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Catholic involvement or non-involvement in the city employees strike brought home again the great struggle of conscience Christians go throuf^i in deciding how they will participate in social issues, if at all. The Church is pretty well committed to the right of anyone to collective bargaining. Even her priests and religious are moving in this direction. But how far should a Christian go in supporting this right? An interesting first person story in the Presbyterian Survey magazine told of one Arizona Lutheran lady’s two-hour tour on the Grape Boycott picket line. A phone call requesting help threw her into a quandary: “My thoughts flew ahead. I have other things to do. My ironing is climbing the walls. Saturday is cleaning day. But why won’t those growers talk? Farm labor is hard work. Wages are extremely low. Why shouldn’t farm workers receive a living wage? Could picketing force the issue? Speed a settlement? “I’ll try. For a little while, I heard myself answer somewhat bleakly. ” Out on the line, she thinks about many things: How the couples at the dance that night,' for ijrhich she should be getting ready, won’t know about this struggle; questions as to whether she is doing the right thing; the heat, the heavy sign, the heckling; her previous work in rummage sales, Christmas baskets and contributions to poor children’s school lunches. “Instead help them get decent wages; give them the dignity of paying for their own children’s lunches But to do this requires making a scene. It means parading open disagreement with store and farm policy before the public. ” She’s called a Communist, a member of her church ignores her. “What about the others back at Good Shepherd Lutheran? What do they think about trying to live on $1,600 a year? How do they feel about picketing as a way of expressing concern? This lady must think it isn’t nice. She is right about that. It is somewhat removed from praying inside an air- conditioned church for all those who cry unto thee. Or is it? “Maybe I should retreat behind my hymnal and quit tampering with the fabric of society. Couldn’t I just pray ‘Thy kingdom come’ and let it go at that? Maybe trying to do something specific is too risky. Anyway there is a blister growing on my heel. I could sneak back to the car and gain a little reprieve. Maybe it’s so bad I could just run out.” She’s concerned about what the wife of an executive who works with her husband will think about her activities; about what methods can be used to demonstrate against a whole industry. “Pickets are one way. They tell the urgency. They tell of low wages, of malnutrition. They tell of exposure to pesticides, of a lack of sanitary facilities, of not enoughh drinking water. Can I accept as right and just the glimpses I catch of a farm (Continued on Page 8) DUKE ELLINGTON Duke Views Religion WASHINGTON (NC) — “Music and religion have never been separated,” said the jazz great who first transformed some of his original compositions into “sacred concerts” five years ago. Duke Ellington was in town with his benefiting the Eisenhower Memorial Arts Foundation to cultivate the talents of scholarships and grants. orchestra to present a sacred concert Fund, established by the World Arts young artists through commissions, World Arts tries to unite art and religion by commissioning and exhibiting spiritual art of all forms. The foundation was originally funded by the United Presbyterian Church, and the Duke performed his sacred concerts at the National Presbyterian Center here. Church and Ellington, whose jazz works like' “Mood Indigo” and Sophisticated Lady” have been famous for 40 years, performed his first sacred concert at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco in 1965. “Some people have asked what prompted me to write the music for sacred concerts,” he said. “I have done so not as a matter of career but in response to a growing understanding of my own vocation, and with the encouragement of many people.” “Now I can say openly and loudly what I have been saying to myself on my knees,” he added. Describing the music he played at the Presbyterian center - a sequel to the sacred concert at Grace Cathedral -- the 70-year-old Ellington said the program is not a Mass. “What we do is say things to people like ‘Don’t get down on your knees to pray.’” “We talk about freedom - many freedoms, all of which boil down to the freedom to be whatever you are.” He and his musicians do not talk about religion in lofty terms. “We talk about it as it is in life. We use the language of the street comer, the pool room.” A sample of the colloquial lyrics used in some of the jazz works at the sacred concert is the song: “Don’t Get Down on Your Knees to Pray Until You’ve Forgiven Everyone.” The lyrics read: “Does your anger run so rife that you’d like to use your knife? Don’t do it ‘cause you’ll wind up in the clink. And after you’ve calmed down cool, you’ll find that gossips talk the fool, and nothing’s on the brink of what you think.” “It has been said that what we do is to deliver lyrical sermons,” said Ellington of himself and his band, “--fire and brimstone sermonettes, and reminders of the fact that we live in the promised land of milk and honey-where we have prime beef and 80% butterfat ice cream.” “I am sure we appreciate the blessings we enjoy in this country, but it wouldn’t hurt if everyone expressed his appreciation more often. We shall keep this land if we all agree on the meaning of that unconditional word ‘love.’” Ellington told NC News that “one of the silliest things” he had ever heard was that “somebody said God was dead.” “The. mere mention of the first word automatically eliminates the second and the third,” he said. Saying the word “God” automatically indicates His existence, the Duke explained. “The word ‘table’ means table; the word ‘chair’ means chair.” Ellington said he considers himself a “messenger boy” who tries to reach people “who were more or less raised with the guidance of the Defensive Driving Course Set At PiHi A free defensive driving course will be held at St. Pius X High School April 11 from 9 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. Anyone wishing to enroll should call the school office, 634-2437, by April 8, as enrollment is limited. Those participating should bring their lunches. The course trains drivers to cope with the unpredictable actions of others. It is sponsored by the educational opportunities committee of the Telephone Pioneers of America (Long Lines Council). church,” not those “who have never heard of God.” “Now and then - we encounter people who say they do not believe,” he commented. “I hate to say that they are out and out liars. But I believe they think it fashionable to speak like that, having been brainwashed by someone beneath them, by someone with a complex who enjoys bringing them to their knees in the worship of the non-existence of God.” Said the Duke of non-believers: “They snicker in the dark as they tremble with fright.” Not Quitting Schools ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (NC)--Catholics are not gradually phasing out of the education business, Cardinal Terence Cooke told delegates attending the 67th annual Catholic Educational Association Convention (March 30-April 2) here. “Believe us,” he said, “we are not giving up.” The New York cardinal delivered the keynote address (March 30) to some 4,000 delegates at the NCEA convention’s opening general session in Convention Hall. About 18,000 delegates including 40 international educators from the Catholic Educational Office in Brussels, Belgium, were expected to attend the three-day gathering, whose theme is “Catholic Education, the Global Dimension.” Despite increased closings of Catholic schools and a continued decline in religious vocations, Cardinal Cooke said, “The Church has a commitment to total education.” He said it would continue to carry out this goal from pre-school through adult programs. A Lonely Business CHICAGO (NC)--Scripture tells that carrying a cross is a lonely job and reports that helpers for the task are few and far between. Most people are content to take Scripture’s word for it. Kent Schneider, however, wondered if things had changed in 20 centuries, and so he shouldered an 80-pound telephone pole shaped like a cross and carried it along Chicago’s Michigan Avenue during Easter week, waiting for someone to help him. But things haven’t seemed to change much at all. The 24-year-old musician, who will be ordained as a United Church of Christ minister later this spring, reported that most persons ignored him. when he asked their help in shfiting the cross’s weight. Some didn’t completely ignore him. They said something sarcastic. Some became angry because he imposed on them. And some even helped but not many, he said. Pope To Visit Sardinia VATICAN CITY (NC)--Pope Paul VI will make a one-day flying trip April 24 to the Italian island of Sardinia, one of the poorest and most backward areas of the country. The Vatican announced (March 31) that the Pope will visit Sardinia for the sixth centenary of the feast of the Statue of Our Lady of Bonaria. The statue has been venerated by Sardinians since it was washed up on the island near the fishing village of Bonaria in 1370. Sardinia, famous for its bandits, is 115 miles off the coast of Italy. Pope Paul will be the first pope to visit the island voluntarily. Two early popes, St. Hilary (461-468), and St. Symmachus (498-514), were bom on the island but never returned after their elections. Pope St. Pontianus died in exile on the island in 235. ROME (NC)--Pope Paul VI commemorated the passion of Christ and His resurrection with calm devotion and the attention of literally milllions of people. On Holy Thursday he spoke of the “mystical and enrapturing final discourses” of Christ and called them soliloquies of Christ pouring out His last confidences from the heart.. .Yes, love and death are presented to you; one word expresses them-sacrifice. Death was signified, a dreadful death, an immolation, a victim-a willing victim, a knowing victim, a victim for love, a sacrifice for forever. The Pope continued the theme of suffering and death on Good Friday. After observing the Passion at St. Mary Major basilica the Pope late in the evening took part in the Way of the Cross at the Colosseum. He carried a light wooden cross in his hands for the last four station which (Continued on Page 2) LIGHTER SIDE Worship Congress Registering Now Want to register for the Atlanta Congress on Catholic Worship April 16-18 at the Civic Center? Then fill out the following form and mail it to the Atlanta Congress, P.O. Box 52532, Atlanta, Ga. 30305. The registration fee for the entire congress is $5. The daily fee for adults is $2 and for students, $1. Special room rates are $13 for a single and $28 for a double, or rooms are available without charge in private homes for Thursday and Friday nights, April 16-17. REGISTRATION FORM Name Address City: State: Zip Telephone Number: Area Registration Fee. --Make Reservations at Hotel/Motel For nights (Check each date room is required): -Thurs, 4/16 -Fri. 4/17 -Single Occupancy -Double Occupancy - Other Explain -Wish Accommodations in Christian Home How Many in party: Male .. .Female ... For nights (check each date room is required) -Thurs, 4/16 -Fri. 4/17 ' - I will handle my own reservations DEACON ORDAINED - David A. Deioof was ordained March 21 to the diaconate for the Archdiocese of Atlanta by Bishop Edward Herman of the Washington, D. C. Archdiocese. Rev. Mr. Deioof is completing theological studies at the theological college of Catholic University in Washington. A Detroit native, he entered the Archdiocese as a student in 1967 and spent last summer working here and will return this summer. The diaconate ordination marks the last step toward his ordination to the priesthood in 1971. On Good Friday the Pope as in his custom, participated in the Way of the Cross, by walking the 14 stations from the ancient collosseum up the hill at the end of the Roman Forum which was once the Temple of Venus and Rome. As the Pope walked unprotected in a drizzling rain, thousands of Romans and visitors stood and prayed under a shed of umbrellas and hundreds of thousands more watched the hour-long Good Friday observance on Eurovision, the European multi-national television circuit. On Easter the Pope celebrated Mass at St. Peter’s and this was carried for the first time on a hookup to South America, as well as throughout Europe. The Pope began his public ceremonies of Holy Week at St. John Lateran, his cathedral as bishop of Rome, on Holy Thursday. During the ceremonies he washed the feet of 12 seminarians of the major seminary of Rome. In this he followed, as he has in the past, a custom reinstituted by Pope John XXIII, During the Holy Thursday Mass there was no renewal of priestly vows, which had been suggested by the Vatican earlier. However, one of the prayers of the people read at the Mass was: “That all priests of the entire world, in strict communion with our Pope Paul, may renew today the grace given them at the time hands were laid on, that they may vitally preserve the spirit of their consecration and that they may be fervant apostles of the Gospel, true pastors of the people of God and faithful dispensers of the divine mysteries.” Earlier in the day more than 100 Roman pastors and priests gathered at St. John’s to renew their priestly vows in public. The renewal of vows, which has been likened by some to a “loyalty oath,” took place during the blessing of oils presided over by Archbishop Ugo Poletti, vicegerent of Rome. Also on Holy Thursday some posters appeared on various Vatican buildings, including the press office, asking the Pope to repeal the so-called “New Mass” of the Church. The posters were put up by a conservative Italian organization known as Pro Ecclesia Romana (For the Roman Church), and denounced the vernacular Mass and its new variations as a “Lutheran Last Supper.” Officials immediately removed the posters but not before newsmen could read them. This year the Pope’s sermons during the major ceremonies preceding Easter were devotional and theological in theme. Unlike last year, when Pope Paul spoke of the “schisms” which faced the Church, his sermons were centered on the passion and death of Christ. ‘Mother’ Is Nun’s Daughter SYDNEY, Australia (NC)--Residents of the Marist Sisters’ Merrylands convent here live with a situation just made for humorous essayists: an elderly nun who calls her daughter “mother.” The elderely nun is a mother herself, incidentally, both in religious life and of four children born before she entered the convent. That’s when the confusion started. Mother de Chantel Morris, 90, is the mother of Marist Mother General Romanus Morris, Another daughter, Sister David Morris, is novice mistress at the Merrylands convent. A third daughter, Sister Honorius Morris, avoided adding to the confusion by joining the Good Samaritan Sisters. As if that were not enough of an identity problem for one small convent. Mrs. Hilda Morris, a twice-widowed Jewish convert to Catholicsim, is a postulant in Merrylands. Her daughter, Sister M. Vivienne, is on the Merrylands staff. *** MACON, Ga. (NC)-Father Perot Fiero, pastor of Holy Spirit Church here since 1967, may fight the fires of Hell as a priest but his hobby has more immediate impact on many residents of Macon. Father Fiero as Macon’s only trained volunteer is fireman. “Everyone is entitled to a hobby,” he says, “and mine is fighting fires. It’s cheaper than golf and it keeps me in good shape.” A long-time fire buff, Father Fiero served as a fireman in the navy and while he was in college at the University of North Carolina. TVonddft frafiete, /Ifrul 16, 17, 1X & Civic (fatten