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*p»v A-\ ' : . • \ .\• : ' J '* ,, ffl$ NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF ROCHESTER Vol. 81 No. 1 16 Pciges Rochester, New York \ \ ; -. m • •-* til Archdiocese Sponsors Housing Plan s New York -. (RNS) — The Catho- , lie Archdiocese of New York announc- ed here that a 526-unit housing de- velopment will be built in the Bronx •under local community sponsorship and coordinated by the archdiocese. Rentals are expected to be the low- est in non-public housing available in the Bronx borough for new con- struction, an archdiocesan spokesman said. The project will be financed by \a group of New York City savings Banks •which will provide nearly $14.6 mil- lion in construction loans under the ° statewide Urban Affairs Program of the Savings Banks Association of New York State. The archdiocesan committee on housing and urban renewal assisted the West Farms Neighborhood Asso- ciation in sponsoring the program. The association is composed of mem- bers from St Thomas Aquinas Roman Catholic Parish and a local commun- ity organization known as the West Farm Villagers. \We have tried to plan beyond physical shelter alone,\ Msgr. Byrne said, \and have included space for a public kindergarten-second grade ele- mentary school, a child day care cen- ter and other facilities to provide for the social needs of the community.\ The housing complex will include\ two 21-story buildings, three six-story buildings, all with elevators, and a three-story community building which •will house the school and other so- cial services. The buildings will contain 131 one- bedroom units, 156 twobedroom units, t , and 26 four-bedroom units as well as two apartments for superintendents. Construction is to begin next Spring, the spokesman said. : Things Really Sprouting at Fisher{Mlege Now vjoju can go to college to learn The latest techniques in the care of home^ plants. Green thumbs that have lost their luster will be professionally rejuven- ated this fall at St John Fisher Col- lege. Starting Oct 9, for a period of 10 Thursdays from 1 to 2 p.m,, the col- lege will offer a special course, \Care of House Plants,\ to be taught by Dr. Melvin Wentland, Penfield; a mem- ber of the biology department. Noting that the course has been scheduled as a result of requests from area residents, the college an- nouncement states: \It will deal with the practical as well as the theoretical aspects of the growth of house plants. Lectures will be augmented by practical use of the college's newly-opened science green- house, and wiil include the areas of potting, watering, lighting, fertiliz- ing and reproduction.\ CARDINAL IN CANADA Montreal — (RNS) — Paul-Bmile Cardinal Leger, former Archbishop of Montreal who resigned two years Issues Dramatic 'Historic* Synod «... j Begins Next Week For Six Cents A dispute over six cents per day jn increased wages for Peruvian miners was the basis for demonstra- tions which escalated into a confrontation between workers and a special force of 500 policemen. The miners, currently receiving from $2.40 to $7 per day, staged a 1,000-mile march with their wives -and-eatidrea-t^ Lima-4r^m4he-«6npex_muies_at La Oroya^They were stopped at Chicla after covering more than 50 miles in two days. (iieligiousTNewsTJefVtee)--: ~—.-—— — Diocesan Appointments Father Joseph T. Gaynor, to be pastor of St. Charles Bor- romeo Church, Elmira Heigths, from St. Catherine's, Addison. Father William M. Thomas, to be pastor of St. Catherine's Church, Addison, from St. Patrick's Church, Elmira. Father Robert Kanka, to be assistant pastor of Ss. Peter and Paul's Church, Elmira, from St. Michael's Church, Rochester. Father Foster Rogers, to be assistant pastor of St. Patrick's Church, Elmira, from St. Christopher's Church, Chili. Appointments will be effective, Wednesday, Oct, 8, at 6 p.m. Priest on Biafra Airlift Heroic but Not Enough ago to work among-lepers in Afriear has begun a 3|4 month tour of East- ern Canada to -raise funds for his mis- sionary activity. The cardinal's first public appearance on the tour will be in Montreal on Oct 15. ON THE INSIDE Bishop Sheen .j,.... • Commentary •• 15 Diocesan 7 Editorial • Entertainment ....\ 10 Sports - 11 News Review ...\..• 4 Father McBrien ., 15 IF YOU MOVE.. . let us k9ibw^SioiiItJ6~we caff: you on time. Phone or mail notice of your change of a< dress* Include your old address and v ne^address.and theyriarrie , Courier-Journal,j fi /jciq St., Minneapolis — (RNS) — a-chureh- sponsored airlift is flying in about 2O0 tons of protein food nightly to starving Biafrans despite extremely hazardous. conditions, an Irish mis- sionary priest who helped spearhead the airlift said here. However,, the minimum daily need is 500 tons of food, said Father Der- mot Doran, and the plight of the Biafrans has deteriorated since June when the Red Cross quit flying in supplies after one of - its planes was shot down. The death rate was under 1,000 a day during a period early this year when both airlifts — Red Cross and Joint Church Aid — were operating. ihe-THiestr^saidr-Shtce—then, it has— gone up again. _ Joint Church Aid now operates 14 flights a night into Biafra from the Portuguese island of- Sao Tome about 300 miles south of Biafra. Father Doran said it costs Joint Church Aid about $75,000 a night to operate its airlift. This does not in- clude cost of medicines and food flown in — much of it donated by the United States government. Nigerian air crews have not yet shot any of the church airlift planes out of the sky, but they have dam- aged eight on the ground, Father Doran reported. In addition, he said, seven of the Joint Church Aid planes have been lost in crashes. Keep Off 'Grass 9 , 2 Youths Learn From Trappists Dubuque, Iowa — (NC) — The two young men arrived at the Trappists' New Mellary abbey near here and said they wanted to make a retreat They were welcomed. Later some of the monks thought it strange when they spotted the two harvesting \weeds\ on the monas- tery grounds. Things became- strang- er when the two were observed dry- ing something over a light blub. The monks called Sheriff John Murphy. He arrived with four depu- ties. A search disclosed six plastic bags filled with the dried out weeds, which examination disclosed was marijuana. The two retreatants were booked on charges of possession of marijuana. The usual placid atmosphere at the Trappist abbey has returned — but the monks are determined to- keep a closer watch on harvesters, especial- ly grass harvesters. Division of Ireland, -^enial-ot^ights- Seen Interrelated United Nations — (ENS) — Ire- land's Foreign Minister Patrick J. Hillery told the U.N. General Assem- bly that the division of Ireland and the denial of human rights to the Catholic minority in Ulster are inti- mately interrelated. He said that until both issues are \honorably resolved, there can be no true and lasting peace.\ At the same time, however, Dr. Hillery assured the 126-member As: sembly that the Republic of Ireland had no expectations of union through \a verdict on the part of the world community.\ * *-»- Robert Holton discusses synod, Page 3 By PATRICK RILEY (NC News Service) . If the words \historic\ and \dra- matic\ have not been drained of their meaning through abuse or overuse, try applying them to the second Synod of Bishops due to open debate in the Vatican next week. The actors are of first importance: The! Pope and the presidents of 70 national bishops' conferences and leaders of the Church's central ad- ministrative complex, the Roman Curia. They are deeply divided. The-issue is the Church's authority, the author- ity of the Pope and bishops. The time is one of high crisis in that very au- thority. The outcome is very much in doubt. Some measure of the synod's urgency can be taken from the im- passioned language that has gone into the argument preceding it. A Canadian Catholic editor, Douglas Roche 1 , writes: \Unless the synod gives us a clear message that reform will not be thwarted by those in powerful posi- tions in the Vatican, people will stop believing that reform can come from within the institution.\ The secretary general of the synod, while far from discounting the urgency of the Church's present crisis, has a pragmatic explanation of who will take part. Bishop Ladislaus Rubin points out the members of an extraordinary session are ex-officio the presidents of the national bish- ops' conferences. They are thus the very persons best cnialified by experi- »^ce-to„taii]^he_jieii£nated_subjec^ of this synod: Relations betweenth'e Holy See and thje conferences, and - among tiie conferences themselves. The synod/s subject has drawn at least as much fire as its membership. First, there is criticism of the uni- lateral way it was decided upon: Pope Paul chose it, apparently without con- sulting the rest of the Church. This unilateral behavior, his critics charge, is contrary to the new spirit of co- responsibility within the Church. On the other hand, most persons consider it the most fundamental problem in the Church's observable life today. And all agree that in it- self it comes to grips with the very problem of implementing the core- sponsibility which the Second Vatican Council saw all Christians sharing for the good of the Church. The irony is that Pope Paul, acting alone, chose to discuss how he and the bishops could act together. Even before the synod was an- nounced to the world, the Hojy See notified the prospective participants of the subject to be dealt with. The curial letter asked for comments. About 50 of the world's bishops' conferences replied. Bishop Rubin's office summarized the comments and proposals of the conferences in a concise, schematic resume, and on the basis of the proposals drew up a draft document three times the length of the resume. This later was designed as a basis for debate in the synod. Among the other suggestions cited in the schema was wider and fuller application of the principle of subsi- diarity. This principle is at the heart of the problem of co-responsibility and authority. The principle of subsidiarity has already been accepted — at the first synod's prompting — as a guiding rule for the reform of Church law. To judge from an informal sampling, this principle is accepted without question at the Curia — at least in principle. * Despite such apparently universal agreement over the principle of sub- -sidiar4ty T -thc--p^ncipiM^i^more-pr£r„. cisely its exercise) lies, atjhe root of a tremendous debate now raging within the Catholic Church. This de- bate will almost certainly be carried into the synoST^Bld may well even dominate the synod. It is, in the opinion of many in Rome, a debate of greater moment (Continued on Page 3) \\*\*' J Mi* What Do We Do Now? What do you do when you're a bunch of young 4iotshot football players and someone like Sister rVJarie Louise swoops through your seconclary to intercept a pass? Tackle her? Are you kidding? Ac- tion took place in New Zealand. (Religious News Service) Isolated Scenes Not Criteria for Judging Whole Film New York — /(GPF) — Catholics confused by-apparent^ toleration of- sex, nudity and violence in movies rated with some approval by the U.S. ; c ffishop^^tionaI--»©ffice-foE~sMotion. PictUfef \wereT toHTW the film off ice this week that brief, scenes did not • ,estab]ish = the.morality of a whole pier tufe. A \position paper\*/ by the. National Catholic Office for IWdWriHPTcTures j0tt_.Jthe_jtapic._oL -i'adult- -pictures'' stressed the need for viewers to con- sider films in their entirety rather than allowing short and unseemly Sections to be the basis for v a moral judgment. V . ' \ • \ honors, and dishonors,\ said NCOMP —-of.-some modern films. \In each case, weJnust question how they contri- bute to the film's over-all purpose of ... .exploj-ing meaningful situations. __ , . '^The moral issue regarding the use of sex, nudity, or violence in nfi!nW^rToT^ulpTrirm^^r*of vr- \ bitrary personal taste nor of absolute -abstract-rulesr- - \The moral Issue — whether on© reprehends or permits''the inclusion of such items in a film — is based di- rectly on the artistic and humanistic, handling of these items.\ ^ W 5(K tMMwtxh- N\KDOMP monthly \Catholic Film Newsletter\ the statement is .the of- fice's first attempt to explain 1 : at 4£«gthJit» attitude toward s^ch;films. • ,\We are sometimes brought up sftort by graphic portrayals, of men's e^filnr'iiffice^^ara^tMt^bwe must recognize that the movie indus- try is' aware .of the contemporary driveWto establish new frontieri, hew horizons: 7,Locah theatres' are the /|oeatesJwh$re. flaassive^barriers are being 'shattered. Technically and thenfaucally, fihn , producers, have made impressive breakthroughs,\ the NCOMP said. \Despite the justifiable outcry against the .explicit treatment, found - inr-many films, movies have, come to . a new level of seriousness and ma- turity.\ « \- - \It infrequently toe-simple «> dis- miss a film because of isolated parts. In justice we must takje into account the entire film \which may sometimes . offer tremendously rewarding visions f of ourselves and our world.\ \ NCQMP admitted that as far as cur- rent\ movie-mafeing is concerned, \ ''there are no closed gates, no taboos in „ subject mattery Ou r ^common hu- \\ inanity, no matter how nerolc\ or Bow\ jleprived,- is considered fit subject matter for the (film) artist.\ It is wrong, NCOMP believes, for church agencies, and S^^rs tip'con-1 tihue regarding 1 fiimk' as prirnarilji \entertainment;' a, points view that; is at the bottom' of many complaints' registered against today's \adult\ film fare. \In addition to providing enter- tainment .for the family,\ the NCOMP statement observed, \movies have also taken on various other sighifi- canLrplejs, amongJthenr^.. ^ _g._ • the explorer into dark shadows* of the human heart ('Rachel, Rachel' and 'Last Summer'); • examiner of - bourgeois material- ism 1 ('Easy Rider,' 'Putney—Swope,!,. 'The Graduate'); • illustrator of the violent tenden- cies ip pur society ('The VfHd Bunch\ 'Bohhie and'Clyde r ); '\ ' • • critical spectator of the loneli- ness and alienation of our times ('M'idnight C p w b oy,' 'Winning,' 'Staircase'*). • ' ,' • / • However, while calling upon view- ers to take a new look at today's films, the Catholic film office criti- cized movie producers who try to take'unfair advantage of the screen's new freedom: \It 1§ not only a possibility*ut-a fact that film makers as a whole have not used sufficient responsibility or \' festraiMP'AfcF 4re«femg>~various topics . such as nudity and_violence. Exploi- tation is not an art.\ \If_ne_w frontiers are to be estab- lished in the film,\ NCOMP con- cluded its statement,, \it would cer- tainly be desirable thaLthis be in the area of developing a greater under- standing of and sensitivity for the ^uman^gpirit. ThisJis^the=tr some potential for films, \Breaking other 'barriersr to achieve temporary financial success ,,,• is not only morally offensive bur alsp,, i seriously.' threatens the development!' of this potential.\ v *' ,•<•\• '•*0
