The Denv DENVER, COLO., WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1978 !M ‘Christ-Clowns' Help Us to Celebrate Life (Photo by Mark Kirvluk) “ A circus celebrates life . gives one that sunset on a hope-full note,” says a newsletter of St. joined teachers and other students in dressing as clowns enthusiasm which keeps the routineness of sunrise and Mary’s School of Religion in Littleton. These fifth graders • I lor the final day of the summer session. Story page 7. Abortion Still Hot Issue •i For Political Candidates Ry Teresa Coyle states and several foreign countries took part. VATICAN CITY (NC) — Shortly before beginning y ST. LOUIS (NC) — Politicians who found abortion a hot Besides seeking to step up the political activities of its his summer working vacation at Castelgandolfo, Pope political issue in the past will find it getting even hotter if 11 million members, the organization reaffirmed its Paul urged vacationers to use their time off as a the National Right to Life Committee succeeds with plans policy against violent anti-abortion activities, drew chance to enjoy and meditate on the world around f made at its recent convention in St. Louis. numerous parallels between the pro-life movement and them. ; "Those men and women who do not understand the life the civil rights movement, and endorsed non-violent He told thousands in St. Peter’s Square to have a issues and will not vote to protect the right to life will find direct actions such as abortion clinic sit-ins. good vacation, but then added a word of advice: “ Seek it very, very difficult to be elected to office.” said Dr. to deepen the vacation period with the virtue of con­ .Mildred F. Jefferson, retiring NRLC president. Otter Reward templation. It gives basically a greater joy than mere Sean Morton Downey Jr., chairman of the Life Amend­ .At the convention’s close, newly elected NRLC presi­ physical or natural enjoyments.” ment Political Action Committee Inc., which was es­ dent Dr. Carolyn F. Gerster announced that the pro-life Through contemplation, he said, “ God is present tablished 10 months ago as NRLC’s political arm, organization would pay a $5.000 reward for information — present more than ever before.” predicted that five new pro-life congressmen will be leading to the arrest and conviction of persons responsi­ “ Let us not deny ourselves this experience,” he elected next November. So far, LAPAC has endorsed ble for burning abortion clinics. said. three candidates. It is expected to name seven more soon. Dr. Gerster. a Protestant physician, said she hopes her The Pope said that he hoped everyone would be election will ‘ ‘demonstrate to the nation that this is not able to spend some time “ with nature, amid pure and Voter Survey the conservative, male, Roman Catholic organization free air.” Identification of every pro-life and undecided voter in that our enemies try to depict." She succeeds another Pope Paul spends two months every summer at the nation has been established as the goal of a NRLC pro­ Protestant female physician, Dr. .Mildred Jefferson, as the papal villa in Castelgandolfo, a small hillside town ject now underway in 23 states. Felicia Goeken, of Alton, president. southeast of Rome. 111., director of the project, estimated that the survey can The principal objective of the NRLC is passage of a con­ He continues to work on major problems, but be completed in a year and a half. stitutional amendment known as a human life amend­ cancels almost all private audiences during the period. Speaking at a workshop on the project, Mrs. Goeken ment. which would supefcede the 1973 Supreme Court He also spends time daily outdoors. said the survey ‘‘will establish to congressmen that it is decisions legalizing abortion. To secure that amend­ The pope usually leaves Rome in mid-July. The safe to be pro-life.” ment, the organization works for the election to Congress Vatican has not announced yet when he will leave for The meeting, held during four days of near-100 degree of persons committed to such an amendment. the sprawling villa, overlooking a volcanic lake. weather, ended July 2. More than 2.000 persons from all 50 (Continued on Page 9i New Vatican Document Sisters Urged to Seek Out New Ministries VATICAN CITY (NC) — The Vatican Congregations Bishops, it said, “ should be justly aware of the must contribute their apostolic activity today within the for Bishops and for Religious have urged Sisters to “ seek primacy of the life in the Spirit which demands that they Church community by faithfully realizing their created out and propose” new ministries for themselves. be both guides and members, truly fathers but also and revealed identity, and by carefully turning their But they also said that Sisters working in fields brothers, teachers of the faith but also co-disciples before attention to women’s increasing presence within outside the usual mission of their order must maintain Christ, perfectors of the brethren but also true witnesses society,” said the document. “ substantial participation in the order’s communal life of their own personal sanctity.” New Forms and follow its rule.” The 47-page document was drawn up by the “ Religious women,” it continued, “ should then seek “ No apostolic commitment must be the occasion for congregations in consultation with Religious orders and out and propose new forms of apostolic service.” deviating from one’s own vocation,” they said. Vatican bodies. The document urged bishops to “ exert themselves in The two congregations made those statements in a “ In these our times,” said the document, “ Religious a committed way to realizing the principle of greater jointly issued document called “ Directives and Criteria are required to have that same charismatic genuineness, advancement for (Sisters) within the Church, so that for Relations Between Bishops and Religious in the both lively and ingenious, for which their founders God’s people will not be without that special assistance Church.” excelled. that only women Religious can offer.” Role ot Women The Poor The congregations cautioned, however, that Sisters ! ■ The document specifically asked bishops to make a “ In this way they will commit themselves better and must be esteemed “ for the witness they give as firm commitment to develop more fully the role of zealously to apostolic work among those who today consecrated women, and not primarily for the useful women Religious in the Church. constitute truly the majority of humanity and are the services they generously provide.” But it warned Religious orders that statements made beloved of the Lord — the poor and the little ones.' ’ The congregations urged Religious to consider on social, economic or political matters should be brought The congregations asked Religious to lorm themselves part of diocesan life and to involve laymen in before the local bishop before being issued. associations among themselves on various regional and their liturgical prayer. The document restated that bishops have the final say international levels. They demanded, however, that superiors “ intervene in many key decisions regarding the apostolic activities “ In the Church’s vast pastoral ministry, “ said the quickly” to stop liturgical abuses. of Sisters in their dioceses. congregations, “ a new and a very relevant role has been The document approved of new forms of apostolate But it also cautioned bishops against “ being masters established to be given over to women. but also upheld the validity of traditional work in schools, among the faithful.” “ Once' industrious helpers of the Apostles, women hospitals and missions. Page 2 — THE DENVER CATHOLIC REGISTER, Wed., July 12, 1978 Two Aides Named m At St. Joseph Church realto r Two new assistant pastors tenberg; and Holy Cross .Agriculture Movement farm W insett & Co. liave been named to St. Father John P. Schuneman strike, has been associate We Mean Real Estate! Joseph Redemptorist to be pastor of Holy Family pastor of Divine Redeemer Church in Denver and three Church 'T .Meeker and St Church in Colorado Springs priests have been assigned Ignatius Church in Ran- since June 22. 1977 to outstate parishes m the geley. Before that, he was pastor Archdiocese of fJenver Fathers Delort and of St .Anthony Church in Winsett & Co. Archbishop James VC Bueche will replace Father Sterling for two years; Casey announced that Carl Schwartz, who is being pastor of St. Joseph's in We Mean Buying! Redemptorist Fathers reassigned to Kansas City, Akron and administrator of Norbert Uelort and Charles and Father Eugene Oates, St. John's in 'Vuma for five Bueche will become assis­ who will assume an ad­ years; assistant pastor of St. tants July 15 to bather ministrative position at the .Mary's in Colorado Springs Andres ,Meiners, pastor of Redemptorist s Retreat for a year; assistant pastor W insett & Co. the church at W 6th Avenue House in F'argo, .N Ü of Holy Trinity Parish in and Galapagos Street Father Delort. a native of Westminster from .August We Mean Selling! He al,so assigned Father Chicago, comes here from 1968 to .April 1969 and a tem­ Andres K Gottschalk, direc­ Omaha's Holy .Name Parish, porary substitute for two tor of the Rural Life where he has spent the last months in 1968 at Presenta­ Conference, to be pastor of 14 years, six as pastor. tion in Denver. Our Lady of the f^lains Father Bueche, of Grand Born in .Schoenchen, Kan., Church in Byers, Claretian Rapids, ,Mich , has been Sept. 7, 1929, Father Gott­ Winsett & Co. Father .Michael Cecere to be pastor of St, Alphonses schalk attended schools in administrator pro tern of St Parish in Chicago, following Kansas and was ordained to Williams Church in Ft 15 years as a missionary in the priesthood in .Montecas- Lupton and in charge of St Thailand sino, Italy, on July 8, 1956.