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20, 1972 THE CATHOLIC ADVANCE PAGE THREE Povoly monastery sets August retreat for Sisters Environment conference has important results In human vAinflrme aMMn- A special retreat for Sisters has been scheduled for the week of Aug. 13-18, at the Family Life Center, Pev-ely. Mo. The retreat master for this special retreat will be Father Edwin Cole, O.S.B., who recently transferred his monastic vows from Conception Abbey to the newly created Abbey of St Pius in Pevely. Upon his arrival at Pevely, Father Edwin was appointed director of the monastic choir.

He has also been appointed to the staff of the Family Life Center Counseling Services. Father Edwin holds a degree TP start officially Jan. 1, 1973, and will promote international cooperation in the environment field. The location of the headquarters ofthe new agency was not yet decided nor was the site of the next environment conference. In addition to the environment fund, a special fund was established to strengthen special housing projects within national development programs.

A number of other recommendations were also made by the conference, including 1 1 i n-monitoring stations, an international a-greement on the oceans and a family-planning program. This latter program was opposed by the Vatican delegation and those of 11 countries. Those were some of the STOCKHOLM, Sweden CNC) The results of the first United Nations conference on the environment can be seen on two levels. One is the concrete and visible, and the other is psychological. Both are of great importance.

The concrete results include a new UN agency to develop environmental programs and funds designed to help finance environmental initiatives within the UN system. Father Henri de Riedmat-ten, head of the Vatican delegation, said that the conference indicated a "firm effort of governments and people of goodwill to establish at least a basic outline, a useful instrument of ideas" concerning the human environment. The work of the new UN environment agency will 6 IQf J2i New Arthritis Cenfer at St. Joseph Hospital receives research grant CONVERT CLASS AT MAGDALEN PARISH pauses In the Blessed Sacrament Chapel of the Church of the Magdalen, Wichita, following a Mass of Reception Into the Church on Monday, June 26. During the Mass Baptism was administered, Professions of Faith ware made, and Holy Communion was first received.

The class members Include: first row (I. to Michael Kirk Jones, II; Katharine Wallace; James Wallace Dorothy Wallace; William Dell Temanson; Deborah Ann Temanson; second row, Michael K. Jones, Mrs. Michael Jones holding Brian Patrick Jones; Larry Setzkorn; Bonnie West man; Father Albnzo Smlthhlsler, who Instructed the class and offered the Mass of Reception; Mrs. Richard (Dabra) Price; Richard Price; Marie Pool; Thomas Kerplcs; Mrs.

Gary (Sharon) Temanson; Gary E. Temanson, I holding Gary Eugene Temanson, II. General absolution privilege extended to mission areas -J TWtm WICHITA The E.S. Edge rton Medical Research Foundation has been awarded a research grant of $2,000 by the Kansas Chapter, Arthritis Foundation. The grant will finance a pilot project to aid in the development of self-administering questionnaires for patients served by (he new Arthritis Center at St Joseph Hospital and Rehabilitation Center.

Frank L. Kelly, Ph.D President of the Kansas Chapter, announced the grant jointly with the hospital today. The project director, Dr. Frederick Wolfe, who is in charge of the Arthritis Center and is the hospital's internal medicine teaching program director, explains mat the project entails the development of a simple self-administering history. Upon completion of the questionnaire by the arthritic patient in the doctor's office, the information is typed on an automatic typewriter, utilizing precoded symbols which select and type the proper diagnosis.

Dr. Wolfe said the purpose of, the questionnaire is to give the physician more But apparently, in some places, penitents or priests were omitting the individual confessions. It is also possible that some penitents mistakenly thought the general absolution at the conclusion of the penitential service replaced individual confession. Salesian Father Vincenzo Miano, a consultor to the Doctrinal Congregation, in introducing the new norms to the press, specified that the penitential service is not under fire, only the abuses that have crept in. "The celebration of the penitential service is highly recommended," Father Miano said.

"Since penitents feel they have not only offended God by their sins but the Church and the community, it is praiseworthy for them to acknowledge their guilt as a group. "However, this liturgical action must never be confused with sacramental absolution." The permission for missionary priests to grant general forgiveness of sins, Father Miano stressed, was to allow the faithful the grace of the sacraments when, through no fault of theirs, ordinary confession is munications. "This special retresV said Father Abbot Martian, superior of the monastic community, "will provide those Sisters and religious Mmm whn tuive botan onliMT to summer school or who rat are looking for a time and opportunity for a spiritual renewal before the Mir year of school begins, an opportunity to get away and rest with the Lord." For further information write Retreat Office, St Pius Abbey, Pevely, Mo. 63070 or call 314-296-7470. information in greater detail than he ordinarily has time to obtain.

The questions will be specifically related to arthritis in its many forma. "Since the medical history alone often allows the physician to make the correct diagnosis, we hope that this kind of detailed history will point the way to the correct diagnosis and treatment in arthritis. We are aiming at rapid but cornet diagnosis." "In a day when so much of medicine is impersonal and laboratory oriented, computers and automation allow the physician the extra time to spend with the patient giving more personal care," Dr. Wolfe added. The pilot project begins this month.

Freshest Flowers in Town "Scent with Love" FROM CULP-KELLY florists 262-3471 154 N. MARKET' WICHITA FROOTENAC, KANSAS F.D.I.C. gates and observers, however, said they believe that the Stockholm meeting would have had great significance even if these decisions had not been made because the conference was a forum for discussion and confrontation on a very complex and difficult topic. The conference also attracted a great deal of unofficial participation, some of it serious and of high purpose but some of it more dubious, such as hippies, nudists and anarchists. The more aggressive of this latter group no doubt had planned to attack the conference with more than mere words, but the conference's secretary general, Maurice F.

Strong of Canada, took the bull by the hornsinviting leaders of the opposition groups to a dialogue and to seats in the conference. He was able to turn most of this opposition into loyal cooperation. Christian groups made many contributions to the conference. Among them were the message of the Pope and the active participation of the Vatican delegation, on the official side, and the efforts of a number of Christian nongovernmental organizations (NGO'S), including the International Conference of Catholic Charities, the International Federation of Catholic Businessmen, the International Movement of Catholic Students, the World Union of Catholic Women's Organizations, the Christian Democratic World Union, the World Council of Churches, the Lutheran World Federation, the International Association for Religious Freedom, and the Young Women's Christian Association. In addition, Jewish, Moslem, Hindu and 243 other international organizations contributed to the success of the conference.

Three women played important roles at the conference: Barbara Ward, a British Catholic economist referred to as "Lady Uni- verse" at the meeting, who helped prepare a lengthy study of the earth's resources; anthropologist Margaret Mead, an Anglican, a principal speaker at a pre-con-ference International symposium on society, stress and disease and an active NGO observer; and Prime Minister Indira Gandhi called the "Empress of India" by some of the press whose plea on behalf of the developing countries was received with the most vigorous applause at the conference. Some Catholic and Lutheran participants said they regretted that greater efforts had not been made to gather Christian delegates, observers and other participants for some special meeting during the conference such as Latin American and Common Market nations had done. Nevertheless, Father De Riedmaten told newsmen June 12 that the conference "has fulfilled its mission." Penitents must not wait for an occasion for general absolution if they have an earlier opportunity to confess individually. Without specifying any particular country, the Doctrinal Congregation said that "numbers of bishops" were disturbed by "erroneous theories" and "the growing tendency and practice, certainly an abuse, of granting general absolution to people who have only made a general confession" as a group. Stating that individual confession is still mandatory under normal circumstances, the congregation said: "This implies a condemnation of the practice which recently has appeared here and there which pretends to satisfy the precept of confessing mortal sins to gain absolution by a more general confession, or through what is called a community celebration of Penance." Penitential services, popular in some places in the United States and Western Europe, usually involve the customary individual confession and absolution, followed by a concluding general absolution.

VATICAN CITY (NO -The Vatican has extended primarily to priests in missionary lands a wartime privilege of forgiving sins of a large group of people when it would be impossible to hear individual confessions. This privilege of giving what is known as general absolution is an extension of a permission granted to. priests by Pope Pius XII in 1944 empowering them to forgive groups of soldiers going into battle or groups of civilians in danger of being killed. The new norms, issued by the Doctrinal Congregation and presented at a news conference July 13, make clear that the "ordinary way" penitents are forgiven their sins Is still by confessing them to a priest and receiving absolution from him. The congregation said that individual confession is still mandatory under normal circumstances and condemned the practice of forgiving mortal sins without hearing individual confessions.

The new norms continue the conditions laid down by Pope Pius XII before general absolution is to be granted: Circumstances do not allow for individual confessions. Penitents are contrite and agree to confess any serious sins at their next private confession. SMITH FUNERAL HOME PHONE 231-4700 B.ff. Bath T.W. Bath Pittsburg PRIEST 'SECOND' TO FISCHER IN CHESS PLAYOFF Father William Lombardy, an International cheat grandmaster In hit own World' most chess match being held at Reykjavik, Iceland.

A longtime friend of American chess whiz Bobby Fischer, the 34-year-old New York archdlocesan priest and Bronx high school teacher Is serving as second, adviser and game analyst to the American chess champion In his match with Boris Spassky of Russia, the current world champion. Like Fischer, Father Lombardy was at an early age a budding chess prodigy the New York State champion at 16 and world junior chess champion at 19 but he later decided to enter the priesthood. A teacher of English and religion at Cardinal Hayes High School In the Bronx, Father Lombardy still participates In chess tournaments and is the author of a book on the game. (RNS photo) Current Church problems compared with 1872 concrete results. Manydele- i i ff -t it.

that science will answer man's every problem; and now, the state augmented in its powers beyond anything dreamt of a century ago and an increasingly rigid separation of religion from public affairs," he said. Ball, who has argued school aid cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, cited a 1971 Supreme Court decision invalidating state aid to nonpublic schools. The Court cited "the divisive political potential of these state programs," and said "political division along religious lines was one of the principal evils against which the First A-mendment was intended to protect" The Court singled out according to Ball, religious questions as ones "a-bout which there must be no public dispute." Such an attitude, he said, "actually strikes as you can plainly see at the exercise of the political rights of speech, petition and voting," including campaigns of religious groups with rcecct to Sunday laws, prohibition, welfare rights, racial discrimination, conscientious objection, prayer in public schools and abortion. Your Friendly Bank MOR REAL ESTATE James Row, Broker We can arrange all types of loans for your convenience "Let MOR do more for you" 1003 S.

BROADWAY 231-3880 231-7140 PITTSBURG MEMBER PHILADELPHIA (NC) -The problems facing the Church today are strikingly similar to those of 100 years ago, a constitutional lawyer told graduates of St. Charles Seminary, Overbrook. "I think that today it is very useful to reflect on those times of a century back," William B. Ball said. "We find the Church as a whole (according to the most reliable reports) in its death throes; we find the new secular faith triumphant in Europe, with science sure to answer man's every problem; we find the state e-merging as the wise parent of all men, omnipotent, omnicompetent, and freed at last from the moral impositions of religion." Ball noted that in the 19th century "the Pennsylvania Constitution was rewritten to bar sectarian schools from state support.

'Sectarian was translated 'Roman Catholic' in the parlance of the day." "I trvst that you see the parallel with 1872: once a-gain, the cry that the Church is falling apart once again, secularism largely trium phant with a revived belief Our only Business is Satisfying our Customers Banking Needs Now we want to be Your Bank. New Service for Kansas Catholic Schools DIAL 1-800-362-0573 TOLL FREE Bow lus School Supply Co. HAS EVERYTHING FOR SCHOOLS A FEW ITEMS: SPORTING AND ATHLETIC GOODS VISUAL EDUCATIONAL AIDS SCIENCE LABORATORY EQUIPMENT DESKS AND SCHOOL FURNISHINGS SCHOOL SUPPLIES JANITORS' SUPPLIES MAI ORDERS FILLED PROMPTLY WRITE FOR CATALOG The Largest Stock of School Supplies in Kansas 201 E. 5th 231-3450 Pittsburg, Kansas 66762 PITTSBURG, KANSAS 66762 City National Bank of Pittsburg WILBERT-WEEKS REALTY INSURANCE REAL ESTATE CITY -FARM -COMMERCIAL APPRAISALS PHONE 231-1060 111 E.4th MEMBER F.D.I.C. PITTSBURG, KANS..