirement in these affluenttime~.

"The reasons vary," said Sis­ter Dominic, "but one might sim­ply be that the father of a largefamily just .drinks all of thehousehold's'income and leaveshis family destitute. Bread, clo­thing, second-hand furniture ­all of these things are required

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Irish

"Last year," said Father Mul­vany, "we dealt with 1,553 casesand made more than 3,000 housevisits. The center was involvedwith 374 refugees from the troub­les in Northern Ireland; helpedrepatriate' 67 people; helped 27unmarried mothers; furnished 54houses and apartments; foundaccomodation for 324 people;gave financial assistance to 475;found employment for 110 anddealt with 571 new arrivals."

Supporters of this small,cheery center hope that some ofthe $650,000 raised by Irish bish­ops last year for welfare workin Britain will be devoted to pro- .viding a new and more ambitiousBirmingham center.

"Anyone who thinks that thesocial welfare state has solvedall the acute poverty problemsshould spend a day with us," saidFather John Mulvany, the cen­ter's director. He and Sister Dom­inic Savio, a Dublin-born socialworker attached to the center,know the true sifuation - andhave to live with it.

BIRMINGHAM (NC) - Irishimmigrants in this large industri­al city in the English Midlandswill miss the Irish Welfare Cen­ter-a combination store and so­cial service facility run by aCatholic priest and a nun in Dub­lin. Later this. year the centerwill fall prey to the bulldozers.

The center, which opened dur­ing the large influx of Irish ref­ugees during the mid-1950s hashelped thousands of immigrantswith housing, financial assistanceand employment, to say nothingof making the newcomers wel­come.

Mexicans WorryAbout IncreaseIn Pop..-Iation

MEXICO CITY (NC) - TheMexican government has an­nounced ·plans to start a familyplanning campaign in 1973 tocut back a yearly crop of 2.2million babies.

Mexico now has 51 millionpeople, compared with 26 mil­lion in 1950.

"But we will IlDt allow theleast intrusion into human dig­nity and family privacy," saidDr. David Fragoso Lizalde, incharge of the maternity depart­ment of the Mexican healthministry.

President Luis Echeverria,who earlier voiced doubt thatbirth control measures couldsucceed in a country where mostfamilies traditionally have manychildren, has been talking moreand more about family planning.

Because about 85 per cent ofMexicans are baptized Catholics,government officials have avoid­ed the term "birth control" andhave let private groups do theprogram's spade work.

. 'Need Advice'Thus the announcement of the

1973 program came after sevenyears of activity by the Founda­tion for Population Studies,which has operated 55 birth-con­trol clinics around the country.It has a budget of $1 million,half from Mexican sources andhalf from such groups as theInternational Planned Parent­hood Federation. It claims tohave aided some 150,000 of Mex­ico's 10 million families.

The foundation's director,Gerardo Cornejo, said recentlythat Mexico's demographic "ex­plosion" could lead to violence.

"Mexico City alone, he said,will have 28 million people bythe year 2000, according topresent population projections.It will be impossible to find'enough housing, jobs and ser­vices for so many people,Cornejo said. "We just will nothave the resources."

He quoted from surveys bythe National University heresaying that 72 per cent of Mexi­can families "\1rgently need ad­vice on family planning.

Face Opposition"For a more rational and

manageable growth, we need the 'over-all assistance of govern­ment agencies," the foundation'shead· said.

Health ministry officials claimthat todaY.'about 20 per cent ofpregnancies end in abortion, add­ing that this is one of thereasons a planned parenthoodprogram is necessary.

Other government agenciespointed out that most of theaverage daily 6,123 live birthsin 1971 were in rural areas wherethe average monthly family in-come is $80. .

Family planners face opposi­tion from various quarters, al­though they recognize social andreligious traditions are thehighest hurdle.

New SuperintendentST..LOUIS (NC)-Father John

J. Leibrecht has been namedsuperintendent of Catholicschools here, succeeding Msgr.James T. Curtin who retiredearlier this year. Father Lei­brecht has been on the schoolsystem staff here since 1961,'most recently as associate super­intendent.

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