K-* (/ ^ 7- IHE ^ - DENL^ER V-T T 011HCXIC WEDNESDAY, JUNEREGISTER 25, 19/5 VOL. L. NO. 49 z 28 PAGES 75 Y ears of Printing Catholic News is c e n t s per COPY oo -< r" < Right To Life Convention t> rr •—I r‘ t> ►- m 'a -H a Sen. Kenned rr Draws Heavy Criticism By Register Reporter country know that we expect to The newly-elected president of reach that 300th birthday and we the National Right to Life will not take the suicidial route of Committee warned Senator getting rid of our new citizens who Edward Kennedy (D.. Mass.) that will insure that we reach that “some Catholics are not standing birthday.” in your corner anymore" should She said that the national pro­ he decide to compete for the 1976 abortion movement plays upon the Democratic presidential nomi­ nation. emotions of families “who cannot Dr. Mildred Jefferson. M.D., in face the community with a her strongly-worded closing pregnant, unwed teenager," of speech to the National Right to young men “who 'cannot or will Life Convention held June 20-22 in not face the responsibilities of Denver, said. “Unless you (Sen. fatherhood," of society “grown Kennedy) can improve your morj 1 too weary, too tired to care,” and courage you can never bo of women “who do not know about president of the United States." their body, and who do not Sen. Kennedy has come under fire from pro-life groups for his efforts to kill the Bartlett Convention Amendment which would nave blocked the Department of Health, Education and Welfare Facts from utilizing its funds for • In attendance representing abortions. Archbishop James V. Caesy The new president added, was Monsignor W illiam “Senator Kennedy, you think you Jones. Also present were the have the Catholic vote sewed up. Rev. Donald Dunn director of But there are some Catholics who Catholic community services, are not standing in your corner the Rev. Thomas Woerth anymore.” Her comments on archdiocesan director of fami­ Senator Kennedy drew strong ly life services and ap­ positive applause from the crowd proximately 100 delegates of more than 840 delegates from from the archdiocese. all parts of the nation. •There are 3,000 pro-life Dr. Jefferson urged the Photo by Mark Kiryluk groups in the U.S., over 800 Gerald and Mother participants to “help the whole delegates, U.S. and three foreign countries, attended the three-day NRLC conven­ tion in Denver. Little Gerald Starts New Tradition •The National Right to Life Committee is non-sectarian By A1 Pocius your uncle. Dr. Tran Viet Cuong, help, had been rounded up to make three, the latest less than a month but represents many religious Register Staff Writer had arrived in this country just a the home habitable. Now, with old, sister-in-law Tran Thi Minh is denominations and all walks Born May 26, 1975, little Gerald, short 30 or so days prior to your everything in readiness after thinking seriously of applying her of life. his proud family feels, may some birth; weeks of anxious waiting, the secretarial skills to help the •Colorado Springs Youth for day grow up to be president of . .your full name is Tran Viet plane was late. family finances. Life sponsored an exhibit these United States — much like Gerald Minh. Possibly, just possibly, he may Undoubtedly grandfather Tran booth. his namesake who presently Probaby the first American- have thought, there’s been a hitch. Phuong Soc and his wife, Nguyen •Among the booths were occupies the White House. born child of a Vietnamese Maybe they’re still stuck in Fort Thi Dao, will act as baby sitters those sponsored by the It’s not really too unusual an refugee family to be relocated Chaffee with his other brother and while the family gets into a work Archdiocesan Council of ambition for parents to have for from the resettlement camp near sister-in-law and their four routine and becomes acclimated Catholic Women, The (o its new-found country. I" one of their youngsters — Fort Chaffee to the Denver children. At least, however, Colprado Right to Life and the especially for one born in metropolitan area, little Gerald they’re not like the other 25 But getting readjusted seemed Colorado Springs Youth for Arkansas down Fort Chaffee way. was rather blase about all of the members of the family who to be coming easily. Life, and the Knights of Really not too unusual unless; hurry and scurry of being met at couldn’t get out of Vietnam. Little Tran Tuong Lan, I'/z, was Columbus. your grandparents, your Stapleton International at 9 a.m. All fears, doubts and worries already glued to the front of a parents, your brothers and your when his Frontier Flight No. 7 evaporated when the plane did blaring television set. V. uncle all were born in Vietnam: landed about ten minutes late. land and the family disembarked. Mother was nestling Gerald and understand that the body (the . your relatives, excepting Not so his family’s sponsor, his The Tran family had no problem anticipating the layette that the fetus) they wish to destroy is not own uncle Dr. Tran, currently in a moving into their new home. (In DCCS was going to present later their own.” training program at Colorado Vietnam, the family name is in the day. And older brother Tran Minh .She criticized recent federal and General Hospital. placed first rather than last as state court decisions which deny Religious Aid Dr. Tran had located a three- done here.) Nhat, 3, wondered how he could get the two sticks of gum held in the requirement for parental bedroom brick home with the help Brother Tran Viet Hung hopes consent if their minor child wishes Targets Viets of the Denver Catholic he can carry on his work as a his hand to fit with the other three sticks already being busily to have an abortion, and which Community Services (DCCS). pharmacist in this country. deny the right of the father to stop WASHINGTON (NC) — Despite being the mother of chewed in his mouth. Hundreds of Vietnamese Some furniture, again, with DCCS his child’s mother from having an priests. Religious, and abortion. seminarians will continue to The courts. Dr. Jefferson said, serve the refugees even have created three new classes of after the resettlement citizens in the United States: camps are empty under a Dictatorship Threat Seen “super-citizens,” the woman and new program developed by her physician who have the sole the US. Catholic Confer­ decision on abortion; “second- ence (USCC). Facing Italian People class citizens,” the father who has Bishop Robert E. Tracy, no legal rights concerning the retired bishop of Baton unborn child; and “ non-citizens,” By John Muthig The writer rejected the claim that the Italian the fetus or unborn child. Rouge, La., chairman of VATICAN CITY (NC) — In the first Vatican Communist party would not impose totalitarian rule USCC Ad-Hoc Committee on media comment since regional Italian elections if it came to power. Dr. Jefferson pledged strong Migration and Tourism, will showed large communist gains, the Vatican weekly “Contemporary history teaches that in the political and juridicial action by coordinate the new program magazine warned that communist control of a communist perspective all roads end in the same the National Right to Life that is designed to assist in nation has historically always led to dictatorship place: a dictatorship called ‘proletarian’ but really Committee on behalf of families, the relocation of the Viet­ The comment in L’Osservatore della Domenica of imposed on the proletariate and on all.” fathers and women “ to protect namese religious communi­ June 19, signed by “Lector,” (which is Latin for He added: “It is certain that the party of relative their rights” She added, “ We will ty to areas in this country “reader” ) further maintained that the communist majority (Christian Democrats) could not and go to the people to strengthen the where the greatest number success in regional elections was due above all to “a cannot give up control without compromising the Right to Life organizations as they of refugees have clustered. climate of irrational leftism cultivated for years by democratic system, that is, the liberty of all.” exist in every state of the Union.” the major press” (Contimi^d on Page 2) Pag* 2 — THE DENVER CATHOLIC REGISTER, Juna 25, 1975 In Portugal ON A d m ira l Leftist Mobs Attack Catholics REFRIGERATOR LISBON, Portugal (NC) here against the occupation some 500 men, women and were treated for minor in­ — Hundreds of leftists arm­ by Marxist workers of Radio children inside archdiocesan juries. /FREEZERS ed with sticks and metal Renascenza, a station owned headquarters, where Car­ As Catholics were driven bars attacked a crowd of by the Portuguese bishops. dinal Antonio Riberio off in open arm trucks, surg­ Catholics demonstrating The leftist mob trapped resides. He is ihe patriarch ing groups of leftists pelted of Lisbon. them with rubbish and A dm iral WJE Troops moved in next mor­ shouted instuls. Among the ning to help evacuate the evacuees, mostly women, no'dafrosting Official Appointments Catholics after they had were nuns and children. r«frio«^ator/fr»«zer been trapped inside 17 hours, Cardinal Riberio and • Naw Enargy-Savar da- Reverend John J. McGinn, Administrator pro tem, and to open the way among about 50 other captives — in­ aign cuts power usage by the hostile crowd for am­ cluding some priests — eliminating "anii-sweat" St Therese Church, Aurora. heating elements. Reverend Daniel F. Balzereit, S.V.D., Associate bulances to reach the refused to leave unless they • Adjustable refrigerator building and take away the were provided with covered s h e lv e s - nrtove up or down Pastor of St.