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il- 14 \ Courier-Journal — Friday, Oct. 11, 1968 Diem Party Revival Denied in Saigon Pray for us now an d at the hour of our Saigon — (NC) - A south Vietnam government spokes- man has denied that President Nguyen VanJThieu isj>lan- mfrg™to\ revive \the\Oan ~ETO party of the late President Ngo Dinh Diem. Responding to such a report in the U.S. press, press direc- tor Nguyen Van Noan of the South Vietnam Information Ministry asserted that Presi- dent Thieu had made his policy clear in a Sept. 20 state- ment. President Thieu at that time said, \Our policy of the use of manpower in the pres- Birth Control Issue In Puerto Rico San Juan, PJB., — (RNS) — Puerto Rico's ruling Popu- lar Democratic party has for- mally adopted a birth control plank for its 1968 election campaign platform. It is the only party among the five in Puerto Rico with such a platform stand. In I960, a similar pTaTur-ftrto platform caused a clash with the Roman Catholic Church, ent government does not dis- criminate between 'ne^w and \old' but is camcernesd only with ability, putting a xnan in the right position in accord- ance with the aim of ntational reconciliation,\ • Hey, Mrs. McGee Wednesday- is Prince Spaghetti Day... Give it a fair shake. PRODUCT ^Biafm Biafrans fill church and spill out onto steps and courtyard as they prepare for advance of Nigerian soldiers near Aba, upper left. Aba shortly after fell to Nigerians. Above, the body of a Biafran child, a victim of hunger, awaits burial at a mis- sion station. At left, a priest gives milk to children who came to mission carrying soft drink,bottles and cans. (RNS) Sisters Staying in Biafra 'Until the Very End' By FR. JOMV P. FOLEV (NC News Service) Philadelphia — \The Sisters have decided themselves that they will remain with their people in Blnfra nntil the very end. They've Riven their lives to the people and they're will- ing to givo their lives for them.\ That Is how the general su- perior of the largest group of Sisters now working in war- ravaged Binfra describes the attitude o>f the runs in her community In their work of relieving sufferinR in a block- aded land. On a visit here to the two American convents of the Mis- sionary Sisters of the Holy Rnsary. Irish-born Mother Stanislaus Gallagher said thai the 30 Sisters in her congrega- tion who are still working in Biafra have only the clothes they are wearing. \Their spare clothing, the sheets from their beds, their laupdry bags—all these have gone into making clothing for refugees and bandages for the •wounded, said. Mother Stanislaus 'The Sisters with the Biaf- rans have followed the policy of going with their people as t-hc federal troops advance. Twenty of the Sisters are working in fQur hospitals which, at last reports, were still in Biiifran-held territory;., the other 10 Sisters are work- ing Ln refugee camps, helping to organize the daily distribu- tion of relief supplies,\ she explained. \One hospital, at Ihlala,\ / Mother Stanislaus continued, \was bombed by federal planes. About 30 patients were killed and almost 300 were wounded. Miraculously, the Sisters escaped injury.\ Most of the deaths, she ex- plained, are caused not by War wounds but by malnutri- tion, starvation and kwashi- orkor, a protein deficiency with particularly bad effects on children. Among the Sisters working in Biafra are three native novices. Two more Biafran Macao Helped by CRS Donations By GERMAINE SWAIN NC News Service Macao — An aid program ranging from free school meals for children to an elec- tric generator for mechanical training at a leprosarium is being carried on here by U.S. Catholic Relief Services (CRS), the overseas relief agency of U.S. Catholics. Macao plus its future hopes on an increase in tourism and foreign capital investment in small industry. In the mean- time, she struggles along, strengthened by direct aid balanced by socio-economic projects reported by Macao CRS in its summary of activi- ties for 12 months ending June 1. During that period, as part of the r'ood-for-Pence pro- gram. CRS made 1.608.12 tons of food valued at $|:J7.9H.'I available for distribution, especially to preschool and school-age children. The food was distributed by 27 centers throughout the six square miles that constitute Macao proper and on its tiny oTf shore islands—Taipa and Col- oane. Clothing contributed by U.S. Catholics — 120.505 pminds valued at $1K0.757 Ecumenical Events 2 Faiths Discuss Gospel Bacstad. Sweden — (RNS) — \Substantial agreement and convergence* of opinion\ on the task of the church in the world was reported here at the conclusion of a five- day official dialogue between representatives of the Luth- eran World Federation and the Roman Catholic Church. The discussions were part of a continuing study of \The Church and the Gospel\ be- ing carried out by the Vati- can Secretariat for Christian Unity and representatives, of LWF. The meetings were closed to.reporters but a short sum- mary of the talks and discus- sions as released. It called attention to the \possible new understanding and im- portance of the laity'-' in the mission of the contemporary church. Discussions on the laity and the Church's mission in society \were believed t6 hold promise for^ further ecu- menical discussion,\ the com- munique said. The bases for the discus- sions were established in four position papers by two Catholic and two Lutheran scholars. They were Father Walter FCasper and Father Johann Baptist Metz, both' of the Catholic theological facul- ty at the University of Muen- ster, Germany; Prof. Philip Hefner of the Chicago Luth- eran School of Theology, and Prof. Per Erik Persson of the University of I,und, Swe- den. In the communique it WHS noted that \the agreements and differences of opinions did not necessarily coincide with confessional identifica- tion. Others who participated in- cluded the following Catho- lics: Father Jerome llamer. O.F., associate secretary of the Vatican Secretariat for Christian Unity; Father Jo- seph Fitzmyer, S.J., Wood- stock College, Mtl.; Father Charles Moeller of the Con- gregation for the Faith, the former Holy Office. also provided material for •sewing classes at vocational c-enters for girls In Macao. Medical supplies valued at S3!).7<);i rceeived by CRS from the Catholic Medical Mission were distributed to hospitals. dispensaries and clinics. Also received from various compa- nies for distribution to clinics, nurseries, kindergartens and vocational training centers •were supplies — valued at S. r ).RK8=-of toothpaste, adhe- sive t.ai>c, baby clothing, •sweets, and cotton mill ends. A revolving fund amounting to $10.0(M) was made available toy Uhe United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees <UNfICR) to CRS in Macao. from which refugees could oblnin small loans to be re- paid in ensy installments. The fund loaned $2,545 to trie Ka Ho leprosarium at Colonne last November for the pnre4iiise of a generator. Acquired for the operation of a mechanical workshop, the generator also is supplying elect rlc current to the leper colony arid to the nearby vil- age of Ka-Ho, where 450 people live. More th:m 80,000 people in IMacao are refugees from Com- mimist China. In recent years, a CltS contract with the Refu- Kee Migration Unit (RMU) of the US. consulate general made funds up to a maximum of S1 .().>r» r available for emer- jiciii-v relief for newly arrived rcfiiHces. Trie CHS report recalls that escapees may no longer land in Macao because of the agree- ment signed between the gov- ernment of Macao and the Chinese authorities in Febru- ary ll)«7. RMU has, however. authorized CRS to use these funds to purchase clothing for refugees and other needy who entered Macao prior to the date of the Sino-Portuguese agreement. Through CRS's contracts with RMU a variety of train- ing programs have been initi- ated: • 300 refugees have com- pleted training courses in knitting, beading and similar work. While in training they received about 17 cents per day maintenance. • 75 refugees completed an electronics course in 1967; 20 are now attending. • 54 refugees attended a training center in machine knitting started in July, 1967. They are now finding work In local factories where they can earn about $49.50 a month on a piece-work basis. • 38 blind and otherwise physically handicapped who completed training in handi- crafts, produced—during the year under review — 101,000 pieces of rattan items and earned $4,000. • 717 students selected from 16 Macao secondary schools were provided with monthly assistance. novices accompanied plane- loads of Biafran children to the nearby Portuguese-held island of Sao Tome. \They've been getting a wonderful novitiate,\ Mother Stanislaus said. \They show great dedication and a cheer- ful spirit of helpfulness. And, of couwe, they can-ofteri\do>' much more than many of oar missionaries because they are so fluent in the Ibo language.\ In addition to the two Bi- afran novices who have ac- companied the refugee flights of children to Sao Tome, Mother Stanislaus has seat three Sister-doctors and four Sister-nurses to the island to aid the more than 1,000 chil- dren expected there. Among the Sisters in Bi- afra, Mother Stanislaus said, \morale is terrific. There is a tremendous feeling of spiri- tual joy and a great feeling of Identification with the peo- ple. The Biafrans themselves have a wonderful spirit of faith in God and a marvelous pefserverance In prayer. They are particularly devoted to the Rosary.\ \At the beginning,\ Mother Stanislaus said, \there were many holy hours and vigils and other spiritual demonstra- tions. Now, as public gather- ings become more dangerous and as the people becotm weary from lack of-food, yt' have fewer open demonstra- tions, but the people still have faith that God will deliver them from the conflict.\ S.D.LUNT&CO. Mtmt>«n Naw York Stock Exchingi AKOC. Mimb»n Amvr. Stcvct H, * BROKERS AND DEALERS IN LISTED AND UNLISTED SECURITIES * WESTERN N.Y. INDUSTRIES * COMPLETE TRADING FACILITIES WILLIAM E. SECOR Prion. 232-4014 WILLIAM D. MILNE 1414 Lincoln Roeh. Trust lldfl. Rocn«»tw. N.Y, 14604 4 SPECIAL! 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Q'MEARA NATIONAL DIRECTOR Dear Friends: laterally hundreds of you who love and support The So- ciety for the Propagation of the Faith have -written to ask how the Society has assisted in the tragic calamity that has be- fallen humanity- In Nigeria- Biafra. Are the Church's mis- sionaries helping, serving, lead- ing; are the Society's funds get- ting to where they are needed most? * The answer to both questions is an emphatic yes. Let's take them one at a time. The. personnel, of the Church at i this instant are writing wltih the ink of tears and sweat and blood, one or*the most glorious chapters In tne history of the Church's service to mankind. Missionaries from Europe and America, African bishops, priests, sisters, catechists and lay leaders are there where the action and the dinger Is— and on both sides of the agonizing conflict. These servants of the servant Church are not interested in the political dimensions of this struggle; they simply believe that war is neither an effective nor a Christian way of settling tribal differences and are willing to expose their own lives to risk in the services of the injured, the hungry, the orphaned and the wounded in spirit. Those I have met who have seen this catastrophe with their own eyes speak of. . . \the light of hope in the eyes of the^ mothers and children whew Sister appeared\ . . . \64 soldiers -were baptized right at tlie front lines\ . . . \the bishop gave the food to the children \vlth his fown hands\ . . . \the Africans learned their catechism in the trenches with shells flying overhead\ . . . \toitgh cdtoervers from the outside were converted back to the Church when they saw the priests and the nuns sharing the suffering =of-their adopted people.\ The Society's funds an there as well. Over a half million dollars has been sent Into Biafra since the conflict began and has been used for the needs of the Church in Its mission of salvation and service. Your sifts and sacrifices are relieving human want and bringing the message and * comfort of Christ to a suffering part of the world, My words are addressed to you because your inquiries deserve an answer, jiist as your gifts deserve our thanks-^ because all of the agencies striving to relieve suffering deserve^ your continued support—because the power and love of your prayer, is possible .at every moment—because a •way anust be found to end .this pitiful and nrofitless carnage. Sincerely yours in Our Lord, . The Right Reverend Edward T. OTMeara, S.T.D. National Director Your help Is still needed. — SALVATION AND SERVICE are the work of The Society for the Propagation of the Faith. Please cut omit this column and send your offering to: Right Reverend Edward T. 0'Meara, National IMrector, SM Fifth Avenue,. New Tort, rV.Y. 1O001, or directly \m year local diocesan director: Rt. Rev. Burr. John F. taffy, M Chestnut Street. Rochester. New York 14M4. Th, Dabrifn— In a world where unwlllingnesss to grant his fello tiis rights seems to be an ind fcible phenomenon, the fact thj papers no lo»nger have to seek who atre willing to go to pris< small note oxf hope. In 1815, when Ireland's C party wantesd an editor for journal, thegr advertised for ' swn p>eriectLy competent to 1 ostensible proprietor of a p. r-*ligio>us newspaper. He must cdrcumstancejs to enable him taehas no preferences for the o>f Dublin to» the cells of New; Wtllingnesss to spend time cells of Newgate was a net qualification when British autfc im Ireland were intent on a n»ress oppos3tlon to its nolle Intercommunion Ban Doctrinal, Says Ecumenist Vatican Cfety - (NC) — AC leader in tfae ecumenical fie] declared that the Church's b taterfaith Eacharistic celebrati ntot simply a matter of discipli rather one o*f doctrine.\ Father Charles Boyer, S.J., re - . . — - j Paris home-i which 61 Christians of various s*aredl the consecrated breai wine. He also spoke of a cer held on the fringe of the 196 earal assembly of the World C otf Churches in \Uppsala Si when some Catholics received estant Comiraunion. Father Boyer, president o International Unitas Associatio a reno-wned \iThomist scholar, as tfaat the Cattaolics involved wei habited from such an action. H tfcey were hoping to force a c ira that prohEMtion by presents CTiurch with an accomplished f; _ \The Eucaiarist is a preer sign of the unity of the Ch F\ather Boyeir said. \The quest iratercelebratmons and inter coi ions is not a matter of discipli] rather one off doctrine. An ecu; who believes in keeping pace tfae times by weakening Catholi tfines of the Real Presence, the fi.ee of the Mass and the charac ttie priesthoo»d actually works a tfcie cause of ecumenism.\ ^1 !i -< / f
