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Young Mass gets kids going at local parish P15 Archdiocese of Miami Vol. XXIV No. 32 „ September 25,1981 Price 25$ Controversy on women Keep the mother in the home, or liberation from forced work? By Father Kenneth Doyle my kids stand in the way of my development as a person.' I say to ROME (NC) - In Rome much con- • them, "Then why did you have them/" troversy has been caused by what What was it that Pope John Paul said Pope John Paul ll's new encylical says in his new encyclical, "on Human — or does not say — about women. Work," which provoked such strong Coming out of the Vatican Press Of- and varied comments? fice moments after the encyclical had In one way there was nothing slart- been released, a woman journalist tlingly new, but in another way the en- said: cyclical contained more than a "Here we go again. Grants for- repetition of previous statements. women. Keep them in the home, He said that the "primary goals of the that's what this pope has always said. mission of a mother" were "to devote There's not much new in that." herself to taking care of her children The woman, in her mid-forties and and educating them in accordance unmarried, is weli-respected in her with their needs, which vary with age." profession. The pope had said that before. In THE FOLLOWING day a male Poland in 1979 he said that columnist in a Rome paper echoed her "motherhood must be treated in work thoughts. The encyclical showed, he policy and economy as a great end said, a "radical insensitivity to the and a great task in itself. For with it is feminine problem, present only in the connected the mother's work in giving conspiciousness of it absence. The birth, feeding and rearing, and no one problem of female labor does not can take her place. Nothing can take exist. The rights of women seem to be the place of the heart of a mother confined to remaining housewives. always present and always waiting in Stay at home, spin the wool. the home. True respect for work Everything returns to its origins." brings with it due esteem for But that same day, in a casual con- motherhood. It cannot be otherwise, versation in the Vatican Press Office, the moral health of the whole of another woman had a different idea. society depends on that." She, too, is a capable journalist, ' BUT THERE WAS indeed a new representing a worldwide wire service element in the encyclical's treatment. POWER PLAY — Two anti-nuclear demonstrators are removed by police from and an international radio network. For the first time, the pope was the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant near San Luis, Obispo, Calif. Thousan- She is in her mid-thirties and has two suggesting grants which would make it ds of demonstrators massed at the plant to attempt to halt construction. Hun- young children. possible for mothers who chose to do dreds of California Highway Patrol officers on the scene arrested anyone who "You know," she began, "I agree so to remain at home. tried to block workers. (NC Photo from UPI). with the pope. He doesn't say that To understand the concept one has women shouldn't work. He only says to grasp first the pope's passionate that once you're a mother, you concern for the health of the family There is no other topic on which this Catholic social teaching, in the en- shouldn't have to work if you don't unit. pope has spoken so often. He knows cyclical he equates a just wage with a want to. And that makes sense to me. "This pope has a deep, deep esteem the problems of today, so time after family wage, one which will equip the Once you're a mother, your biggest for the family," said Jesuit Father John time he stresses the importance of the family to live decently. job is making sure those kids grow up Schasching, dean of social sciences at survival of the human family." But then comes this pope's new con- to be decent human beings." Rome's Gregorian University. "It Pope John Paul's ideas on labor are tribution to Catholic social thought, "I'M TIRED," she said, "of women comes partly from his Polish experien- . rooted in his convictions about family. according to Father Schasching. who say to me, "i'm not going to let ce, but also from personal conviction. Following what has been traditional continued on p.; 4 When two schools merge It's best of both worlds for Curley and Notre Dame when the two schools in northeast "I am really happy about it," says Julie Although Curley is only a few blocks By Ana M. Rodriguez Miami merged to become Curley- Roig, a senior from Notre Dame. away, at N.E. 2nd Ave. and 50th Street, Voice Staff Writer Notre Dame. Now students, teachers The move had been in the works for Fr. McGrath says that perhaps the fact and administrators alike say the same a year, whe'n the Sisters of the Im- that boys are present diminishes some When the brother-sister schools thing: Categorically, yes. maculate Heart of Mary who staffed of the parents' fears. Also, Curley is finally moved in together, some ad- "THIS HAS BEEN probably one of the Notre-Dame decided that decreasing fenced in, while Notre Dame wasn't. ministrators and faculty members biggest things that has happened enrollments would force the school to feared trouble: The two schools, founded at the here," says Fr. Gerald McGrath, prin- close. (Voice, May 29,1981). same time in 1953, had always been • Would the Curley boys make the cipal. It's "something that should have THE ALL-GIRLS => .hool had 314 close, swapping some classes on oc- Notre Dame girls feel at home? happened a long time ago." , students, not enough to get by on, and casion. At one time, the Notre Dame • Would the Notre-Dame girls get "I think it's turned out super," says prospects for increased enrollment girls were the cheerleaders for the used to the antics of the Curley boys? Linda Miller, who taught at Notre Dame seemed dim as many parents feared Curley football and basketball players. • Would all of them get used to the last year and now teaches home letting their daughters into the neigh- But in 1972 Curfey began to admit school's bigger size? economics to both boys and girls at borhood, at N.E. 1st Avenue and 62 The answers came this September, Curley-Notre Dame. Street. continued on p. 10 Fight pollution, Quebec bishops ask MONTREAL (NC) - The Social Affairs Committee of the Quebec Assembly of Bishops has challenged Christians in the province to take individual and collective action to stem the tide of pollution. In a statement published in French, entitled "Les Chretiens et ('Environ- ment" (Christians and the Environment), the bishops said everyone shares in the responsibility "of leaving to those who follow us a world in which it will still be possible to live and to live in harmony with others and with nature." The committee suggested that citizens participate in programs for BELFAST INTEGRATION — Headmistress Mrs. Sheila enrolled both Protestant and Catholic pupils. It is one recycling paper, glass and metal, and Greenfields walks with six students on the opening of the few schools, if not the only one in Northern that they organize car pools or use day of classes at Lagan College in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where children of both faiths attend class public transportation to cut air pollution caused by engine exhaust. Ireland. The privately-run secondary school has together. (NC Photo from Wide World). Book group told: expel Jack Chick MILWAUKEE (NC) - The Catholic • Its own good name from being because "those in the religious • The Catholic Church is trying to League for Religious and Civil Rights damaged by association with an publishing industry have lacked the destroy Protestant Christianity through has urged the Christian Booksellers organization whose tactics and objec- common decency and Christian blackmail, murder and other criminal Association (CBA) "to expel anti- tives are un-Christian. charity to take a stand against Chick's activities. ' Catholic publisher Jack Chick from the • Its members from being linked with • campaign of defamation." • The Catholic Church is at the cen- association." an organization whose publications • The American public, which has a ter of a Masoniq-communist con- In a letter to John T. Bass, CBA are "a _scandal to the religious right not to be subjected to religious spiracyto destroy Christianity, and publishingjndustry." bigotry. executive vice president, the League • The Jesuits fomented the Civil War expressed dismay at the association's • Retailers of religious literature from in the United States and the failure to repudiate the activities of being deceived into thinking that Schwartz said Chick has alleged, assassination of President Abraham Chick and his associate, Alberto Chick is a reputable Christian among other things, that: Lincoln. _ Rivera. publisher. • The Vatican keeps the names of all In the letter, Michael Schwartz, direc- • PATRONS of Christian Protestants in a giant computer, with These allegations, "are vile, contempt- tor of public affairs for the Milwaukee- bookstores, who have been the intention of massacring them. ible lies," Schwart said. "They are the based League, said the CBA should seduced into an attitude of suspicion • Jesuits take an oath to kill on seeds of fear, hatred and sectarian; expel Chick to protect: and hostility toward Catholics command.