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Friday, February 9, 1979 Santa Cruz Sentinel 23 Pope Endorses Social Activism (. Connie Haines: Now She's A Minister When Connie Haines became a minister in the Unity Church, she thought she would give up singing and become a minister "somewhere in the "But it has turned out that I am singing more than ever," she said in a recent interview. "I have become a sort of singing missionary for the church." As a teenager, Connie sang with the big bands Tommy Dorsey's and Harry James' among them but has always felt a religious dimension to her life. "I had an out-of-the-body experience when I was 9 years old." Connie said. "The doctor expected me to die and said if I lived I would be an invalid.

I was enveloped with beauty and love and heard Jesus say I would be well and follow him. 1 expected to go to China and be a missionary." Connie did not go to China, but she did do a lot of traveling with the bands as a young singer. "One of my missions is to change the image of entertainers. When they are working so hard at perfecting a talent, you know they aren't out carousing." Connie finally realized her ambition to study for service in the church after the age of 50. She went to Unity Village in Lee's Summit.

rather than to a Southern Baptist school, the heritage in which she was raised. "I see Unity as a bridge between fundamentalism and new thought. We are teaching practical Christianity. We are teaching the philosophy of Christ, what it is He taught. The Religious Science church is more intellectual and covers a wider range of philosophical teaching, but we stay more with Christ's teachings." Her missionary programs include slides of her life and her personal testimony as well as her music.

She will travel thousands of miles this year visiting Unity and Religious Science churches and even a few Baptist and Episcopalian churches. Each of her programs is done to benefit the congregation she visits. "In many ways I would prefer a small congregation of my own. I love leading Bible study and it would be nice to really get to know a group of people and grow with them." Connie said her satisfaction in the present hectic schedule comes through the people who have told her they are going into the ministry because of her testimony. "If you can change your life at 50, so can they will tell me.

At least eight people have told me that. They will reach thousands of people." She said Unity teaches that God's love dwells in each 4 i The "center of the he said, is an "inspiration to action." Nevertheless, Jadoff says, some "quite wrong" impressions have arisen that the pope advised priests they "had no business becoming concerned about politics or involved outside their rectories." when the opposite was the case. Jadoff said the pope emphasized that priests, in representing the Gospel, must base their motivations in it. but he counselled "action in society and pressures on governments" to implement Gospel principles. "That's part of their job, and the pope underscored it," Jadoff says, but put it in a Gospel framework.

That is, the pope said the church must not bind its efforts to any secular ideology, such as Marxist atheistic humanism that reduces man to a "mere portion of nature" and denies his "true human dignity" bearing a divine stamp. Some South American theologians have maintained there is a Scriptural basis for some aspects of Marxism and favored cooperating with it to that extent. The pope said the church must "stay free" of any political system and "opt only for man." He said "her message of liberati9n would no longer have any originality and would be open to monopolization and manipulation by ideological' systems and political parties" if tied to their lesser estimates of humanity. The pope's Latin American speeches, 25 of them in all, sometimes were couched in the so-called "Roman style" of scrutinizing a subject from various angles, and some points doubtlessly were generalized in public for diplomatic reasons. The Rev.

David Tracy, University of Chicago theologian, says the pope was giving "general theological guidance, stating Christianity's continued struggle for justice must be real and that the church's commitment to traditional spiritual values must also be real." As to the cause of misinterpretations, church experts suggested it stemmed partly from lack of familiarity with theological rationale for social action, and from the modern secular tendency to assume concern for "spiritual" values indicates disregard for conditions in society. "It's a bias of the age," O'Brien says, who points out the two reinforce each other. He says the pope suppported "liberation theology" unshackled to "liberation politics" either of atheist Marxism or "the runaway capitalism espoused by the rich landowners." He says the pope emphasized "the church has its own message" and "it is more deeply rooted in defending human dignity and needs than any political lines" and not to be blunted or deflected by them. "But he left plenty of room for active By GEORGE W. CORNEL AP Religion Writer NEW YORK (AP) Contrary to some impressions that Pope John Paul li stance in Latin America put a damper on church social activism there, Roman Catholic scholars say he actually put firmer substance behind it.

"He grounded Christian action in its source, in the full message of the Gospel and its emphasis on the divine value and dignity of man," says the Rev. Edwin O'Brien, a New York Catholic theologian. "He laid out a more lasting, powerful motivation for action to bring justice than there is in any political movement or alliance. That was the central refrain and thrust of his speeches." However, from fragmentary phrases, his position has been badly misconstrued in this country, says the church's New York Archdiocese, so much so that it took the unusual step this week of issuing clarifying documents about it. "Some strange interpretations have been placed on his words, especially an extraordinary misperception that he was telling Catholic bishops, priests and laity not to participate in political, social and economic reform movements," the archdiocese said.

It said the pope "underlined the necessity of basing reforms on the truths Christ taught," but "far from retreating from social activism his words are a corrective to strengthen social action among Catholics." To document its case, the archdiocese issued the full text of the pope's key address to the Latin American bishops' conference in Puebla, Mexico, which is to conclude next Tuesday after charting church guidlines for that continent in the decade ahead. The conference is a sequel to another held 10 years ago at Medellin, Columbia, in 1968, signalling a shift of South American Catholicism from ties to the the wealthy oligarchies to siding with the impoverished masses. The pope called for "continuing in that direction," says the Rev. Kenneth Jadoff of the New York Archdiocesan communications office. He said the pope traced "clear parameters for it," but didn't put any brakes on it.

The pope's main, address to the bishops is laced with strictures against oppressive systems, suppression of freedom and human rights and the growing disparity between rich and poor, but it stresses that the church efforts for justice must be based on Christian premises. The church recognizes "that her evangelizing mission has as an essential part action for justice," he said. "She does not need to have recourse to ideological systems in order to love, defend and collaborate in the liberation of man." Connie Haines person and that this God-center is the source for power, guidance and direction. "When we know that we house God within us, it is easier to behold the Christ in others, even if they appear to be giving us a great deal of trouble. We are not judging or looking at the outer person.

"In my relgious journey through life, I feel I've gone from God-fearing to God-loving. Too many people are so worried about sin, there is no room for love." Conservative Judaism Takes First Step to Ordain Women as Rabbis Rise of Religious Cults Indicates Spiritual Void NEW YORK (AP) Conservative Judaism, the "middle road" among three branches of the faith, has taken a major first step toward admitting women to ordination as rabbis. The change was recommended by a commission of scholars, including experts in theology, law, sociology, history and biblical standards, after two years of study and hearings. Women should be admitted to studies for ordination "on a basis equal to that main-tamined heretofore for males" and when qualified, "ordained as rabbis," the commission said. Reviewing mandates of Jewish law, the halakah, the commission said there is "no direct halakhic objection" to such ordinations.

The findings were presented in Los Angeles by commission in 1970. ordaining the first woman in 1972. Presently there are seven women among about 1.000 Reform rabbis, ordained by Reform institutions in Cincinnati, Los Angeles and New York. An additional four women have been ordained rabbis by a special school, the Reconstruction Rabbinical College in Philadelphia. However, the third major branch of Judaism, the most ex-acting' and liter-alistic of all in applying biblical and traditional law, strongly rejects ordination of women.

Conservative Judaism, in between Orthodoxy and Reform branches in its approach, maintains that Jewish law is flexible, evolving in keeping with historical developments. However, the Conservative branch upholds Jewish dietary and Sabbah restrictions. These arc not prescribed in Reform Judaism, which emphasizes the ethical content of faith. Of the 14 members on the Conservative study commission, 11 supported its conclusions that women should be admitted to ordination, while a minority of three dissented. value of any governmental investigations of them.

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS No. 79,633 Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Santa Cruz. Estate of THELMA M. GREGORY, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to the creditors of the above named decedent that all persons having claims against the said decedent are required to file them, with the vouchers, in the office of the clerk of the above entitled court, or to present them, with the necessary vouchers, to the undersigned at the law office of Harry C.

Lucas, 109 Cooper P. 0. Box 1499, Santa Cruz, CA 95061, which is the place of business of the undersigned in all matters pertaining to the estate of said decedent, within four months after the first publication of this notice. DATED: Feb. 6, 1979 COUNTY BANK OF SANTA CRUZ Executor of the Estate of the above named decedent HARRY LUCAS, JR.

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LYONS 2625 Old San Jose Road Soquel, Ca. 95073 Business is operated by an individual. Signed: RONALD I. LYONS ROSEMARY J. LYONS THIS STATEMENT was filed with RICHARD C.

NEAL, County Clerk of Santa Cruz County on January 22, 1979. By: SANDRA PARKER, Deputy Statement Expires 5 years from Dec. 31 of year in which filed and must be Renewed then with a new Statement. Feb. 9, 16, 23; March 2 (1382) "They call each other 'brother' and 'sister' and share things," he said.

"It also gives them a vision of ultimate meaning in the scheme of things." He added that the historic religious institutions don't seem to be filling that need. "When the churches accommodate themselves to the con-sumerist, competitive society, people look for an alternative," he said. "I see the new movements as a challenge to the churches to provide clearer alternatives to the standardized way of life." Glock, who has done special studies on cults, said they indicate "some disruption in our social arrangement, that it's not going right, and this has created a search for alternative solutions." He said the historical record indicates cults emerge in times of deep public alienation and dissatisfaction with the social fabric. The panel discounted claims that special mind-control techniques are used by the cults, and also voiced doubt at the Many had strong reservations about such action and some felt "it even would be counter-producive," Cox said. As to whether cults use mind-control methods, he said, "Efforts to control minds are rampant in every sector of society all day long, through advertising, television and other means." He said he saw no difference between methods "used everywhere else in society and the ones of the new religious movements." However, Bressler said there were conflicting views on the "extent of coercion" in the cults and whether First Amendment issues were involved and an "element of fraud" warranting some sort of "truth in advertising regulation." Glock said cults doubtlessly carry on a process that produces a "reformulation of consciousness" but that it was little different from what happens in a traditional church, which also changes outlooks toward the world.

By GEORGE W. CORNELL AP Religion Writer NEW YORK (AP) A panel of scholars says the rise of new religious cults has been common in past anxious periods of American history, and that the present-day rash of such groups seems to indicate a spiritual void in modern culture. After a two-day conference on the subject, the group of about 25 university professors sociologists, psychologists, theologians and others declined to draw definite conclusions about the phenomenon. But it suggests "there is a deep hunger for some sort of spiritual meaning that is not being satisfied by contemporary society," said Marvin Bressler, a Princeton University sociologist and chairman of the meeting. He added, however, that the trend's "singular nature is outside the immediate framework of most of our respective disciplines.

The general feeling was a kind of sense of dismay at our own absence of knowledge of the entire issue." He and other participants told a closing news conference that there were several general impressions, including the view that cults indicate an "exhaustion of the doctrine of secular salvation." Apparently modern society with its affluence, various "liberation" movements and technical conveniences has not produced spiritual fulfillment, the panel said, and people seek new means for it. The meeting was sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith in the face of widescale questions about implications of the mass suicide of Peoples Temple cultists in Guyana. Several scholars cautioned against drawing any generalized image of modern cults from the Guyana group, which some characterized as more political than religious. "The movements ought not to be seen as all cut from the same cloth and lumped together," said Charles Y. Glock, a sociologist of the University of California at Berkeley.

He noted that most new cults are youth-oriented and draw recruits mostly from the white middle class, but that the Peoples Temple was heavily black and drew recruits from the working class. Theologian Harvey Cox of Harvard University Divinity School said the needs, fears and heartaches of people" are serious problems in society today, and that many "so desperately need friendship, intimacy and community support" that they turn to the new groups. chairman Gerson D. Cohen, chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary in America, to the national organization of Conservative rabbis, the Rabbinical Assembly. But decisive action on the matter rests, not with the rabbinical body, but with the faculty of the seminary, the Conservative movement's academic center in New York, which trains and ordains rabbis for the country's 823 Conservative congregations.

"It's autonomous in a sense, and controls academic standards, seminary degrees and ordinations," a spokesman said. It's sometimes called the "power seat" in the making of rabbis for 1.2 million Conservative Jews. But the commission findings now become a weighty factor. The faculty about 50 professors with tenure on a teaching staff of 70 is to decide on the proposed change before May 30, in time potentially for permitting women to apply for rabbinical studies starting this fall. Of the other two branches of Judaism, the Reform wing opened its rabbinate to women Rome Press Aide Is Reassigned WASHINGTON (AP) After three years in Rome as the press representative of the worldwide Jesuit order of 27,000 priests, the Rev.

Donald Campion has been assigned to a newly establish post in the United States He's the new Secretary for Information and Communication of the Jesuit Conference in this country, involving about 6.000. priests. Campion, before his assignment in Rome, was editor of the national Catholic weekly, America. omen Seek Recognition NEW YORK (AP) The U.S. section of St.

Joan's International Alliance, a Roman Catholic group seeking ordination of women, telegraphed this plea to the Latin American conference of bishops in Puebla, "We hope the deliberations and conclusions will not turn out too be a sort of 'Mulierum Regressio'." That's Latin for "Regression of Women," a play on the name of the late Pope Paul Vi encyclical, "Popu-lorum Progressio," urging progress of people through social reforms. Talks to Start VATICAN CITY (AP)-The Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Churches soon will begin talks aimed at allowing common celebration of Holy Communion, Pope John Paul II told a recent general audience. in concert PUBLIC NOTICE 1 1 1 i ii 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ii 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 NOTICE OF HEARING OF PETITION (PROBATE) Case Number: 18500 Superior Court of California, County of Santa Cruz, 701 Ocean Street, Santa Cruz, California 95060. Estate of ALFRED LEROY PARKINSON, also known as ROY PARKINSON, also known as A. LEROY PARKINSON, also known as A.

L. PARKINSON, Deceased. NOTICE is hereby given that RICHARD MCCORMICK has filed a petition for: PETITION FOR ORDER AUTHORIZING LEASE OF REAL PROPERTY, reference to which is hereby made for further particulars. A hearing on the petition is set for Feb. 21, 1979 at 8:30 a.m.

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NEAL, Clerk By: BETTY M. GIBSON, Deputy ROBERT H. DA ROW 1211 Pacific Ave. Suite 6 Santa Cruz, California 95060 Telephone (408) 423-3640 Feb. 9, 12, 15 (1387) (1365) BOARD OF SUPERVISORS Protestant Unification In Belgium BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) Unification of three major Protestant denominations in Belgium became a reality at the start of this year with the launching of the United Protestant Church of Belgium.

After a two-year preparation period, the three participating denominations voted overwhelmingly last fall for forming the new body, and later joined in a thanksgiving service for it. Making up the merged denomination are the Protestant Church of Belgium, including Methodists, and the Belgian Reformed Church and the Re-Reformed Church of Dutch origins. Coalition Opposing Arms Exhibit CHICAGO (AP) A coalition of about 50 religious, civic and labor groups is opposing an international arms exhibition planned for Feb. 18-21 in sur-burban Rosemont near Chicago's O'Hare Airport. The affair, called "Defense Technology '79," is being sponsored by DMS, a market service for weapons manufacturers, and Defense and Foreign Affairs magazine, with defense policy makers and procurement officers invited from both Western and Third World nations.

However, several defense contractors have withdrawn their wares in the face of the protests. Says the Rev. Richard Truitt of Janesville, 111., chairman of the United Methodist World Peace Division: "It is a moral outrage for a rich nation too offer weapons for sale to a starving world." i i -n I i I I PUBLIC HEARING UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST First Congregational Church 900 High Street, Santa Cruz WORSHIP 10:00 A.M. CHURCH SCHOOL 1 0:00 A.M. Sermon Series FAITH AND STRESS 2.

"LISTEN TO YOUR SPIRIT" Bernie Corneliussen, Preaching ir-Cr "Earth's crammed with heaven And every common bush afire with God; And only he who sees takes off his shoes The rest sit 'round it and pluck blackberries." Elizabeth Barret Browning PRE-LENTEN SERIES "FAITH RESOURCES IN A TIME OF STRESS" 4. The Shalom of God In An Age of Stress The Rev, John Anderson Monday, February 12, 7:30 P.M. Church lounge irir Bernard Corneliussen, Minister NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors has set February 27, 1979, 7:30 p.m., in Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium. Church and Center Streets, Santa Cruz, California, as the time and place to consider Use Permit Application No. 76-1045-U by Lockheed Missiles and Space Company, Inc.

for Five-Year Development Plan to construct five new buildings as part of existing testing and manufacturing operation, on Assessor's Parcel No. 86-281-21, located at the northern terminus of Empire Grade within the U-BS-10-Acre Zone District, Bonny Doon North Coast Area. All persons desiring to speak on said matter may appear and be heard at the above time and place. BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS DATED: February 6, 1979 RICHARD C. NEAL, County Clerk and ex-officio Clerk of the Board of Supervisors By: DEBORAH L.

HAZEN, Deputy Clerk Bethany Bible College Scotts Valley, CA Thursday, February 15th 7:30 p.m. Admission $2.50 $3.00 the Door Also Drama by the Bethany Players TICKETS SOLD AT NEWTON'S CHRISTIAN BOOK STORE 151 SOQUEl SANTA CRUZ Feb. 9 i 7.