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fp*%$M$jfl j^^p^l Courierslournal.•—' Friday* M& 31, .1969 i-S-~— fei_ h- ( \ • • ] - - -i-. -. '_ Vatican Paper Stirs Storm Vatican CS|y-(«NS)—1*e Pope's own newspaper, L'Osservatop £o- mano, ought to ranktas the world's •—^S^nSSB^T^ Main to Its presen* tatiOttcJiBLilJ 80 a* 0 \ °* tea **^ article* on the birth controleocypli- caL writtwHbyr«-pro<«s« 1 - a *^ he Gregorian University in Rome. In the last installment, the 0&&k„ Jesuit^eologiiuv Father Joseph Greco* dshveredsome jabs at critics that the next day earned top treat- - ment «?n \»« *\>nt page of Romes, These giant cargo planes, shown as tbey prepared to leave Miami's International Airport, are now ferrying food to the starving Biafrans in Africa. Eight Stratofrelghters we sold to the International Red Cross and U.S. religious agencies by the American government to accelerate airlifts of food to Biafra. U.S. sold the planes — four to Red Cross, four to an agency formed by Catholic, Protestant and Jewish welfare j^uits — at their \scrap value\ »LJL4,fflftO eachi they_ cost more than $1 million V |U- - Bk^-Missiona^Kaase^ Airlifts New York — (RNS) — The emer- gency airlifts going into Biafra mean the difference between survival and starvation for « large part of the population, an Irish missionary told relief-trfflcials^and-tiie -press at -a cs\I think this is the only food they, get,\ he said. Asked by Father Doran, \Do you think sufficient supplies are now coming in?\ he replied, \Oh my God, noj I don't think so.\ Father , Dermot Doran, C.S.Sp., who had just completed his 12th trip through the blockade into Biafra, spoke at a-meeting = Sield to-prepare for the 23rd annual American Cath- olic Overseas Aid Fund Appeal. The 1969 appeal, which will be conducted . from March 0 to 16, has doubled its usual goal to $10 million to provide for the Biafra airlift as well as the Imhy^other progTarns-TOf-eatholie^te- Kef Services. Fattier Doran played tape-recorded interviews he had. made on his 'latest trip to -Biafnu-In the Interviews, a missionary priest, Father Owen Car- ton, C.S.Sp., described the feeding of 15,000 children per day at 27 feeding centers In his parish. AH he wis able to give them, he said, is a few spoonsful of corn meal wKh fish sauce once a day. But, he noted hope- fully, \the kwashiorkor (protein de- ficiency malnutrition) seems to be waning.\ ~ It may be necessary to cut the feeding* down from once T ajday_Jtn... three times a week, Father Carton said, but added that he hoped not Also on the tape, Bishop. Joseph Whelan of Owerri said that the prob- lem \is to provide enough food for 10 million people — and most of these! peopfiTare starvmg?* \The terrible problem is among the. poor and especially the children,\ Bishhop Whelan said. \. . . Whole families are dying of starvation . . . A whole nation of 10 million people, •iji educated, nation, * wonderful ns? Mori, Is dying of starvation.\ sand feet long, \affectionately known to the pilots as 'the sidewalk.'\ . The last time he landed on the air- strip, he said, \so did three bombs\ which narrowly missed his plane. \One of the priests greeted me ^FaQSePBoran^told^QK meeting, \If the airlift were to stop for a week, or even for a heW nTghtsrther^tfce children) would have very little chance of survival.\ While the present death rate is not so .high as it was in August or September, he said, \people are still .dying in large numbers.\ The problem-is being made worse, he said, by Nigerian bombing of the airstrip at Uli, Biafra's only link to the outside JKorid^JRe^esjerihedL the airstrip as a cleared space in the jungle, 7ITfeet wide and -a-few ttiou- with, 'You certainly came in with a bang,'\ he said. Father Doran recalled the first -time Jhe -ran &ie M«ckade-a-yearago, answering an unusual call, A Ni- gerian bishop has asked for flour to make hosts with-so—that-Jthe_peo^_ pie could receive Communion at Christmas. Through the aid of a friendly monsignor in Brooklyn, Fa- ther-DoFan-said, 400,000 Communion wafers were obtained. He described the Biafra effort as ,s the greatest humanitarian aiHTfOiT history\ and said that \no man can now say he has hot heard\ the cry of hungry Biafran children. More on Biafra New York — (RNS) — Nigerian' forces are hombing . hospitals\ and churches in Biafra with a regularity that appears-systematic, though Ni- gerian government officials seem un- aware of such practices, a Jesurt edi- tor charged in an article published here. Tempo;. .---., That journal's editors thought they fdund in Father Greco's conclusions an accusation that the majority mem- bers of the papal commission on birth control had \been under finan- cial pressure Jo work for a Vatican OX M Pr«S5UTei>y^inaT^ said the headlines, \on the Papal Commission to Approve the Pill\ • Naturally, the next day, the Os- servatoreitomano published the au- thor's vigorous protest against what he called the \absolutely calumnious hypothesis.\ . Father Greco said he had made no allusion inTany way to the commission and had no such in* tention> The ttree~*rueler J *laidrit j on the line\ in « way that has seldom appear- ed from the Vatican's, .cornerJFather Greco did not hesitate to criticize some unspecified episcopal confer-' . ences for not, in his. judgment, hav- ing adequately explained to their faithful the doctrinal content of the encyclical Of Human Life. He said -that-the~pr4nciple of the rights_jpl COMMENT DISAGREE QUESTION You can do these in conscience >was used ~as an argu- ment, \\even by some episcopal con- ferences,\ without the necessary dis- tinctions. \M is not dear,\ he said, 'hovr the doxffih^itseIF-of-&eilaw of Godr 1s preserved, not to speak of preserving the happiness of the mem ter John McLaughlin. S.J., as- ooupiles.\ The -match that set the bonfire ablaze was the accusation that a well- financed propaganda-Jiampaign was at work, at least in his experience, ftr the past years of controversy. He wrote, \Those who from TOW\ and even before had the possibility of following the studies on the birth control issue, either directly or indi- rectly, could not fail to know that real pressure groups, very influen- tial, how identified, worked with enoraous-financial-meanSrJivith-the help of campaigns orchestrated in the mass media. In this case unfortunate- ly these did not live up to their high mission. \In repeated and strong doses, they allowed themselves to be used for massive brainwashing campaigns, from which it is now necessary to clear the world atmosphere if one really expects humanity's road to be that of truth and of life. to the 5. PLUS STOCK-TAKING VAlUlS AT Ottawa, Out — (RI Prime-Minister Pier .turned here from a I whh Pope Paul VI iii His Holiness was in vith€^nad<u * CHURCH SUPPLIES AND RELIGIOUS ARTICLES EDITOR WRITE US! f NEW! Gift Edition l^Jegusaleitt Bib I tion A Mr^JCpidfiau saidt of his 45^miiuite co the Pope was peace i that he had raised diplomatic represent Pope had \responded , out pressutg.\ Before he left ROE said he was prepar argument for an exc ' with the Vatican t people. He told a Ro ence that in inttiatinj Paul he was not jti i nitfatlves dowi —Canada:\ \We shall have ta . opinion^ne said. \\ the arguments for ai eluding the view of • oSic hierarchy. We guidance:\ Protestant leaderj strongly to any su Canadian diplomat tionediat-!the=AEaaea theenvoy already st as Ambassador to It Defenders of the there are ^plomatJ close association wi excellent diplomatii .ponents say such r< be religious, not po As the Prime K home the Canadian] A perfect gift for my occasion. Choice of Red, Brown, Blue, Black or White Cover. $|9»5 TRANTS HAVE AJ^MPLiTtL SELECTION OP BIBLES . . . i INEXPENSIVE TO COLLECTORS —rEDITIONSW^EE-THEM! Oxford Annotated • Confraternity Text KS.'V: {Catholic' VersiohT\ \\ plus many others . ,, cliW,~concise print; some illustrated. Every family should base °n,e. , U CLINTON AVE. N. 115 FRANKLIN ST. nod* 4S4-1IU f HOURS: Daily 9 AM. - 5:30 P.M. • THURS. EVES, 'til 9 I. tor of America snagaxine,-- joniblng radslie'5ia\ext*' «nd areaus where nerhadan^f Real Anti (Continued from Page 1) abortion — even though this was among their backers' chief selling points. California illustrates the failure of \ltboralited\ abortion laws to do any- thing about Illegal abortion. Califor- nia's \liberalized\ statute took effect in November, 1967, and in the first half of 1068 there were 2,035 report- ed legal abortions in the state, about seven tunes the total, before the new law. health of the mother and In cases of rip* «id Incest, has produced no re- _,. -boirib damage to churches - and hospitals during a recent visit to - Biafra, Ltater, he said, he \discussed the tlratrtkes with ratiklngHFederal-Mili-— tary Government officials. From these conversations I have drawn the impression that the Nigerians, even government ministers and staff_ per- Yet It is generally conceded that the California, law, which permits abortions when there Is Judged to be a risk to the physical or mental I Lawyer, Doctor <j - WMrert auction 'In the number of Illegal abortions In the state. A national magazine put the total at 100,000, but candid supporters of * abortion concede that such figures are wildly inflated and based on guesswork, - It noted, too, that while propon- ents of easier abortion claimed that as many as 250 women died annual- ly from illegal abortions in Indiana, there were in fact only 23 maternal deaths from \all types of abortion —— spontaneous, legal and illegal—dur- ing the seven-year period from I960 through 1968. ----•• ,..-... The committee also took some of the steam out of the dire warnings about defective babies whose mothers had had German measles during preg- nancy. Only 48 children with defects were found among 280 Infants whose ^nothers-Jiad-had-the--dlsease in the... \sonnei nave no felt jealburtlon - ofr the way in which their air warfare Is being carried out against the Biafrans.\ Washington — CNC) -A majority of \U.S. senators have signed <Jan. 22) a resolution urging President Nixon to increase U.S. aid to the starving people caught in the Nr : gerian civil war. Fifty-two senators of widely dif- fori-ng political philosophies signed the advisory resolution calling for the U.S. to provide, more food, money, non-combat aircraft and ground ve- hicles to the people caught in the conflict At present, thousands are starving daily in Biafra, the former Eastern Region of Nigeria which de- clared its independence from Ni- geria 18 months ago. epidemic year of 1964. I K1-- Life Committee (Continued from Page 1) not only by the United States Con- stitution but by the United Nations Declaration of- Human Rights. Civil law has long Tecognked the *ight—of inheritance as-an-inherent— ^_^ right of an unborn child, he con- fr0m tinueriL The frw^so^*ia**nteej the right of the unborn child to be com- pensated for injuries sustained to his mother and himself, he added. —flnailTr^on^olF^mlliar mental health argument for abortion, the Indiana committee stated: \There was no testimony or date submitted mat would indicate that pregnancies are\ a significant mental health problem In Indiana^Rathery^Aheijnanner^and environment in which some become pregnant can cause a mental prob- lem. There also appears to be equal probability that mental problems could be caused from' abortion as Wi-POPE New Outlook Vatican City— Pope Paul has de- clared that the cause of Christian pregnancy. I - 1; \The law has always regarded- per- --sons-^mder^-a-e3sabul^v-«ueh-as-un-- born -infants, as being entitled to legal representation in court when their interests are at stake?' he ex- - plained.—-< -~— r —-— Proposed liberalization of abortion laws, he contended, ,r makes no pro- vision for recognizing this, right Jtd ' life, nor does it allow anyone to Tspeak: for unborn children whose right to life woukL be threatened in connection with a proposed abor- tion.\ Mr. Cusker, who-reskles at 34lr Coronado Drive in Irondequoit, stat- ed further that he feared that lib- eralized abortion proposals - would lead to later legislation ' to allow the termination of life in the case-oMhe— elderly knd senile population.'' Outside the U.S., meanwhile, there is mounting interest in the way Bri- tain's new law on -abortion, which came into effect during 1968, is work- ing. A \social clause\ in the British leglslatlon^ermitsraccordinjrtprsome, virtual abortion on demand In that it establishes soeio-econontic criteria for performing abortions. qOURlER-jOURNAl VM. 8t'No. 18 — Jmni*l7 II, Currently it is estimated that 30,- 000 abortions will be performed under- thejiew law in its first year in oper- ation. Many will be provided free through the country's National Health Service. ' Concern has been expressed, that London is on its way to becoming a . mecca for abortions in 1he_Western ^world. \London not only^ has_more legal abortionists at work than any other Western city,\ the BritlshjM- tional' newspaper, the Observer, re- ported recently, \but many of them who am in private practice are ac- tively looking for business.\ . ••-•-'*Sr ^— ~\\ Thus,for a variety of. reasons abor- tion oh demand emerged during the past year as the 'real issue in the abortion controversy. This does hot mean any slackening of, efforts by proabortionist forces to «£act \re- form\ laws — authorizing some but not all abortions; In states which do <nojt already have, theihA Supporters of abortioE have long viewed such laws, as a valuable first step toward their ultimate goal, and they will <' continue to push for .them In the months ahead. • - ohange ©ur outlook and therefore. our*practical attitude.\ He told a general audience (Jan. 22) that \we must make this ques- tion our own,\ referring to \Chris- JtinsrjSBMezJlBrTi!^!^^ of Catholicism.\ He said that Catholics \must now look in a new spirit\ at separated and doctrinal..errors - which marked these separations^' \* \\ .The—Pope- said *ta new—spirit- should be one of \regret and desire, of humility, of cnarity and hope.\ \We can no longer be content/ with . a mere^ata^etertle^eBSB,* , the~l*op6 said. - \7 •\' \Via must at least suffer, front-the lacerations in the mystical and visi- , Me body of Christ We must humbly recognize the share' of moral-guilt which Catholics -ni»y—have-in- these » ruins. >• - ^ *\We must aiisslaSB; i^thfjjwdrf ' of the Christian patrimony Jthat has been preserved and cultivated among the separated brothers. 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Whjoj^wafeo com signeC Jin. 24 Tn Prime Minister T« the premier's hah< lie civil rights mt -,~~ r -~^aulknerJS^^s^ of greater concern Minister-William ago, because of political weight a posing a serious moderate leadersfa ^SPbi^-obsen tion for~a- new 1 might become ne :_-^-. -Faulkner—said withTyNeiiri^oi gtoe*s decision Jd ent, inquiry \into tl of civil strife. F inquiry \a politk an abdication' of he said, the inqu . beirjg set jap \to government in J should be able to one^matt, one-vote governmerlt elect • . - -:tfttdteMA me- has-been, sgarkei - Roomn.Catholic TT criminsation- in lc rights, housing ah the localV;VOte i tied %> property contend this ~du them, -vvilEHe Cathie J^ riilrches and denw directed in favor \ *T.
