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'~ardinCiI Sp~llmcin to Ordain Mansfield ,Ma.n en June 14 /
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. Rev; Mr. Raymond, H. Kelley of Mansfield will be' ~ained a priest of the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of A-merica on Saturday, June 14, at the Maryknoll Major ~minary in Maryknpll, New York. The new p'riest, who is. Itle son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Spe'ncer Kelley of 25 Bella
Vista A venue, Mansfield, wilt take part in Maryknoll's 41st-annual Departure Ceremony the following day, Sunday, when he will officially be assigned to the missions of Formosa. His Eminence Francis Cardi
til ,Spellman of New York will
t.e the ordaining prelate for this Tear's class of 48 deacons.' First Solemn Mass Father Kelley will celebrate bis first Solemn High Mass at 11:30 Sunday morning, June 22, in St. Mary's Church, Mansfield. 'Father Edward Paquette of St. Mary's Church will be the as,.. lIistant priest. Other officers of the Mass will be: Father William Jordan of St. .John's Church, Central Village, Turn to Page Twenty , REV. ~R. ~ELLEY
Love of God Religious Open First American Convent In New Bedford Sunday
A Spanish religious community formally opens its first United States convent next Sunday in the parish of Qur Lady of the Assumption, New Bed ford. Its members thus join the 24 other religious communities already active ' in the Fall River Diocese. ,Two Si~ters will open the new house. The Religious of the Love of God, with their 'Mother house i!1 Zamora, Spain, number some 1,500 members in Europe, Africa, and the Amer
icas. At the invitation 'of the
Most Reverend Bishop, they will
undertake teaching, catechetical,
and soCial work in the New Bed
ford parish of which Rev. John Godelaer, S8.CC., is pastor and ,Rev. Raphael, flammia, SS.CC.. is assistant.
They are, in this country
. largely through the efforts. of
Rev. Edmund Francis, 5S.CC.,
until last week assistant pastor
of Our Lady of the Assumption, but now pastor at St. Mary's, Fairhaven. He learned of the work of the Religious of the
Love of God during a visit to the Cape Verde Islands three years Turn to Page Seventeen
Chicago Mourns At Cardinal's Last Rites
ESTABLISH NEW DIOCESAN COMMUNITY: Rev. Mother General Cruz Roderiques, R.A.D., (left) and Mother Mercedes Ferreras Nicolas, R.A.D., are in New Bedford to establish their first community in the United States. Mother Nicolas will head the New Bedford convent. Mother General Roderiques wil! shortly return to her headquarters in Spain.
When Cardinal Stritch left ,Chicago a little over a m9nth ago to take up his new duties in Rome as Pro-Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, he told the throng at' the railroad station that he would return some day to Chfcago, and. he hoped that some would come down to welcome him back. Thousands were at the air port when the Cardinal's body Ten Diocesan priests and a Fall River Sulpician Father arrived back from Rome last will celebrate Silver Jubilees next week, marking 25 years '\. Friday. , of service in God's priesthood. The Funeral Mass was cele All but Rev. Laureano C. dos Reis were ordained June brated Tuesday morning with Turn to Page Seven 10, 1933 by the late Most tions in Diocesan institutions. Rev. James E. Cassidy, D.D., Now the rector of St. Mary'. Ma;y Trond of Holy Rosary Parish, Taunton, was elected Cathedral, Rev. Arthur W. Tan Bishop of Fall River, the president of the ... ecently organized Fall River Diocesan sey served at St. Joseph's, Woods ceremony biking place in St. Youth Council at a meeting of regional officers in the Ken Mary's Cathedral. Father dos Hole; St. Peter's, Provincetown; nedy Youth Community ,Center, New Bedford. .Reis was ordpined June 11, 1933 St. Paul's, Taunton; Holy Name, Fall River; St. Mary's, Taunton; Others chosen as the first tary, and Michael O'Hearne, in the Aiores. St. John's, Attleboro; 'St. The activities of the Jubila BROOKLYN (NC) - The treasurer. officers of the council are Joseph's, North Dighton; Sacred rians have included service in Fall River - Howard Taft, Church in the United States Vice-president Robert Blan parishes ,throughout the Diocese, .Heart, Oak Bluffs, and St. James, New Bedford. He was also a ehette, St. Boniface Parish, , president; Anne Marie Ouellette, and its possessions of Alaska terms as Army and Navy chap New Bedford; Secretary Michael vice-president; Elaine Dempsey, 'and Hawaii is in the midst Turn &0 Page Five lains, and administrative posiO'Hearne, Immaculate Concep secretary, and Terrance Lomax, of an increasing vocation short treasurer. age which is nothing less than tion, Ta~nton, and Treasurer Sto~ehill, Cape - Regina Bohlin, presi a crisis. , William Orsi, St. Mary's, Taun dent; Joyce Griffin, vice-presi-' ·In the past decade, the num ton. Nominated as committee chair- dent; Judith Kiernan, secretary, ber of priests, Brothers and Sis and Robert Chase,treasurer. Twenty-seven stude~ts from the Fall River Diocese are ters in this country, Alaska and men were Rita LeBlanc, Sj)lf itual; Anne Marie Ouellette, cul New Bedford-Rober Roberts, the Hawaiian Islands has in among June graduates of Stonehill College in North Easton. tural; Robert Roberts, social,' president; Rita LeBlanc, vice"'; creased less than half as fast as "The dynamic'ideal of the Sermon on the Mount is-more IlI1d Howard Taft, recreational. president; Robert Blanchette, ,the number of Catholics they urgently needed today than training for engineering or tech must serve.
Two names were chosen from secretary, and Michale Calla Population Ga,n nical careers," the graduates Msgr. Franc,is J. Lally, editor of among the regional officers pres ghan, treasurer. Plans, are being, made for the , According to P. J. Kenedy and were told by Massachusetts The Pilot, Boston's Archdiocesan ent as candidates for each coun cil office and voted upon by the four Diocesan officers to attend Sons, publisher of the "Official, Governor. Foster, Furcolo, newspaper, and Dewey David the New England Youth 'Council Catholic Directory," there were delegates. Stone, Brockton industrialist and Commencement speaker. Regional officers elected earlier meeting at Beimirigton, Vt., i90,165 priests and Religious philanthropist, were recipieng Governor Furcolo,' Very Rev. of honorary degrees. , ,Turn to Page Seventeen • their own areas are as follows: June 21 and 22. Taunton-Willam Orsi, presi'From the Towns The graduating seniors from dent; Patricia Ma"nning, vice.~ .1fresident; Mary Trond, secre•• :'1:'1 this, Diocese are: from Nortb Attl~boro, Sheila Maloney, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. RollilUl V. ).VIaloney, 18 James Street, Bachelor of Arts. From Somer J" By Patricia When we visited the Bishop Stang pay Nursery at 217 Third "Street, Fall River, we set, Richard J. Kaegael, son of , Mrs.-Pauline G. Kaegael, 71 Rip took along a very young reporter. Reporters are supposed to be objective, but she wasn't. Turn &0 Page Eighteen i'Mother Mary Catherine,: When she got home and poured out her morning's adventures to her daddy and grandma, '"", it.S.M., Mother Provincial of there was no mistaking her enthusiasm for the Nursery and everything connected with it.
Eleven Clergy to Observe 25 Years in Priesth'ood
Taunton' Girl Elected President Of New Diocesan Youth Council
Lag in Vocations Causes Serious Church Crisis
College Awards Degrees To 27 Students From Diocese ,
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In an jumble she told of the children she'd played with, the white-clad ,Sisters who cared for them, the beautiful blue rosary Mother Yves de St. Jean had given her,
Sisters dOrL t keep open house seven days a week instead of a mere five. Happiness, indeed, seems, to
Province of Providence, has announced the launching of a building expansion program in four institutions of the Province. ,Because of the increasing number of Postulants and Nov,~O l f:A ic:es, it has become necessary to and, best of all, the red lollipop ~~' , ,''1 A _, enlarge the Novitiate Building that had been slipped into her~" '£7'/ at Mt. St. Rita in Cumberland. hand as she reluctantly took her () SUPPORT <"'..L It is planned to add a wing to the departure. THE present building which will conHer experience wasn·t unique. 1- CATHOLIC PRESS -t tRin a chapel, classrooms, and a Sister Charles Levi and Sister IYrnnasium. Albert de Ste. Anne, the smiling .. BUY FROM THE The program calls for a new guardian angels of the 'tots, told. ADVERTISERS IN ." building for Mercymo\lnt Coun- us story after story of children· '" CATHOLIC r try Day School in Cumberland. who are brokenhearted when ~ From its inauguration ,ten years sniffles keep' them' from the (:' P~PERS ~ -.0, classes at Mercymount.' 'Nursery. And a good many small -..:.:c~S l\:. \ ' ~ &0 Page EleveD citizens see no reason why t h e - , , f"
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Points Out People Are Responsible ForWorld Evil
CLEVELAND (NC) When we complain that the world is "corrupt, evil, god. less and empty," we are branding our own generation," says ,Bishop John King Mussio of Steubenville, It is "monstrously silly" to condemn the world as "incurably evil," Bishop Mussio declared, adding people should recognize that they themselves are » blame for evil in the world. 'Qishop Mussio made the state , Turn &0 Page Seve.
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