SERVING THE PEOPLE OF GOD IN THE COUNTIES OF BROWARD, COLLIER, DADE, GLADES, HENDRY, 'MARTIN, MONROE AND PALM BEACH Volume XX Number 46 February 8, 1980 Price 25c Lawyers Called To Be Prophets Lawyers who are men of of most of the people turn to the religion "are called to be prophets - ABCD, "a time when as a people we the prophets of today's Liturgy - look into our hearts —we reflect on men who are disturbing, disturbing our responsibility of love and to the 'status quo' because they raise religion — and by our financial hard and unpopular questions about contributions commit ourselves how true we are to our high ideals; through service to raising the because they are bold and doggedly standards of our society and our persistent in demanding reform." Church. Archbishop Edward A. "Even more importantly," the McCarthy said this to the newly Archbishop said, "it is a period of formed Catholic Lawyers' Guild of inaugurating a massive, spiritual Palm Beach County at their first renewal program in the Arch- Red Mass at St, Edward's Church, diocese. We are engaged in a great Palm Beach. examination of conscience —asking ARCHBISHOP MCCARTHY every person, priest, Religious, lay, reminded the lawyers that this was Bishop, family, parish organization the period of the year when thoughts — yes, profession —to search into their hearts —in the light of the teachings of Jesus —to ask how true we are, in our behavior, to our calling as disciples of the Lord Jesus. "I am delighted that at this very time the good men who are engaged in the noble ministry of law would be organizing to ask in their turn how they can through their profession A grandmother, worried about the welcome awaiting her as she travels to a new serve their fellow men, their God, home, is hugged by an enthusiastic grandchild in this scene from one of a new even more effectively, with love, series of 30-second television spots. Created by Franciscan Communications in boldness, vision and Christlike in- cooperation with Worldwide Marriage Encounter for the 1980 Year of the Family. tegrity in the spirit of the Good News of the Gospel we profess." to the virtue of justice. The Roman sense of serving Him, with a Zeal Archbishop McCarthy said that lawyer, Celsus, said that an and in a manner that will always be the jurists and lawyers attendance equitable jurist is something of a unquestionably pleasing to Him, at the Mass was a sign of con- priest. Aristotle considered justice, unquestionably in the spirit of the secration of their professional ac- (particularly legal justice, the Sermon on the Mount. tivity "to honor of God and to the justice a citizen owes his comunity,) "The pages of sacred scripture' service of his children, and to the the queen of all virtues — 'more reflect that sense of law in the Barry College President Sister sanctification of your own soul." admirable than the evening star.' ministry of the Almighty, and with a M. Trinita Flood, O.P., has "FEW PROFESSIONS share "But religion has taught us that sense of responsibility to Him. We been selected for the "Florida with yours the dignity of being there is still a higher queen,Love,the are told the most important dif- -Woman of the 80s Award in ference between biblical man and the Field of Education". The essentially the practice of a vir- Love of God, and of fellow man; and awards ceremony was at the tue," the Archbishop said. You are love ennobles and transforms- even pagan man was that the biblical Turnberry Isle Country Club, professionally dedicated to the justice. And, so today, before the man always saw the revelation of Feb. 6 as part of the Elizabeth virtue of justice. As the clergyman, altar, you seek to transform your God as manifested primarily in the Arden salute to Florida's Wo- by ordination, is fixed in a life of professional passion for justice with changing events of history, not as a men of the 80's in six fields of charity, the nun vowed to the virtue a yet deeper love of God and of your pagan,in the unchanging phenomena endeavor. of religion, so you, by the demands fellow men, and you renew your of nature. There could always be a of your high calling, are committed determination to be motivated by a (Continued on Page 3) Dutch Bishops Push Order and Discipline By JERRY FILTEAU intimacy promoted by some Dutch engaging in many church functions conservative member of the Dutch priests and theologians. that are open to other lay persons. hierarchy, Bishop Joannes Gijsen of VATICAN CITY -<NC)-The The synod members sharply The conclusions mandated a Roermond, was bluntly ordered to Dutch bishops and top Vatican of- rejected intercommunion (sharing reform of Dutch seminaries and set rejoin "with the other bishops in the ficials ended three weeks of the Eucharist) between Catholics up a commission to review current area of Pontifical Missionary meetings with a wide-ranging and Protestants. They insisted that practices in Light of Vatican norms Works, Action for Lent and the document aimed at restoring order general absolution without in- and propose recommendations by Dutch Missionary Week." and discipline in the Dutch church. dividual confession can only take September 1981. The 22-page list of conclusions place in extraordinary cir- Bishop Gijsen withdrew from from the 18 -day Dutch bishops' cumstances and Under the stringent The bishops expressed these national fund-raising synod bluntly insisted that the Vatican norms. agreement with the principle of programs to show his disapproval of bishops are in charge of church LAY PASTORAL workers were splitting some Dutch dioceses and the programs being funded. doctrine and government. warned that they cannot replace increasing the number of bishops in It rapped "critical groups" who priests or perform priestly func- the country, a proposal that many "The bishops are aware of dissent from church teaching. It also tions. The situation of laicized observers believe means in- certain difficulties existing between said the synod members "are priests in pastoral work will troducing more moderate-to- the bishops of Roermond and per- unanimous in rejecting" the so- gradually be "regularized" in ac- conservative -bishops in the sons and institutions in the three-fold called "third way" of celibacy cordance with tough Vatican rules Netherlands. combined with unmarried sexual prohibiting former priests from On the other hand, the most (Continued on Page 4) ALLEN PEST CONTROL. INC. ••••mi Regular • Home • Commercial ««•••• Lawn Spraying • Termite Control News At A Glance) FREE ESTIMATE Lie. ft Ins. 1875 N.E. 149 ST. N. MIAMI 940-0400 Permanent Deacons Increase Polish Paper at the Vatican WASHINGTON -(NC)- The number of permanent deacons in the Catholic Church in the United States rose by VATICAN CITY -(NC)- An "Obserwator Rzymski," AID THE POOR nearly 1,000 from 1978 to 1979, according to figures compiled the Polish-language version of "L'Osservatore Romano" will by the secretariat of the U.S. Bishops' Committee on the appear soon on newstands around the Vatican. The paper's by donating resalable furniture first Polish edition will debut as a monthly publication. clothing, etc .to Permanent Diaconate, increasing the number of deacons to 4,028 and the number of candidates to 2,515. The St. Vincent Vatican Family Committee * de Paul Stores Leaders to Hear the Kids NASHVILLE — (NC)— Every Catholic over the age of 2647 OLD DIXIE VATICAN CITY — (NC)— A former concentration 12 in the diocese of Nashville will have the opportunity to tell camp inmate, Polish Bishop Kazimieirz Majdanski, will RIVIERA BEACH church leaders what problems today's families face during a serve as acting vice president and secretary of the Vatican's survey on family ministry, with the results scheduled to be 2560 WEST GATE AVE. Committee for the Family. Pope John Paul II also an- used for planning parish and diocesan programs during this nounced the appointment of Auxiliary Bishop Paul WEST PALM BEACH Family year, 1980, and for other observances throughout the Joseph Cordes of Paderborn, <• West Germany, as 1980s, as requested by the National Conference of Catholic vice president of the Pontifical Council for the laity.— 538 24th ST. Bishops. WEST PALM BEACH Clowns Perform Before Pope Anti-Nuke Priest Sentenced or call VATICAN CITY -(NC)-Clowns, jugglers and a SPOKANE, Wash. — (NC)— Franciscan Father Louis woman contortionist performed circus acts for Pope John Ladenburguer of Spokane, who served on the staff of 845-0562 Paul II as a rousing finale to his weekly general audience Spokane's Peace and Justice Center, was scheduled to begin (Riviera Beach) Jan. 30. The performers were from the Darix Togni Circus a 45-day jail sentence Feb. 4 for willfully trespassing at a for a free pick up. Troupe. naval base in Washington state to protest nuclear weapons. Tax receipts given. Mediation Effort Moving Our Profit VATICAN CITY -(NC)- The year-long papal Evangelization of Latins Goes To The Poor mediation on the Beagle Channel dispute between Chile and Argentina has reached a new phase because delegations from WASHINGTON -(NC)- Programs organized by the two countries have begun meeting jointly, the Vatican Hispanics for Hispanics are currently underway in parishes, announced. dioceses and other Catholic institutions in an attempt to evangelize the 15 million people of Spanish or Latin 52 Priests Threatened American origin living in this country, reported Archbishop GUATEMALA CITY - (NC)- Fifty-two Jesuit priests Francis T. Hurley of Anchorage, Alaska, chairman of the were threatened with death by rightists and with expulsion National Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on by the military government after publishing a denunciation Evangelization.