Page 10, Th. Herald, Friday, December 8, 1978 need” i HALIFAX (CP) After 25 years at a United Church oof Canada minister, Rev. Dr, Frances’ P. MacLellan says some prejudice still or aaehe against women rs, ; situation is much better Dr. MacLellan, minister of the St. John's United Church here, says there are still some people who will leave a church If the minister is a vot they are proba same ones who would leave if the minister had a beard.” Such prejudice, she says, hes never carried over into the church tion. The church and her fellow cl en always “bent over back- wards” to make her feel at home. But she adds that she has encountered rudeness from some clergymen in other denominations. Dr. MacLellan is the first woman ever to become president of the - Maritime Conference of the United Church, It was, because she ls a woman that she accepted the nomination in 198@, she and therefore decided “someone had to get around ani show that women are no freaks” in the ministry. Even in this supposedly enlightened age, be says, there are still some places that won't take women ministers, Anglican Church in some areas of British Columbia and the United States, she BaYB, There’s still some prejudice Dr, MacLellan, who celebrated her 25th an- niversery in the minktry ior ". wana youngster when her. family moved to the Maritimes. Alter attending Mount Allizon University she returned to Ontario as a teacher. The “call came one teaching career and did not particularly want to for her life, so she enrolled at ' Pine Hill Pine Hill's rogular divinity courss,- _ However, some parishlonere, after ac: ; copting , have a mitted to having felt differently at first about having a female minister. IN ITALY Proposal separ - ROME (AP) — In a posal that could alter church-state relations in several Roman Catheilc countries, Premier Giulio Andreotti has suggested that Italy Roman Catholicism as its state jon. “The proposal, worked out by Vatican and Italian negotiators and submitted by Andreotti to the Senate on Wednesday, would revise the Concordat, a 48-year-old agreement that governed relations between Italy and the church. Major points of the agree- ment, in its third draft after two years of negotiations, in- clude: —Romano Catholicism would no longer be Italy's state religion—a change that would mean, among other things, that religious education in Italian schools would no longer be com- pulsory. —Defrocked churchmen has would no longer be banned from holding public jobs. sy tata age pe a Privileges would come under closer ecrutiny of the Italian government. Andreotti sald both the provisions and the spirit of the existing Concordat would be re to eliminate all concepts influenced by the totalitarian policy’ of Mussolini's regime, when the Concordat was signed in © . Ms, McCausland, ates state-church 1929 during Pope Pius XI's reign. Under a treaty signed at the - same time, oy recognized Vatican a5 an independent state and the Pope as its sovereign. The chutch was granted a cash t for the vast ter- ritoriegs in Italy lost during igh 1th century aay, paign to unify country,. and Roman Catholicism was given a privileged position in ly. by Rev. David Martyn In the season of Advent the Christian is in preparation for the celebration of Christmas, But that is no preparation. Christmas records are adv: on -the television, Santa Claus jobs are offered in the. newapaper, and’ all the kids thelr letters to difference. For world, And. ‘in that celebration is the ex- Realm to. bring, about an al an everlasting ce for the whole arora. te is ihe Jesus as Lord over all. Tn our world today, there are many that strive after Lordship, There are those ‘derstanding of Lordshiy:. i" “commanded to do what is right ‘and just. into thi. if}. Christan proclaims Jeav: « « Lord. The Jesus thei = «- born in a stable — hari" 2 ce for a good pollucsl . The Jesus that ‘than goods and promote & con- ’ sumer ethic, At Christmas the Christian celebrates the presence of Christ in our world. The Christ that is there when a She has to see all of VANCOUVER (CP) Film classifier Mary-Lou McCausland had ber firat run- censorship 1974 when she was forced to band over the erotic film Emmanuelle to the RCMP. then an employee in the Odeon theatre chain's Calgary office, told Odeon president Gerry Sutherland that, if she Little did she realize thata few years later she would be in & position to ban or censor Ms, McCausland, 29, a- former theatre student, said in an interview she had very definite views about art's right to express Itself and be Film classification, however, was a whole dif- ferent ball game from protecting the arts, said Ms. | McCausland, who was Zion Baptist Church Corner Sparks and Keith Pastor Paul Mohninger Office 635-2407 Home 635-5309 Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Morning Worship 11:00a.m. Uplands Baptist Church Beacon Bruce Freeman Cerner of Malliwell and N. Thomas 9: 45 a.m. Bible Teaching Sunday Schaal 11:00.a.m. Morning Worship Service 7:30 p.m. Singing and Bible Study Wednesday 8:00 Home Bible Studies “You Are Welcome at Uptands“ -mamed to the British Colum- ary. “When I came into it, I wanted to have some in- “Tt’s not a bandwagon of one and (his) ideas. .» tis a system whereby the greatest number of people can have some input and have that reflected in what is done by a civil servant.” Ms. McCausland and her two assistants regularly sit as as four featute. length films adayin ° the projection room of the film classification branch office. She relies on the committee approach, with her assistants acting to off- set any personal prejudices. They apply warning labels of general, mature or restricted, and add specific warnings about coarse * language, violence or sex £0 that vi awers know what to Applying those guidelines is not easy, she sald, “We have problems with definitions, with worda like obscene and pornogra , hecene ond She said that some people consider the suggestion of Bex more obscene than a portrayal of the sex act. Provincial law, however, provides Ms. McCausland with guidelines under which films ying explicit sex and extreme violence can be banned, Those guidelines; were used in banning ci i penny- arcade films in 1977. She could . have censored segments of the film, after the cutting was done, but there was little left, she said. coun Pretty Baby in Ontarlo this "ATTEND THE CHURCH OF YOUR CHOICE THIS SUNDAY 4830 Straums Avenue, Terrace 636-2312 SATURDAY EVENING 7:30pm. SUNDAY MASSES 9:00am. St. Matthew's Anglican Chanch 4726 Lazelle Avence 635-9019 Sunday Services - 10:00 a.m. Sunday School. 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White Sunday School 10:00 a.m Reverend R.L. White Morning Worship 11:00 a.m. Evening Worship 7:30 p.m. .. Prayer Service Wednesday 7:30 p.m. Reverend Rolf Nesterud 636-5882 Morning Service 11:00 a.m. Church School 9: 45 a.m. Sunday School, Confirmation Youth and Adult Classes the same God loves them, —- Advent (which means ‘to reparation consists of in the face of hate, having humility in the of pride, and gl fa world everainge Witt this lifestyle as a realistic possibility, it is a time to celebrate. year demonstrated, she said. The murder of a 10- ben Portuguese 4 largely set the stage for the banning of the movie about a child prostitute, said Ms, McCausland, and she. wants to avold that kind of fear- inspired censorship. A police incident involving . the Japanese film in the real of the senses here last summer discloses Ms, McCausland's approach to dealing with the problem of yaried audiences. - She had classified the film, in which. a woman's ob- sessive love for a man leads her to castrate him, as ap- propriate for viewers at- tending an international film festival at a local theatre. She said she did not con-- - sider it appropriate for audiences in the Okanagan community of Kelowna, where young families might object to their children viewing it at one of the city’s theatres, Despite her approval of lta showing at the featival, city police judged the film ob- scene and authorities threatened tegal -action against the theatre awner if it was shown, : 2 _Ms, McCausland sald she is confident the courts, as ultimate arbiters of com- munity standards, can deal fairly with the issue. . She also expressed op- timism that sex films can have educational value. . ‘Some parents want to take their children to see akin flicks to show them how ally ey wate ‘0 break wn the mystique of sex,” she said, “1 think that's a good idea.” Midnight Express, a film about a young American jailed in Turkey for five years for ami! heahish,. is anexample of a film which could have educational merit, she said. ; ‘"There are a lot of parents that may want their young teenagers to see that,” she said. “If they (the children) are travelling to Europe or -- even Mexico, the may want them to. something about foreign laws and how, if you something illegal in that country, you may not have rights as you do F Canada.” Classification ’ can reflect changes in public recently was approached by womens’ groups seeking warning labels on films they consider degrading to women, minorities, she said. She said she believes the public should decide what it wants to see—she sees ber role as a consumer In- formation officer. “I have a great deal of happy tareoabate fr them, Py ‘or them, to give them as much in- ... formation as I possibly can to help them.”