AN ANCHOR OF THE SOUL, SURE AND FIRM -HEB. 6:19
t eanc 0 VOL. 21, NO. 36
FALL RIVER,' MASS., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER ~ 1977
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Plope Paul VI (annot Retire, .Vatican Newspaper Declares VATICAN OITY (NC) - The Vatican newspaper said in a page editorial last week that Pope Paul VI cannot retire from office because of the singular, divinely established character of his office. "The ministry of Peter (papacy) cannot be confused with the presidency of a republic or with a managerial contract, nor can the Church be confused with a democracy," wrote L'Osservatore Romano vice-director Father Virgilio Lavi. "The papacy is a permanent ministry which according to law can be interrupted before death only by the real impossibility of exercising it. "It is on those grounds that the hypothetical retirement (of the Pope) discussed in the text of canon law is based," wrote the priest. The editorial marked the second time in three days that Father Lavi had responded in the newspaper to rumors that Pope Paul might resign on his 80th birthday Sept. 26.
AT BEGINNING OF SCHOOL YEAR, Bishop Daniel A..Cronin meets With staff of Catholic Education Center. Seated, from left, Father George W. Coleman, director of education; Bishop Cronin; Sister Marion Geddes, RSM, superintendent 'of schools; Miss Grace Taylor, office manager; standing, Father Marcel H. Bouchard, assistant in the office of religious education; Sister Mary Laurita Hand, PBVM, assistant superintendent of schools; Father Michel G. Methot, director of religious education; Sister Theresa Sparrow, RSM, coordinator for religious education; Joseph Monaghan, diocesan maintenance coordinator.
Religious Arts F'estiva I Theme The diocese of Fall River and the Council of Churches of Greater Fall River will co-sponsor a Religious Arts Festival the weekend of Nov. 4 through 6 at the Central Congregational Church, Rock Street, Fall River, Rev. Robert Bell of the First United Presbyterian Church, Fall River, is chairman of the coordinating committee planning the Turn to Page Seven
Only Community Founded in Dioc,ese Gathers Members for Study Days' In St. Philippe, Quebec, in Plattsburgh, N.Y., in New Haven, Conn. and in Acushnet and North Dartmouth in this diocese, convents of the Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena stood empty at the end of last month as all but four members of the only community founded in the
diocese gathered at their Fall bers of the diocesan congregaRiver motherhouse for a two- tion discussed Dominican spiritday study of their Dominican uality, how St. Dominic resheritage. , ponded to the challenge of his Led by Father William Hinne- time and the special apostolic busch, OP, internationally known' mission of the Dominicans. scholar on the history of the A highlight of the meeting was nearly 800-year-old Order of distribution of new crosses and Preachers, 108 of the 112 memTurn to Page Seven
SISTER ANITA PAULINE, prioress general of Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena, shows "picture wall" of all members of congregation to Father William Hinnebusch, OP. At right, she distributes crosses
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The priest maintained that the Pope is not in the same situation - practically or theologi路 cally - as bishops, whom the Pope himself urged to submit resignations at age 75. The bishop of a diocese, said the editorial, "is a true mission路 ary who must expend himself to the extreme, even physically" through meetings with his Turn to 'Page Seven
Lavanoux Award To Ade Bethune Father Kevin Tripp, chaplain at St. Luke's Hospital, New 'Bedford, and chairman of the New England Liturgical Committee (NELC), has announced that the organization will confer its Maurice A. Lavanoux Award on Miss Ade Bethune of Newport, R.I. The presentation will be made at 5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 30 at Ochre Court of Salve Regina ,College, Newport, during a Mass to be celebrated by Bishop Louis E. Gelineau of Providence. The Lavanoux Award recognizes original and creative design within the liturgical cultic arts. Miss Bethune is internationally known for her work in religious arts, including painting, tapestry, stained glass and church design. She is the founder of the St. Leo League, an organization of individuals can路 cerned with the creation and dissemination of, liturgical art. The award ceremony will fol路 low the annual meeting of NELC, to be held at Ochre Court Turn to Page Seven
bearing new international insigne of Dominican Order to infirm members of community at ceremony held at Fall River motherhouse during two-day study of Dominican heritage.