KC Expects 2000 at Convention

POPE PAUL URGES: Our 'Use Gospel approach to social ills' World VATICAN CITY — (NC) — To combat groaning social il- several large youth groups present, underlined the need for a ls, Christians must give fresh expression to the Gospel in- new sense of belonging to the Church. stead of adopting anti-religious social solutions, Pope Paul VI "THERE MUST grow in us a sense of community, of Bishops view economy said July 23. charity, of unity, that is, a sense of the Church, one, catholic The U.S. Catholic Con- Asking Catholics at his outdoor weekly general audience and universal," the Pope urged. ference Committee on Social to rekindle in themselves a "sense of the Church," Pope Paul "There must be reaffirmed In us the awareness of being Development and World said: not only a population sharing certain common traits, but a Peace in Washington, D.C., "There is no need to borrow from anti-religious social people, a true People of God, a family bound by deep spiritual has approved a proposal to formulas based on conflict in order to find the wisdom and links, a brotherly society, animated by like feelings of joy and develop position papers on energy to bring about the good which needs to be done, as well sorrow and convinced that all are destined to the same fate economic issues for con- as just reforms for human development and the continuing af- after the present life," he said. sideration by the nation's firmation of justice and peace. THE POPE said that the renewal of the Holy Year must Catholic bishops at their next "BUT THERE is a need and a duty to express in original not end on the last day of the jubilee. "The Holy Year must general meeting in Christian terms the human and social view" that springs out maintain its effectiveness and apply the priceless in- November. of the religious and evangelical views of the Second Vatican heritance of the ecumenical council to modern life, giving The committee voted at Council's teaching on the Church," the Pope said. that life a new look, freed from the treacherous radical its semi-annual meeting to let The Pope then praised a recent document of the bishops secularism . which deprives it of spiritual and moral the USCC Office for Social of the Italian region of Lombardy for urging a "rediscovery energies and . poisons it with pseudo-principles, which are Development work on posi- of the originality and wealth of Christian inspiration in the without truth." tion papers on the major cultural, social and political fields." The Pope had gone by helicopter to the Vatican from his -eas of economic planning, The Pope's audience talk was seen as a call to the Italian summer residence in Castelgandolfo, a small town in the V^-il employment and tax Catholics to turn the tide of communist gains in Italy. The Alban Hills near Rome. Vatican sources said he did so in reform. In a background document of the Lombardy bishops which Pope Paul quoted order not to disappoint Holy Year pilgrims who wanted to presentation to the com- from and praised was a stinging denunciation of communist catch a glimpse of him. mittee, Dr. Francis Butler, gains in the June regional Italian elections. Vatican AFTER HIS talks during the 6:45 p.m. audience in St. USCC associate secretary for observers further interpreted the papal denunciation of "anti- Peter's Square, the Pope spoke briefly to a large number of domestic social develop- religious social formulas based on conflict" to be a reference Canadian pilgrims present. He urged them to be thankful to ment, criticized both the Ad- to Marxism. God for the richness of their country and urged them to share ministration and Congress for The Pope's talk, punctuated often by applause from their riches with the world's less fortunate. paying inadequate attention to the human problem of un- employment. Court reverses ruling The Massachusetts THE SEMINOLE indians of Florida - their Supreme Judicial Court has history, culture, and the problems they face ruled that an unborn but will be the subjects of a series of articles star- viable fetus is a "person" in m ting in the next issue of The Voice. the eyes of state law. The 4-3 decision reverses the court's previous ruling that a fetus could not be considered a per- CHD unable' son under the state's wrongful death statute. The decision was handed down in a to fund case involving a claim for the death of a mother and a fetus project of in an automobile-bus colli- sion. Although the decision specifically limits applica- Seminoles tion of the ruling to the With applications for as- wrongful death statute, legal sistance totaling almost $200 experts have speculated that million and only $5.2 million to it may indicate a change in grant, the Campaign for Hu- the court's attitude toward man Development of the U.S. the legal status of the fetus in Catholic Conference "regret- other cases. fully" told officials here that it will be unable to fund an appli- OAS votes Cuba si' cation of the Seminole Indian Tribe in South Florida for aid. SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — (NC) — Two-thirds of the Application for a grant members of the Organiza- from the CHD, which provides tion of American States meet- funds for needy projects not ing in San Jose, Costa Rica, otherwise supported, through have backed a Mexican- an annual collection in Catho- sponsored proposal to leave it lic churches and missions up to each government to throughout the nation, had been decide whether or not to re- made by Msgr. John W. Glorie, establish relations with Cuba. Archdiocese of Miami CHD co- The proposal at the OAS ordinator. meeting here amounts to a Had the grant been provid- compromise move. Several ed the tribe planned to sue the nations had sought outright state of Florida for damages lifting of economic and KC expects 2,000 at conventioncaused by non-Indian hunters diplomatic sanctions imposed who use the reservation without paying the tribe, for dam- in 1964 on the Communist Some 2,000 Knights of Colum- attributed the organization's an understanding of the teachings bus and their families will partic- of the Catholic Church through its ages to Seminole lands caused • Jrae in Havana. Others success to "intensive community- ipate in sessions of the 93rd annual betterment programs which have Catholic Advertising Program. by FCD drainage canals, and bitterly opposed any lifting, for continuing payments for on the grounds that Cuba meeting of the Supreme KC Coun- been carried out so energetically IT ALSO funds a variety of cil which opens Aug. 19 at Miami by our local and state councils, scholarship and educational water to serve the South Premier Fidel Castro con- Beach. particularly our pro-life activities programs with an estimated value Florida area drained from tinues exporting revolution. Archbishop Coleman F. conducted so valiantly in a morbid of almost $3 million per year. The dian land. PO to up rates? Carroll and Archbishop Fulton J. abortion atmosphere." society has undertaken a student- According to Father Sheen will be featured speakers at ON ALL levels members have loan program through which some rence McNamara, ex< The House Post Office the three-day convention expected been in the forefront of the cam- $15 million have been loaned at low to attract 400 official delegates interest to students to finance director of CHD in Washing- and Civil Service Committee paign to protect human life against ton, D.C., the Campaign is only has rejected legislation that from all parts of the U.S., Canada, advocates of abortion and their higher education and is con- Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and euthanasia by providing educa- ducted in cooperation with the U.S. able to grant 130 out of 1,300 ap- would have meant lower in- plications received this year creases in second class the Philippines. tional materials, financial support Dept. of HEW. The occasion marks the se- and man-hours of service to such A leading sponsor of Boy Scout and the Seminole application postage rates for religious cond time that Archbishop Carroll groups as Respect for Life and groups and other youth associa- was considered in the final 300. and other nonprofit publica- and KC Councils in the Arch- Birthright agencies. The board of tions, the organization has pledge "The fact is," he pointed out, tions. By a vote of 22-2, the diocese of Miami have welcomed directors recently voted a $50,000 $50,000 to support a Boy Scout "the Seminole project came committee defeated amend- the Knights to South Florida for a appropriation to the Prolife Ac- leadership training project and in very close. Out of four rating it ments providing that non- convention. In 1966 they also met tivities Committee of the National addition conducts leadership train- got a 'strong' rating. The high- profit publications would pay at Miami Beach. Conference of Catholic Bishops to ing programs for the young est is 'outstanding.' One is only two-thirds of the regular BISHOP JOSEPH V. Sullivan help promote the work of the com- through its own youth organiza- mittee. funded for every 10 applica- rate for the first 250,000 of Baton Rouge, La. will also ad- tion, the Columbian Squires now tions and they just didn't make copies and would pay only 50 dress the convention at the Hotel At the present time there are observing their 50th anniversary. Fontainebleau. 5,966 councils or groups within the it," Father McNamara declar- per cent of future rate in- ed.

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