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Diocesan Teac:,ers J~eet· Next· Week
The Third Annual Convention' of the Catholic Teachers Association of the Diocese of Fall River will be held at St. Anne's School, Fall River on . '. Thursday aIid Friday of .next week, Apl'il 24 and 25. The meeting will bring
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man the 57 elementary and . B a c k H o m 10 high schools of our Diocese. . " . ·.e e r . .ea rs The fruit of their discussions "They came all the way to New York to see me for 15 will affect the educational destinies of some 20,000 students in' minutes!" Sister Mary Fursey ofthe Franciscan Missionaries
oss~, urs pr. ',' , the schools under their super- of Mary was speaking of her FalJ River brothers and sisters
vision. from whom she'd been separated for 41 years until the 16 'Second' CI~ M.il PriYilee. 10c . . ' $4.00 PRICE ..... Y_, National 'FI'gu-- . minute reunion,. which took . . Fall Kit'er~ Ma.. AathoriSedat r.,I The keynote speaker of the place last week on the New
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H o l y U n i ' o n . : C o n g r e ' g a t i o n : ... .work· in Africa ':' , " .; . :' . . I' .,,' fle\d of education. Doctor CrIb. "My family. only. learned the ." Reverend Mother GabrIel Clare, ProvIncIal .of.the m~" 'bin will address the group on date of 'JJ:\y arrival'.cme day be~ . maculate Heart Province of the Holy Union of the ':$acred .. "Contradictions in Education." . . : fore the ship was due at New , Hearts, will observe next Sunday.the golden jubilee .o( her .. A ,preview of the program in~' ,York," explained Sister, "and as entering the Congregati~n. . ' . '., .' :. . :::'.. , '.: '. ,di<:ates t,hat· 1Ji:any outs~nding many of them as could drove Rt. Rev. J. Joseph Sullivan Mal7ch 11, ~908.•. ·Sbe·.came:to sP,e;:tkers ,of nahOl~al prommence dOYvn to meet me. But by the will be celebrant of a High ,this countr-yi!l 1912,: where .she • ~11l prt.esent da vartl.ety 10f tabl~S 0tn time I 'was: off: the"· ~p. . and _.. . was _assigp.ed ·to St.. :I~iary's ,High'. Impor ant e uca IOna su Jec s. through customs, they had only .:Mass to be offered at 9.30 School, Taunton. She' nair been 'Alrel,lQ.y, definitely secur~d for 'fifteen minutes to spend· with me . :A..~. in the chapel of the Superior of St.. Mary's . and St., .the occasion are the following:' .. : before they had to start back to Provincial House, 520' ROck Joseph's: in .Taunton ··'and· '·also 'Miss :Mary, EUen. Heffernan,' FaU . . .R iver.But . they' provided Street, Fall River. The Superi- Sacred Hearts:'Academy; 'Fall ~IteadiIlg: Consultant, Scott, 'me.with one o(ttIe biggest sur .prises of my lite! . River. She has been' Provincial . Foresrri.a~, Company, New York; , . "I never expected they would since '1952. " " .On: "Reading the Cathedral Turn .to Page" Four . ..: " 'Basic Way."·. :~ .", .' .
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College, North Easton; On: "Catholic Literature in the Catholic 'High School." Rev. Joseph Manton, C.SS:R./ Rt. Re,v. Msgr. James J. Turn to Page Sixteen . WASHINGTON (NC) Gerrard, V.G" of New Bed The U, S. House JUdiciary ford, will preach the sermon Committee will soon consider at the solemn High Mass in legislation designed to clamp Immaculate 'Conception Church, a tighter ban on the distribution Taunton at 11 A. M. Sunday in of obscene material through the obsel'vance of the 75th anniver . mails. sary of the parish. Rev.'Thomas The bill would make it possi Taylor, pastor, will be celebrant. ble to prosecute .persons, who Immac~late Conception Par-' use the mails to distribute inde ish, third oldest in' the cii;y of .cent literature, in' the place Taunton, was established Jan.' where it is delivered .. At pres 10, 1883, with the Rev. James F. ent they can be prosecuted only Roach as its first pastor. .. where it is placed in the mails. Establishment of the. parish . Seldom Punished had been brought about by a \) . Officials of the U. S. Post rapidly increasing Catholic pop MOTHER GABRIEL' CLARE :~ Office Department have said ulation in Whittenton. Accord \.::) that most obscene material is ora from the various convents of ingly, St. Mary's was divided for mailed from New York and Los the Province will be present. the second time to forma parish Angeles. It has bee.,. charged The Reverend Mother atten for both the English and French that. smut peddlers are seldom ded the Holy Union Convent at speaking Catholics in 'the North ·convicted in those Cities. Danagher, Ireland, and entered End. The' bill would also provide a the Congregation at Highgate -~R, JAMES J. CRmBIN' TUm to .Page Eighteen Turn to Page Sev.ente~D Road, London, England on .
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Taunton Parish ,h ·t· 75 Observes · . A nnlversary
Advises, Colleges Stress. Quality
Congress Ready To Clamp Down On Pornography·
SISTER MARY FURSEY
Hospitals Save Gotham Millions NEW YORK (NC)-Cath olic hospitals save New York City at least "an additional hundred million of taxpayer dollars." Speaking in behalf of the New York Catholic Charities 1958 fund appeal, New York Hospital Commissione~ Morris A. ~aco~s called attentIOn to the gigantiC
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mll.hon people. PHILADELPHIA (NC) . " . By Patricia McGowan· .... , " W e have-help, much help,"
Confronted by a choice be Spring flowers were showing in the Highlands gardens and sunlight sparkled on the he said, "from the private vol
tween education of superior quality and education for the Taunton River as we visited the soon to be opened nursing wing of the Catholic Memorial untary hospitals which, together
' hI d A F II R' . Off" II k th B' h C 'd M . I with the municipal hospitals,
greatest number of stUdents,' th~ H ome on H I~ a~. v~nue, a. lV~r. . ICIa y. no~n as e IS op ~SSI y. em?rla, form a network of facilities that
Catholic college ought to choose the 74-bed wmg IS deSIgned to p~'ovlde long-term nursmg care for chrOnIcally III patIents reaches into every area of the
quality. city. One of the most important That was the advice of Russell of 65 and over. Such a tour of inspection ~~~~"~"'~,~"'~~"""~ ".Theseare hospital beds," units in' this nt;.twork are the
ltirk, editor and author, in a 't th ht th . pointed out Mother, "but they're \ hospitals affiliated with the New
talk at the National Catholic Ed wasn , ~e oug ' . e gayTwo full pages of pictures .motorized. Nurse or patient York Catholic Charities." oational Association convention. est pOSSIble way to spend a of the new Bishop' Cassidy need merely push a button to "Beds in the Catholic instituThe college' "ought to choose Sl}rl' ng afternoon but that Memorial Wing' of the Ca.tholic . raise th~m to regulation hospital tions total 4 525. Translating this . quality," he said, "for the sake ·· 1y Memorial Home in Fall River bed height or lower them to figure alone' into terms of com not simply of scholarship, .but. was b e fore we me t e ff IClent · are on Pages 10 and 11 of this h eerf u I M0th er: M ary Maurlce, c standard height. We will, of muriity service, if the city had • • '" the effectual defense of edition. course, have tray service for to supply this number of addiChristian faith and Christian O. Carm.., superior of the M;emorial Home, and before ,we saw ",~",~,."""""""",,,,~ patients who must stay in bed," tional beds, it would mean an learning," the new wing. At the 'end of the. she continued, as we moved additional hundred million of Dr. Kirk said that the '\inter afternoon we were feeling quite able chairs awaited guests in along the corridor, which is taxpayer dollars." est of all Christians, and of all envious of the lucky 74 who'll each room, and cheerful, peach- equipped with handrails for our civilization, will be better be the first to occupy itli rooms.' colored curtains separated the patients needing such assistance, served today by a reputation for beds in the rooms for two and, 'I . Cheerful) and Comfortable ' but we WI 1 encourage any who intellectual power and moral four patients, Individual therm- can get up to do, so, and for worth, than by mere numbers. Our first impressions, as we' ostats. control each room's heat, them' we've provided dining Any folly or fallacy can attract entered ·the new wing, were of and a two-channel radio system. rooms on each floor." She SPOKANE (NC)-A Su
numbers. But in the long run, sunshine and color everywhere, adjoins every bed. In addition,.
perior Court judge has up it will be possible to. "pipe" sh~wed us a pleasant parlor, intelligence will tell." the .sunshine reflected .f rom held the local released-time music throughout' the building Turn to Page Thirteen Predicting that Catholic col gleaming floors, gaily patterned·
leges "simply will not be able walls, and crisp, colorfUl bed by means of a newly installed religious education program,
to afford to be all things to all spreads, Modern but comfort." .'public address ·system. saying it is' "not only a worthy,
men," Dr. Kirk said they "will but a necessary adjunct to our Each of the three floors of' the not be able to increase infinite educational system."
wing has four pri~cte rooms,ex ..,. in size or number, and at the
Judge Raymond F. Kelly ruled plained Mother Maurice,. while <J~ SUPPORT ,~~ Ame time be able to improve, that the program did not violate other rooms accommodate two o THE or even maintain, their stand Federal or State constitutional
or four patients. Every room ards of scholarship.
has' a private lavatory, tiled in f -t prohibitiollil against using public
"They are going to have to
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colors to harmonize with the BUY FROM THE The suit against the program
make a hard choice, I suspect:
room's. color scheme. Our fav charged it was uncollf:,titutional ADVERTISERS IN J to give a great mass of students
OI'ite was tiled in pale blue, to . and contended that it gave no • mediocre training in almost comple&ent a lovely room with "" CA THOLIC .,.. "academic advantages" 'to pupils,
everything, or to give a tolerable blue floor, predominantly blue ~(:' . PAPERS ~0 but operated solely for the bene
DUDlber of select students a'
wallpaper and ·drape!!, and sky fit of the' sponsoring church
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