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P riest testifies against A ct w elfare cuts (Ses editorial on page 4) Committee. The session was part of a series of He also urged that, if the first suggestion were "Whatever inefficiencies, fraud or waste which hearings being held across the state on Act 75. not politically possible, the cutoff provisions of tbe welfare system in the commonwealth is Msgr. John C. McCarren, executive director ot Act 75 (Section 10) be suspended "until such time presumed to reflect, is not touched by this denial, the Department for Social and Community He testified both as a representative of the as the unemployment rate in the Commonwealth so Act 75 should not be seen as welfare reiorm ." Development in the diocese, has urged the repeal diocese and as a member of the welfare is reduced to six percent." he explained. of the cut-off provisions of the hotly debated department of the PCC. In a release detailing his Noting that the Bishops of Pennsylvania were John Hannigan, head of the diocese s Bureau “ welfare reform" Act 75 in Pennsylvania. testimony, he urged tbe legislators to consider opposed to the concept of welfare reiorm for Social Programs and Community Action, Act 75 limits the amount of aid able-bodied lull repeal of the cut-off provisions, ‘ ‘to abandon (resulting in Act 75) that was first proposed in HB explained in a separate release that Act 75 is the persons between the ages of 18 and 45 may receive the categories of transitionally and permanently 720, he testified: "Act 75 is not welfare reiorm In result of Gov. Richard Thornburgh's plan to whether they can find a job or not. It was opposed needy and provide cash support to those in need our view. Act 75 did not reform the welfare eliminate General Assistance tor those the by a broad coalition of organizations, including without regard to arbitrary distinctions between system; it merely eliminated approximately Governor terms "able bodied." the Pennsylvania Catholic Conference (PCC). those who might work if work were available and 100.000 unemployed men and women between the Act 75 changes the payment criteria lor Msgr. McCarren spoke May 19 in Butler before those who could not accept a job if it were offered ages of .18 and 45 from the General Assistance General Assistance, which is the state-funded the Sub-Committee on Welfare for the because of some physical and psychok j$)ls,<thi)iriktprivTng them of $172 for nine months Pennsylvania House Health and Welfare impediment." (Continued on page 3) 0479800 Pennsylvania s _ Dl» QU ES NE UNIVERSITY LU ' LI BRAR IAN largest weekly O v S B i LÛCUST & COLBERT STREETS circulation C PITTSBURGH PA 152 19 ATHOLIC Friday, M ay 27, 1983 139th Year. CXLIV No. 11 15 Cents Established in 1844: Am erica's O ldest Catholic Newspaper in Continuous Publication Inside Reagan aide eyes further growth NFP programs By STEPHEN KARL1NCHAK Education and Welfare contract ed for an initial inventory of NFP “ Five little words” are sites in the United Stales: that responsible for a massive directory listed 60 programs in 22 PH êst dies increase in the number of natural states. family planning (N FP) centers in "The next year, the Title X Fr. Regis M. Hudock, the United States, according to the statute was changed significantly chaplain at St. Joseph Home for Reagan Administration's director with the addition of five little the Aged, Garfield, dies. of family planning programs. words: ‘including natural family Obituary on page 3. “ In 1974, when the first planning methods,'” Ms. directory of natural family Mecklenburg said. “ From that Also Inside planning sites was developed, time on, the Title X law has there were only 60 NFP required that iederal family Editorials..................Pages 4-5 programs," said Marjory planning include natural family Calendar........................Page 7 Mecklenburg, deputy assistant planning. The next several years Around diocese Pages 10-11 secretary of Health and Human were a period when the Office of Services for population affairs Family Planning committed a Deaths who was in Pittsburgh Monday to significant portion of its service address the second day of the four- delivery improvement funds to Fr. Regis M. Hudock, 62, day Second International NFP activities." chaplain at St. Joseph Home for Symposium on Natural Family Ms. Mecklenburg said the the Aged, Garfield. Planning held at Carlow College in federal funds were used to develop Carmen R. Capone, 71, Oakland. “ Eight short years later, N F P curriculum teacher training Pittsburgh, long-time leader in the number of N F P sites has programs; a demonstration of the Knights of Columbus. feasibility and the cost grown to over 1,000." Family Planning held at Carlow College. With Sister M. Honora, 84, member In reviewing the history ol effectiveness of free-standing Thomas Donnelly (right), Pittsburgh, board of Sisters of Humility of Mary, N F P sites; the convening of bi- member of the Human Life and Natural Family them are Lawrence Kane, Alexandria, Va., iederal N F P programs under executive director of the foundation, and William Villa Maria, Pa. Title X, Ms. Mecklenburg said regional conferences and Planning Foundation, Alexandria, Va., welcomes Sister M. Assisi urn Joczik, workshops to share the N FP's Marjory Mecklenburg, deputy assistant Uricchio, chairman ol the Carlow College biology that 1974 was a “ benchmark year" department and chairman of the board of the member of Pittsburgh Sisters oi for N F P programs. In that year, private sector's experiences and secretary for population affairs of the U.S. foundation. Mercy. the Office of Family Planning of expertise with Title X service Department of Health and Human Services, to John N. Unger, 92, West End. the Department of Health, (Continued on page 8) the Second International Symposium on Natural Says priest C hurch resp ected in S. A frica have been arrested by the police By STEPHEN KARLINCHAK apartheid system. "The Catholic African. Church encourages everyone to go While Catholic pariches are and that the secretary of the South African Bishops' Conference has A South African priest said that, to Mass. Catholics feel welcome, open to all, Fr. Pietersen said that by right and by practice, to attend because of segregated residential been banned, placed under house despite the small number of arrest, by the South African Catholics in his country, the Mass in any church ." areas, many parishes are racially government. Catholic Church i6 respected by Fr. Pietersen is the pastor of St. segregated in South Africa. Fr. Pietersen said there are the South African government. Jude parish, Vredenburg, a small Calling the Catholic Church many South African born priests “ The South African government community on the Atlantic coast “ heroic," Fr. Pietersen said that and bishops representing white, is conscious of the role that the about 100 miles north of Cape the Catholic schools in South Asiatic, colored and black Catholic Church plays in the Town. His parish has six Mass Africa are racially integrated. “ In ancestry. world,” said Fr. Gerald centers, mission parishes, the past, church schools were He said that the South African Pietersen, a priest of the Cape attached to it. racially segregated," he said. Bishops Conference has been very Town Archdiocese, during an About 80 percent of his “ Our schools are now deliberately forthright, issuing statements interview while he was in the parishioners are classified as open to all races. Admission by discussing the ethics of the Pittsburgh area. "It realizes that colored. The white Catholics are of merit is insisted upon. privilege and poverty in their the Catholic Church is a powerful families long settled in South "This is $ silent but prophetic country. Other issues that the and respected international Africa or are Portuguese and protest. However, one is never Spanish immigrants. Fr. sure if it has been successful." Church in South Africa has faced institution.” through its bishops' conference In South Africa, people are Pietersen is a native born South He also added that some priests and/or in joint statements with classified by the government on other denominations include the the basis of ancestry. In South right of blacks to seek jobs freely, Africa, there are four classifica OFFICIAL the end of detention without trial, tions: white, Asiatic, colored C h a n g e s the family problems of migrant (persons of mixed ancestry) and laborers, and the establishment of blacks. Under South African law, His Excellency, Bishop absence. Monsignor Knorr will a conscientious objector status the colored are disenfranchised Leonard, announces the reside at Saint Paul College under law. and the South African government following appointment and Seminary, 2900 Nobieslown Fr. Pietersen said that recognizes blacks not as citizens resignation, effective as noted: Road, Pittsburgh. Pennsyl ecumenism is conducted on the of South Africa but as citizens of vania 15202. local as well as on the national tribal homelands. RESIGNATION level. With seven parishes to Fr. Pietersen said that administer, Fr. Pietersen said Catholics represent only seven PASTOR The Reverend Monsignor that only four parishes have their percent of the population of South Joseph H. Knorr, for reasons ol own church buildings. In one Africa; 70 percent of the Catholics The Reverend Raymond P. health, has resigned the community, the Catholic of South Africa are blacks or Froehlich, from assistant. Saint pastorate of Saint Albert the congregation m eets in the coloreds. Cyril of Alexandria Parish, Birth d ay w ishes Great Parish, Baldwin Anglican (Protestant Episcopal) "The Catholic Church manages Pittsburgh, to pastor. Saint Borough, and has been granted Church building. in South Africa by keeping the Albert the Great Parish, a leave of absence for a period of With alcoholism a major Pope John Paul II kisses an unidentified boy after receiving a bouquet doors of the churches open to two months, effective Tuesday.