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.<? a • t Mi i' '' _ NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF ROCHESTER Vol. 80 No. 25 20 Pages Rochester, New York Price: 15?! Friday, March 21, 1969 BISHOP ANDREW SCHIERHOFF New Bolivian Bishop Lauds Area Priests Three diocesan priests far off in the Rochester Latin American Mis- sion received praise and thanks this ^veefe irem^their-new—superior-when Auxiliary Bishop Andrew Schierhoff of La Paz, Bolivia, visited Bishop Sheen to report pa. the dioj^wan Latin, \Fathers Deckman, Preemesser and •Golden--*re~<loin|f -wonderful—work— caring for our poor people of St Jo- seph the Worker parish in La Paz,\ the 47-year old Bishop, former St Louis priest told Bishop Sheen. U'atner reter Declunan volunteer- ed for Latin American work In 1966 while Fathers Paul Freemesser und* Edward Golden went down from the The parish of St. Joseph where Father Deckman had just been named administrator, and superior of the Rochester house, is in the crowded suburbs of La Paz. \the slum-part, high up on the hills Which rim the said. priests live Hr a building that Is little different from the homes of their people,\ the Bish- op said. \They are experiencing the very same problems we St Louis priests had 12 years ago. It will take them a long time to realize any tangi- _ blfe results from their efforts.\ diocese in 1*68. An original member of the Rochester mission team in Bolivia was Father Thomas O'Brien who returned to the diocese in 1968. The visitor, whose strong Nordic features contradicted the Latia* ac- cent he has achieved ttuTiHg\12\years in Bolivia, was ordained as Bishop by Pope Paul VI in Rome just two months ago. As the Auxiliary under Archbish- op Jorge Hurtado of La PazrBisfaop Schierhoff has nearly 250,000Jtodian_ people iii Ms rural vicariate. Health problems of North Ameri- cafluSisters and priests who go to work in Latin America seriously -worry - church; -auttrcrritiesr-the - Bisrp op stated. The primitive hygenic facilities and the high altitude trou- ble'all newcomers. -* - \When you live more than two miles above sea-level^s we do in Bolivia the air is-verythin. So even the simplest activities require extra effort\ When questioned about the prob- lem of discouragement from the language- --dif£iculties r ~-ltving---4»ndir tions and the response of the people, \(CbiSHnueff\on\ TFage T) 'Rachael', lonely Hunter' Two Films Honored '-• New York =•- (RNS> — \Rachel Rachel''' and \The Heart:-fe-a-feoaely- - Hunter\ - two^rMeaUy-aeGlahsedU films about lonely people — won the top honors at the third, annual mo- ON THE INSIDE Bishop Sheen_ ._•. • • -__•- ::z • -_JL People and Events 3 Commentary 19 Diocesan 7 Editorial • : • •; '6 - Entertainment 14 Sports • 16 Capitol Roundup •• 13 Lenten Series 19 -L4E-YOU-A40VE-™ ' let us know about it, so we can keep your Courier coming to you on time. Phone or mail us notice of your change of ad- dress. Include your old address . and hew address arid the iiame * tof-your-parishw •' —- — =— •» Courier-Journal, 35 Scio St., Rochest^, N.Y.; 14604. Phone 7W4H-70O, , . ••', • .t'i;\. tion picture- awards presentation —sponsored by units representing the - Roman CgtftotlcTTProTe^anf Imtl OF' thodox Churches. Seven films were cited for excel- _lehceJjy the National Catholic Gfficl for Motion Pictures (NCOMP) and the Broadcasting and Film Commit sion (BFC) of the National Council of Churches. The—Catholic—agency—honored r --sepafate--awaixisr'OlTver!;' , ~\20(>lT Space Odyssey,\ ahd~\\Nazann?' The NCC commission presented its cita- tions to \Faces\ and \Yellow Sub- marine.\ Iii the citation for \Rachel Rachel,\ the film was praised for \its sensi- tive depiction of one woman's grow- ing awareness that in choosing to make her own decisions, she finds hope for tfee future and escapes from i:he~ bondage of the past.\ Staning Joan Woodward, \Rachel Rachel\ marked the directorial de- but of her husband, actor Paul New- man. • \ NCOMP aM BFC cited \The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter\ for \its portrayal -of the fragile quality of human com- munication and its insistence that each man shares responsibility for the loneliness of his neighbor.\ * The \Hunter\ is the story of the deaf mute whose over-powering lone- liness causes him to commit suicide. Father Patrick J.^Sulliyan, NCOMP director, and the Rev. William Fore, BFC head, officiated at the presenta- tion ceremony. v > . Thfi Nnril^^dJiecl^M^i^lateeft-ithft- procedures employed' in making the joint selections. Working separate- ly\ with their respective selection com- mittees, the Catholic film office and th#NCC-unit each formulated a list of films to be honored. (Continued on Page 2) ' _......__ ........ „., , •••..*.' Write Your Legislator To AH Our Readers: ~\\The~nexT few days may'Be \crucial to New 'York's abortion law. There' seems to be a strong possibility that new legislation will be considered in Albany this week. We urge our readers to write~iraw^to~th~efr'\state assemblymen and sen- ators, to express their opinions on the right tn life, — t :«««• A map of assembly districts in Rochester will be found on Page 2. Write vour state senator and state assemblyman—cither at the address listed below or to: State Capitol, Albany, N.Y., 122Q1. STATE SENATORS Thomas Laverne, 50th District 4199 St. Paul Blvd., Rochester, N.Y. 14617 , James E. Powers, 51st District 1? Evergreen Drive,-C-hHt-, NY. ^4624- - William T. Smith, 48th District Smithome Farms, RD 1, Elmira, N.Y. 14903 Theodore D. Day, 49th District RD 2, Interlaken, N.Y. 14847 .TkQmas.E.Jtt£Go.wan,.5_4th District 704 Brisbane Bldg., Buffalo, N.Y. 14203 STATE ASSEMBLYMEN _ Donald C. Shoemaker, 130th District 833 Lake Road, Webster, N.Y. 14580 Raymond J. Lill, 131st District 130.WolLe_rt..Tej\ t .Rmhj^ter t .NX 14.621 _ . S. William Rosenberg, 132nd District 1866 Clover Road, Rochester, N.Y. 14618 Frank Carroll, 133rd District 613 Elmgrove Road, Rochester, N.Y. 14606 Charles F- Stockmeister, 134th District 74 Second Ave., Rochester, N.Y. 14612 Don W. Cook. 135th District P.O. Box 181, Henrietta, N.Y. 14467 George Michaels, 122nd District 10 Noiynan Avenue, Auburn, N.Y. 13021 Mrs. Constance E. Cook, 125th District Coy Glen Road, Ithaca, N.Y. 14850 L. Richard Marshall, 126th District 7- Strathurst Park, Elmira, N.Y. 14905 Charles D. Henderson, 127th District 39 Church Street, Hornell, N.Y. 14843 N Frederick L. Warder, 128th District 100 Lewis Street, Geneva, N.Y. 14456 Joseph Flnlcy, 129th District RD 1, Walworth, N.Y. 14568 • - 5477 Lakevllle Road, Geneseo! tTY. f^m^— From Tampering d With Human Life By BISHOP FULTON J. SHEEN I can understand why our Sensate Culture favors abortion, for in the decline of a civilization, as Seneca wrote: \Everything which once hadbeen a vice iiowbecomes a kind of virtue.\ When Rome began to rot, abortion was justified on these grounds by the same Latin author: \Mad dogs we knock on the head; sickly sheep we put to the knife, we even drown children when they are weak and abnormal.\ . We Catholics, on the contrary, are defenders of life not just be- cause we are Catholics, but because we believe certain elemental na- tural truths must be preserved, such as the multiplication tables, the fact that grass is .green in the springtime, and that life is sacred. Life has three stagesi birth, maturity and old age, or the morning, the noon and the night of human existence. - Assault-may. be-made against life at any of these moments. Under the Nazis, we saw the state, for the sake of race, exercise the right over the lives of six million Jews burned in the furnaces of Dachau and Auschwitz. Now there are those who, not for the sake of \race health\ as did Hitler, but for the so called sake of \mental and physical therapy\ would crush life not at noon but at dawn — and all this within 50 years! I ask you, if the clock at noon and the clock in the early morning ticks off human life like seconds, what guarantee have we that the old wiU l be safe from these marauders of life? What is there to prevent the application of the laws justifying abortion to the aged? All we have to do in some instances is merely move the hands of the clock. Just apply the arguments used for abor- tion to some of the older generation and we come up with this: \The aged, the senile, the physically incapacitated, and the mentally retard- ed may be put out of existence if anyone would be physically or men- tally harmed by their presence. Any poor relative or mother-in-law may be killed, provided that it is done not later than thirteen weeks after the first day of the visit\. An Outsider Vieics Sex~Course Disputer^ The COURIER-JOURNAL presents the first of a series of articles on the sex edu- cation controversy, which recently originated in Auburn, by Al W. Bachta, staff- reporWf of the AUBURNT CITIZEN-ADVERTISER. This objective presentation-by a newsman, non-involved as either parent, educator or clergyman, may clear up misunderstandings of the content and purpose of the disputed syllabus in the parochial schools. By Al W. Bachta AUBURN CITIZEN ADVERTISER ........ All who favor the right to snuff out nascent life should be grateful that there stands in the political and social community of the nation a strongly knit body against turning the Nazi clock which destroyed life at noon, back to the right to destroy it before the sun appears over the horizon. _. The Sex Education and Family Life program being introduced in the Iemenfery schools oi the Reman Cath- olic Diocese of Rochester is basically a response to the Vatican n man- date for a \positive and prudent sexual education. The major criticisms that have arisen concerning the program reflect a questioning not so much of the need for such a program, as of whether it is, in fact, a \positive and prudent\ treatment of the subject. The Rochester diocese has attempt- II by attempting to bring the efforts of the Church, ^Vsehool and home to bear on teaching children about hu- . mmJoj^^ria^T^^mcmJexEreSsioji,; in marriage, 'in sex, and in the bear- ing and raising of children. Historians have for some time criti- cized the Catholic Church for foster- ing an attitude that sees marriage primarily as God's concession to hu- I=wn(iuylsGeiice^---Th^--V-aliuaii—f-t~ mandate for sex education is an at- .tempt to cope with this problem. The diocesan committee responsi- ble for the ^development of the pro- -gram_-has_specifled. that_hefoxe_Jdb program is used in any school, a pre- service teacher course^ is necessary. Tho purpose of the teacher course is to increase.the teacher's knowledge of the physiology of human sexuality and provide adequate background tQ. support the teaching of individual concepts. . The course also should expose teachers to techniques of speaking about sex so that possible latent em- barrassment and insecurity on the teacher's part will not destroy the impact of the program, according to the sex education committee. held— early in the school year where the program has been Introduced \to ex- plain the program and urge them -iparents^to- anticipate the school 4n-- communicating the understanding to their children.\ »The committee pro- vided for the giving to parents of information contained in the syllabus, pamphlets and other materials that may assist them in carrying out their -joJjligatlons^—— -_ ——-— ——-~ The purpose of the sex education program, according to diocesan offi- cials, is \to provide for the school the direction it needs t& assume its role _irr JeaeUJng^To^uIer Vatican. II man- sitive-and prudent-sex*- (Continued on Page 2) We look not just-to the unborn child, but the unwanted grand- mother; not just to the pregnant, but the senile; not just to prospective mentally retarded, but to the actually handicapped. We put our foot against the door inside of which the robber with a knife in his hand seeks to rob a cradle in order that later on we may not have to .battle against him in the geriatric ward. We are not trying tcf impose a Catholic belief on society, for what is at issue is not a Catholic belief. At a time when our culture is tear- ing upTthe photographs of what makes a family and a nation great, (he Church is-keeping™thetregativesHfor^^day^^tei^^SBsteiv-A^-we-^ife™- opposed to the Church becoming the State, we are also opposed to the State becoming the Church and taking over the Right to Life which does~not belong to the State any more than it belongs to the Church. We oppose the State becoming a Big Brother with a white mask on his face about to kidnap life at the dawn of existence, just as we re- sent Big Brother standing at the exit of life, needling those who are not ready to leave. The Big Brother has not yet made lamp shades out of the skins of those whom the law decrees it does not want to exist. We deny the right to the skin before men are old enough to -of UK -i 1 \Joanne Woodward has been nominated for Academy Award, for 'Rachel, Rachel' role. She is shown here in a scene with James Olshn. The Big Brother, in his false compassion, shrinks from the death penalty for murder, and does away with capital punishment. He how compensates for that seeming mercy by applying-capital punishment to the womb where he can extinguish life in the dark, unseen by men and unheralded by the press, but not unseen by God. Why do profes- sional mourners shed tears at the prospect of a murderer of a presi- -dentr-and-yet- beeome-dry=eyed, shouting and\shriekrng for the*rrght \to\ taKeTuTTWhenirTmpTir^^ demaMs™sacr'ifi\ce? J We say Big Brother, not Big Sister, because it is predominantly the male who has introduced what he calls \therapy\ or the right to .destroy the.blossom of life in the female. A man is generally afraid of dying and a woman is afraid of not having lived and bestowed life. The \male mystique\ of him who is not the bearer of life, moves him to arrogate to himself in legislative halls the right to determine what life a woman shall bring into the world. A woman did not make the atomic bomb, nor did a w^inan^rder-the-execution-of Jewspttor-did-a-v drop a bomb on Hiroshima. The-male of the species is more deadly than the female when it comes to trampling on life. —This~complete control over the Life-Clock is what Dostoevski said would happen under the Big Brother: \We shall allow them their sin . . . We shall allow them to have or not to have children according to whether they have been obedient or disobedient, e and they will submit to us gladly and cheerfully.\ . The,, Life-Clock is sacred, and the State has no right to fumble with its hands, either to burn life at noon, to chisel it out in the dawn, or to snuff it out at night. The pre-Christian poet, Ovid, expressed our position: \^Vomen why will you thrust and pierce with an instrument yoiir children yet unborn? This neither the tigress has done in the jun- gles of Artnenia, nor does the lioness have the heart to destroy her unborn young.\ , We are worried about our future if we give the Medical Big Brother the right to push a therapeutic button to destroy nascent life. Are we very far off from the Political Big Brother who will pu^h the riuclear button to blow us all to earthly hell? '•.*'• • ^
