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Universit11 of San Diego ye~- tcrday erupted with three runs/ in the first ·nning and got five more insurance tallies in the sevenlh and eighth to rout USIU, 8-0, in their baseball game on the Toreros' home dia- mond in El Toyon Park, :Na- tional City. The Toreros rallied out four singles, including Jerry Nor- man's tw~run clout in the big first inning, the plurge being aided by 1m erro 11nd passed ball. Kerry Dineen had three hits and drove in a ran and Dave Norman had two hits, driving in one run, lo help the Toreros along. The victory gue USD an 11-5 record, including 1. \>lln shut- outs, and left USftJ'd.t 1~10. USIU ...........1.. U8 od,i _. 2 1 USO ..... , , ...... 300 tl)G J2x-r-:-i 14 l Purcell ond Mo,...-; RdmP'l (81; Oovls and Kin$m_o~n-'- . __.._...._..- ~

Classic Voyage of a Spanish Wine Bottle Southern Cross Reporter They all thought Father Benjamin Carrier was just a bit mad to try it. But he did. Father Carrier, University of San Diego chaplain, spent last semester at sea on the SS Ryndam, World Campus Afloat of Chapman College, Orange. IT HAPPENED OFF BARCELONA, Spain. The ship's company, which included the hundred~ of students taking the European and South American cruise as part of their education, gathered on deck. Father Carrier had an empty Spanish wi.ne ~ottl~, memento of the visit to Barcelona, and he said: I will send a message in it." Solemnly he deposited in the bottle a note of his status and address. He enclosed a crisp U.S. $1 bill, which most students thought a waste of money. HE EALED THE BOTTLE with wax and tossed it overboard. The day was bright and November, soon after All Saints. The ship was in the Mediterranean. Father Carrier has been back on the USD campus since January. Last week a letter arrived from Greece. It was written in schoolboy-level French. And it was from Panaitos Bakoianis, a poor Greek fisherman who lives on Hilias, an island off the Aegean sea coast of that ancient land. FISHERMAN BAKOIANIS wrote to Father Carrier to tell him that he had found the bottle washed ashore in the Aegean on February 28 - just three months an.d more than 1500 miles from the date and place where 1t was dropped overboard. Father Carrier's faith in people and ocean currents remains high.

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Page 4 THE SOUTHERN CROSS, THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1971 A Time to Keep

By Michae Newman

FROM GREECE _ Father Benjamin Carrier rea~s the letter from a po~r fisherman in Greece who picked up the message the priest dropped from a ship off Ba~ce- lona Spain. Bottle which contained the message traveled currents of Med1ter- rane~n Sea more than 1,500 miles before it was found. - Staff photo

Catholics on the Bench

Newest judge to ascend the West District Municipal Court bench in Ontario is Kenneth G. Ziebarth, Jr., father of nine children and a leading parishioner of Our Lady of Lourdes, Montclair. At his installation - witnessed by eight of his children and his wife of 16 years - he paid tribute to family training. "From my father I

'Superstar' and 'St. Matthew' It was inevitable that the rock opera Jesus Chrisl Superstar would be compared with the almost im· mortal St. Matthew Passion oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach. I have recorded extracts from eacl) on the same cassette and similarities fairly leap out of the loudspeakers. Particularly parallel are the beautiful parts in both the clitssical and the rock versions given to Mary Magdalene, whose arias in both (if you call a roe opera solo an aria) are most moving. To some any comparison will be anathema, I a sure. Theologically, of course, you cannot compare St Matthew with the young English lyricist who wrote th current version. For a musical appreciation test, try "I don't kno how to love Him," from the rock opera with "Hav mercy, Lord, for the sake of my tears," ("Erbarm dich, mein Gott"), from the Bach. There is a yearning, lonely, appeal about both in their entirely different musical metaphor. Cut Off Your Nose? Is it so illogical, I wonder, to coqipare abortion with the amputation of a limb? No doctor worth his degree would consider cutting off a perfectly healthy limb simply because its owner found it psychologicalJy embarrassing. In fact, even a deformed limb is not amputated. Yet abortionists do not think twice about cutting off perfectly healthy ~issue from a woman - a fetus - because it is "therapeutically" desirable. It is even bad medical practice to remove an appendix without due cause, even though it might be suspect. And how about the woman who finds her nose upsets her? Can she have a "therapeutic" nose job, sub- sidized by the state? Surely a fetus, human life, is more important than a limb. Yet it is treated as so much excess baggage, to ' be disposed of on the slightest pretext. Change in Reading The greater notice being paid to The Southern Cros throughout the diocese is rewarding, even thoug some of the notice has a negative content. For th most part, however, it is approving and encouraging, so much so that the number of readers increases with, each mail that brings new subscription orders. The increase in recent months - more than 500 last month alone - has been good, but we are never satisfied. It helps, however, when pastors make changes to our diocesan advantage, like the Mon- signor in a large parish who cancelJed his supplies of Twin Circle and the Register and raised his bulk supplies of The Southern Cross by 100 to put at his church door. This is not an isolated instance, of course. When In Roine

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inherited a love of politics and to my mother I owe my necessity for punc- tuality," he said. And of his children he said: "They certainly showed me how to maintain an endless capacity of energy. I have also learned to think young." The new judge who is only 39, has a good sense of humor, and has earned almost every civic award available in the area. "I

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500 Attend Congress from Diocese CCD Delegates Learn Christ More Than Hobby Southern Cross Reporter concerned with parish

work took up most of the congress' agenda.

vocations director, who arranged a special youth rally drawing more than 2,000 high school students; Father Peter Orlando, a Maryknoll priest, and Sunrise Service SAN DIEGO-Bishop Leo T. Maher will speak at an ecumenical Easter sunrise service, 6 a.m. April 11, at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot. It will be the first such observance of Easter in the history of the MCRD in San Diego. :~::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

James D. Blazi of St. Catherine Laboure parish, Clairemont. ADDRESSING the youth rally, Father Dolan said loneliness is the "current disease" among young people and that they must learn to cope with it through spirituality. He challenged youth to become "good listeners and believe in God and each other. They must experience love and hope." Father Orlando, who discussed Christian leadership, declared that CCD teachers should not look

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ANAHEIM-"Jesus Christ is not a hobby," exclaimed the poster on the wall of the Anaheim Convention Center. The 6,000 delegates to the regional CCD congress here last weekend showed Christianity is much more than a hobby. More than 500 delegates from the San Diego diocese participated in lectures, workshops, discussions and personal encounters related to religious educa lion in terms of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine. They included CCD teachers, principals, helpers, Sisters and priests

programs. DELEGATES AT the three-day congress came from four dioceses whose CCD offices sponsored the meeting, San Diego, Los Angeles archdiocese, Fresno and Monterey. Under the theme, "You shall be my witnesses to the ends of the earth," par- ticipants studied, evaluated and formed new ideas on the Church's religious education apostolate to youths and adults. Workshops where par- ticipants could come to grips with practical phases of CCD

Municipal Court will attempt to remember I have been appointed, not annointed," he quipped to the 350 persons who witnessed the ceremony in the courtroom His parents were on hand for the occasion, the whole family group participating in a notable civic and judicial occasion. And Superior Court On hand to lend a hand was, most suitably, Judge Richard Garner. It was Judge Garner's seat to which Judge Ziebarth was appointed by Governor Reagan because Judge Garner moved from the Municipal Court to Superior Court. Richar-d Garner is Superior Court Judge Garner is another family man, having been married 20 years and the father of four children. He obtained his Jaw training at the Jesuit University of San .Fra~cisco,. working nights at college and sup- portmg his famlly by day. He received his Doctor of Jurisprudence degree within four years. Our Lady of Mecca Perhaps the strangest combination of religious affiliation is provided by the latest church to be named in the diocese. When he was visiting various parishes in the northeastern part of the diocese recently, Bishop Leo T. Maher named the church at Mecca. This township, on the northern end of the Salton Sea, has a wooden church and small outbuilding which serve as a Mass center supplied from Coachella. Presumably named Mecca by association with the date palms and other "Arabian" products grown locally, it is also in commemoration of the center of the Muslim religion. The church was named Our Lady of Mecca with due ceremony and a concelebrated Mass. Which is a reminder that Bishop Fulton Sheen once .said that perhaps the bridge between East and West might be built by the Mother of God. It is probably the only church so named in the world, linking the two cultures and religions. described by a friend as "an outstanding mem- ber" of the parish of St. Joseph, in Upland. That large community in the upper flatlands l near the mountains, is obviously proud of its judicia.l eminence.

conscience. He emphasized that in a "pluralistic" Church, Catholics must be guided in the formation of an informed Christian conscience on which they may base per- sonal decisions. Among others from San Diego with prominent congress roles were Father Neal Dolan, diocesan

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speaker was Dr. William Glasser, educator and psychiatrist, who was picketed outside the Anaheim Convention Center by a group of about 20 per- sons. THEY SAID they were protesting his talk on grounds that he is not a Catholic and that he teaches humanism. Earlier Archbishop Timothy Manning of Los Angeles had issued a plea that congress delegates receive Dr. Glasser in a "Christian way." In one of his talks, Dr. Glasser said a teacher must show a child that he really cares and must instill in the pupil the idea Ihat there are various degrees of success in life and Iha t no one really is a "failure." TEACHERS MUST inspire self-confidence in a child, he added, so that the child can say, "I have a chance, I can do it." Congress highlights in- cluded a Pontifical Mass concelebrated by Arch- bishop Manning_ at which he gave the homily. He was assisted by Bishop Leo T. Maher of San Diego.

"fulfilling their own personal needs to belong." Teachers, he stressed, should show children how "to belong" and function as growing Christians in a group. 01\'E OF THE more practical, workshops was led by Blazi who told how to recruit CCD teachers and organize religious education classes-both areas in which he has had wide experience. Keynote speakers at general sessions were Father William McNamara of Sedona, Ariz., and Dr. Francoise Darcy from C:rnada, long active in religious education. Father r.~Namara urged Christians to become ''earthy mystics.'' Christians, he explained, must immerse themselves in a human existence, but at the same time be in con- tinuous communication with God. "ONL y WHEN we can communicate with God will we be able to communicate with our fellow men," he told the delegates. Dr. Darcy emphasized that children must ex- perience God, not just "learn" about Him. "To learn about God and to experience Him are two different things," she said. "Since it is experience that awakens faith, the CCD teacher must help the child experience God, rather than merely letting the pupil hear about Him." Another general session

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Father Carrier gave the Pope a gift - a box of Dutch cigars "I told him that if he didn't smoke cigars, he could keep them and give them to one of this secretaries." And His Holiness did, smiling broadly. Now, as you will see from the story on page I, Father Carrier has another memento of that voyage because a message he put into a bottle and threw overboard bas been picked up three months la er.

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County, the Sons have played in the Bay City area as the New Boogaloo Express and the Rhythm Dukes since their last appearance in San Diego about two years ago. They also have worked on _. new album which is due to join their previous Capitol re- lease, "Loosen Up Naturally" and "The Sons," in May. Guitarist Elvin Bishop has added three backup vocalists,

will perform Saturday and Sunday in the University of San Diego Gymnasium. The three groups will begin each show at 7 p.m. Having semi-retired to Northern California's Marin

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erine Ostrander Her pro- gram wi• consist of two bagatelles (19th Century no- menclature for short genre pieces) and two sets of char- acter pieces. The bagatelle will be the six of Beethoven's Opus 126 and the 10 of Alexander Tche- repnin's Opus 5.

Ilana }lysior will play a program of sliorl piano pieces for the San Diego PubTic Li- brary's chamber music eve- nmg at 7:30 Tuesday in the main facility, 820 E St. Miss Mysior, a San Diego teacher and recitalist, will play the first solo perform- ance on a piano presenled to the library recnitly by Kath-

Stone Ground, the third a~t on the show, began a tour m San Francisco early 1.ast fall t~at took the~ to various In- d1an reservations a~d ~ollege campuses befor~ wmdmg up at the Isle of W1g~t. (Hence- forth, referred to m rock an- nals as the Great Med1cme

Ball tour.)