VOICE AUGUST 4, 1978 PRICE 25c VOL. XX No. 22 _^ Orange Bowl Mass only a beginning On Friday, Oct. 6, over "Most of our people," 80,000 Catholics from the Father Connolly said, "feel a Archdiocese of Miami are real need to deepen their expected to fill the Orange prayer life, and to learn more Bowl for a rally and Mass to about the Church's teachings "end the beginning of the and the Bible. A major effect Holy Year." of the Holy Year is that the Father Donald Connolly, laity are realizing more and coordinator of the Holy Year, more their need to participate explained: "Our efforts during in helping the Church to grow; the past months were to they realize more than in the comprise a five-year plan for past that they are the Church, the Archdiocese in programs and have a tremendous and services to help our personal responsibility to help Catholic families and parishes. themselves and their children So it would not be right to say to come closer to Christ." that the Holy Year ends with The highlight of the Holy the October 6 Mass." Year will be the Mass to be After assimilating the offered at the Orange Bowl on returns to the Holy Year office Oct. 6. At this event, from the priests, Religious representatives from all of the and laity, Archbishop Mc- parishes of the Archdiocese Carthy said that he realizes will participate. Preceding the now the first priority will be to Mass, there will be a evangelize the Catholic procession of over 5,000 community — " Not only falien- people—altar boys, lay away Catholics, but also groups, Religious, priests, and practicing Catholics who do the Bishops from the State of not have a sufficient grasp of Florida. the Church's teachings." A 10,000 voice choir will THIS NEED for act as a background for the evangelization became ap- ceremony, joining with parent as a result of the Holy everyone at the stadium in Voice Photo by Tony Garnet Year questionnaires dis- singing the music especially Little Melina Paraskeva, 5, lays flowers on the grave of Archbishop Coleman F. Carroll at tributed to every Catholic prepared for the event. Our Lady of Mercy Cemetery on July 26, the first anniversary of the death of the Miami family in the Archdiocese Archbishop Fulton Sheen Archdiocese's first bishop. Archbishop Edward A. McCarthy celebrated a Memorial during the Lenten season. (Continued on Page 8) Mass for the late Archbishop at the Cathedral of St. Mary Thursday night. Test tube baby? Yes, no, maybe NC News Service Pope Pius XII's 1949 con- hypothetical couple. "If you demnation of artificial in- say yes to them, then I would The birth of five-pound, semination. say: 'Go ahead.'" 12-ounce Louise Brown, the Others saw fewer moral In Italian daily news- world's first test tube baby, problems in the birth of papers, two theologians gave and the events that led up to it Louise Brown. "Offhand, I negative judgments on promise to keep the medical don't see anything wrong with the morality of such community and Catholic childless couples using the procedures. Father Dionigi moral theologians talking for test tube method if there is no Tettamanzi, in the Milan- quite a while. other possible way for them to based national Catholic daily, Condemned by several have babies," said Bishop Avvenire, said that although Catholic moral theologians, Cornelius Lucey of Cork, Pope Pius had said means the procedure leading to the Ireland. (Continued on Page 9 ) birth involved the im- Auxiliary Bishop plantation of a fertilized egg in Augustine Harris of Liver- the womb of Lesley Brown, an pool, England, said he would English woman who could not tell couples seeking moral conceive normally because of guidance on the issue to ask blocked fallopian tubes. themselves three questions— Doctors removed eggs from whether it was within the the woman's ovary, then context of marriage; whether achieved fertilization using it was because they loved each sperm from Mrs. Brown's other and would love this husband Gilbert. child; and whether the science "IT IS NOT the con- involved dominated and ception of a child as nature fascinated them or whether it . Bus Guide . .. 16 intended, and I am opposed to was supporting them in a Classified. .. 17 Editorial.... ...6 it," said Bishop Gerard natural act. Family Life. 12 McClean of Middlesborough, "These are important Movies & TV. 14 England, who said it falls questions," Bishop Harris Youth . 15 KYF 10-11 among actions covered by said. He said he would tell the •:::-::;-::::; says there are 3,483 Religious priests and Ulster prisons brothers from 67 mission-sending groups and 166 diocesan priests from 70 U.S. dioceses. There are also 2,673 nuns from 180 mission-sending orders and 279 lay volunteers from 29 sponsoring called 'inhuman' organizations serving in missions outside the 48 DUBLIN, Ireland-(NC)-Archbishop contiguous states. Tomas O'Fiaich of Armagh, Northern Ireland, Evangelization meet issued a public blast against "inhuman con- ditions" in the prison for terrorists at Long Kesh, WASHINGTON —Paternalism, past and following a visit July 27 to three sections of the present racism, failure to understand cultural prison's famous H Block. differences —all these problems and others can "One would hardly allow an animal to remain impede evangelization efforts among blacks, in such conditions, let alone a human being," said Hispanics and American Indians, three experts in the archbishop in a statement distributed Aug. 1 those fields told an evangelization conference July by the Irish bishops' Catholic Press and In- 27. Father Giles Conwill, vocation director for the formation Office in Dublin. National Office of Black Catholics; Father Frank Archbishop O'Fiaich, who last year was Ponce, research assistant in the U.S. Catholic made head of Armagh, primatial See of all Conference's Secretariat for Hispanic Affairs; and Ireland, called for an immediate improvement of Msgr. Paul Lenz, executive director of the Bureau prison conditions and said he would provide an of Catholic Indian Missions, spoke to the group. account of what he had seen to the Vatican "without delay." Democracies lack will "The nearest approach to (conditions in Long Kesh) that I have seen," he said, "was the CARACAS, Venezuela—Commenting on the spectacle of hundreds of homeless people living in Bonn summit meeting, the head of the Latin sewer-pipes in the slums of Calcutta. The stench American Economic system (SELA), Guillermo and filth in some of the cells, with the remains of Maldonado, said the world's industrialized rotten food and human excreta scattered around democracies lack the political will to help the the walls, was almost unbearable. In two of them developing nations. I was unable to speak for fear of vomiting." Troops patrol streets near presidential Charging that prisoners are deprived of palace in La Paz, Bolivia, after Gen. Juan Right-wing used by FBI "basic human needs" and citing numerous Pereda Asbun seized power following a DETROIT—An activist right-wing group complaints he heard from prisoners about dispute over the results of a July 9 whose anti-communist fervor was often unleashed beatings and degradations, Archbishop O'Fiaich presidential election. The general said he against the Detroit Archdiocese and its clergy rejected government claims that the prisoners in acted to prevent Communists from was used by the FBI to disrupt alleged pro- Long Kesh are treated as ordinary prisoners. taking over the government. communist organizations during the 1960s, ac- The prison is a special institution to house cording to FBI documents obtained by the those convicted of terrorism in Northern Ireland's Father J. Bryan Hehir, warned the House of Detroit Free Press. civil war. Its inmates consider themselves Representatives that lifting such sanctions could political prisoners rather than criminals, and they place the United States "outside the international Schools file suit have conducted a long protest over prison con- consensus." JOPLIN, Mo. —The Joplin Catholic school ditions and alleged maltreatment by guards. system has filed suit in state court against a The archbishop said he spent the whole of U.S. Indians vow decision by the Missouri Division of Employment Sunday, July 27, in the prison, in which nearly Security that Catholic schools must pay 200 of the 1,800 inmates are from the Armagh WASHINGTON-Although their longest unemployment compensation tax for their lay Archdiocese. Walk was over, American Indians vowed to keep employees. The action is believed to be the first He said he was surprised to find high morale trying to educate non-Indians about injustices court test for the controversial application of such among the prisoners. they say native Americans have received as taxes to Catholic schools. "From talking to them it is evident that they "political prisoners" in the United States. intend to continue their protest indefinitely and it 20-Mile march seems they prefer to face death rather than Lebanon violence GUATEMALA CITY-Some 1,000 men, submit to being classified as criminals," he said. BEIRUT, Lebanon—The apostolic nuncio in women and children from the rural parish of San He called it "a triumph of the human spirit" Beirut, Archbishop Alfredo Braneira, has in- Jose Pinulas staged a 20-mile march to that many of the prisoners combat the formed lebanese authorities of the efforts under Guatemala City to demand an investigation of the dehumanizing conditions by learning Gaelic, way in various countries to end the violence in murder of their pastor Father Hermogenes Lopez. shouting Irish words from cell to cell, singing Lebanon. The message stressed the great interest About 2,000 students and workers joined them at Irish songs and writing Irish on cell walls "with of the Holy See in the events in Lebanon.