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THE WHITE HOUSE

WASHINGTON

4/28/83

MEMORANDUM -

TO: FAITH WHITTLESEY (COORDINATE WITH RICHARD WILLIAMSON) FROM: FREDERICK J. -RYAN, JR. ~ SUBJ: APPROVED PRESIDENTIAL ACTIVITY

MEETING: Brief greeting and photo with Father Virgil Blum - on th~ occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Catholic League ' for Religious and Civil Rights

DATE: May 13, 1983

TIME: 2:00 pm

DURATION: · 10 minutes

LOCA'i'ION: Oval. Office

RE~.ARKS REQUIRED: Background to be covered in briefing paper

MEDIA COVERAGE: If any, coordinate with Press Office

FIRST LADY PARTICIPATION: No

NOTE: PROJECT OFFICER, SEE ATTACHED CHECKLIST cc: A. Bakshian M. McManus R. Williamson R. Darrnan J. Rosebush R. DeProspero B. Shaddix K. Duberstein W. Sittrnann D. Fischer L. Speakes C. Fuller WHCA Audio/Visual W. Henkel WHCA Operations E. Hickey A. lvroble ski G. Hodges Nell Yates THE WHITE HOUSE

WASHINGTON

April 21, 1983

MEMORANDUM TO MICHAEL K. DEAVER FAITH R. WHITTLESEY

FROM: RICHARDS. WILLIAMSON RE: CATHOLIC LEAGUE FOR RELIGIOUS AND CIVIL RIGHTS

I am prompted to forward this both to you as a result of our r -.I recent luncheon meeting on blue collar workers coupled with materials I have received from Bill Gavin.

As you know, Bill, who was a former speech writer to President Nixon and currently a Special Assistant to House Republican Leader Bob Michel, gave invaluable help to us on the campaign as a speech writer. He was particularly good at drafting language to address the ethnic Catholic group. Bill is very active in the Catholic community. His book, "A Street Corner Conservative", is probably the best written about the Conservative Catholic crossover vote. He strongly urges us to have Father Virgil Blum meet with the President on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights on May 14, 1983. Apparently Father Blum will be in Washington at that time. Enclosed are materials I have received from Bill of this event. Based on my review of the material and my high regard for Bill, I strongly urge us to place it on the schedule. ✓ cc: James A. Baker APPRO'J£0 FOR Edward Rollins Date. r/J-3/l'J Time. ~1 ot:, , E:n glh. ~J fJJi ~te_ ~~ - - Dea.ie Rich:

Say something in Austrian ... weiner schnitzel .....

On to more pressing things:

Re;The invitation to Father Virgil Blum to meet with the President

on the occasion of the tenth _anniversary of the Catholic League

for Religious and Civil Rights. (MAY ( '-l 1 (q-?3) Reaso~t it would be good for the President to do so:

1. While the League has m~~y clergymen as members it has no official

connection with the "official" Church bureaucray. Thus, tae League represents

the kind of volunteer, grass-roots, private initiative the President

likes.

2. The League is p~imarily a civil rights group .This is an important

fact. Like the Anti:-De.famation League of B'nai Brith, it stands up for the

rights of its co-religionist~But equally important it has stood up against

bigotry directed ·at non~Catholics as well. Meeting with Father Blum would

give the White House a chance to speak out against all bigotry and

give the President a chance to set the record straight.

3.The Leage is ~champion of tuition tax credits--and stresses the

benefits to minority children(they have do~a a study on this).

4. The league has done ayine job in setting the record straight on news stories about the abortion contfOversy.

5.Finally, the League is made up of "street-co~r Catholics"(like the present writer as we say) ... the kind President Reagan has counted on in 1 the past. Ric!}, there are so rnnay go~d things bbout this, I can't see a drawback. There has to be some imagination shown by the White Bouie in rea c hing th~ Catholics of this country.This · could be a small beginning- .. /

THE WHITE HOUSE

WASHINGTON

April 21, 1983

MEMORANDUM TO MICHAEL K. DEAVER FAITH R. WHITTLESEY /

FROM: RICHARDS. WILLIAMSON

RE: CATHOLIC LEAGUE FOR RELIGIOUS AND CIVIL RIGHTS

I am prompted to forward this both to you as a result of our recent luncheon meeting on blue collar workers coupled with materials I have received from Bill Gavin.

As you know, Bill, who was a former speech writer to President Nixon and currently a Special Assistant to House Republican Leader Bob Michel, gave invaluable help to us on the campaign as a speech writer. He was particularly good at drafting language to address the ethnic Catholic group.

Bill is very active in the Cat~olic community. His book, "A Street Corner Conservative", is probably the best written about the Conservative Catholic crossover vote.

He strongly urges us to have Father Virgil Blum meet with the President on the occasion bf the tinth anniversary of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights on May 14, 1983. Apparently Father Blum will be in Washington at that time. Enclosed are materials I have received from Bill of this event.

Based on my review of the material and my· high regard for} Bill, I strongly urge us to place it on the schedule. -. _ •.A·t.e.,, - (, cc: James A. Baker Edward Rollins Dear Rich:

Say something in Austrian ... weiner schnitzel .....

On to more pressing things:

Re;The invitation to Father Virgil Blum to meet with the President on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. ( MAY l '-l 1 (q

1. While the League has m~Py clergymen as members it has no official connection with the "official" Church bureaucray. Thus, tee League represents the kind of volunteer, grass-roots, private initiative the President likes.

2. The League is primarily a civil rights group .This is an important fact. Like the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai Brith, it stands up for the rights of its co-religionist~But equally important it has stood up against bigotry directed at non~Catholics as well. Meeting with Father Blum would give the White House a •chance to speak out against all bigotry and give the President a chance to set the record straight.

3.The Lea~ is ~champion of tuition tax credits--and stresses the benefits to minority children(they have doNa a study on this).

4. Th e l ea gue h as don e ayin e job in se tting th e record straight on news stories about the abortion conttoversy.

5.Finally, the League is made up of "street-co*r Catholics"(like the present writer as we say) ... the kind President Reagan has counted on in 1 the past. Rico, there are so mnay good things bbo ~t this, I can't see a drawback! There has to be some imagination shown by the White House in reaching the Catholics of this country.This could be a small beginning .... IC L Vol.8, No.11 November, 1981

inside ... Chapters focus on tax credits The Catholic League's most valuable of a national religion, not public support Catholic League attorneys have resource - its volunteer chapter leaders for beneficial public services such as appealed a court decision that barred stu­ - put on an impressive performance private education. dents at Bishop Walsh High School in October 3, as officers of several East A workshop on how to deal with the Cumberland, Maryland, from participat­ Coast chapters gathered at St. Michael's media was conducted by the presidents of ing in a public school program known as School in Crandon, N.J. , to present a day. two New York-area chapters, William the "All County Band." See the article on long workshop seminar on tuition tax Lindner of Long Island and Anthony page 2. credits. Mangano of Westchester. * * * League members from six chapters, as Mangano stressed the League's role as Launched just a little more than a year well as members of the general public, a source of information on education ago, the Catholic League's youth educa­ attended the meeting, which was coordi­ freedom. "Our primary function," he tion program is being met with enthu­ nated by Father Peter Stravi nskas, the said, "is to provide the media with League's East Coast regional director of siasm by Catholic school teachers and accurate information in the form of press administrators. See the story on page 3. development. releases and background articles that can be used to help reporters and editors * '1: * understand the issue. Our secondary func­ Source of pride This month's " Docket," on page 4, is tion is to correct misinformation when it written by the Christian Legal Society's occurs - whether in a news article, an Thomas S. Brandon, Jr. He cites the Cath­ Father Stravinskas said he takes great editorial, a cartoon or a broadcast. This olic League's "Students for Voluntary pride in hi s association with the League's can be accomplished most effectively Prayer" case as an example of how the chapter leaders. "Th ;se people have full ­ through letters to the editor, telephone courts have denied the free speech rights time jobs which are quite demanding, and calls to reporters and editors, and articles of high school students who wish to pray they have families to care for, yet they for newspaper opinion pages." together on public school premises. devote countless hours to League activ­ ities," he said. Media monitors * * * Noting that their thorough preparation This month's " Heritage" column, on was apparent to those. who attended the page 5, relates the circumstances sur­ seminar, he said, "They may be part-time Lindner, in his portion of the work­ rounding President Franklin D. Roose­ rnlunteers, but when they speak on sh op, emphasized the importance of velt's appointment of Myron Taylor as his behalf of the League, they are polished developing a network of media monitors personal representative to the Vatican. experts, tru e professi onals in every sense wh o can swiftly and accurately report * * * of the word." insta nces of misinformation so that Highlighting this month's Chapter Father Stravinskas began the work­ timely responses can be formulated. He News is an account of a speech given by shop by discussing the history of the First also explained in detail how his chapter the Nebraska Chapter's Jack Carpenter to Amendment. He traced the evolution of formulates such responses. a ga thering of Omaha parents and teachers. the constitutional argument against pro­ Mrs. Ma ry Patnaude, chairman of the Also on page 6 is a report of the vi ding tax aid to parents who send their New Jersey Right to Educational Choice Mipnesota Chapter's response to two children to church-related schools, noting Committee and an active member of the recent broadcasts that were offensive to that " opponents of such aid have grad­ League's Northern New Jersey Chapter, Catholics. ually succeeded in persuading a large seg­ discussed various ways in which parents ment of the public that the First Amend­ can work to promote educational free­ * * * ment calls for an absolute separation of dom. She flavored her remarks with anec­ A spokesman for the Army has replied church and state. " What the authors of dotes from her o wn experiences during to the League's complaint about a general the Constitution actually intended to pro­ her 12-year pursuit of justice for parents who .publicly advocated an "abort-or-get­ hibit, he explained, was the establishment (continued on page 2 ' out" · policy for soldiers who become 1 pregnant during their first enlistment. See the story on page 7. * * * In his regular monthly column on page 8, League President Rev. Virgil C. Blum, S. J., warns that the ri ght of religious­ minded citizens to influence the formula­ tion of public policy is under increasing attack in the United States. 1 .Le gue appeals Bishop Wais decision

The Catholic League has asked the ciate with others to gain• a religious per­ their religious freedom. Judge Getty had Maryland Court of Special Appeals to spective on education." dismissed that claim, noting that the reverse a lower court decision barring stu­ In a decision handed down last April, Walsh students had not been excluded dents at Bishop Walsh High School in however, Judge James Getty of the because of _their religious beliefs. Cumberland from participating in a pub­ Circuit Court for Allegany County ruled lic- school program known as the "All that the Walsh students were not actually Religious discrimination County Band." subjected to such a choice. Once the The program had been open to Walsh choice is made to attend a nonpublic "Judge Getty's reasoning is decep­ students in 1978 and 1979, and several of school, the judge said, the student auto­ tively simple," said Destro. "Few school them had successfully auditioned for matically waives the right to participate boards would be bold enough to hang a seats in the band. In 1980, however, in in the publicly funded education pro­ 'no Catholics need apply' sign on the response to complaints from public grams established under the Maryland schoolhouse door. But had the judge school teachers and parents that Walsh constitution. examined the facts more closely,he would students were depriving public school stu­ But in the papers filed Sept. 29 with have found that the impact of the board's dents of seats in the band, the Allegany the Court of Special Appeals, Destro and decision falls only on those students who County Board of Education restricted Reinhart point out that, in general, have chosen religiously based education. competition for seats in the band to pub­ waiver of a constitutional right occurs This, too, is religious discrimination. The lic school students. only when an individual intentionally denial of access to public schools because relinquishes or abandons a known right or students have opted for a religious per­ privilege. spective on education exacts a penalty Unpalatable cl!,oice According to Destro, the court record on their exercise of a constitutional demonstrates that the Walsh students had righl" _ With legal assistance from League Gen­ no idea that they were waiving any rights Another argument reiterated in the eral Counsel Robert Destro and Cumber­ when they chose Bishop Walsh. students' appeal is that the school board land attorney Robert Reinhart, several exceeded its authority, as defined by Walsh . students then sued the school Maryland statutes, when it excluded the board, alleging that the board's policy Rights not waived Walsh students from the All-County forceq them to choose between their fed­ Band. eral constitutional right to attend non­ "On the contrary," he said, "the stu­ The pertinent section of the Maryland public schools and their state constitu­ dents have consistently sought to avail Education Code states that "All individ­ tional right to equal access to public themselves of the educational oppor­ uals who are 5 years old or older and school programs. tunities provided. When they attempted under 21 shall be admitted free of charge " Qu ite simply," said Destro and to enroll, · they were refused. When told to the public schools of this state." Reinhart in their brief, "[the students] they were ineligible, they complained to According to Destro, there are no stat­ are in eligible because they have made a the school board, to the public through utory exceptions to the requirement that constitu tio.nally protected choice to asso- demonstrations, and finally to the courts. public educational opportunities be avail­ There was no waiver of rights in this able to all within the prescribed age case. ... The record shows instead a limits. · school board intent upon taking rights Tax credits away from students who had no idea they One-sided duty (continued from page 1) would lose them." In their appeal, Destro and Reinhart Yet, said Destro, court testimony by w ho ex ercise religious fr eedom in also reiterated the students' claim that Dr. Wayne Hill, superintendent of choosi ng their children's schools. the ·board's exclusionary policy violates Allegany County schools, cl early indi­ Frank Russo, vice president of the cates that he perceives the board's duty as Long Island Chapter, concluded the applying only to public school students. workshop wi th a finely wrought presenta­ According to a transcript of his testi­ tion on the financial implications of tui­ mony, Dr. Hill said that after the Walsh tion tax credits. Opponents of tax credits, students had participated in the program he noted, have repeatedly made the for two years, "objections were raised by erroneous claim that their enactment will the band directors and people in our own result in an annual drain on the federal school community, pointing out the fact treasury of more than $5 billion. that if private school students were Actually, he explained, enactment of tui­ admitted to the All-County Band, this tion tax credits will enable many families would thus prevent the participation by to shift their children from public to pri­ that number of public school students, vate schools, thus reducing the cost of pri­ and we had far more public school stu­ vate education. "If only 6 percent of pub­ detns for the band than we could accom­ lic school students shift," said Russo, "the modate. Our first responsibility, in my cost saving to the taxpayer would equal opinion, is to the public school students." the tax revenues lost through tax credits." Destro said Dr. Hill's testimony Also contribu ting to the success of the ignores his duty to treat " all children" tax credit seminar was Msgr. John Davis equally, as mandated by law. Moreover, an d his parishioners at St. Michael's, who said Destro, it implies that he perceives provided the meeting place and refresh­ his duty as being to assure educational ments whic h, according to Father Stra­ opportunities for some students by deny­ vinskas, we re " fit for kings." ing it to others. 2 BRITISH AND SOVIET AMBASSADORS RECEIVE PLEAS ag rges respect for re •gious freedom

The Catholic League has called upon · British intelligence. "We now hear confes­ L~ague said "It will reassure their the Soviet and British governments to sion in the jail chapel just before Mass - families and the general public, and it will guarantee religious freedom in their re­ out in the open body of the church sur­ protect the British government against spective countries. rounded by dozens of prisoners," he said, the public odium which such a suspicion · - Specifically, the League has asked the adding that priests had suspected for a is bound to engender." British government to guarantee the con­ long time that hidden listening devices The Catholic League's appeal to the fidentiality of sacramental confessions were being used in the prison camp. Soviet government was prompted by made by inmates at Long Kesh prison in In its letter to Ambassador Henderson, recent reports that Soviet militia arrested, Northern Ireland, and it has asked the the League said such suspicions are a beat and kicked Father Richardas Soviet government to stop physically mis­ cause of anguish to the prisoners, to their Cherniauskas, a Catholic priest, as he con­ treating Catholic priests in Lithuania. chaplains, to the general public and to ducted a spiritual retreat for 50 young The form er request, channelled those for whom the absolute confidential­ people near Moletai, in Soviet-occupied through British Ambassador to the ity of the confessional is an indispensable Lithuania. United States Sir Nicholas Henderson, aspect of religious freedom. In a letter to Ambassador Anatoly F. came in the wake of widespread suspicion Dobrynin, the League expressed its dis­ among prison chaplains, inmates and their Guarantee sought approval of the incident and reminded families that confessions and other con­ the ambassador that "no state can or fidential conve rsations have been elec­ Accordingly, the League asked Hen­ should interpose itself between man and tronically monitored by prison officials. derson to seek from his government a God." Those suspicions intensified recently public declaration guaranteeing that the The League also wrote to Senator when a reporter for the London Sunday confidentiality of such conversations had Roger W. Jepsen, who has earned a repu­ Times claimed he had seen transcripts of not in fact been violated and will not be tation as a champion of human rights for the deathbed talks between the Pope's violated. In the event that violations have those behind the Iron Curtain. "Please personal secretary, Father John McGee, already occurred, the British government use your personal influence and the and the dying hunger striker Bobby should acknowledge the specific instances influence of your office to focus public Sands. and offer assurances that they won't be attention on this deplorable situation," According to one of the Long Kesh repeated, the League said. the League urged "Please help to martial chaplains, Father Denis Faul, priests have "Such a declaration will free those world opinion against Soviet suppression now taken steps to ensure that the secrets immediately concerned from a cruel and of religious freedom and other funda­ of the confessional are not recorded by unnecessary psychological stress," the mental human rights."

• • • e a o 0 ra s e ec IV

Father Peter Stravinskas, the On October 1, Father Stravinskas dis­ vinskas, "the seminarians have been League's East Coast regional director of cussed the League's high school program among the most receptive." development, reports a growing enthu­ at a gathering of all the Catholic second­ Father Stravinskas has also laid the siasm among Catholic educators for the ary school administrators in the Arch­ groundwork for Catholic League discus­ League's high school studies program. diocese of Baltimore. "This program is sion groups at such prominent Catholic Developed just over a year ago by long overdue" was the general response of coJleges as Georgetown and Catholic Father Stravinskas, the program includes the 75 administrators in attendance, University in Washington, D.C., and St. curriculum materials for units on the according to Father Stravinskas. He said John's University in New York. human life issue, anti-Catholicism in that the five packets of curriculum America, parental freedom of choice in materials that he had with him were pur­ Importance cited education and secular humanism. chased on the spot, and that he expects additional requests to reach his office by The League's youth education pro­ mail. gram is of crucial importance not only to Pilot program The League's high school curriculum the future of the Catholic League but to should gain new momentum next April, future generations of American Catholics The pilot program was launched last _since Father Stravinskas has accepted an as well, according to League President fall at Mt. St. Mary's Academy in North invitation to discuss the program during a Rev. Virgil C. Blum, S.J. Plainfield, N.J., at Northeast Catholic workshop at the annual convention of the "American Catholics have always High School in Philadelphia and at Red National Catholic Educational Associa­ been, for the most part, oblivious to their Bank Catholic High School in Red Bank, tion. rights and obligations in our interest N.J. Besides his efforts to introduce the group democracy," he said. "For that During this past sum mer, Father Stra­ League to high school students,' Father reason, we have had little success in vinskas and his secretary, Pat Adamo, $travinskas has also presented lengthy dis­ asserting our just claims and interests in have processed an additional 50 requests cussions on the League at three sem­ the fonnulation of American public for the curriculum materials. "After the inaries: Mt. St. Mary's in Emmetsburg, policy. Because we want to improve that first of the year, we will do afollow up to Md., Immaculate Conception at Hunting­ record through our youth educational determine how many of those 50 schools ton, Long Island, and St. Charles in Phil­ programs, we are greatly encouraged by are actually using the materials and with adelphia "Of all the groups I've spoken the enthusiastic response we've received what succ~ss," sai d Father Stravinskas. to about the League, said Father Stra- from Catholic educators." 3 f\. f\ DOCKET Free exerci se of religion: favored ·.._., -- --- child or poor third cou_sin ? by Thomas S. Brandon, Jr. Editor, The Advocate amounted to an "establishment of reli­ the court sai d, "It can hardly be argued gion" and was "too dangerous to per­ that either students or teachers shed their It has often been said that the Free mit." The students in the Brandon case constitutional rights ... [ a J t the school­ Exercise Clause is the "favored child" of have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to house gate." Evi dently, the courts in the the First Amendment. The thrust of some review this decision, but the court has not Brandon and Collins cases believe that recent cases appears to reduce the status sai d whether it will review the case or let students and teachers i;hed the constitu­ of the Free Exercise Clause to that of a it stand. tional right of free exercise of religion at poor third cousin, if not an orphan. In Collins, the Student Council at the schoolhouse gate but all other rights Two recent decisions by the U.S. Chandler High School requested and are retained during the school day. Court of Appeals have made the blunt received permission from the school's statement that religious speech is not administration to begin student assem­ Equal treatment required entitled to the same protection as all blies with prayer. This practice, too, was other forms of speech. The cases of held to be an "establishment of religion," Brandon v. Board of Education and and was not saved on the basis that the Even if the Free Exercise Clause was Collins v. Chandler High School District assemblies were voluntary. The court fol­ not a "favored child," it must be argued deal t with prayer in public schools. lowed the reasoning of the Brandon deci­ that the students' religious activity is In Brandon, a group of students asked sion." entitled to at least the same or equal pro­ to use a room of the school in which they tection as other activities performed at could pray on a voluntary basis -before Religious speech suffers school which do not interrupt the educa­ school. The court said this activity tional process or violate the rights of Both cases referred to the case of others. The Equal Protection Clause of Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Com­ the 14th Amendment requires the equal munity School District. However, they treatment of persons in applying the law, exhibited a lack of understanding of that regu lation or rule. It seems incongruous case by sayi ng that "religious speech is to our concept of freedom for students to not entitled to the same protection as be allowed to say anything about any political speech when the Establishment issue as long as it is not religious. Clause is involve d." The Tinker case is Copyright 198 1 The Christian L egal THE viewed as the foundational case for all S ociety, P.O. Box 2069, Oak Park, POPE students' _(and teachers') rights. In Tinker Illinois 60303. SPEAKS e books feature Le~gue expertise

"It is a duty of conscience, for anyone Mem bers of the League's staff and author of this month's Newsletter su pple­ inspired by a Christian concept, to pro­ Board of Directors have contribu te d ment The book can be ordered from the mote justice effective ly by safeguarding greatly to a pair of recently published University of Notre Dame Press, Notre faith and freedom as well as the other books. Dam e, Indiana 46556 at $8 per copy. Or­ spiritual goods of a people." League President Rev. Virgil C. Blum, ders of five or more books can be obtained -Pope John Paul II, in an address S.J., is the author of an article included in at $6 per copy through the Center for Con­ delivered January 12, 1981 Private Schools and the Public Good. And stitutional Studies, Notre Dame, Indiana among the contributo.rs to New Perspec­ 46556. "Christians . . . are called by God to be tives on Human Abortion are League New Perspectives on Human Abortion involved in the world in order to trans­ General Counsel Robert Destro and is a collection of articles written largely form it according to the Gospel . ... Directors John T. Noonan, Jr., and by attorneys, physicians and university Those duties include positively contrib­ Dennis J. Horan, who is one of the book's professors. uting to the establishment of just laws three editors. Besides being one of the book's three and structures that foster human values." editors, Prof. Horan is the co-author, with Father Blum's article is entitled "Why Thomas J. Marzen, of two articles: .- Pope Joh_n Paul II, Nairobi, Kenya, Inner-City Families Send Their Children 1980 "Abortion and Midwifery: A Footnote in to Private Schools: An Empirical Study." Legal History" and "The Supreme Court The article reports the major findings of "It is therefore difficult, even from a on Abortion Funding: The Second Time the League's study of inner city private Around." 'purely human' paint of view, to accept a education. position that gives only atheism th e right Prof. Noonan's contribution is entitled of citizenship in public and social life, Associate Professor Edward M. Gaff. "The Experience of Pain by the Unborn," while believers are, as though by prin­ ney of the University of Notre Dame Law and Destro's article is entitled "Religion: ciple, barely tolerated or are treated as School is the editor of the book, which Establishment, Free Exercise and second-class citizens or are even - and includes selections by such renowned Abortion." this has already happened - entirely educational experts as John E. Coons, At $9 per copy, plus $1 for handling, deprived of the rights of citizenship." Stephen D. Sugarman, Thomas Vitullo­ the book can be obtained through Amer­ - Pope John Paul II in his first encyc­ Martin, Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan, Father icans United for Life, 230 N. Michigan, lical, Redemplor Hominis. Andrew Greeley and Denis P. Doyle, the Chicago, Illinois 60601. 4 '"HERITAGE The President's man at the Vatican

Formal diplomatic relations between tive at the Vatican would help to prevent senter among the hierarchy was Boston's the United States and the Holy See were Italy from entering the war on Hitler's Citrd inal O'Connell, who feared the broken off on a mutually sour note in side. If this could be accomplished, it appointment would offer a pretext for a 1868, shortly before the Papal States would be a significant, if indirect, con­ renewed outbreak of anti-Catholic _w_er,e absorbed into the Kingdom of Italy. tribution to· the Allied cause. Finally, for feeling. But in 1939, a convergence of foreign and the sake of public opinion, nothing could The Cardinal's apprehensions were domestic political considerations made be more natural than for the world's most well founded. Almost every major Protes­ the resu mption of diplomatic contact powerful neutral nation and the world's tant denomination protested the appoint­ with the Vatican attractive to President most respected moral authority to join in ment, with the Baptists, Methodists ·and Franklin Roosevelt. a "partnership for peace." Lutherans most vehement in their objec­ World War II had just broken out in The final element in Roosevelt's politi­ tions. Hesitant at first, the Federal Europe, an d Roosevelt's highest priority c a I equation was the expected anti­ Council of Churches soon called for the in foreign policy was to aid the Allies Catholic backlash to the appointment of withdrawal of Taylor's appointment. against Hitler. Isolationist opinion was an American diplomatic representative to While Protestant opinion was far from strong at home, however, and this forced the Vatican. If the thing was to be done, unanimous, an indication of the broad Roose,·elt into a posture of neutrality. To it would have to be done delicately. consensus on this issue is that the liberal make matters worse, this isolationist feel­ Christian Century found itself in a rare ing was strongest among Catholics, who Taylor is appointed editorial alliance with fundamentalists were indispensable to Roosevelt's elec­ who charged that the President had made toral coalition and to the success of his On Christmas Eve, 1939, the President a pact with "the devil in Rome, Pope domestic programs. sent personal greetings to Dr. George A. Pius." The centerpiece of the Protestant Opening diplomatic contact with the Buttrick of the Federal Council of objection was, naturally, the claim that Vatican would, at a single blow, cement Churches, Rabbi Cyrus Adler of Jewish the appointment violated "separation of Catholic voters to the Roosevelt coalition Theological Seminary, and Pope Pius XII, church and state." by symbolically rewarding them for their urging cooperation for peace among reli­ past su pport and also help overcome gious leaders. The letter to the Pope, Catholics respond Cathol ic resistance to the Administra­ however, included the additional news tion's foreign policy. In addition, Roose­ that Myron D. Taylor had been named as Catholic leaders responded to these velt hoped that a diplomatic representa- the President's "personal representative" complaints in equally combative terms. to the Holy See. Archbishop Francis Spellman of New Taylor was a Protestant who had York said that all "men of good will" recently retired as cr,1,irman of the United must approve collaboration between the ublic radio States Steel Corporation. When Cardinal President and the Pope in the cause of Pacelli, now Pius XII, visited the United peace. He noted that there were no objec­ fire cheap shot States in 1936, he had been a house guest tions to the appointment of ambassadors of Taylor, and more recently, Taylor had lo England or Japan, even though the The Catholic Le ag ue has asked serve d as head of an American refugee king and emperor were heads of their National Public Radio to stop in sulting relief organization base d in Rome, so he respective national churches. the Catholic Church in its sy ndicated was known and tru sted in the Vatican. President Roosevelt tried to mollify broadcast material. his critics by assuring them that the The League's reques t was prompted by Catholic prestige enhanced appointment was temporary and personal a Se ptember 30 sports commentary rather than official. Privately, in a letter which began with the following line: "In Taylor was officially a "personal repre­ to a senator from North Carolina, he addition to the way the Catholic Church sentative" rather than an ambassador expressed himself somewhat more has loused up the matter of sex .. .. " · because Roosevelt wanted to avoid a con­ bluntly, declaring that if those now pro­ In a letter to Frank Mankiewicz, presi­ gressional dispute over the appointment. testing "had done a little preaching from dent of National Public Radio, the Cath­ For the same reason, Taylor was to pay the pulpit against the Ku Klux Klan in olic League said the comment was not his own expenses and reside in his own the 1920's I would have a little more only utterly false but also totally irrele­ personal villa in Florence. These techni­ genuine American respect for their Chris­ vant to the subject, which was gambling calities did not prevent either Catholics or tianity!" and professional sports. The League Protestants from seeing the appointment called the comment "nothing more than a as a significant enhancement of Catholic Mixed results gratuitous defamation of the beliefs and . prestige. values of a farge segment of the listening Catholics were nearly unanimous in In spite of the furor, Taylor remained audience." praising the appointment. They thought at his post until the war was over. The .The League advised Mankiewicz that it would improve the prospects for peace, appointment did not achieve Roosevelt's "people of all faiths dislike having their create better U.S. relations with Latin shorUerm goal of keeping Italy out of religi on insulted; they like it even less American nations, and finally recognize the war, or his long-term goal of getting a wh en the insult is gratuitous; and they the proper importance of the Vatican in Vatican endorsement of the Allied cause. like it least of all when their own tax dol­ international diplomacy. Undoubtedly, But it did help enlist Catholic support for lars are used to subsidize dissemination of an other motivation for this Catholic the Administration's foreign policy and the insult." enthusiasm was the feeling that the served as a vital diplomatic listening post Noting that the harmful effects of the appointment would place an official seal during the war. comment cannot now be undone, the of approval on the dual loyalty of Catho­ Later presidents have named diplo­ League called for a public apology and lics to the papacy and the Republic, matic representatives to the Vatican, and assurances that such defamation will not which had created so much suspicion the protests have steadily diminished in again occur. against Catholics in the past. The lone di,s- intensity and scope. 5 Chapter leaders meet with bishops CHAPT E Carpenter addresses educators Father Peter Stravinskas, the League's East Coast regional director of develop­ Jack Carpenter, president of the Cath­ threaten to put many private schools out ment, has met with several bishops olic League's Nebraska Chapter, was a of business. - recently to elicit their support for League featured speaker at the Archdiocese of According to Carpenter, the problem chapters. In most instances, he was Omaha's 1981 Fall Education Conference can best be solved through a program of accompanied by local chapter officers. held October 12 at Gross High School. federal tuition tax credits, which would Father Stravinskas and Dr. Anthony Parents, teachers and administrators in ease the financial burden borne by most Czajkowski, president of the Washington attendance heard Carpenter discuss "Tui­ parents who try to provide their children Chapter, met with the Most Rev. Eugene tion Tax Credits: An Issue for Hysteria, with a religiously oriented education. A. Marino, auxiliary bishop of Washing­ or Parent Rights in Education?" Unfortunately, he noted, enactment of ton, who agreed to serve on the chapter's Carpenter discussed the historical such a program has long been frustrated advisory committee and to bring the background of public and private schools by a not always well intentional appeal to League to the attention of the deans. in America, and he explained that the the constitutional guarantee of separation President John Pateracki of the Con­ dual system of education has always been of church and state - an argument which necticut Chapter, Father Stravinskas, and beneficial to society. He noted, however, Carpenter emphatically declared is other chapter officers, met with the Most that the dual system is now endangered "irrelevant to the issue of tuition tax Rev. Walter Curtis, bishop of Bridgeport, becaJse adverse economic conditions credits." who expressed his strong support of the Parents' rights League. Bishop John l\foGann of Rock­ ville Centre told Father Stravinskas and What is relevant, he said, are the rights President William Lindner of the Long St. Louis Chapter of parents to religious freedom and equal Island Chapter that he is extremely protection. "Private school parents pay pleased with the chapter's style and activ­ is on television their share of education taxes," he said, ities. · He suggested that the chapter organ­ "but as soon as they elect to send their ize a conference on the League for The League's St. Louis Chapter was children to a church-related school, in diocesan clergy, and he said he would featured on a segment of the October 25 accordance with the dictates of their con­ gladly include League literature in "Confluence" television program broad­ science, they are severely penalized; they diocesan mailings to the clergy. cast over KMOX-TV. The program pre­ are forced to pay twice for their child's Father Stravinskas also met with sents ecumenical religious issues in a education. That is wrong, and we've got Auxiliary Bishop John O'Connor of the magazine-style format. to work to change the system." Military Ordinariate. Bishop O'Connor is Representing the chapter was former The Nebraska Oiapter also set up a writing an article about the League which president Jack Horgan, who explained the booth at the education conference, from will be included in the chaplains '. monthly goals and activities of the League and its which chapter members distributed periodica'!. network of chapters. League literature on the education issue.

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James Ahler, presi dent of the League's re!Jgious bigotry, not of humor.... We home is wrong from the point of view of Minnesota Chapter, has offered construc­ certainly hope that the promotion of the good of society and the family when tive criticis m to a local radio station and a such attitudes is contrary to the policy of it contradicts or hinders these primary local television station on how to be less WA YL and that some effort will be made goals of the mission of the mother." Fur­ offensive to their Catholic listeners. to place restraints on unchallenged ther, the Pope said that "(women) should On the September 25 Bob Allard expressions of bigotry such as this on be able to fulfill their tasks in accordance show, broadcast over WA YL radio in future WA YL programming." with their own nature without being dis­ Egan, Minnesota, Bruce Laube of the criminated against and without being University of Minnesota described a caller excluded from jobs for which they are who expressed problems with his sexual­ Misleading report capable .... " ity as "a recove red Catholic." The term Noting that KSTP's characterization of went unchallenged except by a followup Ahler also took exception to a news the Pope's message did not square with caller who expressed amazement at the report broadcast over KSTP-TV in St. his actual words, Ahler said the station's use of such a deprecating term. Her query Paul, which characterized Pope John lapse in fairness and balance was even resulted only in a justification of the term Paul's latest encyclical as saying that "a more disappointing because it comes as a humorous reference. woman's place is in the home. ' 1 Calling from a station whose past coverage has In a le tter to WA YL Program Director that characterization "false and mislead­ been praiseworthy. Greg Kulka, Ahler said: "To those of us ing," Ahler quoted pertinent passages of Ahler told Turner that he was partic­ who share the Catholic faith, such expres­ the encyclical in a letter to News Director ularly galled by the treatment he received sions are not humorous. Dealing with Stan Turner. when he called the station to complain Catholicism as though it were a dread What the Pope sai d, quoted Ahler, is about its unfair coverage. "Apparently disease from which one 'recovers' or as this: "Having to abandon these tasks ( of distortion of the Pope's message was con­ though Catholicism requires perverse caring for children and educating them) in sidered by the staff on duty to be not sexual repression is an expression of order to take up paid work outside the only justified but humorous." he said. 6 _Ar-my replies to League complaint Religious Roundtable offends Catholics A Pentagon spokesman has responded Col. Wheeler also assured the League to the Catholic League's complaint about that Gen. Becton "is aware of the signifi­ a U.S. Army general who advocated an cance his rank and position lend to his .The Catholic League has criticized "abort-or-get-out'' policy for soldiers who personal opinion, and the need to con­ Religious Roundtable, an organization become pregnant during their first enlist­ sider the full impact of his statements ostensibly committed to asserting Judaeo­ ment. prior to making them public in the Christian values in public life, for charac­ According to the June 29 issue of future." terizing the Catholic Church as a corrupt Army Times, Lt. Gen. Julius Becton and tyrannical institution. stated: "If I were king, I would discharge, The August issue of the organization's honorably discharge, a woman when she Concern remains newsletter, The Roundtab/e Report, becomes pregnant, if she's a first-termer. included a front-page sketch of religious . .. She would either abort or be dis­ history which referred to "a millenium of charged, let's put it that way, since abor­ Replying to Wheeler's letter, Destro spiritual darkness during which the estab­ tion is now a legal, proper step." said he is aware that the Army neither lished 'Church' wielded tyrannical power In letters to President Reagan, the sec­ requires nor officially encourages anyone over the State, and genuine followers of retary of the Army and several congress­ to have an abortion. Nevertheless, the Christ were persecuted and tortured.... " men and senators, League General League remains concerned, said Destro, The sketch went on to say that "the yoke Counsel Robert Destro called for an because "informal command attitudes are of tyranny was broken and history turned investigation of the matter. The general's often translated, in practice, into a corner.... " and that "salvation was no comments, Destro said, disclose "a gross informal Army policy. longer dispensed by a corrupt lack of respect for the moral conscience If Gen. Beeton's views are transmitted 'Church.' ... " of the American soldier, a highly dis­ to those in his command, said Destro, the torted view of women's rights in general, Army could well suffer serious legal and Distressing sentiments and a lack of respect for the human dig­ ethical problems in the future. ''We trust nity of the unborn. " that this will not occur, and urge that In a letter to H. Edward Rowe, execu­ In reply to Destro's complaint, Col. your office keep close watch with us for tive director of Religious Round table and Jack C. Wheeler of the Army's Office of evidence that his personal views on these editor of its newsletter, the League the Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel subjects are not translated into the expressed its distress over the sentiments assured the League that the personal unofficial policy of his command," conveyed in the historical sketch. views of General Becton on pregnancy, Destro concluded. "The general sense of these state­ discharge and abortion " do not reflect The League has also been notified by ments," said League Director of Public A rm y policy. " According to Col. Congressman Clement Zablocki that the Affairs Michael Schwartz, "is that the Wheeler, the Army does not, in any Department of the _:.rmy is investigating Ca tholic Church is the enemy of both event, "require or officially encourage the matter and that a full report will be political liberty and Christian faith. More­ anyone to have an abortion." prepared. over, the use of quotation marks around the word 'Church' suggests that the author does not regard the Catholic on't forget Santa Church as a genuine Christian body, but as a counterfeit church." League members will notice that, for the second straight month, their News­ Contentious viewpoint letter mailing includes a brochure which explains how they can help the Catholic "It seems entirely inappropriate for League by giving their loved ones a Kneel­ such views to be put forward by an organ­ ing Santa figurine. ization whose avowed purposes are civic As the brochure explains, profits from rather than missionary," he said. "Such a the sales of the Kn eeling Santa to League narrow and contentious viewpoint lends members will be used to support the credence to the claims of the opponents League's efforts to preserve our Judaeo­ of your movement who accuse you of Christian heritage. promoting a particular religious ortho­ So when you give your children or doxy under the guise of civic reform." grandchildren the Kneeling Santa, you Schwartz acknowledged that many will not only be helping them to under- Catholics sympathize with the Religious -stand the proper relationship between the Roundtable's political objectives. "But," secular and sacred aspects of Christmas; he said, "if your publication gives the you will also be helping to assure that, impression that a condition of a good . .,;· through the League's efforts, Christ's Christian or a good American is to despise J__ •·. Gospel values will continue to be a potent the Catholic Church as tyrannical and force in our society. ' corrupt, you will not only have to forego On September 17, the Iowa Civil Rights The Kneeling Santa order forms will the support of those Catholic citizens, Commission upheld an earlier ruling that not be included in the December News­ but also that of non-Catholic Americans the Polk County Commission on Veterans letter mailings, since orders placed in who understand and cherish the principle Affairs had discriminated ·against Floyd December cannot be processed in time to of religious freedom." Blasco, pictured above, because he is an guarantee delivery before Christmas. Italian-American Catholic. The Catholic Members are encouraged to place their League represented Blasco in his success­ orders as soon as possible to beat the Contributions to the Catholic League ful suit. Christmas rush. are' tax deductible. 7 The President's Desk by Virgil C. Blum, S.J. Democracy and pluralism under attack

their case against slavery, as did Abraham policy making to individuals who are non­ Lincoln, on the Word of God; the pro­ believers or who will not bring their hibitionists based their case against the Judaeo-Christian values into the political drinking of alcoholic beverages on the arena Word of God; the labor unionists, as did The adoption of this doctrine of Senator Barry Goldwater recently Msgr. John Ryan, based their case for col­ "religion has no place in politics" by blasted the New Right, saying "I don't lective bargaining on the Word of God; religious-minded politicians sometimes ·.think what they're talking about is 'con­ the advocates of racial equality, notably makes them responsible for public policy servatism.' ... The religious issue of these the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., based they personally find morally abhorrent. groups (abortion, school prayer) has little their case against racial discrimination on Not long ago in Maryland, for or nothing to do with conservative or lib­ the Word of God; and today advocates of example, the Prince George's County eral politics. One of the great strengths of the right to life of unborn children base Council voted on legislation to ban fund­ our poli tical system always has been our their case on the Word of God. ing of abortions at tax-supported hos­ tendency to keep religious issues in the Yet today more and more religious­ pitals. The legislation was defeated on a 5 background." minded politicians are becoming con­ to 5 vote when a pro-life Council member This new doctrine that religion has no vinc~d that if they carry their own abstained from voting, saying, "Because place in politics is now being espoused by religious and moral values into their pub­ of my personal religious beliefs, my conservatives and liberals alike. Yet this lic roles and weigh these beliefs in public immediate reaction was to favor its adop­ belief implicitly denies the fundamental policy decisions, this is tantamount to tion. But I believe also that my election premise of our pluralistic society and the forcing their religion upon others. to public office did not grant me the First Am endment right of citizens to try This posture is in complete conflict license to impose my religious and moral to influ e nce governmental policies with the pluralistic nature of our society. beliefs on others who disagree." accor_ding to their own religious and It assumes that the only people and the By abstaining from voting, this moral values. only politicians who have a right to par­ Council member rejected the principles of One would expect those who do not ticipate in the making of public policy are our representative democracy and of our believe in a transcenden t God to decry those who set aside their religious and pluralistic society (which has the right to the consi deration of religious and moral moral values. Anyone adhering to Judaeo­ expect that constituent groups will have values in public policy making. What is Christian values, and trying to live by an impact on public policy making); she truly shocking here is that even religious­ them, is turned into a silent and non­ abrogated her First Amendment rights to minded men and women are rejecting the voting second-class citizen. bring her religious and moral values into wh ole American experience from colonial This doctrine is a rejection of the public policy formation; she rejected her tim es and claiming that religious and principles of our democracy - govern­ duty a~ a Christian to bring Gospel-values moral beliefs must be jettisoned when ment of the people, by the people and for into the political arena; and, perhaps public policy is made. the people - because it would exclude unwittingly, she became morally culpable The Founding Fathers based their case from active involvement in the demo­ for the abortions performed in the tax­ against the tyranny of King George on cratic processes religious-minded citizens supported hospitals of Prince George's the Wor d of God; the abolitionists based and politicians. It would restrict public County. Rep int policy e book exo The Catholic League encourages indi­ era es Pius II vid uals and organizations to reprint The Catholic League has expressed its occupying the Vatican and to safeguard material from the Catholic League News­ gratitude to the Associated Press for pub­ the Pope's efforts to save the Jews. letter. This may be done without obtain­ licizing a new book which refutes the Allegations that Piux XII was indiffer­ ing permission, so long as appropriate popular myth that Pope Pius XII was ent to the plight of the Jews stem directly credit is given to the League. The only insensitive to the plight of European Jews from the deliberate deceptions by the exceptions to this policy are articles during World War II. German ambassador to the Vatican, which the League reprints with the per­ Entitled The Papacy in the Modern Baron Ernst von Weizsacker, and his mission of other publications or organiza­ World, the book was written by Father deputy, Albert von Kessel, according to tions. For example, anyone wishing to Derek Holmes, a Church historian. the AP account of Father Holmes's book. reprint this month's "Docket" column According to a recent AP dispatch, In reality, Vatican a1:1thorities, acting on would have to obtain the permission of Father Holmes's new book asserts that the Pope's orders, were sheltering at least the Christian Legal Society. the Pope's "apparent indifference to the half the Jews in Rome, Father Holmes fate of Jews during the Nazi reign ofter­ said. Ca t h o lic League N ewsletter is publ ished by ror in Rome was a smokescreen' to hide the Cath ol ic L ea gue for Religious an d Civil In a letter to the Associated Press, the Righ t s, 1100 W. W ells S t, , Mil. , W is. 53233. the fact that he was sheltering 400,000 Catholic League thanked the wire service James H itchcock . . Cha irman Jews from German deportation." for calling attention to the book and its Virgi l C. B l um, S.J. . .. , • . President The AP dispatch goes on to say that, message and for helping to rehabilitate J oh n H an sen , .. • . .. . . Treasurer according to the book, two German dip­ the image of a great but largely unappre­ A n n Br osnan ...... Sec retary lomats in Rome deliberately lied to their ciated religious leader who willingly Orlan L o ve • . D i rector of Pu b l icati ons Annual membership dues: $10 Nazi superiors in Berlin about the Pope's endangered the Vatican in order to pro­ Contributions are tax deductible. sympathy for Jewish suffering, their pur­ tect thousands of Jewish people from the pose being to stop the Germans from onslaught of Nazism. 8 Supplement to the Catholic League Newsletter, Vol. 8, No. 10 Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights 1100 West Wells Street . Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53233

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It most closely resembles a " Classics Illustrated" Schwartz himself traced this recent outbreak to the comic book, those cartoon retellings of great novels. widely publicized Chick comic books. Chick Publica­ Called '' The Big Betrayal," it is the latest product of tions, already an established name in Christian book­ Chick Publications. But this comic book aims not to stores, recently published "Alberto" and "Double edify, but incite. Cross," tales of an alleged ex-Jesuit, Alberto Rivera. On the cover is a picture of John Wilkes Booth Rivera claimed that, as a Spanish priest, he had been shooting President Abraham Lincoln while St. Peter's ordered to attack Protestants and desecrate their dome looms in the background. Its message: Rome churches as part of a world-wide Vatican plot. In "still controls governments of the world" through her " The Big Betrayal," the Catholic Church is held Jesuits and her intrigues. The United States is still her responsible for the death of Lincoln and even the Civil target, and she is "still participating in the assassina­ War. tion of the world leaders" who do not go along with her. Primary target "Right now [sectarian anti-Catholicism] is more For Chick, a primary issue is the Vatican widespread and virulent than it has been at any time "machine," capable of any conspiracy or inter­ during the past 50 years, and it shows no sign of hav­ national treachery. Priests are usually drunkards and ing crested," claims Michael Schwartz. Schwartz is the lechers, and Jesuits are· capable of any perfidy. director of public affairs for the Catholic League for At the recent Christian Booksellers Association Religious and Civil Rights, the only Catholic organiza­ convention held in Southern California, Chick Publi­ tion which nationally monitors secular and sectarian cations distributed a flyer explaining why so many anti-Catholicism today. bookstores had removed their copies of "Alberto" Centered primarily in the South and Southwest, and "Double Cross" (both successful sellers, from all but with a national audience - thanks to syndicated reports). "When we printed the two true stories ... radio shows and widely distributed· books and tracts the forces of Rome partially succeeded in keeping - fundamentalism's new anti-Catholicism is yet them from the public. The machine gave instructions anot her recurrence of America's longest lasting and to its faithful followers to put pressure on the book­ most subtle prejudice. stores. It was not by chance, but a well planned attack." Oldest prejudice Some stores still sell the controversial works. Msgr. Edward O'Donnell, editor of the St. Louis Review, While intellectual anti-Catholicism has never dis­ told of one store in St. Louis that now sells them appeared in this country, in the last five years reli­ only on request- like pornography. But many gious ·anti-Catholicism - thought dead since John F. Kenne dy's election t o the presidency - has re-emerged, spread by a variety of authors, singers ... 'catholic emigrants were pouring into the and pastors. United States. But they must be directed where "I think that there is something of a revival of anti­ to settle. ... Rome wanted them to come to Catholicism," noted Kenneth Kantzer, editor of . Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, etc., while the land was Christianity Today, a leading magazine for Protestant still cheap. With their exploding families, wealth evangelicals. But he hastened to add that " I don't and unity, they could rule everything. think it is a dominant mood of any section of Protes­ - "The Big Betray al" tantism." 1 responsibie shops stopped saies once the claims of Chick comics; claiming not to know the material well Rivera were investigated. enough to condemn or endorse it. P'erforming an invaluable ecumenical service, Chris­ His mail, Green said, ran four to one in favor of the tianity Today's Gary Metz exposed Rivera's fraudu­ Catholic Chronicles. But a ·recent "Protestant Chron­ lent claims in an article published earlier this year. icle," an examinatioti of evangelism, aroused twice as many negative letters - a sign that evangelism can be at least as defensive as Catholics when told they may - - , The Roman Church is not a cult. It's an be in error. empire! ... Never has something so black and The one person seemingly not in error is Green, wicked gotten away with appearing so holy and who says "I don't believe just because somebody's mysteriously beautiful . .. for so long! Catholic he is going to hell," but th·e Church "must - Keith Green, Catholic Chronicles III change officially, doctrinally, before I become tolerant of it as a whole." While Chick's products can do gteat harm to the young and ignorant, even more harmful may be the Deep roots slick, sincere and seemingly well researched tracts of Keith Green. For those Catholics who grew up before Vatican II, Green is a highly popular Christian singer. Raised none of these charges will seem particularly new, but as a Christian Scientist, then "reborn," he performs for Catholics raised in the past 20 years, anti­ around the country and has developed a large follow­ Catholicism often seems inexplicable. ing. Living near Lindale, Texas, a center of funda­ Yet the roots of anti-Catholicism are in America's mentalist activity, Green, his wife and their Christian soil, and go back to the first settlers. Sectarian community publish the Last Days Newsletter with a antipathy was a pronounced ingredient of the first series entitled "The Catholic Chronicles." colonies. But anti-Romanism increased with the "What is wrong with the Catholic Church," said arrival of Catholic immigrants, starting with the Irish. Green in an interview with the Register, "is its In the 19th century, Mich_ael Schwartz notes, it emphasis on man's responsibility rather than Jesus' was felt that "Poles, Italians, the Irish were unable to finished work on the cross." live in a democratic society. They were poor, crim­ Using a combination of Church documents, Catho­ inal, and Catholic. Now the same things are being said .. lie catechisms and anti-Catholic texts like Loraine about the Mexicans." Boettner's Roman Catholicism, Green "analyzes" Rabbi Marc Tannenbaum of the American Jewish Catholic. doctrine, showing its non-biblical roots. Committee feels there are "two dominant tendencies of bigotry in U.S. history." First there is class pol­ Broad criticisms itics. In times of great anxiety, people "look for scapegoats - simple answers as to why they are Punctuating his text with scriptural references, hurting." Green might criticize transubstantiation one month, Second is status politics, when established groups penance the next. But what is always most virulently are threatened by others coming up the ladder. Both attacked is the Catholic reliance on Church tradition. elements may be at work today. The rites of the Church, Green tries to prove, are But what Tannenbaum finds unique about either arbitrarily imposed by Church councils or are America's religious demographics is that since World pagan in origin. What they are not is Christian and War II - but particularly in the '70s - 40 to 50 mil­ scripturally authentic. lion evangelical Christians have been entering the Green stresses that "it has nothing to do with Cath­ mainstream of American society. People who may olics themselves," admitting, "I don't know many of have never before had much contact with Catholics or them." He is fearful, however, of what he calls a Jews are now rubbing shoulders with them in the city '.'renaissanc:e" in the Catholic Church. As evidence of and on the job. The resulting prejudice may be a cul­ that, he cites the example of John Michael Talbot, a tural backlash. converted Catholic who has led many young people Schwartz sees an indirect cause being the "rise of to Catholicism through his music. the importance of the born-again Christian" as evi­ Green, believing "God told me to do it," seems to · denced by the success of people like Jimmy Carter feel the Catholic Chronicles are more a matter of and Jerry Falwell. With the aid of the "Electronic obedience to Divine Will than a task of pleasure. Church," said Schwartz, this has "rekindled the While he will not say there are sure to be more Chron­ mentality that looks upon America as a uniquely icles, he does suggest future topics could include Protestant Zion." ·This in turn has been accompanied Church history and charismatics. by the return o! extremists like the Ku Klux Klan. Though he expressed no sympathy for the "crazy Another factor is the rise of millennialism. The hate sensationalism" of some anti-Catholicism, he apocalyptic tradition - growing stronger as we draw remains coyly reticent about publications like the closer to the year 2000 - makes much literal hay of 2 the symbolism of the Book of Revelation. The Cath­ olic Church as the Anti-christ and the Whore of Many of my friends at our fellowship go to B;bylon are themes increasingly heard. Tim LaHaye, Mass, and it's funny, after reading your article, a key figure in the Moral Majority and a nationally all of us seem to have been touched in the same known pastor and author, for example, in his book way. [They stopped going to Mass.] We didn't Revelation Illustrated and Explained has material as react because 'Keith Green said so,' but out of __~•v _irulently anti-Catholic as anything written," judged enlightenment from the Lord. Sc-hwartz. More can be expected. - A Catholic Girl's Letter to Keith Green While Keith Green can write that "we really, really love Catholics! It is our only motive for publishing this series of articles," in actuality a climate of bigotry and fear is reasserting itself. Well-intentioned For Len Beckman, a youth minister at St. Callistus critics of Catholic doctrine end up in league with in Garden Grove, Calif., the secular message of the demagogues if care is not taken. media is compounded by the anti-Catholic pi:,eaching Rabbi Tannenbaum recalls the recent statement of the fundamentalist. The pressure not to believe can made in Dallas, Texas, by the Rev. Bailey Smith, head be overwhelming. For now, Beckman tries to research of the Southern Baptist Convention, that God does and answer each objection a Catholic young person not listen to the prayers of the Jews. He feels it is might have to his Church when being tempted to join more than a coincidence that not long afterward a a fundamentalist sect. fundamentalist preacher in Texas refused to share a speaker's platform with Phyllis Schlafly because of What can be done? her Catholicism. Another case is the Rev. Dan C. Fore, head of the What can be done about a prejudice that seems Moral Majority's New York chapter, who recently unwilling to ever completely disappear? explained that God gave Jews a special talent for We must first realize that - obviously - not all making money. He denied he was anti-Semitic, saying Protestants are anti-Catholic. In fact, many observers of those who persecuted the Jews: "Those weren't believe t hat the bridges between Catholics and evan­ Christians, they were Roman Catholics." gelicals are stronger than ever. And in San Diego, Calif. , Rosalind Musselman of Tom Minnery, a writer for Christianity Today, told "Fishers of Men Final Call Ministry," in one of her the R egister that Chick attracts only " people without commentaries on radio station KMJC, expressed the much education." Rather than a growth in hatred, he wish that Pope John Paul would not recover from his saw a "growth of the evangelical in Catholicism as bullet wounds, the assassination attempt having been more people read the Bible." a way for the Vatican to curry world sympathy. Bishop Peter Gillquist, a former Campus Crusader As this prejudice spreads, particularly in regions who is now head of the fledgling Evangelical Ortho­ like the Southwest where anti-C atholicism is com­ dox Church - a challenging combination of bined with an anti-Mexican racism, the social damage Orthodox belief and evangelism - believes that "by is incalculable. But the effect cultural figures like and large there is a better feeling among the main­ Green have upon Catholic youth is being closely stream evangelical Protestants toward Catholics than watched. even when I was growing up." Green, says Schwart z, is particularly troublesome Gillquist and Christianity Today editor Kantzer to young Catholics. The Catholic League has been both say that more outspoken references to Scripture "besieged, mainly by priests reporting young people by Catholics would help establish common ground. who have read the pamphlets and are leaving the "Make plain your basic biblical and evangelical com­ Church." mit ment," said Kantzer. "This tends to disarm [critics] ." Danger to youth While Christianity Today's ecumenical record is exemplary, the Catholic League'.s Michael Schwartz . In Orange County, a conservative, affluent area believes the "great bulk of Protestants who could do south of Los Angeles, anti-Catholic centers like Cal­ something do not." While he says the public record of vary Chapel attract kids with their fellowship and people like Moral Majority's Jerry Falwell is "very fe rvent evangelization, according to William Hard­ good," he criticizes Falwell's refusal to· disassociate wick, director of the diocese's youth· ministers. For himself from anti-Catholics like LaHaye and Fore. Hardwick the problem stems from the fact that 75 Noting that many members of Morp.]. Majority are percent of Orange Couty, according to a 1975 Gallup conservative Catholics, Schwartz feels the "organiza­ Poll was unchurched. The fundamentalist Churches tion may be headed for trouble." see it as an open field, says Hardwick, and there is But for Schwartz, who has spent almost 15 years comparatively little evangelization on the part of examining the issue, "Anti-Catholicism is not a mainstream Churches, Catholic or otherwise. Protestant problem or a secular problem; it is really a 3 Catholic# problem." Catholics should fight anti­ There may · after all be a silver lining to this new Catholicism as other minority groups have fought sectarian opposition to the Catholic Church, if it can bigotry. ~orce Catholics to define t~eir beliefs and their insti­ He also argues for a new apologetics, while conced­ tutions more clearly. The fundamentalist refusal to ing - given the fragmentation of the Church today - re-examine differences for the saKe of ecumenism that Catholics themselves may not be able to agree may be in Catholics' best interests. q_n_tpe content of such works. For the Catholic Church, a new look at an old Perhaps the biggest problem is that the Church is problem may expose the need for sounder catechetics not sure of its own identity and is vulnerable to and more aggressive evangelization. attack. One young evangelical even tried to explain to "Culturally," concludes Schwartz, "Catholicism the Register that "there are three Catholic Churches will either be gutted - or Catholics will regroup and now - the conservatives, the experimenters and the stand up for their rights. That is the challenge that charismatics." lies before us."

tie' ce le' by Greg Erlandson

The pro-life movement is primarily a Catholic movement, yet Catholic women have as many abortions as any other group of women. Perhaps the explanation for this lies in part in the role of confession in Catholicism . ... Thus, many Catholics have unsanctioned sex, use birth control, and have abortions, knowing they can later "worh it off on their knees" . ... - Deirdre English, Executive Editor of Mother Jones Magazine

Anti-Catholicism has always been a socially accept­ Amendment, Hyde's Catholicism became an issue, as able prejudice. Long after racism and anti-Semitism did the Catholic backgrounds of jurors in Massachu­ were condemned by religious and political leaders, setts' famous infanticide prosecution of Dr. Kenneth prejudice against Catholics continues. For Michael Edelin. Catholics like theologian Rosemary Ruether Schwartz, his first two years at the Catholic League and Andrew Greeley are often celebrated primarily were primarily spent monitoring secular prejudice. because their dissident views coincide with prevailing In a press release distributed by the Catholic anti-Catholic bias. League, Schwartz noted that "Catholics are ... at a One danger of such intolerance is that it can result disadvantage in the academic community because of in "scientific studies" which seek to confirm class . latent religious prejudice. The Ladd-Lipset survey bias. Dr. Zena Blau, a University of Houston sociol­ showed that Catholics are grossly underrepresented ogist, recently concluded that children with Catholic on the faculties of the more prestigious universities, mothers are less intelligent than others. Asserting that and Louis Harris discovered that more than one-third children whose mothers are non-religious had the of the non-Catholic public believes that Catholics are highest I.Q. scores of her sample, Blau concluded that 'narrow-minded, under the influence of Church "the impact of the high-control religious institutions dogma.'" is adverse to a child's intellec tual development." This intellectual prejudice, always present in the Using 1,000 Chicago schoolchildren as her evi­ United States, has been heightened by the prominent dence, Blau has attempted to justify academically the role the Catholic Church has played in the anti­ prejudi~e of her peers. It is most telling that, unlike abortion movement. What social analysts are calling the furor which greeted the racial theories of Har­ the "new elite" - the young, well-educated, secular vard's Arthur Jensen, the academic response to Blau's middle class , like the readers of Mother Jones - is study has been remarkably restrained. quite capable of the worst prejudices against Catho­ lics in its defense of women and "reproductive rights." Reprinted with p ermission fr om The National Catholic Reg­ Msgr . Edward O'Donnel, editor of the St. Louis ister, an independent national Catholic wcellly published at Review, recalled that in the court test of the Hyde 1901 A venue of the Stars, Los Angeles, California 9006 7. 4 IC L Vol. 9, No. 5 May, 1982 inside ... Kentucky te tboo law upheld

The Leag ue's Massachusetts Chapter is The Catholic League has been instru­ only to refute the KEA's spurious allega­ urging the Unive rsity of Massachusetts at mental in the successful defense of a Ken­ tions but also to assert the parents' reli­ Boston to make amends for the publica­ tucky law authorizing the loan of state­ gious freedom rights. tion of a scurrilously anti-Catholic article purchased textbooks to private school Serving as co-counsel for the parents, in Wavelenglh , the student literary maga­ students. And in helping to defend the Amshoff and Eva Soeka, the League's zine. See th e article on page 2. law, the League has also helped to dis­ former associate general counsel, argued credit charges that private schools are that if the law were struck down, Catho­ * * * racially discriminatory. lic school children would be deprived of Judge Henry Meigs of the Franklin Cir­ The Catholic League has commended public benefits to which they are entitled, cuit Court upheld the Kentucky Nonpub­ and that the sole reason for this discrim­ members of the Iowa ~ legislature for lic Textbook Assistance Program in a speaking out against bigoted remarks ination would be their parents' exercise made recently by Bob Jones, Jr. EYer the summary judgment entered March 30 in of religious freedom in choosing their favor of the state and a group of Catholic children's schools. equal opportunity bigot, Jones ful­ school parents. The parents are rep­ minated against Catholics, Jews and resented by the Catholic League and No evidence of segregation blacks ·while speaki ng in Des Moines. See Louisville attorney Ted Amshoff. the story on page 3. The law had been challenged in 1980 To refute the KEA's allegation that * * by a group of parents and the Ken tucky Kentucky private schools are racially seg­ In this month's Docket column on Education Association (KEA), the Ken­ regated, Amshoff and Soeka submitted page 4, General Counsel Patrick Mona­ tucky affiliate of the national public affidavits from several Louisville Catholic ghan obserYes th at children playing school teachers' union. schools which demonstrated that the "Simon Says" haYe enough se nse not to schools do not have racially discrimina­ ju mp off a cliff when Simon says, "jump First Amendment arguments tory admissions policies and that they are off a cliff.' ' Unfortunately, he notes, many in fact well integrated. The KEA sub­ adults don!t ha1·e the se nse to batk when The KEA challenge incorporated the mitted no evidence to the contrary. the Supreme Court says it's okay to kill traditional First Amendment argum ents In deciding the case, Judge Meigs said, babies. that the program impermissibl y advances "The schools attended by the children of * * reli gion and fosters excessive entangle­ the intervening defendants in this action Admirably filli ng the space usuall y ment between church and state. The KEA are racially non-discriminatory, and the resen·ed for ou r Heritage column is a al so contended, however, that many regulations promulgated by the Depart­ guest editorial by Bob Ewegen of the recipients of the textbook aid attend ment of Libraries assure that no stu dents Den ver Pos t. In hi s perceptiY e analysis of raciall y segregated private schools, and in racially discriminatory institutions religious bigotry on page 5, Ewegen says that it is unlawful to provide financial aid receive such textbook loans." He also said the only antidote for hatred is personal to racially segregated institutions. that the Kentucky law "does not violate witness. On behalf of Catholic school parents, th e Establishment Clause of the First * * the . League intervened in the case not (continued on page 7) At its annual meeting, the League's Board of Directors re- elected the current slate of officers and added four new memb e rs. The League is proud to announce the addition of Archbishop Robert F. Sanchez, syndicated columnist Joseph Sobran, law professor John E. Coons, and Cuban-American leader Frank Salas to its Board of Directors. See the article on page 7. * In his regular column on page 8, League President Rev. Virgil C. Blum, S.J. , says that the public school teachers' unions are again gearing up to defeat tui­ tion tax credits in an effort to protect their vested interest in their monopoly on A Kentucky court recently found no evidence that the state's private schools are racially education tax funds. segregated. The above photo was taken at a Catholic school in Louisville. 1 Uni rsity publication de ames eC rch The Catholic League's Massachusetts the Foundation of the Church's Power"; as legitimate contributions to public dis­ Chapter is seeking reparation for an out­ "Church and State, a Dangerous coa.rse. For the University to disclaim all rageously anti- Catholic article published Alliance"; "Birth Control, More Starving responsibility for Wavelength's "decep­ in the February -March issue of Wa ve­ Babies"; "Sex, Sexism and Sexuality, a tive, malicious and bigoted attack" on the length , the student literary magazine of History of Repression"; "The Pope, Wh y Catholic Church, he said, would be t h e Un iversity of Massachusetts at Follow the Leader?"; "The Church's simply hypocritical. Boston. Teachings, Incomplete Mythology"; As a matter of simple justice, he said, In a letter to University President "Confession, Alleviation of Fabricated the Uni ve rsity must e!"}sure that the next Darid C. Knap p, with carbon copies to Guilt"; and "Catholic Education, a Guide issue of Wavelength is devoted to a retrac­ the leading public officials in the state, to Brainwashing." tion and apology for the scurrilous Chap ter President Francis X. Ahearn said The anonymous author accuses the article , as well as articles illustratire of the "article is nothing less than a piece of Church of being greedy, hypocritical, dis­ the positiv~ contributions of religion in reli gious hate literature, and, as such, it criminatory, barbarous, cruel, supersti­ general and Catholicism in particular. has no pl ace in an official publication of a tious, exploitative, repressive, manipula­ If the student editors of Wa velength uni,·ersity maintained and operated by tive and hostile to the well-being of are unwilling to make such a just gesture the tax payers of the Comnonwealth of society. of reparation, he said, they should be Massachusetts." Ahearn, in his letter to President repl aced because their refu sal would, in Knapp, objected to the article not only itself, be suffirient demonstration that Deliberate deceit beca·use it is deceptive, demeaning, fal se they have violated a trust gi ven them by and defamatory, but also because it vio­ the Unive rsity and that they have mis­ The ti tle of th e artide, "A Di ssenting l ates the religious freedom rights of handled funds collected in a mandatory Jesuit's View of the Catholic Church," Catholics, abuses the freedoms of speech fashion from students. and its byli1w " by Father Penn" are cal­ and press, and compromises the integrity Ahearn also urged the establishment of culated io con\'ince th e reader that it was of the Uni ve rsity. a firm policy barring any university pub­ written by a former Jesuit priest. At the lication from promoting religious bigotry rery end of the article , howe\'er, is an in the future. Freedom of religion asserted easil y ove rlooked or misunderstood di s­ clai mer that " Father Penn is a fi ctiti ous Ambivalent reply being." Ahearn reminded Knapp that Catho­ The tone and content of the article are lics, like other citizens, have a right to the apparent in the su bheadings · that are free exerci se of their religion without In his r e ply to Ahearn, Knapp intersperse d throughou t: " Guilt and Fea r, molestation or abuse from public au thor­ expressed his own personal sense of out­ ities. "Yet." he observed, "the Catholic ra ge that the article had appeared. But, -students of the University have seen their c iting numerous legal preceden ts, he [mandatory J student activity fees used to expressed doubt that the UniY <: rsity is pay for an attack on th eir Faith, while legally capable of obtaining a form al apol­ the Catholi c citizens of Massachusetts ogy or of taking measures to prevent a have seen such an attack published under si milar incident in the fu ture. the auspices of an institu tion supported Ah earn. who reports that leading state through their taxes." offi cial s are deeply concerned about the ivloreover, he sai d, views expressed in matter, said he is formulating a reply that a n official Uni versity publication are will provide Knapp with ext.e nsiYe in­ ineritabl y and righ tly perceive d as refl ect­ formation on his rights and responsi­ ing pos itions which the Unive rsity and bilities as chief administrator of a state the Com monwealth implicitly recognize university. Chap er launc es educaf onal program

The Connecticut Chapter of the Cath­ The second such forum, co-sponsored olic League has launched a new educa­ with a N ew England group called tional program base d on regional forums Humanae Vitae Renewal, focused on on issues confronting Catholics today . family rights. It was conducted on April The first such forum was conducted at 17 at Somers, Conn., where the speakers St. Jose ph's Church in Occum, Conn., on were Marshall Fightlin, Father Randall March 28. Speakers included Robert Blackall, Rhode Island State Representa­ Rev. John Flynn, vice-president of the ti ve William McKenna and attorney Leslie Largess, vice-president of the League's Payne , also a vice-president of the League's Massachusetts Chapter, is pic­ Massachuse tts Chapter; Sister Patricia League's Massachusetts Chapter. tured gi vi ng a slide presentation on the Brewer of the Connecticut Catholic Con­ Connecticut Chapter President John League at a recent meeting in Lowell. The ference; Mary Dihner of Connecticut meeting was arranged by Rudolph Pateracki said the chapter plans to con­ Right to Life; and Marshall Fightlin of tinue conducting forums like this and Ouellette and Chapter President Francis the Norwich Diocesan Family Life Office. expressed the hope that they would not X. Ahearn, who says that chapter repre­ Topics included the self-image of only help make Catholics in the state sentatives are seeking opportunities to American Catholics, freedom of choice in aware of the critical issues of the day, but di scu ss the League and show their slide education, secular humanism and the also increase recognition of and member­ presen ta tion. ri ght to life. ship in the Catholic League.

2 Lea.. ue elects new directors Biaggi keynotes

The Catholic Leagu·e Board of Direc­ schools solely on the property valuations League forum tors. at their annual meeting .March 20 in within individual school districts. Congressman Mario Biaggi was the Chicago, re-ele cted James Hi tchcock as Salas, chief engineer for the Fuller fea1-u red speaker at an April 19 forum on chairman of the board, Rer. Virgi l C. Construc;tion Conpany in Miami, is a "Religion and Politics" sponsored by the Blum , S.J., as preside nt. Emile Comar as graduate of the University of Havana and Catholic League. The event began at 5: 30 vi-c e· president, John Hansen as treasurer, was active in the cause of religious free­ in the auditorium of the Church of Our Ann Brosnan as sec retary and Walter S. dom rights in Cuba before coming to the Savior in New York City. Stumpf as ass istant secretary. United States in 1959. He is a member of Biaggi's remarks were followed by The board al so elected four new mem­ Agrupacion Catolica Universitaria, the responses from a distinguished panel be rs : Archbishop Robert F. Sanchez of association of Cuban Catholic scholars inclu ding publisher James McFadden, Santa Fe. syndicated columnist J oseph based in Miami, and he is committed to former New York State Regent Genevieve Sobran, law professor John E. Coons and fostering Cuban-Catholic values and cul­ Klein, and Yorkville community activist Cuban-Ameri can leader Frank Salas. t ure. He is al so a member of the Msgr. Harry Byrne. A rc hb is hop Sanchez, ordinary of Executive Committee of the Catholic Forum organizer James Crowley said Santa Fe sin ce 1974, is a member of the League's Miami Chapter. that the event is the first step in the U.S. Catholi c Conference's Communica­ The agenda for the board meeting formation of a Manhattan Chapter of the tions Commi ttee and chairman of its Ad included consi deration of proposals for Oltholic League. Hoc Committee fo r the Spanish Speaking. commemorating the Catholic League's AftPr being o rdain ed in 1959, he se rved 10th anniversary, which will occur May eight years as a professor and assistant 22, 1983. Stravinskas named principal at St. Pius X High School in Albuquerque. National convention to rights panel Sobran , who does a syndicated radio Father Peter Stravi nskas, the League's commentary as well as his regular news­ Among the proposals was a plan to East. Coast director of de,•elopment, has paper column, is widel y consid ered to be hold a national Catholic League conven­ been appointed to the New Jersey Com­ one of the most perceptire and articulate tion, at which leading American Catholic mission on Civil Rights. social cri tics of our time. A graduate of spoke spersons would speak on such issues Father Stravinskas and eight other Eastern Michigan Unirersity, he is a as the right to life, parental freedom in commissioners - representing such organ­ senior editor of National ReL·ieu•, and an education, reli gious freedom an d anti­ izations as the New Jersey Education editor of and regular contributor to Catholi cism - the major issues in which Association, the Anti-Defamation League Hum an Life Review. the League is involved. According to the of B'nai B'rith and the New Jerse,· Coons. a law professor at the Uni ve r­ proposal, the convention would be the Cou n c i I of Chu rches, are current!)' sity of California at Be rkeley, is one of centerpiece for national and local mem­ engaged in drafting a curriculum on the nation's fo remost ex perts on and bership drives, fund-raising efforts and prejudice for use in New Jersey schools. ad rncates of parental ri ghts in edu cation. publicity campaigns. Father Stravinskas said one of his fore­ He is the author of Cali fo rni a's Education Father Peter Stravinskas, the League's most concerns is to ensu re that the cur­ By Choice rnucher initiati\·e. as we ll as East Coast director of derelopment, was riculum does not OYerloo k what Han·ard sereral books on educational freedom. appointed chairman of a committee to hist orian Arthur M. Schlesin ge r Sr. called His best-1:nown book is Prirnle Wealt h form ulate further plans for the League's "the deepest bias in the history of the and Public Education, \rhich prorided the 10th anniversary. Also named t o the com­ American people" - anti-Catholici sm. ra tionale for Serrano t'. Priest, the case mittee were Secretary Ann Brosnan and th at established that it is un constitutional board members Sobran and Dr. Ada (continued fo r a state to base tax su pp ort of public Ryan. Kentucky from page 1) Amendment to the Constitution of the United States." Since " no question of material fact exists." he said, the state and the Catholic school parents "are entitled to summary judgment as a matter of law." According to Amshoff, the decis\on could not have been more timely. ComJn g as it did on the last day in which the state legislature was in session, it helped per­ suade legislators t o dou ble the budget aut h orization for the program to $600,000 for the next biennium. League General Counsel Patrick Mon­ aghan commended Amshoff and Soeka for their work in the case. "The decision is very important," he said, "not only because it further establishes the right of private school parents to receive public benefits for the education of their chil­ Pictured at the March 20 meeting of the Catholic League's Board of Directors are three dren, but also because it discredits the of the Board's new members: (from left) law professor John E. Coons, syndicated wrdespread defamatory all egations of columnist Joseph Sobran and Cuban-American leader Frank Salas. The fourth new public school teachers' unions that pri­ member, Archbi_shop Robert F. Sanchez of Santa Fe, was unable to attend the meeting. vate schools are racist and elitist."

7 The President's Desk by Virgil C. Blum, S.J. e EA's cam •g cur • c um

and teacher financial sacrifices and heavy in 1980, about 4 2 percent of students in church subsidies, they choose inner city predominantly black schools came from quality Catholic schools. In justice, these low income families, according to the black and Hispanic parents have a right to February issue of The Chicago R eporter. A recent issue of Newsweek (3-29-82) refundable tuition tax credits. While minority families in Chicago pay carried this notice: "The Political Action The Catholic League's study of 54 from $600 to $860 in annual tuition, the Committee of the 1.8 million-member inner city private elementary schools in Archdiocese of Chicago in 1981 sub­ National Education Association will pour eight cities revealed that 15 percent of sidized inner city Catholic schools to the $2 million and 200 trained campaign black and Hispanic parents with children tune of $2.8 million. workers into 150 targeted House and in these schools have an annual income of Albert Shanker is right. If inner city Senate races this fall. The NEA will less than $5,000, and that 50 percent minority families were gh·en a refundable support or oppose candidates according have an income of less than $10,000. tuition tax credit, many thousa nds of to their stands on issues such as dismant­ These families make fantastic sacrifices. parents would shift their children to ling the Department of Education and tui­ Why? They want quali ty education private schools, even at continuing sacri­ tion tax credits." Al bert Shanker, leader (including religious and moral values) , fices, to get a quality education fo r their of the American Federation of Teachers, made possible by caring teachers and children. also riews the campaign~ for tuition tax principals whose salaries are less than half It is, therefore, in the vested in terest credits as a "threat" to the public that paid to public school teachers. of public school teachers' unions to kill schools. so he too is leading hi s troops in The Catholic League study included tuition tax credits for private school a political campaign against the Reagan 16 randomly selected inner city Catholic parents. But if they succeed, many addi­ Administration's tuition tax credit bill. schools in Chicago. Chicago Catholic tional tens of thousands of low-income schools are better integrated than Chicago black and Hispanic children will. to use public schools. In 1979, about 55.5 William Raspberry's phrase, "grow up to Vested in te rests percent of black students in Chicago be essentially useless in the technological Catholic sc hools were non-Catholics. And society in which they will exist." All legislation has r ested interests sup­ porting or opposing it , enactment. Albert Shankn pre dicts that if tu ition tax crPd its are prorided by CongrPss. th e pro­ gram ·'may lure thousands and th ousands Librarian says sex education books of parents to shift thPir children from publ ic to prirate schools" in part because .. disenchantment wit h the public schools 'should not stre s religious concepts' has grown." So. indeed. public school tPachers' unions hare a rP stP d interest in The Catholic League is im·estigating not good pedagogic sense." killing the Administration's tuition ta, the cri teria by which the Milwaukee In a letter to City Librarian Henry credit bill. Public Library detennines the sui tability Bat.es, the League acknowledged that a :l.n other group with a \· ested in terest of the materials it stocks. library is not obliged to accept and sheh-e in tuition tax crPdits consi sts of black and The League's inquiry was prompted by any book donated by a well-intentioned Hi spanic parents. :\lost of thPse parents th e· library's rejection of two children's person. The League said, howeYer, that it lir e in the inner city \rhere public books donated by a Milwaukeean. Th e is troubl ed and amazed by Botham ·s dec­ schools. with a fpw notable Pxceptions, books are Something Beautiful from God laration that children's books "should not are nothing more than blackboard by Su san Schaeffer Macaulay and Before stress religious concepts." jungle .. You Were Born by Joan Lowery Nixon. In explaining to the donor why the Library policy sought RaspQ_erry comments books we re rejected. the library's coor­ dina tor of children's serrices, Jane League Director of Public Affairs Black columnist \\"illiam Raspberry Botham. cited as a criterion used in judg­ Michael Schwartz told Bates that he recently wrote. '"Education is the one ing the books that "the material ... would assume for the time being that best hope bl ack Americans hare for a should not stress religious concepts." Botham's statement was unauthorized decent future . . . [but] we are turning and that it does not reflect the policy of out yet another generation of ill -educated Further explanation the Milwaukee County Federated Library children. children who will grow up to be System. "Surely," he said, "the public essentially usp less in a technological Expanding upon that criterion, library system of a major American city society in which they will exist." Several Botham quote d with approval from a does not have a policy of censoring books years ago the Department of Health, Edu­ book entitled Library ll'orh with Children on the grounds that they allegedly 'stress cation and \\'elfare reported that 42 by Dorothy Broderick: "Many people are religious concepts.' " percent of 17-year old blacks were func­ concerned that most of the newer sex Schwartz requested the library's tionally illiterate. education books do not stress religious official policy regarding children's books The obrious a nswer- an answer concepts . . . . Fpr young children . .. the which allegedly "stress religious con­ which Raspben·~· rejects - is family choice birth process we are trying to explain is cepts," as well as a complete summary of in education. \\'hen parents ha\·e a choice an ·a bstraction. To complicate that expla­ the criteria used in ernluating library of schools. made possible by great family nation with a further abstraction ... is materials.

8 CATHOLIC LEAGUE NEWS ETTER Vol. 9, No.11 November, 1982 inside • • • Does the Constitution permit In the wake of Pope John Paul II's meeting with Y asser Arafat, the secular burial, prayers for dead? and Jewish press in America have leveled several vicious, irrational charges against both Pope and Church. See the article on The Catholic League has begun legal of the Feminist Women's Health Center page 2. steps to ensure that religious-minded (an abortion clinic) and the American citizens are not denied the opportunity Civil Liberties Union. They claimed that to express their respect for the 17,000 the abortion clinic would suffer "irrepar­ On the legal front, League attorneys aborted babies whose bodies were discov­ able harm" if religious-minded citizens have won a major* pro-life and free ered Feb. 6 in a metal shipping container were allowed to offer public prayer at a speech victory in California, and they that had been abandoned by the owner ceremony for the aborted babies. They will submit a brief to the U.S. Supreme of a Los Angeles pathology lab. also argued that cooperation by the Court in defense of Minnesota's tuition Attorney Paul Freese, president of district attorney with religious-minded tax credit program. Those articles are the League's Southern California Chap­ individuals or groups would violate the on page 3. ter, contends that a court order blocking constitutional principle of separation of the performance of religious rites or church and state, and would amount to This month's Docket column, on page memorial services for the infants im­ treating fetuses as persons, which, accord­ 4, asserts that public* schools in the Uni­ pinges upon the First Amendment rights ing to them, has not been permitted by ted States violate both of the First of religious-minded citizens to express appellate courts. Amendment religion clauses: they deny in public their sincere feelings of respect Calling those "coercive and misdir­ religious freedom to adherents of God­ for the human remains of the dead ecting arguments," Freese said the centered religions, and they establish babies. injunction threatens to prevent or impede the religion of Secular Humanism. Freese's request for oermission to enter religious-minded citizens "from lawfully the case was granted by Judge Eli performing rites or rituals, prayers or Sai nt Elizabeth Ann Seton's forma- Chernow at an Oct. 14 hearing. Further other services as their consciences may tive influence on *American Catholic hearings in the case were scheduled for inspire according to their convictions." education is described in this month's later in the month. F reese said the abortion clinic has no Heritage column on page 5. According to Freese, religious freedom legal interest in the fetuses and should rights were implicated last June when a have no legal standing in controlling or superior court judge issued a preliminary influencing the district attorney's dispo­ A] so on page 5 is the first poem ever to injunction barring the Los Angeles sition of them. It seems clear, he said, be published in the* Catholic Lea,gue district attorney from cooperating with that the abortion clinic is attempting to N eu•sletter, a lament for the lives lost indivi dials or groups seeking release of use the court as a means of preventing through abortion, by Paul L. Freese, the bodies for religious rites or memorial religious-minded people from giving president of the League's Southern Cali­ services. attention to what they regard as creatures fornia Chapter. The injunction was issued at the request Conti1iued on page 5 ...

The League's Long Island Chapter has presented its third* annual Catholic League Award to pro-life leader Ellen McCormack. See the article on page 6.

Th e New York Times has published an article which describe*s the Catholic Mass as "ritual canni balism." As the article on page 7 relates, the remark prompted the League's Northern New Jersey Chapter to as k adve rtisers if they would reconsid er their pl ans for fu ture adver­ tising in the paper's New Jersey edition .

In his regular column on page 8, League President *Rev . Virgil C. Blum, S.J ., ex plains that sex education courses are on e of the major reasons that many parents have begun challenging the Pictured a.bove is one of the 17, 000 a.borted babi,es w hose bodies were discovered in an teaching of Secularist values in our pub- abandoned shipping container. (Ph oto courtesy ofthe Center for the Documentation of lic schools. · th e A merican Holocaust.) ' Pope and Church smeared in press attacks

When the Vatican announced a mid­ Palestinian civilians at a refugee camp scornful repudiation of its extremist September meeting between Pope John in Lebanon. The editorial claimed that, rhetoric by theeditorof a New England Paul II and Yasser Arafat, leader of the by meeting with Arafat. the Pope had Je~•ish magazine. Palestinian Liberation Organization, a "sent a signal to all the Christians that Attacks on the Pope in numerous senior official of the Israeli government murder' for a cause is to be applauded," articles and cartoons in the secular press responded with a blistering attack on and concluded that "the Phalangists, as were almost as unrestrained. One Ohio the moral integrity of the Pope and of devout Christians, followed the guide- newspaper printed a letter which con­ the Church. Since then, these charges 1ines set by the Prince of their church cluded, "Until now, I could never find a have been repeated and amplified in the and as good disciples engaged in the rational basis for the infamous Polish American press. massacre of their opponents." jokes. Now I understand." Dozens· of Cartoons, editorials and columns ap­ In a telegram to the editor, the Catholic papers printed a column by Harry James peared in newspapers all across the League expressed its "shock and out­ Cargas, a Catholic college professor from country objecting to the meeting; public rage" at this reckless accusation and St. Louis. who depicted the Church as statements were issued denouncing the demanded a retraction. The League "guilty of silence while 6 million Jews Pope: and Catholic churches were pick­ contended that this editorial "can serve were being slaughtered by baptized eted by opponents of this papal peace no conceivable purpose except to enkin­ Christians," and of having a "tradition initiative. d le religious hatred among the readers of anti-Semitism." Many of the protesters. unfortunately, of Th<' Je1ri.~h Press for the Pope and for did not confine themselves to criticizing their Catholic fellow citizens." this particular meeting, but engaged in No retraction was forthcoming, but 'Sad Irony• an all-out attack on the Church, dredging Th e Jell'ish Press did acknowledge the up the di scredited and defamatory League's protest in its next issue and, in To counter this disinformation and charges of Vatican collaboration with reply. issued another, rather half-hearted defamation. the Catholic League distri­ the Nazis, accusing Catholicism of an denunciation of the Pope, concluding buted a column to over 100 daily news­ inherent anti-Semitism. and inventing that "It was not our intent to inflame papers on papal efforts to aid Jews completely new anti-Catholic smears. racial (sic) hatred. Far from it....We during World War II, and submitted Perhaps the most irresponsible of these trust that in time ...Jew and Christian numerous letters to the editor, including attacks was a front-page editorial in Th e "':i ll treat each other with respect." The one from Virginia Offer of the Long J l' wish Pffs.~. a Brooklyn-based weekly League, too, hopes that mutual respect Island chapter which appeared in Th e with a reported circulation of 240,000. will be forthcoming. Nell' York Times and one from James In its Sept. 24 issue. Th e Je1rish Press Reaction from the national Jewish Jandrisitz of the Philadelphia Chapter blared that "The Pope Shares The Blame press varied widely, from applause for which appeared in Th e Ph ilade/ph ia For The Palestinian Massacre." refer­ the defamatory editJ rial by the editor of Inquirer. The League also provided ring to the atrocious murder of innocent a Jewish newspaper in the Midwest to a information to Nick Thimmesch, who wrote a syndicated column on the subject. Father Virgil C. Blum expressed his sadness that the Holy Father has been subjected to such harsh attacks simply o nihan's commitment on because he is seeking a just peace in the Middle East. Noting that the Pope had t c e its uestioned admonished Arafat against "recourse to arms and violence in any form and The presidents of three Catholic League In addition to their concern over above all to terrorism and reprisals," chapters in New York State have ex­ Moynihan's vote on those amendments, and that he had defended the right of the pressed their disappointment with what the Catholic League activists, in their State of Israel to "security," Father they perceive as an "apparent loss of letter to the senator, stated that they Blum said. "It is a sad irony that a man commitment" by Senator Daniel P. were disappointed that the senator had of peace has been blamed for acts of Moynihan on the issue of tuition tax been relatively silent in responding to violence. The fact that these unjust credits. the "specious and often defamatory accusations against the Pope were given Their disappointment was prompted arguments" raised against tax credits such wide publicity in the secular press by Moy nihan's vote in the Senate Finance during the current year. They noted shows that anti-Catholic prejudice is Committee in favor of Senator Bill that this silence stood in marked con- still deeply rooted in our society and Bradley's c_ontroversial amendments to . trast with the articulate and often cour­ that many Americans are predisposed to believe the worst about the Catholic Pres id ent Reagan's tuition tax credit ageous leadership on the issue which Church." bill wh ic h would have deeply involved Moynihan had provided in previous years. the Internal Revenue Service in moni­ The letter to Moynihan was signed by toring private schools to eliminate all chapter presidents William Lindner of Relations still good segregat ive practices. Many supporters Long Island, Dr. Thomas Reilly of of tax credits, particularly the represen­ Brooklyn-Queens, and Anthony Mangano tati ves of Christian schools. had made it of Westchester. "The general state of Catholic-Jewish clear that their support for tax credits Senator Moynihan's office responded relations is 'remarkably good,' according was co nditional on keeping the IRS quickly to the concerns raised in the let­ to Eugene Fisher, director of the Secret­ from becoming excessively entangled in ter. saying that the senator is as commit­ ariat for Catholic-Jewish Relations of the educational affairs of private schools. ted as ever to parental rights in educa­ the United States Conference of Catholic For this reason . the amendments, which tion and that, in his view, the Bradley Bishops," said Father Blum. "Let us passed by a one-rnte margin, were looked amendments would have strengthened hope and pray that the recent attacks on upon by some tax cred it supporters as rather than weakened the bill's chance Pope John Paul will not cause them to ·'killer amendments.'' of passage. · deteriorate." Pro-life -victory in California

A California court has denied a request for•an injunction which would have restricted the manner in which pro-life - activists could conduct sidewalk counsel­ ing outside abortion clinics. The injunction had been sought by Fresno abortionist Michael Weiner, who sued Catholics United.for Life, a pro-life /J• group based in Coarsegold, California, following their efforts to counsel his prospective clients in June of this year. The CUL members were represented in court by Patrick Monaghan, general j ..S­ -✓ counsel of the Catholic League, and local -- attorney Michael Margosian. Catholic League General Counsel Patrick Monaghan (n:ght) and Fresno attorney In his complaint, Weiner alleged that Micha el Margosian are pi,etured outside the California Superior Court in Fresno. CUL rnem bers had physically prevented his clients from entering his clinic. The pro-lifers' actions had so distressed his League will apprise Supreme Court clients, Weiner alleged, that some of them went home without keeping their of private school study findings appointments. The injunction sought by Weiner would have limited the total The Catholic League will submit a private schools. According to League number of CUL counselors to eight and legal brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in General Counsel Patrick Monaghan, the would have restricted their activities to defense of a Minnesota law which allows brief will apprise the Court of numerous a narrow sidewalk which borders Wein­ public and private school parents to take study findings which provide sociologi­ er's abortion clinic on one side. a deduction on their state income tax for cal justification for public policy initia­ At a Sept. 23 hearing before the educational costs such as tuition, text­ tives designed to ease the financial Superior Court of California, County of books and transportation. burden on parents who send their child­ Fresno. the attorneys for CUL argued The 27-year-old program has been ren to private schools-initiatives such that Weiner's allegations were without challenged by the Minnesota Civil Lib­ as the Minnesota tuition tax deduction foundation and that the constitutional erties Union, which contends that the program. right to free speech protected the act­ program unconstitutionally benefits rel­ ivities of the CUL members. igion because 71 percent of the .parents Spurious arguments taking the deduction send their children to church-affiliated schools. No injunction A federal appeals court rejected the Monaghan noted that aid to private MCLU's challenge last April, noting school parents has often been obstructed After hearing the evidence, Superior that the program is open to all parents, by spurious arguments which are thor­ CourtJudge Hollis Best refused to issue not just those who send their children to oughly refuted by the findings of the the injunction, saying: "The issuance of private schools. Any benefit to religion Catholic League study. For example, he a preliminary injunction is a matter which might accrue because of the pro­ said. the charge that parents are moti­ which should be used with caution, gram is "remote and incidental," the vated by sectarian concerns in choosing especially where free speech is involved." court said. private schools is often cited as evidence Monaghan hailed the decision as a that any aid to private school families victory for free speech and for life. He would violate the First Amendment. Conflicting decisions noted that CUL members have gathered However, he noted, in the League sam­ at many abortion clinics over the years, ple of 4,000 families, almost a third of engaging in such direct pro-life activities The Supreme Court agreed to hear the students are Protestant, even though as prayer, personal counseling and offers the case in order to reconcile that appel­ the schools themselves are overwhelm­ to help pregnant women. late court decision with a different one ingly Catholic. "Through their exercise of the right to which in 1980 struck down a similar tax Another sociological misconception to free speech," said Monaghan, "CUL deduction program in Rhode Island. be addressed in the League brief is that members have saved the Jives of many The League will submit what is known parents whose children attend inner unborn babies, and the court's decision in legal parlance as a "Brandeis brief," city private schools constitute the edu­ will enable them and the growing ranks which addresses sociological rather than cational and economic elite of the inner of other sidewalk counselors to save the strictly legal issues. (The first such brief city. lives of many more." . was submitted by Louis Brandeis, who On the contrary, said Monaghan, the was later to become a Supreme Court League study found that 30 percent of justice.) the parents surveyed had not completed The League is in a unique position to high school and that half the families submit such a brief because of its surveyed had annual incomes of less recently completed education research than $10,000. "Even so," he noted, "those Harvard Professor Arthur M. Schles­ project which compiled, in the words of families pay a median tuition of $400, inger, Sr.: "I regard prejudice against UCLA Prof. Donald Erickso n, "an un­ and many have more than one child in (the Catholic) Church as the deepest bias precedented body of data,"on innercity private schools." in the history of the American people." 616°0~:~:ickMonagha: he religion of the public schools ..-. General Counsel

In Bra 11 do11 1·. Board of Education, arbitrary and del iberate involvement of might become vain and empty repetitions. Judge Irving Kaufman of the Second the state in excising and censoring all BlTt the religious zeal of Secularists, Circuit Court of Appeals stated, "To God-centered religious expression in coupled with the official state support of many A mcricans, the state's noblest public schools? Is it not clear that their taboo against any recognition of _function is the education of our nation's continued state legal recognition and God in public places, indicates that our youth." The court went on to note that enforcement of t he Secularist dogma state education system violates the First this responsibility is entrusted largely concerning the prohibition of any ex­ Amendment to the Constitution. "to the public schools" with the desire pression of religious sentiment in the that children be made into responsible public schools amounts to the placing of Secularist establishment citizens by "learning the enduring values the state's imprimatur on a particular Not only does the"closed-circuit" state of Western civilization we all share-an religious creed-the Secularist creed? education system abridge the rights of appreciation of critical reasoning, a 'Enclaves of Totali ta ria nism' citizens to freely express their religious commitment to democratic institutions beliefs. values and knowledge; it also and a dedication to the principles of The Supreme Court. in Tinker r. De1; violates the Establishment Clause by fairness." Moin e.~ Independent Community School maintaining Secularism as the official. But in rejecting the right of public Di1;f rict. said that "state-operated schools accepted religion. high school students to meet voluntarily may not be enclaves of totalitarianism" If a student body consists of Catholics, for prayer in an unused classr9_om during and that "students may not be regarded Jews, Protestants, Moslems, Mormons off-school hours. Judge Kaufman appar­ as closed-circuit recipients of only that and Secularists, the exclusive recognition ently concluded that rejigious liberty is which the state chooses to communicate." five days a week of one faith would not an "enduring value." Yet. in point of fact. the tax-supported certainly not constitute a fair division of government schools have become pre­ public access. Yet that is precisely what State Imprimatur cisely that. Secularism is achieving! For in denying those students their There was a time when religious­ The Secular religion has achieved this right to free religious expression. the minded citizens might worry that prayers by denying its own religious nature court stated. ·•Our nation's elementary in public places were a danger in our while working diligently to establish a and secondary schools play a unique role relationship with God in that the prayers public disavowal of God. in transmitting basic and fundamental \'alues to our youth. To an impressionable student. e\·en the mere appearance of secular in\'oh-ement in religious activities Rehearing in abortion fee case m ight in dicate that the state has placed California's Fourth District Court of that human life is sacred and no person its imprimatur on a particular religious Appeal has ordered a rehearing of the has the r ight to decide whether another creed." Erzi11uer case, in which the Catholic should live or die." But \\·bat about the state imprimatur League is representing 57 students who Shamsky said the case should have that is no\,. be ing placed on irrelig ion or object. on relig iou s and conscientious been decided in accordance with the non-reli gion? ls not the impressionable grounds. to the U ni\'ersity of Cal ifornia's U.S. Supreme Court's 1977 Abood decis­ student sti 11s ubject to the "mere appear­ mandatory abortion funding policy. ion. in which the Cou rt held that union ance of secular invol\'ement" by a n The Court of Appeal granted the members could withhold the part of League's motion for a rehearing shortly their union dues used to promote political after it ruled in September that the causes they did not support. He also un_iversity did not violate the First cited a federal law which prohibits an Noteworthy Quotes Amendment rights of students who entity receiving public health funds from ''He \\'ho makes the race the ultimate oppose abortion by using fees collected denying admission to anyone for his norm of al I \'alues. perverts and falsifies from them to provide abortions as part "reluctance to in an.' way participate in the order of things created and com­ of the student health service program. the performance of abortions." if to do so ma nded b\· God ... As God's sun shines on Presiding Justice Gerald Brown, writ­ i contrary to his religious or moral all humar~ bein gs, so does H is la\\' kno\\' ing for a unanimous appellate panel. beliefs. no pri\'ileges or exceptions ... Human said the university had not "unreasonably beings as perso ns possess God-g iven interfered with the students' practice of 'Clear Winner' rig hts \\"hieh must. be presen·ed from all religion," since the students were not attacks ai med at denying, suppressing forced "to use the student health service League General Counsel Patrick Mon­ or d isr egarding them .. . ''-From Mil programs, receive pregnancy counseling. /J rc ,11 1e1tdl'r Sum(', the 1937 encycli cal in have abortions. perform abortions, or aghan commended Shamsky and Robert Destro. Monaghan's predecessor as gener­ \\'hich Pope Pius XI cond emned the endorse abortions." al counsel. for their excellent work in a theo ry and practice of Nazism. case that, "on its face. should be a clear Court insensitive \\'inner." If "the pope and J erry Fah,·ell could Unfortunately, said Monaghan, the get preg- nant, opposition to the right to Burton Shamsky . local attorney for courts thus far have seemed unwilling have an abortion would quickly dis­ the students. said the dec ision exemplified or unable to grapple with the serious appear. •·- E dd Doerr, former staff the " insensitivity of the university and constitutional issues at stake in the case. \\'riter for Americans United for Sep­ the court." to. the wav hi s clients feel "Now that there will be a rehearing," he aration of Church and State. in a letter about abortion. ''We're not talking about sai

When Elizabeth Ann Seton organized were not founded as alternatives to the before any English-speaking settlers had the Sisters of Charity shortly after her public schools, since there were no public even arrived in North America. conversion to Catholicism, one of the schools at the time .. In Baltimore, for In the English colonies along the community's first apostolates was that instance, the first "common school" Atlantic seaboard, Catholic schools of education. Early in 1810, at St. Joseph's offering tuition-free instruction to child­ -existed wherever the practice of Catholi­ Parish in Emmitsburg, Md., Mother ren of all faiths was established at St. cism was tolerated-that is, sporadically Seton opened a free parochial school, Patrick's Parish in 1815. The same in Maryland, for a brief period in New open to both boys and girls, and staffed situation obtained everywhere in the York (1685 to 1690), and in Pennsylvania. by her Sisters. On its first day, St. country, where the operation of schools By 1788, there was a parish school at Joseph's School had 20 students, who was almost exclusively a concern of Holy Trinity Church in Philadelphia, we re given not only free instruction but churches, both Catholic and Protestant. staffed by lay teachers. In 1799, a free also free textbooks and a free meal. In those days, before anti-Catholicism school conducted · by a community of The Sisters of Charity entered many became a dominant political passion, women religious was founded at George­ other apostolates, including the establish­ the Catholic schools were often voted town. And in 1801, at St. Peter's Parish ment of the first Catholic orphanage in financial subsidies by local governments in New York City, a free parochial the country and staffing of the first in recognition of the public service they school was opened. Catholic hospital, but education remained were rendering by providing education But it was Mother Seton, at Emmits­ their primary enterprise. for the young. burg. who combined these elements: a By 1840, the Si sters were operating 35 Mother Seton is rightly credited as parish-based. tuition-free school for boys educational institutions in nine states. being a pioneer in Catholic education, and girls staffed by nuns. And this was Their educational mi ssion was marked )Jut it is important to note that her school to be the basic model for Catho I ic schools by standards of educational quality that at Emmitsburg was far from the first well into the 20th century. were far ahead of n.ost other schools of Catholic school in America. Indeed, The parochial school has been in­ that era. Catholic schools flourished in Florida separable from the growth of the Catholic Those early Catholic schools, of course, and New Mexico in the 16th century, community in America, and in no other nation has Ca tho Iicism been so intimately connected with the educational mission. 17,000 aborted babies (continued from page 1) Through her leadership and her form­ of God having eternal destinies. said Catholic League General Counsel ative influence on Catholic education in If the injunction is allowed to stand, he Patrick Monaghan, "but that does not America. Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton said, it would threaten to create prior give them the right to insist that everyone earned a place as one of the makers of restraints on the exercise of constitutional else share their view. American Catholicism. rights b~· reli giou s-minded citizens­ "No one is asking them to acknowledge the ri ghts to freedom of speech. freedom the humanity of those babies, or that of assembly and freedom of religion. they were divinely created. Yet in their Chapter hosts "It is obvious that the abortion providers insistence that the babies are but blobs regard the dead babies as garbage," of 'tissue' whose humanity must be denied . . media forum at every opportunity, they appear to be committed to wringing from each of us an agreement that human life has no The League's Washington Chapter is Love's Loss intrinsic worth." sponsoring a panel di scussion, "M edia Coverage of Catholic Subjects and Issues," By Paul L. Freese at its semiannual general meeting at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 9, in the auditorium Let the little ones come to me at the Academy of the Sacred Heart, (Thousands of infants who will not be) 4920 Strathmore Ave .. Kensington. Md. Let them assemble at my feet Panelists include Russell Shaw. direct­ (Thousands of hearts that will not beat) or of the U .S. Catholic Conference's I will teach them to love one another Office of Pub! ic Affairs; J amesJ. Whelan. (Thousands interred without caring executiveeditorofthe Washington Times; mother) Marjorie Hyer, religion editor of the And look for the path to the eternal day Washi11gto11 Post; Kelly Burke. a tele­ (Thousands who might have led the way) vision journalist at Washington's NBC They will spread my word of cheer affiliate; Rich Adams. representing the (Thousands whose ears will never hear) local CBS affiliate; and Jim Clarke of That this vale of tears is a path to joy the local ABC affiliate. (Thousands unknown as girl or boy) Moderating the discussion will be That it is only sin that "·e should grieve chapter activist William Gavin. who is (Thousand s oflungs that will not breathe) special assistant to the minority leader That true love was born in Galilee of the U.S . House of Representatives. (Thousands of eyes that \\"ill not see) "The syposium will serve asan excellent And will survive each setting sun opportunity for members to come face to (Thousands of hopes too soon undone) face with representatives of the two They will kn ow why I was crucified Washington papers and of the three (Thousands whose birthright was denied) ..... ~ major TV networks," said Dr. Anthony ~ . ..., .;_: And their innocence will magnify my J&t."t::?.~ Czajkowski. chapter president. "All love members are in\'ited to \'oice their (May their soul s repose in His Arms Paul L. Frerse. Prrsidenf comments concerning news coverage, above .) South ern Cailfor11ia Chapter editorial policy and programming." Chapter honors Ellen McCormack

Ellen McCormack, the pro-life candi­ and for showing that large numbers of date for the 1976 Democratic presiden­ Americans would vote on the basis of tial nomination and one-of the founders their commitment to human life. of the New York State Right to Life In her address, Mrs. McCormack stated Party, was the recipient of the Long that the political struggle for the right Island Chapter's third annual Catholic to life was a "Catholic problem." In a League Award. A capacity crowd of meticulous analysis of the political dimen­ more than 400 attended the dinner and sion of the pro-life effort, she noted that the award presentation at Chaminade Catholics constitute a substantial por­ High School in Mineola on Saturday tion of the electorate in 13 large indus­ evening, Oct. 2. trial states; but of the 26 U.S. Senators Michael Schwartz, 'the League's dir­ from those 13 states, only two had voted ector of public affairs, was on hand to pro-life in the last Congress. present the award to Mrs. McCormack. Mrs. McCormack called upon Catholics In introducing her, Schwartz said, "When to vote on the basis of their moral convic­ the history of the pro-life movement is tions, rather than on the basis of party written, it will be possible to say of only a affiliation or ethnic identity. Until Cath­ Michael Schu,artz presented the Catholic small number of individuals that this olics stop giving their votes to candi­ Leam1 e A 1card to pro-l1je leader Ellen person really made a difference. One of dates who take positions opposed to McCormack at a recent meeting of the these individuals, unquestionably, is Ellen Catholic principles and values, she said, Long Island Chapter. McCormack." He praised her for giving they will remain impotent in shaping a political expression to the pro-life cause just political order.

Mangano argues for tax credits Public opinion polls demonstrate Gannett Westchester Newspapers de­ lack of consensus on abortion voted a third of the "Viewpoints" page in its Sunday. Oct. 3 edition, to an article During the recent debate on Senator of pregnancy, rather than during the on tuition tax credits by Anthony D. J esse Helms's proposed anti-abortion entire term, as is the actual case. Mangano, president of the League's legislation, the press and other abortion But whenever poll questions on abortion -· Westchester Chapter. proponents frequently alluded to the are stated objectively, taking into consid­ Tuition tax credits would serve the . alleged overwhelming popular support eration the reason for the abortion and public interest, Mangano wrote, because for the unlimited abortion liberty created the stage of the pregnancy, support for they would expand parental freedom of by the Supreme Court in 1973. That the current legal status for abortion is choice in education, foster competition alleged support was often cited as a far from overwhelming. among school systems, resulting in primary reason for the defeat of the improved educational quality; and inject Helms bill. Majority in the middle much-needed measures of justice and But as reporter Dexter Duggan ex­ equity into the government's current plained in a 1981 Catholic League Typical of the objective abortion polls policy of education finance. supplement, "Abortion and the Opinion (few though they are) was a 1980 Gallup Polls," such alleged popular support for Opinion Index which asked respondents if they think "abortions should be legal Refutes objections the.current legal status of abortion-it is legal for any reason throughout the full under any circumstances, legal under only certain circumstances, or illegal in Mangano marshalled an impressive nine months of pregnancy-has been confirmed only by less-than-reputable all circumstances." array of facts to refute the most common public opinion polls. (Copies of that A majority of the respondents (53 objections to tuition tax credits-that percent) approved of abortion "only under they would encourage racial segregation, supplement are available from the League at 2M each or 10 for a $1.) certain circumstances," 18 percent aid only wealthy families, and violate thought abortion should be "i llegal under the constitutional principle of separation all circumstances," and 25 percent shared of church and state. Slanted questions the Supreme Court's belief that abortion · He concluded his article with four should be legal "under any circum­ points which he said form a legal and One type of question successful in stances." Most other reputable polls have logical basis for the demands of private eliciting large majorities apparently in shown a similar split. school parents" 1) Government mandates favor of permissive abortion asks respond­ the education of all children as being in en ts if abortion should be a matter Catholic League Newsletter is published by the best interest of a democratic society. decided by "a wo man and her doctor"­ the Catholic League for Religi ous and C ivil 2) Gove rnment imposes on all taxpayers as if most abortions were performed R i ghts, 1100W. Wells St., M il . • Wis. 53233. the obligation to pay for this universal after searching consultation with a deeply James Hitchcock . . Chairman education. 3) Government guarantees concerned family physician, rather than V irgil C. Blum, S.J. . • . . . . President all parents the right to choose the kind of by high-vol ume clinics whose raison John Hansen ...... • Treasu rer education they want for their children. d'etre is financial profit. Ann Brosnan . • • . • . . . • Secretary Many other similarly successful polls Orlan Love • . D irector of Publications 4) Government then imposes a financial Annual membership dues: $10 penalty on parents who choose other phrase the question as if abortion were Contributions are tax deductible. than public education for their children." legal only during the first three months Mass called .'ritual cannibalism' in Times - .

The Catholic League has protested ad hominem attack on school prayer to the article's main theme. Th e Nell' York Times's recent publication proponents. however, was her assessment "The remark is totally gratuitous, of an opinion article which called the of the Eucharist. having absolutely nothing to do with the Mass an act of "ritual cannibalism." "Religion. clearly, is an essential elem­ sr!hool prayer controversy," he said. The offensive article appeared Sept. ent of human nature." she wrote. "It goes "Obviously, Catholic schools will not 19 on the opinion page of the paper's back a long time ... possibly to our fore­ even be affected by the proposed leg­ ·N-ew Jersey edition, prompting the runners, who 500,000 years ago cracked islation. and a bigoted four-line appraisal League's North Jersey Chapter to ask human bones, as some tribes do today, to of Catholic practices of worship sheds no advertisers in that section to "reconsider ingest manna from their dead owners. light on the subject." your subsidy of anti-Catholicism through (What, after all, is the Catholic Mass but Noting that the newspaper's banner you r advertising dollar." a kind of ritual cannibalism in which states that the Times contains "all the The article was primarily a polemic worshippers ingest the body and blood news that's fit to print." Father Strav­ against school prayer in which author of their god?)" inskas said the words. "and then some," Betty McCollister of Haddonfield, N.J., Father Peter Stravinskas, the League's ought to be added. ma! igned proponents of school prayer as East Coast director of development, in a In a letter to the advertisers in the "cheapjack politicians and ignorant letter published Oct. 10 by the Tim es. Times New Jersey edition. the League's fundamentalists" with anti-Semitic tend­ called the statement "a blatant example North Jersey Chapter explained that it encies. Even more deplorable than her of anti-Catholic bigotry" totally irrevelent represents the area's 1. 7 m ii lion Ca tho Iics by countering defamation of the Church and defending religious freedom rights. Special events to -mark Apprising the advertisers of the offensive passage in the McCollister column. the chapter asked advertisers for their League's tenth anniversary cooperation in riddingsocietyofreligious bigotry. In conjunction with the Catholic helping Ca tho Iics become a ware of their Specifically, the chapter asked advert­ League's 10th anniversary next May 23, heritage. Accordingly, Fathers Blum isers if they approved of McCollister's members will soon be receiving in­ and Stravinskas are asking League defamation of the Mass and. if not. vitations to participate in several act­ members to join them as they visit the whether they would reconsider their ivities and events. sites in which the faith took root in plans to advertise in the Tim es New Masses and testimonial dinners in Los Europe and eventually became the source Jersey edition. The chapter said the Angeles. New York City and Washington. of our faith here in America. advertisers' responses would _erYe as D.C., will highlight the commemoration "An anniversary," said Father Blum. the basis for a report to League members. activities. Information on attending those "is a time to celebrate the past so that we events will be released as soon as all can move into the future with confidence arrangements have been completed. and conviction. We think our heritage Later this month, through a special tour of Europe will deepen our apprec­ mailing. each member will be invited to iation of the past, thus making us more participate in the Tenth Anniversary confident to face what in God's Providence TV Station suspends Christmas Sweepstakes. The grand prize, · wi ll be yet a more glorious future." to be awarded at a Dec. 15 drawing, is a For further details on the pilgrimage, anti-Catholic ads beautiful. four-piece porcelain nativity be sure to check your December Ne1cs­ scene, "The First Christmas," created letter mailing. The Catholic League has persuaded by the artists at America's oldest existing New York City's WNEW-TV to halt art porcelain studio, Cybis. of Trenton, advertisements for an anti-Catholic book N.J. (See accompanying photo.) entitled Who Is the Beast? Since the grand prize (valued at $800) Author Herbert W. Armstrong's inter­ has been donated by Cy bis, entries need pretation of the biblical book of Revelation not be accompanied by a contribution to concludes "that the 'harlot woman,' the League. But, of course, all proceeds Babylon the Great, is the Roman Catholic from the sweepstakes will be used to Church," to which he imputes lying, defend the Church and religious freedom deception, wickedness, evil and sin. rights. Be sure to watch for the special In response to complaints from Father mailing later this month. Peter Stravinskas, the League's East Coast director of development. station management agreed to put the offensive Pilgrimage to Europe ads "on hold" while WNEW's legal department studied the matter further. Upon completion of the legal analysis, In your December Newsletter mailing the station announced it would perman­ you will find a brochure inviting you to ently discontinue the ads. accompany League President Rev. Vir­ In a letter to Muriel Reese of the gil C. Blum, S.J., and Father Peter station's legal department, Father Strav­ Stravinskas, the League's East Coast in skas expressed the League's gratitude director of development, on a 20-day for ensuring that "the Armstrong broad­ pilgrimage to Europe. casts no longer serve as purveyors of Besides defending the rights of Cath­ .Th is porcelai11 nati rity scene is th e grand anti-Catholic Iiterature ." Your assistance olics in secular society, the League also prize in th e League 's Ten th A m1i1•ersanJ has "made this victory for tolerance. endeavors to foster Catholic pride by Christmas S11'eepstakes. pluralism and fair play possible." The President's Desk by Virgil C. Blum, S.). Public schools push ~ecularism ity and_prohibits as well the establish­ data to persuade students that the new ment of a secular religion." sexual morality has been widely accepted It is the · teaching of Secularism in among teenagers.Noting that the authors public schools, more so than other "isms," of the book regard sex among teenagers to which parents are vigorously object­ as an important means of facilitating ing today. And it is these protests, says communications, Ravitch writes: "An A fed eral judge in Alabama recently Lee Boothby, general counsel for Amer­ anonymous 15-year-old boy is quoted as blocked two laws that permitted teachers icans United for Separation of Church saying that sex is a way to get to know a to lead "willing" public school students and State, that will soon spark "wholly girl better, and a 16-year-old girl is in prayer. But he also said that courts new litigation". quoted as saying, 'Maybe you should ball first, then ball again. Because I find that must face the fact that public schools Its pri nciples ... teach Secularism. I've got a whole new basis for having sex with somebody, you know, after balling Distr ict J udge W. Brevard Hand said That is not surprising. Although more that he was duty-bound by U.S. Supreme gets us talking together.'... The practice than 80 percent of public school parents of 'swinging' .. .is described benignly as Cou rt precedents to block the Alabama want traditional religious values rein­ laws. However. taking note of the reli­ 'a means of satisfying sexual needs for forced by public education, the schools, diversity."' giou s freedom rights of all public school for all practical purposes, are teaching students. he said thatcourtsaregoingto Secularism. Secularism teaches that ... And its consequences have to co nsider religions other than there is no God, that man can create for Christianity when they prohibit religious himself a paradise on earth, that there With America's youth being system­ activities in schools under the First are no values beyond secular or this­ atically taught such Secularist sexual Amendment. worldly values, and that man's highest ethics in our public schools, it is no Tearing away the scales of judicial achievements are found in sex, money wonder that herpes is epidemic, that a blindness, Judge Hand said in Jaffree r. and power. million teenage girls become pregnant Jam es: "It is common knowledge that Parents are particularly angered by each year in the U .S., that out of wedlock mi scellaneous doctrines such as evolu­ the religious orientation of sex educa­ births have tripled in the past 20 years, tion , soc ia lism. communism, secularism, tion courses. Although most parents and that abortion has become the nation's humanism. and other concepts are ad­ approve of sex education, they protest most common surgical procedure. vanced in the public schools. " its being taught wit:1 Secularist rather Nor is it any wonder parents are now And refer r ing to the Supreme Cou r t's than Christian values. challenging with new vigor and deter­ declarati on that "Secularism " is a reli­ A brief look at a sex education text­ mination the teaching of such Secularist gion under the First Amendmen t.J udge book currently being used in public values in our public schools. And. because Hand con tinu ed: "It is time to recogn ize schools reveals why sex education, as of those mounting parental challenges, that the consti tutional definit io n of reli­ now taught. arouses a storm of oppos i­ the courts may finally be compelled to gion encompasses more than Christian- tion and leads to attacks on the teaching decide whether the rejection of Chris­ of Secul arism in our public schools. tian values and the teaching of Secula­ The book, writes Diane Ravitch (A mer­ rism in public schools violate the First Supplement compares ican Educa tor, Fall 1982) , reli es on poll Amendment. Holocaust and abortion Members of the Catholi c League staff regard this month's supplement article Brochure documents abortion holocaust as per haps the most important of the more than 100 su pplements pu blished The photo on the front page of the abortion or are ambivalent toward it. by the League since 1973. Nrwsletter and two of the photos in this The American Holocaust Brochure is In •'The Holocaust and Abortion, " Rev. month's supplement were provided by designed as a tool to help pro-life people James T. Burtchaell. C. S.C ., explores the Center for Documentation of the persuade them that action must be taken seven characteristics common to both American Holocaust, which has recently to stop abortion now. Because of the bro­ the Nazi Holocaust and the current published a brochure detailing the hor­ chure's powerful appeal to the conscience, epidemic of abortions in the United rors of the "Weisberg incident" in which pro-life people say it enables them to call States. On ce ex posed to his meticul ous, the bodies of more than 16,000 aborted confidently upon public officials, medi­ in sightful a nd scholarly analysis. few babies were found in a shipping con­ cal personnel and members of the mass reade rs will be able to escape the tainer in Southern California (see the media, urging them to use their influ­ horrifyi ng similarities between abortion article on page 1). ence to end the prenatal killing of child­ and the Holocaust. Unfolded, the brochure is a 19 by 25 ren in America. The artic:le, twice the length of a inch sheet with seven color and six The brochure is available from the normal supplement. was excer pted from black-and-white photos of victims of the Center for the Documentation of the a longer essay on the same topic, published Amer ican Holocaust. The photos pro­ American Holocaust, P.O. Box 99C, Palm this year in Rachel Wee71i 11g and Other vide graphic documentation of the human­ Springs, CA 92263, at the following E ssa /J8 011 A hortio 11 . The 383-page hard­ ity of the victims and the inhumanity of rates: 1 copy for $1 or 10 copies for $5 bou nd edition of Father Burtchaell's the so-called abortion liberty which has post-paid via first-class mail; and, in boo k is aYa il able at $20 from Andrews taken their lives. bulk orders, 100 copies for $25 or 1,000 and !Il e.M ee!, Inc., 44 00 Johnso n Drive. Many public opinion leaders and deci­ copies for $220, plus shipping. F a irw2y, Kansas· G6205. sion makers either approve of legalized' I 'APR - 1 2 f98J

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W ILLIAM. F. GAVIN Special Assistant to Rep. Robert H. Michel The Republican Leader

'- ~ (p~,U~ ' Vol. 10, No. 4 April, 1983

Coach Shula, Bi ops Francis and inside ••• Mc Nicholas to h adline anniversary fete

Most Reverend Joseph Abel rancis, Cathedral, will be Most Reverend Joseph S.V.D.,auxiliarybishopofNew . rk, N.J., A. McNicholas, bishop of Springfield, Catholic League spokesmen appeared will be the principal celebrant of the Ill. on national television four times during concelebrated Solemn Pont'fical Mass Bishop Francis is a member of the F ebruary. Chairman James Hitchcock to be held May 21 in honor of e Catholic Catholic League's Board of Directors discussed "Sister Mary Ignatius" on two League's 10th anniversary and president of the National Black occasions, and Director of Public Affairs Homilistat the Mass, wl), ch will begin Catholic Clergy Caucus. Bishop McNi­ Michael Schwartz twice defended the at 6:30 p.m. in New York'· St. Patrick's cholas is chairman of the National Con­ right of parents to be notifi ed when a ference of Catholic Bishops' Committee federally funded agency gives their minor on Liaison with Priests, Religious and daughters prescription birth control Laity. drugs. For details, see page 2. A reception and dinner will follow the ••• Mass, beginning at 7:30 p.rn. at the Burial of the 16,433 "shippi ng con- Waldorf-Astoria. Miami Dolphins Coach tainer" abortion victims has again been Don Shula will be keynote speaker. His delayed through the legal maneuvering Dolphins won the Super Bowl in 1972 of a Los Angeles abortion clinic. See the and 1973, and they almost added a third article on page 3. National Football League championship ••• last January when they lost a close Also on page 3 is an article announc- Super Bowl game to the Washington in g a new Catholic League pu blication: Redskins. Coristi tut ional R1'ghts and R eligious Prej­ ud ice: Ca tholic E ducation as th e Battle­ Motivator ground, a221-page book by Father Peter Stravi nskas, the League's East Coast · Shula is widely regarded not only as a director of development. · Coach Don Shula top football strategist but also as an ... : exceptional motivator of players. His teams are characterized by a closeness Thismonth's Heritagecolumn,?n Pf 7e Plaudits from Reagan, and cameraderie more often seen among 5. recounts the efforts of the Knights of Col umbus, in the early 20th centut y, to Archbishop Laghi college players than among pros. Dur­ counter the widespread circulatidn of a ing the recent playoff series, several tel­ phony oath in which Knights al ~gedly The Catholic League's upcoming Tenth evision announcers commented that the swore to kil l all Protestants, etc . • Anniversary celebration has occasioned fellowship among Dolphin players is in letters of congratulations from Presi­ art attributable to the team prayer ••• dent Ronald Reagan and from Archbi­ eetings led by Shula. Although the federal courts ad ear­ shop Pio Laghi, the Apostolic Delegate Catholic League President Rev. Vir­ lier said that students in Gui derland, to the United States. gil C. Blum, S.J., said he is extremely N.Y., could not conduct pra er meet­ "This occasion," wrote President Rea­ p eased that the League has as the fea­ ings on public school prop rty, they gan, "presents a special opportunity for t red speaker a Catholic American whose were doing it anyway-unti a substi­ me to express my continuing high regard faith suffuses his public as well as his tute teacher blew the whist! on them. for the work of your organization. The p ivate life. "Don Shula is an exemplar See the article on page 6. fi Ca tholic League has played an instru­ o how w e all should respond to the call ••• mental part in preserving the values o the Second Vatican Council 'to pene­ The League will soon p b lish an and ethics of the Judeo-Christian tradi­ t ate society with a Christian spirit,"' he im portant new book on the in t itutional tion of our nation. id, adding, "I am sure that everyone anti-Catholicism of The B os n Globe, "You have repeatedly demonstrated ' ho attends our dinner will hear a very written by Pat Largess, vice resident thoughtful leadership and concern in nspiring and enlightening talk by Coach of the Massachusetts Chapter. profile the effort to protect the sanctity of inno­ hula." · of the author appears on page cent human life. The League has also Reservations for the reception and ••• worked strenuously to strengthen the dinner can be made by writing to the In his regular column on p~ e 8, role of the family in our society, bring an League's East Coast office, Suite 3B, Father Blum asserts that presi ntial end to religious discrimination in employ­ 1901 Olden A venue Extension, Trenton, candidate Walter Mondale has air y ment, and insure the rights of those with N.J. 08618. Individual admissions to the id entified Catholic voters as politi · I a strong spiritual commitment. gala celebration are $100; groups may pygmies. (Continued on page 6 .. wish to reserve a table for 10 at $1,000. 1 Four programs during February a ional television exposure for the League

The Catholic League gained national Schwartz supported the notice rule, tive and Archbishop John May agreed television exposure on four separate arguing that parents have a right to th.rt the production was offensive to occasions during the month of February. know what the government is doing to Catholics. Film clips of the play, featur­ On Feb. 1. Michael Schwartz, the their children. Wattleton opposed it, ing a scene in which a doll was crucified, League's director of public affairs, was claiming the regulation was legally tended to support their objections, the guest. together with F aye Wattleton, defective and would lead to undesirable although the commentator insisted that president of the Planned Parenthood social consequences. the "real issue" was free speech rather Federation of America, in a 15-minute than the acceptability of anti-Catholic discussion of the parental notification 'Sunday Morning' bigotry. rule proposed by the Department of The "Sister Mary Ignatius" issue Health and Human Services when a On Feb. 6. CBS-TV's magazine show caught the eye of popular talk show host federally subsidized agency gives pres­ "Sunday Morning," hosted by Charles Phil Donahue, who invited Prof. Hitch­ cription birth control drugs to girls 17 Kuralt. included a segment on the con­ cock to be his guest on an hour-long pro­ years of age and younger. The program. troversy in St. Louis over the play "Sis­ gram on the subject. Hitchcock was hosted b\' Phil Donahue. was aired ter Mary Ignatius Explains It All For joined in objecting to the play by Stanley nationall;· that same evening as part of You." Prof. James Hitchcock, chairman Anderman of the St. Louis office of the the ABC-TV news program "The Last of the League's Board of Directors, Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, Word." offered the Catholic League's perspec- who articulately denounced the presen­ tation as an injection ofreligious bigotry into the community. Appearing in defense of the production were Fontaine Syer. e r les discourage infanticide artistic director of the theater company which presented the play in St. Louis and the individual who was chiefly The Catholic League has commended the President's earlier directive. which responsible for selecting this play for President Reagan and the Department was issued after the Catholic League production in that city; and a member of Health and Human Services (HHS) advised the White House that Section of the faculty at a Chicago seminary, for their recent efforts to discourage the 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 who said he "saw nothing wrong with" practice of infanticide against handi­ prohibits discrimination against handi­ the play. capped infants. capped persons in federally assisted That program was taped on Feb. 16 HHS announced March 2 that it will facilities. and syndicated to more than 200 sta­ require all federally funded hospitals to The League initiative and the White tions in the United States and Canada. It post and keep posted in a conspicuous House response to it were inspired by was broadcast during late February place in delivery. pediatric and mater­ the death of "Baby Doe" on April 15 , and March, depending on local schedules. nitv wards. and nurse ries (including 1982. Born with Down's syndrome in a On Feb. 28, Donahue im·ited Schwartz int~nsive care nurseries) a noti ce stating Bloomington. Ind .. hospital. Baby Doe and Wattleton back for a rematch on his that "discriminatory failure to feed and was denied food. water and medical hour-long daily program. Joining them care for handicapped infants in this treatment at his parents' request and in a discussion of the parental notice facility is prohibited by federal law." with the blessings of three separate rule was Janet Benshoof of the ACLU's Catholic League General Counsel Patrick courts. Reproductive Freedom Project. Monag-han hailed the measures as "a In letters tu President Reagan and strong expression of respect for the Acting HHS Sec retary Thomas R. Don­ League argument ~ sanctity of human life." nelly. Jr .. Monaghan said the new HHS regulations will be of great help in Schwartz again argued that govern­ Toll-free hotline deterring further deaths of handicapped ment secrec~, in the dispensing of con­ infants through the denial of nourish­ traceptive drugs to minor girls was a The required notices will advise that ment and health care. violation of the rights of families. and a·nyone having knowledge that a handi­ Monaghan also welcomed the hotline that these programs had contributed to capped infant is being disc riminatorily for reporting violations. "The govern­ the dramatic increase in premarital denied nutrition or medical care should ment's promise of enforcement will be pregnancy among teenagers. while the immediately contact a toll-free 24-hour more effective in saving lives than our secrecy prevented any constructive HHS hotline. or the state child protec­ ongoing efforts to encourage compliance solution to the problem. Benshoof claimed tive agency, to report the a ll eged ·with Section 504 through reporting that it would be illegal and "totalitar­ violation. forms," he said . ian" for the government to reveal to par­ The notices will also state that "failure Last summer Monaghan and Prof. ents that it was giving hazardous drugs to feed and care for infants may also Charles Rice of Notre Dame University to their children, while Wattleton con­ violate the criminal and civil laws of Law School drafted a legal memoran­ tended that the only alternative to yo ur state." dum which explained Section 50ii's legal government secrecy in this matter would Last April 30, at the urging of the protection of handicapped infants. and be more teenage pregnancies. Members Catholic League, President Reagan they prepared a discrimination complaint of the studio audience contributed valu­ directed HHS to notify hospitals that form designed to aid citizens in report­ able comments on the health risks of their federal fundings will be halted if ing incidents of discrimination to HHS. contraceptive drugs, the methods of they permit handicapped persons to die Tens of thousands of the memoranda operation in birth control centers for by starvation or denial of routine medi­ and complaint forms were then distrib­ teenagers. and the concerns and rights cal care. uted bv the Catholi c League to health of parents. The recently announced regulations care facilities, pro-life organizations and This program was broadcast in local are in tended to ensure compliance with interested citizens across the country .. markets during March and early April. 2 CONSTITUTIONA~ IGHTS- - Abortionis~s delay mass burial AN ~ RELIGIOUS PREJUDICE: of 16,433 abortion victims

Burial for the 16,433 abortion victims (ACLU). Before the stay expires on March discovered more than ·a year ago in an 17, the abortion clinic is expected to file abandoned shipping container has again an appeal of Judge Chernow's decision, been delayed through the legal maneuv­ tnus further delaying the burial. ering of a Los Angeles abortion clinic. In opposing the abortion clinic's motion In a December 22 court order, Los for a stay, Patrick Monaghan, Catholic Angeles Superior Court Judge Eli League general counsel, and League Chernow had granted the Catholic attorney, Paul Freese of Los Angeles, League's request that the court autho­ stated that the clinic had repeatedly rize burial. At that time, Judge Cher­ sought to use the powers of the court to now also explicitly recognized the First disrupt the lawful and reasonable reli­ Amendment rights of religious-minded gious expressions planned in connection citizens to conduct a memorial service in with the expected burial of the human conjunction with the burial. bodies. Before the burial could take place, "The abortion clinic's contention," the however, a California Court of Appeals, Catholic League attorneys stated, "is on March 3, granted a two-week stay at that if the Supreme Court and other the request of the abortion clinic, the courts have denied the humanity of the Feminist Women's Health Center, and unborn child, this prohibits private citi­ the American Civil Liberties Union zens from recognizing the fact of their humanity. The Constitutional rights of free religious speech of American citi­ Book e pt ores educational freed om zens protesting this Holocaust ought not be further denied by the Government by The Catholic League has published an ents, would improve educational quality a stay or other injunctive procedures." au thoritative new book on educational through increased competition, and is "Human beings cannot underestimate freedom and private schools entitled supported by a majority of Americans the ghoulishness of the abortion cul­ C01i8fi tution al Rights and Religious notwithstanding the substantial opposi­ tists," said Monaghan. "Government Prejudice: Cath olic Education as th e tion generated through appeals to anti­ sponsored mass funerals, promoted by Battlegru1111 d. by Father Peter Strav­ Catholicism. the law in the twentieth century, have in skas, the League's East Coast director On the constitutional level, Father tended to run towards 'incine.ration' of devel opment. Stravinskas concludes that the First (Auschwitz) as requested by the ACLU; In a foreword to the 221-page hard­ Amendment's prohibition of an estab- however, there is also the precedent for bound book, Terence Cardinal Cooke, 1i shment of religion was primarily what their advocates have termed 'under­ Archbishop of New York, says: "This designed to prevent the erection of a ground storage' (Babi Yar). Then as study \\'i ll be a help to enable fa ir­ government-sponsored national church. now, there will be public prayer regard­ mi nded pe rso ns to examine .the issues He contends that the first 125 years of less. In time, there will be full recogni­ involved. With many Americans, I look Uni ted States hi story and the success of tion of the reality of what was done, and for \\'ard to the day \\'hen all parents-of other Western democracies in providing by whom." every economic group-will be able to · aid to private school parents while exercise freedom of choice in the ed uca­ maintaining separation of church and tion of their children." state demonstrate that such aid could be Call - don't write F ather Stravinskas said he wrote the easily implemented in the United States. book as a means to trace and explore the The book also provides penetrating A telephone call can often be more constitutional possibilities for federal insights into the consistent relationship effective than a letter in responding to fin ancial assistance to parents who choose that exists between a justice's image of offensive or inaccurate radio news broad­ private schools for their ch ildren. parochial schools and how he votes on casts. Although that topic has been discussed given educational cases before the Court. According to a League member from and debated fo r over a century, F ather New York, a local radio station's recent Stravinskas's book is the first systematic Coons comments 7 a.m. news included a report on the new attempt to link the constitutional ques­ code of c2.non law which began by say­ t io n with that of religious prejudice­ Professor John E. Coons of the Uni­ ing that women are still second-class particularly as regards the Supreme versity of California at Berkelely and a citizens in the Church because they still Court's perception of the nature and member of the Catholic League's Board can't be ordained. · purpose of Catholic schools. of Directors said of the book: It "opens a The League member phoned the sta­ At the public policy level, F a ther new phase in the dialogue over the roles t ion immediately, complaining that the Strav inskas discovered that aid to pri­ of sectarian education in a society that remark was snide and offensive, and vate school parents has ample precend- calls itself free, but leaves poor and that it ignored the Church's teaching on middle-class families without choice the theology of the priesthood. The edi­ Catholic League Newsletter is published by the Catholic League for Religious and Civil among schools." And William D: Valente tor apologized and said the station would Rights. 1100 W We lls St .. Mil., W is. 53233. of Villanova University has found it "at not use the tape again. James Hitchcock ...... Chairman once a scholarly and practical exposi­ 'Tm convinced that with news broad­ Virgil C. Blum. S.J ...... President tion of one of the great political issues of casts,' especially on the radio. the best John Hansen ...... Treasure r our society." response is a prompt, polite, but firm Ann Brosna n ...... Secretary Orlan Love ...... Director of Publications The Catholic League will soon offer telephone call," the member said. "A let­ Annual membership dues: $15 Co nstituti01ial Rights and Religious ter might have gotten an apology, but it Contributions are tax deductible. Prejudice to League members at a sub­ would not have kept the offensive tape stantially discounted rate. off the 8 a.m. news." 3 (\_ /\_DOCKET 1 .....,___ - Congress tries to contain evil of abortion By Patrick Monaghan General Counsel The thrust of the Respect Human Life coin recognized slavery to be. so with tributing it. Abortion, like slavery and Act of 1983, recently introduced by abortion-the evil must be contained. cancer, must be discouraged when it Congressman Henry J . Hyde, is to estab­ The Respect Human Life Act does cannot be stopped, and decisively des­ lish a minimum federal policy in the recognize abortion and infanticide for troyed when possible. The Respect entire area of abortion and infanticide. what they are-evil. It is one thing to Human Life Act is a step in the right The bill does not go so far as to recog­ admit that abortion is with us, quite direction. nize constitutional protection for unborn another to make it the official policy of With the passage of the Respect Human children under the ambit of the 14th our nation, with the support of our laws, Life Act perhaps Congress can free Amendment, but it obviously does not the use of our money, and to promote and itself to get down to the very heart of this . preclude such recognition. The bill adopts encourage it with all the powers of state country's real business-the forging of a some of the findings from Senator John and society. consensus to respect life. A consensus East's Committee hearings on human The Hyde Amendment has been passed that mothers and fathers should not kill life. Section 1 of the legislation states in every fiscal year since 1976. Every or abuse their children, born or unborn. that: year this touches off an intense legisla­ A consensus that those "wanted" child­ "The Congress finds that, tive battle which brings the government ren who escaped the abortionist should (a) It is the policy of the Govern­ to a halt. The Respect Human Life Act not now grow up to follow the example ment of the United States to protect would end this by making the Hyde set by their parents toward their incon­ innocent life, both befor~and after birth, Amendment a permanent part of our venient and slain brothers and sisters, and that the Government of the United substantive law. and by choice kill the "unwanted old"­ States affirms that all human beings are Those with true compassion for the even if it would improve the fiscal endowed by their creator with certain poor would no more support abortion soundness of Social Securitv. inalienable rights among which is the "for" the poor than they would support The Respect Human Life" Act of 1983 right to life, as embodied in our Declara­ heroin "for" the poor. Evil is evil, and as is an attempt to begin to respond tion of Independence." evil. it is not amenable to egalitarian appropriately to the blood-dimmed tide The Respect Human Life Act codifies and equal protection arguments for dis- engulfing us. most of the current restrictions on the federal financing of abortion. With an exception for the life of the mother if the child were carried to term, no agency of Paper questions bisho 's veracity the United States would be authorized to perform or promote abortions, nor The Catholic League has admoni shed tive might express such a sentiment." could fed eral funds be used to pay for the Stockton (California) Record for The League later learned that if the abortions. publicly accusing the Bishop of Stock­ Record had exercised journalistic respons­ Lastly .. the bi ll establishes a right of ton of deliberately making a false state­ ibility and common courtesy, it would direct appeal to the United States ment. ha e had no reason at all to impugn the Supreme Court if any state legislation In its Sunday, Feb. 6 edition, the bishop's integrity. prohibiting or restricting abortion or Rl'cord published a lengthy lead editor­ According to Bishop Mahony, he infanticide. which is expressly based on ial entitled "Bishop should be ashamed mentioned the press not in his speech the provisions of the Respect Human of comments on the press." Alluding to a but only in response to a later question Life Act, is invalidated by any court of Feb. 1 speech by Bishop Roger Mahony regarding obstacles to the successful the United States. at R local Rotary Club meeting. the edi­ negotiation of a nuclear arms treaty torial contended that the bishop had bet\,•een the United States and the Soviet Judicial imperialism made the "outrageous claim that an Union. In that context. he expressed the anonymous executive of a California opinion that negotiations should be direct The Respect Human Life Act is an nev.;spaper chain had told him that 'it is rather than conducted through initia­ attempt to counter the imperial decrees our job to sel l newspapers. not to tell the ti es and responses in the media. of judges' actions under the guise of truth'." judicial re\'ie\,. when such actions are in Asserting that the bishop's alleged Quotation fact unconstitutional acts of judicial statement "is an unmitigated falsehood. supremacy. It is an effort to see if the and Mahony knows it," the editorial Then, recalling his own past frustra­ center can hold or if things must fall concluded: "It is as much a sin in our tions with inaccurate and misleading apart. business as it is in the church, Bishop press experiences, he repeated a quote Critics of the bill may assert that it is Mahony, to bear false witness. For which he attributed to the executive edi­ an attempt to "legislate morality." To shame." tor of a newspaper chain: "Newspapers this, Mr. Hyde has stated "if you take are in busi ness to sell newspapers; they morality out of law, you're left with League response are not in business to tell the trut.h." force. And how many holocausts do we In a letter to the editorial page editor have to endure on this planet to know In a letter to the editor, the Catholic oftheRecord, Bi shop Mahony explained that force is a terrible way to judge right League advised the Record that it ought that there is a significant difference from wrong? Morality belongs in the to have considered two points before it between his actual words about the bus­ law." denounced the bishop. "First," said the iness of newspaper s and the quote The Respect Human Life Act recog­ League, "it is not entirely likely that a attributed to him in the editorial (about nizes that the total abolition of abortion bishop would make up a statement like the job of journalists). He also raised is. at the moment, not possible. Like the that out of thin air (and) second . it is not several questions about the Record's coiled snake in the cradle which Lin- inconcei\'able that a newspaper execu- (Co11tin11ed on page 5) 4 'tiERITAGE The bogus oath of the Knights of Columbus

A classic technique of anti-Catholic Masons .. .to extirpate them from the face Catholics turned this rebuke into a vic­ agitators has been to attribute to Cathol­ of the whole earth," and to "hang, burn, ·tory for themselves, by re_p rinti!)g the ics conspiratorial designs on the li ves waste, boil, (lay, strangle, and bury oath from the Coriyressional Recora, and liberties of non-Catholics. One of the alive these infamous heretics, rip up the thus lending it an aura of authenticity. most infamous and most gruesome of stomachs and wombs of their women, The next step the Knights of Colum­ these alleged conspiracies was embo­ and crush their infants' heads against bus took in their own defense was to died in a bogus "Secret Jesui t Oath," the walls in order to annihilate their initiate legal proceedings for criminal which apparently originated in the 16th execrable race." libel against Charles Meionegai, aPh il­ century, when it was concocted by a Pol­ These sanguinary sentiments were adelphia printer, in 1914. Megonegal ish Jesuit who had defected from the broadcast throughout the land in lea­ pleaded guilty to the charge, and with Soc iety and the Church. flets, newspapers and sermons during the consent of the plaintiffs, received a This same piece of defamation was 1912. A congressional committee inves­ suspended sentence. dusted off and refurbished for Ameri­ tigated the hoax early in 1913 when Later that same year Knig hts in Cali­ can audiences in 1912 by an anti-Catholic Eugene Bonniwell, a Knight of Colum­ fornia filed similar charges against the group called the Guardians of Liberty. bus and defeated candidate for Con­ editor of a socialist newspaper in Santa In the Amer ican version, however, the gress from Philadelphia, claimed that Cruz who had reprinted the oath. In a conspirators were said to be the Knights his opponent had libeled him by circu­ jury trial, the editor was found guilty of of Columbus. Fourth Degree Knights latingthe oath. The committee condemned libel, and that conviction was upheld on we r E: accused of swearing to "make and the spurious oath, but exonerated the appeal. wage relentless war,.secretly and openly, victorious candidate of responsibility During that same summer of 1914, against all heretics, Protestants and for its distribution. Ironically, the anti- the editors of a Mankato, Minnesota daily newspaper were successfully prosecuted for the same offense. The Bishop replies to paper (Continuedfrom page 4) purpose of these prosecutions, of course, was not to punish the offenders (who cove rage of hi s talk to the Rotarians: After hearing the bishop's side of the were just a random few of thousands of "Why was no news story reported on story, one can't help entertaining yet anti-Catholic propagandists who were the full contents of my talk to the Rotar­ another question: spreading this defamation) or to extract ians? If two Record reporters were pres­ Why would a newspaper ignore a financial damages, but to discredit in ent at the talk, why did they not identify bishop's speech on nuclear disarmament public these false charges against the themselves and ask me any cl ar ifying and fo cus instead on his off-hand remark Knights. questions? Why did not the editorial about the press, with the resul t being a page editor - who was not present for lengthy lead editorial questioning the Masons investigate the talk - give me a call to ask about my bishop's veracity published five days remarks, intentions and points? And later in the paper's Sunday edition? In pursuit of this same objective, the why did the Record feel that this very One answer might be the paper's per­ K. of C. leadership in California, noting minor issue deserved to be blown into a fectly understandable strong interest in that the bogus oath was harshly anti­ Sunday edition major editorial?" · selling newspapers. Masonic, invited a committee of leading Masons in their state to investigate for themsel es the rituals and ceremonies of the Knights. Their report gave the Knights of Columbus a clean bill of health and denounced the oath as "scur­ rilous, wicked and libelous." A copy of the Masons' report was placed in the Congress1·on al Reeord by a California Congressman who was a prominent Mason. Although the Knights of Columbus had worked effectively in exposing the oath as fraudulent, the lie did not die easily. The bogus Knights of Columbus oath was a mainstay of the anti-Catholic propaganda of the Ku Klux Klan during the twenties, and it played a prominent role in the anti-Catholic ag itation that surrounded the presidential elections of 1928 and 1960. More recently, it has been reprinted Winners of the Long Island Chapter's annual student essay contest are pictured with in a 1981 book by Indiana fai th healer Chapter President William Lindner and Father Peter Stravinskas. To the left are the Win Worley and, regaining its original high school winners: Anthony Brunet of Chaminade (runner-up) , Ann Bardwil of attribution to the Jesuits, it forms the Maria Regina (runner-up), and Jeanne Kenney of Maria Regina (first place). To the dramatic climax to one of the comic rig ht are the junior high winners: Christina Mackell of Manhasset St. Mary's (first book hate tracts put out by the most t place) , Eugene T. Reilly of St. Ignatius Loyola (runner-up), and Noreen Anne Reilly of venomous of present-day professional ;' • St. Ignatius Loyola (runner-up) . anti-Catholics, Al berto Rivera. i 5 r, Voluntary prayer flares up at Guilderland ·school

Episodes of voluntary prayer have school board, by permitting all manner other teachers had known about it, but again broken out at Guilderland (N.Y.) of other groups to meet on school prop­ no one said anything until the substitute Central High School, despite a recent erty, had created a public forum. By teacher turned us in." federal court ban on such activity. depriving the prayer group of access to Zinnanti said other students had On Feb. 17, responding to complaints that forum, they argued, the board had mocked and harassed those in the prayer from a substitute teacher, school offi­ singled out its members for discrimina­ group. "They would swear at us and call cials ordered 45 Gu ilderland students to tory treatment based solely on the reli­ us names," he said. "But that didn't stop engaging in the "illegal" prayer gious content of their proposed speech. bother us. In the Bible it says we will be meeti ngs that they had been co nducting Nevertheless, on Dec. 14, 1981, the persecuted." dail~· for se\'eral weeks in a school Supreme Court left intact lower court Catholic League President Rev. Vir­ corridor. rulings which said religion would be gil C. Blum, S.J., said the Guilderland Catholic League attorneys had earlier impermissibly advanced if the Guilder­ situation is emblematic of the entire represented six Guilderland studen ts land students were allowed to conduct secularist determination to privatize (since graduated) who had sued the prayer meetings on school property. religion and to drive it completely out of school board in an effort to gain legal Apparently, however, many Guilder­ government schools. "According to the recognition of thei r right to hold volun­ land students were not greatly daunted secularists," he said, "voluntary prayer tary prayer meetings on school property by the Court's denial of their right to is permitted in public schools. But when during off-sc hool hours. pray. According to Louis Zinnanti, a they say 'voluntary prayer,' they mean The League took the case all the way senior at Guilderland, the students began entirely inconspicuous silent prayer by to the U.S. Supreme Court. arguing that gathering in a school hallway before an individual. You can pray, all right, as the school board's prohibition of the classes just prior to last Christmas. long as no one knows you're doing it. But voluntary prayer meetjngs violated the "We would stand in a circle, hold you're in trouble with the law if you bear students' freedom of speech, freedom of hands and pray aloud," he said. "We had public witness to your belief in God. assembly and religious freedom. been doing it right out in the open and You'd think we were living in atheistic League attorneys contended that the Russia."

Four new directors named to League Board

The Catholic League has named two prominent business leaders, a family rights advocate and a Catholic League activist to its board of directors. Elected to the League board at its annual meeting Feb. 12 in Chicago were Joseph Hilly, vice president for labor relations at Trans-World Airlines:James P . .McLaughlin, former president of United Parcel Service; Mrs. Ricardo Montalban, a pro-life and family rights advocate, and Dr. An thony Czajkowski. president of the Catholic League's Wash­ ington Chapter. Hilly, an attorney who graduated from Fordham University, is a long-time Le ague President Rev . Virgil C. Blum, S.J. , and Chairman James Hitchcock listen as Catholic League member and suppor­ Michael Schwartz, the League's director of public affairs, makes a point at the recent ter. He has served on the advisory boards Board of Directors meeting in Chicago. of the League's Brooklyn and Manhat­ tan Chapters. Congratulations (Cn11ti1111edfro111 page 1) McLaughlin, who rose from driver to president of UPS, serves on a presiden­ "Once again. cong-ratu lations on reach­ "The Holy Father addressed the fol­ tial committee charged with cultural ing this si gnifi cant milestone in the hi s­ low ing remarks to the College of Cardi­ exchanges between the United States tory of your organization. You have my nals at the conclusion of their Second and the Soviet Union. best \\'i shes for continued success in the Plenary Meeting on Nov. 26, 1982: Mrs. Montalban gains visibility for fut ure." "Let us together praise the Lord who her pro-I ife and pro-family activities Archbishop Laghi \\'rote: "The service has g iven us the energy and the con­ through her association with two like­ \\'hich the Cathol ic League has given stancy to give a new witness of our total minded relatives: her husband, actor during the past decade well deserves adhesion to the Church, of our living Ricardo Montalban, and her sister, particular recognition. Being unable to commitment, so that she may be able actress Loretta Young. participate in the anniversary celebra­ happily to continue in the world in the Dr. Czajkowski. who was nominated tion you are planning, I wi sh to take this search of a continually better utilization for the board position by a vote of his opportunity to share so me comments of of the means at her disposal, the mission fellow chapter presidents, is a retired Pope J ohn Paul II whi ch I find to be entrusted to her by Christ the Lord for history professor and division chief for appropriate fo r the occasion. the service of man."' the Central Intelligence Agency. 6 Largess documents Globe's bias

Old axioms often survive precisely dence to his words: "I'm very much because they're true. In the case of Pat involved in the city of Boston and dedi­ Largess, vice president of the League's cated to its betterment." Massachusetts Chapter, there's one that Pat finds it unfortunate that members proves especially appropriate: If you of the ruling elite in Boston do not want something done, get a busy person approve of religious freedom rights for to do it. Catholics. "The people of this city are Largess has recently completed an 80- predominantly Catholic," he said, "but page book on the institutional anti-Cath­ they sure take a lot of grief for it. It's a olicism of Th e Boston Globe. Entitled very strange and ironic situation, but Keeping Ca th olics in their Place: Th e the fact is it's difficult to survive as a Boston Globe's Cultural Imperialism, it Catholic in Massachusetts." will soon be published by the Catholic League. Robert P. Largess More than three years of Pat's spare Anti-Catholicism noted Vice-President, Massachusetts Chapter time went into researching and writing the book, and it clearly shows. Accord­ One prominent example of anti-Cath­ ing to Catholic Leagwe President Rev. olic sentiment has been the refusal of Virgil C. Blum. S.J., the book by Lar­ several municipalities to extend bus Screws tighten gess is the most sustained and thorough transportation to students attending effort to counter anti-Catholic defama­ Catholic schools, even though Massa­ in Lithuania tion in the 10-year history of the League. chusetts law requires equal service to private school students. Pat senses a The Catholic League has strongly pro­ Veteran teacher strong anti-Catholic sentiment growing tested the recent intensification of reli­ in Massachusetts, especially in this last gious persecution in Lithuania. Pat and hi s wife Jeannine have three year among certain local governments, Although Lithuania has been under children. ages 14 , 11 , and 1. After including Boston's. Soviet domination since 1940, more than attending a Jesuit high school and Bos­ Nonetheless. Pat remains adamant 80 percent of its 3.5 million citizens ton Coll ege. he earned a master's degree that a powerful offense is our best practice their Catholic faith with a fer­ in cultural anthropology from Brandeis defense. Thus he devotes many long vor similar to that of the neighboring Un iversity and has done fi eld work in hours ·to Catholic League activity. As Poles. In recent mcnths, however, Soviet the West Indies. A teacher in the Boston vice president of the Massachusetts officials have made it increasingly diffi­ public- school system si nce 1968, Pat's Chapter, he travels the state, promoting cult for them to do so. specialty is E ngli sh. but he has also League membership before parent Besides increasing their routine harass­ taught remedial math, science. and social groups, parish councils, Holy Name ment of Lithuanian Catholics, Soviet studies to disadvantaged students on the societies, and other organizations. In intelligence agents have been implicated junior-high level. addition, he edits the chapter newsletter in the deaths of three Catholic priests Pat belies the stereotyped view of the and serves as the "media contact man." since October of 1980. And, on January "anti-choice reactionary" in hi s concern "The League has demanded most of 26, 1983, for the first time in 10 years, a for the inner city poor; he has been a tax my elbow grease the past year," Pat Catholic priest faces imprisonment in reform advocate for Boston's urban and admits. "This is the outfit I'm really Lithuania for religious activity. minority communities for many years. throwing my efforts into." For which, of According to Tass, the Soviet news And as an acti\·ist in hi s neighborhood course, the League is pleased and grate­ agency, Father Alfonsas Svarinskas has civic association. Pat's deeds lend ere- ful. used the Church to cloak his "illegal a nti-constitutional and anti-state act­ ivities." eserve now for European tour In a letter to Anatole Dobrynin, the Catholic League advised the Soviet Now is the time for Catholic League many and Italy. ambassador to the United States that members to make their reservations for The tour will conclude with seven t he Soviet oppression of Catholics in the Catholic Heritage Tour to Europe. to glorious days in the Eternal City of Lithuania is one of the most tragic signs be conducted in connection with the Rome, where we are anticipating a pri­ of injustice in the world today. League's Tenth Anniversary Celebration. vate audience with our Holy Father, The League told Dobrynin that no Tourists wi ll leave New York on May Pope John Paul II. government can claim legitimacy when 22 for a 20-day pilgrimage led by League You are cordially invited to join with it denies its people the most fundamen­ President Rev. Virgil C. Blum, S.J ., and other members and friends of the Ca tho Iic tal of all human rights-religious free­ Father Peter Stravinskas, the League's League in celebrating our Tenth Anni­ dom. To do so, the League said, "strikes East Coast director of development. versary. Arrangements for the tour have at the heart of human freedom, and is an Highlights of the tour (see the accom­ been made by Faith Tours, a leading intolerable suppression of the fundament­ panying brochure) include the Shrine of national religious tour.operator whose al rights of man." Our Lady of Lou rdes. the Bavarian vil­ president, Thomas Mulroy, is a member To Jacil i tate expressions of supportjor lage of Oberammergau noted for the of the Catholic League. Information on Father S varinskas, we have included in Passion Play performances, and a host how to make your reservation is included this mait1·11g a postcard addressed to of other scenic places in Ireland, Ger- in the brochure. Ambassador Dobrynin. 7 The President's Desk by Virgil C. Blum, S.J. Mondale thinks Catholics are oli tical p gmies

many Catholic votes because he knows great deal to millions of Catholic voters. that Catholics (unlike public school Walter Mondale knows full well that teachers) do not base their votes on a he can oppose Catholic interests on mat­ In a recent article, I asserted that candidate's position on the vital issues­ ters such as tuition tax credits and still Catholic sc hool parents are nothing less they base their votes on appearances get a large share of Catholic votes as than political pygmies. and labels, such as religion, ethnicity long as he bears the Democratic label, to Because of their total lack of clout in and political party. which Catholics have been traditionally Congress, I observed, President Reagan Appearances are very important to loyal. could not persuade a single senator or Catholic voters. When Hugh Carey was Governor Mario Cuomo of New York congressman to co-sponsor hi s tuition elected governor of New York in 1974, organized his political campaign with tax credi t bill in the 96th Congress. for exampe, the Almanac of American the same elementary know ledge of Cath­ "American Catholic school parents are Politics attributed his victory to the fact olic political behavior. The failure of chumps, patsies, dopes, born-every­ ·that he voted like a Jewish liberal but Catholics to base their vote on candi­ minute suckers," I wrote. "They are pol­ looked like an Irish cop. dates' positions on vital issues enabled itical pygmies. And everyone in Wash­ The Almanac's point was that Jews him publicly to support elective abor­ ington knows it. From P'!-esident Reagan voted for Carey because they liked his tions and oppose tuition tax credits dur­ down to the low liest page." position on vital issues, while Catholics, ing his recent campaign, and yet enjoy Mv assessment of the political status ignoring his position on the issues, voted great support from Catholic voters of Catholi c schoo l parents has now been for Carey because, as he argued, "I am because, as he reasoned, "I am one of confirmed by the front-running Demo­ one of you." you." cratic candi date for the office of the Mondale, of course, will not impress Walter Mondale and Mario Cuomo president: Walter F. Mondale. many Catholics as being "one of them"; know, in short, that Catholics are politi­ In a recent letter to the president of but his appearance as the Democratic cal pygmies. the Long Island Chapter of the Catholic Party's standard bearer will mean a League fo r Religious and Civil Rights, Mondale \\' rote: "In response to your inquiry as to my views on tuit ion tax League objects to 'wr ngful life' suits credits. I have always been opposed to this type of legislation. " At a March 8 hearing conducted by a life regardless of condition." There you have it. Two years before Wisconsin legislative committee, Catholic Following Monaghan's presentation. the presidential election of 1984. Walter League General Counsel Patrick Mon­ another attorney testified that, indeed, Mondale has unceremoniously written aghan testified that there are obvious there is sometimes legal justification for off the concerns of Ca tho Iic and other moral and philosophical reasons why wrongful life suits. In an attempt at private school parents as bein g of no the legislature should not grant legal humor. the attorney then offered him­ relevance whatsoever to his ambition to status to so-called "wrongful life" law­ self as an example. to which Monaghan win the presid ency. suits. replied: "If that is the case, have you The committee hearing reflected the considered your obligation to mitigate Opposed to freedom gn)wing trend among lawyers to believe the damages?" that a parent or child has legal grounds Mondale's opposition to tuition tax to sue for damages on the basis that a credits is not rooted in a commitment to child's li fe or birth is wrongful. A typi­ Kolbe curriculum reduce federal expenditures for educa­ cal "wrongful birth" suit, filed by par­ St. Ma.n'milian Kolbe, an interfaith, tion. Quite the co ntrary. It is rooted in ents against a doctor, claims that, had interdisc iplinary curriculum project, has opposition to freedom of choice in the parents been properly advised by been developed and recently published education-a po litical position he must the doctor. they would have known that by the St. Louis Center for Holocaust take in order to assure the support of the the child was genetically defective and Studies and the St. Louis Catholic School well organi zed and politically potent 1.8 that, thus, they would have had the child Office. million-member National Education aborted. The curriculum is designed to increase Association.· The central problem with such a legal unde rsta nding of the life and martyr­ But, in doing so, isn't Mondale run­ theory, Monaghan told the committee dom of the recently canonized St. ning the r isk of alienating Catholic voters, members, "is the moral vacuousness of Maximilian, the Polish priest who per­ most of whom strongly approve of tui­ saying that a person would be better off ished at Auschwitz when he volunteered tion tax credi t legislation? Surely, Mon­ dead, better off never having been born, to take the place of a condemned prisoner. dale is not wi lling to sacrifice a large or the thought that an unplanned preg­ The unit includes background mate­ segment of mo re than 30 million Catholic nancy is a 'harm' of the kind that war­ rial on St. Maximilian and the Holo­ votes for the votes of a couple of million rants tort compensation." caust, a teacher's guide. and units spe­ · public school teachers, is he? He further observed that "wrongful cially prepared for students at the The answe r, of course, is plain and life" legal -theories are "a part of the elementary and secondary levels. simple: Mondale can get the votes of abortion-infanticide utilitarianism that To order the unit, send $5 to· the St. both the publi c school teachers and the emphasizes a pleasant, temporal 'qual­ Louis Center for Holocaust Studies, Catholi cs. He knows that his opposition ity of life' and denigrates individual 10957 Schuetz Road, St. Louis, Missouri to tuition tax credits will not cost him responsibility and respect for all human 63141. 8 CATHOLIC LEAGUE NEWSLETTER Vol. 8, No. 9 September, 1981 Blasco wins biaS suit inside ... The Catholic League has been instru­ commonly thought," said Destro, "but mental in vindicating an Italian-American rarely is it as blatant and devastating to Catholic's complaint that he suffered reli­ an individual as it was in this case. In a case involving the U.S. Anny, the gious and ethnic discrimination while per­ Because Floyd Blasco was willing to stand Catholic League has come to the defense forming his duties as a case worker for up in defense of his religious beliefs and of a woman's right not to have an abor­ the Polk County (Iowa) Commission of ethnic heritage, he has set an example for tion. See the story on page 2. Veteran Affairs. all other victims of similar prejudice. We In a July 24 decision, hearing officer hope that his triumph over religious and * * * Odell G. McGhee of the Iowa Civil Rights ethnic discrimination will help to increase Also on page 2 is an article describing Commission found that the case worker, the public's awareness of the problem the League's legal assistance to five Cuban Floyd Blasco, had been harassed, sub­ and, in the long run, help to lessen the refugees who have been imprisoned for jected to negative comments and denied a frequency of its occurrence." two years without bail, charges or trial. promotion to the position of executive Blasco accepted the case worker's job director because of his religious prefer­ in 1975 with the understanding that he * * * ence and ethnic background. would succeed Donald Swim as executive Radio station KMJC in San Diego has director upon Swim's retirement Once cancelled the anti-Catholic broadcasts of Actual damages Swim discovered that Blasco is an Italian­ Rosalind Musselman, and the League has American Catholic, however, he began to asked 20 other stations to do likewise. harass him. Blasco testified that Swim See the story on page 3. McGhee ordered the defendants, the would enter his work area during lunch veteran affairs commi'ssion and the Polk each day, ask questions about the Catho­ * * * County Board of Supervisors, to pay lic Church's teachings, and then offer crit­ Also on page 3 is a profile of Donna Blasco actual damages plus interest ical and derisive comments. Steichen, a pro-life pioneer who serves as amounting to $13,266. The money repre­ vice president of the League 's Minnesota sents the salary increase that Blasco would Concrete evidence Chapter. have received, had he been named execu­ * * * tive director in 1977. In this month's "Docket" column on Robert Destro, general counsel for the Court records disclose that Blasco was page 4, Associate General Counsel Eva Catholic League, which represented given a "Nigger Application" by a co­ Soeka discusses the tangle of state and Blasco, hailed the decision as a precedent worker, who stated that she did so at federal laws governing employment dis­ in the League's efforts to counter Swim's behest Blasco was told to fill out crimination based on religion. employment discrimination based upon the application "for your friends," appar­ religious beliefs and ethnicity. ently because Swim resented the fact that * * * "Religious and ethnic discrimination Blasco treated all his clients - including On page 5, this month's " Heritage" occurs much more frequently than is blacks - with dignity. column recalls the bloody riots that Later, Swim gave Blasco a form called occurred in 19th century Philadelphia a "Mafia Application" and told Blasco when Bishop Kenrick asked the school that he had to fill it out if he wanted to board to excuse Catholic students from work at the veteran affairs commission. Protestant religious exercises. On another occasion, Swim gave Blasco an article entitled "Lessons from Luigi * * * Fratto," the subject of which was organ­ As the stories on page 6 relate, the ized crime and the Mafia. Swim advised Washington Chapter has opened an office, Blasco to read the article if he wanted to the St. Louis Chapter is helping to edu­ get ahead. cate teachers on the Human Life Amend­ When Swim announced his retirement ment and the Long Island Chapter will in 1977, Blasco indicated that he wanted honor Father Bruce Ri tter for his min­ to apply for the position. Swim replied, istry to troubled youth. "You aren't going to make it." As if to ensure that his prediction would come * * * true, Swim then recommended the only From " The President's Desk" this other applicant for the job. Blasco was mon t h, Father Blum discusses the not interviewed, even though his qualifi­ illogical opposition of black leaders and cations were better than those of the Jewish leaders to tuition tax credits. other applicant 1 Seminarian. to Army general says abort or get out In a case that turns the common per­ told President Reagan that Gen. Bt-cton's receive benefits ceptions of "abortion" and "women's abort-or-get-out proposal is grounded in rights" on their heads, the Catholic pat~ntly sexist assumptions and "dis­ The Kenosha County (Wisconsin} LeRgue has come to the defense of a closes a gross lack of respect for the Department of Health and Social Services woman's right not to have an abortion. moral conscience of the American fight­ has been ordered to resume payments to According to the Army Times, Lt. ing woman and a highly distorted view of a 14-year-old foster child whose state sup­ Gen. Julius W. Becton, Jr., of the U.S. the rights of women in general.,, Gen. port benefits were cut off when he Army Training and Doctrine Command, Becton 's proposal indicates that he enrolled in a Catholic high school has proposed that soldiers who become respects neither the dignity of the seminary. pregnant during their first enlistment unborn, the dignity of the women under The state had contended that the boy should be forced to have an abortion or his command, nor the moral foundations was no longer entitled to the benefits face discharge. of laws, said Destro. because he no longer resided with his "We sincerely hope that you will take foster parents. In representing the boy's the first opportunity to investigate this Reprimand urged religious freedom rights, however, Eva M. matter very carefully," Destro said. "We Soeka, the League's associate general will be doing so, and we trust that your counsel, contended that public welfare In a letter to President Ronald Reagan, intervention will prevent the Army from benefits cannot be conditioned upon the the Catholic League called Gen. Beeton's adding an unnecessary moral dilemma to relinquishment of a First Amendment proposal "morally repugnant" and said those already faced daily by those whose right. that it merits, "at the very least, a strong patriotism protects the freedoms Gen. In her remarks at an April 30 hearing reprimand." Becton would deny the women in his on the case, Ms. Soeka explained that League General Counsel Robert Destro command." non-payment of benefits to the child would, in effect, place a penalty on the exercise of his religious freedom rights. "Unless payments are resumed," she said, "the child will eventually have to Cuban refugees languish in prison choose between the seminary without League's Board of Directors, Magalay state support or leaving the seminary in The Catholic League is providing pre­ liminary .legal assistance to five Cuban Llaguno and Archbishop Edward order to receive state support. Clearly, McCarthy. League General Counsel such a choice would burden his right to refugees who have been held in federal penitentiaries without bail, charge or trial Robert Destro, in an effort to obtain exercise his religious beliefs." accurate information on the case, has had In ordering the benefits reinstated, the for nearly two years. , The Cubans were among the thousands legal questionnaires translated into hearing examiner noted that Wisconsin Spanish and sent to the prisoners. has long recognized, for purposes of of refugees who arrived in the United "From all appearances," said Destro, . determining dependency and benefit elig­ States by flotilla when Castro temporarily "this case constitutes one of the grossest ibility, that a child is still a resident of the permitted dissidents to emigrate. violations of civil rights that I have ever foster home, even while temporarily Although they had family members and seen." He said the League will pursue the absent to attend a boarding school. sponsors waiting in the United States, matter in cooperation with the Atlanta Because the court was administrative they were arrested by agents of the Immi­ Legal Aid Society until the Cubans are rather than judicial, the examiner could gration and Naturalization Service and imprisoned, first at the federal peniten­ released or until he is given a legally valid not rule on the free exercise contentions. tiary in Talladega, Alabama, and cur­ reason why they cannot be released. Ms. Soeka entered her religious free­ rently in the basement of the federal pen­ "The most ironic aspect of this case," dom arguments on the record to ensure itentiary in Atlanta, Georgia said Destro,- "is that the Cubans thought that they could be raised on appeal, i.n The League learned of the prisoners' they were coming to the United States to the event of an adverse ruling. "For the plight through two members of the escape such treatment." sake of the child and his foster parents," she said, "I am pleased that an appeal will not be necessary.''. League to offer Kneeling Santa

- Under a special arrangement with the cherished heirloom, an enduring symbol manufacturer, the Catholic League will of the true meaning of Christ mas, repre­ soon be offering its members a unique senting both the solemn and the fun sides opportunity to obtain the perfect gift for of the season. all who love Christmas - a hand-cast, Thanks to the generosity of the manu­ hand-painted reproduction of the c;>riginal facturer, who is a long-time supporter of Kneeling Santa figurine by the world­ the Catholic League, the profits from the renowned sculptor Rudolph Vargas. sales of the Kneeling Santa to League The figurine depicts St. Nicholas members will be used to support the kneeling in . reverent prayer before the League's activities for the preservation of Christ Child, thus freeing Santa from his our Judaeo-Christian heritage. Details on modern commercialized image and restor­ how to order the Kneeling Santa will be ing the proper relationship between the enclosed in the Oct ober and November secular and sacred sides of Christmas. For mailings of the Catholic League News­ many families it has already become a letter. . 2 drops ussel an prog am

• Radio station KMJC in San Diego has Catholicism. ·nform ed evangelist Rosalind Musselman Meanwhile, the Catholic League has t hat it will no longer broadcast her sent letters of protest to each of the more "Fishers of Me n" program because of her than 20 stations nationwide that cur­ continued advertise ment of an ti-Catholic ren tly carry the Musselman program. booklets. Deacon James Steinberg, a reporter for A public trust the San Diego diocesan newspaper South­ ern Cross, first brought the matter to publ ic attention with an article in his The League reminded the station man­ paper's June 4 issue. The Catholic League agers that, as broadcast licensees, they then proteste d the Musselman broadcasts have a public trust to present program­ in a letter to KMJC President Lee Bartell. ming that is in the public interest. Far from serving the public interest, Mu~el­ man's program "is hate propaganda that Beshore program remains will produce suspicion, friction and animosity within the community," the According to Steinberg, howeve r, League said. KMJC continues to broadcast the anti­ The League advised each station man­ Ca tholic programs of another evangelist, ager that KMJC had already dropped DONNA STEICHEN Dr. F. Kenton Beshore, despite mounting Musselman's program because of its anti­ Vice President, Minnesota Chapter public disapproval. Steinberg said that the Catholic nature. "Any radio station con­ San Diego County Ecumenical Confer­ cerned with the integrity of religious ence recently went on record as con­ broadcasting and serving the public inter­ Serving her third term as vice president dem ning all public manifestations of anti- est will do the same," the League said. of the League's Minnesota Chapter is veteran pro-life activist and writer Donna Steichen of St. Cloud. Donna joined the fledgling pro-life movement in the late 1960s, years before Dictionary deletes anti-Catholic entry most Americans even realized that legal­ In a response to a Catholic League ill of their Catholic neighbors." In the ized abortion was a threat to unborn chil­ request, the publisher of the International in terest of accuracy and respect for Cath­ dren. With the establishment of Minne­ Bible Dictionary has agreed to delete an olic sensibilities, said Love, the entry sota Citizens Concerned for Life, she anti-Catholic entry from fu ture editions. should be deleted from all future editions became the first chairman of the St. Un der the heading "serpents," the dic­ of the dictionary. ' Cloud Chapter, and she has since served tionary listed the following entry: several terms on MCCL 's state board of directors. "Hezekiah destroyed a true and most Publisher replies sacred relic; Rome, on the contrary, fab­ A graduate of St. Cloud State Univer­ ricates false relics and adores them." In a prompt reply to Love's letter, sity with a degree in English, Donna has Having been informed of the entry by Malachuk said, "I have instructed the built a considerable reputation as a jour­ Father Ralph Federico of Bemus Point, editorial department to remove the para­ nalist She writes a regular column for her N. Y. , the League's director of publica­ graph from the next print run scheduled diocesan newspaper, the St. Cloud tions, Orlan Love, brought this matter to very shortly." Noting that Logos Inter­ Visitor, and she is a frequent contributor the attention of Daniel Malachuk, presi­ national "has always desired to se rve as a to the National Catholic Register. Most of dent of Logos Internationl, the book's bridge of fellowship between Christians," her articles reflect her interests in the pro­ publisher. Malachuk explained that th.e " dictionary live movement, education and natural Love advised Malachuk that "Catholic was compiled in the early 1900's in family planning. readers wi ll no doubt take offense at this Englan d when there was hostility In 1979 Donna helped organize Citi­ gratui tous insult to their faith" and that between the Anglicans and Rome" and zens' Rights in Education, an ad hoc "non-Catholic readers will be not only that Logos International "merely re­ parent interest committee, which has misinformed but also encouraged to think printed the early edition." successfully worked for changes in local public school sex education policies which in the past had permitted cl~: room instruction by Planned Parenthood clinic staff members, without parental Gold a er on't rent to 'drunken rish' notice or consent Chapter President James Ahler says she In an in te rview published in the ator for publicly resorting to an ethnic has been "invaluable" in her role as chair­ August 3 issue of the Wall Street Journal, slur that is "unfair, inaccurate, and detri­ man of the Chapter's Liaison Committee, U.S. Senator Barry M. Goldwater · ex­ mental to the civil rights of Irish­ which establishes and maintains contacts pressed his opposition to the public Americans." with other individuals and organizations. accommodations provision of the 1964 "What makes this stereotyping even Ahler also notes that "it is largely be­ Civil Rights Act by declaring, "You try to more galling," the League continued, "is cause of her activities that the chapter has tell me I have to rent my house to a that .. . you profess your repudiation of a strong membership outside of the Twin drunken Irishman . . . I'm going to tell racial preju dice. If it is wrong to be preju­ Cities." you to go to hell." diced against · blacks or Indians, it is Donna and her husband LeRoy are the In a letter to the Arizona Republican, equally wrong to be prejudiced against parents of four children and the grand­ the Catholic League upbraided the Sen- Irish people." parents of three. 3 AI A DOCK~T • . League seeks input • ___ • Rehg1ous freedom in the workplace to O'Connor hearings by Eva M. Soeka, Catholic League General Counsel Robert Destro has sought an opportunity Associate General Counsel the first of its guidelines on discrimina­ tion based on religion, and it imposed "an to testify at the upcoming Senate As illustrated by this month's lead obligation on the part of the employer to confirmation hearings of Judge Sandra story on the Floyd Blasco case, the exer­ accommodate to the reasonable religious Day O'Connor, the Reagan Administra­ cise of religious freedom rights in the needs of employees." However, it was not tion's nominee to succeed U.S. Supreme workplace is a hotly debated issue. until 1972 that Congress, by affirmative Court Justice Potter Stewart. At the very heart of the debate is the legislation, added the following to the In a letter to Senator Strom Thur­ issue of accommodation. Does a private 1964 Act: mond, chairman of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Destro said he would employer have a duty to accommodate The term '' religion" includes all · the religious practices of an employee? like to express the League's views on aspects of religious observance and several issues which concern the League's For example, if an employer closes his practice, as well as belief, unless an business on Christmas or Good Friday, is employer demonstrates that he is civil rights and First Amendment acti­ he thereby obligated to give time off with unable to reasonably accommodate to vities, but would neither support nor pay to Jewish employees for Rosh an employee's or prospective em­ oppose the nomination itself. Hashanah or Yorn Kippur? Judicial and ployee's religious observance or prac­ "Since Judge O'Connor's views on tice without undue hardship on the many of the religious and civil rights legislative attempts to answer this ques­ conduct of the employer's business. tion, on both the federal and state levels, issues we litigate are unknown," said have resulted in a tangle of confusing and Finally, in 1977, the U.S. Supreme Destro, "we would appreciate the often inconsistent case and statutory law. Court in T. W.A. v. Hardison made it clear opportunity to inform the Committee of Although the Federal Civil Rights Act that the 1972 Congressional action did our perspective on these issues, and we of 1964 made it an unlawful employment make "reasonable accommodation" a trust that the information we would pro­ practice for an employer to discriminate part of the 1964 Act. vide will be helpful" in any way against an employee on the A I though that decision apparently basis of religion, it addressed the problem settled the issue on the federal level, ques­ of religious belief rather than religious tions such as the definition of undue practice. Nothing was said about accom­ hardship to an employer have continued Status Call gains modation. to plague the courts. Moreover, many In 1966 the Equal Employment states had passed, independent of any wide following Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued federal statute, state fair employment acts which paralleled the 1964 Act. The third issue of Status Cal[. the Unlike Congress, however, the state legis­ League's quarterly legal newsletter, has Destro to address latures did not subser:,11ently add accom­ now been published and mailed to more modation requirements. than 2,500 people, most of whom are law conference attorneys. State law varies In less than a year, the mailing list for Catholic League General Counsel Status Call has doubled, reflecting what Robert Destro has accepted an invitation League General Counsel Robert Destro to speak on "State Involvement in Educa­ Thus, the Wisconsin Supreme Court calls "a very warm reception" for the tion and Religion" at the Second Inter­ was recently able to rule that the Wiscon­ p u b I i ca ti on which summarizes recent national Conference on Law and Individ­ sin Fair Employment Act imposes no court decisions, law review articles and ual Freedoms to be held October 15-18 in duty upon a private employer to accom­ books dealing with religious and civil Quebec City, Canada modate the religious practices of an rights issues. Destro and Eva M. Soeka, the League's employee. That case, American Motors Eva M. Soeka, the League's associate associate general counsel, will attend the Corporation v. Department of Industry, general counsel, reports that compli­ third annual Supreme Court Review and Labor and Human Relations, involved an mentary copies of the third issue have Constitutional Law Symposium to be engineer who was fired after requesting, been sent to more than 31 diocesan held September 18-19 in • Washington, and being denied, days off to attend a attorneys. "In that way," she said, "we D.C. religious convention required of members will not only help to build a solid civil of his faith. Under federal law, which was rights image for the League, but we may not considered in the Wisconsin case, the also stimulate referrals of possible civil same employer would have been required rights cases for the League." to accommodate, so long as the accom­ modation did not result in "undue hard­ ship" to the employer's business. Although the legal issues are clear, the Catholic League Newsletter is published by answers are not. Federal law on its face the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, 1100W. Wells S t., Mil., Wis. 53233. recognizes and protects the right to reli­ ,.. "" ,. James Hitchcock • • Chairman ,: ~• ...,~~ .- gious practice as well as religious bflief in Virgil C. Blum, S.J. . • . • • . President '~ ~'1'-': .,.-._. the workplace, but many states do not. In John Hansen • • • • • . . • . Treasur er --=-~~· ~.. ~ ... ·.. .\ !~~ -- -. the future, however, it is hoped that Ann Brosnan • • • • • • . . • Secretary ~-:- · . judges and legislators responding to the M ichael Schwartz • Dir, of Public Affairs ~ .:.;,..c/·. ~ ~ . Orlan Love • • Director of Publicati ons accommodation issue will recognize that Kathy M. Hoar. • D ir. of Internal Affairs protection of religious belief without a REMEMBER THE LEAGUE Annual membership dues: $10 corresponding protection of religious Contributions are tax deductible. IN YOUR WILL. practice is little, if any, protection at all. 4 'HERITAGE T h burning of - hiladelphia

When Bishop Francis Patrick Kenrick For the next year and a half, accusa­ riot The nativist mob poured into the became Bishop of Ph iladelphia in 1842, tions flew and tensions mounted in the Irish section, breaking into homes, de­ the Catholic population of the city was city until, on May 6, 1844, the nativists st royi ng property and terrorizing the resi­ overwhelmingly composed of poor immi­ held a,public meeting in the middle of the dents. More shooting took place, leaving grants, mostly from Ireland, who were Irish section. The fanatical Lewis Levin, nine people dead. Two Irishmen were faced with the difficult choice of either later elected to Congress on the Na tive arrested and later tried for rioting. sen ding thei r children to public schools American ticket, delivered a fiery speech The violence reached its peak on the where Protestant rel igious indoctrination that provoked a fight between his third day. Most of the Catholics had fled was mandatory, or not sending them to audience and the Catholic residents of the from the city overnight in fear for their school at all. neighborhood. In the midst of this fracas lives, and the nativist mob roamed· aim­ someone - each side blamed the other - lessly but angrily through the deserted Exemption sought fired a shot and a bloody battle broke streets of Kensington. They set fire to St. oul By the end of the day four nativists Michael's Church and to the school, con­ As one of his first official acts, Bishop lay dead. vent and rectory attached to it and then Kenrick submitted a petition to the began burning down blocks of houses in school board, requesting that Catholic the neighborhood. chil dren be exempted from participation Inflammatory journalism ,,. in Protestant hymns, prayers and religious services and that they be permitted to The next morning's edition of The Church burned read from the Catholic Douay version of Native American proclaimed: "Another the B;ble rather than the King James ver­ St. Bartholomew's Day is begun on the Toward nightfall, the mob moved sion. In the heavily charged atmosphere streets of Philadelphia The bloody hand southward to St. Augustine's Church, of the Know Nothing era, this modest of the Pope has stretched itself forth to where they were met by Mayor John request provoked a storm of protest. our destruction." A nativist meeting was Scott and a contingent of police. Scott t o assemble that afternoon at Inde­ tried to calm the crowd, but his efforts at pendence Square. Participants were pacification served only to arouse them AP A established warned, "Let every man come prepared further. He was pelted with bricks and to defend himself. " rocks, and then St Augustine's was A week after Ken ri ck's petition was That meeting quickly turned into a burned to the ground. Lost in that fire presente d, 94 Protestant ministers met to were a library of more than 3,000 establish the American Protestant Asso­ volumes a n d 16 original paintings ciation, aimed at protecting America imported from Europe. fro m the subversive influences of popery . . Troops were called out that night, the Nativists twisted Kenrick's request an d city was placed u nder martial law, and fal sely accused the Catholics of trying to the vi olence gradually subsided. A grand ban the Bible from public schools. The jury commissioned to inquire into the Native American Party in tensifi ed its cause of the disturbance blamed the riot­ bitter propagan da campaign against th e ing on " the efforts of a portion of the Catholics, and attrac ted hundreds of new community to exclude the Bible from our recruits. Public Schools. ,, e s e oh pe r stri e

The Catholic League has asked more its monthly newsletter in which Don patriots," McEvoy said. Noting that the than 60 members of Congress to seek a McEvoy, vice president of the Nati onal British have to obey their own laws, he co ngressional declaration in favor of a Conference of Christians and Jews, said, " It is unconscionable to apply humanitarian resolution to the hunger argued that the protesting prisoners are special rules for imprisonment and then strike in Northern Ireland's Long Kesh enti tled to special, rather than criminal , callously declare that this situation is no prison. status. different from that of any common In a letter to the congressmen, the criminal" League noted that the recent deaths of Special rules Referring to Britain's partial approval Joe McDonnell an d Martin Hurson on of a recent compromise put forward by hunger strike in Long Kesh, and the the Catholic bishops of Northern Ireland, e ii suing civil unrest, " underscore the " Bobby Sands was not arrested, con­ the League advised the congressmen that urgency of finding a hum anitarian solu­ vi cted and imprisoned under the proce­ such a move may signal the British gov­ ti on to the prison protest." dures of British criminal law," sai d ernment's willingness to depart from its At issue, the League said, is the ques­ McEvoy. "A common criminal would intransigent posture on the issue. tion of the status of those prisoners who have had a lawyer, a jury, a chance to Accordingly, the League concluded, have been convicted under the special defe nd . himself against the charges prompt and decisive action by the Con­ em ergency procedures which suspend brought against him." gress "may significantly promote progress many important elements of the due Sands was instead "sent to Maze toward peace" and, "even more impor­ process of law. prison under a sp ecial set of rules which tantly, it could help to prevent any more The League enclosed an article from applied only to him and his I.R.A. com- needless deaths." 5 Washington Chapter opens office A central office for the Catholic more area . League's Washington Chapter opened "I was extremely pleased with the August 1 in the Washington Building at enthusiasm displayed at the July 15 15th St. and New York Ave. on the meeting," said Dr. Czajkowski, "and I northwest side of the District of Colum­ believe that we can build on it to struc­ bia ture an active and effective chapter in Establishment of the new office coin­ the nation's capitol" cides with the Chapter's plans to expand The speakers' bureau will attempt to its speakers' bureau, to increase its reach more Catholic parishes and organi­ recruitment of minorities and youth, to zations whose members are not aware of conduct a general membership meeting the League and its work. Chapter later this year, and to name regional vice speakers have already appeared at 24 presidents for the greater Washington parishes in the Archdiocese. area The general meeting, to be held some­ Father Bruce Ritter, O.S.F. Chapter President Anthony Czajkow­ time in November, will feature a prom­ ski announced the appointment of the inent speaker who has not yet been new vice presidents at a July 15 meeting named. According to Dr. Czajkowski, the Chapter to honor of the Chapter Executive Committee. meeting will be an attempt to bring They are John M. Leonard for the Dis­ together not only all League members in trict of Columbia, E. F. Egan for Mary­ the area but also all who are interested in Father Ritter land, Richard Cooley for Northern Vir­ protecting the religious freedom rights of ginia and Daniel J. Bartolini for the Balti- Catholics and others. In recognition of his ministry to troubled New York City youth, Father Bruce Ritter, O.S.F., has been named to St. Louis sends teachers to pro-life meeting receive the Long Island Chapter's second annual award for meritorious service to The League's St. Louis Chapter has of the League's Board of Directors, and the Catholic community. He will accept raised more than $400 which will be used Jesuit Father Robert Henle, professor of ·· the award at an October 10 dinner to be to enable five Catholic high school law and philosophy at St. Louis Univer­ he Id at Chaminade High School in teachers to attend a national conference sity and the author of several supple­ Mineola, N. Y. on the Human Life Amendment. The ments to the Catholic League Newsletter. Father Ritter founded his- widely conference, sponsored by the National Dunsford also reports that the League acclaimed Covenant House as a shelter for Right to Life Educational Trust Fund, has received a donation of more than homeless and exploited young people. It will be held September 11 and 12 at St. $100 from a legal defense fund for the grew rapidly, soon becoming a haven for Louis University's Center for Health Care former mayor of St. Louis, John Poelker, young urban transients. Today it is a pro­ Ethics. who was sued several years ago when he fessional agency with 40 full-time Chapter Secretary Pat Hanley directed refused to allow municipal funds to be employees and 150 volunteers, operating the project, and Chapter President Jack used to support abortions at the City eight group homes, and two temporary Dunsford did most of the actual solicita­ Hospital. The Supreme Court later vindi­ runaway houses. It has assisted more than tion of funds. cated Poelker, who is a member of the St. 10,000 young people, most of whom Among the speakers at the conference Louis Chapter's Advisory Board. have run away from home and become will be attorney Dennis Horan, a member the exploited victims of the so-called "victimless crimes" of prostitution, por­ nography and drug traffic. Mangano criticizes biased reporting

Other activities Anthony Mangano, president of the Underlying the identification tactic, League's Westchester Chapter, has criti­ said Mangano, "is the false and defam­ The Long Island Chapter will hold its cized a local newspaper for singling out atory presumption that Catholic public annual membership meeting December 3, Catholic public officials in an abortion­ servants are so enslaved by Church doc­ with the main attraction to be a sym­ related news article by identifying them trine that they cannot come to an inde­ posium on the media, featuring a panel - and only them - according to their pendent judgment on matters of public discussion by several practicing New York religious affiliation. policy having a moral dimension." The journalists. In a letter to the Gannet Westchester tactic also implies that Catholics are the Chapter President William Lindner also Newspapers, Mangano asserted that sole abortion opponents in the United reports that George Gallup, whose name reporter Michael Sansolo "displayed an States, said Mangano. is synonymous with public opinion annoying and harmful bias" in his gratui­ Mangano also advised the newspapex:._ polling, has agreed to address a meeting tous identification as "Catholic males" of that the National News Council has of the chapter next February 25. The nine Putnam (N. Y.) city officials who repeatedly upheld complaints against the topic of Gallup's talk will be, "Good supported state legislation requiring that tactic of identifying Catholics - and only News for Catholics Is Good News for All parents be notified before their minor Catholics - in abortion-related news. of Us." child has an abortion. 6 League and Princeton When she calls, members renew _co-sponsor workshop During the past four months, Mrs. don't agree to renew right away, it's good Anne Stravinskas of Toms River, N.J., has to follow -up with a mailing; that way, The Catholic League and the Princeton parlayed precise organization, a pleasant they can't forget you called. And it helps Theological Seminary will co-sponsor a telephone voice and a firm belief in the to -be persistent. I called one number for two-day workshop on religion and pol­ Catholic League into a membership five weeks before I received an answer. itics December 10-11 on the Princeton renewal program that is a model of suc­ The man · had been on vacation, and he University campus. cess and efficiency. was happy to renew." Among the speakers will be Father Peter Since early this summer, she has per­ Stravinskas, the League's Eastern regional suaded hundreds of New Jersey League director, discussing the Historical back­ members to renew their memberships, ground of the First Amendment; eminent many of which had been expired for church-state attorney William B. Ball, months or even years. In the process, she discussing parental rights in education; has personally brought in more than and Rev. Richard Gilbert of Princeton, $13,000 in dues to support the League's discussing morality in the media. activities. Her technique is simple: Each month, League headquarters in Milwaukee sends her a computer printout of members who Chapter leaders have expired or soon will She then looks up their phone numbers and gives them a compare notes call,· asking them to renew their commit­ ment to the League. Her success ratio is The Catholic League"s third annual above 70 percent, which is a tribute to conference of chapter leaders was con­ her enthusiasm for the League. ducted over the weekend of July 25 to 27 "I love people, and I love to sell," she at Seton Hall University, South Orange, says, "but I only sell people products that N.J. Nineteen participants representing I believe in. I think many people can tell 12 local chapters of the Cathlic League that I mean it in my heart when I say that came from points as widely scattered as the Catholic League is crucial to the Mrs. Anne Stravinskas Boston, Miami and Los Angeles to review future of Catholicism in America When the successes and problems of their chap­ people seem reluctant to renew, I tell ters and to develop plans for the coming them that it's okay if they don't want to, year. but that they really should, if not for C S O S iracle In addition to League President Father themselves, then for their children and · ·· Virgil C. Blum, S.J., who chaired the grandchildren." The Christian Broadcasting Network, meeting, the Catholic League's staff was Mrs. Stravinskas offers a few other tips which reaches 12 million homes in the represented by Father Peter Stravinskas, to League members who may serve on United States, televised the League's film, Eastern ·regional director; Michael chapter renewal committees: "If people Miracle in the Inner City, during prime Schwartz, director of public affairs; and time on August 23. Kathleen Hoar, director of internal "The CBN cable broadcast is an inval­ affairs. uable aid to the League's efforts to focus Among the major topics that were dis­ OUR MEMBERS SAY: public attention on the great apostolate cussed were the participation of chapters of the Catholic Church in providing qual­ in the League's membership renewal ity education and religious and moral efforts and the involvement of high A California woman writes: "I'm still values to disadvantaged black and His­ school students in Catholic League activ­ interested in receiving the Catholic panic children," said League President ities through local chapters. League papers even though, at 79 years Rev. Virgil C. Blum, S.J. "We at the old, I am often overwhelmed at some of League are grateful for CB N's assistance." • the negative reaction the population at g ers rece1 e large shows toward our faith .... The newsletter is interesting and well-written. Nebraska announces eag e literature I look forward to its receipt and pass it on to others." advisory committee Catholic League enthusiasts dis­ A League member from Kentucky tributed more than 3,600 pieces of pro­ writes: "I'm sure that you have many The Catholic League's Nebraska Chap­ motional literature at the Ocean County members who, like me, are public school ter has established a state advisory com­ Fair in Lakewood, N.J., between July 21 teachers, and I'm equally sure that most mittee, according to Chapter President and 23. · of them know nothing about the National John T. Carpenter, an Omaha attorney. The League rented a display booth, Education Association's pro-abortion Members of the advisory committee which was manned at various times by position or about the Pro-life Caucus and are John B. Foley, Walter R. Jahn, C. Father Peter Stravinskas, the League's the [shoddy] treatment it has gotten at Robert Jeffrey, John McGinn, Sister Eastern regional director; Brother Law­ the past two NEA conventions.... Genevieve Schillo, C.S.J., Lloyd E. rence Syriac, S.M., of Chaminade High Besides notifying NEA members of the Skinner, Ronald R. Volkmer and Teresa School in Mineola, New York; four of pro-abortion position and the Pro-life Bloomingdale, all of Omaha; James Brother Syriac's students, Ken Collins, Caucus, you m_ight also inspire parents to Bruckner, James R. Cunningham, Rev. Joe Cronin, Frank Fanerzani and Chris protest to NEA and its local and state James D. Dawson, Joseph Hanigan, John McCarton; and several senior citizens who affiliates - all of which are very con­ F. O'Neill and Guy Sanders, all of are League members. scious of their need for public support." Lincoln; and Thomas Olson of Fremonl 7 The President's Desk by Virgil C. Blum, S.J. Acoalitio against religio s freedo

to represent more than 70 million people. Perhaps even more shocking is the fact The coalition is dedicated to fighting that the two most powerful and pres­ enactment of the Packwood-Moynihan tigious black organizations have joined a tuition tax credit bill coalition that aims to kill a bill that Many of its constituent organizations, would greatly aid black children by pro­ such as the National Education Associa­ viding tax refunds for low-income private-­ Chief Justice Warren Burger once tion and the American Federation of school families. declared that the denial of education Teachers, have a vested interest in the benefits to children in Catholic elemen­ demise of private schools, and others, Parents seek quality tary schools " penalizes children ... such as the American Civil Liberties because of their parents' choice of reli­ Union and Americans United for Separa­ Inner city public schools are in gious exercise" in sending them to tion of Church and State, have a history shambles; they have been aptly called church-related schools. of anti-Catholic prejudice. Opposition blackboard jungles. For quality educa­ Strangely, though, the penalty van­ from these groups should come as no sur­ tion, thousands of black parents in every ishes once the student reaches college age. prise, major city make great financial sacrifices The federal government and more than to send their children to inner city Catho­ half the states give suqstantial tuition Jewish organizations lic schools. In a study of 55 inner city grants to students who choose church­ private elementary schools in eight cities, related colleges, and the federal govern­ the Catholic League for Religious and ment also provides interest-free loans to Joining the coalition are such Jewish Civil Rights found that 50 percent of hundreds of thousands of such students. organizations as the American Jewish these families make less than $10,000 a Congress, the National Council of Jewish year. Women, and the Union of American · Age not a factor For their heroic efforts to give their Hebrew Congregations and such black children a quality education, their own organizations as the National Association leaders conspire to penalize black parents Are the penal ties on religious exercise for the Advancement of Colored People by depriving them of tuition tax credit based on the students' age? That hardly and the National Urban League. refunds. These black children want com­ seems li kely, especially when one con- It is shocking that Jews, who have passion and understanding from the .. siders that the Catholic Church operates organized more than 340 national organi­ NAACP and National Urban League, not most private elementary and high schools, zations to defend their own rights, should opposition that keeps them shackled to while at the college level, there are twice join hands with groups professedly hostile discredited government schools. as many ~otestant as Catholic schools. to the rel igious freedom rights of Cath­ Religion, it seems, makes the crucial dif­ olics in an effort to kill a tuition tax ference. credit bill that aims to lessen the penalty To ensure that the penalty on religious · on the choice of Catholic schools. (It exercise remains in force for Catholics, a should be noted that Rabbi Morris ne w and powerful organization has now Sherer, president of Agudath of Israel of been form ed. Call ed the National Coali­ America and the Union of Orthodox "A Catholic may be saved in spite of tion for Public Schools, it is comprise d of Jewish Congregations of America, sup­ his church. He will never be saved because 41 maj or national organizations claimin g ports the Packwood-Moynihan bill.) of it. Romanism is a pagan counterfeit of the Christian reli gion, ancient paganism and idolatry, claiming to be the church which Christ founded. ... The Roman La e critic·zes Forbes editor Church is not another Christian denomin­ ation. It is a satanic counterfeit, an eccle­ The Catholic League has criticized the why abortion foes in the United States siastic tyranny over the souls of men. editor of Forbes magazine for indulging should be influenced by the beliefs and ac­ ... It is the old harlot of the book of the in a su btle appeal to religious bigotry tions of Italians. "What affinity is there be­ Revelation - the Mother of Harlots.' " with his July 6 commentary en titled "Do tween the two groups?" the League asked. - from an article entitled "Romanism As the Roman s-Do." The answer implied by Forbes, said and the Charismatic Movement, by Bob According to M. S. Forbes, editor of the League, " is that American anti-abor­ Jones, published in the July-August issue the p restigious business publication: tionists, like Italians in general, are 'over­ of Faith for the Family. "When Italians in Rome and all the rest whelmingly Catholic.' " Editorializing on the attempted assas­ of historic, official, overwhelmingly Cath­ In making such an implication,, the sination of Pope John Paul II, Jones olic Italy voted by better than 2 to 1 League said, Mr. Forbes had engaged in wrote in that same issue: " Unlike the not to repeal their liberal abortion laws, the pro-abortion tactic of identifying pope, decent men decry violence and surely there was a message for those here abortion as a Catholic issue. abhor assassination; however, the justice so intent on abolish ing abortions, includ­ "If you think abortion is such a boon of God is apparent in this case. 'They that ing even pregnancies resulting from rape to mankind," the League told Forbes, take the sword shall perish with the or incest. Here's an instance when, in the " then you should promote it on its own sword'; and a pope who encourages and Un ited States, we should do as the merits if such there are, rather than blesses terrorism by Roman Catholic Romans do. " appeal'ing to religious prejudice in your assassins and murderers should expect to In a letter to Forbes, the League asked attempt to discredit its foes." fall victim to terrorism and violence." 8 Supplement to the Catholic League Newsletter. Vol. 10, No. 4 CATHOLIC LEAGUE Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights for Religious and Civil Rights 1100 West Wells Street • Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53233

Religion: An American Freedom

by President Ronald Reagan

The following remarks on religious freedom are excerpted from a transcript of President Ronald Reagan's speech to the National Association of Evangelicals, deli­ vered March 8. 1983, in Orlando, Florida. The League reprints them not to lend partisan political support to a public official who may soon become a candidate for reelection but because the League heartily approves of public statements by any influential leader who speaks out forcefully on behalf of the religious freedom issues in which the League is deeply involved and to ·.11 hich the League is deeply committed: the right of parents to be notified when a government-funded agency gives their minor children contraceptive drugs, the right of religious-minded students not to have their freedom of speech abridged, the right to life, and the right of all citizens not be subjected to racial , ethnic or religious hatred.

This Ad mi nistration is motivated b.r a in g to go in g iving to government their lished clinics nationwide to offer help to poli t ical ph il osophy that sees the great­ prerogatives as parents? these girls and hopefully alleviate this ness of America in you . her peo pl e. and Let me state the case as briefly and situation. in your fa mili es, churches. neighbor­ simply as I can. An organization of citi­ Again let me say, I do not fault their hood s. co mmunities-the in stitutions zens sincerely motivated and deeply intent. However, in their well-intent ioned that fo ster and nourish values like con­ concerned about the increase in illegit­ effort, these clinics provide advice and cern for others and respect for the rule imate births and abortions involving birth control drugs and devices to of la\\' under God. girls well below the age of consentestab- underage girls without the knowledge Now I don't have to tell you that this of their parents. puts us in oppos ition to. or at least out of For some vears now, the Federal step with, a prev ailing attitude of many Government has helped with funds to who have turned to a modern-day secu­ subsidize these.clinics. In providing for larism. discarding the tried and time­ this. the Congress decreed that every tested values upon which our very civili­ effort would be made to maximize par­ zation is based. ental participation. Nevertheless. the No ma tter how well-intentioned. their drugs and devices are prescribed with­ value. system is radically different from out getting parental consent or giving that of most Americans. notification. Girls termed "sexually And, ,,·hile they proc laim they are active"-that has replaced the word freeing us from superstitions of the past, "promiscuous"-are given this. help in they have taken upo n themselves the job order to prevent illegitimate birth or of su perintending us by government abortion. rule and regulation. Somet imes their We have ordered clinics receiving voice are louder than ours, but they are F ederal funds to notify the parents such not ye t a majori ty. help has been given. One of the nation's An example of that vocal superi ority leading newspapers has created the term is evid ent in a controversy now going on "squeal rule" in editorializing ag ainst in Washington. Since I'm involved. I've us. and we are being critized for violat­ been waiting to hear from the parents of ing the privacy of young people. A judge young America. How fa r are they wi ll - Presi dent Ronald Reagan has granted a n injunction again t en- forcement of our rule. I have watched tion of prohibiting discrimination against awakening in America, a renewal of the T\ pa,nel hows discuss this issue, have religious forms of student speech. Such traditional values that have been the read columns pontificating on our error, legislation could ·go far to restore free­ bedrock of America's goodness and but no one seems to mention morality as dom of religious speech for public school greatness. playing a part in the subject of sex. students and I hope the Congress con­ One recent survey by a Washington­ Is all of J udeo-C hristian tradition siders these bills quickly. And with your based research council concluded that wrong? Are we to believe that some­ help, I think it's possible we could also Auiericans were far more religious than thing so sacred can be looked upon as a get the constitutional amendment the people of other nations; 95 percent of purely physical thing with no potential through the Congress this year. those surveyed expressed a belief in God for emotional and psyc hological harm? More than a decade ago, a Supreme and a huge majority believed the Ten And isn't it the parents' right to give Court decision literally wiped off the Commandments had real meaning for counsel and advice to kee p their child­ books of 50 states statutes protecting the their lives. ren from making mistakes that may rights of unborn children. "Abortion on Another study has found that an affect their enti re lives? demand" now takes the lives of up to one overwhelming majority of Americans Many of us in government would like and a half million unborn children a disapprove of adultery, teen-age sex, to know what parents think about this year. pornography, abortion and hard drugs. intrusion in their fa mily by government. And this same study showed a deep rev­ We are going to fight in the courts. The erence for the importance of family ties No time to rest rights of parents and the rights of fam­ and religious belief. ily take precedence over those of Wash­ I think the items we have discussed ing ton-based bureaucrats and social Human life legislation ending this here today must be a key part of the engineers. tragedy will someday pass the Congress, nation's political agenda. For the first But the fight against parental notifi­ and you and I must never rest until it time the Congress is openly and seriously cation is really on ly one example of does. Unless and until it can be proven debating and dealing with the prayer many attempts to water down tradi­ that the unborn child is not a living and abortion issues-that's enormous tio nal values and even abrogate the orig­ entity. then its right to life, liberty and progress right there. inal terms of American democracy. t he pursuit of happiness must be I repeat: America is in the midst of a F reedom prospers \\' he n reli g ion is protected. spiritual awakening and a moral renew­ vib rant and the rule of law under God You may remember that when abor­ al. With your biblical keynote, I say acknowledged. tion on demand began many, indeed, I'm today let "justice roll on like a river, sure many of you , warned that the prac­ righteousness like a never-failing tice wo uld lead to a decline in respect for stream." human life, that the philosophical pre­ Founding Fathers' intentions mises used to justify abortion on demand A positive vie·w would ul timately be used to justify other Whe n our Founding Fathers passed attacks on the sacredness of human life, the First Amendment. th ey sought to infanticid e or mercy killing. Tragically Now, obviously, mucl:, of this new pol­ protect churches from government in ter­ enough. those warnings proved all too itical and social consensus I have talked fere nce. They ne\·e r meant to construct true: Only last year a court permitted about is based on a positive view of a \\·all of hostili ty bet\\·een go\'ernment the death by starvation of a handicapped American history, one that takes pride and the co nce pt of religious beli ef itself. infant. in our country's accomplishments and The eYid ence of this permeates ou r I have directed the Health and Human record. But we must never forget that no history and ou r go \·ernment: The Decla­ Services Department to make clear to government schemes are going to per­ ratio n of In dependence mentions the every health care facility in the United fect man; we know that living in this Supreme Being no less than fou r times: States that the Rehabilitation Act of world means dealing with what phil­ "I n c;od We Trust" is engra\'ed on ou r 1973 protects all handicapped persons · osophers would call this phenomenology coina g-e: the Supreme Court opens its against di scrimination based on han­ of evil or, as theologians would put it, the proceed inirs with a religious im·ocation: dicaps, in cludiqg infants. doctrine of sin. and the mem bers of Congress open thei r And we have taken the further step of There is sin and evil in the world, and sessions \\' ith a prayer. · req uiring that each and every rec'ipient we are enjoined by Scripture and the I just happen to beli eYe the school of Federal funds who provides health Lord Jesus to oppose it with all our chil dren of the United States are entitled care services to infants must post and might. Our nation, too, has a legacy of to !he same privileges as Supreme Court keep posted in a conspicuous place a evil with which it must deal. The glory Justic es and Congressmen. Last year , I notice stating that "discriminatory fail­ of this land has been its capacity for sent the Congress a co nstitutional ure to feed and care for handicapped transcending the moral evils of our past. amend me nt t.o restore prayer to publi c in fa nts in this fac ility is prohibited by For example, the long struggle of sc hoo ls. This \\'eek I am resubmitti ng F ederal law." It also lists a 24-hour, toll­ minority citizens for equal rights, once a that amendment and calli ng on t he free number so that nurses and others source of disunity and civil war, is now a Congress to act speed il y to pass it. may report violations in time to save the point of pride for all Americans. We Let our chi ldren pray. Perhaps some infant's life. must never go back. of ,·ou read recently about the Lubbock In addition, recent legislation intro­ There is no room for racism, anti­ sc hool case where a·judge actua ll y ruled duced in the Congress by Representa­ Semitism or other forms of ethnic and that it was unconstitutional fo r a sc hoo l ti ve Henry Hyde not only increp.ses res­ racial hatred in this country. I know you di strict to irive equal treatment to reli ­ trictions on publicly financed abortions; have been horrified, as have I, by the gious and no n-religious student groups. it also addresses this whole problem of resurgence of some hate groups preach­ even \\'h en the group meetings we re infanticide. ing bigotry and prejudice. Use the held du ring the students' own time. I urged Congress to begin hearings mighty voice of your pulpits and the The First Amendment never in tended and to adopt legislation that will protect powerful standing of your churches to to req uire go\'ernment to discrimi nate the right to life of all children, including denounce and isolate these hate groups again st religious speec h. Senators Den­ the disabled or handicapped. in our midst. The commandment given ton and Hatfield have proposed legisla­ I'm sure you must get discouraged at us is clear and simple: "Thou shalt love tion in the Congress on the whole ques- times, but there is a great spiritu,al thy neighbor as thyself." WEDNESDAY, MAY 11 , 1983 SECTION D RELIGION -

TOPICS BY JEFFREY ST. JOHN Anti-Bias -Group to Meet . .

By Larry Witham the government continues to impose a WASHINGTON T IMES STAFF financial penalty on parents who choose a Jackson's -Final Days church related school for their children . . en years ago, Jesuit political s_cientist "And to enforce the penalty, the Supreme the Rev. Virgil C. Blum wasn't con­ Court often invented new principles of con­ is fame and immortality as a military genius rest on Tvinced that the "opened windows and stitutional interpretations in order to but two short and intense years as a Confederate field .fresh air" of the Vatican II era made anti­ strike down state laws designed to facili­ commander urider Robert E. Lee. He defeated no less Catholicism·a thing of the past. He met in tate the religious freedom of parents in the than seven Union generals, who always commanded Washington with two dozen lay and clerical education of their children;• he adds. material and manpower superiority. For over a century leaders of like mind and together they The movement to legalize abortion his aggressive campaigns and lightening.strategies of founded the first ·and only Catholic civil gairied momentifm with the January 1973 surprise have be.en required reading and study by every . rights and anti-defa.maticm union in Supreme Court finding that state prohibi­ military academy in the wor-ld. His burning zeal for American hist-0ry. That was May 12, 1973 tions on abortion are unconstitutional, and battle and his fearless conduct under fire earned him - a date which will be commemorated gave added -incentive to cr:eation of the . . the title "Stonewall," although he never was still - here this Saturday. · league. "That movement succeeded pri,­ ·forever in terrifyfng motion with overriding ruthless purpose: to destroy Father Blum, who is now a retired marily because its leaders where astute the enemy's capacity to make war. emeritus professor at Mar.quette Univer­ enough to appeal t6 anti-Catholic prej­ Thomas "Stonewall·" Jackson always said he wanted to die on Sunday, the sity, where he taught for 20 years, contin­ udice, with their claims that laws protect­ Sabbath. One hundred and twenty years ago this week this prayer was l\eS to serve as the leagu_e's first president. ing the right to life were nothing more that granted. The Christian Warrior who neither dr.ank, smoked, nor swore, He has been active in the broad area of tyrannical intrusions 'by the Catholic died on May 10, 1863, of pneumonia after losing his left arm_ at the Battle of education since the 1950s, and states his heirarchy to impose Catholic morality on Chancellorsville, a six days before. His o\\ln ·troops acc1dently accom­ belief that this question is ctucial for .non­ the public;' Blum asserts. "They found it a plished what..ever.y Union army_generaltried and failed for two years. He ·. Catholic's as well as Catholics. ''I've worked lot more fruitful to forment anti­ was too far but ilt"fforit at.night during one of his usual personal inspec­ with Orthodox Jews; Lutherans and people Catholicism than to try to sell America on tions cif the battlefront. " He has lost his left arm, but I have lost my right . from the Christian Reform t;aditi.ons, and the purported benefits of killing pre-born · arm," Lee said when learning of the tragic accident caused by men who •· we agree that we.can't solve the problem of babies." · adored Jackson for his willingness to eat, sleep,f1ght and p,ray under the Blum says it was at this time that it same.conditions as they ·endured. · became clear to him that just as parent's Chancellorsviile·had beena-decisivevictory for Le~andJackson. Despite. ·rights in education wer-e not resp~_<::ted, · · Union numerical supe,ciprjty and s.teady Confec,le_rate casualties in a string neither was the right to life, because Cath,. of succesMve niltitar,y victories, Chancellorsvilleilad put the Confeder-"· olics had failed t,JJrptect their ·acyWithii'i'rea:tisfic "reach··of for.cing the ·Norfh"to tolerate a continued rights. Tho~e p·eopte· g/lthered to start the costly::military .stalemate, or 1o ·accept Southern irtdepefidence. ·:1f -I _ha,d league werepeopleFather.B!uJ.llllad.co.me Jackson.at Gettysburg; I should have won that battle and a ·complete · to 1tn1:>'w during 'his 25-year ·campaign ·for victory tnere would nave resultecl in the e·stablishrrient of•independen·ce •the rights -0f those who ehose non-secular for the SoutJJ,," Lee-late_i;:J1 . , '. , ' ·" , . , ·off1cers·watcht!d.Jielplessly as his life slowly slipped-away1112 years ago 1B}~11:ib1a'sliJ2~u1-J1wii~i? geW.ri1J1 . · this week. On that Sunday Sabbath of May 10, lls63, his last words came ~J\u~l~ ~;~,Archbishqp James A. Hickey of Wash­ moral concerns a're maliciously mi's­ ington will be the principal celebrant of the · . with a sweet smile and empty of any military command. In a gentle, quiet labeled as "Catholic interests;• to play off .Way he said: "Let us cross over the river and rest under.the shade·orthe - 5:15 p.m. Mass at the Shrine of the trees."- · · the religious prejudice ·that exists, Blum Immaculate Conception. . theorizes. He points to American historian Jo,seph ,.S9br/J.n,, .~ member of the <'· Thomas Jonathan " Stonewall" Jackson was only 39. Did this Christian Arthur M. Schlei~~n~et, .St.'s ass~ssmen_t League's boarµ .riJ ,djrectprs and a well Warrior mean the·Jordan or the Potomac - ·or both? ,. ., that .anti-Cathqlic1~m. is .t~e ·aeepest! his­ known_a\lthor, Golumnist a!ld radio com­ ·torical preJUdice 'ih the American .exper_- ment;itov, )','ill \ieliver•a ~eyqote address at ~ence. " . _ ., r ~J::,c. , •-; . . .. ., _ , : · '. thE; rec1;ption.1m.c! <,li1wer in the.University Blum says !h.~t ;n the,ar.ea _o(.educat10n, 1 Cent.er b.~ginping at 6;30,p.m. '

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RELIGION TOD.llY BY WILLIAM F WILLOUGHBY Intriguing Luther Medal Presents Him as a Swan here's something very - "the Goose" proclaimed that "a swan" interesting about the would come - about lO0 ·years later - to man Martin Luther, continue his work. · · widely regarded as the And so, when Luther's work was full­ moving force behind bloom, the prophecy was dusted off and the the Protestant Refor­ great reformer, who had arrived on the mation more than 450 scene at about the right time to give the years ago, which comes prophecy significance, became referred to out in the myriad med­ as "the Swan." als. and coins which Luther was more like an eagle than a have been struck in his honor, most often swan, although swans are among the presenting a bust ·of the great reformer. No meanest birds alive. For that matter, the other religious leader in the world's his­ goose, too, is a mean creature. If you've tory has had more.of such objects struck ever been chased by one, as I have, you'll for him than has Luther. · know full well what I mean. Blame the Germans, though, for much I have so much enjoyed reading Luther's of that. They, ii is quite clear, have a pen­ wo rks over the years, but in them, While I chant for entabulating just about every­ thing. They're not ones to let history, in all its details, get past them. And so, when Luther's Some of the depictions, and the ones that work was full-bloom, most intrigue me, present Luther as a swan. All of this stems from a prophecy the prophecy was about the great leader, whose natal quin­ quecentenary is being celebrated this year, ~usted off and the primarily in East and West Germany but · also in much of the Christian world. The great reformer, who fanfare is starting to take hold in the Ger­ had arrived on the manys now that the spring weather is upon us. scene at about the right The Reformation had begun pretty much in earnest 100 years before Luther time to give the came on the scene, principally in the per­ son of John Hus (1371-1415). Hus often was prophecy significance, referred to as "The Goose," purely and became referred to as simply because that is _what his surname means: "the Swan." Probably that moniker didn't have quite .---.s.a.,mimJ...Si'lllJljji[j_i~/.n4~ce w.hil&_Hus_was alive - being very much like the nicknames-and find a man who was touched deeply by the monikers each of us picks up usually in the . Coins and medals depicting Martin Luther mark the 500th anniversary of his birth. grace of God, I also have to confess that he early stages of life. My brother, even is much harsher than anyone we would put though he has passed his 50th year, still is • people. Certainly Latin, if some aside from brought into the faith with their hearts ~nd lip with today. I have heard some most.vit­ called "Bugs" instead of Herbert or Herb, the educated understood it, was not the souls rather than at best, vicariously, riolic preachers in my day, making me won­ simply because I saw him inadvertantly language of the heart for anyone anywhere through rote mumblings in Latin which der which side of the Bible they're coming swallow a bug when we were kids. Sorry I (if already had generated the likes of Ital­ kept them in ignorance. John Wycliffe did · from, but Luther and som_e of thqse early tattled. ian, Romanian, French, Spanish and Portu­ the same thing for English a·nd was reformationists (and those who opposed John Hus' principal criine against the g uese. and some lesser linguistic executed for it. · the Reformation) could scorch the Jordan Catholic Church of that day was that he offsprings). · So, too, was "the Goose's" goose cooked dry behind John the Baptist. translated the Scriptures out of the Many others had translated, or were yet beca·use of the unfortunate understanding It was the style of the day, and particu­ commonly-used Latin, which very few peo­ to translate, the Sctiptures into the ver­ of the times. He was condemned to be larly if one we~e apt to be put to th_e torch ple understood, into the language of his nacular in the hope that people could be . burned at the stake, but as he was dying, Continued on Page lOD Covenant Players: They Perform Deep-Down Gospel Truths -~ . . . ------'--- stories and themes. Their vast repertory, we worked for a military chaplain and per- · away? " Warwick explains. "We do insist , SPEc!rr l~~ri~H~~~~~IMES dealing with themes as diverse as the cru- formed on the back of a truck, and once in that the performers understand that cifixion, the Christmas story, drug abuse a submarine. You name.it, we can perform where ever they aie coming from, we are first and foremost a Christian ministry, .• hey start out with a pay of only $25 a and peer pressure, includes Ipore than there;' Warwick adds: 1,000 plays, all written by Charles Tanner, Tlie a·ctors and actresses come from using drama as a communication tool, and week, but most who start out with the that they must abide by our guidelines and Covenant Players stick with the who formed the Covenant Players in .1963 diverse backgrounds. Some have had T while a successful producer and screen- extensive acting experience and training, behavior patterns.'' troupe. They love the way drama can com­ Ages of the players range from those municate the deep-down truths of the Gos­ writer in Hollywood. Tanner continues to write approximately 80 plays-each year. fresh out of high school to a 72-year-old pel. And it is doubtful that any other group They travel throughout grandmother who toured ·with the players has as large a repertory. · "The plays range in length from an hour­ and-a-half tci literally 15 seconds:• Richard four years ago. · Drama as a vivid commlinicatiorts tool Warwick of the East Coast Regio.nal Office the United States, Starting salary is $25 a week, and a one­ has a history,· some feel, as long as life explains: "We are interdenominational and . Canada, free Europe, year commitment of full-time participa­ . itself. Some imagine that drama might are not funded by any foundation or tion is requested. There are two tours per have haa its origin in,the days of the Nean­ church. All our income comes from the and parts of Africa and year, one lasting from August to December derthal man, when men and womeri·pran­ individual p_erformances , )':'e,i d?t " eim~r fl!lsl O!)._\l f rQIJl. 1J,il!lt1i1JW9thttu1lgb,ltl'une. In ced around fields and forests to dramaiite {}prp. fr~.e-w1ll, offerings_or .from a;i:1xeo A~~alia~.~-p,µtting .on "'' · " summer, the demand is much lower, War- their joys and struggles, 'mimicking their 1rate." plays that dramatize wick says. · friends and enemies, acting out their Most o'f the Covenant Players' perfor0 They perform at conferences and sum­ hopes and fears. ·, mances are held in a church setting, either Christian stories and m e-r camps, but regular church Whatever the origin,. drama evolved, as part of the Sunday morning worship or performances are curtailed during the became artsy, structured', revolutionary. as a spec/a\ evening pr,ogram, but they also themes. summer months, when "Covenant Col­ Today, the Covenant Player's, a Christian lege"·is held at the Players' headquarters ~-~ve.p~~fot, rn,e~ i~ fr0Spitals,1I_>_rison~, nur~­ 1 1 drama group, sen'ds ·;out more thah 80 µ,ig hon;ie~, ~cpp~l ~l Pli e~en ,~n. st{eet co::- some have had none. Some join due to in Raseda, Calif. Intensive classes in drama teams. each~· yea'r.!' 'l'hey•• fravel ners. · . strong religious involvement, others have directing, acting, Bible history, theology_ had little or no prior link to the church. ·and many other topics are offered to the throughout the'Unitetl'Shites;

THE WASHINGTON TIMES MAGAZINE WEDNESDAY. MAY 11 . 1983 3D FOOD & DRINI{ Bagelmania

By Richard Levine salt or sesame seeds. Of the special WASH INGTON TIMES STAFF doughs, cinnamon-raisin seems to be _the most popular, and rye the least.· In fact, it's "If you have never eaten a bagel almost impossible to find a rye bagel in-this I feel sorry for you." town. Whatsa Bagel makes banana and nut - Leo Rosten, The Joys of Yiddish bagels, claiming to be the only purveyor of that variety in the nation. Cinnamon-raisin f all of the bagels that are baked in one is one of Bagel Master's· ·biggest sellers. day at Chesapeake Bagel Bakery on And there are even chocolate chip bagels . I. Capitol Hill were stacked on top of each Those, toP, you'll find at Bagel Master. other, the re·s11lting tow~r · wo11ld ·.be taller All of the make-them-from-scratch bak­ However, Skolniks is not a purely local than the Washington ·Monument. eries use rotary ovens and all use machines effort. It is the one big bagel undertaking Chesapeake bakes 3,428 bagels ea.ch day to shape their bagels, except Whatsa here wi~h outside connections - bigtime on the Hill and an equal number at its· Bagel, which makes them by hand - backing. With seven bakery restaurants, DJ1pont Circle sl)op. Since a bagel is t)NO bagels that .weigh about twe ounces _m_ore two each in Philadelphia and Cincinnati, ~.he*,high, 3,333 o{,,them wouldm~.ch;$.e than the .thr.ee--ounce ones ,everyone else -ene each in Dallasan4 Chicago ana-i::iie new nronument's height,-. , sells. ,.. -one here, S.kciiniks is a merchandising ven- _ In Bethesda, Whatsa Bagel's daily d·o1:­ Locally fashioned baked bagels contain ture of R.J. Reynolds Development Corp. ens is even greater in number. It would flour, ·water, yeast, salt, bran or sugar, and Its corporate approach offers a studied total more than three Washington Monu­ · nothing else except their special toppings hint of the ethnic, but one not so _obvious as ments. And so would the output .of • or the ingredients of special,doJ.!ghs. There to possibly turn qff middle America. The Georgetown B_ag.t;lr,y in Georgetown. are no preservatives or non-food additives, shops are located only in malls,. and the Bagel Master Jnc. of Wheaton could bµilq and all of the area bal{eries seem to take decor; points out Skolniks president 11 such towers each day. pride in that fact. George Haggerty, is white tile, represent­ Clearly, the bagel has arrived fa the Just as bagels.have increased in variety, ing cleanliness, and brass, asserting high nation's capital - in a big way. It's as "in" so have the sandwiches made with them. quality - "traditional in a contemporary Lox (smoke salmj'.ln) has been joined b.y -way." . . · · .. The D.C. bagel boom non-kosher ham, by sprouts and tofu and Skolniks' ovens are in clear view,'.so you by pizza toppings -,- no limit; it seems, to can see the bagels.are baked on the prem­ has happened only in the possibilities. · ises, but the rest of the operation is off Bagels are an ethnic food, but without limits. Larry Barto, the area supervisor, the past three years, the ethnic liabities that restrict many admits the bagels are brought in partially exotic fopds attempting to pleMe palates · coeked. That way, he sa;ys, there is "consis­ while in~ York limited to the bland. -A bagel is a simple · · tency of product" and also ;'l!O flour bggefs have been­ yeasty ·bread. It is baked in a unique way, blowing around:' Haggerty emphasizes and.it doesn't call,.fo.r cultivatecl taste or a the shop policy: "Everything is fresh; popular -. . indeed, tolerance for spices. everything fs ma'de fresh here. Nothing is And \he bagel is a food .you can eat fre­ frozen." · almost a way of life :-:­ quently, .rather than occasionally. Bagels Barto says the company plans to open can be eaten simply, with butter or jam, or three more stores this year, 20 next year for decades. melded with almost anything at all. As a and 20 to 25 a year for who knows how many as any single food item you can name. Cer­ bread it crosses cultural lines more easily tainly Rosten would find it difficult to come than most. across anyone here for whom he could feel When Rubenstein broke bagel ground sorry. here by opening Bagel Master in Wheaton, Interestingly, the bagel -boom has hap­ he was aiming at the Jewish community in pened only in the past three years, whilein Montgomery C9unty and, in fact, his bak­ New York bagels have been popular - ery is certified kosher. That also was the indeed, almost a way of life - for decades. · strategy of Bethesda's Whatsa Bagel and When Jack Rubenstein came to the Dis­ of Skolniks, which opened at White Flint trict from Brooklyn' to open Bagel Master, Mall on Rockville Pike last month . . he began by selling a modest 173,000 bagels a month. He did $165,000 in busi­ ness his first year. That was in the late 1960s. Today those figures wouldn't amount to a drop· in his vast bagel bucket · Inc.redibly, Rubenstein had· the Wash- _ ington area bagel field all to himself for 14 years. It was that long before another ba·gel bakery opened and survived. Then came the onslaught. Georgetown Bagelry started'in January 1980, Chesap·eake Bagel in November 1981, Whatsa Bagel last Sep­ tember and Chesapeake's second bakery near Dupont Circle last January. Those are bakeries (all of them privately owned) that now are producing riearly 25 million bagels each year. They are doing so from scratch - and from flour, water and yeast. Their volumes are certain to go higher before the year is up. There are other places that bake bagels - but bagels partially prepared else­ Wher~ 5fAtrdfiff:tetleival'llllli~lets I th-all) buy 1 bagels from outside this area, including frozen bagels. They, toa, are selling. Clearly, bagels are hot. The proliferation of bakeries is creating more and more demand and introducing bagels to poten­ tial new addicts daily. There are at least 12 kinds of bagels regularly sold in this area., a few of them made from special doughs such as whole wheat, others simply plain white-wh·eat bagels with_topplngs such as onion, coarse

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The ovens were brick with small doors that opened vertically. An oven man The Birth worked with two 14-foot "peels," - wood Beyond Lox ·& Cream Cheese boards as wide as a bagel, which he used like a giant spatula to place bagels in· the some people, the perfect fact that by "theadamantine hardness" of bagels he Of Bagel oven, flip them over, move them about and bagels go with lox and cream cheese, had stuffed into his pockets). take them out, deftly manipulating them or with butter, is enough for. a life of There are also party suggestions"Spin by rows, 24 or 48 at a time. fulfillment and satisfaction. But there are the Bagel" - sinc_e it points to no one, you Mania Rubenstein's father had worked with bagel mavens who would like to be more get to kiss everyone); bagel greeting cards coal civens that had to be stoked by the oven adventurous, but don't know how. (To a graduate: "You finally made it, Bagel­ Here is the key: whatever a bread or a head," and even bagel exercises, toe BY A WASHINGTON TIMES STAFF WRITER man even as he wa·s busy with the demand­ ing tasks of baking. By the time Ruben­ cracker or any bread-type food can do, a stands, lifts and Bagel Jacks ("Stand erect stein himself began, the ovens had been bagel can be trained to do. That's it. You can with a bagel clutchec! in each hand. Jump gend has it that bagels originated in co!]ve,rted to gas. Otherwise, the job was .do anything you· wish to a bagel, and the up, spread feet apart to shoulder width and Vienna in the 1600s when a Polish the same. bagel will love you for it. · clap the bagels together overhead. Return rince was honored with a roll shaped When an oven man arrived in the morn­ Examples: to original position, Repeat 20 times." ). like·- his stirrup. Jack Rubenstein doesn't ing, the doughmakfng and bagel­ Instead of piling <;hinese stit-fried vege­ Once in awhile, the book's nonsense is bel~eve that story: "Who knows from the fashioning were well underway; the ovens tables on Chinese noodles, pile them on · inspired: "Alwle i~·toa bagel what a punch 1400s or whatever?" he asks. had bee!) burning for four to five hours and bagel chunks. line is to a joke ... if it doe·sn't have one, it Rubenstein baked bagels in New York in had to be cooled down. 1'here were long, Instead of_bread or cracker crumbs in doesn't qualify."- the 1950s-at age 23, right out of the Army. heavy poles that could reach into the oven. recipes, ·use bagel crumbs. Then there are menu suggestions and The New York bagel industry was con­ At one end, oversize burlap bags were Instead of baking pizza dough, pile "the n;cipes, particularly those that change the trolled by Local 338 of the American Bak­ attached, soaked in buckets of water, then works" on a halved bagel and broil it. bagel's ethnic character, such as the Chi­ ery and Confectionary Workers. The union lifted, pushec\ through the oven doors and If you agonize over taking such momen­ nese vegetable and pizza ideas mentioned, assigned jobs, deteqnined how -many shoved deep inside. Five and six times a tous leaps from tradition, there _is plenty of beef and teriyaki sauce, bagel baklava and · bakers a bakery needed, controlled the night the oven floor was swabbed· down in encouragement awaiting you: 150 recipes bagel Bavarian. There are suggestions for number of bakers entering the trade and that fashion. To Rubenstein, who weighed and even more suggestions - in a book bagels with fruit toppings (bananas and the number of bakeries that could operate. just 135 pounds, the weighr of those bags, titled Bagels! Bagels! & More Bagels! by cream cheese or chopped nuts and "If a. bakery tried to open without union the heat and the sieam never will be forgot- Nathan Hauser and Sue Spitler (Rand strawberry preserves)', and recipes for McNally and Co. N.Y). approval, Rubenstein and other members ten. . The book i~ a pro­ Continued on Page 14D stood outside and gave away bagels until The uniqueness of the bagel as one of the motion for Lender's, the frozen bagel giant, the interloper went out of business. The world's countless breads comes partly but it is funny and interesting as weHas union opened its ranks only to the sons of from the brief cooking of the yeasty rings useful. · its members or the son-in-laws of mem­ of dough in water before they are baked. In The authors claim a bagel is "what you bers. Rubenstein's father was a lifetime Rubenstein's youth, it was the job of the take to the movies when you can't get a date bagel maker. _ kettleman to dump the bagels into a large ... with a bagel you know you've found .a Bakeries were not retail shops; .they kettle of boiling· water, leave them_a few meaningful relationship with the very first - were cellars with one or two ovens, a seconds, scoop them out and dump them on bite." steaming kettle of boiling water and four a workbench, where the oven man took Among a bagel's many virtues, Hauser or more men wo·rking in the heat, usually over. and Spitler are especially fond of pointing in only a large apron and their underwear. The oven man, his bare fingers splayed out that: Sacks of flour weighe_d mo pounds. Six to like claws, speared the bage\s - steaming • It resists getting soggy (you can pack seven made a "dough;' a batch mixed elec­ hot rings of dough- five on one hand, five a sandwich you don't intend to eat until trically in a large kettle. Water and other on the other. Then, with a quick adjust­ hours later). · ingredients brought each dough to a whop­ ·ment, 10 in each hand,.each finger double­ • It is the only bread you can spread ping 900 pounds. girthed with steaming rings of dough. He peanut bu.tter on without tearing it apart. Rubenstein progressed through all the had to be fast. There was the relentless · • It is even strong enough to withstand jobs-mak-ing dough, manning the kettle, pressure of the kettleman's next batch on hard butter. ·henchman fashioning bagels, to oven man, the.way, as well as the bagels already in the The book .is filled with bad word-plays the foreman. oven an_d baking - with no way to stop the ("drum and bagel corps"); Jots of too cute action of the yeast or the heat of the ovens remarks ("eating in the round"); some without a -major shop shutdown. He'd sage warnings without solutions (when you scoop them up, the· pain of the hot rings bite it on one side, stuff squirts out of the compelling him to get rid of them as fast other), and some dubious history (an as possible down the long wooden peel. In account of an American -soldier in Korea dank cellars, with helpers who misjudged who was saved from three enemy bull_ets the action of the yeast, the skili of the oven­ man - his mastery of the peel, the preci­ sion of his movements and their rhythm - Chesapeake Bagel Bakery unfolded in the heat, sweat and pain of boil- (546-0994) Continued on Page l~D ~15 1'ennsylvarua Ave. SE (Cap~tol Photos by Brig Cabe. 1 Hill) Open seven days _ Bagelsmade and baked entirely on lhe'.Pl'emises: \

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FO~D BY DAVID PURSG-LOVE SECOND HELPINGS BY JOHN ROSSON Thoughts on Salting Food, Drink Come to the Lafayette F~ here's at least one good thing. to say for the foods taste as if they almost had been properly ------t•s public feast low-sodium craze. And, it's not the food . salted probably would-show, on·anlysis, a remark­ time again - TThose low-sodium green beans are terrible. able sodium content. which is .to say And the corn is a tasteless atrocity. I don't give a It's fun to talk with food editor John Rosson that the gastro­ hoot what Craig Claiborne says, very few of the about this. He has tried all the "natural" sub­ nomic bash spic'es make up for a lack of sodium. And, I .am stitutes and would ban them from restaurants or known in these willing to bet that the few spices that do make at least make the proprietors post large signs ,parts as the assuring customers there will be no taste to the annual Lafayette food because no salt has been used. On the other School Fair is set hand, I believe that those few people who are into to take place Sat­ WINE TASTING no-sodium for real health reasons and not because urday at the usual location, the Every Friday Evening of a current craze have the right to have at 1east a school's remarkable 12-acre park at from 7:15-8:15 P.M. limited selection of items - marked "prepared Broad Branch Road and Northampton Street NW. The hours: 4 Wines & Hors d'oeuvres without salt." . 11 a.m. through 3 p.m. · 0 But don't shove that fad down my throat. John . •5° per person · This is the 24th year for the fair­ Beginners and Advanced Rosson has to stick around and make notes for his Wine Lovers Welcome restaurant reviews, but I am quite capable- and this time set to feature luncheon dishes from Europe, the Middle j Seating Limited to 25 prove it frequently-of bolting up, slapping down . Asparagus and brussels Reservations Recommended a five t0oth at the D.C. Farmer's 2 lbs. shrimp, shelled and deveined And tequila can be quite good. There can be a Market in RFK Stadium parking lot 1 cup water · good brandy feel and taste, overlaid with a hint of #6 next Tuesday. salt to taste ;;:;;;;;;;;;;;;;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;::;;;:::::::::::::::::::~ sourish milk. Only a hint. There can be a sugges- As in past years, the booth will be freshly ground pepper to taste • . tion of vanilla,'a slight aftertaste similar to bour- open noon to 3:30 p.m: every Tuesday 1 cup pepper leaves (at Oriental food bon, sometimes an apple-like reminiscence of and Thursday through June 30. AHA store) or any green leafy vegetab-le calvados. Tequila js snarp. Some is rather raw. dietitians will be on hand to answer Continued on Page· 13D food-and-he<1lth questions, distrib­ In a medium pot, bring coconut ute literature and demonstrate how milk and water to a rolling boil. Add ·i·· ·· . 1Jl-~1 best to select, prepare and -serve shrimps and season with ·salt and 1 Mexican nutritious foods. The service is free - ~ti5 !estaurant ffe_ Authentic Korean Cuisine Continued on Page 13D .. ACCLAIMED BY THE. CRITICS

Most Mexican restaurants start with llmlted basic Ingre­ dients-com, beans, hamburger, cheese, onion, lettuce, ch Ill peppers-and combine ttlem In the standard Tex-Mex ONLY FRENCH RESTAURANT OPEN SO LATE catalogue of tacos, burritos, chalupas, tamales and en­ chiladas. When each has a clear character cnts own, when In• 'TIL 3 A.M. WEEKDAYS divld.ual tastes and textures are retained even by foods sitting on a combination platter, you've got a ·worthy Mexican restaurant. Thats the case at El Bandlto, purveyor of better than average Mexican food. Appetlsers are excellen\, par­ ticularly the quesadlllas: thin, dellcate wheat tortillas tilled TRYTHE RESTAURANT with an even thinner layer of melted cheese and chopped green ,.,,,,.,... KOREAN RESIDENTS PREFER. chlle peppers. (Order extra sour cream and guacomole for dlpp. _ - ~~·s TAs~~ Ing.) Standard entrees are good though unspec;tacular: ham- CHINESE & JAPANESE DISHES . ,(,,Q lhlstlc. Aside from Ice criam, CHAMPAGNE BRUNCH• 't EARLY,BIRD DINNER i there's one dessert, sopap\llas: wheat dough rollef thin, ::;Mf!.3TZ. !HM, 1KAM ff>M ,i~bi a 10,30 pm-1 am almost crepe-style, then fried quickly in hot ell, dusted with. cin­ Sushi and Sashimi namon and slathered In honey. Wonderful! REPRINTED FROM WASHINGTON POST DINING GUIDE, SEPTEMBER 27, 1981 7,151 Lee Highway 5825 Seminary Rd" Bailey's Crossroads: 820:Sns J Falls Church, Va. 22046 - 6113 Franconia Rd". Sprfngllilld, 922-9050- :..1 ; !( Prlc, .Aange: Lunch $2 .75 - S3.40 > Olnn:r S3.60 . $6.00 (703) 534-2552 3124-28 M STREET. 338-383q -~EOJIQETOWN 1 . Chll~r:.ens., Menu • Credit Cards , Glose,d Sundays Between Route 7 and Gr'aham Roa1.I

6D WEDNESDAY, MAY 11 , 1983 T~~-Vv~SHl_":J~'!SJt:J _T_l~_E_S r-AAG.A_ZJ~~ ­ --•••--••v __ _. ..;- -- ~ •- --- .... -- c-, ',t1 \l:C~-ll~\, .:,, !' ~ , ). ¾i; .. ~ :1.J ,·.· 1: -1f ~ :! ., : t /' 3- T TEL ISION Burns Still Hoffa-Kennedy Packs 'em. Battle Refought · In at87 · ln·'Blo·od Feud' · By Marilyn Beck ooks, media forums and his- , tory ha·ve chr.oillcled the e has ·come from a morning of highly eiilot.i.onal 12:year feud · between· labor leader James ~o_n fereqces with his writ7rs, b~t Riddle Hoffa and corruption, H. still looks natty and fresh m prob-er Riioerf.Ffancis Keri-'.'-­ ch.ecked jacket and flanne\ slacks 11s he. iieay:'It ·cniiiige,.t.thi:: lives· of. glides his Seville th,'ough the· Beverly both dramatically, and some Hills traffic to a stop before the Hill­ argue that it directly or indi­ .crest Country Club. rectly' resulted in the: for-es­ 0 He waves to friends and a·ssociates as hortening of the 1.ife of at leasf one of these giant he makes his way through the lobby and public figures. into the dining room.of -the,.exclusive .: ·Tonight and iomorrow night,-tel'e.vision focuses ···­ club he's coniffifer'iid his secon(f nome on this intense "·BloodF'eud." Though the TV mini­ for SO years. · · series covers the fuU 12 years of bad blood, the "I'll have a bloody mary;.• says Geor,ge show r.uns. for only four hour-s. Could we stand it Burns, as he settles_down in a chair at -if all this bitterness we.i;(} m th.e tlm.e I was 7-years-old untiU was ·27," says George Burns. Hoffa, and scre<;,n newcomer Cotter Smith makes "I never get tired, I'm too old· to get · his debut as Kennedy: Erhest Borgnine is FBI tired," he says.. . chief J . Edgar Hoover; Sam Groom is John F. Ken­ "Naw, traveling doesn't wear me .out. on stage this ~ummer at Lake Tahoe and He orders a lunch of chicken soup, nedy; Eddie Albert is Phil Wharton; and ):"o_rrest · I let the pilot fly while I relax - then I in Las Vegas, and asks, "You know how toasted french bread and black coffee, Tucker plays Lyndon R Johnson .. (See John fly when I get to my destination." bad business has been in Vegas? Well, and explains, "I watch what I eat - I Holmes' review in the Capital Life section) He commences to rattle off career theY. had· to turn away people when• I only had four stewed. prune~ and coffoe commitments that will take him ta-New played there a . couple of months •ago. - ... far;.breakfiist, and for din_ner it-probal;>ly TV Fll.MFARE : . York, )Nashlqgton; .Chicago .~ ..!l:ld. ,l'>ack 'l;he y.oungpeoplecome to,seemebefore -·•• Will ·be chicken and"sollf). I avoid red WATERSHIP DOWN €oncfu'sion cWJ.5:VM-9 at · fo floilywoo.d for shapting_a .TV special .' I die, the cild people -conie to.;c. se~ me ·meats, but not because.I believe that &}The rabbit's have'to-actqufi:klyto sa've tb-eirn·ew ., ...... ~ ;,···· ·- •. . -· and pr.oduction of ·two films, and notes, before they die." certain foods cause cancer. I'm just not' warren. - "Really, r- just don.'t tbink ..Qf - geJ,.ing.. And. then, without missing a · b¢ar;-·. ' crazy' i115ofrrgtllliks or chops;· they take;- ---··tired': Th'e frick'ls just to make· yourself: "I'nr ·not going .· to· die on· stage.· I've so much cutting and chewing, cutting . get, out oH,ed e_acn moming.,- ~ -. H,VEk , already done that-. I died.,,on practically •· and. chewi1.1g; tbere'sno:t\me to eat." each d·ay." · ··-eYery·slagei'.wason fromthe:tin'ie::I was Cominuea on Page lOD r-- ..... --.,..;-...-..-~:ipa------=·1- <'\:1 He comments that he'l\.b.£ 11.11p~rii,g .T-ye:ars 0old'until I wa~ 27!'. · I;.~;1 ~, WAH, Restaurant YING! - 1 1 I • . tT1t0dlti611a~. Cm,to11ege I TASTE THE.DIFFERENCE .I utfenu 1 I I FRESH MAK I • C~rry-Out Servi"': • Free Par1

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7, EDGE OF NIGHT views with Alex Karras and Tatum 11, CHILD'S PLAY O'Neal. ·Morning 32, UNTAMED WORLD · 4, NBC NEWS 5:55 11:00 5, THREE'S-COMPANY 2, 4, WHEEL OF FORTUNE '13, WORD OF FAITH ·!: ~~it:ECWNrS Q 20, JIM BAKKER 5, TOM COTTLE: UP CLOSE 7, 13, LOVE BOAT (R) 11, FAMILY FEUD 6:00 . 9,11, THE PRICE IS RIGHT 20, BARNEY MILLER 2,NEWS . . 26, 32, MISTER ROGERS (R) . 22, 67, SCHOOL DIALOGUE. Con­ 4, FRED THOMAS IN THE MORNING 11:30 cerned viewers can question top Mary­ 5, PANORAMA land educators on such issues as teacher 7, ABC NEWS THIS MORNING 2, JOKER'S WILD testing, home teaching, high school stand­ 9, CBS EARLY MORNING NEWS 4, DREAM HOUSE ards, censorship and the use of micro­ 5,NEWS . 11, LEARNING TO READ computers in schools. . . 20, INDEPENDENT NETWORK NEWS 13, MORNING STRETCH 26, OVER EASY. Guest: Harold Russell. 26, WHY IN THE WORLD 6:30 32, STUDIO SEE 2, 20 MINUTE WORKOUT ~J,raACNEIL / LEHRER RE~ORT 4, EARLY TODAY 50, JACK JOHNSON. Historic footage 9, 13, NEWS , from the early days of boxing is present­ 11, CBS EARLY MORNING NEWS ed. HBO, NATIONAL G_EOGRAPHIC SPE-. . CIAL. "Monkeys, Apes And Man" Scien­ Afternoon _ 7.:30 tists searching for clues to human behav­ 12:00 ;!,.TIC TAC DOUGH ior study the various activities of other 4, FAMILY FEUD 2, 4, 7, 9, 11, 13, NEWS 5,M•A•S•H primates. 5, PANORAMA 6:45 . 7, ENTERTAINMENT TOf';IGHT. Inter.­ 20, MOVIE: " The Maids" (1975) Glenda views with Alex Karras and Tatum 22, 67, A.M.- WEATHER Jackson, Susannah York. Based on the . O'Neal. 7:00· play by Jean Genet. Two maids who Marlo Thomas has to compete with televised football for despise their female eIDployer act out 9, JOKER'S WILD 2, 4, TODAY Charles Grodin's attention in "Love, Sex ... and Marriage?," 11, PEOPLE'S COURT their fantasies about her behind her back. 5, GREAT SPACE COASTER a new comedy premiering on Channels 7, 13 at 10 p,m. 13, 'EVENING MAGAZINE. A young 22, 67, EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM· 7, 13, GOOD MORNING AMERICA · woman tells how she overcame anorexia 9, 11, MORNING NEWS . MING nerVosa; a look at an outdoor war game 211, COMPUTER PROGRAMME 20, BUGS BUNNY AND FRIENDS played by adults. 22,117, INTRODUCTION TO MATH 32, MACNEIL / LEHRER REPORT IN CONCERT AT THE MET HBO, CONSUMER . REPORTS PRE­ 20, SANFORD ANO SON 7:30 . PBS WETA CHANNEL 26, 8 p.m. 26, MACNEIL / LEHRER REPORT SENTS. " The Truth Behind Television 5, BULL WINKLE A musical evening with tenor Placido Domingo and baritone 32, EVENING EXCHANGE Cominercials" This award-winning pro­ 20, WOODY WOODPECKER Sherrill Milnes and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra conducted HBO, CONSUMER REPORTS PRE­ truth behind 22, 67, SESAME STREET O · gram uncovers the televi­ by James Levine performing arias from Verdi, Puccini and SENTS. " The Truth Behind Television HBO, FRAGGLE ROCK. A blind of trav­ sion commercials to help consumers find Bizet. (2 hrs.) Commercials" This award-winning pro­ eling musiCians comes to Fraggle Rock real value and save money. gram uncovers the truth behind televi­ to· present an ancient Fraggle tradition - . 12:30 THE BLACK CONSERVATIVES sion commercials to help consumers ·find the megley. · 2, 4, SEARCH FOR TOMORROW WHMM CHANEL 32, 9 p.m. . real value and save money. · 7, 13, RYAN'S HOPE 8:00 ·An in-depth look at the Black politician of the '80s, the program 8:00 5, BUGS BUNNY AND FRIENDS 9, 11, THE YOUNG AND THE REST­ combines interviews with historical footage in an effort to 2, 4, REAL PEOPLE. Highlights of the 20, MIGHTY MOUSE LESS 26, DICK CAVETT. Guest: John Gielgud. analyze the idealogical effects of the Reagan administration " Rea.I People" train trip from Los Ange­ 26, LILIAS, YOGA AND YOU . upoh the Black community. Presenting a conservative vs. liberal les to Chicago include visits to the Alamo, HBO, MOVIE: " Absence Of Malice" . (Part 2)(R) 32, EVENING EXCHANGE discussion fofmat, panelists dicsuss topics includiAg y.outh the world's largest country. music club, (1981) Paul Newman, Sally Field. A legit­ and an Arizona town named Why. (R) imate businessman's life is ruined by a HBO, MOVIE: "Missing" (1981) Jack unemployment, the Reagan budget and civil rights policies. Lemmon, Sissy Spacek. A . middle-aged (1 hr.) 5, MOVIE: "Play Misty For Me" (1971) newspaper reporter's story alleging his Clint. Eastwood, Jessica Walter. An involvement in the mob killing of a labor New York busines.sman and his daughter­ NON-FICTION TELEVISION: THE CANCER WAR obsessed woman tries to force her affec­ boss. 'PG' in-law try to find out what happened to his son who disappeared during the mili­ PBS WETA CHANNEL 26, 10 p.m, . tions upon a_ disc jockey who is already 8:30 tary coup in Chile. 1PG' · Nearly one million Americans get cancer each year and another inv01Ved with another girl. :o;g~S~~~ JERR)'. 1:00 half a million die from it. How much progress is being made in 7; 13,"THE FALL GUY. Colt and Howie 2, 4, DAYS OF OUR LIVES finding a cure for this killer disease? This provocative recruit members of the Fall Guys Stunt 22, 67, MISTER ROGERS (R) Association to execute a daring rescue 26, MACNEIL / LEHRER REPORT 5, MOVIE: " The Prisoner Of Zenda" documentary explores the politics behind America's billion-dollar . (1937) Ronald Colman, David Niven. A: when Colt's old friend and mentor is kid­ 9:00 war on cancer and examines recent criticism ot the National napped by a small-town sheriff. (R) kidnapped king's.· double fights off Cancer Institute and other major cancer centers for their failure 2, 9, DONAHUE. "Our Troubled usurpers of the throne until the real king 9, 11, WATERSHIP DOWN. Animated. to cure most forms of cancer and to fully explore the area of Schools" Guest: U.S. Secretary of Educa­ is rescued. Based on the book by Richard Adams. A tion Terrel H. Bell, Ph.D., ·who discusses 7, 13, ALL MY CHILDREN prevention. The program also questions whether decisions group of rabbits face dangers unknown to the findings of the National Commission 26, FIRING LINE made in the past decade about the cause, its treatment and them when they leave the security of on Excellence in Education. 32, OVER EASY. Guest: Harold Russell. methods of diagncisis are in the best interests of American their warren to search for a better life. 4, TIC TAC DOUGH (R)Q . cancer patients and the American public. (1 hr.) (Part 2) 5, I LOVE LUCY 20, BLOOD FEUD. The story of the con­ 1:30 7, 20 MINUTE WORKOUT SMALL BUSINESS MY WAY _ flict between Teamster Union leader 11, YOU ASKED FOR 'IT 9, 11, AS THE WORLD TURNS Jimmy Hoffa (Robert Blake) and Robert 32, ANOTHER LIFE PBS WETA CHANNEL 26, 11 p.m. 13, PEOPLE AR E TALKING This documentary gets to the heart of small business in F . Kennedy (C.otter Smith) is traced from 20, W.O.W.! . ·2,00 its beginnings in the 1950s when Kennedy 22, 67, EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM­ 2, 4, ANOTHER WORLD America: the people ihemselves. It tells the human story behind was chief counsel for the McLellan Com­ MING 7, 13, ONE LIFE TO LIVE the small business community by profiling nine independent mittee to the Senator's assassination in 20; EYE ON WASHINGTON bu_sinessmen and women including a banker, fire chief and bar 1968. (Part I) ~t ~~s.tN~Ec~~~~ Q 26, NOVA and grill owner in Upshur County, W. Va.(1 hr.) 22, 67, SURVIVAL. " Gentle Giants Of 9:30 32, COSMOS The Pacific" Richard Widmark narrates 4, BA TTL EST AAS 2:30 the stor)' of the endangered humpback 5, MY THREE SONS 9, 11, CAPITOL whales who travel many thousands of 7, RICHARD SIMMONS 20, KID'S BREAK ., miles each year to court and breed in the 11, TATTLETALES HBO, MOVIE: "Cannonball Run" (1981) 20, SUPERFRIENDS 32, POLKA DOT DOOR 0 1 20, ROMPER'ROOM . Burt Reynolds, Doin Deluise. Various 22, 67, 26, SESAME STREET Q HBO, MOVIE: "The Night The Lights ;::er~ l2'~tt:;u:; 1~r~fi. Tenor 32, DICK CAVETT. Guest: John Gielgud. oddball characters compete in a coast-to­ 32, UP AND COMING Went Out In Georgia" (198 1) Kristy Placido Domipgo, baritone Sherrill (Part 2)(R) coast auto race. 'PG: . 4:30 McNichol, Mark Hamill. A brother-and­ Milnes and music director James Levine, 10:00 3:00 2, ALICE sister songwriting duo have many adven­ conducting the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, perform Verdi, Puccini, Bizet 2, 4, THE FACTS ·oF LIFE (R) 2, LITTLE HOUSE. ON THE PRAIRIE 5, WELCOME BACK, KOTTER tures w-hile trying to eke out a living on alld others in a concert of operatic arras, 5, LEAVE IT TO BEAVER 4,FANTASY 11, THE JEFFERSONS the country-western circuit., 'PG' duets and orchestra experts. 7, FAMILY FEUD. Former stars of " Bat­ 5, POPEYE AND FRl_l;NDS 13, CHARLIE'S ANGELS 32, ANOTHER LIFE man," ''Gilligan's Island," "Hawaiian 7 , 13, GENERAL HQ'Sl;'!TAL 20, SCOOBY 000 9, 11, GUIDING LI 32, UNTAMED WORLD HBO, MOVIE: "Fort Apache, The Eye" and "Lost In Space" participate in Bronx" (1981) PaurNewman, Ed Asner. this weefc's contests. 20, TH.E MUPPE HBO, FRAGGLE ROCK. A band of trav­ 26, VICTORY eling musicians comes to Fraggle Rock Evening A tough cop battles crime and corruption 9, MORNING BREAK. Featured: in New York City's South Bronx neigh­ exercise with the Chippendales. 32, STUDIOS to present an ancient Fraggle tradition - borhO!)d. 'R' 1 1, THE NEW $25,000 PYRAMID the megley. 6:00 2 4, 7, 9r11 13• NEWS 13, HOUR MAGAZINE. Actress Donna . 5, TOM AND J . 1 1 8:30 5:00 5, ONE DAY AT A TIME Mills; new asexuality study; the real Fan­ 20,WOODYW 2, GOOD TIMES 32, DOCTOR WHO 20, THE JEFFERSONS nie Farmer. . 26, WHY INT 4, PEOPLE'S COURT 50, MOVIE: "Night Moves" (1975) Gene 22, 67, 26~ STU_DIO SEE. "Rodeo" Vis­ 20, 700 -1,

8D WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1983 THE WASHINGTON TIMES MAGAZINE --, WEDNESDAY TELEVISION SCHEDULE MllY-tl, 1983 conducting the ~etropolitan Oper~ WASHINGTON Orchestra, perform Verdi, Puccini, Bizet BALTIMORE and others in a concert of operatic arias, 4 ~ 26 ~. duets and orchestra ·experts. · 32, THE BLACK CONSERVATIVES · · 9:30 . 2, 4, THE FACTS OF LIFE. Jo's friend­ 8 ship with a boy she works with is jeopa·rd­ ized when· she is promoted over him. (R) Q ' 10:00 7 2 , .4, QUINCY. Quincy becomes involved in a young man's struggle to regain the Lilias, Yoga use of his arms. & You 5, NEWS ;~'!:CNel~ 7, 13, LOVE_, SEX .. & MARRIAGE?. 8 Lehrer Re@ Marlo Thomas and Charles Grodin star in Sesame Up & Coming a romantic coinedy that looks at the clas­ sic "boy-meets-girl" story in a c·ontempo­ rary light. O Richard Romper Dick THE ROCKFORD FILES 9 Simmons Room Cavett 20, 26, 32, NON-FICTION TELEVISION. :00 The Facts Family Morning 700 Sesame , Electric Tlie Facts $25,000 Hour "The Cancer War" A critical look at the or lite To Beaver Feud Break Club Street Company Of Life Pyramid Magazine ·institutions that control cancer research :30 Sale Of Andy Edge of Untamed Laverne& Child's in the United States is presented. · 10 The Ce·ntury Griffith Night World Shirley Play HBO, MOVIE: " Absence Of Malice" :00 Wheel Of ' Tom Cottle Love The Price· Mister Roger's Mr. Rogers Wheel Of The Price Love (1981) Paul Newman, Sally Field. A legit­ Fortune Boat Is Right Fortune Is Right Boat imate businessman's life ~ ruined by a newspaper reporter's story alleging his TI Joker's Wild involvement in the mob killing of a labor boss. 'PG' 10:15 50, MOVIE: "Absence Of Malice" (1981) Paul Newman, Sally Field: A legitimate 12 businessman's life is ruined by a newspa­ per reporter's story alleging his involve­ ment in the mob killing of a labor boss. 30 As the Another As the 'PG' 1 World Life World 11:00 :00 Another · Turns Cosmos Another Tums One life 2 , 4 7, 9, 11 13 NEWS 1 1 1 World World to Live 5, SOAP 20, MARY HARTMAN, MARY HART_­ :30 Capitol Capitol MAN 2 22, 67, BUSINESS REPORT :00 Fantasy Guiding The Victory Studio- Little House G~iding · General 211, SMALL BUSINESS MY WAY. Nine Light Muppets Garden See On The Light Hospital small-town, incfependent business men 3:30 Woody Why In Carras- Prairie and women in Upshur County, West Vir­ Woodpecker The World colendas ginia, are profiled. :00 Char1ie's Superfriends Sesame Up& Coming What's The Edge 32, DICK CAVETT. Guest John Gielgud. Angels· Street Happening Of Night (Part 3)(R) :30 Alice 11:30 Scooby Doo Untamed Charlie's 4 World Angels 2 1 4 1 TONIGHT. Host: Johnny Carson. Guests: George Bums, Jacqueline Bisset. Bugs Bunny & Mister Mister 5,KOJAK Friends Rogers Rogers 7, 13, ABC NEWS NIGHTLINE Good Electric ' Polka 11, COUPLES - 5 Times Company Dot Door 11, BARNEY MILLER The Studio Cisco 20, SATURDAY NIGHT .See Kid 22, 67, NIGHTTIMES: VARIETY. Over Guests: Morris Day and The Time; Ben 8 Easy Sidron, host of Jazz alive. 32, PBS LATENIGHT. Host: Dennis :MaeNe· tehrer Freport Wholey. ,. 12:00 :30 Family Ev8nihQ 9, 11, HART TO HART. Jonathan and 7 Feud Exchange Jennifer get involved in a mysterious ,oo Real Another case of international espionage while Life :30 People. vacationing in Hawaii. (R) 8. Doctor HBO, MOVIE: " Missing" (1981) Jack Who ,Lemmon. Sissy - Spacek. A middle-aged :00 ' The Black New York businessman and his daughter­ in-law try to find out what happened to Conservatives his son who disappeared during the mili­ 9.: 30 The Facts The Facts tary coup in Chile. 'PG' Of Life Life . 12:30 :00 Quincy Non-Fiction Quincy 2, ALL IN THE FAMILY Television 4, LATE NIGHT WITH DAViD LETfER ­ 30 MAN. Guests: comedian Steve Wright, 10 actress Mary Steenburgen, radio person­ Small Dick Cavett ality Garrison Keillor. Business 5, NEWS My Way PBS 7, MOVIE: " Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I 11 Late night Learried To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb" (1964) Peter Sellers, George C. . :OO 0 !~or\~ fr::~~:~~rn~~~:t:~:r:~ f:::~ · r.-c,,.-,=,,.--+==cc-,=,,.- All In The a bomber attack on the S0viet Union. ~ 12 Family 13, HAWAII FIVE-0 :00 Letterman Star 20, JIM BAKKER Trek ·-1:00 2, S.TAR TREK 1 1:10 9, 11, MOVIE: _" The Kid From Left Field" (I g79) Gary Coleman,.R obert Guil­ laume. A bat boy's strategy launches a 2: 30 Fait,h & Life losing baseball team on a-winning streak that takes them to the-World Series. (R) , 1:30 ' 4, NBC NEWS OVERNIGHT 13, THE HONEYMOGNERS 20, INDEPENDENT NETWORK NEWS expenSive soups and a ,,..._Japanese club oddball charac'ters compete in a coast-t.o- 4:00 . 2:00 2:05 where mu~clemen wait on businesswom-. · coast auto race. 'PG' · 2, NEWS en . PRI VATE SECRETARY HB·o , THE GREAT PLEASURE HUNT 11 . 3:50 4:45 5, 2:30 13, MOVIE: "The Brothers O'T6ole" This survey of some of the more extrava­ 13, MOVIE: "Pan-Americ~a" .(1945) HBO, MOVIE: "Partners" (1982) Ryah 9, CBS NEWS NIGHTWATCH (1972) John Astin, Pat Carroll. A pair of gant places for spending money in exotic Robert Benchley, Eve Arden. A popular O'Neal, John Hurt. A straight cop and ·a: slick drifters ride into the sleepy, broken­ ways includes visits to a pleasure . 3:05 magazine publisher dispatches stall gay police clerk. go undercover as a down mining town of Molybdenum, Coler boutique in Amsterdam, a noodle shop HBO, MOVIE: " Cannonball Run"_ (l981) members to Latin America to. do a fea­ homosexual couple to find the murderer · rado. in the 1890s. · where one can buy t_he world's m~t Bqrt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise. Various ture a_rticle on the area. of a male model. 'R'

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· can diplomatically. The Vatican named a been changing dramatically if not f1Jlly. in honor of Luther's 500th birthday this full-time ambassador to Sweden, the piv­ Pope John Paul XXIII possibly has been a year, that will cjepict him as a dove. This is Luther's 500th otal nation in the triad, last October. greater reformer in respect to the non­ a year in which felicitations are being Continued from Page 3D Sweden voted to have nothing to do with Catholic world than he has been wi th the exchanged, particularly between Luth for what he believed, the reasoning must the Roman Catholic Church in 1527.-This Catholic Church internally. Indeed, inside eranisl)1 and Catholidsm, and it already have been that he should make it as hot in had nothing directly to do with Luth­ seems as if much in the way of lasting the meantime as he could for those who eranism's being proclaimed the state irenicism is coming of it. would do the honors once they got the church in Sweden, because that didn't hap­ So, in that sense, where So, in· that sense, where Luther once chance. · · pen until at least three decades latE:r. prompted digsent, perhaps 500 years later, tt was not until recently, for instance, But when it did happen, it was binding. Luther once prompted after men and women have had a little time that some very harsh anti-pope It was not until 1-873- ll0yearsago.-that dissent, perhaps 500 to think it over, he is, along with John statements, which were contained in the . Lutherans in Sweden were even permitted XXXIII and his successors, bringing a bit official writings of such groups as the legally to change to another church alle­ years later, after men of peace into the church scene. · Lutherans, Methodists and Anglicans, giance. In fact, Catholics were nol allowed, But still I see perhaps a tinge·of rivalry were given any serious attention by their even to be in Sweden until 1617 -10 years and women have had a going on this year. The East Germans, respective, if not always r_espectful, con­ after the first Anglicans arrived in Vir­ under an atheistic governme.nt, are trying stituencies. C~tholics h_ave be.en just as vit- ginia. little time to think it to outdo their West German counterparts, riolic. '· ,,;., ·~ - ", But even with that change, and with the over, he is, along with and have declared Martin Luther .a But if the vibes haven't been all that· high sens·e of civilization (to me, national hero, which, of course, can't' be wonderful amon·g the.variotts ·s;omponents civilization,_is.at. its highest in Scandina­ John XXXIIl and his denied. . . · -Of Christendom, neit_her have political ·­ via), Catholics need not think they can feel And although it is fitting andpropeflliat ~eiations been .the most sanguine toward altogether at \1ome in eit!ler o( the three successors, bringing a Pope John Paul II should declare 1983 a­ the Vatican_ll-tate, paFticularly in countries-· .. Scandinavian counfries. Altogether, out Qf holy year - ostensibly marking the tradi­ where butheran.ism has held sway. a combined population of 20 million, there bit of peace into the tional 1,950th anniversary of Redemption Take the Scandinavian countries, for are only 132,000-Catholics. church scene. .. tbroug!i tile sacrifice-of th.e Christ at Cal­ instance. It was less than two·months ago; Lest one think that it is because of the vary'- it is interesting that it ·coincides March 24; that Gunnar Johan~Liungdahl, · stubti.ornness of the Swedes and others in With Luther's qll_i~ecentenaty. Is it sug­ Swedish ambassador to the Vatican, pre­ the nortilern fold, one need only look to· · the church, many a1'e still confused over ··gestfogtoo·muai·that ft mfghtalso be help- sented his credentials to Pope John Paul II. Italy, Spain and Portugal, not to mention the, signals for aggioriamento , but there ing to offset the emphasis on Luther? Sweden; Benrnark · and Norway each' Colombia a·nd a host. of other. Catholic seems to be an almost universal desire for I think not. B\it" even· so, both events announced last summer that they were··- states, to see that Protestants have.not flad vartous kinds of Christians to be more. should pr;ove to- be great boons to the ,. breaking the boycott agaiilst the Roman tlie'.ivelcome mats out for them either. open to one another.·· · · ebristian faith this year. Here's a cheer for Catholic C~~:ch by recogi:)zing the Vati- Since Vatican 11, however, ·things have Maybe now someone will cast a medal, .each side.

when George Burns ang Gracie Allen were her death in 1964. And they were, he says, ten for me have my input. Yesterday I was still a radio team, '.'And I realized the writ­ . . J)le best cif years. '.' She was a wonde!'ful working with' writers on my routtrre for a George Bums _ ers were coming to our story conferences wife and mother, a marvelous lady and tal­ Bob Hope special. I've been working with all worn out; they'd been up aU night work­ ent. But show business·never was her life­ the writer. on 'Oh, God III; which I'll be· ..; ...... ing on material. So I decided we'd start like it was mine. I was so wrappe(j. up in it making in October." His woeds of wlsdom O)l the subject of from scratch, when we were all together­ that if they liked us in Altoona,-thea. I was. When he makes that movie, it will mean fitness have been compi,led i:flJiJ,s .J)ew Put­ and that's the way it's been ever since." a great lover." - as it has on all his movies in the past - nam book, "How to ·Live to Be 100-~ -Or Long·before that, when Burns was just Even after they became Hollywood coming to-work ·after having spent hours More·..• The Ultimate Diet, Sex and"Exer­ breaking into vaudeville, he wrote his own stars, Gracie never was "show buslness;" · 1e.irning each day's lines. · · · . cise Book:" •And thoug11•·13ttrns ' freely roufin-es. Or, mote accurately, "I did·what Burns says. "She'd stay home and take care •. He also thinksthatan actor should put in a admits.he h!)d netp oil the text-and on the everyone else I knew was do'ing: pastea Cif the· kid-s while I was busy in the offiee fµll day's work- which is why he engages three ptev.foiJS'.'fuin~s "that \i~ve-borge hiif ~ together materialfroll) Whiz Bang and-Col­ writing our material-writing all t_he lines in.shooting,.days-that.last-from·nine a.m. to byline - he does want it known, "I work lege · Humor magazines. When I met I couldn't do and she did so well." 6 p.m. without a break. with my writers -from the beginning of. a Gracie, I- had a script I'd just .pasted .. He grows ser,ious when he discusses his How does he do it? project to the end. Every project I do! And together that had a parr for a man. and a late, beloved Gracie. And is serious, still, "It's a cinch," he shrugs. "I just get up in every idea is born when we are.together. " woman-and tha.t's how we got together." when talk reverts to his work and he notes, the morning - and take it f.rom there." . That system began way back in the days They were together for 38 years before "It's really important that everything writ- LOS ANGELES TIMES SYNDICATE

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Sellers) and it works surprisingly well, . ■ The Seven Samurai. Director Akira handled with solemn serenity.(R) SBORTTAKES Kurosawa's masterpiece se.t in medieval particularly if you like earthy, bawdy, druggy, ■ Starstruck. Everyone seems to like this vulgar, youth-oriented humor. (R) Japan (remade in the LJ.S. as "The bouncy, bflght, New Wave musical by ■ Baby, It's You. Vincent Spano and · Magnificent Seven") has been reissued in the Rosanna Arquette are touching and ■ Flashdance. A young girl dreams of Australian director Gillian ("My Brilliant original 208 minute version never seen here Career") Armstrong. lt's·as wholesome as an accessibly sexy as a pair of New Jersey making it as a dancer and does so with the - until now, an abbreviated 158 minute high-school students (class of '67) whose help of her boss on the. construction site where old Mic~ey Rooney-Judy Garland vehicle and version has been the only one available for the youthful cast is delightful. (PG) love is undermined by socio-economic she w9rks by day. Visually, it's a New Wave American distribution. This stirring battle differences. He's ltalian,-a bit of a greaser. TV commercial; morally, it's " Rocky," 'The drama about a group of warriors who defend ■ That Night at Varennes (La Nuit de She's a dentist's daughter. When she won't put Turning Point," "An Officer and a Gentleman" a tiny village from bandits is widely considered Varennes). A French-Italian co-production out, he huffs, "You Jewish girls!" The story and "Saturday Night Fever," all wrapped into by critics to be one of the 1O best films of'all directed by Ettore Scola, "Varennes" is a wryly kind of breaks in half when she goes off to one. The dialogue is moronic, but the dance time and the best Japanese film ever made. trivial epic that follows a number of Sarah Lawrence, but the film remains numbers are fantastic. (R) (NR) characters (some historical, some not) who interesting because the characters are so ride around in coach<,s and talk as the subtle and authenti_c. Directed by the brilliant ■ Querelle. The last film of the late Rainer ■ Siberiad. An epic, tree-hour, Soviet­ French revolution·happens at the edge of the John Sayles, in his usual so-real-it-hurts style. Werner Fassbinder, and probably his made pseudo-documentary about the livP.~ irame. It's visually handsome and robustly (R) weirdest and m·ost poetic. Adapted from o/ rwo families, spanning the turn of the good-humored, but the intentional lack of a Genet's novel "Querelle de Brest," it stars century through the recent past. (NR) traditional plbt is something of a handicap. ■ Betrayal. A masterpiece. Oscar nominee Brad " Midnight Express" Davis as a beautiful Ben Kiogsley ("Gandhi") and the marvelous ■ Something Wicked This Way Still, the cast is splendid: Marcello Mastrianni, French sailor who sleeps with Jeanne - Comes. Get out of its way, it's likely to bore Harvey Keitel, Hanna Schygulla and Jeremy Irons do justice and more to Harold •Moreau.and Franco Nero, but only because . Pinter's dialogue in this elegantly arch you to death. Adapted from a novel by Ray Jean-Louis Barrault. (R) he's really in love with his brother. Visually, Bradbury, this Walt Disney production tragicomedy about two married men, one of "Querelle" is slightly surreal anci extravagantly whom is cuckolding the other. Completely concerns two little boys who visit a mysterious ■ The Year of Living Dangerously. artificial. The script is dark, brooding, sinister, carnival that turns out to be a bit like -Peter Weir directed this exquisitely glamorous, satisfying and yet not at all pat, Pinter's full of quirky psychol,ogy, and ridiculously thought provoking storyline moves backward "Fantasy Island," but with nastier conse­ bracingly intelligent and surefootedly crafted literary, but it works. All in all , it's a rich , quences and a meaner dwarf. Directed by tale of passion and intrigue ..Mel Gibson and in tiine, peeling away.lies until it reaches the fascinating work, but not all audiences are truth, which is in itself a mystery. (R) Jack Clayton, the most pretentious, insensitive Sigourney Weaver are delicious as two lovers ready for the homoerotic fantasies of a drug dire.ctor in the world. With Jason.Robards who juggle personal loyalty and public ■ Dr. Detroit. Dan Aykroyd, one of the addict. (R) . (who isn't trying) and Pam Grier (who is responsibility against a backdrop of political more talented alumni of the original · ■ Raiders of the Lost Ark. Steven literally given ho lines). upheaval in exotic Indonesia. American "Saturday Night Live, " plays nerdy assistant actress Linda Hunt's portrayal of a male Spielberg directed this hokey, shallow, ■ Sophie's Choice. Director Alan professor of Medieval literuature. His photojournalist is a tour de force of benign simplistic, adventure yarn about Nazis and Pakula's adaptation of William Styron's novel chivalric instincts prompt him to protect a menace that brings to mind Peter Lorre at his clumsy intrigue in the Middle East. Harrison is a uniquely affecting film drama and certainly foursome of prostitutes, which he does under best. In fact, "The Year of Living Ford, inadequate as ever, is the leading man. one of the year's best. The acting is all the guise of the ultra-bad Dr. Detroit. This is a Dangerously:' could be seen as an­ Not.crazy, not funny, not tnteresting: it is no brilliant: Meryl Streep plays a concentration standard comedy of disguises and double exxageration to call this the most intellectual's update of "Casablanca:· (PG) identity (ii brings to mind the later Peter camp survivor, Kevin Kline is her lover, Peter over-estimated film of the '80s. (PG) MacNicol is their bes!friend. A sad topic By Scott Sublett

► cH01ce OF ARMS 1 WASHINGTON THEATERS K-B JANUS 3 · ► NIGHT OF THE SHOOTING STARS ~RR ir~: t~.~:o?h~/~:35. 1660 Corm. Ave .. N.W. 232-8900 ► QUERELLE R 12:30,2:45.5, 7:20, 9:40. ► CESAR 6:30 Arstshow$2,50. AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE ► MA RIUS 8:50 ,Kennedy Center 785-4600 ► SORORITY ROW + 9:0 0. K-B SENATOR ► DON'T GO IN THE HOUSE 7:30. I►- TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE STAR 7:45. 3950 Minnesota Ave. at Bennino Rd. N.E. 398·3083 ~MERICAH THEATRE ► THE LILY UNDER THE MUZZLE 6:00 ► YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY . D& 10th SIS., S.W. l'EnfantPlaza 554-211! ► MR. K WONG TUNG ANO THE ROBBER 9:25. NW PG 5:45.7:45.9:50. K-B STUDIO ::.~: .,,. . ► RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK PG 5:30, 7:30. 9:40. ► GONE WITH THE WIND 7:30_. ► STILL SMOKING R 5:50.7:40,9:30. BIOGRAPH FirstfirstsllowS2.50. 2819 MStreet, Georoetoec•"-'~-"FEc,·2,e696"'-,------,--,-,-,-::-:,=-c-==c:------,::-c-::--:-:-:-:-::------::.~YA,e ,_NW ► DR . OET-AOIT R f ri-Siln 12:30, 2:15. 4, 5:45. 7:40. 9:30. K-B TOWN 8argainMattneesS2. tiU6:00. CIRCLE AVALON 1 & 11 : ~i~~-°E VARENNES p"c; ::t rll ii' 561,lConn Ave . N.W. 966-2600 KEY ~~~w~c. Ave .. G'town above "'M"' ► STARSTRUCK PG 6:05.8, 9:55. ►, EXPOSED. Fi 5:30. 7:30. 9:30. CIRCLE DUPONT ;;l',~;' '"' ,w. Siber1ade. aAussianepicnowplaying MacArthu r. mwi~mbo Rd 'N.W. ► THE HE"-RSE calltheaterlorshowtimes. ► _STILL SMOKING R 5. 8, 10. ONTARIO ► MAUSOLEUM CIRCLE EMBASSY lll',\':'f" ~w Mon-fri. ex~ptholi~.a!lsealsS2.50 ► FUNERAL HOME fIrslsllow. SeveriSamurainowpli!y!ng Inner Circle.

► $_EVEN SAMURAI PG 2;45.6:20.10:00 CIRCLE INNER ~)',::/'' N.W. frJ•Sun. ex.cept holidays. all seats S2.50 hrstshow, Sibenade - A Russian eplC now playmg MARYLAND THEATERS MacArttlur, ALLEN ~~~ ;: Hampshire at E·W Hlway .....► CHEECH & CHONG: ► PORKY'S R 1:20.3;20,5.10.7:20.9:30. 2 STILL SMOKING R Ca ll theaterforshowtlmes. CIRCLE MACARTHUR Ill ► LOCAl.:HERO PG 1.3:10,5:20.7:30. 9:45 4859MJcArtl1urBlvd 337·1700 ► SIBERIAOE NR 1:30.4:45.8. Mon•fn except holidays. Bargain Matinee. S2 .501:rsttwoshowsonly. · ~► LOCAL HERO PG Calltheaterforshowtimes . AMC'S ACADEMY 6 ► DR. OETROrT A ► THEG lFT R 1: 30. 3. 5. 7-30_ 9:45 Beltway Plaza Mall 441-8800 ► FLASHOANCE R CIRCLE OUTER ► BETRAYAL A 2, 4.6.8,10. · ► STILL SMOKING - R 4849Wisc . Ave . 244-3116 - Mon .. fri. exceptholida)'S.Saroain ► THE HUNGER R Matinee. S2 .SOlirsltWO shows only. ► HOUSE ON SORORITY ROW R ► OR. DETROIT R 2.4,6.8.10. ► SOMETHING WICKED nus WAY COMES PG can theater for showtimes. CIRCLE TENLEY ► MAX DUGAN RETURNS PG 1:45 . 3·45. 5:45.7.45.9:45. AMC'S CARROLLTON 6 · ► ROCKY Ill ~G 4200W,sc Ave . :l63--4340 ► SOMETHING WtCKEO THIS WAY COMES PG 1:30.3:30. 5:30.i:30.9:30. carroltonMa!IRive(daleRoad. Rt.450 459·8070 ► MAX DUGAN RETURNS PG Mon•Friex.~ptllolidays. BargainMats. ► CURTAINS R S2.501irsttwo&howsonly. ► EXPOSED R ► SPRING FEVER PG ► BECKET 1.6:15.11:30. CIIJCLE THEATRE lil',::o·" N,W ► CAMELOT 3:35,8·50. ► TOOTSIE PG Ca!I theater for sllowt!mes. Come as late as 8:50 and see bottl stiows. ASPEN HILL 1 & 2 :':';;, ► OUTSIDERS Thurs•Sat:Wuthenng Heighls & The Little fox.es · ► LONE WOLF McQUADE Ca\l theaterforshowt!mes _.- Pk)'. ► GANDHI PG In Dolby Stereo!-Fn & Sun 4:30. 8. CAPITAL PLAZA ;;,',;:'J riw CIRCLE UPTOWN ~s~.':' '" NW 9:40. ► YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY PG 5:30, 7:45, 1'0. .CHINATOWN THEATRE 11 :~~tii~~~~INA 6:15. CIRCLE WEST END l;3•3\,, '• Moo•FnexcepthO!idaysallseatsS2.SO · Fenlon & Cameron Sts .. Downtown Sliver Spring. 522·1354 ► WEIRD MAN 7:50. 1st ~how only. ► GANDH I PG Cal!lheaterforshowtimes. Call theate1 !or shows and showt1mes. COLLEGE PARK ~;L~~; GEORGETOWN m•,f;;','" ► E. "t THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL . ;~. ?H ~i;_et;o/r Vl - j... TENDER MERCIES · PG Gall theater for showtimes. COLUMBIA CiNEMA I & II ► THE OUTSIDERS ~' ' ,~m~A A J..c ' ~ 1 JENIFER CINEMA I & II ► MEANING OF LIFE Rt. 29 Oownfowr, Col. 997--9010 , • ~J iu t .<., ~► ,qANDHI •f1fifn:'10?"'1'J(! •rlf

► FLASHOANCE ; A ; ~~t~~;,e;:~:30_. 7; 30. 9:30. ► PORKY'S . -R can tt1eater1orshowtimes . K-B CINEMA 1:-,t;;< A,e •.w. FLOWER TWINS ► HOUSE ON SORORITY ROW R :1 ·Fn& Sat only. ,1 Flower Ave . al Piney (!ranch. Silver Sprinf. 588-1666'

► LOCAL HERO PG 4:40. 7:30. 9:50. ► HOUSiE:ON SORORITY 13ow.~. R Galltheaterlorsf\owtimes .. K-B FINE ARTS m•.~,,si ! , "' First show -S2 SQ FRANCIS SCOTT KEY MALL ► ROCKYJII ~ PG F~e.1c.~•~xit 1·B o~,J-270 662· 1211 ► FLASHOANCE -~ A

WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1983 110 _ MOVIE DIRECTORY CONTINIJED

► # 1 RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK PG 6:30. 8:40. ► 11 THE YEAR OF U VI NGDANGEROUSLY PG 6. 8. 10 HAMPTON MALL TWINS ► # 2 ROCKY Ill PG 6:45 . 8:45. FOXCHASE CINEMAS. 3 ► J!l2 VI CTOR, VI CTORIA PG 6:55 . Cen. Ave . W. & B!tw 336-8484 Mon-Fri all seatsS2first sh.ow. OukeSt. (RI. 236)atN . Jordan Alex .. Va . 370•5565 ► #3 LIQUID ASSETS X 12. 1:35. 5:45. 7:20. 8:55. 10:30 ► MISTY BEETHOVEN X 12:10. 1:40. 9:15. 10:45. ~~-w:;nt Union, College Pk. ► THE MAN FROM SNOWY AI YER PG 7:00, 9:30. HOFF ► # 1 ROCKY Ill . PG 7:25 ."9:20. HERNDON TWIN ► 1 2 THE VERDICT R 7:20: 9:35 . 1059Elden , Herndon. Ya 471-tTT6 ► GANDH I PG Gall !healer lot showtimes . HOLIDAY CINEMAS ~1-~;~ ► SPRING FEVER R ► # 1 HIGH-ROAD TO CHINA 7:30 , 9:25. HYBLA TWIN ::~: Hwy ► # 2 MAX DUGAN RETURNS PG 7:20 . 9:15.

► DR . DETROIT R Calltheatei tor showtimes JERRY LEWIS CINEMAS ► STILL SMOKING R Theatrectosed- inlabor.having S830 Silver Hill Rd., District Heights; Md. 735•1414 ► HOUSE ON SORORITY R Twins. Reopensstton!y.

► HUNGER R 5:35, 7:30, 9:30. K-B BARONET WEST ► LOCAL HERO PG 5:30. 7:35, 9:45 .. o,.;, Hwy . An . ► FLASHDANCE . R lnOolbyStereo!5:40. 7:35 .9:35. 7651 Old George!own Rd ., Bethtsda 986-0500 FirstshowS2. K-B CRYSTAL ():'.~~t

► LOCAL HERO PG 12.2:20, ,4:40,7:20, 9:40. K-8 CONGRESSIONAL ► THE OUTSIDERS PG i2:30.2:30.4:30, 7:30,9:30. ► # 1 PORKY'$ A 6:45.8:35. 1631 Rockville Pi~. Cono1essional Plan ► SOPHIE'S CHOICE R 9:25 LOEHMANN'S TWINS ► 1 2 MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER PG 6:30.8:25 934-3600 ► MEANING OF LIFE A 12:45.2:45, 4:45 , 7:45, 9:45. 7291 Ari . Blvd., falls Church 560·2118 Mon-friaNseatsS2. lirstsnow. ► RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK PG 12:10. 2:25. ·4:35 , 7:15. ► 48HOURS A {5:30/u S2.)7:30. 9:15. ► STILL SMOKING · R 12:20, 2:10, 4:10, 7:35, 9:35. Mon-FriMats.S2.00.

► FUSHOANC6 : R In Oottry Stereo. 5:30. 7:30, 9:30 ► STILL SMOKl~G R Gatllheaterforsnowtimes. K-B GEORGETOWI Sil ► ftMOERS OF lflE LOST•ARK PG 5:20, 7:35,9;40 Georgetown Sq. Sl'IOppi09 Center 53Q.:7500 firslshow$2:

► DR . O~OI T R 5:45, 7:35, 9:35. ► ROCKY Ill PG Galltheaterlorshowtimes . K-B LANGLEY ~;~:,~-;; • """ ""' ► FLASHDANCE R 5:30. 7:30. 9:30. NTI ARLINGTON First show S2.00. Col. Pike & S. waiter Reed Or. 920-5999 ► FLASHDANCE R lnOoll>yStereo.5:50, 7:40.9:40. K-B SILVER ~~:::, Rd. & .. '"· Fir$1showS2. NTI BUCKINGHAM ► STILL SMOKING R Ca\ltheaterforshowtimes. 231 N. Glebe Rd . JA7-0444 ► # 1 PORKY'S 6:45, 8:30. ► THE OUTSIDERS PG CaHltieaterlo1sllOWlimes. LAUREL TOWN CENTER ► #2 THE HUNGER 6:30,.8:15. NTI DALE CINEMA 1 & 2 ► ROCKY Ill PG Rte. 197 & Contee Rd. 776-2500 Mon-Friallseats lirstshowS2 4320 Dale Blvd. 703-670-2000 . ► 1 1 RAIDERS OF THE LQST ARK PG · 6:15,8:20. ► RAIDERS OF.THE LOST ARK PG Calltheaterforshowtlmes LAUREL TWIN CINEMA ► # 2 FU.SHDANCE R 6:45, 8:30. NTIJEFFERSOI Laure!Shp. Cillr. U.S. Rt . 1, laurel; 776-7650 Mon-Fri. all seatsS2lirstshow. Arlifl91on Blvd . &,Annandale Rd . JE 2.S040 ► 48HOURS R calltheatertorshowt1mes. ' ► PORKY'$ R Calltheaterforshowtimes. NTI LANDOVER 6 ► HOUSE ON SORORITY·ROW R LandovtrRd. 341-9100 ► THE HUNGER R ► STILL SMOKING R ► OR. DETROIT R ► PORKY'S R Cati 1neaterforshowt1mes. ► FLASHDANCE R NTI SPRINGFIELD I & II ► THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER PG 70390ld Keene Mi!! Rd 451-7505 ► PORKY'S R Cilltheaterlorshowtimes . NTI MARLOW I & II ► THE HUNGER R ► ROCKY Ill PG can1heaterlorshow11mes Marlow Heights Shop. Ctr. 423-6363 NTI STATE \:''i;~s"'·v. . ► RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK PG Ca!ltheaterlorshowtimes . NTI NEW CARROLLTON ► GANDH I PG Gall theaterlo,showtimes . 8301 Annapolis Rd . 459-5666 NTI TYSONS CENTER 4 _ ► FLASHDANCE R Tysons Corner Rt . 7 & Rt. 123 893-9550 ► P.ORKY'S R ► THE HUNGER A ca11t1Teaterlorshowtlmes. ► TOOTSIE PG NTI WHITE FLINT 5 ► GANDHI PG North Bethesda 881·5207 ► PORKY'$ R Clo_sedlorrenovations. ► HOUSE ON SORORITY ROW R NTI TYSONS CINEMA ► MAX DUGAN RETURNS PG 8371 Leesburg Pike 893-3616

► PORKX'S A caItttieaierlor5:howtimes. ► DIVA . R 7:30, 9:45. RIVERDALE PLAZA OLD TOWN I & II ~~' St ► YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY PG 7:15.9:30. Kenilworth Avt. & Riverdale Rd. 864-2421 ► PORKY'$ R GalltheatertorshO'Ntimes . t:'~~oalCeole, ► MAX DUGAN RETURNS PG Callthea!erforshowt1mes .' ROTH'S MANOR :~mf ''"","'""'" ► RAIDERS OF THE LOST AR K PG HESTON TWIN ► SPRING FEVER R ► M'4X DUGAN RETURNS PG CalltheaterforshOwtimes. ROTH'S MONTGOMERY ~:;";;~"'' ► PORKY ' S R ► 1 1. SPRING FEVER . PG 7:20.9:10. ROLLING VALLEY MALL 3 ► # 2 MAX OUGAN RETURNS PG 7:20.9:15. 92680Id Ketne Mill Rd., Burke. Ya. 451-6356 ► # 3 HIGH ROAD TO CHINA PG 7!30, 9:30. ► THE MEANING OF LIFE R cal! theater for showtimes. ROTH'S PARKWAY 3 ► ROCKY Ill ► THE HUNGER R Callthea!erlorshowtimes. Rockville 770-7000 ► SOMentlNG WICKED THIS WAY COMES PG ROTH'S AMERICANA ~:-;m,• ► TOOTS I E PG can thealer to, shOwtimes. ROTH'S QUINCE ORCHARD ► THE HUNGER R ► LORDS OF DISCIPLINE R Calltheaterforshowtimes. Gaithersburg 948-4080 ROTH'S FEATHERSTONE ;";>,«::;,

► OR. DETROIT R Gal l lheaterforshowtimes. ROTH'SRANDOLPH ~~:, ► BLACK STALLION RETURNS PG ► MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER PG Galttheate,!orshowtimes. ROTH'S MT. VERNON ~~~ ► THE HUNGER R

► TOOTSIE PG catl theater l01 Showtimes. ROTH'S SEVEN LOCKS ~~o ► SOMETH!NG WICKED THIS WAY COMES ~ ► THE HUNGER A Gall lllea!er tor shOwtimes, ROTH'S TYSONS CORNER 8 ► SOMETHING WICKED TlilS WAY COMES PG Tysons Comer-Lower Leve! 790-1007 ► MEANING OF LIFE R ► SOMETI-IING WICKED THIS WAY COMES PG Cati theater !or showtimes . ► STILL SMOKING R ROTH'S SILVER SPRING EAST ► SOPHIE'S CHOICE 585-3477 ► MAX DUGAN RETURNS . PG ► ROCKY Ill PG. cau theater for showtimes. ► DR. DETROIT R ROlH'S SILVER SPRING WEST . ► EXPOSED R 589-1121 ► PORKY'S R 7:45.9:45. ► FLASHDANCE A 7:40,9:40. SHOWCASE BEACON MALL 4 ► SPRING FEVER PG 7:15. 9:15. SHOWCASE ANDREWS MANOR 6738 Riehmond Hwy., Alenndria . 768-7612 ► STILL SMOKING R 6:00, 10:00. 4801 Allentown Rd . 736-6373 ► HOUSE ON SORORITY ROW R 7:30. 9:30. SHOWCASE BELTWAY ► TOOTSIE PG 7:30.9:55. SHOWCASE BRADLICK ► GANDHI PG 8:00. 6000Greenbe11 Rd .- 474-5n2 Braddocil& BradlicltRds.. Anrnindale 256-1471

► SPRING FEYER PG 7:30, 9:20. ► DA. DETROO R 7:45,9:30. SHOWCASE MERCADO SHOWCASE EAIR ClTY ► TOOTSIE PG 7:30. 9:45. 2285Bel Pre Rd. 598•7730 -9650 Main Street . Fairfax 978-7591 ► !-!UNGER R 8:00. -10:00. Sat& Sun Bargain Matinee S2 first SHOWCASE OXON HILL ► RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK PG 7:30, 9:55 . showonty. 839-5'94 ► SOMETHING WICKED THIS SHOWCASE FAIRFAX CIRCtE WAY COMES · PG In Do lby Stereo! 7:30. 9:30. SHOWCASE PIKE ::t.:~~,, ► SPRING FEYER PG 7:30, 9:20. An. BIV11. & Lee Hwy. , Fairfax 591-5110 ► OR. DETROIT A 7:45. 9:45. SHOWCASE MALL CINEMA ► SOMETHING WICKED .► SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY 8300 Sudtey Road (703) 381·8800 . THIS WAY COMES PG, 7:30.9:30. SHOWCASE WALDORF TWIN COMES PG 7:45.9:45. Rt. 301 , wa1oor1, Md, 843-9380 ► PORKY'$ A 7:15. 9:15 . ► SPRING FEVER PG 7:30.9:30. ► SPRING FEVER PG 7:30, 9:30. SHOWCASE MANAPORT 8351 Sudle-,:Road 361 -8585 ► OR. DETROIT , R 8:00.10;00. ► FLASHDANCE A CalltheaterforshO'Ntimes. ► FLASHDANCE R 7:45. 9:45. PG. VILLAGE MALL 3 ► ROCKY Ill SHOWCASE REB YANK 8929M~thisAve. (703)368-9833 Gaithersburg, Md . 948-9200 ► DR. DETROIT R

► DR . DETROIT R ca1Ittieaterlorshowt1mes. ► MAX DUGAN RETURNS PG 7:45 . 9:45 .. WHEATON PLAZA 3 ► PORKY'S R SHOWCASE TURNPIKE Wheaton. Md. 949-8120 ► BLACK STALLION RETURNS PG Pickett Shopping Ctr. Fairfax 323-0461 ► STILL SMOKING R B:'08.10:00.11:45 " SHOWCASE UNIVERSITY 3 ► PORKY'S R 7:45 . 9:45. 10659 Braddock Rd., Fairfax 591-1990 ► ~PRING FEVER PG 7:30. 9:30. Sat & Su n Bargain Matinee S2 1S1 show only. !rimasb '{llsd llJ'11RGINIA THEATERS •fn& Sat only. ► MAX..' b u p AN RETURNS P,G 7:45 . .9:45. Sat& Sun 2. 3:50,.5:40. ► TOOTSIE PG ca11 theat!r for show!imes . SHOWCASE VIENNA 7:45. 9:45 . AMC'S SKYLINE 6 ,,,.3500 ► FLASHOANCE R 224 Map'eAvenueE 938-0300 Skyline Mall, Rt. 7, Bailey's Crossroads ► SOPHIE'S CHOICE R ► LOCAL HERO PG Ca ll theater for s~owtimes . ► DA . DETROIT R SPRINGFIELD MALL 1-6 ► FLASHDANCE . R ► THE HUNGER R 1-90 So .. Franconia Ex 11 971-3991 ► LOCAL HERO PG ► TOOTSIE PG ► DR. DETROIT R ► NOTHING TO HIDE ca n111eater!orshowtimes. ► SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES PG BYRD THEATRE ~l.~~t"" "'' '"· ► SENSATIONS ► MEANING OF LIFE R ► POAKY'S , Call theater !or showtimes CENTR;E ~a~:~e; La. Rt. 7 Kino St. Fa 1r1i ngton, Va ► MAX DUGAN RETURNS PG Call theaterforshawtimes. TOWNCENTER 3 ► SOMETHING WICKED TH$ WAY COMES PG Rt. 7 &228lowncenterShoppingCtr. Sterling 430-8380 ► RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK PG ► AN OFFICER & A GENTLEMAN R

► DUEL TO THE DEATH 1:45. CalltheaterlorshowsandSllowtimes CHINATOWN THEATRE 1 ► TliE ASSASSIN 6:00. WILSON THEATRE wilsonBlvd . & N. Kent St., · 275:7555 ► WINE, SEX & MONEY 9:30. 17~ Wilson Blvd . Arlington. Ya . 522-6655 ~, FOOD & DRINI<

cold, full-flavored · Mexican beer, market survey and decided· that what the East like Dos Equis (or even Tres Equis, Bagelmania Coast needed was more bagel .bakeries. He Tequila Taste when I can find it). Or, in the evening hooked up with Korman a year ago and the part­ ·continuedfrom Page 6D after the sun no longer demands ners v1s1ted bagel shops, talking to owners and action, if the tequila is a good one, Co ntinued from Page 4D learning about bagels. Their new bL,siness is The best is smooth, like cognac, or then sniffed and sipped from a snif­ doing better. than their optimistic _expectations, smooth with a little interesting ter, accompanied by good conversa­ years·. In fact, Skolniks obviously is the start of the fast-food bagel.. Indeed, its manager at White they say, and they plan to open a second shop in ·coarseness like a good armagnac. tion. this area this year· and a third next year. Now, why in blazes hide all that with Or, in food. No, not with food, but Flint, Kathy Saunders Jansen of Gaithersburg, spent 10 years at McDonald's, which was more . If bagels have a big future here, and no one salt? And with lime? used in the preparation of ,food. seems to doubt that they do; Skolnik's and Bagels If you wa_nt to do the macho-cute Almost like cooking with brandy or impressive to her new employer than her child­ hood of eating bagels and lox at Little Neck, Long Etc. represent one of the phases of it. Fast-food thing with the tequila and the lime bourbon. Tequila will not add as chains started from scratch either by small inves­ and salt, don't waste tequila: Use the much flavor as bourbon does, and Islan_d and Astoria, N. Y. . . . And, in a reversal of this country's immigrant tors· aiming to be entrepreneurs or by major beer made especially for it, Tecata. perhaps not as much as brandy. d1vers1f1ed corporations that are capable of satu­ It's a nice beer; fresh-and clean, but Tequila is not to impart an assertive history, R.J. Reynolds has chosen a -Jewish name to front for its WASPish origins. Skolniks is a ratmg the nation in minutes with the likes of with very low flavor. You carry the flavor of its own, but to alter slightly "McBagels." can to the table. Before you open the otherwise ·familiar flavors. It is ~ade-up name which, for a bagel, will sell better can, in the region of the pull-tab, rub especially well m atched with m the suburbs than Reynolds. Barto says the name the rim generously with. a wedge of chicken and ~t impa-rts an interest- , comes from -Menasha Skolnik, the well-known lime until it is wet with juice. Then ing nuance to .otherwise almost Yiddish entertainer. Skalnik sounded riE;ht; mash the rim into a saucer of salt, flavorless turkey breast. · _Menasha was too- much. So the name of the fic­ tional founder became "Sam Skolnik:' In its Pull the tab and drink. Toke bows My wife Ruth has a list of sugges­ _9ki.,_ l/.f2-l.9/.f from your audience. But, don't tions for adding tequila to the advertising, the company- is playful about that waste·tequila. "81;Jle l6 think of it, kitchen.· She ~nggests using aJittle gimmick, , " while Tecata's n,ot"'much on flavor, tequila in ii 'ci(l;icfie Lorraine, arunt Barto-says the corporation has a Bagel Devel- , still it's too good for that , does wor~, She uses some ,~quila opment lh4ex to test t!}e acceptance of bagels and So, if I'm not going to be appor­ a:lon·g with the white wine in'shrimp the flexibility . of eating patterns of those who tioned my tequila this summer bisque.· She points up curry sauce frequent various malls-in which they plan to salted and limed, how am I-going to with tequila, And she uses ,tequila locate. "It doesn't hurt to be in a Jewish area," he take my tequila? Well, knocked bac1' often when ahn~l:ts are present and says, "They have a great bagel awareness." · cold and absolutely, neat froin a sl#it feels the flavor·'combination,is, one Finally, · there is another variety of newly -glass, chased by a cool, but not too of the ~st.' arrived bagel effort - the small, non-chain that may_be plannfng to become a chain, and with no 1iBEBIO particular concern for locatmg·in Jew_ish,areas. . The callers, obviously in cahoots, Larry Minkof and H_arvey Korman, owners of only. wish what they ~ere. -S:i!Ying Bagels Etc., which opened March 28 in Interna­ Helpings were true. Apparently they · think tional Square, 18th and I Streets NW, have total their'flbs will be accepted by restau­ confidence in the established universality of the Continuedfrom Page 6D rateurs - to say nothing of food bagel. They simply looked for a promising loca­ .pepper. Add pepper leaves. Cook for writers - as the will of the public. tion m terms of traffic. "There are 1· million 1915 x. S11t.e.et,, en.cw. about three minutes. Remove from square feet -of office space a.bove us and more stove:: Serve hot. Sei,ves 4 to 5. Awat-'if Winnet'S · ,. ·, , millions of square· feet all around," Mink~f . 'W~.~.%0' Everybody from Mayor Marion observes. "A high dens.icy working population, Pressure? Barry on down will be-on hand at-the and a Metro stop." Sheraton Washington Hotel tomor­ The 39-year-old Minkof ·also owns Big Valu It seems likely that several folks row \o pay tribute to the four persons Liquors Inc. on Bladensburg Road NE, and his who feel that restaurants should who walked ·off with this year's top 40-year-oJd partner owns a home-building firm in , shoulder t!'e burden of telling th$?ir hospitality awards - t'ahe on·es Potomac. Minkof began toying with the bagel idea guests all there is to know about the handed out by the Washington Con­ about 18 months ago. He did his own informal values of the foods they are serving vention. and Visitors Association, are beginning to play dirty: In the the organization that over-sees the past two weeks· this desk has picked area's annual $1 billion tourism up the telephone on numerous occa­ industry. The occasion will be a lun­ sions and been told by callers that cheon at which Samuel L. Humes Jr, pne or another area restaurant has of Amtrak, a Redcap for 42 years, begun providing dish-by-dish will be honored as winner of the breakdowns on sodium content, fat Gold Award ($1,000); Charles S. Nil­ content, carbohydrate figures, calo­ len, banquet head houseman at the rie counts, etc, on every item on Four Seasons· Hotel, Silver Award their menus - all as a service to ($500); Glenn K. Unthank, service guests who may be on various forced agent with Delta Air Lines Irie., Sil­ diets. ver Award ($500) and William · E. In none of the cases did tlie story Thylor Sr., veteran cabbie with Capi­ check out. Every restaurant in ques­ tol Cab Association, Silver Award tion denied "the reports. ($500),

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CROSSWORD ·gy MARGARET FARRAR AND TRUDE JAFFE Baking Your Own Bagels Continued from Page SD 3 ozs. lox cut into ½-inch nieces ACROSS 31 Cricket field parts the thirties 9 Ring firiish 1 Tbsp, chopped chives - 1 Painting, 32 Strengthened 64 -Bakery specialist 10 Gravel-voiced beer 'n bagel soup and even cheesecake 2 Tbsps, horseradish -scu lpting, et al 34 Supports 65 Superlative · character actor with bagel crumbs. ¼tsp.salt ending 5 Composer Neil 36 Way to travel: 11 City 9n the Following are recipes suggested by the 1/s tsp. white pepper of roCk Abbr . . 66 Dislike a lot Rio Grande authors, two using traditional lox and 2 dashes red pepper sauce ·11 Circuit 37 Smallest parts of 67 FastidioUs 12 Up cream cheese in a new fashion, another 14 Start a hand an element dresser 13 Calleo ponies 6 bagels (rye) cut into 1-inch '15 "- Farm", 39 Camel's hair 68 Aves. · 19 Cast - vote· with wine and the last one for the kids: · cubes, toasted Orwell novel fabric 69 Views (dissent) Melt butter over low heat in small sauce­ 16 "Exodus" hero . 42 Small furrow 70 Position in a 21 Languish Lox and Bagel Pie pari. Add cream cheese and milk; cook, 17 -Domini 44 John Wayne type tournament 24 Roman calendar 18 "Mack the Knife" 45 ·scamp day 3 bagels (onion), cut into 1-inch.pieces stirring constantly, until cheese is melted, performer 49 Seven: Prefix DOWN 28 British torpedo ¼ cup butter or margarine, melted Stir in remaining ingredients except bagel 20 King of Magog 51 Director's 1 Truisms ship ¼tsp.salt pieces. Pour mixture into fondue pot; keep 21 More, irl music concerns 2 Update (as an old 29 - and Abner, 1 small onion, finely chopped warm over low flame: Serve bagel pieces 22 With the least 53 Incisor's nelQhbor building) , old radio duo 2 Tbsps. butter or margarine as dippers. Yields 2 cups, . delay 3 Hybrid frutts 30 Expression of 55 Dessert dish 5 eggs 23 " Some Enchanted st Island city near 4 Traffic sign wonder Oakland 5 Kind of vaccine 33 Tempt Providence 2 cups milk Sherry Amour Fondue 25 Wild West show so· Sunbonnet wearer 6 _. Plenty 35 Island NE of Leyte 1/, tsp. salt 1 clove garlic; minced 26 Lad ies' shop 7 Fish with a of song · 38 Poir').t 'I• tsp. pepper 2 Tbsps. butter or margarine 27 Girl's name 61 Habitat: Prefix bobber 40 Cookout 1 Tbsp. chopped parsley meaning "holy" 62 _-Popular singer of 8 Embassy offs, 41 Come before ½ cup dry sherry 43 Silvery hair, 4 ozs. shredded Swiss cheese 8 ozs. shredded Cheddar cheese 1 In song 4 ozs. sliced lox, cut into /,-iilch pieces ½ pkg. (8 -oz.) cream cheese cut · 45 Fencing • Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Process into ½-inch cubes equipment bagel pieces in blender or food processor ½ tsp. paprika 46 ConceptS .to make fine crumbs. In greasecj 10-inch 6 bagels cut into 1-inch pieces, toasted· 47 Annoy quiche pan, mix crumbs with salt and 48 Flora vegetable relishes 50 Give aid melted butter; press mixture evenly on Saute garlic in buuer in small saucepan 52 Accumulated bottom and· sid_es of pan. until light brown, about 30 seconds, Stir in 54 Soul, in Sedan o Bake until edges of crust begin to sherry; reduce heat to low Stir in remain­ 56 flldes to hounds , brown, 8 to 10 minutes. Cool on wire rack. 58 Battle of Ideas ing ingredients except bagels and vegeta­ e Saute onion in 2 tablespoons butter in bles; cook, stirring constantly, until 59 Dog star small skillet until tender, about five min- 63 Count to~ cheeses are melted. Pour mixture into fon­ 64 Personality utes. Cool. . . due pot; keep warm over low flame. Serve factors • Reduce oven temperature to 350 bagels and vegetables· as dippers. Yields d~grees. Mix eggs, milk, ¼ teaspoon salt, about 2½. · ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE pepper, parsley and cooled onion. Sprinkle T E A L S I A L L 0 TS ■ half the Swiss cheese on bottom of crust; Chocolate-Marshmellow Bagels --SW A L L 0 WI p E AC 0 C K pour egg mixture over cheese. Sprinkle lox p A s s I V E p A ft A D E ft 2 chocolate bars AN T T E L L E ft S• DNA and remaining cheese over all. Bake until · 2 bagels (raisin and honey) sliced in halves R T E S L 0 A N• A L· T I· egg mixture is set and top is puffed and 12 marshmallows · SID RT E E A ft• S L E E I golden, 30 to 35 minutes, Let stand 10 min­ Set oven at 375 degr~es. Break candy E N u ft E D EW A ft 0 S utes before cutting. Serves 6 to 8. · ft I N- L A R bars into squares and place cin the bagels, --S 0 N N E T S F I 8 U LAS-- Place bagels on a cookie :sheet Place three T ft E E S• E R A• SM E L T Lox 'ii Cream Cheese Fondue marshmallows on top of each bagel half. 0 D 0 ft •M A I N S F L 0 3 Tbsps. butter or margarine · Bak_e until marshmallows puff up and turn p I c ■ PA L A C E S T O ft AN EM 0 N E I I ft I D I UM 1 pkg. (8 ozs,) cream cheese cut into brown. Let cool. ·Serves 4. T A NA G E ft I EA G L E T S ½-inch cubes © 198J Los An,:tln Timn s,·ndintr 5/11/83 ■ L E ft 0 T SI S I N 0 s-- ¼cup milk - Richard Levine

TODAY'S HOROSCOPE BY FRANCES DRAKE

What kind of day will today be? To find ■ SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) Don't ·say out what the stars say; read the forecast no before you listen. Loved ones will be given for your birth sign. affectionate if given half a chance. Others tempt you to sper,d beyond your means. ■ ARIES (Mar. 21 to Apr. 19) It's not the best time to seek advice about a trout;le­ ■ ,SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Bor­ sOme financial matter, but a loved one offers edom could set in on the job, but be alert or you encouragement and understanding. else you could miss an important opportu­ nrty.~Be consistent.

It's the glow ■ TAURUS (Apr. 20 to May 20) You need to of a fine tradition, With all the watC:h personal extravagance. Even though ■ · CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) These are romantic times for you, but watch i'ndis­ of others aren't fully cooperative, you'll gain sparkle a renaissance. loday through charm and good will. cretion and rash behavior. Throw off It's classic .. Yet contemporary. career worry.

It's La Reserve, a most ■ GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) You niay elegant reflection of the new feel unappreciated by a co-worker, but in . ■ AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) An Embassy Row - downtown affairs of the heart your feelings are recipro-, a?viser ~urns critical and you may feel hurt. cated. Watch escapist tendencies. Some f_nends may overstay their welcome. A Washington's Preferred Hotel ktnq word improves your. status at work. and· host to dignitaries, ■ CANCER (J,une 21 to July 22) Social life diplomats and delighted vis­ 1s favored, but accent moderate behavior. - ·. ■ PISSES' (feb. 19 to Mar. 20) Turn the itors. Rediscover, for yourself, Theres a tendency to slacken your work other cheek at a friend's thoughtlessness. o~tput &1,fter lunch~ Enjoy romantic opportu­ Leisure activities prove romantic. Don't the creations of perhaps nity. accept more work than you can handle. the fi nesl chef in Washington. ~,,,.1 _ _.,.; And the brilliant setting that ■ LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) Follow lhcq'1gh . YOU BORN TClDAY are an inspired thinker ,:; 8t'liifes it all daizling. on promises ~nd watch boastty'ib~SS';Si!i'e• and should listen to your intuition. Youwant one puts 1n a good word for you careerwrse. • financial success. but stay clear of Qet•rf6h• A family member lacks self-confidence. qu~ck schemes. Though intuitive:, you need a 9.0o0 educatiof) to excel. Highly creative, you'll do-original work in such areas as act· ing) musiC,.painting, filll) and photography. ;Xi'!u .halle'a strong religious bent and may .~ e .dra.Wr,i lo law arid diplomacy. ' ·· phifo~ophy 61 life to' a.be bigh-stcung,:Birth· , c.omposer;Salvador · if-J.yrone POW8"r~.act9r,: -~- / KING FEATURES SYNDICATE

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sees it franchising the greatest web of con­ to open a second business. His parents are tion and, like Augie, had been smitten by venience stores in the country. very proud. _. the· state. By the time Manstof called him Bagels Are When Cagan got the call from Fleishman It could be a story out of America's he had abandoned a Jaw practice and was in Washington, he was a. senior at Baruch immigrant past. A story out of the early working for Vermont's environmental College in Manhattan, majoring in busi­ 20th century with its great names of mer- board. While he had managed the purchase One of a Kind_ ness management. While he stayed in chandising - Macy, Gimbel, Speigel, of lSacres in Marshfield, he says riow that school, he worked in that bakery in _the -Neiman-Marcus. In fact, it is a story of the he was missing a · "sense of accom- Continued from Page SD Bronx from 4 to 11 a.m. during the week 1980s, stll unfolding. plishment." · ing dough and burning splinters from worn and for 10 to 12 hours each Saturday and Manstof, now 31 , bounced back and For 12 to 15 hours a day, seven days a peels. Rubenstein recalls changing his Sunday for the next seven months. Fleish. forth between Vermont and his native week for three weeks, the friends appren- undershirt three and four times a night, man continued his management job but he, Washington four times before getting his ticed themselves to the Burlington B_agel wringing perspiration onto the floor. There too, worked in the bakery, getting up at 4 act together and finding the idea whose Bakery. One year after the inspiration first were weekends when he left his house at 5 during the week to bake bagels until 8 a.m., time had come. He'd fallen in love with hit Manstof, he and Robinson opened the p.m. Friday, not to return until 9 a.m. Sun­ leaving himself an hour to get to work in Vermont while earning a degree there in Chesapeake Bagel Bakery in a 17,000 day. New Jersey. art (print making). For a while, he deliv- square-foot location on Pennsylvania Ave- After 10 years, Rubenstein moved to the The partners traveled to the District ered milk, a job that stirred within him an nue, Capitol Hill. It took $190,000 to open Washington area and opened Bagel Master several times to scout locations, ultimately i_nterest in the food business. So he took a the doors. Each partner put up $15,000, in Wheaton: It was April 1966. He had choosing Montgomery County because job at a McD_onald's in Montpelier. That's their equipment company financed $20,000, most of it borrowed. A ledger they saw "a natural customer" in the large where he b.ought his first pushcart. for $50,000 worth of equipment, .and friends V entry dated May 19, 1966 shows he was Jewish population. Fle_ishman had $21,000 $1 ,500. · loaned the rest. Manstof says 35 banks making 173,000 bagels a month. His firsr for the enterprise; Cagan, no money at all. Every day he pushed his cart to the state turned .therri dowri for loans, saying that, year in business he _grossed $165,000. In With a bank loan of $10,000 and loans from Capitol building, where at noon he sold bagels were a bad idea. 1982 he grossed $1.7 million, he says. relatives, they paid cash for equipment and kosher hot dogs on fresh. bread to a Jong The shop turneda profit on the first day; "Baking was an art," he says. "When remodeled the shop themselves. Getting a and appreciative line of customers . . He it has done so every day since.s The pair has tl)ey· got the rotary ovens, making the lease with no credit record was the hardest formed a company called Augie's Doggies. never missed payment on a bill. On Jan. 6, bagels was an art. Now they l;lave bagel part. "They wanted us to sign our lives At the end of four years he had an addi- the two men opened a second shop on machines and now there is no art." · away;' Fleishman says. tional doggie cart and an ice cream cart in Dupont Circle with equal success. And in . In the-beginning, Fleishman was baking Montpelier and doggie carts in nearby the next two. y.ears, they plan t~ a.pen six teve -Fleishman of the Bronx was in and Cagan handrolling. Now they do the Barre and Waterbury. He had six people more. Washington visiting ·a friend, Edaie managing; the bagels are made by a staff working .(o.r l)jm. But some,how, -it dfdn't Manstof .says he •likes to sell his SPeloso, a dental student, also from that the pair has trained. The bagels are promise enough .. He sold out for $20,000. · bagels to the peop_le who. eat -them, and he the Bronx. Steve was 26, married for three still hand-rolled and will continue to be. -rn November 1980, Augie took .note of a likes to see them eaten in his own shops. years and working for-his uncle-in a-New ··{"It's what makes us unique!') They weigh business in Vermont's largest city,-Burling- "I'm.a Jewish mamma,"· he··says. · York building mar\gement _firm, but he a couple of ounces more than any others in ton (population 40,000). A ·bagel bakery, ·Robinson says he hasn't had a day off wanted to .get "into a .business of his.own. .the area. In some .quarters they're called ..Yr bagels and,-fold bakery. Wh·en the owner showed up at 4 turnmg them mto. an ·est~mated 65,000 Yorker with a B:S. degree in business the enterprising owneFs that in his opinion a.m.-thefol!owing day,.Cagan was waiting . bagels. They bake 15 ho~r.~.ad(!.Y.t)lx_qu_gh ,td!)lj!Jis.,tration from Americl!Il University the Chesapeake mlicle th& bes"t bagelinmt­ outside Boulcward·Bagels in Queens. the week and _round-the-clock from_.Fr1day ;mda Jaw,degree frem St. John's. Robinson sidlnif New York. ·so, as Robinson·irays-, --_, That was Mwch J.982,,liulemore than a morning _unul Sunday · mght. Fleishman ' had gone to Vermont on.a Christmas vaca- ''There are trade-offs.· year ago. Qn Sept. 2, with $60;000, mostly says that m the past month, two banks have ' . borrowed, Fleishman and Cagan opened offered loans· for whatever they ha~e rn ;;;~;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;~- Whatsa Bagel in Bethesda. They had only mrnd. $500 in the bank and 25 sacks of flour. By · ••• BOMBAY CURRY themiddleoftheday, theyranoutofbagels ~gie Manstof, clerking for someone and had to close. , lse, saved enough money to buy a HOUSE The guys from the Bronx sold monster- ushcart and go into business for Co~e find Out the Reasons Why Restaurant sized, hand-fashioned bagels - 800,000,of himself. He was such a success that he was Critics from Th°ese Publications Like Us! - them - in seven months. They have gone soon able to buy .a second pushcart, then a •. •. . THEWASHINGTON'POST 'WASHINGTOfo!.MAGAZJNE from one employee to 29, developed plans third, a fourth and a fifth. Then a truck to . . , THE EVENING ·STAR for a second shop in Tyson's Corner this , haul the pushcart_s. . summer and will gross about half million ..:...... Then he_sold his busmess an_d bought a $1 .OD i)ff -~ $.50 OFE WNcif' · dollars this year. Cagan boasts that Whatsa _house, which he remodele_d himself. He . Per.Person Bagel will open a new shop every six then sold the house and, w1_th the-profits, GENJI OF.FER EXPIRES MAY 21, 1983 months and in the foreseeable future, will opened his own busmess which was so sue- 2529 WIison ·Blvd., ,Ari.,·Va ·: be the bigg~st bagel firm in the nation. He cessful that, with the profits, he was a,ble 1~ ~ - .. " 528-08'19

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DEllR ABBY ABIGAIL VAN BUREN CHESS BY EDWIN ALBAUGH Unwed Teen's Pregnancy ·nrooklyns1'y Conquest ,..______ames Madison High of ear Abby: "Kathy;' my find themselves facing an unplanned preg- Quarterfinals of the · women's Candi­ son's 18-year-old girl- nancy. Contrary to what many beli.eve, they Brooklyn, N.Y. , posting dates Matches are now complete, with four friend, has informed will not be talked into an abortion. They a perfect 8-0 score, won of five Soviet players amQng eight compet­ him that she is preg- will receive expert prQfessional counsel- the U.S. High School ing at the outset securing semifinalist nant. Her parents, ,who ing in order to help them make a decision · Championship on May slots. 1 in Sari Jose, Calif. are devout -Catholics, they can live with. · Irina Levitana, upset winner over Nona have told her that if she Brooklyn's reputa.­ has an abortion.she can Dear Abby: This concerns the lady who !ion as a hotbed of Gaprindashvili, meets Nana Alexandria never .set foot in their was diagnosed as having herpes, then later chess stretches back to who defeated Tatiana Lematchko, for'. house again. They learned that she did.not have herpes-she the days of Frank Mar­ merly of Bulgaria (she did not return to insist that she have the child, keep it and was allergic to the colored, scented toilet shall and Hermann Helms. 'Iwo of its most that country after the Lucerne Olympiad). Lidia Semenova, who downed Margaret raise it. Marriage is out of the question. paper she had been using for years! revered residents _have been Bobby I am a 53-year-old male. 1\velve years Fischer (in his youth} and Jack Collins, Muresan of Romania, plays Nana ioseliani : Can you rush some advice we can show ago my wife brought home a new brand of who taught, besides Bobby, Bill Lombardy who beat Liu Shi Lan of China. ' · Kathy to convince her that it would be best toilet paper that "smelled pretty:• Soon, I and ~e Byrne brothers. FIDE has "severely reprimanded" the for all concerned if she gave up the 'Child .began experiencing great irritation in the What set this year 's James Madison for adoption? Since she is a high school rectal area. At the same time our young Soviet Chess Federation for continuing to team apart from the other 23 finalists is drop-out, now studying for her high school daughter also developed an inflammation boycott tournaments in which Viktor that three of its four boards were manned equivalency certificate and hoping to go on in the genital area. Luckily we put two and Korchnoi participates. The for~al rebuke to some future career, we feel that she two together and threw out all the "pretty by natives of Russia: Simon Yelsky, John followed an investigation of circumstances . Letvirichuk and Stan Rozenfeld, all mas- leading to the Soviet withdrawal from this _should not be saddled with a baby. Kathy's smelling" toilet paper, and we've had no ters. - family will not even let her consider adop- •. · problems since. . year's Hoogovens tournament at Wijk aan lion. I suspect there are hundreds, maybe "?vl:ost high schools don't have one mas­ Zee. K

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