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PAGE 2 — The Georgia Bulletin. November 23,1972
CARDINAL JOHN KROLL of Philadelphia, Pa., president of the session at the Mariott Motor Hotel near Washington, D.C., Monday.
National Conference of Catholic Bishops, addresses the opening (NC Photos by Thomas N. Lorsung)
Renewed Education Efforts Sought
WASHINGTON (NC) -
The American bishops have
issued a collective pastoral
message that exhorts
Catholic educators and
parents to take a series of
steps to maintain and
improve schools and all other
educational efforts of the
Church.
The pastoral, the first such
document issued by the U.S.
hierarchy in four years, also
suggests that religious
education programs for
Catholic children attending
public schools be
strengthened through
increased use of professional
staff and common funding
with programs in Catholic
schools.
The bishops approved the
pastoral by a vote of 197 to
29, with four abstentions, on
the second day of their
annual fall meeting here.
Entitled “To Teach As
Jesus Did,” the 28-page
statement had undergone a
series of changes before it was
considered by the bishops.
The prelates did not
significantly alter the pastoral
before they approved it.
The document is divided
into five main sections: “To
Teach As Jesus Did,” “A
World in Transition: “Faith
and Technology,” “Giving
Form to the Vision,”
“Planning the Educational
Mission,” and “A Ministry of
Hope.”
The pastoral begins by
stating that the Church’s
educational mission consists
of proclaiming God’s
message, developing a
Christian community, and
serving that community.
The mission is of great
importance, the pastoral’s
second section states, because
modern technology has
produced a crisis of faith that
must be resolved through
education.
According to the
document’s third section,
“Catholic schools afford the
fullest and best opportunity
to realize the three-fold
purpose of Christian
education among children
and young people.” However,
it concedes, “this school
system is shrinking visibly.”
To insure the continuance
and improvement of this
system, the pastoral says
Catholic educators and
parents should:
State “clearly and
compellingly” the goals of
Catholic schools.
- Increase “association”
with other nonpublic and
public schools.
Practice “fiscal,
professional, academic and
civic accountability.”
Conduct “vigorous
programs of student
recruitment.”
Join “with other
nonpublic schools in public
relations efforts.”
- Exercise “firm control
over operation costs and
practice greater efficiency in
the use of facilities and
personnel.”
- Intensify “efforts to
increase income from private
sources, including those
which have generally gone
untapped up to now.”
- Enter “into partnership
with institutions of higher
learning.”
Undertake “school
consolidations at the
elementary and secondary
levels when circumstances
make this educationally
desirable.”
- Participate “fully in the
search for solutions to the
racial crisis in American
education.”
After listing these
measures, the pastoral
declared:
“If the Catholic
community is convinced of
the value and advantages of
Catholic schools, it must and
will act now to adopt such
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measures and face such
challenges as these.”
Also in the same section,
the pastoral devotes much
space to “Religious
Education Outside the
Catholic School.” The
bishops acknowledge that
Confraternity of Christian
Doctrine (CCD) programs
“face serious problems which
should be the concern of the
entire Catholic community.”
To overcome the
difficulties, the bishops say:
“As a matter of policy
religious education progress
for Catholic students who
attend public and other
non-Catholic schools should
receive high priority
everywhere, a priority
expressed in adequate
budgets and increased service
from professional religious
educators.
Specifically, the prelates
suggest that CCD and
religious programs in
Catholic schools be drawn
closer together through such
means as “common funding
of all catechetical education
is a parish for both the school
and out-of-school programs.”
During the bishops’
consideration of the pastoral,
Auxiliary Bishop George
Lynch of Raleigh, N.C.,
proposed an amendment to
the document that said, in
part, “Those in charge of
Catholic institutions of higher
learning should consider it a
matter of conscience that any
teaching contrary to the
doctrines of the Catholic
faith should not be permitted
under the guise of academic
freedom or for any other
alleged reasons.”
The proposal was defeated
by a voice vote, apparently
because the bishops felt that
it was too specific for a
document that strives for a
general approach to the
conditions of Catholic
education in this country.
Changes that were approved
by the bishops did not
significantly alter the
document.
Auxiliary Bishop William
McManus of Chicago,
chairman of the Education
Committee of the U.S.
Catholic Conference and the
head of the panel which drew
up the pastoral, said the
statement was “not a popular
pamphelt designed for mass
circulation.”
Instead, he said, the
pastoral was written for
“middle management”
decision makers in Catholic
education to implement as
they see fit. “It’s up to them
to popularize its views in the
idiom of local conditions,” he
said.
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Bishop Donnelly Charges
Vicar General “Used”
WASHINGTON (NC) -
The chairman of the U.S.
bishops’ Committee on Farm
Labor has charged that the
vicar general of the Monterey,
Calif., diocese was “used”
when he supported a
publication that denounced
the United Farm Workers
Union (UFWU) led by Cesar
Chavez.
Auxiliary Bishop Joseph F.
Donnelly of Hartford, Conn.,
made the charge in an address
to the U.S. bishops at their
fall meeting here.
In his talk, the prelate
seemed pessimistic about the
chances that his special panel
could resolve a dispute in
California involving the
UFWU - which has called a
lettuce boycott - lettuce
growers, and the Teamsters
Union. The committee was
instrumental in solving a
similar dispute in the grape
industry a few years ago.
The bishop’s talk provoked
much discussion among the
bishops about what they, as a
body, should do about the
conflict, but they took no
action. Several individual
bishops had already endorsed
the lettuce boycott.
The union called the
boycott last spring after the
lettuce growers in California
and Arizona insisted on
honoring contracts with the
Teamsters Union. That union
had represented the field
workers, but later it agreed to
leave the organization of the
workers to the UFWU.
“an accurate and honest
evaluation of the facts which
unfortunately have for so
long been misrepresented to
the public at large.” The
letter, without citing names,
also charged “involved but
poorly informed churchmen”
with complicating the
dispute.
Reporting to the bishops,
Auxiliary Bishop Donnelly
said:
“Now, Tom Earley in his
letter made some reflections
on the (Farm Labor)
committee which I
deplore. . .1 feel Tom Earley
has been used.”
The prelate did not specify
who “used” the monsignor,
but apparently he was
implying the lettuce growers
were behind the letter and
publication. Msgr. Earley told
NC News that the growers
had supported the
publication, but added that
other elements, including
workers, financed the
document.
Bishop Donnelly also said
that his panel recently had
met with representatives of
the Teamsters Union,
including its president, Frank
Fitzsimmons, in an attempt
to mediate the dispute.
“The temper at the
meeting was very bad,” he
said “ . . .What this is going to
come to we don’t
know. . .We want to make
peace between the workers
and the Teamsters, and
between the workers and the
growers.”
Bishop Hugh A. Donohoe
of Fresno, Calif., a member
of the Farm Labor panel, told
the bishops that he felt more
form of federal legislation
would be needed to resolve
the dispute.
Msgr. George Higgins, a
consultant to the committee,
told the bishops that they
should not back federal
legislation now. The only
legislation currently having a
chance to pass, he said, would
“do in” the farm workers
union and deprive it of its
ability to boycott.
“I don’t think the
conference should put itself
in the terrible position of
taking away from the union
the only weapon it has at its
disposal,” said Msgr. Higgins,
who is also U.S. Catholic
Conference Research
Secretary.
Bishop Donohoe,
responding to Msgr. Higgins,
said:
“I’m not advocating
specific legislation. I’m saying
that the only solution to the
farm labor problem is
through legislation.”
Msgr. Higgins’ position was
supported by Archbishop
Francis J. Furey of San
Antonio, Tex., who declared,
“This (the boycott) is the
only weapon they have. Let’s
not take it out of their
hands.”
Last month, Msgr. Thomas
Earley, the Monterey
diocese’s vicar general, wrote
a supportive letter that
accompanied a publication
sent to all priests in the
country. The publication,
entitled “The Lettuce Story,”
accused the Chavez union of
“demanding a monopoly on
agricultural unionization and,
with it, control of the
nation’s food supply.”
In his letter, Msgr. Earley
said “The Lettuce Story” was
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Abortion
HARRISBURG, Pa. (NC) -
The Pennsylvania Senate has
passed an anti-abortion bill
that would outlaw all
abortions unless a woman
might die from continued
pregnancy.
After passing the bill, 39-9,
the Senate sent it back to the
House for concurrence on
one amendment stating that
such a therapeutic abortion
does not depend on the
consent of the pregnant
woman’s husband or parent.
Gov. Milton Sapp had
expressed his opposition to
the Senate bill but gave no
definite signs that he would
veto it. The bill could give
Pennsylvania one of the most
restrictive abortion laws in
the nation.
On a 39-to-14 vote, the
Senate killed a provision that
w o u Id have permitted
abortions in pregnancies
resulting from rape or incest.
The Pennsylvania Catholic
Conference (PCC) expressed
satisfaction over the passage
of the bill. Howard H.
Fetterhoff, PCC executive
director, said the bill “should
go a long way in clarifying
the confusion which seems to
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