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134th Year; Vol. CXttW 5 10 Cents A Copy Friday, April 15, 1977

Six-month-old Victor Thorpe, Jr., gazes wonderingly as Bishop Leonard talks with him during the 11th annual Blessing of Infants and Children on Easter Sunday at St. Paul Cathedral. Watching are his mother and, (partially hid¬ den) his father, Mr. and Mrs. Victor Thorpe of St. Richard parish, Hill District.

n 9 ri wy | • attended Eatter Mats in St. Peter'i Square in Rome. Reading a text directed A Of}C S tiClS ter AJlCSSlflt? to youth, Pope Paul told the audience, "Life it beautiful if it is new." Colorful balloons danced above children in the crowd, and rose high, along with ap- VATICAN CITY — Pope Paul VI waves to the more than 100,000 faithful who plause, when he finished speaking.

Becoming more outspoken Vatican's Bishop McDowell admires the stuffed Easter bunny young Lynan Skeels Shift seen in brought with her to the annual blessing of infants and children at St. Paul Cathedral last Sunday. As her mother, Mrs. Agnes Skeels of St. Rosalia parish in Greenfield, and brother Joseph, seven months, listen, Lynan, 4, holds a conversation with the bishop. human rights strategy By JOHN MUTHIG SEVERAL VATICAN sources more on the lips of Pope Paul Besides assuring respect for close to the Pope say that the Pontiff himself. human rights, the accords also VATICAN CITY (NC) - Both ^ emerged from his hour of private On April 4 he told the new Iranian recognized . Soviet domination in Pope Paul VI and the Vatican are tdlks with Mondale very impressed ambassador to the Vatican that work Eastern Europe. edging away from their cautious with the new Administration's human for real behind-the-scenes diplomacy toward peace "goes hand in hand After the Vatican signed at rights policy. with advancement of human a more public defense of human rights." Helsinki, it began receiving the cold rights and religious freedoms. Soon after Mondale's visit, a shoulder from several Communist As the theme for series of editorials in support of the April for the countries over the religious rights is¬ The new public stress on human worldwide Catholic Carter policy were transmitted by Apostleship of sue. rights, which one Vatican diplomat Vatican Radio. Prayer movement, the Pope asked termed a "change in policy," prayers for "those who are blocked The Vatican would like to correct probably stems from several inter¬ An even more notable shift has ap¬ from exercising religious freedom." this situation in Belgrade. national events: peared on the pages on the Vatican • The Carter Administration's daily newspaper, L'Osservatore IN A DEPARTURE from usual Every day the Vatican faces the strong emphasis on human rights is¬ Romano. The paper has consistently Vatican practice, the Apostleship of stark fact that its only leverage in in¬ sues in foreign policy, coupled with placed stories dealing with dissidents Prayer theme was announced this ternational diplomacy is its moral the new militancy of Eastern and human rights issues prominently time with considerable fanfare by the voice. on the front European dissidents; page. pro-president of the Pontifical The Vatican City-State produces Commission for Justice and Peace, no essential raw material which can • The Recently, the paper even devoted African upcoming review of the Archbishop Bernardin be used as a most of page two to an bargaining tool. And the progress made on the Helsinki ac¬ explicit attack Gantin. on the Pope's 90 Swiss Guards are anything cords, in which nations pledged to beefed-up Czechoslovakian Bishop Bosco tries to coax a smile from an uncertain Victoria Talarico, 1, as The Pontiff's words may be serv¬ but a military threat to either East or respect fundamental rights, in¬ campaign against religious educa¬ her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Talarico, look on. The Talaricos, members tion. West. cluding religious freedoms; ing as a prelude to the Vatican's in¬ of St. Joseph parish in Bloomfleld, were among many families participating tervention at a conference in in the annual blessing of infants and children by Pittsburgh's three bishops Vatican Radio editorials and But moral • Stepped-up violence against Belgrade, Yugoslavia, this June to persuasion can be a each Easter Sunday. stories in L'Osservatore Romano Church personnel and escalating review progress made in enforcing significant factor in diplomacy. And may not seem like much. But the Helsinki agreements. lately, fortified by the current pro- religious persecution in several na¬ seasoned Vatican watchers know that tions. rights climate in U.S. foreign policy ihe Qhoice of news and its placement For several months before the and by the dissident movements in in Vatican media tell a great deal The new Vatican emphasis on 1975 Helsinki conference, Communist Communist nations, the Vatican has about where the Vatican stands on is¬ human rights declarations began to nations courted the Vatican with cer¬ proven itself ready to speak out sues. surface in early January when U.S. tain diplomatic concessions in efforts publicly — though still somewhat Vice President Walter Mondale cal¬ The term "human rights," to get its signature on the Helsinki cautiously — in support of human liberties. led on Pope Paul. moreover, is being found more and pact. Division formalized Capuchins split province St. Mary Monastery, Herman; Fr. Capuchin Fathers Brendan Malloy friars at work in Pennsylvania, Ohio, He will serve with provincial Gary Stakem, and Vincent Rohr h&ve been named flrfd West Virginia, Maryland, the councillors; Fr. Robert L. McCreary, superior at Capuchin College, Washington, DC.; and Fr. ministers provincial of the order's District of Columbia, Puerto Rico president of St. Fidelis College, William Wiethorn, novice master at two new American provinces. and Papua, New Guinea. Herman; Fr. John Getsy, superior of St. Conrad Novitiate, Annapolis, Md. The formal separation of the St. Fr. Vincent served as a councillor Augustine Province into the eastern of the St. and western divisions occurred Augustine Province for three years before his new appoint¬ Tuesday night at a special Mass in ment. A native of Hays, Kansas, St. Augustine Church, Lawrenceville. (Salina Diocese), he is a past The formal decree of establishment superior at St. Mary Monastery in of the new province and the appoint¬ Herman and member of the college ment of the new minister provincial faculty at St. Fidelis and past Dean of and definitors was read by Most Rev. Religious Men there. Paschal Rywalski, minister general of the Order of Friars Minor He attended schools in Munjor and Capuchin, wh officiated at the Mass, Hays, Kansas, the Capuchin St. and by Most lev. Aloysius Ward, Francis High School Seminary in definitor general of the order. Victoria, Kansas, St. Fidelis College in Herman, earned a master 's degree Some 200 Capuchin friars in religious education from the (students, brothers and priests) at¬ Capuchin College, a master's in tended the ceremony and many then philosophy from Catholic left for Victoria, Kansas, where on University of America and did graduate work at Thursday, Apr. 14, a similar Notre Dame. ceremony creating the new Province of Mid-America under the patronage His councillors for the 85-member of St. Conrad of Parsham, was to Province of Mid-America, which will be held in the Cathedral of the cover Colorado, Kansas, Missouri Plains. and southern Illinois, will be Fr. Charles Chaput, executive secretary Fr. Brendan, a native of St. Can- Most Rev. Paschal of the former St. Augustine ice parish in Mt. Oliver, has Rywalski, left, minister general of the Order of Friars been Minor Province; Fr. Daniel Conway, pastor minister Capuchin, extends congratulations to the recently-named ministers provincial of the 104-year- of Holy Cross parish, Thornton, old St. provincial of the Capuchins' two new American provinces. Fr. Vincent Rohr, Augustine Province for two Colorado; Fr. Gilmary Tallman, A playful Thomas Mihalek, 4, finds a friend with Bishop Leonard during the terms (six years). A graduate of St. center, will head the new Province of Mid-America, to be headquartered at Kansas president of St. Thomas More Prep, Easter Sunday blessing of infants City, Kansas, and Fr. Brendan Malloy, presently minister provincial, and children by the diocese's three Bishops. Fidelis High School and College in Hays, Kansas; and Fr. Thomas More Tom, of St. Eugene parish, Liberty Boro, poses happily while more young Herman, Pa., and of Capuchin has been reappointed for the new St. Augustine Province, to be located at St. Janeck, pastor of Annunciation par¬ children await their blessing from the bishop. College in Washington, D.C., he will Augustine Monastery, Lawrenceville. The formal separation of the two ish, Denver, Colorado. —Photos by John C. Keenan now be heading a province of 242 provinces took place Tuesday evening at St. Augustine Church.