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PAGE 2 — The Southern Cross, October 5,1972
American Party Candidate
Lashes Out at Abortionists
t>R. JOHN O’SHAUGHNESSEY, with Sister M. Fidelis R.S.M., Mt. de Sales High
School Principal, reads the wondering of the school’s first citation, presented to him
September 26 for outstanding service to the school. Dr. O’Saughnessey, who is
chairman of the school board, received the award at a meeting of the board of trustees.
(Drinnon Photo)
Mt. de Sales Honors
Dr. O’Shaugnessey
“Every single American, from the
moment he is conceived, has a right to
live,” American Party Presidential
candidate Congressman John G. Schmitz
of California told a mass meeting of
abortion fighters at New York City’s
Manhattan Center October 6.
Schmitz declared:
“By the end of last year, 225,000
unborn children had been killed in New
York alone, for the ‘crime’ of existing.
Sixty-two of them foiled their killers at
least temporarily by being born alive. At
least one survived to find a home through
adoption.
“In my own state of California, more
than 62,000 babies were aborted during
the single year 1970 -- over 98 per cent of
them allegedly for reasons of ‘mental
DUBLIN (NC) -- The militant
Provisional wing of the outlawed Irish
Republican Army (IRA) is ready to talk
about new initiatives to stop its bombing
and shooting campaign in Northern
Ireland, according to Rory O’Brady, head
of the Provisionals’ political arm, Sinn
Fein.
O’Brady also said here that the
Provisionals may contest a number of
seats in the local elections scheduled in
Ulster in late November or early
December.
He said that the military campaign has
probably reached a stalemate, and that
new political moves are vital.
Following the talks on Ulster’s future
Sept. 25-27 at Darlinton, England, “there
is a chance of getting back to the realities
of the situation,” said O’Brady, a former
teacher. He outlined three conditions for
a new truce by the Provisional IRA (an
earlier Provisionals’ truce was broken
after little more than a week in early
July):
Catholic
Sister M. Anthony Monahan, O.L.M., a
member of the Catholic Order of Sisters
of Charity of Our Lady of Mercy will
address the members of the Augusta
Deanery Council at 3:30 P.M. on Sunday,
October 8th, 1972 in St. Teresa Church
Hall on Pleasant Home Road. Sister M.
Anthony will describe the St. John’s
University Summer workshop on:
“Birthright - Alternative TO Abortion.”
Sister M. Anthony graduated from St.
Joseph’s Hospital School of Nursing in
Memphis, Tennessee; she earned the B.S.
Degree from College Mesericordia in
Dallas Pennsylvania. She served in
various nursing positions ranging from
private duty to general duty and
instructor of nursing students. She
received the Master of Social Work
Degree from the Catholic University of
American and is a member of the
Academy of Social Workers.
Sister M. Anthony served in various
health’ of the mother. The fraud and
scandal of this excuse should make the
medical men responsible cringe in shame.
“Many good Americans have not yet
come to grips with the appalling reality of
this modern massacre of the innocents.
They still think of abrotion as more
involving a woman’s freedom than a
baby’s life. If they could see pictures of
the unborn child at the age of 20 weeks
when abortions are still legal in many
states - and pictures of what happens
after the abortion is done - they would
feel very differently.
“And I should like to see and hear even
the most hardened abortion advocate tell
that baby here in New York who survived
an abortion and found a home, when he
grows up, why he should be dead.”
Schmitz called on his audience to join
- Recognition that the Provisional IRA
must have a voice in any discussions on
the future of Northern Ireland;
- Removal of the legal curbs that
prevent the IRA and its sympathizers
from operating an an open political party;
- Removal of the various declarations
and oaths of allegiance required of those
seeking elective office in Ulster.
There was no mention of ending
internment without trial for suspected
terroists, British army activity, or the
ultimate future of Ireland. O’Brady
indicated that the second and third
conditions could change the whole nature
of the conflict if granted immediately.
Sinn Fein would then be able to
contest elections in Ulster’s 26 new local
government districts at the end of the
year.
But he warned that “it would be little
use removing these restrictions just on the
eve of the elections. That would be like
releasing a man who has been on hunger
strike in jail and asking him to run a mile.
We need time to get to the starting line.”
institutions as a psychiatric social worker,
including Crafts Farrow State Hospital.
She also was Director of Neighborhood
from 1953-1964 and also Director,
Demonstration Project with Boys in
conflict with the Law during 1965-66.
Sister M. Anthony has written articles
for Sacred Heart Messenger; she has
authored two books, e.g. NEW WORKS
FOR NEW NUNS (1968) and TWO
THOUSAND WOMEN OF
ACHIEVEMENT which will be published
in London in November 1972. Sister is
listed in WHO’S WHO OF AMERICAN
WOMEN. She received the Citizen of the
Year Omega Psi Phi award in 1965. She is
also listed in the Hall of Fame, Charleston
South Carolina in 1967; in 1968, Sister
received the Plaque, Eastside
Improvement Cousel (Charleston).
Sister M. Anthony is a member of
several professional and civic
with him in a commitment to saving
the lives of the unborn “that transcends
all political, social and ideological
divisions.” If unborn children are to be
eliminated because they are “unwanted,”
he said, “then the unwanted old will be
next on the list. Once government has
allowed the killing of the unwanted to
begin, none of us - young or old, Left or
Right, rich or poor - is safe any more.”
Congressman Schmitz has introduced a
Constitutional amendment, House Joint
Resolution 1186, to guarantee explicitly
the right to life from the moment of
conception. The platform of the
American Party, which nominated him
for President, “opposes all attempt to
liberalize any anti-abortion laws, which
laws, by their very nature, protect the
lives of those innocents least able to
defend themselves.”
Elections
O’Brady was careful to preserve his
diplomatic ignorance of the intentions of
the military wing, but he did have some
“impressions” which, coming from a
former IRA chief of staff, has some
significance.
One of them was that the prospect of
open political activity by Sinn Fein
would force the whole movement
advocating unification with the Irish
Republic -- both the civil and military
aspects - to rethink its position at the
annual Sinn Fein Conference, scheduled
in Dublin Oct. 28.
He expressed some regard for the
militants in the Protestant Ulster Defense
Association (UDA): “We feel that UDA is
more representative of Protestant opinion
than the official Unionist (party)
establishment, dominated by the landed
gentry and commercial interests.”
O’Brady said it is not impossible that
the hard men on both sides might come
together and work out a peace formula.
He said that recent divisions within the
Unionist party ranks make the prospect
of a working-class alliance, across
sectarian barriers, more likely.
organizations, including: the National
Conference of Social charities;
Conference for Religions (Board member)
National Association of Social Workers
(Chairman, Charleston Chapter); Social
Action Committee; South Carolina Public
Health Association (Chairman,
Community Relations Committee); South
Carolina Council of Catholic Nurses
(founder); Office Of Economic
Opportunity (Board of Advisors);
Charleston Mental Health Association
(Treasurer); St. John’s Episcopal Mission
(Board Member); Charleston Federation
of Settlement Houses (Founder); South
Carolina Council of Human Relations
(Board member); Young Women’s
Christian Association (Board member).
The Deanery Council is composed of
five parish councils of the Augusta area,
St Mary’s on the Hill, St. Joseph’s, St.
Teresa of Avila, Most Holy Trinity and
Catholic Women of the Chapel, Fort
Gordon. All Catholic women are invited
to attend the meeting and to participate
in the various activities.
Dr. John O’Shaughnessey, Chairman of
the board of trustees of Mt. de Sales high
school, Macon, is the recipient of the
school’s first citation, awarded in
ceremonies last Tuesday evening (Sept.
26) at a meeting of the board held in his
home. The citation was presented by
Sister M. Fidelis R.S.M., Principal after
remarks of commendation by Dr. James
Cassidy, chairman of the school’s building
committee.
In praising Dr. O’Shaughnessey’s work
for the Macon school, Dr. Cassidy said:
“Dr. O’Shaughnessey was elected to the
board of trustees . . .at a time when the
board was coming out of a period of
dormancy and expanding and
reorganizing. To say that he has been the
spark to ignite the flame of enthusiasm in
this board is a gross understatement.”
Dr. O’Shaughnessey first official act as
board chairman was, according to Dr.
Cassidy, “to extract from each board
member . . .his or her commitment to the
culture of Mt. de Sales.” He emphasized
seven areas in which the board chairman
has shown his leadership qualities:
“The board itself has functioned
beautifully. The school has been put on a
sound financial basis. A capital
improvements drive has been successfully
mounted. A new library-administration
building is imminent. An athletic storage
and shower facility is in the works.
“An athletic field is being prepared,
and a completely new front is being
fabricated for the school.”
Card. O’Boyle
Asks for End
To Life Threats
WASHINGTON (NC) -- Cardinal
Patrick O’Boyle of Washington urged the
nation’s Catholic to undertake
“courageous action” to rid American
society of the varied threats to human
life.
In a sermon at St. Matthew’s Cathedral
here, he also assailed the view that
Catholics should not try to impose their
beliefs on society.
The cardinal preached on the first day
of Respect Life Week. The week,
consisting of local observances in dioceses
throughout the country, was designed to
uphold the sanctity of human life and
impel Catholics to create a society free of
threats to that sanctity.
“Our society, in principle, affirms the
dignity of man and the sanctity of human
life,” he declared. “It has brought our
people many blessings. Yet, it is a society
in which too many people are poor, sick,
and abandoned. It is a society in which
technology, for all of its acknowledged
benefits, is too often used merely to
increase the gross national product and to
produce a never ending supply of creature
comforts.
“It denies equal opportunity to many
of our citizens and too often is reckless
and irresponsible in the way in which it
despoils and exploits our dwindling
natural resources and pollutes our rivers
and streams and the very atmosphere
around us. Moreover, it is a society which
has yet to find a way to disentangle itself
from one of the longest and most tragic
wars in the nation’s history.”
The cardinal scored abortion as
“morally evil.” He said “the child’s life is
a responsibility and concern for all of us,
and the decision to end that life by
abortion is not a private matter to be
decided by the mother and her
physician.”
Speaking of care for the elderly, he
said society has a duty to grant the aged
“adequate health and medical services”
and also to provide the eldery with
“acceptance, recognition and loving
care.”
In addition to abortion and
indifference to the needs of the aged,
Cardinal O’Boyle said “the twin evils of
degrading poverty in the midst of plenty
and widespread racial discrimination”
violate basic human rights.
“It is a tragic commentary on the
world today that nations are forced to
spend billions for ghastly weapons of war,
and yet cannot find the necessary funds
to eliminate slums,” he asserted.
He also said “It is an equally tragic
commentary on our society that, though
we are now less than four years away
from the bicentennial anniversary of the
Republic, we have yet to grant anything
like equality of opportunity to millions
of our citizens who belong to so-called
minority groups -- black, Chicanos,
American Indians, and others.”
Propaganda
Termed
Failure
VATICAN CITY (NC) - The world
fails to realize what little success
Communist propaganda has had recently
with the South Vietnamese people,
according to a front-page editorial in the
Vatican daily, L’Osservatore Romano.
Also unobserved by world public
opinion, according to the paper, is “the
success of Saigon’s pacification program
from 1968 to 1971.”
The editorial said:
“It is highly significant in this regard
that the arms distributed to the people
and to the village self-defense forces have
not passed into the hands of the
guerrillas.
“However it should be noted that this
situation has remained almost unobserved
by international public opinion.”
Recalling that some observers#hold the
number of open or secret Communist
sympathizers in South Vietnam to be no
more than one-fifth of the population
and probably one-tenth, L’Osservatore
Romano said: “Objective observers in
fact reduce it to five percent of the
population.
“In reality, Vietcong propaganda no
longer finds that welcome which,
according to these sources, it was
supposed to have had from 1956 to
1963.”
The United States itself, however, has
become prey to the propaganda of
Saigon’s enemies L’Osservatore Romano
asserted.
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