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NewParish Buildings Under Construction With Summer weather favoring construction, parish plants throughout the Dioces0 are adding new buildings or making additions and alterations to already existing structures. In New Bedford, St. Casimir and St. He:lwig's parishes are building new churches. At St. Casimir's, construction is planned for ~ompletion by the end of this year. Founda,., tions and floors are already in place and workmen are now laying walls. At St. Hedwig's, it is expected that
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the new church ,will be completed next month, The roof is on the 'building and the steeple remains to be erected. When interior furnishings are in place, the building will be ready for .
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Also in New Bedford, work Ihas started on a new rectory for St. Ann's parish. It will probably be completed by the end of the year, say priests of the pari.sh, and will be a two-story buildmg with 15 or 16 rooms. St. Ann's Church, Raynham, Is in the process of receiving finishing touches in preparation for dedication ceremonies this Sunday. It will accommodate some 400 families in the Raynham area. Scheduled for Fall completi()ll ·Is the new St. William's Church, Fall River. It will incorporate many new features in ecclesi-' astical architecture and will be of contemporary Georgian architecture. It is the first new Catholic church to be erected in the cioty of Fall River in 20 years. Parish centers are under COIlstruction in, St. Mary's parish, Norton and Immaculate Conception, North Easton.
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Bishop Connolly has appointed Rev. John E. Boyd as Diocesan Director of the National Office for Decent Literature. Father Boyd i1'l Supervisor of Diocesan Charities and will also serve as Director of the Diocesan Bureau off Information. Established by the Catholic Bishops of the United States in December, 1938, the National Office fur Decent Literature has for its purpose "to set in motion the mor~l forces of the entire country . • • ag,ainst the lascivious type of Htera'ture which threatens moral, soci'al and nattonal ·life." NODL is a service organization which coordinates activities and supplies information to all' interested groups regardle3S of lJ8ce, color or creed. Originally concerned 0 n I y with. magazines, . NQDL published a Hilt of those it found objectionaJ»e for youth. Since the appear,ance on the market of the' modern comic book and pocket-size book, it has been FATHER BOYD
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include four rooms; a kitchen, and auditorium-gymnasium, is ~" ST. ANN'S CHURCH, RAYNHAM: Bishop Connolly expected to be finished in six to eight months. It wiH be used ST. LOUIS (N -The ,50, mem ers 0 e l\o wl'll bless the new Raynham ChUl'ch on Sunday afternoon for t'lOnaI F ederat'IOn 0 f ov C'~d al't' social purposes and ca;telies 0 fOr u Lady I'n thI'S countM? •¥ at 4' o'clock and a Low Mass will be celebrated following the chetical instruction. have been urged to observe Sunday, July 16 as a speciai ~·remony. Other pictures of this Church on Page 20. At Norton the parish center day of pr~yer f<;>r 'Cuba by Joseph Cardinal Ritter, Arch-. . will comprise a basketball court bishop of St. .Louis, their now the pretext for' their im", with a stage at one end, two E' Th prisonment. classrooms capable of being conpls~opaI Mdt . o era or. e "Though it is not flor' us lll» verted into a single all-purpose Cardmal saId July 16 waS resort to violence we cannOl!l room' and two other smaller chosen beca.u-se it is the remain silent iri race of thitl Classrooms. There' will also be· of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. injustice and oppression, ..,. , LISIEUX (NC) - Devotion to the Blessed Virgin "is .: hali for' caiechetical .use, a He pledged spiritual' support for Ameri9QJt Sodalists, united wit1l the mark of a truly Catholic heart," Pope John' said- in a fully' equipped, kitchen,' showecll ."thoSe leaders" whose" valia nit them by the common bond oi. radio broadcast . .to., a national congress studying Mary's,' aria pul;>Hc rooms. . ..;...:: . 'Catholic action,'6";ce- a role of . Sooality life, \ve pledge our full . . of At West Harwich, Holy. Trin-:-, honor, is now the']>I-etext ",for _ 'spiritual su'pport by our. praY"" spiritual motherhood. The Pope _told the closing,sessIOn . ily pa'rish's new building,' to be· their imprisonment. . , . , . ers, our ~as..'les, our sacrifices.. the French national Marian expre~ng itse~ al.wa~s with the... uSed' for' catechetlca'l instruction "In this difficult time of trial . "To them 'alljO we pledge that customary manifestations·of the '.' J':.~...it to p,;.-......·~;F.iiteea' . ' .... - fOr the Catholics of Cuba," 'the "sPeCial' loya,uy of those WM,' CI ongress :."Wh a tevermaybe centuries-old veneration willed f l 'f t t d Cardinal stated, "Catholics of share by choice, as well as bf our s a:e o l e an our by the Church of' Jesus Christ . the. U'nited States of America' gift,'a common Mother. responsibilities, we are all of for the Mother, of the Saviour," pledge their support to' their "What we. have long felt .. Us enveloped by the. sweet the Pope said. C b M 't he t h rts k . of the Vi . M "Also avo'd everything extra .'. ., 00 $. brethren In u a. ay 1 ar en our ea we no.w spea open ~aternity rgm ary, I ,them to know that their defense lest' they be tempted to think who does for us' the same ·things ,ordinary, beloved sons, and seek S~a.te·. S'~"p"'P' of the Church and of human jus- th.atno one knows or cares that done by a1'1 mothers for .their' on the. contrary that Marian tice is not forgotten by the free they bear these chains' fOff Children: she loves, she watche3t devotioll which is most assured ~PARIS (NC) -:- The ·gov- world. To all who suffer for Chrisi. $he protects, she intercedes. by tradition, Nch as .has been er.Jlmtmt of'President Charles their faith a:nd for justice's sake, "Therefore, all of us, the ~.Ci> I "All Catholics are conseQuenthanded down to us from the be- , deGauile~ ,be~t -o~ .husband- we offer our sympathy and we • 500,000 Sodalists of the United . Iy the children of Our Lady and ginning through the formulas of ..' pledge o·ur. prayers." States, . offer foF them on Jul,. . ~eir:pietY for Mary must reflect prayers of ~e' S\,lccessivegener- irl'g every reso·urce,to.restore· . "We' IJ8lute ,espooial,ly' ,16, Fe.ast C1f.' Our Lady of Mount this-.common membership.lQ, the ations of Chri~tians who' came· French' grandeur,'hasprovided: leaders 'whose valiallt.'Catholic .Carmel, our· Masses: and. OYl' ~mily of the children' of God. from the East and. the West!'" 'financial- pro'ps fotFJ.'Qnce's de~ Action;' once"a' ro'le- 'of h<>nor,ie '. Tura to Pafre Fifteea \ norriinational schools.
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·Moscow Chaplain Former' bo~ri:~tr;Zv:;~~:~lt~oi~~}~ Fath'er; Lordi' O.P. to Mar~ J"U b-,I e.eln '.' Rome BaSI.,.Ica '~ f"IIIIIIIew· Be dford . ReSI·d ent 0 f. -.... the beginning of the ceiJ.tu'Ty, when all Religious were banned from teaching and their 16,904 A former student at St. Joseph~s paroChial school, New schools were ordered closed. The Bedford, has been named as· the new chaplain to American bitter I~S90ns of half .a century· Catholics in Moscow. Father Joseph F. Richard, A.A., known have· broug~t Catholic ~hools Lo' back to their key role -m the in religion a8 Father Frederick, will replace Father. UIS drama of national n!stomtion.. A, Dion, A.A., who has been ' The law offering fin~!lciaLsupserving the American C9'onY p O r t to private schools was proin Mosco~.since January, posed. by' P~esident de Ga\lll~:s Premier, Michel Debre, and IS 1959. "I am <;>O'oing to M.osoalled the "Debre Law" on that cow to say Mass, preach and account. It was plll>sed at the end <!administer the sacraments to of 1959, despite outl'age.d OPPOSInembers of the American 001ition from secularists. OOY," the 47-year':old Assump-o . ., .'., As one' resuLt of the law, par&ionist said. 'Born in Bouctouche, New ents 'have almost 'per,fect free8runswick, F'ather F -_.> , . k .~erlc domof . '.:choosing schools fur oame to the United States the llheir children. Financial bar• of three. After elementar,y riel'S have been v.irtually abolage education at St. Joseph's he atished, ,Even. ,in public schools, tended Assumptl()ll High School parents may. send their children ,",d Assumption College, Warto ·tWQ hours of religious' incester. He left college in 1933 structiQn·weekly. '. after two years and went into The application of tlMi La,! difsecretarial work before enter. fers .according to the level of mg the Assumptionists in 1940. the school, the qualifications of Father Frederick will leave its teaching staff, .and especiaUy New York for Moscow'on Wedaccording to' theamoum of mesday, AUff. 9. He must be b state supervision it is willing tQ Mo..<;cow by Sept. 1 at the latest. accept. '!'url!', to !"agc Fifteeo MATHE_It FREDERIC~ A.A. Turn to Page Fifteen I
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The unusual privilege of celebrating his silver jubiIH Mass at St. Peter's Basilica, Rome, will be enjoyed Wednes. ,day Aug 2 by' Rev. Laurent Lord O.P. of St. Anne's ' • .• ' . Monastery, Fall River. .A:ttached for the past 10 years t@ . the. ,Dominican Fathers~ Mission Band with hea<k quarters at St. Anne's, Fill" Lord is at present leading a . . " ., pilgrImage ~he holy places of ~,:,rope: He wIll return to FaK RIVer 1ft early Septembeli'.
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Th'e Doml'nl'can priest ......... ...""'" born in the'.P~vince of Quebee l'n 1909 a'nd m'ade h'I's relig,iona _ profession in 1932. He was 01'dal'n~' Aug. '" ", 1936 and h"'" "'" since been assigned to varioWl mission bands' as a preachCl"~ w-ifJh the exception of an assignmem to duty 'at the closed retreat bouse the Dominicanll staff at St. HY'<Ioint-he, Quebec. Among the pilgrims on Fathe? LOrd's trip 'are residents of Fall River and New Bedford. They will visit 11 countries during ~fueiJ: six-week sftl.r abroad.