Idaho State Journal from Pocatello, Idaho • Page 41

POCATELI.O, IDAHO, SUNDAY; OCTOBER 12, 1'JGU Idoho Stnte Journal Section Page 5 Today Faiths--In Tribute 4 rOlM IMIT OF SERViCF Nuns, Authority Clash Asboe Is Still Loving People After 55 Years of Service By GEORGE W. CORNELL AP Ueligion Writer NEW YOliK (AP) The parish pastor insisted a the mms wear religions habits while teaching. They refuseil, insisting tlioy were free to wear regular contemporary clothing. Tlie upshot: No classes for the time A large percentage o( modern ministers lack real dedication, according to Kev. A.

E. Asboe, who is possibly the "grandfather" of local ministers. A minister for 55 years now, Rev. Asboe served as rector' of Trinity Episcopal Church in Pocatello for 15 years and rt-tlred in 1958. He still as-1 sists Fattier James P.

Trotter! at the parish and remains active in other areas of community service. "Ministers ol today are trying to feed the entire flock" says Father Asboe. "But the people are hungry for some real spiritual guidance and they're not being fed." "You have to preach the 'social gospel' that everyone should be concerned with the plight of his brothers but you also have to remind people that they are responsible for their own personal living in the Spirit of Christ." Community involvement is. necessary for the ministry to-: day, "but I think some go overboard," he said. A minister should love his own people and endeavor to love all others, said Asboe, but today one must go beyond his own particular church or board.

One of the current trends is accepting other Christians at air- tars besides the ones they baptized at, he said. "The new ministers want to convert the world; they're full of enthusiasm and energy. I like them, but they question the fact of the Supernatural, or said Father Asboe. "We cannot bypass the fact of the Supernatural," he emphasized. "Scientists and even doctors today have forgotten about the elemeny of God.

But the heart, liver and kidney transplants and other miracles science performs are possible only because of the HolySpirit." it." Rev. Asboe said that materi-- alism today is responsible to quite an extent for the problems, of the world. "We forget that we would be nowhere without God." At 80 years of age, Father REVEREND A. E. ASBOE Helps Others Find Happiness, God, Asboe considers some of liis views on religion old-fashioned.

Yet the ideas he expresses seems to echo yovmg people of today when they say they are looking for meaning in their lives. "There is no meaning in life without God," said liev. Asboe. "Young people have lost the purpose and meaning of life which is God. But they won't find meaning in rock festivals, drugs and narcotics," he emphasized.

"They're looking for something to guide their lives by and tliis is where I feel the churches have fallen down. They haven't given the young people a religious challenge." Challenging people to accept the Spirit of God, serving those people and loving them is part of being a minister. And Rev. Asboe has spent his life doing just that. He lias served in Laborador, the Virgin Islands, Nebraska, American Falls and Pocatello.

Besides assisting Father Trotter, Rev. Asboe is on the board ot the Bannock County Community Center, which has been recently renamed. He remains active in the AARF, an association of retired persons, and is past president. He still sails boats, although he calls himself a "fair weather sailor." And he has his woodworking and he and Mrs. Asboe make rugs.

And he walks in the spirit of God, deriving, happiness by making others happy. "There is and can be a real sense of joy in living when a certain dedication to something bigger and better, finer and higher, more enduring and worthier, lias been attained through selflesness," Rev. Asboe once said. "People, ideas and causes. They offer the one possible escape, not merely from ness but from hungers of solitude and sorrows of aimlessness." A four-way survey of fatal traffic accidents has shown the leading cause of deaths was occupants-being ejected from the vehicle.

Beingthrownagainstthe steering column or dash ranked high as a cause of death. Experts concluded that 40 per cent of the dead would have lived had they worn seat belts, an additional 13 per cent had they worn seat and shoulder belts. That clash of positions, which occurred at St. Mary's church in South Dartmouth, last wook, reflects in miniature an aura of tension developing between Roman Catholic author- ites and some sisterhoods. At issue was the extent of freedom to be allowed Hie communities of women in initiating new styles and mot hods of carrying out their work.

The leeway seemed to vary from place to place, depending on the local bishop's attitude, It may be that nuns will "have to work differently in one diocese than from the way they will work in another diocese," says the Rev. Edward L. lies- ton, an American priest who now holds a Vatican post dealing with religious orders. "They'll have a freer hand in one place than they'll have in another place," he told the recent animal meeting in St: Louis of the Conference of Major Superiors of Women's Religious Institutes. "That's the human element that we can't do anything about.

We have to take people as they are and that includes ordinaries (bishops), too," Fattier Ileston added. In the South Dartmouth case, the pastor, the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Arthur G.

Considine, had the backing of Bishop James L. Connolly, of the Fall River, diocese, in insisting the nuns wear habits, a chancery office spokesman said. The three nuns involved are members of the Sisters of Mor-. cy, one of the largest orders of teachers and nurses in ttie American Church, with about 13,000 of them in two branches. It and many ot the more than 500 other Catholic communities of women recently have been modifying regulations to permit wider options in dress and modes of life.

The process has brought scattered incidents of conflict. A showdown now appears in the offing over one of the most prolonged and dramatic collisions, involving the Immaculate Hear! of Mary Sisters. They've been ordered by the Vatican to cease experiments ami adopt uniform rules. However, they have sent a letter replying that their innovations still are in a testing stace, that Ihoy probably cannot be properly evaluated until 1975, and "in the meantime, we will continue with no change of direction." The order's new provisions allow its members wide flexibility in devotional life, work and apparel. Aid Gets Through But Plane Lost War activity was not responsible for the recent crash and destruction of a JointChurch Aid U.S.A.

operated plane near Uli, Biafra. Four Americans and one Englishmen died. This was tiie word received here by Jan S. F. van Hoogstraten, director of the Africa program of Church World Service.

"It has been established that the crash was rather the result of a combination of unfortunate circumstances, said van Hoogstraten. He added that the on-site investigation of the Sept. 20 disaster was continuing. Captain Alex Nlcholl, Southampton, England, who had flown for some time for Joint Church Aid, was checking out Captain John Wilson, from California. Wilson had just arrived at Sao Tome, the off-shore island from which tile relief flights of food for famished Biafran civilians originate.

Despite the accident, there were 12 successful landings of Joint Church Aid relief supplies at Uli Airport the night ot the crash, according to information received. A total of 134 tons of JCA food was brought in that night. During tlie month of September, Joint Church Aid made about 400 flights and delivered a monthly record of 5,136 tons of relief supplies. JCA international in which JCAUSA takes active role, is a consortium of religious -affiliated agencies seeking to alleviate starvation in Biafra. IDS BOOKS HALLMARK CARDS GENEALOGICAL SUPPLIES OFFICE SUPPLIES CARTER'S PIUIMTING BOOKSTOKE 342 Yellowstone Pocatello, Waho 233-3406 Christmas Cards--Imprinted Free--Oct.

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