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MaBggaafflfe&iK^^ ^l^i&iXji^aMiaMh^k^ikk^xS^^l^ii NEWSPAPER OF TH£ DIOCESE OF ROCHESTER Vol. 80, No. 50 ' 14.Pages * \ Crash Study Planned on School Plight (Special to the Courier-Journal) Albany—A crash study of the fast- growing financial problems of non- public school education was recom- mended this week to the Board of Regents at their second annual legis- lative conference 'here. Rev. Patrick E. Shanahan, super- intendent of schools for the Diocese of Rockville ' Centre and current president of the New York State Council of Catholic School Superin- tendents, called attention to declin- ing enrollments and rising costs in the Catholic elementary and second- ary schools of the state. \The result- ant problem,\ he said,' \is a financial squeeze which threatens to acceler- ate the number- of forced closings of our non-public schools. \The immediate implication for the taxpayer is a , loss of_an annual savings of three quarters of a billion dollars. That's what more than 750,- 00O children in non-public schools means to the tax-paying public, in operational costs alone. You can add at least another $2 billion if they all •had to be housed in public school classrooms.\ In their respective dioceses the 6,600,000 Catholics of the state are being urged to inform their legisla- tors and their non-Catholic neighbors of the \real and present\ financial crisis facing parochial schools. They have been told that by .pro- viding education \to one out of five New York children at less than one third the cost of public education Catholic schools make a significant contribution to New York State. Based on an estimated $1,000 cost of each New York State public school student the contribution runs to al- most $750 million a year.\ This and other data is included in a special report prepared by the State Council of Catholic School Superin- tendents. The survey was the result (Continued on Page 2) •v- Rochester-, New York ^^^^ssss^^sm^^m^:z:^d&M^mmiSsm:^^m^^ Synod May Talk On Pope - Bishops Communications This is view local priests are getting as they accompany city police on their rounds in patrol cars. Priests Get First-Hand Look At City Police Force in Action Rate of Decline Slows in Catholic Enrollment Washington, D.C. — (RNS) — A decrease of 156,000 pupjls is noted in Catholic elementary and high school enrollments this year, according to estimates released here by the Na- tional Catholic Educational Associa- tion. The 3 per cent decline, if it holds, will represent a distinct leveling off of the Catholic school population w'-icli iv.s followed a pattern of de- crease for the past several years, the NCEA research office said. Mrs. Winifred R. Long, who heads the office, said that the projected en- rollment for the current semester is 4,860,000 — last year's enrollment was 5,016,000. In the school year 1967-68 the de- cline in enrollment was 4.3 per cent; It was 5 per cent in 1968-69. Thus, she said, a decrease of only 3 per cent in the current year would represent a definite leveling off in enrollment decline. A decrease in the number of Cath- olic schools is also expected. Mrs. Long estimated that 12,425 schools will open, as against 12,819 in 1968- 69. ON THE INSIDE By FATHER RICHARD TORMEY —If_you-saw__ycmr- pastor, riding in a Rochester police car last week, don't grieve that he had been arrested. He was probably one of the 25 city priests cruising in patrol cars each evening for the past month, learning the problems of law enforcement by watching police officers in action. Priests have accompanied the patrolmen ( from 7 p.m. to midnight responding'to radio-calls ranging from \boys annoying\ and \prowlers in the yard\ to store burglaries, auto accidents, fires and domestic quarrels. Invited by police superiors to tra- vel with the young patrol-car officers wherever their duties took them, the priests were given only one advance caution: \If it's a shooting alarm, clerics should keep out of the gun- fire\. So iar no priests have been shot at, attacked or cursed while travel- ling with the police. But they have had eye-witness contact with myriad social problems never viewed from a rectory window. My assignment for mid-evening patrol was in the ghetto of innercity Rochester, the area of the most con- centrated population and highest crime rate in the city. Ecumenism Seen Ironic Part of Irish Troubles Rome — (RNS) — The Catholic Primate of All Ireland told newsmen here that the ecumenical movement has \in some ways\ made the con- flict between Catholics and Protes- tants in Northern Ireland worse than it would have been. William Cardinal Conway of Armagh said that while many Catho- lics and Protestants endorse the im- proved relations created by the ecu- menical movement, extremists in both groups are afraid of it. \Protestant extremists,\ the cardi- nal said, \are afraid it will transform itself into a potential menace against their position and Catholic extrem- ists see in the Vatican Council a drive towards an unpleasant concili- ation.\ • \It may seem strange,\ he said, \but the ecumenical movement in some respects has succeeded only in exacerbating the situation in North- ern Ireland.\ Spending hours cruising through slum alleys and side streets I had never seen before, watching the tech- nique of two different pairs of young patrolmen dealing with people in trouble, I realized for the first time the drama hidden in the statistics of police work. The prowl-car, the. officer on a motorcycle and the foot policeman are just part of the city landscape to most of us until we are,involved in an auto accident or have something stolen or need a police officer when danger threatens our neighborhood. Then we're glad we have a 24-hour organization to preserve law and order. But even then we may miss the bravery, zeal, skills and alertness our policemen po'ssess. Priests who have-been riding with patrolmen in recent weeks agree: \There's a lot more to being a cop then wearing a uniform and badge.\ Among the riders have been Fath- ers Thomas Wheeland, James Moyni- han, Lawrence Murphy, Daniel Tor- mey, Patric Doyle, Mark Miller, Ger- ard Guli, plus Joseph Gersitz and Ak bert Bartlett of McQuaid High School and others. Even pastors such as Father Charles Connell of St. Philip Neri Church, Father Paul Wohlrab of Good Coun- sel, and Father Robert Meng of Holy Rosary have cruised with police in their own neighborhoods. Patrolmen Robert Gill and Roy Irv- ing were my first guides, driving car \Adam-15\ through the teeming streets between Hudson Avenue and Clinton Avenue North, just north of the Penn-Centraf railroad. In an 8-hour trick from 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. a car might travel 50 to 60 miles in the narrow confine of that one district, the officers said, \but if we're really busy and make many calls we may only drive 10 miles a night.\ Like the cars in every other sec- tor, Adam-15 travels in no set pat- tern. - The driver varies^- his route through afnd around the assigned dis- trict so that no one planning\ mis- chief or crime could anticipate the absence of the car for a set number of minutes. I had just joined the car, a little after 7 o'clock, when a call came in on their radio \Adam-15: \Girl at Central and North: claims assault by her boyfriend.\ Patrolman Gill picked up the phone and said: \Adam-15. right near- by.\ Turning to his partner he add- (Continued on Page 2) Vatican City—(NC)—Suggestions for mutual exchange of information between .the Vatican and national bishops conferences before either makes important public statements have been proposed by various bish- ops' conferences for discussion at the forthcoming Synod of Bishops. A resume of these suggestions was contained in the French edition of IDOC International, which also pub- lished the text of the working agenda of the synod, beginning in Rome Oct 11. One section of the magazine dealt with suggestions submitted by more than one country. Among these was one which stated: \It is greatly to be -hoped—that—the—Supreme—-Pontiff would not treat of the most impor- tant problems until he had heard- the opinions of the Synod of Bishops or those of episcopal conferences.\ Other such suggestions were that the Pope send to episcopal confer- ences the most important documents before publication for their informa- tion and preparation; that the con- ferences send the Pope the opinions of the individual churches; that the Pcpe approve the statutes and deci- sions of'individual'conferences; that the Pope be represented in some way at the meetings of episcopal conferences: li also was__suggested that the Synod of Bishops \Tje'convoked ftr either ordinary or special sessions on a regular-basis and that the episcopal conferences draw up the' agenda of the synod, or at least participate in its .production. At present the Pope convokes a synod whenever he feels it necessary The first synod WaVcaltecT In 1967 and none has been held since. The Pope also has reserved to him- self the right to propose the agenda of the meeting. In the case of the October synod the agenda has been limited to the function, interrelation- ship and aims of episcopal confer- ences and their relationship to the Pope and the offices of the Roman Curia, the Church's central adminis- trative offices. Since the agenda has already been fixed on the subject of episcopal con- ferences, it would seem that a num- ber of suggestions for. discussions coming from various hierarchies will not be considered. Among these is the question of the reform and internationalization of the Roman Curia, a subject which the Pope has more than once said he considers to be a matter of his com- petence. Others include the problems of priestly vocations, education, dis- cipline, celibacy and laicizatiOn. Also suggested for discussion were, the question of the place of Religious in the diocese, their formation for pas- toral needs and for actual life and questions on liturgical reform and mixed marriages. Pope Paul VI has named 17 cardi- nals, bishops and priests as his own personal nominations to the synod. Among the papal nominees are Terence Cardinal Cooke of New York and Pennsylvania-born Archbishop Martin J. O'Connor, president of the Pontifical Commission for Social Communications. Other-Americans to be present in- clude John Cardinal Dearden of De- troit president of the National Con- ference of Catholic Bishops in the U.S.(NCCB); John Cardinal Wright, who will attend in his capacity as pre- fect of the Congregation for the Clergy; Abbot Rembert Weakland, O.S.B.. Abbot primate of the Benedic tine Confederation, elected a dele- gate by the Union of Religious Su- periorsy and Archbishop Ambrozij Senyshyn of the Ukrainian-rite arch- diocese of Philadelphia and Archbish- op Stephen Kocisko of the Byzantine- rite major archbishops of Eastern rites. Less Secrecy Predicted For Coverage of Synod 'Deformity in Prayers' Draws Papal Cautioning By ROBERT R. HOLTON Courier-Journal Special Correspondent Vatican City—Official news reports on the deliberations of the October -feftraordinary-Sy-nod-of Bishops will The root cause of the conflict, Car- Bishop Sheen A dinal Conway said, is neither religious nor social in nature but political. It Commentary ... ^ , — .'. W j s a conflict, he said, between Union- 7 ists '—4 who wish to maintain the ™ B \ n privileged position of union with the Editorial 8 British crown — and the autonomists — who demand annexation to South- Entertainment ....,, ,. 10 ern Ireland. ._ j Sports ^-. • ... ~ — 12 There is no proof, the cardinal said, News Review 5 that P rotes t an t and Catholic working INCWS neview . classes are aligned against each other. Father McBrien ~ ., ~ a The, contrary |s actually the case. Cardinal -Genway-said, and the strug- gle is thefefore not social. IF YOU MOVE ... 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-att; Castel Gandolfo, Italy — (NC) — Praising the new and vital reforms in the Church's liturgy, Pope Paul VI warned against \deformity\ of the Church's fixed norms for prayer. Speaking at his weekly general audience the Pope said: \We thank the Lord that the liturgical movement has entered the consciousness of the clergy and faithful and has already brought an increase of faith and grace. \We would like to encourage all those who are devotedly toiling to breathe a new spirit of prayer into the Church.\ He called \for trust and coopera- tion on the part of those who must give up their habits and preferences in order—to—follow the revised lit- urgy.\ At the same time, he said, reform presents some dangers, including the making of individual \arbitrary de- cisions\ in liturgical matters. The Pope said: \It would be a great damage if the concern of Mother Church in granting the use of the spoken languages, certain adaptations to local desires, a cer- tain abundance of text and rite vari- ations and not a few other develop- ments of divine worship, were to give rise to the opinion that there no longer exists a common norm, fixed and obligatory, for the prayer of the Church and that each may presume to organize it and rearrange it as he pleases. \It would no longer be pluralism in the area of what is permitted but deformity.\ The Pope said this disorder \is of grave prejudice to the Church.\ He said this is because of the obstacles \it raises against the disciplined re- form which the Church has specified and authorized,\ and also because of \the discordant note it introduces in the concert of ecclesial prayer.\ be more specific and detailed than those issued during the last synod two years ago. Bishop Ladislau Rubin, secretary- general of the synod, told this re- porter that the decision to lift some- what the curtain of secrecy that -4 shrouded the last meeting was based on opinions filed by prelates through- out the world. \The opinions we#e not all for more press coverage,\ he said in an interview. \There were some bishops who wanted even less press coverage for this synod than the first one.\ He said at least two priests will be assigned to sit in on the deliberations and then • report back to the news media representatives at the close of each working day. This practice was followed during the later sessions of Vatican II and the first Synod two years ago. However, in their press briefings, the priests were not permitted to link the names of any of the speakers with statements they made. Bishop Rubin •said that this restriction would be lifted for the coming synod. How- ever, he would not say whether every speech made on the synod floor would be reported. \I am very much in' favor of open- ing the press coverage more than it was the- last time,\ he said. \After ~we received ttrr tetters requested from the bishops of the world, our special planning commission studied them and decided the synod should be more open.\ He said the agenda — or schema — for the-deliberations was sent out to every prelate in the world last May 15. \The schema carries as its title the topic which the Holy Father has set for the synod,\ the Polish prelate ex- plained. \We were called here to dis- cuss the relationship between episco- pal conferences and the Holy See and between one conference and an- other.\ He said the schema does not list any topics as such but merely gives \a description and presentation of the matters that come under these two general topics.\ He said \a great many\ matters may come before the group — in- cluding Pope Paul's birth control en- cyclical. < \But if the encyclical is mention- (Continued on Page 2) \Pfiest's'New Mission: . Teen Runaway dfesS. Include\y€uf old address and new address and the name of, your parish. v „. :CouneFjomarr3y~ ScioTSE, Rochester, \N.Y. 14604. Php^e 716-454-7050- ' _ Courier begins Football Ratings — ^ti^srft-fn^Mj-irojm^ ' ' comparative strengths of The major collegiate grid powers, will begin in Thtrmne~ rrf-ths t,mirm-]onrna\, ' During the' season the ratings will ga/ige the comparative prowess'of the ' \ y 118 teaks tM the, National Coljege\ Afhlefk AssocialTqn has -designated as '' ~~ i *\m%fim\—^~ -*—*— —~ • -- - - •• -, - •; - i'. ^ Pop \the -Fowler preKwasoji ratings, 1 tuttj tto. Page, 12. I ' \ ' . tf NVMII If, • K \\ < Catholic Press Features) New York — The classified ad ap- peared in a Greenwich Village news- paper: \Catholic Priest will act a£ Go- Between for any teenager wishing to negotiate, peace treaty with' fam- ily, Wi)l also do what I can for any pregnant teenager wondering what to do now in regard to„ family, etc. No-, sermonizing and confidences will be kept,. Write: Father' B, P.O. Box 70; CoTjper~StaTioTr;-TVew York, N.Y. 10003. Or call 982-7556 ^(a&Jir^se^ce),'-'. don't leave name \oW jflstr a number' where T can con- • tact you.\ The \Father B\ who placed the ad wanrttre Rev. Robert Benedetto, a 33- year-old Paulist priest whose \person- to-person\ ministry to {runaways in New York's \East Village\ is perhaps . the most up-tb-the-minute apostolate there is — and one that he thinks Habtild Be copied in ether parts of the country as well. 'J I • .•*\•' ' T Living ' alone in; an JSast Village walkup and... meetjin| frightened run- JJL aways in -..coffeehouses or on a park bench, Father Benedetto says his main work is \to let kids know there is someone who will just listen.\ Father Benedetto, who moved into the \Village\ two summers ago with ' the permission of his religious su- periors to conduct an experimental ministry among the runaways, tries to show the runaways that \you're not just another institution, another structure, but that there's a human being around who knows other hu- man beings who can be helpful.\ m •. Referring to pregnant, unwed teen- • ' -agefs • Wh^^T^rrFather^ Benedetto for help, the spriest explained: \Maybe we go to a nurse's house. talk over the situation, then maybe __the_.nurse will take her right to the hospital,\ cut away the red tape of getting her admitted. \Then if she needs a place to go,', there are certain people around town who have told mc they are willing to keep somebody temporarily. Right away, then, we have maybe four or . five people involved who are taking ,an interest. \There's a psychiatrist on Park Avenue who got in contact with rrre and told me that any time I wanted to send someone up to see him he would do so free of charge. Some- . times he schedules an appointment * at six in, the morning because it's the only time the kid can get there.\ Father Benedetto also finds much 'of his time being spent as a go-be- tween'for runaways who want to get in touch with their parents but who don't want the parents to know ex- actly where to find them. ' \Some of the runaways who con- tact me just want to talk,\ he said- \\MaybVthey have •a lot \of guilt about the fact that they ran away but they have no intention of going back. \Sometimes they want to know wheth- er I think they should contaGt their parents or not; if they want me to. I do so. , - \if I conTact\their parents 1-don't give! where they are or how to' jet • in touch \with theTrT'-QnTess'fheylvarTt me to. This causes frictiorn with the parents. I can tell them they're in 'good health, that they're q>wn hefe, but they don't want to say where they. are, but they might want to know- what their position would be if they should go home.\ Father Benedetto does not believe the runaway number has peaked, yet (there were an estimated 5,000 in the \Village\ this summer), although he admits \they may be running away, to other places: the communes, this seems to be a big attraction, or New Mexico.\ .„ He believes that in some cases a youngsters \has to just leave home, this is absolutely necessary for his . A saruty. 1 think as society gets more alienated and' as youth gets more- alienated from society and their par- ents, there's just going to be a lot more dropping \mt.\ Father Benedetto said that he identified himself\as a Catholic priest in the x ads not because \he expects to be a spiritual advisor or confessor to 1He\\\r'unawa\y?r'rat'\DeTatrgr *IM just put my name down, and offered to help, they would be very very sus- picious; they would not know what I wanted.\ •iif 'Mm , ml N >'.\: •••;» ? P'fiiittmr'*)*! .'.4^-4~_L. mm
