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2A Courier-Journal — Friday, Dec. 13, 1968 \- Church Hits Vandalism Brooklyn, N.Y. — (NC) — Bish- op Francis J. Mugavero of Brooklyn and other religious leaders here have issued a joint statement deploring the recent desecration of a Jewish synagogue. It was the third act of vandalism at a house of worship in the New York metropolitan area in a week. In addition to Bishop Mugavero, the statement was signed toy Episco- pal Suffragan Bishop Richard Mar- tin of Long Island; the Rev. Robert W. Howard, president of the Brook- lyn division, Protestant Council of the City of New York, and Riabbi Kurt Klappholz, president of the Brooklyn Board of Rabbis. The statement said: \Our religious tradition teaches us that the love of God cannot be sep- arated from the love of our neigh- bor, nor from respect for our neigh- bor's person, dignity, feelings and rights. \We therefore, condemn as con- trary to the very heart of our re- ligion, as well as contrary to our American heritage, irresponsible and hateful attempts to hurt our neigh- bors of whatever faith, in that which they hold most sacred, their houses of religious worship and study.\ Ecumenist Scores Churches' 'Hypocrisy' ..Rome — (RNS) — Churches must \abandon their comfortable hypo- crisy\ before they can confront \the legitimate protests of youth,\ Dr. Eu- gene Carson Blake, general secretary of the World Council of Churches, said here. Dr. Blake, in Rome for ecumenical discussions, was interviewed by a new Catholic newspaper, Avenire. He said that his remark on \com- fortable hypocrisy\ applies \as much to governments and universities as to the World Council of Churchec.\ Violence Is always bad, he said, but the violence of tyrannical govern- ments is worse than that of poor people fighting for justice. Paris Priests Asked To Suggest Reforms Paris — (RNS) — Archbishop Francois Marty of Paris has asked his clergy to submit suggestions for changes In pastoral approaches and ecclesiastical structures. The suggestions should be sent to him by next January, the archbish- op said in a letter to the priests, so that plans can be made for definite action. Taxpayers Get Warning On Closing of Schools (Continued from Page 1) the Catholic high schools would al- most automatically follow suit be- cause they \would lose their source of students\. This move would force nearly 10,- 000 high schoolers in the diocese to find seats in the public schools. Urging the Rochester taxpayers to get ready for a tax-rise if the clos- ing of Catholic schools added 18,000 students to the city school system, Msgr. Roche predicted a rise of $20.4 million in the annual city school budget, without even providing the buildings to house the students. New schools to accommodate the former parochial schoolers would cost the city taxpayers another $40 million, he estimated. Some parishes might sell or rent their school plant to the city, but Msgr. Roche believes the churches would retain most paro- chial school properties for religion classes. The hard facts of the financial squeeze hurting the church schools can be understood, Msgr. Roche told, the Democrat and Chronicle readers, by comparison with the money trou- bles hurting the public schools. In 1964-65 the Rochester city school budget was $34.4 million for 45,152 students. Four years later, for only 1,147 more pupils (a total of 46,299) the budget had jumped to $54.2 mil- lion. The painful increase of $20 mil- lion had come not from serving more children but from the higher salar- ies, more personnel required, ad- vanced equipment and auxiliary serv- ices, Miss Wilson reported. The interview revealed to the gen- eral public facts which are common knowledge to most Catholics that par- ish collections, without diocesan help, pay the parochial school bills; that the services of the teaching Sisters, at salaries of only $1,375 a year have been essential to low school overhead; that a decline of vocations and shift- ing of Sisters to non-school work re- quires the employment of 700 lay teachers whose salaries start at $5,500. Japanese Bishops Issue Statement on Encyclical Tokyo — (NC) — A person seek- ing to obey Pope Paul VI's encyclical on birth control but unable to do do so is not separated from the love of God, the Japanese Bishops' Conference has said. After their meeting here, the bish- ops issued a statement expressing their awareness that the observance of Humanae Vitae will create diffi- culties for many married people. \In such cases,\ they said, \if while exerting all goodwill to be obedient to the encyclical, one is unable to follow it in some point on account of unavoidable actual and objective circumstances, the faithful should not think they have been separated from the love of God.\ In the statement, entitled \Pastoral Note of the Japan Bishops' Confer- ence on the encyclical Humanae Vitae,\ the prelates said: \As the Pope has published the encyclical by the authority of his teaching office, Catholics must re- ceive It with the spirit of obedience. Therefore it is necessary to read It carefully and to understand its con- tents correctly. \Catholic spouses should endeavor to practice this doctrine faithfully in their married life, obtaining God's help for this by fervent prayer and the sacraments, especially through the Holy Eucharist. Furthermore, they should keep in mind that mar- ried life in conformity to God's .will always demands some sacrifices and that because of these sacrifices mar- ried life becomes more and more fruitful.\ \They must strive to deepen their trust toward God and to participate fervently in the life of the Church and in the sacraments. In these cases priests, becoming well acquainted with the actual situation of the faith- ful, will show sympathy and under- standing of their various problems and anxieties of conscience and will assist them to preserve their trust and confidence in Our Lord. \However it goes without saying that regardless of any circumstances, if conception has taken place, there is the obligation to respect that life.\ ( OilKlI R-JOURNAL Vol. »0 No, II — Derrmhrr 13. I96x I'ublUheil Weekly by the Rochester Catholic l'rc»» A»!.oclntlon. Sl'IISCHII'TION KATKS: Simile Copy 15c; I year Subscription in U.S.. $6.00; Canada and South America, JH.50; other foreign countries, $9.50. Main Office, 35 Srio Street, Rochester, N.Y. 14604. Second Claai Pottage Paid at Itochelter. N.Y. Sicilian Calm Pope's Wish Vatican City — (NC) — Pope Paul VI has announced that he is praying for the return of \peace harmony and calm\ to the Italian island of Sicily, which has been torn by dis- orders following the shooting and killing of two land workers during a demonstration on Dec. 1. The Pope spoke on the Sicilian situation during his weekly general audience (Dec. 4). As he spoke, stu- dents and workers in Rome were pre- paring for a general strike on Dec. 5. Italy has been experiencing wide- spread civil unrest, partly brought on by the political crisis which has left the nation without a government since mid-November and also by stepped-up demands for economic re- forms. Bishop Asks Vote In Grape Issue Oakland, Calif. — (RNS) — The Bishop of Oakland has called for \impartially supervised elections\ among farm workers here as a means of settling the controversy of union representation in the California grape industry. Bishop Floyd L. Begin noted that \table grape growers maintain that non-striking workers have repudi- ated the farm workers union\ which is seeking to organize the industry and has won wide support through a boycott of California table grapes. \Continued refusal to hold such an election\ on the part of the grow- ers, the bishop said, \can only ques- tion the integrity of the growers' contention and induce more and more people to support the boycott.\ The Catholic bishops of the U.S. at their recent meeting in Washing- ton, the prelate said, had endorsed the \legitimate demand of farm workers for legislative protection of the natural right to organize for purposes of collective bargaining.\ Requiem Mass Held For Franciscan, 90 Bulter, N.J. — (NC) — Requiem Mass for Father James Keenan, O.F.M., 90, described as having been the oldest active Franciscan priest in the country, was offered (Dec. 5) in St. Anthony's church here. He died (Dec. 2) at St. Anthony's mon- astery. 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