New High Subscription Total
It Is Seventh Straight Increase for The Anchor
Goal Is Paper in Every Dioc'esan Catholic Home
This is probably' the happiest day in the seven-year history of The Anchor Circulation Department. For the seventh consecutive year, a new high subscription total of mail-delivered horne subscriptions is assured. Parishes which have never been in the quota-class are among the diocesan-elite this year. We have more parishes in the
quota-class than ever before and many that we consider our "old re liables' have not made final returns for the 1964 campaign which ends Saturday. Rev. Callistus Szpara, O.F.M., to day has recorded a first for Holy Rosary parish in Taunton. Holy Rosary is the first Polish parish ever to achieve its quota. It is the first
The ANCHOR Fall River, Mass., Thursday, Feb. 27, 1964
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1964 The Anchor
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Nationwide Bishops' Relief Fund Appeal March 1~8 WASHINGTON (NC) - The 18th annual Bishops' Relief Fund Appeal, chief financial support of Catholic Relief Services - National Catholic Welfare Conference, overl'leas aid agency of U.S. Catholics, will be conducted nationwide from March 1 to tnaintain last year a progratn $. Archbishop Patrick A. to that had a value of $176 million. O'Boyle, of Washington, "The food, clothing and medi chairman of the NCWC ad cines that we were thus able to ministrative board, scheduled the 1964 appeal in a letter to members of the U.S. Hierarchy. Goal of the appeal again has been set at $5 million. "It is most gratifying and en couraging to note," said Arch bishop O'Boyle, "that, because of the basic support provided by the Bishops' Relief Fund, Catho lic Relief Services-NCWC, our foreign relief agency, was able.
ship actually touched the lives of over 26 _million of the poor and needy in more than 79 countries," he continued. CRS-NCWC, world's largest private voluntary relief agency, supplies food, clothing and medi cines solely on the basis of need, without regard to race, religion or color. It also stimulates and supports Turn to Page Twenty
AFL.C'O Urges Federal Aid to Private Schools MIAMI BEACH (NC)-The AFL-CIO will ask' Con gress to give outright grants to nonpublic schools and thus break the logjam over Federal aid to education legislation. The AFL-CIO's executive council, the federation's govern ing body, said in a policy statement the grants could sistance to nonpublic schools be be used for classrooms in expanded. The program is oper ated under the 1958 National De which non-religious subjects fense Education Act and pro
would be taught. The statement vides 10-year loans to private marks the second consecutive schools to finance purchase of year that the labor federation's teaching equipment in science, major unit has supported as mathematics and modern foreign sistance to parochial and other languages. PUblic schools get D<mpublic schools. outright grants for the same This year's s tat em e ntis purpose. broader than the last one, calling The AFL-CIO noted a "stale for outright grants in contrast to repayable loans for classroom mate" over Federal aid legisla tion and said it urges that a eonstruction proposed in Janu "solution to this problem be ary. 1963. The council recommended as it sought through expansion of did last year, that an existing NDEA assistance. Pl'ogram of limited Federal <l$ Turn to Page Two
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Taunton parish to gain the quota
class this year. And, it is also the
first time that Holy Rosary has been
in the quota-class itself.
Rt. Rev. Msgr. Humberto S.
Medeiros has reported that St. Michael's parish in Fall River is in the quota-class for the first time. "We are there to stay," the diocesan chancellor asserted.
Rev. Anthony M. Gomes ahd Rev. John G.·Carroll, however, are setting the pace for all 110 parishes in the diocese. Their parishes-Our Lady of Angels in Fall River and St. John the Baptist in Central Village, West port-are in a bracket by them selves, complete family coverage. Several other parishes have their Turn to Page Eighteen
Hig'h Schools Set Exams March 7 All the Cat hoI i c high schools in the Diocese of Fall River will conduct an En trance and Placement Exam ination for new students at 8:30 A.M. Saturday, March 7. Stu dents wishing to .enter any of these schools next September should report to the school of their choice prepared to take a three-hour examination. There will be a two dollar free, payable at the time of the examination. The students need bring no records with them, nor do their parents have to accom pany them. Complete informa tion as to courses, activities, etc. will be' given at that time. High schools of the Diocese of Fall River are as follows: Attle.boro Bishop Feehan High School (for boys and girls) . . Fairhaven - Sacred Hearts Academy (for girls only). Fall River - Academy of the Sacred Hearts (for girls only), Dominican Academy (for girls only), Jesus-Mary Academy (for girls only), Mount St. Mary AcaTurn to Page Two
150 Communities Now ·Experiment In Shared Tim·e ATLANTIC CITY (NC) Experiments in shared time are increasing in number, with 150 communities in the nation presently participating, and more joining each year. This was reported here as 25, 000 members of the American Association of School Adminis trators attended their 100th con ference in Convention Hall. Two of the convention's major discussion meetings were de voted to shared time, while three programs on a special closed television circuit, .which enabled delegates to follow the programs in their hotel rooms or lobbies, had shared' time as a theme. Turn to Page Twenty
TV Cancellation The D i 0 c e san Television Mass, viewed each Sunday morning at 10 over New Bed ford TV Station WTEV-Chan. Del 6, is cancelled for this coming Sunday only, March 1. as a continuous Telethan to benefit the March of Dimes has pre-empted all programs. The televised Mass will con tinue to be seen on Sunday. March 8, and every Sunday thel'eafter.
DIOCESAN .PRIEST, NAVY CHAPLAIN: Rev. John Pegnam of Hyannis is sworn in as Lieutenant (JG) by Capt. Francis L. McGann, chaplain of the First Naval Dis trict, Boston.
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I=ather Pegnam to Serve In Navy Chaplain Corps Rev. John W. Pegnam, assistant at St. Francis Xavier Hyannis, was sworn into the Navy Chaplain Corps. Thursday, Feb. 20, by Captain Francis L. McGann, U.S.N.. First Naval District Chaplain, at Navy Recruiting Head. quarters, Boston. Commis Whitman g ram mar schools, sioned lieutenant, j u n i 0 r Cardinal Farley Military Aca grade, Father Pegnam will demy in New York, St. Jerome's report Monday at the Chap Preparatory Seminary in Kit ~arish,
lains' Indoctrination S c h 0 0 1, New port, for eight weeks' training. . Son of Mrs. Marion Spellman Pegnam of Whitman and the late Arthur S. Pegnam, Father Spell man was ordained May 7, 1960 in St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York, by his uncle, Francis Car dinal Spellman, Archbishop of New York. He was educated in
chener, Ontario, and Mount St. Mary's Seminary, Emmitsburg, Md. He Offered his First Solemn Mass in his home parish church, Holy Ghost in Whitman, and was assigned to St. Francis Xavier effective May 12, 1960. Bishop Connolly named Father Pegnam Cape CYO Director the following year.
Participation in Liturgy Layman's R~ght and Duty By Rev. John R. FoIster St. Anthony Church --' New Bedford
Just about every diocese the w.orld over has emphasised the need of participation in the liturgy according to the word and spirit of the Vatican Council's Decree and the January 25th directive of Pope Paul VI. It is a more or less difficult endeavor de bishops spoke of litur pending on how badly or well assembled gical reform with a note of im had been put into effect the mediacy and some are quickly reforms of Popes Pius XII to turn difficulties into "wel and John XXIII. .There seems to be no diffi culties in theory: the layman does have certain powers and rights stemming from the Sacra ments of Baptism and Confir mation. However, in the exercise of these powers and the practical difficulties of parish life, certain crises do arise. Add to all this that both Pope Paul and the
comed temptations" to .1 0 • things down. In his series on the explana tion of the liturgical decree, the Rev. Frederick McM·anus, re known 1 it u r g i stand canon lawyer, points to two apparent obstacles put forward by many: (1) reformation of books and texts will \,!Ike a long time and Turn. to Page Six