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W,4v - m v v A:'; 'If - ?'•'••'-* iff\ / • • V«t*B5rFAPJSRvQP TW£ DIOCESB OF ROCHESTER _i_i£lv' 1.0 Poges- Rochester, New York Friday, Dec. 26, 1969 \ ••V^sl '-''•'A'S<| . • '*'• Tmijtf Law (Special to the Courler-Jou-nal) AllM«y_— Stepg to make abortion legal in New York State are taking a new direction: challenges will be made in court soon that the current -Uw~forbiddin« abortion is unconsti- tutional. Four suite which contest the law are to be heard in a few months by a . f judge Federal Court These suits have been consolidated for trial, and have been brought by a group of doc- tors, lawyers, mothers and social - workers. A request by eight medical men — obstetricians, .gynecologists, psychia- trists and general practitioners from throughout the state — to intervene has been Their application foNbecome inter- veners in,favor of the\present law alleges that the present law which prohibits abortion \Is more than a penal section, it expresses public policy of reverence for life and the interest of the state in protecting all life, including unborn life.\ The medical men made application to become party to the suit because, they felt, they are \responsible for the health of both the unborn child and the mother.\ The combined cases which will be heard in Federal court seek to de- clare the New York abortion law un- constitutional because it is \too vague, uncertain, and deprives a woman of control over her own body.\ A major effort to overturn the - State's abortion law was recently frustrated by a Federal Court's re- fusal to grant a temporary injunction < which would have permitted two ex- pectant mothers to have abortions without arrest for violation of the law. -The--plaintiffs sued under pseu- donyms seeking to have the district attorneys restrained from arrests in ,^-.w.^ -«one- I ^oni,an---was^f^ks'^^»iBt * another w»* nine weeks pregnant; and * third said she had two children, is receiving public assistance and fears inability to get a legal abortion if pregnancy occurs. Bishop Hogan Broken Angel With a black eye, broken tooth and one arm in a cast, 7-year-old Cheryl Biggley of Hamilton, Ont., looks anything but angelic. Cheryl, who played the part of one of those heavenly beings in a school ' Christmas pageant r suffered the injuries in a car accident. (Religious News Service) Jews Praise Vatican Statement V New York — (RNS) — Leaders of major Jewish organizations in the U.S. have lauded the latest Vatican statement on Christian-Jewish rela- tions. The World Jewish Congress, the American Jewish Congress, the American Jewish Committee, the Union of American Hebrew Congre- gations, and the International Asso- ciation of Conservative Rabbis, through their official spokesmen wel- comed the Catholic Church ^declara- tion which sets forth principles and guidelines for .Catholics to .Improve their understanding of, and relations with, \their Jewish brothers.\ plenary session in Rome of the Sec- retariat for promoting Christian Unity, the document, among other affirmations, emphasizes the need to respect \religious significance\ of the state of Israel and scores anti-Semi- tism as \essentially opposed to the spirit of Christianity.\ -Kabbi—Marc T. Tanenbaumr—mr pronouncements on Christian-Jewish relations that have been issued by any major worldwide Christian body in our lifetime.\ In the Vatican documenTthe point is made that Jewish fidelity to the Old Covenant between God and the people of Israel is \linked to the gift of land, which, in—the—Jewish- -stend better \the proper validity\ \of~ the Old Testament It \should not be understood exclusively in reference to the New Testament, nor reduced to an allegorical significance, as is so often done in the Christian liturgy.\ However, \the continuity of our faith with that of the Old Covenant should be underscored.\ soul, has endured as the object of an aspiration that Christians should strive to understand and respect\ That is why, the document con- tinues, \the existence of the state of Israel should not be separated from this—(religious)\ perspective.\ This perspective, the document adds, \does not' tadtself^imply any judgment on historical occurrences or on decisions of a purely political order.\ The document then sets forth specific recommendations including: • True dialogue between Jews and Christians must now be established, with \all intent of proselytizing and conversion\ excluded. To Broadcast on New Yeafs Eve Bishop Joseph L. Hogan will de- liver a special New Year's message to the people.of the diocese by radio next Wednesday .night during Holy Hour services broadcast from St Francis of Assist Church, Rochester, from 11:15 p.m. to 12:15 a.m. ^bjJUp^sa^^djBlJiookup_^»f-Jive^ tional director of interreligious af- fairs for the American Jewish Com- mittee, hailed the Vatican statement as \undoubtedly one of the most perceptive, advanced and reconciling • Wherever possible and mutually desirable, \meeting before God in prayer and silent meditation should be encouraged.\ • Efforts must be made to under- • Particular attention should be paid to translations of certain pas- sages or expressions in the New Test- ament \which can be interpreted in tendentious fashion by uninformed Christians.\ Thus, the directive reads, the phrase \the Jews\ in St. John can at times be translated according to context, as \the leaders of the Jews\ or \the enemies of Jesus.\ • The Old Testament and Jewish tradition should not be opposed to the New Testament \in such a way as to make it appear as a religion of justice alone, a religion of fear and of legalism, implying that only Christianity possesses the law of love and freedom.\ • Christians should bear in mind that the points on which Jesus, a Jew, took issue with the Judaism of his time \are fewer than those in which (Continued on Page 2) —By THOMAS A. CAFFKEY stations will enable the Bishop to be heard in nearly 80 per cent of the homes of the 12 counties of the dio- cese. •\' The stations involved will be WSAY ( -Roch:e8terMiWfflO-FM r Au~ burn; arid the audio channels of Cable TV: Channel 6 in Auburn, Channel 5, Hornell, and 88.75 meg., Corning. The New Year's Eve Holy- Hour, with the Bishop's address taxing' about 12 minutes, will also have medi- tations spoken by Auxiliary. Bishop Dennis W. Hickey, Msgr. -Joseph Cirrincione, pastor of St. Francis, and Father Richard Tormey of the ConrferJoumaL ON THE INSIBfr Commentary 8 Diocesan : 7 itorial..... * Entertainment ... ,4 Sports 10 lew ;... .7. .1*... j§;. The* Aiass i * ?*£' ..+ ..«.•• *... p <NC News Service) New York—No news is good news? Not to lawyer Morris Ernst, who says that the nation's press, radio and television are all to happy to in- vert the cliche — and follow it Good news, Ernst complainsrls^aH too often considered no news. He has had long acquaintance with both newsmakers and those who re- port the news. Ernst was a close friend of the late Francis Cardinal Spellman, and lunches regularly with Terence Cardinal Cooke. His firm has represented the CBS_and NBC television networks, the New, York Times and Life magazine. Bat when he sits down with his friends In the news media, he says to then), \Why won't you mention the unions that haven't had a lockout or ^nrtrlke in 10 years, 20 years, 30 years some of them.\ . v ''•Nobody's interested,' they say. \I say, 'How do you know? You haven't tried it'\ Lawyer Ernst has the evidence ready. JTen—years ago the Ford Founda- Really No News? We're Looking for Good News What stories haven't reached print that accentuate the positive, that tell what people have done or can do, rather than what they haven't done? NC News Service; in collaboration with the Courier-Journal, is sponsoring a -nauunwme search for good hews to. start the 1970s. \ —v-— We need your help. And we'll pay for it. A cash prize of $100 will be awarded to the best \Good News\ story sub- mitted among all readers in the U.S. Deadline is Jan. 15. Stories should be double- spaced typed, and should be no longer than 400 words. They must be factual. The editors of NC News Service will be the judges. Entries should be submitted to: <300D NEWS c/o Courier-Journal 35 Scio St Rochester, N.Y. 14604 \ IF YOU MOVE. .. L 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 parish. Courier-Journal, 35 Scio St., tion distributed .thousands of copies -«t a study Ernst did that listed- sev- eral thousand cases of peaceful desegregation in the two years fol- . blowing the 1954 Supreme Court school desegregation .decision. Ernst says nobody used the story. Not long-agofcthe lawyer-helped-a- Harlem group start a cooperative market. The capital — $25O<000 — was raised among Harlem.residents by b,iack lawyer Cora Walker. Not a dime came from foundations or from the government. The cooperative's founding was re- ported, said Ernst. But nobody noted the \good news\ — that the people did it themselves. He's disturbed about it for—this~ reason: \If they'dgiven me that headline, I could tomorrow start 10 more co- ops in New York City . . . Easy.\ —His-list of-evidence goes on: • There is a new home teletype- like mechanism that makes communi- cation with deaf persons possible through their telephone circuitry. • Six or seven nations like Greece -and Taiwan have sent to the United States letters of gratitude for—the ^Sr^d^hich-fcasHieiped'irtake the countries \self-sustaining. Ernst saw these letters at the White House. \You're not allowed to know,\ he continued, \that when the Chinese went down to City Hall because they didn't want the station house moved, they brought with them, being Chinese, 15 brooms — and they clean- ed up City Hall Park. The TV men were there, and they pulled their cameras off! \This is 'good news',\ he smiled scarcastically. \There's a basic philosophy that the media can't make money on good news. Now I'm not asking for a mo- ment that they cut out the evil. \I'm just saying, 'Can't you take a half-inch out of some murder story — a half-inch! \Put all the murder and mayhem in — but don't manage the American mind totally against goodness. This country is full of goodness.\ oi, RedOoss Urges #nte-a. letter to the president.of Vietnam? '\'.-.''*• ''W&ffii&faty'•&&&%, you,, especial- ; ly with 1,300 Americans probably im- jj&ffltijjflt^ iif that c6t)ptry s; •• ,\ li'^fe'^A^^'jha^s' ex- •' s^ly the ireasoh for dpin^ii He has the power to guarantee tna,]t our K* V 716^70*0 rt .«•''/ h ,. . *•••', i . .b^y^wiii*bei]*ftted,hJUpiani . _ s ... Rochester, HY.14604. ihone i .> . JM^''**-*\^ nested or ' • M ' 'fare's ^ good\ chafe 1 , thai! he'll . •• ••••-•\ • • -M \:\ -V • f- \ .ir-.' listen to you. It has been evident that '.fihjfe North Vietnamese .leaders are VeW conscious of American public opinion. And if they think there is something to be gained by bowing to • it^h^%ill. \, • '* ' \ Thei Sed Cross sugraW thaV lead- erS pe^that Hanoi al l° w communis catidhs. ( |hetween the ; prisoners and 4 their, fMhiillesj; thati it x te\m Rgji, . Cross.:'Inspect the prisons'.ajjifl^tnat #isohersMbe treaited properly^. The Courier-Journal urges that you Hi-1 - ,.'\: Hi.. write your own. letters, rather than using group petitions or form let- ters. Personal letters, worded in- dividually vrtll have greater effect. The Red Cross says^ \We have to act now.\We have to Vnu\ enough letters to\ make ^a dif- ference — millions of them. Address them to The OKice of President, Democratic Republic of Vietnam, , Hanoi, North; Vietnam.\ »Air maii postage is 25 cents. hi. e on Reject Gaudiness, Grasp True Faith Vatican City — (NC) — Pope Paul VI, speaking on a Christmas theme, called for a true faith that will see through the gaudiness of the world's Christmas and even beyond the many religious traditions of the Holy season to behold \Christ made flesh\ for mankind. The summons came in a general audience talk in the Hall of Blessings in which the. Pope emphasized the true and continual value of \faith and life.\ Dwelling on the_jamcept of life, Pope Paul called attention to the vir- ginal birth of Christ to illustrate the loftiness to which humanity has been raised. Hence, he said, \The family finds in Christmas its own feast.\ To Christian families he offered some words of \admonition and comfort,\ and to the young contemplating matri- mony, he bequeathed the hope that theirs would be a concept of family as \an ideal splendor.\ Still addressing the young on their future marriage, he urged that \no impure thoughts and improper morals devastate the eve of their marriage.\ He further exhorted the young not to \sadden the plans for the future hearth\ by induging in \selfish and hedonistic calculations.\ \We expect a new type of family from the young generation,\ he stat- ed. \The tremendous experience of present history must have taught (them) that only an authentic and strong Christianity possesses the formula of true life.\ In calling for a strong religious overtone to Christmas,. Pope Paul was careful to point to the need for a total comprehension of the coming of Christ, and said that this should not be merely a pietistic dwelling, on valued folklore or treasured story- telling. \The word was made flesh and dwelt amongst us,\ he said, and this, according to St. Paul, is the Christ- mas of faith. Speaking of the Christmas of life, he noted that the coming of Christ \spreads throughout mankind a re- generative wave.\ He then introduced the idea that every man refleets^he face of Christ because every human being has been touched by this wave of the coming of Christ. This is the Christmas of life.\ Holy Father Pleads For-'World Peace Day' Vatican City — (BINS) — In a message \to all men of goodwill the world over,\ Pope Paul VI has call- ed for universal observance of Jan. 1 (New Year's Day) as a \World Day of Peace.\ And in his appeal for prayers for ^eace, the pontiff took note of a rising tide of brutality in. .the wars and military crises besetting the world. \The fierce inhumanity\ of war crimes now afflicting mankind \re- flect dishonor on all responsible,'*' the Pope said, in an apparent refer- ence to the alleged massacre of a South Vietnamese village, Song My, by U.S. troops. His message noted that war crimes were deplored universally, as he con- demned terrorism, torture of prison- ers, retaliatory repression of inno- cent civilian detainees, and of the slaying of hostages. \The world's conscience no longer tolerates such crimes,\ the Pope said. A \period of peace,\ starting Jan. 1 with a .World Day-of—Peace pro- \claimed by Pope Paul is slated for observance throughout-the 160 Cath- olic archdioceses and dioceses of the U.S. ... r- At its meetingjast month in Wash- ington, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops agreed to encour- age American Catholics to extend the third annual peace observance by the world's Catholics .under the theme \Self-Education for Peace through Reconciliation.\ In his peace plea, the Pope said, \It is not our duty to pass judgment on the disputes still in progress be- tween .nations, races, tribes and so- cial classes. But it is our-mission to cast the word of peace into the midst of men at strife with one another. \It is our mission to remind men that they are brothers. It is our mis- sion to teach men to love one an- other, to be reconciled with each other, to educate themselves for peace.\ Pope Paul expressed his approval and encouragement of all who pro- mote this \education for peace\ and called on persons and organizations that hold responsibility on organs of public opinion, statesmen, teachers, artists and especially youth to walk resolutely along \this path of true ' and universal civilization.\ '' < \To preach the Gospel of forgive- ness seems absurd to human politics because in the natural economy, jus- tice does not often permit_forgive- _jnessi ! ? -he--said.\\But in the Christian economy, which is superhuman, it is not absurd. Difficult, yes — but not absurd.\ New Yorlk\<$urat's halfback ,Joe Morrison receives )aVvisit at Yankee Stadium from a few frierids from the Angel Guardian Home. Here, Sister Alary Owen and two of the youngsters from tbi Brook- lyn homer Carlos and Angelo, give Joe a plaque naming him 1969's \Football Angel for The Angel^uatdiatt Home^fRNS} •/: t V •*\ V ...I \v ' • >m .'/•i;^'^;'?/.' •\ ... *
