aüu 0 4 7 9 8 0 0 0 3 I n s i t i DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIAN LOCUST & COLBERT STREETS PITTSBURGH PA 15219 140th Year, c x l No. 18 15 cents Established in 1844: America's Oldest Catholic Newspaper in Continuous Publication Friday, July 1 3,1934 Pro-lifers map plans for Dem convention By LIZ S. ARMSTRONG convention planning got under convention opens. The group also facing the Democrats will be considered by Mondale as running way: planned attention-getting achieving unity during and after mates. Appointm ent WASHINGTON (NC) - • Pro-life Democrats, al­ activities during the convention — the convention. • Two politically conservative Democratic Party members though aware that their chances such as the waving of banners and • Two Catholic politicians, groups, the Moral Majority Sr. Mary Evelyn Hannan, looking for a smooth and quiet this year of getting the party to wearing of badges on the floor — to Foundation and Free Congress CSJ, director of the secondary Rep. Geraldine Ferraro of New convention July 16-19 in San repudiate legal abortion were promote the pro-life cause. York and Mayor Henry G. Foundation, scheduled a Family school catechesis for the Francisco instead might find it to slim, put final touches on a rally • A Hispanic attorney and Cisneros of San Antonio, Texas, Forum III, July 12-13 in San diocesan Religious Education be anything but routine and slated to be held near the party official sympathetic to the Francisco, to call attention to Office, has been appointed to achieved recognition as potential placid. convention center in San Rev. Jesse Jackson's campaign the faculty of the Pontifical vice presidential candidates but As the final round of pre- Francisco the day before the warned that the biggest challenge (Continued on page 2) College Josephinum in were only two of several Columbus, Ohio. Story on page 3. G roup to stu d y problem s of area jobless w orkers Bishop Bevilacqua has Charles McCollester, chief appointed a task force of labor, steward to Local 610, United management, community and Electrical, Radio and Machine religious leaders charged to Workers Union; Joan McHenry, a recommend a pastoral response member of the Mon Valley by the diocese to the problems Unemployed Committee; Mary faced by unemployed workers. Wargo, a member of the Tri-State Conference on Steel: and Fr. Founder dies ” Unemployment deeply effects Richard Zelik ol the social justice Mother Mary Teresa Bene- human beings and, therefore, has office of the Capuchins. detti, one of the founders ol the important moral dimensions," The origin of the task force cloistered Passionist mother- B ishop B evila cq u a said in began with the appointment of house in Currick, dies at age 103. appointing the diocesan Task Bishop Bcvilaqcua as bishop of She was the oldest Passionist Force on Structural Unemploy­ Pittsburgh in October 1983. At that nun in the world. Story on page ment. "Because it has power to time, he expressed concern about dehumanize and can destroy both 2. the problems ol unemployment family and community life, the and included them among his first ’Cannonball’ church must respond to this social and greatest concerns. After and moral evil with firm Fr. Peter Horton says that the arriving in Pittsburgh, the bishop conviction and steadfast hope. We Burt Reynolds' new film began to formulate plans so that must uphold the human dignity "Cannonball Run 11" is a the diocese could investigate what God has given to each of us." "monumental waste of time." resources are available and to use Movie review on page 12. M sg r . J o h n M cC a r r e n , them to meet these conditions. executive director of the diocesan The task force members will Other deaths Department for Social and work initially with the diocesan Sister Mary Rosita, member Community Development, will Department for Social and ol the Holy Family ol Nazareth chair the task force. The other Community Development. One of Sisters lor 71 years. members of the task force are: its first tasks will be to define its Sister Mary Edna Trexler. Robert P. Argentine, executive purpose, its goals and its member ol the Sisters of business manager, Carpenters objectives, and to make specific Charity ol Selon Hill since 1924. District Council ol Western recommendations to the bishop. Bro. Elmer C. Lackner. Pennsylvania: Fr. Garrett D. After the bishops receives and native of Pittsburgh and a Dorsey, co-administrator of St. approves recommendations Ironi Understanding Japan retired vice president ol the Stephen parish, Hazelwood: the task force, he will appoint University ol Dayton. Jerome A. Earley, vice president additional members to the group Marjorie Zolkoski displays some of the handcrafts Zovko, who is participating this summer in the James Flaherty, a lile-long ol Rockwell International: so that it will have broader she brought back from Japan last summer when program, and John Maurer, principal at Canevin. resident of Turtle Creek. George E. Flinn, partner in the representation and w ill be better 1 she was an exchange student in the Youth for Obituaries on page 2. law firm ol Buchanon. Ingersoll. prepared to carry out its Story on Page 3. Rodewald. Kyle and Buerger; responsibilities. Understanding program. Looking on are Andrew P C C m ay launch effort Pope scores apartheid, to overrid e B ill 750 veto (See editorial on page 4) have occurred in Pennsylvania, action against a doctor, as long as urges respect of rights most often are filed by parents the doctor did nothing wrong. Fetterhoff denied that HARRISBURG — The Pennsyl­ against a doctor when a immunity for doctors and other vania Catholic Conference will handicapped or defective child is medical personnel would be By JOHN THAVIS "Every form of discrimina­ War I. The South-West Africa meet with pro-life groups to decide born," Fetterhoff said. "The granted in cases of neglect or VATICAN CITY <NC) — Pope tion based on race, whether Peoples Organization, w hich the whether to launch an effort to have parents are suing on the basis that malpractice, or that a wrongful John Paul II on July 7 occasional or systematically L'.N. has declared the "sole the legislature override Gov. the child should have been birth lawsuit ban would lead to a denounced apartheid. South practiced, and whether it is legitimate representative ol the Thornburgh's veto of Senate Bill aborted. i reduced level of cure for women Africa's policy of imposed aimed at individuals or whole Namibian people," has battled 750 — which would outlaw "Without this legislation, pro­ during pregnancy. He also racial segregation, calling it an racial groups, is absolutely South African troops in an 18- "wrongful birth/life" suits — life doctors, all doctors, would be disputed the governor's conten­ offense to human dignity and a unacceptable." the pope said in year guerrilla war there. when the lawmakers return to put in the position of being torced The pope saved his strongest to perform abortions whenever tion that the legislation eould possible threat to regional and an address to the group. Such Harrisburg in the tall. result in more abortions. criticism lor what he called the there is a chance that the child is world peace. discrimination violates the { The pope also criticized the church's principle ol "the "forced displacement ol vast handicapped," he said. "With it, "When you contrast the numbers of people in South The conference expressed pro-life doctors could take care of pressure lor eugenic abortion that torced removals ol black people fundamental equality of all • shock and alarm " at the veto last to tribal homelands established human beings," he said. A frica." the mother and unborn child would be felt by litigation­ The government's relocation week. Howard J. Fetterhoff, PCC without fearing civil damages if conscious doctors if these lawsuits by South Africa and called for Recalling that Pope Paul VI executive director, said the the rapid establishment ol had voiced concern about the policy, the pope said, "repre­ the child is born with handicaps are allowed, the governor's sents a grave violation ol the purpose ol the legislation is to help the doctor didn't cause." speculation about increased independence for Namibia, a attempts to create discrimina­ prevent a public policy in which territory administered by South tory political structures in rights ol the human person, and Gov. Thornburgh vetoed the abortions il these suits were doctors would be coerced into Africa. Africa, Pope John Paul said the at the same time is deeply bill, following its passage by the barred is not very persuasive," pcrlorming eugenic abortions on a In other activities, the pope Vatican has continued to follow damaging to family lile and the state Senate by a vote of 32-15 on Fetterhoff said. w idespread basis. urged Indonesia to respect events in southern A frica social fabric." June 29 and its earlier passage in Mary Lou Gartner, political human rights in East Timor, closely and speak out about The situation, he said, is "a The legislation would have the state House by a vote ol 124-73. action chairman of People which has a large Cutholic human rights violations. consequence of the system ol prohibited parents from tiling a The governor said he vetoed the Concerned for the Unborn Child of populution. The ponlift also met "A s lor Namibia, the Holy See apartheid." ;suit against a doctor for having bill because it could result in Pittsburgh, noted that similar with hundreds of Armenian expresses the hope that it w ill be "The Holy See, lor its part, permitted a child who has been more, not few er abortions; that it legislation recently passed in Catholics and told them to possible lor the negotiations, e x p resses its con cern at conceived to have been born alive would deprive prospective Minnesota and South Dakota.