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Fantastic fantasy Wotus, «»* Couri^Jourf^ offers o wgeft? cnoyi« wfev* oskirw* — Jt«t ill A iofl^flftfc <fesa#j' Peoce QiS4 Chort». Pa^& 46. Catholic Diocese of Rochester —*•***0»?J From NC News and Local Reports \Operation Rescue;' a non-violent attempt by pro-life activists to close abortion clinics, netted nearly 850 arrests July 5 and 6 at two Philadelphia-area clinics. Auxiliary Bishop Austin B. Vaughan of New York City and Father Anthony P. Mugavero, parochial vicar of St. Theodore's Church, Rochester, were among 591 anti-abortion ac- tivists arrested on July 5 after defying two court orders by singing hymns and blocking entrances to the Women's Suburban Clinic in Paoli, a suburb of Philadelphia. Both Bishop Vaughan and Father Mugavero were arrested at previous Operation Rescue demonstrations in Manhattan back -in early May. According to David E. Long, director of Rochester's Project Life, workers at the North- east Women's Clinic in Philadelphia declared that facility closed arcnind 3 pjri.'On July 6 af- ter demonstrators had spent more than seven hours blocking the entrance to the clinic \These were two very successful rescues;' said Lohg,%ho was one of the field marshals looking out for possible counter-protests by pro-choiceactivists. \The degree of peaceful- nes&andcontrol of Our movement is growing ^Mi^gmvi^^efmission).\ %g|^8^n|p Clinic was the only facility open on July 5, making it easy for police officials to determine ^he^ihe massive demonstration would take place SomeJghiladelphia newspapers had even reportediwhertfibfe i*scue mission would take place two days beforehand. • Long said the protesters were originally charged with trespassing, but that Paoli police officials reduced the charges to misdemeanor offenses after pro^fife activists refused to pro- duce proper identification for authorities. \Westarted to play hard ball with the po- lice;' Long said. \We had everybody turn their I.D. cards into us, and we refused to tell them who we were. We also refused to be finger printed. They didn't have the prison space for 100 people — let alone 600—so they dropped the charges down to a.misdemeanor!' The following day, police' arrested more than 250 people and charged them with defiant tres- pass '— which carries a maximum penalty of a $300 fine and 90 days in jail -r after, demon- strators blocked the doors of the clinic while weepingly displaying a 19-week-old fetus they called \Baby Choicer' The eight-inch fetus, which had been aborted in a saline procedure, had been obtained from renowned pro-life ac- tivists Norman Stone and Gerald Horn. Before beginning the arrests, police read a federal district court injunction against the Binghamtoh-basedfpperation Rescue, asking the protesters to disperse. Those remaining were carried away on stretchers after refusing Pofce pt*pja*to arrest arid carry away New pretpst MPaoi, Pa. to walk to police buses. When the facility closed, police stopped ar- resting protesters; another 75 people were wait- ing to be arrested. \We were worried that the clinic would re- open if the police arrested everybody;' Long said. He added that when pro-life demonstra- tors began to \go limp;' the action prompted authorities to begin releasing those already ar- rested. In other Operation Rescue events, more than 600 participants and supporters held a picnic and rally July 4 at historic Valley Forge •/•• \Pio-life Americans are suffering!' Nellie Grayed during the rally. Gray, president of the r^oiial M^di for Life, asserted that \This suff^hg is caused by the au^ we hav£in our governmenton federal, state and els,in our-courts, inpurjegislature and unfqiunately Tftpfe WhiteiHouseT Griry hasbeenTcritical ofPresident Reagan. — \ ~aT mm - »»*» • York Auxiliary Bishop Austin B. Vaughan during a July 5 Operation Rescue anti-abortion in the past for not doing enough to prevent abortions. \We have been called busybodies, self- righteous, know-it-all troublemakers because we consider the slaughter of 22 million human beings to be unjust acts of aggression;' said Molly Kelly, a pro-life educator from Philadel- phia. \If we are called names, cursed at, spit upon, fined and jailed, so be it; we are doing God's work and he will protect us!' Bishbp Vaughan noted that \Valley Forge has always stood, as the symbol for a cause, the willingness of people to pay a price for some- thing that is important. It is a symbol of peo- ple emerging from' a dark winter into victory!' . \I came to Operation Rescue, in a sense, out of frustration and desperation;' he said. \Af- ter 15 years we still have one-and-a-half mil- lion babies dying each'year. My hope is with God's help ^ and we are sure of God's help —we will beable to say in the near future, 'No more and never again!\ In an interview with The Catholic Standard and Times, the archdiocesan newspaper of Philadelphia, Randall A. Terry, founder of Operation Rescue, said the project's purpose is \to save children from death, women from being exploited and to inspire more vision and hope so that this type of activity will occur all across the country!' \A quick overview of American history\ shows that \virtually every major political change was preceded by street-level upheaval!/ he said. The next set of Operation Rescue demon- strations is scheduled for Atlanta during the July 18-21 Democratic National Convention. Long said that Terry has asked him to direct those protests. \We will take a more significant contingent from Rochester if I direct that event!' Long said. Lef0mi$es defy Vatican's call for unity By Cindy Wooden Washington (NC) — Leaders of schismatic Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre's Priestly Soci- ety of St. Pius X reacted with defiance to calls by Vatican officials and local.bishops to return to the Church or face the'penalty of excommunication. \We could not ask for anything better than to be declared 'ex communione' by the spirit of adultery which has blown, through the Church for the last 25 years — excluded from the unholy commuhiqriwith unbeliev- ers,\ said a July 6 letter to the Vatican from 24 Lefebvrite priests meeting irr Econe, Switzerland. While, the signers of the. letter were not identified, Father Charles Ward, treasurer of the society in the United States^ told National Cathqhc News Service in Washington that his colleagues \said everything that is neces- sary in that small statement.\ Vatican officials told NC News in Rome that Pope John Paul II has received many letters for and against his excommunication of Archbishop Lefebvre, but the Vatican is not in a position to release information about them nor to acknowledge receipt of specific letters. , Pope John Paul warned Lefebvre follow- ers in a July 2 letter that they have a \grave duty to remain united with the vicar of Christ.\ \If any unity was broken,\ Father Ward said, it was because the rest of the Church \did not hold fast to tradition.\ On July 9 the pope named a nine-member commission to help followers of Archbishop Lefebvre remain in the Catholic Church. President of the commission is 77-year-old Cardinal Paul Augustin Mayer, until recently head of the Congregations for Divine Worship and Sacraments. Most of the members are officials from a cross-section of Vatican congregations. Pope John Paul announced formation of the commission in the-July 2 papal letter and said the group would be empowered to help Vatican: officials and local bishops reinte- grate followers of Archbishop Lefebvre who wished to remain in the Catholic. Church rather that continue in his schismatic mov- ement. Father Ward said he and others will continue to follow Archbishop Lefebvre because the archbishop refuses \to accept those things which are not in conformity with the constant teaching of the Church.\ Archbishop Lefebvre and his followers do not accept many of the Second Vatican Council teachings, especially liturgical re- forms, ecumenical advances and teachings on religious liberty.' Coatiaaed oa Page 4 Around the Diocese...... 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