The Agony of Human Rights the Denver Catholic Register

. ^ -i 1 . > / > • . r The Agony of Human Rights Church Attacked for Defending Freedom (Compiled from NC News Service reports) tion to the totalitarian Communist regimes, its defense of seventh and last was still in Vietnam at that time but Persecution and restrictions are nothing new for the social justice and human rights against repressive govern reportedly was expected to be forced to leave Saigon soon. Church. It has known them ever since its birth. ments. Most of the expelled missionaries were seminary Today the Church is experiencing renewed attacks on The Church’s missionaries are being expelled, its professors. its freedom in various countries — from Vietnam and Laos, buildings taken over, its leaders accused of being subver About 30 Vietnamese Jesuits are still working in Viet to the Philippines, to Angola, to Czechoslovakia, to even sives when they defend farmworkers and the poor. nam. so-called Catholic nations in Latin America. SOUTH VIETNAM Last summer 14 other Jesuits were expelled from their The Church is not being attacked today for merely In South Vietnam, the new Communist government has posts at the Jesuit-run Dalat seminary. defending its own rights and freedoms, but — as the expelled the remaining Jesuit foreign-bom missionaries. Expulsion of foreign-born missionaries has occured in strongest moral force in the world — because of its opposi Six Jesuits arrived in Bangkok, Thailand, July 8; the Cambodia and Laos as well. (Continued on Page 14) The Denver Catholic Register Colorado’s Largest Weekly 24 PAGES WEDNESDAY, JULY 14,1976 VOL. LI N O . 49 15 CENTS PER COPY Auxiliary Bishop Named For Cheyenne Diocese A Missouri priest, Father Joseph Hubert Hart, 44, For six years, the new bishop headed the radio and has been named an auxiliary to Bishop Hubert M. television apostolate in Kansas City and has done Newell of the neighboring Diocese of Cheyenne. special study in the field at the University of Notre The Cheyenne diocese is in the Denver Church Dame. He has also held several positions in the province and Bishop Newell, a former archdiocesan diocesan tribunal. superintendent of schools, is the first native priest of In 1969, he was appointed pastor of St. John Francis Denver to be a bishop. He became bishop of Cheyen Regis Church, a parish of about 6,(K)0 people. ne in 1947. For the past four years, in addition to his pastoral duties, the new bishop has served as executive Bishop-elect Hart, who has been pastor of St. John secretary of the priests’ personnel board of the Francis Regis parish in Kansas City, Mo., will be Kansas (3ity-St. Joseph diocese. consecrated in ceremonies tentatively scheduled for Bishop-elect Hart said he is coming to serve Bishop late August in Cheyenne. Newell and the people of the Cheyenne diocese “ with Bishop-Elect Hart was born in Kansas City Sept. faith in Jesus Christ and in a spirit of Christian joy.” 26, 1931, the son of Hubert H. Hart and Kathryn Rose He told the Catholics of the Cheyenne diocese: Muser, both of whom reside in Kansas City. He has a “ I ask your prayers, support and example in my sister, Rose Mary, and a brother who is also a priest, new life in your midst. Father James Hart. “ Together, let us witness the Lord with lives based He was educated in local parochial schools and at in faith so that our joy as Christians may be as com Rockhurst College. Kansas City, before entering St. plete as possible now, and that it might be climaxed John’s Seminary in 1949. He transferred to St. by eternal happiness in heaven. ’’ Meinrad’s Seminary in 1950 and was ordained a Bishop Newell, commenting on the appointment of priest May 1,1956, by Archbishop Edwin O'Hara. an auxiliary, said that in Bishop-elect Hart Pope The first eight years of his priesthood were spent in Paul VI “ has given us a man acknowledged as an ex parish assignments in Kansas City and on the faculty emplary priest, an experienced administrator and a of Bishop Lillis High School and the St. Pius School successful pastor. In the name of the priests, sisters for Special Education. and laity of the diocese, we extend him a warm and In 1964, he was appointed assistant chancellor of cordial welcome to Wyoming and pray that he may the Kansas City-St. Joseph diocese. have a long, happy and fruitful life as a bishop.” Bishop — Elect Joseph H. Hart Supreme Court Does It Again By James Fiedler “ There’s a certain consistency in the Supreme Court’s decisions on abortion and capital punishment. Both show a lack of apprecia tion of human life,” said Bishop George R. Evans, episcopal ad viser of the Archdiocesan Pro-Life Commission. The Supreme Court ruled recently that it is unconstitutional for states to require the consent of a woman’s husband or a minor’s parents for an abortion. A few days later it upheld the death penalty, ruling that it does not constitute “ cruel and unusual” punishment forbidden by the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution. Commenting on the abortion decision, Bishop Evans said that “ strong opposition to the attitude of the Supreme Court” might be generated “ when parents in America realize that they would have to be consulted for any surgery for a minor child but that they may not be informed when a minor child_would have an abortion.” The Supreme Court, acting on three major cases concerning abortion: • Upheld a provision of a Missouri law requiring that the consent given by a women for an abortion be “ informed and freely given and . not the result of coercion . The decision to abort, indeed, is an important and often a stressful one, and it is desirable and im perative that it be made with full knowledge of its nature and con sequences.” • Ruled that requiring a husband’s consent for an abortion is unconstitutional. “ The state,” the court said, “ cannot delegate to a spouse a veto power which the state itself is absolutely and totally prohibited from exercising during the first trimester of pregnan c y " (Continued on Page 2) Photo by Mark Kiryluk. Mountain Mass in the Rain Cold rainy weather does not interfere with celebra Protected from the driving rain by a hat and poncho. :-r tion of the Mass at the Christian Outdoor Leadership Father Kenneth Leone, director of Denver (Catholic r'-.;/' -'V. School high in the Sangre de Christo mountains. Youth Services, distributes Communion to a student. “' l i ; 'Y. ■ ' See pictures and story on page 8 ■ - .. jrJdM+A^-'>JVt130 3HT ,? - , .M <luL, bc'*- Pag* 2 — THE DENVER CATHOLIC REGISTER, Wad., July 14,1976 Supreme Court Does It Again A R C H B IS H O P ’S OFF ICL 938 Bannock Street (Continued from Page 1) D enver, CO 80204 • Ruled that parents may not exercise “ veto power” over a minor’s decision to have an abortion, but said: Official “ We emphasize that our APPOINTMENTS holding . does not suggest Reverend Harold Glentzer, O.S.B., to be Pastor, that every minor, regardless St. Andrew Church, Wray, Colorado. of age or maturity, may give Reverend George Prendergast, S.J., to be Assis effective consent for ter tant Pastor, Sacred Heart Church, Denver. mination of her pregnancy.” BISHOP GEORGE R. EVANS The “ fault" with a Missouri Thursday, July 15, 11:00 a.m., Colorado Springs, Pic law. the court said, is that it nic for Senior Sisters. “ imposes a special consent Sunday. July 18, 3:00 p.m. — Columbus, Ohio, St. provision, exercisable by a Joseph Cathedral. Episcopal Ordination of Bishop person other than the George A. Fulcher woman and her physician, as Tuesday, July 20, 7:00 p.m. — Denver, Francis a prerequisite to a minor’s Heights Board of Directors Meeting termination of her pregnancy and does so without a sufficient justification for the restric tion,” (In a Massachusetts Future of Italy case, which the court returned to a lower court for further action, justices in Still Uncertain dicated they might support a law requiring parental con ROME (NC) — Italy’s new Ingrao had beeiY seated as sultation but which allowed parliament began work July president, proponents of the minor an opportunity to 5 with a Communist as presi liberalized abortion in the have an abortion over her dent of the Chamber of new chamber presented parents’ objections. Under Deputies and a hardline anti- three bills to replace Italy’s the Massachusetts law, a Communist Christian current tough abortion minor may ask a Superior Democrat at the helm of the laws. Court judge to issue an order Senate. Ingrao’s election to the approving an abortion for The decision taken by ma chamber presidency marked “ good cause” if her parents ft’s Nice To Be Alive jor Italian parties to divide the first time that a Com object.) leadership of the two houses munist had held a top a Upheld the Missouri asked for her reaction to the left unaffected under these Archdiocesan Pro-Life Com- between the two big election parliamentary post. law’s definition of “ via recent Supreme Court deci circumstances. mission, pointed out: winners came several days Although the Communists bility” of the fetus as sions on abortion. “ The Supreme Court ac “ Traditionally in society, after Italy’s bishops asked have been the second-largest “ that stage of fetal develop IMMORAL ACT tion in eliminating parental whether ancient or modern, the “Catholic party” to party in Italy for years, the ment when the life of the un “ I don’t agree with abor consent is fraught with even decisions affecting the shape up and deliver long- Christian Democrats have born child may be continued tion at all,” she said.

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