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SCHOOL FOR SISTERS:, Rt. Rev. Msgr. J. Joseph Sullivan, pastor of Sacred Heart . Parish, Fall River, blesses one of the classrooms in the building, left, recently purchased and renovated by the Holy Union of the Sacred Hearts to provide additional facilities for their School of Education. -,
Catholic Action t-(ecessary 'For Community Spirit. WASHINGTON-Parochial Catholic action organizations are essential to create "community and parish spirit". within the massive urban parish, a lay publishing executive said here. vincent Giese, editor of Fides Publishers, Chicago, declared that est'ab
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PAPAL BLESSING: Rev. Edward A. Oliveira, diocesan· director of the Legion of Mary, presents document of Papal Blessing to his pastor, Rev. E. Sousa de' Mello.. of OU'r Lady of Lourdes 'church, Taunton.
Visit to' Lourdes Highlights Legion of M~ry Pilgri.mage
By Patricia McGowan ..A general audience with the Pope?" Sorry, Father, there won't be any for the next few days." , Rev. Edward A. Oliveira and his pilgrimage group turned away in disappointment. Then their informant l~arned that they were mem- ceived, not in general ~ssembl;, bers of the Legion of Mary. but in a coveted semi-private That changed everything. audience. . Immediately arrangements As this incident indicates,' the were made for them to be re- Legion of Mary is.. close to the :.Turn to Page seventeen ..
Ordinary Closes All-Negro Plant As Unnecessary
YOUNGSTOWN (NC)
An'all-Negro parish estab iished here in 1945 has been closed and its members have been· assigned to other parishes ~ ,the city by order of Bishop Emmett M. Walsh of Youngs-
Prelate . Blesses Mode,n Rectory At No. Attleboro . The histor~c roundho.use, a landmark in North Attle boro for more than a c~ntury, was officially replaced by a new $200,000 rectory at St. Mary Church Sunday afternoon. The Rt. Rev. Msgr. James J. Gerrard, Vicar General of the Diocese of Fall River, dedicated and blessed the two-story brick building before a gathering of parishioners, friends and priests. Priests of the parish will now have comfort and convenience, two "luxuries" which were mis sing in the roundhouse. TheYI have much more room in which to carry out. their duties and eomplete suites in which to live. : Located n~xt to. the beautiful Turn to Page Fifteen
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lishment of such groups is the Church's answer to the "sociological problem" which exists in the large, imperson al parish, He made the statement in an address to a two-day meet Rev. Antonio M. Cabral ing of the lay committee of the Ferreira' of the Society of national center of the Confra Jesus will sing his first ternity of Christian Doctrin"l. , More than 40 delegates from Solemn High Mass at 11 A. M. Sunday in Immaculate 36 U. S. dioceses attended the lay committee's seventh annual Conception Church, New Bed . meeting. Bishop Matthew F. ford. Father Ferreira was ordained Brady. of' Manchester, N. H., Episcopal Chairman of the CCD June 19 in Immaculate Concep tion Church, Montreal,' by Hi. lay committee, presided, Eminence Cardinal Leger, Arch Double Aspect bishop of Montreal. .'\ member Mr. Giese,' speaking on "The' . of the Province. of Portugal, he Parish Community," called at completed his studIes for the tention to the "double aspect" priesthood at the house r>f . Turn to Page Fourteen studies of the Society 10 Mont real. He had previously attended the University of Lisbon. T,he ,Most Reverend Bishop Born Aug. 25, 1927 at Oporto, has, granted a dispensation from Turn tq, Page Five the law of abstinence for' Friday, Independence Day, .Jul,.· 4.
Fr. Ferreira Sings First High Mass Next Sunday
Dispensation
Third Order of.. St. Francis· Nuns Mothers ·Mfillg at St. Marg's -' .
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'~We'do everythi~g that nuns can do !"Thus Sister Grace: Pierre,' O.S.F., Superior
of St. Mary's-Home, New"Bedford, summed up the work of 'her cqmmunity, the' Sisters ,of the ThiJ,'d. Order of St. Francis. The con gregation numbers ·1,500 members th~ugh out the United States and abroad and directs schools, hospitals, .homes .for .children and the, aged' and cate~hetical ,'in W94, the Si~ters have given ;good' indeed. We. sensed' the centers, in addition to labor- . tho~sands of boys and girls the. home atmosphere' of the big red ·town. . . 'In 'announcing the parish clos in~ i~ 'the Negro and Indian neA~~es:h~i~~~~f~':::yi~ar:~ry brick lJuild,ing as soon as we ing, Bishop Walsh said"the need mISSIons. . entered it. Sister Grace' Pierre, lor the parish no longer' exists. In this Diocese, however; the seated in her office; ..was' soothing five-year-old Russell, who'd Negroes in the Youngstown Sisters are krlOwn for. their oper-. area have been attending Masses ation of St. Mary's Home. which managed to soak his new sneakers l'n a te'mptl'ng p~ddle. in parishes in the vicinity of receives children of all ages, from a , their homes, and membership at five year old pre-schoolers to "Can I have some candy, Sister?" St. Augustine dwindled steadily . teen-age high school . students. he whispered, artd~ like mothers .. more of the city's Negroes In charge of St. Mary's since everywhere, Sister completed Turn to Page Five its opening as a children's home Turn to Page Se\tenteen
'Scientist Marks Humility Need Of Space Age
HUNTSVILLE (NC) Man needs humility in the " face ·of scientific achieve ments like earth satellites, nof idolatry of his accom plishments. . This is the view of Wernher v9n Braun, former German scientist credited. by many with leading the development of the 'Army's successful satellite
launching Jupiter C. rocket.
He makes no secret 'of his be . lief. that technological advances have pinpointed more than ever man's need for "ethical guid ance." . Turn to Page Sixteen
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Educational Legacy of America
Asks Serrans to Renew Vocations Effort to Offset Secular Apathy
CHICAGO (NC)-Bishop John K. Mussio of Steuben NEW YORK (NC)-Hailing American aid to Philippine ville has called on delegates to the 16th annual Serra Inter education since 1901 as this country's greatest legacy to national convention 'to renew their efforts in fostering the islands, President Carlos P. Garcia of the Philippines, religious vocations to offset the apathy of. Catholics con said the foundations for that achievement had been laid taminated by secularism. . three centuries earlier by lca . h a d a goo d f oun d a t·lOn on press disappointment when a the Catholic Church. . which to base that" system, and The Ohio Ordinary em- talented young man goes to the phasized corruption of Cath- semimiry. Their unspoken Speaking at Fordham Uni- that foundation was laid by the olic spirit by a secular thought is: 'Such a waste of versity, where he received church, which for more than eominunity is "the real tragedy brilliant talent.' FATIMA CHAPLAIN: an honorary degree from Jesuit three centuries brought to us of our time." "There 'is not an inconsid.erFather Laurence J. McGinley, the benevolent influence of the Father Nicholas J. Bonet Labeling the secularized at.., able n~m.ber of Catholics," he Fordham president, the Philip- Christian' Faith. titude of the community as "a added, "who believe that their sky, a Russian prince by pine' leader said U. S. soldiers The work of those early Benedict Arnold to the spirit- responsibility toward vocations birth and brother of the late had been the. first public school soldier-teachers, he' added, ual aspirations of youth," the ends with their dropping a coin Alexander J. Bonatt of Fall teachers in the years after the "mainly accounts for the demo Bishop deplored the negative at- into the collection basket for Rfver, has arrived in Fatima ceding of the islands to the U.S. cratic ideology which has so titude of some Catholics toward seminary support." .. . .. by Spain at. the end of the effectively won the masses of lOeligious vocations. Pointing out that "the 'r~ad' to take over his n~w post Spanish-American War. our peeple and which has made "It is not strange,": be· said,f9ced by vocations i~ th~s mo.derD 'ehapl~in ~t Blue Army. . In" esta'blishing its schools, . them spurn the blandishmenta ... bear. &Orne ,Catholica Ut-. . _ TurD fe P.....Twel. .· , , -'" ..·beadquarters;. NC Photo.' President· 'Garcia 'said, "Amer-" . Turn to Pace Sixteea
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