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D ay M ass to be held Monday, Sept. 5, at 11 a.m. in St. Mary of Mercy Church, Downtown. Aux. Bishop John McDowell will be the principal celebrant. “Labor Day has to, again, Labor’s hands, for the most part, will rest Sept. 5 to mark Labor unwillingly, because ol the high unemployment in the area. become a time for a show of Day. However, for many others, they have been at rest. strength — on the old principle that when you are embattled you do not retreat, you charge — and a OFFICIAL time for prayer.” Msgr. Rice recalled the links H u m a n w ork build* h u m a n d i g n i t y N e w on T V between religion and labor that Reverend and dear Monsignor/Father: For the same reason it should also be seen as the essential key to were forged in the days of the New TV Columnist Jim Breig The Annual Labor Day Mass will be celebrated this year at St. solving many social problems. To fulfill this latter role, however, Deal. He recalled that he and takes at look at C BS’ fall lineup. Mary of Mercy Church on Monday morning, September 5, at it must be properly understood. Human and social problems must other priests served the labor P age 12. eleven o'clock. Please let your parishioners know that they are be viewed in the light of Faith as well as in their human, social, and union movement by reassuring most welcome, and if your own schedule permits, do attend and, if economic dimensions. This is precisely the unique achievement of working people that labor unions the Social Encyclicals. Human work is presented as a way of Family award were a positive good. “...And I possible, conceiebrate the Mass. In his Encyclical "Laborem Exercens", Pope John Paul II building human dignity rather than an occasion for exploiting remember telling hesitant groups Award*winning family explains in one telling sentence why we must be so concerned individuals; it becomes the foundation on which true values, of workers, men and women, that prayed, played, stayed about human work: “ Man’s life is built up every day from work, especially family values, are developed and fostered, and not a they had more than a right to join a together. P a g e 6. from work it derives its specific dignity, but at the same time work vehicle for threatening personal dignity and endangering family labor union, they had a duty,” life; an instrument for building the good society, ana not a tool for Msgr. Rice said. contains the unceasing measure of human toil and suffering, and also of the harm and injustice which penetrate deeply into social undermining society and dividing communities Also Inside “Call it a religious duty, if you For all these reasons, I urge you and your people to come to St. will, because it has to do with life within individual nations and on the international level.” Any wonder that the Church has such an intense concern about human Mary's Church on Labor Day so that together we can participate in Obituaries Page 3 brotherhood and sisterhood and Holy Mass and reflect briefly on human work and its place in our E ditorials................... Pages 4-5 work, especially since the onset of the Industrial Revolution? helping. personal and common life. Home Again Page 6 “ An odd thing about L abo r,” he Almost every Pontiff since Leo XIII has written important letters Calendar Page 11 on various aspects of this subject. Indeed, much of whatfhe Popes said, “ in one w ay a union serves a Sincerely yours in Christ, Around diocese ... Pages 10-11 selfish interest and it pays you to have written since Rerum Novarum (1891) to the present, has been join; as it operates it can take care hailed by many as a m ajor, if not a classic contribution to the field D eaths of your interest. But, at the same of Labor. time, active membership in a Pope John Paul II also tells us that human work is at the very center of the so-called social question. That is why human work is Mary F. Deegan, Benwood, union serves the entire brother- often considered the principal cause of so many social problems. Auxiliary Bishop — Vicar General W .Va. (Continued on page 3) Long-range planning No• 1 goal for schools (See related stories, photo on relate to the teachers an Values" and the Colloquium, page 7) awareness of spiritual needs of Asked about projected faculty and students through such enrollm ent for the 1983-84 By STEPHEN KARLINCHAK programs as “Visions and (Continued on page 3) Long-range planning is the top priority of the diocesan Schools Associate editor named and Religious Education Offices William Fodiak, 28. former assistant editor of The Catholic for the 1983-84 academic year Accent, Greensburg diocesan newspaper, is the new associate editor of the Pittsburgh Catholic, effective Sept. 1. which began Aug. 29. Fr. Hugh Lang, superintendent He replaces William McClinton, who retired in June. of diocesan schools, said that from The appointment was announced by Bishop Leonard, president discussions with the diocesan of the Pittsburgh Catholic's board of directors. school board members, secondary Fodiak, of Latrobe, who worked at the Accent from 1979 to 1982, school lay faculty members, add returned to Pennsylvania State University in 1982 and earned his the committee evaluating master’s degree in journalism this past spring. personnel policies, all parties had Fodiak previously was managing editor of The Courier, recommended that the Schools Bentleyville, Pa., and managing editor and co-publisher of Sportsman's Diary magazine. Latrobe, in addition to several Office make long-range planning a priority. He added that, with the other positions. eventual appointment of a new He has won several awards from the Pennsylvania Collegiate bishop for the diocese, the timing Press Association. fodiak received a bachelor of arts degree from Duquesne is appropriate. University in 1977, majoring in Journalism and English. While "O u r first priority is to develop there he was a general assignment reporter and copy staff Bishop on television a model to involve people in ail levels helping to set direction for member of the Duquesne Duke and a news editor for the college's Aux. Bishop Anthony Bosco prepares for the and will be repeated: Sundays at 9 a.m., 1 and 6 the future,” Fr. Lang said. radio station, W D U Q . program, “To Teach As Jesus Did,” that he will p.m. and midnight; Mondays through Fridays at 9 The second priority, Fr. Lang He was certified by the Institute for Religious Communications, present on Channel 23, the Christian Associates’ a.m., 1 and 7 p.m. and midnight; and Saturdays at said, is to continue to help Loyola University, New Orleans, La., in 1980. station, on Pittsburgh’s Warner Cable System 8:30 a.m ., at 12:30 and 6 p.m. and midnight. teachers better understand the He is married to the former Ann Mei-Chih Huang of Taipei. beginning Sunday, Sept. 4. The program will — Photo by John C. Keenan c a I c nf Ihn Pal hnliri fifhonl And to Taiwan. - include reflections and interviews by the bishop OFFICIAL S t Anthony a unique school This letter ii to be read at all Masses in all churches through Saint Anthony's that respect for life is not and chapels of the Diocese on Sunday, September just a cliche; we really mean what we say. To 4, 1983. The collection it announces is to be taken Mothers and families who have accepted up in the usual way on Sunday, September 11,1983. retarded children and to those who are even now The full amount received will be credited to the struggling over an unfavorable amniocentesis Parish Share Program assessment. report, we are saying that life is precious; do not abort it; we shall help you. And to those who are Dearly beloved in Christ: the prime target of modern search and destroy Last June, Saint Anthony School, Oakmont, missions but have somehow escaped the observed its thirtieth anniversary. Since 1953 this barbarism of those who want to give us a better unique School has been providing a very special world by eliminating the weak, the slow, the program for retarded youngsters: the dependent, the ones who may need a little extra curriculum includes both spiritual, academic, care, Saint Anthony’s is saying that we want you, pre-vocational opportunities, as well as carefully we love you, indeed, we need you more than ever devised physical, social, and emotional before.