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PAGE 3—The Georgia Bulletin, April 12,1979
Quinlan Family Priest
Prepares For New Post
MOUNT ARLINGTON, N.J. (NC) - As Karen Ann Quinlan
turned 25 years old, the pastor who has advised and comforted
her family since the young woman became comatose in April
1975 quietly approached a milestone of his own,
Father Thomas Trapasso has been appointed by Bishop Frank
J. Rodimer of Paterson to the full-time post of director of
continuing education for the Ministry to Priests Program
adopted Jan. 30 bv the priests of the diocese. After eight years
as pastor of Our Dtdy of the Lake Parish, Mount Arlington, the
priest will be leaving April 22.
“I must admit it’s been a very difficult decision to make,”
Father Trapasso said. “This pastoral experience has been
extraordinary here .. .
“Relationships I’ve had with the people have been very, very
special,” he added. “I’ve matured as a priest here.”
Much of that maturing has come from his involvement with
the parents of Karen Ann Quinlan. In the “death with dignity”
case that attracted worldwide attention, Father Trapasso had
advised the family that the use of a mechanical respirator was
not required by the church’s teaching to sustain the life of a
person who is hopelessly ill.
On her 25th birthday, March 29, Miss Quinlan remained in a
coma at Morris View Nursing Home in Morris Plains, where she
was moved after a New Jersey Supreme Court ruling permitted
the respirator to be removed in March 1976. Her birthday was
marked with a bedside Mass, as it has been for the past three
years.
Father Trapasso said he had many thoughts on Karen’s
birthday. He called the situation “an on-going saga of parents
who have borne a cross and continue to bear it with dignity and
faith,” and added that the trial of her parents reveals “a
mystery.”
“Having been through so much, to ask for her to be placed in
a natural state - and now that she continues to live - is saying
something to society in terms of the dignity of life,” the pastor
said.
Father Trapasso said he has maintained a close relationship
with Joseph and Julia Quinlan, Karen’s parents. He added that
he will stay in contact with them after he begins working at his
new job.
“I feel that it’s not so much that they need me anymore,” he
said, “but I certainly want to stay in contact with them. We’ve
been through so much, it just seems like - well, destiny is too
strong a word - but in some way our paths were meant to
cross.”
Scholarship Offered
Applications are now being
accepted by the Office of
Catholic Schools for the
annual scholarship awarded
by Council 660 Knights of
Columbus. The amount to be
awarded this year is $750, an
increase of $250 over
previous awards due to the
rise in school tuition.
This scholarship is made
available to young men and
women of the Archdiocese of
Atlanta who are interested in
a Catholic high school
education. Any youngster
applying to either St. Pius X
High School or Marist may
apply for the scholarship. The
applicant need not have
attended a Catholic
elementary school.
The scholarship will be
awarded on the basis of the
applicant’s academic record
in elementary school
character - financial condition
of the family and other
qualifications to be
determined at the discretion
of a judging committee set up
by Father Richard Kieran,
Secretary of Education,
through the Archdiocesan
Board of Education.
Application blanks are
available from parochial
schools in the archdiocese or
through the Office of
Catholic Education, 756 West
Peachtree St., N. W., Atlanta,
Ga. 30308. The deadline for
submitting scholarship
applications is May 4.
Pro-Life Offers Film
“The First Days of Life,” a 24-minute color film on
the developing embryonic child, is being made available
through the Archdiocesan Pro Life for use in ethics
courses, sex education programs, pre-natal classes,
pro-life general lectures, natural child birth classes and
related fields.
The film attempts to show the viewer the mystery and
continuity of born and unborn human life, according to
the Pro-Life Office, by tracing the embryo from
conception inside the womb to birth.
For information on the loan of the film, contact the
Pro-Life Office at 881-0956.
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KAREN ANN IS 25 - Joe and Julia
Quinlan pose next to a photo of their
comatose daughter Karen Ann in their
Landing, N. J., home. The family
MARCH OF DIMES
marked Karen Ann’s 25th birthday
with a Mass at her nursing home
bedside.
In Vitro Funding Raises Controversy
NC NEWS SERVICE -
Conflicting claims and
counter-claims remain in the
wake of a statement by the
head of a pro-life group that
the March of Dimes funded
test-tube conceptions of
human beings at Vanderbilt
University.
The March of Dimes has
said that their grant went
only to pay for experiments
on monkeys. But the grant
recipient denied he ever did
any work on monkeys and
said neither did he do any
human test-tube conceptions
during the period when he
was funded by the March of
Dimes.
Randy Engel of Export,
Pa., director of the U.S.
Coalition for Life, called for
the U.S. Catholic bishops to
review their stance
concerning the national
charitable foundation.
Using March of Dimes
literature, Mrs. Engel, who
has criticized the organization
in the past, said the charity
had given money to Dr. Pierre
Soupart, a professor at the
Vanderbilt University Medical
School in Nashville, Tenn., to
allow him to conduct
test-tube conceptions of
human beings.
Mrs. Engel said the March
of Dimes gave Soupart a
$38,000 grant in 1975 to
allow him to pursue his work
with test-tube conceptions in
the face of the government’s
decision that same year to
supply no further backing for
such experiments.
She quoted a grant
description from the March
of Dimes, which said it gave
Soupart funds “to learn
whether test-tube fertilization
carries an increased risk of
chromosome defects, and
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identify factors responsible,
by cytogenetic study of
human ova during
maturation, after fertilization
and during pre-implantation
growth of embryos in
culture.”
“Last year,” said Mrs.
Engel, “Dr. Soupart applied
for a federal grant of
$375,000 to carry on his
research on potential
chromosome defects
involving the growing of
human embryos in the
test-tube to the blastocyst,
pre-implantation stage,” at
which point they would be
destroyed.
Soupart’s application
touched off debate on the
subject, and culminated in
public hearings by the Ethics
Advisory Board of the
Department of Health,
Education and Welfare’s
National Institutes of Health,
said Mrs. Engel.
In responding to a question
about Mrs. Engel’s statement,
a March of Dimes official
denied that the organization
funded any human test-tube
conceptions. The March of
Dimes had, she said, agreed to
fund Soupart to perform his
experiments on monkeys.
“Dr. Soupart did apply for
human and monkey work,”
said Dorothy Davis, of the
March of Dimes headquarters
in White Plains, N.Y.
“But the approval of our
Basic Research Committee
was only for the animal
work,” she went on. She
blamed a “breakdown in
communications” at the
organization’s offices for the
reference to human studies in
the grant description.
“Whoever wrote the short
description was not told that
only the animal work was
approved,” she said.
But Soupart told NC News
he never experimented on
monkeys, saying he confined
his probes “only to humans
and other laboratory
animals.”
His work had been funded
by the government until
1975, but since then, he said,
he has not been able to get
funding to pay for the costs
of obtaining human eggs.
Since 1975, Soupart
continued, he has
experimented on “the
preservation of sperm by
freezing it.”
“There was no way we
could do it (test-tube
fertilizations); we didn’t have
the funds - funds for the
eggs,” he said, noting, “The
logistics of obtaining the eggs
for laboratory work takes
money.”
Concerning Mrs. Engel’s
request that the bishops
review their stand on the
March of Dimes, Father
Edward Bryce, director of the
Bishops’ Committee on
Pro-Life Activities, said he
had previously asked diocesan
pro-iife directors to monitor
grants in their locales.
The U.S. bishops have
never directly addressed the
subject collectively.
Monsignor James T. McHigh,
former
1-liC
Bishops’ Committee for
Pro-Life Activities, in 1975
contacted the country’s
bishops on behalf of the
committee to defend the
March of Dimes. “It seems
that the church should take a
neutral position in regard to
the March of Dimes,” he
wrote, “and should express
disapproval only if March of
Dimes promotes or actively
collaborates in clearly
immoral activity.”
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BY GERARD E. SHERRY
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THE VOICE, newspaper of the
Miami Archdiocese, was among a
group of editors from the West
Coast and South invited to a
White House meeting April 6.
Also at the briefing was Jesuit
Father Joseph O’Hare,
editor-in-chief of AMERICA
magazine.)
WASHINGTON (NC) -
Tuition tax credits, prayer in
public schools, human rights,
and Palestinian autonomy
were topics discussed by
President Carter at an
interview in the Cabinet
Room of the White House
with Catholic editors and
members of the general press.
The president denied
reneging on campaign
promises to support tax relief
for parents of private school
students.
“I have always been
concerned about the
consitutional prohibition
against the mixing of church
and state and pointed out
frequently during the
campaign what we had done
in Georgia when I was
governor.
“We authorized a direct
allocation of state funds to
the colleges of Georgia, both
private and public, on a per
capita basis, beginning, I
think, with $400 per student,
increasing it while I was
governor to $600 per
student,” Carter said.
“So there are some
elements of aid to private
colleges of which I strongly
approve. But to see a
substantial amount of very
limited funds for education
going outside the public
education system, I thought
and still believe, has been in
error.
“This would have been an
extremely costly proposal to
the federal budget. And my
objection was on that basis
and not on constitutional
grounds,” he said.
On the question of school
prayer, Carter said: “The
Constitution, I think, has
been interpreted by the
Supreme Court in such a way
that students should not feel
a constraint to pray while
they are in a public school.
As a Baptist, not as
particularly a president, I
agree with that. I think that
prayer should be a private
matter between a person and
God.
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“There are constraints that
are placed on students other
than ordering a child to pray.
If everyone else in the
classroom is engaged in public
prayer and doing it
voluntarily, for a young seven
or eight-year-old child to
demand the right to leave the
room is a difficult question to
answer.
“But in general, I think the
government ought to stay out
of the prayer business and let
it be between a person and
God and not let it be part of
a school program under any
tangible constraints, either a
direct order to a child to pray
or an embarrassing situation
where the child would feel
constrained to pray. It is a
difficult question to answer,”
Carter said.
The president defended his
human rights policy in answer
to critics of his new lease base
pact with the Marcos
government in the
Philippines. The critics allege
the Marcos regime is
oppressive.
“We have made the human
rights issue arguments as
strongly as we could possibly
make them with the Marcos
government to the extent of
even straining our relations
with the Philippine
government. This has been
done at the top level by me
and also by others who work
in the State Department
itself.
“I don’t think that our
displeasure with meeting
American-type standards on
human rights protection
ought to interfere with our
consummating this
agreement,” Carter said.
The president extended his
human rights theme, saying
“I think for us to raise the
banner of being deeply
.committed to human rights
has been and has had an
enlightening effect on the rest
of the world.”
“I think it has also
reminded the American
people about our own
nation’s principles and
sometimes the arguments
with the totalitarian regime
that has several thousand
people in jail without trial
and without any charge, these
arguments have made vivid in
the minds of Americans that
we are indeed better, or
different -- I think better - in
our basic philosophy than
those philosophies espoused
in some other countries,” he
said.
Carter said the issue of
human rights has been raised
to a high degree of intensity
and “there are very few
leaders in the world, in the
150 countries that now exist,
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week have to remind
ourselves - including me - to
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basic human rights? To what
degree are we, earning the
condemnation of the rest of
the world? To what degree
are we arousing the animosity
or distrust or displeasure or
disappointment among our
own people because we
violate those rights?”
On the question of
autonomy for the Palestinians
the president said: “As far as
direct relations or
consultation or negotiations
with the PLO (Palestine
Liberation Organization) are
concerned, we will not do
this unless the PLO endorses
the United Nations
Resolution 242, the basis of
all our discussion and the
resolution that has been
endorsed by all of the Arab
countries as well as the
Israelis and also recognizes
Israel’s right to exist.
“As long as the PLO’s
constitution and commitment
are dedicated to the
destruction of Israel we will
not negotiate with them.”
As far as the Palestinian
people are concerned, Carter
said he is eager to see them
join in the discussions and
negotiations of the Mideast
treaty.
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