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TEXAS GULF COAST C ATHOLIC
Friday, September 10, 1076
Many Catholics don't understand
church reforms, cardinal says
VATICAN CITY (NC) — A Marcel Lefebvre declared Cardinal Gabriele Garrone,
cardinal directly involved in Sept. 2 that a “considerable prefect of the Congregation
the Vatican’s conflict with part of the faithful no longer for Catholic Education, was
traditionalist Archbishop understand’’ Church reforms, one of three Roman Curia
Msgr. Ellis talks of schools
PRAYER, PRAISE AND BIBLE STUDY
MERCER, Pa. — A crowd raises their hands in praise during “Jesus ‘76,’’ three days of
praise, prayer, Bible study, music and fellowship on Ralph Watson’s dairy farm In Mercer,
Pa. Nearly 45,006 persons attended the fourth In an annual series of “Jesus festivals” held In
Mercer and the last of a “Jesus *76” series that has seen similar celebrations this year In
Orlando, Ha.; Brantford, Ont.; and Charlotte, N.C. The event drew people from virtually
every state In the union as well as several foreign countries. (RNS)
PHILADELPHIA (NC) —
“If we abandon the moral
sense that is taught in the
Catholic schools, we might as
well close (them).”
Msgr. John Tracy Ellis, -
author, professor and Church
historian made the comment
during an interview here. The
former Catholic University
professor touched on a variety
of topics, saying he is op-
timistic about the future of
Catholic schools but worried
about Catholics’ acceptance of
the moral standards of the
nation as a whole.
Some of his other ob-
servations were:
—“Americans in general
are woefully anti-intellectual.
It’s notoriously true in
Catholic ranks.”
—Catholics have paid a
“very costly price” to be
accepted in American society.
—“I wonder if the people’s
reaching out to Jimmy Carter
News from
far...
and wide...
Mexican imigrants
mistreated
California’s ‘Right-to-Die’
Bill
VATICAN CITY (NC) — Commenting on a “right to die”
bill passed by the California legislature, the Vatican Daily
newspaper told readers Sept. 2 that failure to defend the
|--“right-t<Hlfeu--i9-to^open-the doors-t<v euthanasia.! ’ ■———~
L’Osservatore Romano said in a brief editorial comment
(hat the “right to die” bill “cannot fail to cause concern in
those....who are jealous custodians of their own lives and the
lives of others.
At last!
TUCSON, Ariz. (NC) — A movement has begun here of
parents whose children attend nonpublic schools to obtain ’the
same free supplies that are being furnished public schools
students. Alex Carrillo, whose two children attend Our
Mother of Sorrows School, said he feels the parents of
nonpublic schools students are entitled to the paper, pencils
and crayons, because they are paying for them through
taxes.
Christian Businessmen
to meet
ZURICH (NC) — The world congress of the International
Christian Union of Business Managers will bring 400
participants from 20 countries here Sept. 14-17 to discuss the
theme, "Today’s Priority — Management Faces a New
Economic Order.”
The meeting will seek fresh motivation and new forms of
action to promote a more equitable world economic order.
President of the union is Philippe de Veck, president of
the Union of Swiss Banks. The Christian businessmen’s
group has members in 26 countries.
Private hospitals
CINCINNATI (NC) — A U.S. appeals court has ruled that
private hospitals and their staffs may refuse to perform
abortions but that public hospitals have no such freedom. The
ruling came in the case of a Kentucky abortion statute which
said no hospital would be required to perform abortions. That
law was challenged by two physicians, Drs. Walter Wolfe and
Phillip S. Crosseen. In 1974, the same year the law was
enacted, a U.S. District Court voided certain provisions.
Agreeing with the lower court, the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of
Appeals ruled it unconstitutional for the law to require
spousal consent before a woman could have an abortion after
the first three months cf pregnancy; for the law to require
parental consent before a minor female could have an
abortion; and to prohibit the saline method of abortion.
MEXICO CITY (NC) — A
Mexican Catholic spokesman
has joined Mexican govern-
ment protests over the alleged
mistreatment of three
Mexican men at a ranch in
Arizona while trying to enter
the United States illegally.
“We suffered an ordeal at
the Hanigan Ranch (near
Bisbee),” said one of the
three, Eleazar Rueda.
“They did wrong in trying to
bypass immigration
requirements. But, according
to law, deportation was in line
not punishment as criminals,”
said ~a~spokesmam. for the
Mexican bishops here. He
called the incident “con-
demnable.”
The Mexican foreign
ministry promised to press
“for justice” in the case
before U.S. courts. The case
won prominence in the media
in Mexico because it is tied to
the stream of illegal aliens
being deported by U.S. im-
migration authorities.
The Mexican government
has also begun an in-
vestigation into the death of
another illegal migrant
worker, Cornelio B )eras
Loredo, 45, who according to
his family was beaten Aug. 22
by U.S. agents in Texas
aboard a bus in which he was
being deported The man died
two days after reaching his
home at Razcon in San Luis
Potosi state.
Concerning the three men in
Arizona, on Aug. 27 Judge
Anthony Deddens of Cochise
County signed indictments
against three ranchers —
George W. hanigan and his
sons Patrick and Thomas
Henry — on charges of kid-
naping, armed robbery and
assault with deadly weapons.
Besides Ruede, 24, the other
two victims were Marrnel
Garcia, 25, and Bernabe
Herrera, 21. They had come
from Durango and Chihuahua.
According to their testimony,
they were robbed, beaten, and
burned with iron cattle
brands. They required
hospital treatment.
Mexican Interior Minister
Mario Moya said the attack on
the men was “a show of racial
sadism,” but added that
Mexicans should not allow
their indignation “to mar the
traditional bonds of friendship
with the United States.”
isn’t some sign of their
reaching out for someone with
a moral sense?”
Non-Catholic schools, Msgr.
Ellis said, “probably have
much more educational
material, laboratories, and
maybe more trained per-
sonnel, but the moral sense is
all-important.”
"In some instances, that
element has faded out, and 1
think there was a great con-
fusion for many. I think the
confusion is lifting. I think
there is a return to sanity.”
There has been a “dawning
consciousness of the folly that
had gone on in many
elementary schools,” Msgr.
Ellis asserted. As a result he
feels parochial schools are
better off than they were eight
or 10 years ago.
The “folly,” the noted
historian said was “an ex-
cessive eagerness for in-
novation.” Change is a law of
life, he added, but “a fair
number of people in our
schools had gotten into a sort
of frenzy of change —
anything that came along so
long as it was new.”
Msgr. Ellis said he once
found a guideline for a
parochial school that stated:
“We protect the right of the
child not to learn.”
“Nonsense,” the priest
exclaimed, saying such an
attitude is the culmination of
“19th-century individualism”
which said, “I will do what I
please, no matter who says
anything to the contrary.”
turning to the political -
forum, Msgr. Ellis said:
“Every effort should be made
by every group in the republic
to arouse the moral sense of
the American people.” That is
Prison chaplains
DALLAS — Catholic prison
chaplains have agreed to
request the National Con-
ference of Catholic Bishops to
consider the use of general
absolution in correctional
institutions with the con-
sultative approval of the local
bishop, according to Father
Richard Houlahan, OMI,
south central and south east
regional chaplain for the
Federal Bureau of Prisons.
The action came during the
Denver meeting of the
American Catholic Correc-
tional Chaplains Association
at which the Church’s new
Rite of Penance was discussed
in depth.
General absolution without
previous individual confession
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the only way the nation can
survive, he added.
“It sounds discoureging. I
wish I could sound otherwise,
but all I can speak is what I
know to be true.”
Anti-intellectualism — “the
attitude of the mind of so
many that learning is a
process to be followed by the
rather eccentric, freakish
people” — is “all too real”
among American Catholics,
Msgr. Ellis noted.
“The intense practicality”
of Americans leads to their
anti-intellectualism,” Msgr.
Ellis claimed. “The great goal
of American life is to make
money. Everything else is
subordinate to that.”
The attitude of anti-
intellectualism is best shown
in an expression current years
ago, the septuagenarian said.
“In Europe when a man met a
professor, he doffed his hat. In
the United States, he tapped
his head” (in ridicule).
cardinals who interrogated
Archbishop Lefebvre at the
Vatican last spring.
The cause of the Catholics’
confusion, said Cardinal
Garrone, can be laid at the
,-eet of those who reject the
Vatican Council II without
knowing what it says and
those who give arbitrary in-
terpretations to conciliar
decrees.
In a front page article in the
Vatican daily newspaper, L-
Osservatore Romano, the
French cardinal defended the
council’s authoritativeness,
declaring that “a bishop
cannot take upon himself
personally a magisterium
(teaching authority) equal to,
though precisely opposed to”
that of the council itself.
Archbishop Lefebvre was
suspended by Pope Paul VI for
openly rejecting almost all of
the decrees of Vatican II as
“heresy,” and for public
disobedience.
The cardinal judged that
many people “disgusted by
the so-called consequences of
Vatican II” probably know as
little about the council as the
seminarians in Archbishop
Lefebvre’s traditionalist
seminary in Econe, Swit-
zerland.
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needed \
The Crisis Information
Service and the Rape Crisis
Center will begin a training
program for new volun-
teers on Tuesday, sen-
tember 14, 1976, 7.00 p.m.
at the Greenwood Com-
munity Center, 4040
Greenwood. All volunteers
are welcome and Spanish
speaking volunteers are
especially needed.
Volunteers will be
trained to staff a 24-hour
hotline. Topics to be
covered in the training
program include: Com-
munication, Active
Listening. a Self-
Awareness Workshop, The
Psychological Effects of
Rape, Death and Suicide,
and Sexuality. Volunteers
will be trained to deal with
persons experiencing
personal or family crisis.
The need for volunteers
to serve the community is
great. If you are interested
in helping people and
serving your community,
please telephone for in-
formation about this im-
portant training. The
number to call is 883-6244.
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the local bishop according to
the new Rite of Penance which
becomes mandatory in the
United States the first Sunday
of Lent. 1977.
Fr. Houlahan said that the
prison chaplains expressed
their belief that the multiple
moral, psychological and
physical restraints of penal
institutions and the
uniqueness of their ministry
warrant the use of general
absolution.
LCWR ASSEMBLY
BOSTON — Participants in the 1976 National Assembly of the Leadership Conference of
Women Religious (LCWR) Included, from left to right, Irma Garcia Matells, human rights
officer for the United Nations’ Center of Social Development; Sister Mary Daniel Turner,
S.N.D., LCWR executive director; and Sister Barbara Thomas, S.C.N., superior general of
the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, Ky., and outgoing president of the LCWR. Some 600 nun-
participants, representing 160,000 sisters in 370 religious congregations in the U.S., met in
Boston under the theme, “The New Spirit of ’76 — A Call to Interdependence.” (RNS)
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