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HARVARD, Mass. - A wedding ceremony can be tiring for any guest, but for a two-year-old it can
be exhausting. Timothy Madigan catches 30 winks, seated on the kneeler. (NC Photo)
LAFAYETTE SCHOOLS
Diocese Acts To Prevent
Segregationists’ Move
LAFAYETTE, La. (NC) -
The Lafayette diocesan
school board adopted a
two-point program designed
to prevent supporters of
private segregated schools
from moving in on Catholic
schools of the diocese.
The board approved an
admission policy which will
restrict admitting new
students into grade 2 through
8, and 10 through 12, and
also approved guidelines for
establishment of local
Catholics of the Diocese of
Savannah have been invited
to take part in the Catholic
Congress on Worship to be
held in Atlanta, April 16, 17
and 18. The invitation was
extended by the Most Rev.
Thomas A. Donnellan,
Archbishop of Atlanta, under
whose direction the Congress
is being prepared.
The theme of the
Congress, “Join Hands in
Prayer” will be illustrated by
experts in the field of
Catholic Worship, including
Bishop Gerard L. Frey,
Bishop of Savannah; Fathers
Eugene Kennedy and
Clement McNaspy S.J., both
of whom have written
extensively on the Liturgy;
committee which will “study,
evaluate and recommend
local action to assure greater
racial justice in Catholic
schools of each civil parish
(county) in the diocese.”
The board acted as
tensions continued to mount
over Louisiana public school
integration. A week earlier, as
plans for private segregrated
schools throughout the state
were discussed, the Catholic
bishops of Louisiana issued a
statement calling for
Mr. Robert Rambusch, noted
Church architect and Miss
Christiane Brusselman, Lay
Liturgist.
Bishop Frey has asked that
each parish in the Savannah
Diocese send a minimum of
five delegates as official
representatives to the
Congress.
To allow for attendance
by Religious and lay teachers
from the diocese, Father
Ralph E. Seikel, Diocesan
Superintendent of Schools,
has declared Friday, April 17,
a school holiday.
The congress will be held
at the Shearaton Biltomore
Hotel.
continued support of the
public school system.
In the guidelines, the
school board emphasized
concern for “greater racial
balance in Catholic schools of
the diocese, thus upholding
the Christian principles of
brotherhood and charity.”
Msgr. Richard Mouton,
diocesan schools
superintendent, said the
schools of the Lafayette
diocese have been integrated
racially for several years,
although not in great
numbers.
“The diocesan school
board has pledged itself to
follow both a reasonable and
honest course of action,” he
said. “The policy on
admissions will limit transfers
into Catholic schools. Unless
a child previously has
attended a Catholic school,
he will not be admitted into
grades 2 through 8 or 10
through 12.
“Children will still be
admitted into kindergarten,
first grade and high school
freshmen classes on the basis
of admissions established by
the local Catholic school
boards,” he continued.
“Classes, however, will be
limited to 35. Construction
of, or acquisition of,
additional classrooms will
require approval of a
committee of the school
board appointed by the
diocesan superintendent,” he
said.
“This policy seeks to
assure the community that
the Catholic schools will
stand oy me public scnools in
the problems they face at
present.
ATLANTA IIS APRIL
Congress On
Worship Set
NCEA HEAD RAPS ACTION
Nixon Veto Of HEW Bill
Seen Education ‘Threat’
BY SUE CRIBARI
(NC News Service)
WASHINGTON — President Nixon’s veto of a $19.7 billion health, and education
appropriations bill poses a severe financial threat to schools throughout the U.S.,
according to supporters of both public and private education.
The veto “affects not only the schools and the welfare of our youth, but the
well-being of all America,” commented Father C. Albert Koob, O. Praem., president
of the National Catholic Educational Association. “This is not a time when the
nation can afford to ignore what is happening in our schools and colleges. Problems
of racial strife, addicition to drugs and rebellion to authority all call for better
education,” he said.
OUTLOOK - Our eyes often look out from loneliness,
happiness, confusion or hope. Today’s religious education
programs often appear to place more emphasis on these qualities
of man's life than on God's life. In fact, however, they are
usually striving to see and hear the signs of God as they are
revealed in the lives of the people we know. This is discussed in
this Week’s ‘Know Your Faith’ Series on page 5. (NC Photo)
MODERN PLA Y
Let’s Hear It
For The Author
“It is difficult to
understand how the President
can fail to relate better
education with the upgrading
of law and order which the
present Administration has
promised to America.”
The Administration’s
budget request of $192.9
billion recommended only
$3.2 billion (a little more
than Y/i%) for education.
This figure, a reduction of
$400 million from fiscal
1969, caused special
consternation among
proponents of private
education because the
Administration had requested
zero funding for Title II of
the Elementary and
Secondary Education Act,
one of the few federally
funded programs in which
private schools participate
equally with public schools.
Title II provides a
“program for making grants
(to the states) for the
acquisition of school library
resources, textbooks, and
other printed and published
instructional materials for the
use of children and teachers
in public and private
elementary and secondary
schools.” In fiscal 1968,
5,338,908 private school
Children -- 96% of those
eligible - participated in Title
II programs. The same year,
39,981,644 public school
children -- 92% of those
eligible - participated.
Nixon said the lean
education budget was the
result of his attempt to curb
inflation. But several
members of Congress,
including Senate Majority
leader Mike Mansfield,
(Montana), attacked the
President for cutting back
spending in what they
considered vital areas. The
result was the addition ot
almost $1.3 billion for health
and education programs to
the final conference report.
On January 26th Nixon
appeared on a prime time
radio and television broadcast
explaining his reasons for the
veto, which he signed at the
conclusion of the program
before a nationwide audience.
Calling the veto “one of
the most difficult decisions I
have made since I assumed
the office of the Presidency,”
he said the revised HEW bill is
“not in the best interest of all
the American people because
it is in the wrong amount, for
the wrong purposes and at
the wrong time.”
He said a “major reason”
for the 25% increase in the
cost of living in the United
States since 1960 is that “the
Federal Government spent
$57 billion more than it took
in it taxes” in that ten-year
period. He said he intended
to see that the government
“spends less in Washington so
that you can have more to
spend at home.”
Nixon said the $1.3 billion
increase tacked on the bill
“for the most part simply
provides more dollars for the
same old programs without
making the urgent new
reforms that are needed.” As
an example, he cited the
impacted aid program, to
which Congress added nearly
$400 million, which
“provides $6 million for the
one-half million people who
live in the richest county in
the United States and only $3
million for the three million
people that live in the 100
poorest counties.”
Another objective to the
bill, he said, is that “We’re
now nearly three-quarters of
the way through the school
year. This bill forces us to
spend the money it
appropriates and we would
have to spend it all before
June 30. When money is
spent in a hurry, a great deal
is wasted.”
Nixon promised that if
Congress sustained his veto
on Wednesday (Jan. 28) he
would “immediately seek
appropriations which will
assure the funds necessary to
provide for the needs of the
nation in education and
health.” He said he would
“work with Congress in
developing a law that will
ease the transition to
education reform and do so
without inflation.”
THE CATHOLIC LIGHT,
weekly newspaper of the
Diocese of Scranton,
Pennsylvania carried the
following story about a brand
new play authored by a
second-grade youngster at St.
Gabriel’s School, Hazleton,
Pa. The story goes like this:
Hazleton - “The play.s the
thing,” said Will of Stratford,
and Master Cyril Dougherty
of the second grade at St.
Gabriel’s School, Hazleton,
took him at his word. In
pithy parable, Cyril, by clever
interpolation of the
vernacular with the
traditional, relayed the news
of the Annunciation in
playlet form.
Note in Mary’s dialogue,
her acceptance of the Angel’s
charge - she says “I exseape”
which is a conglomoword
perhaps Greek, Latin or
Sanscrit. It has been
translated to read “I accept.”
But on to the play!
ANGEL GABRIEL: You
will have a son Jesus.
MARY: I am too young
yet.
\ ANGEL GABRIEL: God
has picked you thow!
MARY: I exseape (I
accept). Translator’s note.
ANGEL GABRIEL: On
Christmas expeakte him.
MARY: Okay.
ANGEL GABRIEL: You’ll
half to marry Joseph.
MARY: Okay.
A word of caution,
however, to would-be
plagiarists. The Scranton
Catholic paper warns that in
order to protect the budding
playwright, anyone using over
three words of dialogue will
be required to pay the author
a minimum of three packages
of bubble gum with the
assurance that one pack, at
least, has a picture of Joe
Namath.
INSIDE STORY
Women Can't Be Priests Pg. 2
Successful Liturgy Pg. 3
Know Your Faith Pg. 5
C * ^iSy
Doris Answers Youth Pg. 7
A HEADLINE
HOPSCOTCH
Israeli On Pope
VATICAN CITY (NC) — Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir
told Pope Paul VI she hopes his efforts to bring peace in various
parts of the world will be heard throughout the Middle East. In
a letter she sent him about his message marking the third annual
“World Day of Peace,” Jan. 1, she said: “My colleagues and I,
and indeed the people of Israel, follow with deep sympathy and
interest Pope Paul’s efforts to alleviate tension in various parts
of the world and to deepen the striving for peace throughout
mankind. “It is my hope and prayer, that the Pope’s appeal will
find echoes throughout the Middle East, whose peoples
tragically remain deprived of peace and cooperation.”
Biafra Missioners
ROME (NC) — All missioners inside what was Biafra will
have to leave the famine-stricken region as soon as other relief
workers acceptable to the Nigerian government are available,
according to word reaching here from that area and the Nigerian
Federal capital of Lagos. Within a week of Biafra’s surrender,
two dozen of the approximately 75 missioners in the former
Biafra region had been taken to Port Harcourt for detention,
presumably to be removed to Lagos. Among them was Father
John Daly, rector of the Bigart Memorial Seminary, which was
the largest seminary in Africa and had operated even during the
war.
Christopher Awards
NEW YORK (NC) — Awards for outstanding books,
television programs and movies will be presented by the
Christophers Feb. 27 in ceremonies at the Christopher Center
here. The Christophers Awards program, begun in 1951 and
discontinued in 1962, is being reinstated this year in observance
of the movement’s 25th anniversary. A spokesman said awards
will be given for works which are “representative of the highest
level of human and spiritual values as well as technical and
artistic superiority.”
New Magazine
NOTRE DAME, Ind. (NC) — A new magazine, A.D. 1970,
will replace the 105-year-old Ave Maria beginning March 28,
according to the publisher of the Ave Maria Press, Father John
Reedy, C.S.C. A.D. 1970 will be news-oriented, religious in its
outlook and ecumenical in its interests, the publisher said. He
described the proposed magazine as one “designed to serve
information needs which are not presently being served by any
other weekly publication.”
Confirmation
Schedule
His Excellency, Bishop Gerard L. Frey will confer
the Sacrament of Confirmation on candidates of
Blessed Sacrament Parish, Savannah on Sunday,
February 8 at 5:30 p.m. All members of the parish
are cordially invited to attend the ceremony.
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