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It •-A . ^JbLEWSfAPER ot THE DI^ESE OF ROCHESTER Vol. 80 No. 30 20 Pages Rochester, New York Friday, April 25, 1969 Transfer q To OfAer Apostolates Felt in Parish Schools Shifting of Sisters from elementary schools to diocesan apostolates and to high school faculties is the princi- pal reason 51 fewer teaching nuns will be in the parochial school sys- tem next fall: figures released this week by the superiors of the Sisters of St. Joseph and the Sisters of Mercy contradicted \^\Rochester-newspaper-article that- \Sisters leaving their orders\ and re- tirements were chiefly responsible for the decline of the reHgious facul- ties in the parish schools. From the present elementary school staff8 of both communities, eight Sisters, at the request of dioce- and 25 in the fall of 1967. Lay teach- ers last year numbered 700 in paro- chial schools, topping the religious teachers for the first time in dioce- san history. Motherhouse spokesmen for the Mercy Sisters and the Sisters of St. Joseph emphasized that releasing teaching Sisters from the elementary -classmoms-at-their own request for other duty has been community policy for several years. But it has restrictions. Volunteers for other apostolates are welcomed, it was revealed, but only a few Sisters can be released at a time. ^ \^•'liliMahiWiiil san authorities, will be assigned to catechetical and special parochial works and 10 will move up to teach- ing duties in the various high schools conducted by the Sisters. About 6 will take non-teaching posts, like nursing and administra- tion •within their orders, and 5 will be sent away for college degree pro- grams, the report said. . About 8 Sisters are slated to re- ceive jieserved retirement from all teaching and 2 or 3 will be granted temporary sick leave, the communi- ties announced. \A Sister just \can't be allowed to drop her teaching role' unless the community's needs and the diocese's requirements are respected\ one superior stated. In the past five years, both com- munities have been requested to transfer a number of excellent gram- mar school teachers to non-school duties (social service, CCI> tasks, in- ner-city ministry, parish-assistants) as the diocese set up new apostolates. The trend' away from \ttre classroom will probably continue, the superiors admitted. me AT 0 \ or OLD The two communities, whii gether supply more than 500 of the teaching Sisters presently serving in elementary; schools of the diocese, in- formed diocesan officials several months ago that 21 Mercy Sisters and 30 Sisters of St. Joseph would not be available for :grammaE_j£hool faculties next fall. Pastors w«e notified by the Dioce- ..san, School Office which parishes •would have to hire lay teachers to replace the nuns. - Attrition ly WOUIM worrisome to pastors because'\Sit Sisters had to be replaced last year oaneLplace^ ment, important to the two com- munities, is the growth of their own high schools: Nazareth. Academy and St Agnes, Mercy High and Notre Same, Elmira. They feel obligated to maintain strong Sister-faculties here as the schools grow because -are \a vital source of both revenue and vocations\ for the.community\. (They co-staff but do not own Cardinal Mooney, DeSales in Geneva and Mt. Carmelin Auburn.) \Their'academic prestige is expen- sive. to maintain but we could not .^^^^&&§jfem&fa ifc#re. increased ou>~facuJty witlTlay -teach- ers\ a THotherhouse spokesman said. Bill 'No' 'Victory for (From Courier-Journal Services) For the third straight year, New York State's legislature turned down a bill to loosen the state 'abortion law. The vote, in the Assembly on April\ 17, was 78 to 69 against any change in the law. With its defeat in the Assembly, the bill will not be debated in the Senate, and thus is dead~f6f~'this'~ year. (In Washington State last week, a bill liberalizing abortion legislation died in the Senate Rules Committee. Four other stale legislatures — in Florida, Minnesota, Michigan and Colorado — still were considering similar legislation.) The New York Assembly's refusal called \a victory of life over death\ by the Right-To-Life Committee in Albany. Edward J. Golden, committee chair. man, declared that \to destroy the -unborn because they might be a care to some who do not want to care wilLnatbe lggaUa New York ... We congratulate the wisdom of those who voted in favor of life, and earn- estly hope that our state will always prove itself a haven for the helpless, the weak and the innocent.\ Proponents of abortion liberaliza- tion had tried to equate all opposition in-terms of the church, had refused Jto admit the presence of life in the fetus, and had insisted that approval would not lead to further permis- siveness for only the perfect to be granted the right to life. The measure would have added new grounds to the present law, which permits abortion only when continuation of the pregnancy en- dangers the life of the mother. The defeated bill would have per- mitted abortions when:———-^— • There was substantial risk that the continuing pregnancy would gravely impair the physical or men- tal health of the mother. • The pregnancy resulted from (Continued on Page 3) Priest Celibacy 'In', reSTED ran fwoa Plans SurpftsWObservers n Of is By MSGR. G. HIGGINS »-— — (NC News Service) ~\Rome— Pope -PauTvfs announce? meat JtMl.'he will go to geneva around the middle of June to ad : dress the 50th anniversary meeting of the InternatLQnal_Labor_Oxgani2a- '*•** *tion- seemed^teH»ke*nnost=pe©ple4n~ Rome — including experienced Vati- canologists In the press corps — com- pletely by surprise. Some people in Rome reacted at first rather negatively to the Holy Father's unexpected announcement. I heard several Americans say, for ex- ample, that by going to Geneva for the ILO conference the Holy Father will be getting himself and his office too deeply involved in politics. In their view, he should stay out of the political arena altogether and .should lend his prestige only to those or- ganizations which are concerned in IDlTTHMNSiDE one way or another with religious matters. These people-think—-of e che'TE0 i= as\- a kdnd of worldwide federation of , Jaborjmions-deeply involved in parti- . san politics in ther respective mem- ber countries as well as at the inter- national level. - - In point of fact, the ILO Is Tioth- ing of the kind. It is a tripartite or- ganization representing, in the ease of each of its member countries, la- bor, management and the govern- ment. Its purpose is to achieve high- er standards of social Justice for the world's working people by means ' principally of International agree- ments _j>r \conventions.\ These agreements or \conventions\ — covering wages, hours, working conditions, health standards, freedom of association, etc. -— are adopted, after prolonged study and debate at the annual conference of the organi- zation, but they do not become legal- ly binding in the ease of any given member nation until they have been ratified by. the appropriate legisla- - ^JveHbody^-^at-pii^culaTHSBaTJ^g^ during a day of entertainment for 120 Project Reach chil- dren at the Ithaca campus. In Cornell's Shadow: Ithaca Collegians XkLJOuGood 'Thing! i (Special to the .Courier-Journal) Ithaca — While bitter racial con frontalion splitting one campus here last Saturday /made national^ head- lines,~studehlf at tthaca College \were arousing campus-wide concern for poor rural families in Steuben County. £ome $2,000 was collected by a 56- hour weekend marathon on tho cam- pus radio station, WICB, for the Per- kinsville \Project Reach,\ directed by Father Timothy Welder in the Secu- lar Mission Apostolate of the Roch- ester Diocese. Donationas came from individuals, clubs, fraternities and .'ororities on the campus, from students' parents as far-away-as-Bermuda and Long Is- land and from many Ithaca-area lis- teners. . Ithaca_College's interest in the mi- Houston — (RNS) — The National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB), at its closing session here, adopted a statement upholding celi- bacy in. the priesthood and condemn- ing the liberalization of abortion laws in all states. On celibacy,- the bishops cited cur- rent \systematic opposition\ arising against the celibate life of priests .isift.saUl these efforts \create further 'confusion and tinfourided speculation among many, especially some stu- dents for the priesthood.\ ..-Bishops of \other countries, they said, have indicated in consultations- in Vietnam, the re-examination of capital punishment and ethical ques- tions raised by the transplant of hu- man organs. At the same time, the bishops' state- ments said there has been a wide spread effort to liberalize present laws \that generally prohibit abor- tion.\ The statement recalled the bish- ops' pastoral of last November which urged that \society always be on the side of life\ and that it \never dic- tate, directly or indirectly, recourse to prevention of lifeTff-tovjts-destrnfc-- • collegians began to spend weekends in The Steuben County area ituTIying the social apostolate and offering personal assistance. Fifteen students (not all Catholics) and Father Graf constituted the Com- mittee which helped support for Project Reach blossom on campus. - An ' \Anti-Poverty Tutorial Pro- gram,\ once a week, for credit, at- tracted many students. A work-study program in Perkinsville will use 10 Ithaca College students between Aug. 20 and Nov. 1 running the five day- care centers Father Weider and asso- ciates have established. Students begging gifts for the rural poor manned the WICB microphones from Friday evening until 11 2 a.m. Monday. The radio appeal directed by senior John Beach and sophomore Thomas Caprano had an original goal of $500, but as campus enthusiasm with American bishops that \the heri- tage of priestly celibacy will be in no way abandoned or^ compromised.\ The bishops reaffirmed a commit- ment to celib«(y-maqe-t?wo-year-s-agOr- emphasizing \even more the theolo- gical, ascetical and positive elements of the spiritual witness\ of priestly celibacy. Their statement on abortion said there is a recent and growing con- \cernTor 1nffi5aTTire7I§\ showlyr \crisis of conscience\ over the war tion in any- oMts-phases.\ \We restate with strong conviction and growing concern our opposition to abortion,\ the bishops said. They affirmed their \social respon- sibility\ to the victims of rape, to the causes of \maternal disease and fetal abnor-mality-and-to-provide—alL— women with proper education and material resources \to choose mother- hood responsibility freely in accord with our basic-commitment -to- -the— sanctity of life.\ r 0 EDIUM /CRD Bishop Sheen 6 ^Catholic Charities 12 Letters • • 6 jCommentar^^^-^^u., .^ 19 Diocesan...... 7 Editorial 6 if _ Entertainment . •-• • 14 Sports 19 -Wha^S-Happeninr-nrr-rrr-rrT-rs .. . 10- Surely it is most appropriate for the Holy Father to lend the prestige of his office to an organization of ;:lttsJkmd,.^ldhie^or^ the fact that so many of its resources now are being channelled into the so- -^—-eMed—-^tfeted-^rldi!—wherer-4n-the—- absence of strong\ trade unions, they are s o badly needed. It should also be noted that ibis will not be the first time that the offieial'Church ^c S fe|fe^^fefe^^^- su W ><>rt be \ TunT 80 miles west of the South Hill cam- pus, began last June when Father William Graf, Newman Club chap- lain at the college, and Daniel Baker, senior -^hetmistry__maJor 1 . 1 armed. JL,he \Perkinsville Steering Committee\ to help the needs of migrants, and rural -poor in housingrhealth—and~edu'ca^- tidn. Father-Weider-eame--to-lecture on campus, VTSTA workers from his project at Perkinsville were invited to discuss their work and groups of (Continued on Page 3) Marital Case IF YOU MOVE t' 1• topi • fl^—^L.— IJM skins ..;. ! • • 1 :«. JiJ^L-iJi^ . vi—iM • m — 1 1 at; 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 new address and the name of your-parishr—-V-- ---»---- CourieFjoulHil, 3? Seio St., Rochester,.JNX 14604! Phone , ^trrairfiitiitg^— Is Requested Houston — (RNS) — Annulment and other cases in U.S. Catholic mar- riage courts will be processed in a maximum of six months, rather than the present minimum of two years, if ifftrl I.S'- John Beach, Ithaca College senior helped run the 56-hour radio lttalrathon on campus stationv WICB vdiich raised ^2,000 for poor ; Yural and migrant families in Steuben County last weekend. -'M hew rules adopted here toy tBe Na- tional Conference of Catholic Bish- ops win-Vatican..approval. _ .\. The bishops meeting here approv- ed 26 new norms aimed at simplify- ... ing and speeding marriage court pro- cedures in this country, hut voted to keep them secret until Rome has ruled on them. Spokesmen for the bishops, how- ever,, have divulged three of them. These reduce the number of judges -from- three- to one;-eall--forr decisions - based purely on the evidence, and r make all evidence available at all times to the attorney for the peti- tioner. . . Father -Thomas J.;Lyn<m^Ekrtford, Conn., careon lawyer and past presi- dent of the Canon Law Society - of America, stated.;.. \I.believe if i all these norms\ are confirmed by 1 the Holy See, even the most difficult cases can be cut to six months. Today, even^ the simplest cases require a minimum of two. years, and border- '< line** cases can drag along for three ''-jar four years.\ '- ' , '\» * Ipl! Bishop Fulton J. Sheen and Bishop John J. Morkovsky, Auxiliary of Galveston-Houstoii Diocese, inspect the lunar module at the Space Center in Houston, during,a sight-seeing tour arranged for Bishops Ittendingrtheisemi-ahnual- meeting of the National Con- .;' -,'] ference of Catholic Bishops last Week. 'V \ •\\.<
