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CITES ‘HUNGER’
Says Adults Enthusiastic
Over Religious Education
BY ETHEL GINTOFT
HOLY HILL, Wis. (NC) -
“I felt at times like a driver of
a bread truck going through a
hungry town,” said Father
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Patrick J. Farrell, O.C.D.,
speaking of the hunger among
adults for religious education.
Last year at the request of
parishioners, Father Farrell
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The Canon Law Society of
America has scheduled a
symposium at Bergamo
Center here Sept. 12 to 14, in
advance of the Bishops’
Synod in Rome. The general
topic will be, “Unity and
Subsidiarity in the Church:
Rome and the Conference of
Bishops.”
The society’s program
chairman, Father John
Coriden, professor of Canon
law at the Catholic University
of America, said co-sponsors
of the meeting with the
society are the University of
Dayton and Bergamo Center.
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will be to study the relations
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and communications between
the Holy See and the national
bishops conferences in
preparation for the Bishops’
Synod in Rome in October.
Other announced purposes
are to assist directly the U.S.
and Canadian bishops in
preparing for the synod, to
stimulate Catholics to think
about the issues the synod
will discuss and “to evaluate
the renewal going on in the
Church as a movement,” it
was stated.
Among those expected to
attend are 20 theologians,
nine of whom will present
papers; John Cardinal
Dearden of Detroit, president
of the National Conference of
Catholic Bishops, and Bishop
Alexander Carter, of Sault
Ste. Marie, Ont. president of
the Canadian Catholic
Conference.
In addition to the formal
papers, a special 30-minute
filmed interview with Leo
Cardinal Suenens of
Mechelen-Brussels, Belgium,
will be shown. The film is
being prepared by the
Bergamo Center especially for
the Canon Law Society.
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gave a “Course in Christian
Values” to a group of 78
adults and 31 teenagers of St.
Hubert parish, Hubertus, Wis.
He said he found the adults
eager to find out more about
their faith, especially since
their children were coming
home with ideas the parents
didn’t understand.
Because of the interest he
encountered among adults,
the 33-year-old Carmelite
hopes to set up similar
courses in other parishes
upon request and eventually
open up the program as a
service stemming out from
the Carmelite monastery and
shrine at Holy Hill, where he
lives.
His “Course in Christian
Values,” he said, tries to
explain away some of the
confusion adults may have
because of recent changes. In
his first lecture, for example,
he asks and discusses the
question, “What is happening
to thy Catholic Church I used
to know? Is it really the same
any more?”
He explains first the “old
approach,” which has
emphasis on content and on a
systematic study of doctrine,
including things to believe
(creed), things to do or avoid
(the commandments), and
things to help (sacraments,
practices of devotion).
He then tackles the “new
approach,” which has
emphasis upon the person
and upon relevance of
doctrine, including “how God
is revealing Himself, is telling
us His love and is asking us to
respond; how Christ is active
in our life, and how we must
be aware of and accept His
help by our reception of the
Sacraments and by related
actions.”
Father Farrell said he
believes his course might
differ from other adult
religion courses in three
respects: it is in non-technical
language, simple, yet on an
adult level; it is practical and
immediately applicable to
today’s circumstances, rather
than academic, theoretical or
abstract; and (with the help
of a text) it is systematic or
covering the whole Catholic
religion, not just one aspect
of it like the documents of
the Vatican Council.
The course was conducted
every other Tuesday for 10
weeks in each of two
semesters. Its general format
was the talk by Father
Farrell, a question period,
and then discussion by the
audience divided into small
groups and also by “anyone
with something further to
add.”
The text used (not
compulsory) was “Christ
Among Us”, by Father
Anthony J. Wilhelm, C.S.P.
Father Farrell described
himself as “more doctrinely
cautious” than some radicals
but “open to new
developments.” He was asked
to conduct the course
because the St. Hubert
parishioners knew him from
helping out the pastor there.
An important part of the
course, Father Farrell feels, is
the “challenge sheet” he gives
out with each talk, to spur
students into thinking about
their problems.
One observation he made
was that for a long time
“noboby had any trouble
with the Mass”.
“Why? Because no one
wanted to admit he didn’t
know about something he
had experienced every
Sunday for years. But once
we opened up, we found
there were many questions
and confusions about the
liturgy,” Father Farrell said.
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HOLLYWOOD, Calif.
(NC) — The motion picture
industry’s own employees
have called its self-regulation
code a failure and have
demanded more effective
means to protect the public
against obscenity and
pornography.
The demands were made
(July 14) by the Hollywood
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representing more than
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The council said it took its
action because of the many
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regarding the type of movies
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The council’s unanimous
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offensive portrayal of sexual
acts, nudity, perversion,
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being made and shown
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exhibitors.
The council said many of
its members are “reluctantly
forced to accept employment
on such objectionable motion
pictures because other work
opportunities have been
reduced due to ‘runaway’
foreign film production.”
The 2 5,0 00-member
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SAIGON (NC) - Foreign
correspondents were called
by South Vietnam’s President
Nguyen Van Thieu to a news
conference at which he
renewed his offer of
internationally supervised
elections in South Vietnam.
The President expressed
his regret that the first offer,
made July 11 had been
hastily rejected by the
communists.
Referring to some recent
remarks of his Vice-President
Nguyen Cao Ky., President
Thieu told the correspon
dents that he was the
president of South Vietnam,
and in this country, the
president makes the
decisions.
Thus he made it clear that
the vice president was
expressing only personal
opinions in saying recently
that South Vietnam should
leave the Paris Peace
conference since the
communists had rejected all
offers. Ky’s point was that
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he had not reached a decision
on the form the supervised
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Replying to a question, he
thought that Japanese
delegates might assist in the
supervision of the elections.
Again answering the
criticism of his vice president
that the United States has
been too slow in modernizing
the South Vietnamese Army,
Thieu reaffirmed that South
Vietnamese troops would be
able to replace U.S. troops by
the end of 1970, provided the
flow of equipment and funds
continues to South Vietnam.
The theme and purpose of
the Conference appeared to
be that President Thieu was
trying to impress upon the
Communists that his July 11
offer was as far as he could go
in making concessions, and
that the Communists have
nothing to gain by waiting. It
is apparent that President
Thieu cannot afford to give
the impression that he will
continue to make
concessions.
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