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: LOS ANGELES (NC) TV "crime before nine" to taled 223 killings in one week-plus an immeasur-. 'ble amount of greed, hate and
vengeance, it 'was estimated
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· The tabulation was made by
Mte evaluation committee of
NAFBRAT (National Association
for Better Radio and Television)
of crime programs before 9 p.m.
on Seven Los Angeles TV sta
tions during one week, according
to Clara S. Logan,' NAFBRAT
President.
· "Our report indicates that
erime 011 TV has reached an all
«me peak," she said.
, "The prospect ahead is even
J!Ilore frightening, because the
~etworks have taken the lead
ftom independent producers in
pl'esenting death and sadism on
Programs which reach millions
of youngsters each week."
Mrs. Logan said the crime show situation has become "com "letely disheartening." She said that a few years ago Turn to Page Fourteen
_ishop Donaghy ~uys Station From Police · MAIOLI, Formosa-Ghosts ' interfering with police procedure - so the ·cops , moved out and let the Mary ~ere
knoll Fathers deal' with some thing outside police jurisdiction. · Some of the Maryknoll priests . lit work in the county of Maioli a.:e about to move into a house which was until recently a Police station-and haunted at that. Five years ago a new central police station was built in Mai oli. Right from the time the staff moved in, however,' strange .. n d inexplicable phenomena occurred. No matter how securely the police chief locked his office at night, the next morning chairs and tables were upset and papers scattered all over the floor. The chief died suddenly as a ~sult of an attack. The next chief ran into the same office management prob lem. Mornings found the furni ture thrown about, papers scat tered. He became seriously ill and had to resign from the force. His successor was no less a victim of ghostly pranks-though he refused to sit at the former Turn to Page Sixteen
Jesuit to Teach Sacred Theology At University · WASHINGTON (NC) Father John C. Ford, S.J., an authority on moral problems in medicine, will be visiting I?rofessor at the School of Sacred Theology of the Catholic Uni versity of America here during the 1958-59 academic year. · The university said in a state ment that Father Ford, profes sor of moral and pastoral theol ogy at Weston (Mass.) College, · Turn to Page Seventeen
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. July 23, 1958 Dearly Beloved in Christ: By long tradition, the first Sunday of August is Peter's Pence Day in the Diocese of Fall River. Follow ing the ancient custom of our Catholic forbears, we make our offering of devotion' to the Holy Father on August 3rd. We reach out to him a sensible proof of our willingness to share his burdens, sustain his charities, and support his effort to achieve peace in our time. The weight of spiritual anxiety and respon sibility alone conti,nues heavy and hard to bear. We must not consent to have material worries added. We should not wan.t to shorten the reach of his fatherly solicitude. by plaCing cautious limits on the alms he dispenses. We must not permit the world to pass' criticism on us as heedless children of a benevolent father, indifferent to th.e fundamental loyalty that is ours of holding up his 'outstretched arms of prayer and charity. What we do by contributing personally to the support of the Father of Christendom marks the de gree of 'our gratitude to .God. What we do for him is an index of our willingness to bear one another's bur dens. It is a means of telling the world that we stand loyally by Christ's Vicar on earth, second to none among a faithful following the world over. God knows the world sorely needs lessons of spiritual loyalties and religious values. Let us not fail. to prove our filial affection for Pope Pius XII on Sunday next. Faithfully yours in Christ,
.r>eZ-:cJ-' Bishop of Fall River
Improvement of Catholic Family Life Purpose 'of Convention. . BUFFALO (NC)-They did not come to bury Catholie ' . family life, or to praise it. They came to seek means of improving it. And in trying to do so nearly 1,000 delegates to the National Catholic Family Life convention here they were not without a touch did not sidestep such con of humor. .troversial problems as al At a workshop on "Extraor dinary Family Problems," one coholism, Catholic participa tion in communi~y affairs and the attitude of the family in regard to formal education. Priests, nuns and married couples participated in 11 work shops dealing with problems in the spheres of family life. Al though a 'serious attitude, and at times a controversial one, pre dominated in the workshops,
person deplored .the negative outlook some priests have toward the aicoholic. "The.attitude of these priests," he said, "seems to be: 'Why don't you go to Alcoholics Anony mous, and I'll pray for your soul.' " Participants in this .workshop agreed that both Catholic and Turn to Page Eleven
POPE OF PEACE: In this larger-than-life-size mural, the Holy Father is depicted standing over the world, his arms extended in benediction. The globe is encircled by the mushroom clouds of nuclear explosions. The 12-foot painting is the work of Sister Cor Mariae Foley, Maria~ite Sister of Holy Cross, a teacher at St. John Academy, Franklin" J,3 The painting will be presented to Pope Pius XII during the New Orleans archdiocesan pilgrimage to Europe this sum. mer: NC Photo.
Holy Father Urges
Novena of Prayer
In a new encyclical entitled, from its two opening words, Meminisse Juvat-Most Mindfully Recalling-the Holy Father has called for a novena of prayer before the Feast of the Assumption, August 15, for the intention of the persecuted Church. disturbed by deceits, errors and The encyclical recalls that discord, may attain complete the popes have always urged concord and charity in the fuU the faithful to turn to the light of truth; that all who are Blessed Mother in time of danger, when Christian peoples and the Church have been threatened. The Holy Father urges Catholics during this novena to raise up public prayers for the suffering Church. He lists the following intentions for the prayers: that pastors who are kept from their flocks or who are impeded in the free exercise of their ministry may be reinstated as soon as possible; that the faithful,
in the uncertainty of doubt and who are weak may be strength ened by divine grace so that they may be ready and willing to suffer anything rather than break away from the Christian faith and Catholic unity;' that individual d.ioceses may have their own legitimate shepherd; that Chrlstian law may be freely promulgated in all regions and among all classes; that youth ia elementary and high schools, in workshops and fields may not be ensnared in the ideologies of Turn to Page Seventeen
Sister Cecilian, Fall River Native, To Address Nuns at Institutes A Holy Cross Sister, formerly from the Fall River Di3 cese, will be a featured speaker at Institutes of Spirituality for Women Religious to be held next month in Philadelphia and at Notre Dame University, South Bend, In.d. She is the former Cathe- school l,lnd graduated from rine Archard, now Sister Union Hospital school of nurs Mary Cecilian, C.S.C. For- ing, Fall River. Her mother, merly' directress of nurses Mrs. Cecilia Archard, and two at St. Joseph's Hospital, South Bend, she is now stationed at'St. John's Hospital, Anderson, Ind. She was born in Fall River, attended St. Joseph's parochial
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By Patricia McGowan • There's a small lawn beside the Bernardine Sisters" convent in the Polish parish of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, New Bedford. It's the unusual gift of the parochial school's fifth and sixth graders. . Asked to clear rocks and trash from the convent's barren side yard, the children did, toen said, "Now we're between them a.nd their 211 K:.rakow, Poland, in the fifteenth students. century, Mother ~. Justine, su going to plant grass here, so Five Bernadine Sisters of the perior at Our Lady of Perpetual you Sisters will have a place Third Order of st. Francis staff Help, told us. In 1894 the Bern tQ sit in the Summer." Not Our Lady of Perpetual H~lp ardines came to the United
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only did they plant the grass, school, serving both· its own but they deputized class mem- and St. Casimir's parishes in New bers to water and weed_ it Bedford. The congregation has throughout vacation. been in the diocese since 1927 It was green' and flourishing and the New Bedford oonvent is when we visited the Sisters and its only h\>use here. it spoke to us better than words Founded in Poland· _ the friendly relationship . The sisterhood was' founded iD
StatE!s.and they now have nearly 1,000 members here. Their work includes conducting retreat houses, caring for sick, homeless, and aged, and the operating of schools. ' In . New .Bedford the Sisters . TUl'D io Pace Twe.
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