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TRIBUNE FEATURED
For A Richer Marriage
— Before And During
Roncallo....
The Chaplains' office of the C.
W. Post College Interfaith Chapel
will again offer its very success­ful
marriage preparation
seminar and will add to it a Mar­riage
Enrichment Program for
couples already married. The
Catholic chaplain of the college,
Rev. Ronald Luka, developed and
coordinates both programs as
part of the pastoral services pro­vided
by the chaplains' office.
Both programs arose from the
pastoral concern to provide
quality preparation for marriage
as well as support and enrich­ment
to marriages. The
programs are completely non-denominational
in orientation.
The programs incorporate talks,
discussions, films, and experi­ences
provided by a resource
team of marriage counselors,
**&ffldr?>,psy­chologists,
sociologists, clergy­men
and lawyers. Registration in
the programs is open to an
engaged or married couple.
The Marriage Preparation
Seminar runs for nine Thursday
nights from Feb. 14th through
April 18th. Other scheduled ses­sions
willrun from April 25th to
June 27th, and from August 15th
to September 19th. This program
has been running three or four
times a year for the last three
years now, with a growing
number of couples registering for
each session. No more than
thirty-five couples are registered
for each session so as to maintain
a personal and informal spirit
during the sessions. The topic
covered each night is completely
separate from one covered on
any other night so as to allow
couples to miss a session or two
and then pick it up the next time
the session is offered. Sessions
treat the motives for getting
married, the meaning and devel­opment
of love, human physi­ology,
the psychology of the
sexes, communication in mar­riage,
moral values, marriage
breakdown, priorities and
finances in marriage, and the
first year of marriage.
The seminar was set up by
Father Luka to provide the best
possible preparation for mar­riage
for the scores of couples
whose marriages he was being
asked to witness. Despite the fact
that some couples might be per­fectly
content just to have a
clergyman present at their half
hour wedding ceremony, Father
Luka did not in conscience feel he
could render such a one shot
ministry. The fact that the
number of marriages which
break up is rising so dramatically
gives evidence that society and
religious institutions need to
more than just proclaim the ideal
of marital permanence. After
setting up the seminar with" the
help of several couples involved
in marriage preparation work, he
opened it to any couple preparing
fpr marriage whether they were
students •ornOt, whether he was
going to witness thejnarriage or
not. When the seminars first
began to be offered, most of the
couples participating in them
heard of them through Father
Luka. Now around half of the
couples registering have been
referred by friends, other clergy­men,
or have heard of the
seminar through the newspaper
or radio. A growing number of
couples come because friends
who have made the seminar
recommend it to them so highly.
Currently the task is underway
of getting the presentations given
in the seminar on to paper so they
can be worked into a workbook of
marriage preparation. Interest in
publishing such a workbook has
already been shown by a couple
publishers but no definitive
commitment has yet been made.
The workbook would provide
solid marriage preparation for
the many couples who are not
living close to each other before
marriage because of school, mili­tary
service, or job. Jt would also
serve to more widely disseminate
this novel and intensive program
of marriage preparation so that
similar programs might be mod­eled
after it in different parts of
the country.
(Continued on iftage 8)
Galls For
"Let The
Congressman Angelo D.
Roncallo (R-NY-3rd)
today called on House
Judiciary Committee
Chairman Peter Rodino
(D-NJ) to hold hearings
immediately on the
Constitutional amendment,
prohibiting abortion.
"It is time that the voice
of the people be heard on
this vital issue," the Long
Island Congressman de­clared,
"we can no longer
afford the luxury of time
or politics." The Congress­man
signed a discharge
petition in July which
would have released the
Constitutional amendment
from the Judiciary Com­mittee
and brought it to
the Floor for direct House
action.
"Today is the anni­versary
of the Supreme
Court decision against
life," he continued, "and I
think it appropriate that
we renew our commitment
Abortion Hearings
People Be Heard"
to life. I therefore, call
upon you Mr. Chairman to
expedite these hearings."
Roncallo made the state­ment
in remarks prepared
for delivery on the House
floor.
Congressman Roncallo
has also been the main
force behind several
pieces of legislation to ban
live fetus research. His
amendment to prevent all
monies appropriated for
use by the National Sci­ence
y Foundation from
being used for ijbuis pt*r*»*»*K»
passed Congress and is
now law.
Another amendment
banning the use of federal
money appropriated under
the Bio-Medical Research
bill is now awaiting a
House-Senate conference
having passed both Houses
in different versions.
Congressman Roncallo
reiterated, his stand
against live fetus research
and against abortion ear­lier
in the day during a
Pro-Life Rally on the steps
of the Capitol, There he
told those who had come to
Washington to demon­strate
against the Su­preme
Court decision on
abortion, "the time has
come to get this abortion
amendment before the
Judiciary Committee or
onto the floor of the House
itself-not buried on some
political agenda. I call on
Chairman Rodino to hold
meritnow
Several hundred demon­strators
participating in
the day's events made the
trip from the Con­gressman's
Third Con­gressional
District on
Long Island.
V" • •
Congressman Roncallo
is the Honorary Chairman
of the National March for
Life Committee.
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16 WiJsonLane
Bethpage, NY 11714
January 25,1974
To the Bethpage Tribune:
on behalf of my husband and myself, I would like to
thank the Bethpage Tribune and all the participating
merchants who gave us a very special Nigpt on the
Town " Brandy's Restaurant in Hicksville served us a
delicious dinner, and we enjoyed our-evening there
very much. The gifts we received from the local
merchants were an unexpected pleasure, indeed
1 would especially like to thank.Mrs, Spellman ot the
Bethpage Tribune, for all she did to help us and also
Hart Bymore Drugs, for talking me into filling out that
winning coupon! Our thaUs to all,
Sincerely,
Mrs. Ronald Galante
On Thursday, Jan. 22, a
warm sunny day, one year
after the Supreme Court
decision on abortion, 98
B e t h p a g e r s joined
thousands of their U.S.
neighbors for a march on
Washington. The theme of
the march "IF YOU
CARE, YOU'LL BE
THERE" was made
manifest by the marchers',
enthusiasm. They came
together both BLACKS
and WHITES with their
over-riding concern with
each human being's
RIGHT TO LIFE.
Although there were an
estimated 25,000 marchers
the Capitol was im­maculate
as the marchers
bent to pick up any scrap
of paper that was dropped.
Before listening to
speeches, they marched
around the Capitol
(passing the Supreme
Court Building) carrying
signs that read HITLER
LIVES IN THE
SUPREME COURT,
NEVER TO LAUGH,
NEVER ""TO LOVE,
FIGHT ABORTION arid
TEENAGERS AGAINST
ABORTION. Upon their
return to the Capitol, they
listened to the moving
invocation by the Rev.
Jesse Jackson, a Baptist
minister. They clapped
enthusiastically for pro-life
leaders in Congress as
they supported their
cause.
B e t h p a g e ' s own
Congressman, Angelo
Roncallo was made
Honorary Chairman of the
rally because of his bill
which would prohibit
e x p e r i m e n t a t i o n on
aborted fetuses. Ap­parently
the marchers
only concession to any loss
of decorum occurred when
Right to Life leader John
Short mentioned Nelson
Rockefeller as a possible
Republican candidate lo£
president. This statement
was met with repeated
-catcalls and boos.
Bethpage's teenagers,
so sincere in their com­mitment
to the unborn,
greeted other teenagers
with waves of their red
roses, and "hi, where are
you from?" They were
from Michigan, Min­nesota,
New York, New
Jersey, Rhode Island,
Connecticut, Pennsylvania
and Maryland. They were
from Louisiana, Florida
and Texas.
Three and one-half
million signatures were
presented to Congress in
support of the HUMAN
LIFE AMENDMENT now
bottled up in Judiciary
Sub-Committees. The
events closed with a
Rabbi's prayer reminding
ail present of the im­portance
to RESPECT
FOR ALL LIFE.
Rosalie Joannou