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remained but somehow they
did not seem to be as
important as before. Though
there seemed to be general
agreement as to the merits of
the assembly, some sisters
would have preferred
accenting “more spiritual”
thrusts.
Following the meeting,
Sister Thomas Aquinas
Carroll of the Sisters of
Mercy in Pittsburgh moved
into the presidency vacated
by Sister Angelita
Myerscough. Sister Margaret
Brennan, superior general of
the Immaculate Heart of
Mary, Monroe, Michigan was
elected vice president, and
Sister Charitas Marcotte,
superior general of the Sister
of Mercy of Plainfield, N.J.,
was voted into the office of
CMSW secretary-treasurer.
Characterizing the life of
the “Church for the world”
as developmental, responsive
and dialogic, four main
speakers complemented and
stimulated workshops geared
to sensitize sisters and raise
their level of awareness and
participation in world
development. Speakers were:
George Cardinal Flahiff,
Archbishop of Winnipeg,
member of the Sacred
Congregation for Religious;
Rev. Gregory Baum,
professor: Institute of
Christian Thought, University
of St. Michael’s College,
Toronto; Rev. Richard P.
McBrien, associate professor
of Theology, Boston College
and Rev. Mark Said, dean of
the faculty of Canon Law,
Pontifical University of St.
Thomas Aquinas, Rome and
consultor of the Commission
for the Reform of the Code
of Canon Law.
Speaking to the need for
“conversation” in order to
achieve world solidarity,
Father Baum insisted: “If the
human reality is
developmental, then we
expect the Church to change,
to grow, to move.. .
Conversation changes us. We
listen, we are touched, we are
moved, we understand better,
we are resituated within
ourselves, we see life
differently, we discover new
solutions for our
problems . . . conversation is
a way of God’s presence. It
transforms the consciousness
of the people involved, and
then looking at life with this
new awareness, they may see
what before was hidden to
them ... the developmental
consciousness of which we
have spoken has made us
aware of our responsibility
for history, for the future of
the world, for other people.
“The new solidarity and
global awareness”, Father
continued, “have had a
profound effect on all aspects
of Catholic life, especially on
religious. It profoundly
modifies what we mean by
Christian action, Christian
spirituality, Christian
presence in the world.
Because of this change of
consciousness, the older
spirituality, which was good
and holy in its day, is no
longer viable. One of the
great challenges for religious
has been to reconstitute
themselves in the new spirit.”
In his opening address to
the convention, Cardinal
Flahiff projected the dialogic
developmental thrust for
sisters in the world. “Vatican
II has led the Church as a
whole to take a more positive
view of the world,” he said,
“Now only did it break with
the isolation of the past, it
opted for solidarity and
communication with the
world. It recognized that the
latter, too, was created by
God out of love, that it was
saved by Christ and that,
while destined ultimately to
be fulfilled in Him, it has
meanwhile been entrusted to
men ... it is simply a matter
of a new awareness of the
specific mission received from
Christ whereby the Church,
like Christ himself, must be at
the service of the world and
must therefore dialog and
collaborate with it. By the
same token, the Church must
be a constant challenge to the
world to fulfill itself and
what is more to surpass itself,
even to transcent itself.”
Accenting the architectural
principle that form follows
function, Father McBrien said
that forms of Church
life-ministry, doctring - must
serve a meaningful function
and change accordingly. New
forms must be created. He
outlined the changing church
concepts in regard to the
Catholic Church itself,
non-Catholic Christian
religions, to non-Christian
religions. Father defined the
Church as a community
called to acknowledge the
lordship of Jesus, ratifying a
faith- . commitment
sacramentally and
committing itself to
membership and mission to
God’s Kingdom. He said the
Church exists to be
spokesman of a kingdom in
dialog. It is a sign or
sacrament of that kingdom
and a facilitator or enabler
for the kingdom to allocate
resources to where “we
presume to perceive the
kingdom of God in crisis.”
Underlining the need for
ongoing dialog on all levels,
Rev. Mark Said spoke to
“Future Church Law
Concerning Religious Life”.
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present reform of the Code of
Canon Law as a non-finished
product and insisted that he
could only talk of
“guideline”. Change in the
Code was mandated by
Vatican II because every
human law by its nature is
limited in space, time and
population. Law is
conditioned by culture and
civilization, he said. Canon
law, which is human law,
needs revision. “Common law
of the Church should avoid
detailed and minute rulings,”
Father stated. These are the
responsibility of the
individual institute. The law
should be a framework
allowing freedom to
individual institutes. Canons
should serve to foster and
stimulate institutes in their
own eharisms, he continued.
Instead of the stumbling
block it is now considered by
some, Father Said thinks
Canon Law must be a suitable
instrument helping each
congregation fully become
itself. “Law gives the
minimum essentials,” Father
insisted. “It is each
congregation’s, each person’s
responsibility to do the
maximum for the kingdom.”
Speaking to the workshop
on women’s ministries, Sister
Sara Butler of Mobile
summarized her statements in
a wish: “One wishes that
American sisters would give a
more clear-cut witness to the
demands of the gospel - by
actual corporate poverty, by
the repudiation of war, of
violence as means of social
control, by their
identification with the cause
of the poor and oppressed in
our society, by their zeal for
justice, by their international
horizons--by their
abandonment to the will of
God and joyous freedom in
obedience to him. Lastly,
would that they could
distinguish themselves by
staying with their ministry,
past the point of division to
the point of reconciliation,
witnessing in their local
communities a spirit of true
charity born of prayerfulness,
humility, compassion and
service.
Dialog with world society
and development of processes
and practical means of
meeting world trends marked
the five four-day workshops
of the convention. A sense of
urgency and purpose
energized participants to
determine immediate and
long range means of meeting
crisis situations for which
man today has no morality or
social mentality.
“Do we belong in the
public arena to_ help solve
these problems sisters asked?
Can we support those, who •
are politically involved? How
can we raise the level of
information on current
critical problems of society?
What ministries are calling
women religious to help
reconcile and heal today?
How can we move to meet
the needs of the middle
America we do understand
the the third world and youth
cultures that are still so alien
to us.”
So ran the tenor of the
workshops: The Quality of
Life, direct by Dr. Anthonly
A. Iezzi, associate professor
of philosophy, St. John
College, Cleveland;
Explorations of Women’s
Ministries, directed by Sr.
Ann Patrick Ware, assistant
director Commission on Faith
and Order, National Council
of the Churches of Christ;
Cultural Development,
directed by Sister Ann White,
chairman, religion
department, Webster College;
Community and Ethnic
Affairs and the Third World,
directed by Rev. William F.
Ryan, director, Center for
Concern.
LOOKING for a school book the night before a test could be frustrating for (front row. left to
right) Barbara, 11; Jeanne, 10; Paul, 8; John, 13; and Cathy, 7; and (back row,) Mary Beth, 16;
Bob, 18; Patricia, 20; Mark, 17; and Jim 14, shown here with Lisa, 3, and their parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Schaffer of Kinsman, Ohio. The family will drive thousands of miles this year to keep
the children in Catholic schools. (NC PHOTO by Joseph Barmann)
Tuition Won’t Keep These
10 From Catholic Schools
By Edgar Barmann
KINSMAN, Ohio (NC) -
“It’s just a matter of deciding
what’s more important -
color TV, a new car, a
vacation or Catholic
education,” commented
Robert Schaffer as he worked
on his well-travelled car.
The speedometer registered
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transmission was not
registering at all.
“We have to put first
things first,” the 43-year-old
draftsman-farmer said in an
interview.
“And we both regard
Catholic education as first.”
His attractive wife, Esther,
41, nodded.
Eight little Schaffers will
squeeze into the family’s
newer car (mileage 80,000)
and head from their farm
home near Kinsman to classes
in two Catholic schools in
Warren, 25 miles away.
They are probably Ohio’s
champion Catholic school
commuters.
Ten of the 13 Schaffer
children are in Catholic
' schools and colleges this year.
Swelling the pupil
population at Sts. Peter and
Paul, Warren, are Cathy 7,
Paul 8, Jeanne 10, Barbara
11, and John 13. Boosting
Warren’s John F. Kennedy
High School’s enrollment are
Jim 14, Mary Beth 16, and
Mark 17.
Patricia, 20, will begin her
senior year soon at St. John
College, Cleveland. Bob, 18,
is enrolling on a football
scholarship at the University
of Dayton.
By the dollar standard, the
Schaffers aren’t rich. And
when Ohio’s bishops in July
announced a $100 minimum
tuition for every Catholic
school pupil, a less
determined family might have
taken the cheaper and more
convenient course -- and
enrolled their children in
public schools.
But the Schaffer children
have never gone to other than
Catholic schools. (Daughters
Iris (Savach) 23, who married
in 1969 and Judith, 22, have
finished school, and Lisa, 3,
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“We didn’t consider for a
moment withdrawing the
kids,” Schaffer said. “We
figured we’d dig a little
deeper and do without a little
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The family has never had a
vacation. By day, the father is
a draftsman for Westinghouse
in Sharon, Pa., and by night
tends to a herd of white face
Herefords and raises corn,
oats, wheat and barley on his
160-acre farm. “Tractors have
little things called lights to
make this possible,” he joked.
The family decided to
move from Greenville, Pa., to
the Trumbull County farm
eight years ago because “the
$50 monthly milk bill was
just too much.” Now, they
have a cow which gives three
to four gallons of milk a day,
and what’s left over goes to
the family’s 12 cats and two
dogs.
Twenty-five chickens keep
the family supplied with eggs.
Mrs. Schaffer cans vegetables
and fruit from the farm, and
each week she bakes 20
dozen buns.
“We could never do the
work without the children’s
help,” Mrs. Schaffer
explained. “They make their
bed? in the morning and put
away their clothes. Before
school, the boys help their
father do the chores.”
Schaffer drives the children
to Warren to school. Her
husband goes to his job in
Sharon, also a 25 mile drive.
To get all the work done, the
family rises at 5:30 a.m.
Despite the long day, the
parents find time for school
and parish activities. Schaffer
is vice president, and Mrs.
Schaffer a member, of the
Sts. Peter and Paul Home and
School Association. Schaffer
belongs also to the Kennedy
High Boosters.
“I’ve never wished for a
moment that we did not have
13 children,” Mrs. Schaffer
said. “I wouldn’t recommend
13 for everyone -- a lot of
mothers can’t do it. But for
us, a large family is very
nice.”
The Schaffers’ school bills
are king size, even though
Bob’s scholarship at Dayton
covers all but about $300 a
year, and Patricia works at
the Kingman Dairy Oasis in
summers and the college
bookstore in winters to pay
her way through St. John’s.
The Schaffers get a family
rate for the five at Sts. Peter
and Paul. Tuition for the
three at Kennedy'this" year is
$812.50. . .
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