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18 Couier-Journal — Friday, Oct. 18, 1968 THE PROGRESS OF PEOPLES Use International Agencies By Barbara Ward The wealthy, developed countries could, if they wanted to, use the international agencies as channels and instruments of economic assist- ance. The World Bank and its group of agencies, the United Nations Develop- ment Fund, the regional banks such as the Asian Development Bank or the InterAmerican Bank (for Latin America) and the International Monetary Fund are all examples of institutions already involved in the Development business. What are the arguments for and against shifting development assist- ance to these international bodies? Some critics argue that the inter- national agencies are inefficient, ON THE RIGHT SIDE Roman Observer Is Truly Loyal ~~\mey nave to etioose tnelr staff with\ strict regard to geographical and na- tional distribution — so many from Europe, so many from Asia and so on. This inevitably lessens the range of skills, since education and experi- ence are not yet distributed evenly round the world. Moreover, they tend, so the argu- ment goes, to cluster their staff in large modern offices in large modem cities and there pass each other a steady stream of memoranda, occa- sionally darting out to a developing country for a very short visit fol- lowed by very long advice. Dollar for dollar, private enterprise or na- tional aid programs get more actual development done in the field. One could also add the criticism that the great variety of different agencies — for .world health, for agri- culture, for education — leads to a maze of overlapping, poaching and empire-building which occupies so much of the agencies' time that they have little energy left for develop- ment. All this is, of course, pushed to the point of caricature by unfriendly ob- serves, many of whom want interna- tional action to fail because they see it as a threat to national interests. Far short of caricature, the criti- cisms overlook the great expertise of some of the agencies, the accumu- lated knowledge of most of them and the reserves of disinterestedness in all their staffs. However, the agen- cles themselves admit, the need for_ improvement and three actions are- afoot which will help them enter the Seventies with greater efficiency. The first is an enquiry into meth- ods of operation and cooperation. All the agencies are cooperating in this enquiry. One consequence should be to encourage a trend which began to appear in the Sixties — that of three or four agencies, say the United Na- tions' Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the International Labor Office (ILO) and the World Health Organization (WHO), working together with World Bank or UND>P funds, to carry through jointly a whole project, for instance, land reclamation or malaria control. The second effort of improvement lies in devising a general strategy for development in the Seventies, and thus providing the Agencies with a broad sense of direction. This en- quiry is being conducted by one of the world's most distinguished de- velopment economists, Dr. Jan Tim- bergen, and has been specially com- missioned by the United Nations. It is of particular interest to Chris- tians that Dr. Timbergen was a lead- ing expert at the first conference ever arranged jointly — at Beirut — by the Catholic Church and the World Council of Churches to pre- pare for full ecumenical action in the field of world development. The third of the three initiatives in the field of international develop- ment has been commissioned by the World Bank. Canada's former Prime Minister, Mr. Lester Pearson, a Nobel prize winner and one of the world's leading statesmen, -has agreed to in- quire into the effectiveness of aid policy in general after the experi- ence of the last twenty years. Thus, from three different angles of vision, the effectiveness of world economic assistance is being scru- tinized, and before the end of this decade the nations will be in a bet- ter position to judge the effectiveness of their institutions and the policies. The question will remain whether they seriously want to do so. (© 1968 NC Features) By Father Paul J. Cuddy Rejoice with me! I have long con- tended that the distrust of the Church and the subtle hostility toward the Pope and the Holy See has been spawned by ultra-progressive Catho- lic newspapers, magazines and books. These are published by an intellectual elite who form the crab grass in the Church. The frustrating thing is that those who love the Church and are loyal to the Holy See have few writers or spokesmen. The few conservative papers are so extreme on the right that they lose much of their effec- tiveness. Rejoice with me! Last week at the Plffard Trappist Monastery Father Ambrose gave me a copy of \L'Osser- vatore Romano,\ the unofficial,news- CHURCH AND THE CITY Adjust Mission to People's Meeds By Father P. f)avid Finks Tho most frustrating question that can be asked by friend or foe at the Urban Ministry Office is:-\-What do you people do, anyway?\ It's frus- trating because it means our mes- sage Is not coming across, la this age of MoLuhan andnyilU-mcdia i^meanp we -have a lor%*bOn^Uliftttfo»t^ 4 -* ! * 1 do. Urban ministry belongs to the new generation of Church mission inau- gurated by Vatican II where the \numbers game\ is not important. Ln a less complex, less personalistlc age menswed success—rrHhtr-rmssieHi- of the Church by numbers: numbers of converts, babies baptized, commun- ions per year, children In parochial school. \paper of the CtiuKfcnt Is now inr-an- English language edition. If you re- sent the Pope, you'll hate it If you love the Pope, you'll love it! Consider this excerpt in the Sep- tember 26 \L'Osservatore Romano.\ \A spirit of corrosive criticism has become the fashion in some sectors of Catholic life. There are, for ex- ample, periodicals and newspapers which seem to have no other func- tion than to report unpleasant news relating to ecclesiastical circles. Not infrequently they present such items in a one-sided manner. Thus they ac- custom their readers not to an ob- jective and calm judgment On the contrary, they present a negative point of view: to a systematic dis- trust, to a pre-conceived lack of esteem for persons, for institutions, and for activities pertaining to the Church. \Thus they induce their readers and disciples to free themselves from the bonds of respect and solidarity by which 'every good Catholic and every honest reader feels himself bound in regard to ecclesiastical community and authority. \Such actions ... are inspired by a taste for the sensational, they relish a complacency with an atti- tude of denunciation- and conflict. This spurs on certain types of ex- perts in publicity who now sow un- rest and intractability in the minds of otherwise good Catholics . . . \A distinguished Protestant profes- sor, in a private conversation with Us, referred to this queer mentality as a form of fear — a strange fear of certain Catholics of being regard- ed as behind the times in the move- ment of ideas^They are disposed to align themselves with the spirit of -the—worrd-and to embrae ideas and those which are most op- posed to the eustomary Catholic tra- dition. \Such an attitude, in my opin- ion,' added the Professor, \is not in accordance with the Spirit of the Gospel.' The more \We desire this love of the Church, the more We grieve to observe how many of these restless Catholics have departed from their lofty apostolic vocation to the services and spread of the Church. \Through a bitter spirit of nega- tive and habitual criticism . . . they have become Impoverished and some- times emptied of apostolic love. In certain cases they have become harm- ful and pernicious to the Church of God. The words of Jesus come to oar lips: 'A man's enemies are those of his own household.'\ (Mtt. X-36) I have ordered three subscriptions: 1) for myself, 2) for our Community of 25 Sisters of Mercy at St. James Mercy Hospital, Hornell, 3) for a sensitive, intelligent Catholic friend who has been in anguish at the-an*!— Church carpings in so much of trie Catholic press. If you want to send a gift to a convent or rectory, or to an intellectually interested layman send a subscription to L'Osservatore Romano (English language edition) Address: Editorial & Manage- ment Offices VATICAN CITY The cost is $15 a subscription. Tlie value cannot he measured in money. Paper Defends Encyclical Vatican City — (NC) — The Vati- can daily newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, is producing a steady stream of theological- articles in defense — direct or Indirect — of Pope Paul VT's encyclical against artificial birth control. In the week beginning Oct. 7, L'Osservatore published studies by Pericle Cardinal Felici, president of the Pontifical Commission for the Revision of the Code of Canon Ltrw, on the continuity of doctrine in the Second Vatican Council's treatment of marriage and Pope Paul's encycli- cal; by Father Luigi Ciappi, 0.1\. papal theologian, on the responsibil- ity and freedom of the Pope's mag- isterial office, and by the Roman moral theologian,, Msgr. Ferdinanxlo Lambruschini, on the need to strip moral thinking of as much ambiguity as possible. ~ deeds\ He performs through them and with them. The mission of the Church Is sim- ply what the Church does. A con- temporary theologian says \The Church exists by ntis'sion as a fire is increasingly understood aa no£~tho mission but the celebration by a par- ish of tho multiple forms of mission practiced by Its members during the week past. Tho \Go in peace\ at tho end of Mass Is a command to mission out in the highways and byways for week to come. — — ~ In the face of complexities, coalitions are formed with lyoth secular and religious groups tiavlng the same goals and concerns. The important thing is to get the work done effici- ently and well, not. getting hung up •MM 8 y®&0M&&a$ 4. They are partial and come In all kinds of combinations. In our culture if St Paul tried by 'himself to be \all things to all men,'* he would have a nervous breakdown- • ^t&fejsJi&Sto^ The model missionary for our time however, looks more like the self- effacing John the Baptist than Fran- cis Xavier leading with cross uprais- ed. Vie are living in an urban society made up of a bewildering network of overlapping, intertwining jurisdic- tions, areas of responsibility, agen- cies, both public and private. The dynamic forms of the Church's love and concern must be done through these existing structures or by changing these structures. Much of the Church's mission Is to help in the restructuring of society which Is In progress today, \Level tfac mountains, fill up the valleys, make smooth the way of the Lord.\ Make It possible for people to realize their dignity, their responsibility to grow up, the power they have to \change the world\. Missionaries don't \bring Jesus\; they help people to recognize that 1 le is already present in the \mighty The Pope's Week -ttnr We In urban-ministry want to find the now forms of mission activity suitablo to the needs of the people and society today. The Church since St. Paul has changed its form or ve- hicle of mission with each new gen- eration. Paul himself in Corinthians tells of his struggle along this line: \I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.\ Grace Ann Goodman has written u new pamphlet for adult study groups entitled. By All Means Mis- sion. She writes about new forms of Christian mission In four cities, in- cluding Rochester. Each city has many styles of mission, but the aim is al- ways the same: expressing Christian faith through loving acts and per- sonal concern. Miss Goodman see four traits which are common to new forms of Church mission: 1. They arc specialized. There is usually a focus on certain priorities for a particular community. It may be on some Issue (open housing or urban-renewal) or on a certain group of people (the elderly, unchurched youth) or on an organizational struc- ture in society (the welfare system, public education.) Once the issue is identified, the Christians put togeth- er the personnel and funds to serve this new era of concern. 2. They are flexible. They serve that concern as long as needed, and then search out another focus for their mission activity. 3. They arc cooperative. There Is little can be done by \loners\ today. We need urban ministry specialists to help local congregations to find their issues, plan a strategy to get the job done, find the resources and personnel, form coalitions with other Churches and. institutions to proper- ly do the job. Wo also need a process to evaluate the mission of the Church from time to time to set new priori- ties and to find new forms for a new day. The Urban Ministry Office is com- mitted to not becoming the penthouse of another ecclesiastical bureaucracy. We make available under definite conditions planning, consultation, co- ordination services to local communi- ties and In cooperation with the Pro- testant Board of Urban Ministry. The best criteria of success we have comes from the enthusiasm of the clergy and laymen, still few in the Catholic community, who get caught up in this development of new forms of urban mission. No boredom or lack of hope here. A national magazine last year quot- ed a rather excited Rochester clergy- man who said: \I expect to be involv- ed in controversies for the rest of my life. But this is the most exciting time in the world for a clergyman. When I left the seminary the big question was, 'Is the ministry rele- vant?' Nobody asks that in Rochester any more.\ Note: \By All Mteans Mission\ by drace Ann Goodman, mentioned above, Is suitable for discussion groups. Copies can be obtained from the Office of Urban Ministry, 657 Main St. W„ Rochester, N.Y. 14611. The cost Is 25 cents per copy. Vatican City — (NC) — Pope Paul VI has named Father Alessandro Stac- cioli, O.M.I., to be vicar apostolic of Luang-Praband, Laos, and at the same time has elevated him to the titular See of Tauriano. Pope Cites Encyclical To Married Couples Vatican City — (NC) — Pope Paul VI sent a message of best wishes on the occasion of the independence of Equatorial Africa in which he ex- pressed \warm wishes for prosperity and progress in spiritual values and brotherly coexistence.\ Vatican City — (NC) — Pope Paul VI -has named (Oct. 11) Father Ra- 1 jendram Antony, pastor of the cathe- dral parish of Jaffna, Ceylon, to be auxiliary bishop of the Jaffna dio- cese. Vatican City — (NC) — Pope Paul VI has sent a message \of felicita- tions and good wishes\ f Cardinal Hugamhwa of Bu zania, for the centenary of the mis- sions in East Africa. Vatican City — (RNS) — In a re- ception to a group of married cou- ples celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary, Pope Paul VI called the principles in his encyclical on birth control the only guarantee of true happiness in marriage. He praised the couples for the \testimony\ of their long marriages and held them' up as'an example to younger couples. \Your marriages have flowered in an age when people have defended more brazenly than ever before such things as naturalism, hedonism, the right to free love, as they call it — even to the exaltation of a declared and plan- ned attempt to destory the very es- sence of family- life. \Those experiences have made you witnesses to the beauty, the grandeur, the sanctity of the bonds of matri- mony; witnesses for your children who have to face life according to the example set them by their par- ents; witnesses, too, for young cou- ples to whom we spoke in our encycli- cal Humanae Vltae, advising them and guiding them, reminding them of the principles that had been light and truth for you and which are the only things that guarantee to married cou- ples the true, lasting happiness, preparation for and symbol of celes- tial sanctity.\ Spiritual Experiment Buenos Aires — (RNS) — Antonio Cardinal Caggiano, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, said here that, if an experiment •with \worker priests\ is undertaken in Argentina, it will be purely spiritual and not oriented to- ward \a leadership belonging to union leaders.\ . -m , J* *o*«. < e»#i l , i ji#* Compare! 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