fREEDOM OF RELIGION IS INTRICATE .ISSUE
_ishops of Poland Says Fall-Aways Defend Devotion Need More Help ROME (DW) - Bishop ~ To Virgin Mary Rudolf Staverman, 49, Fran
By Rev. John R. Foister The sole purpose of· the Eeumenism schema is to promote a mutual knowledge of each other's religion.
Should the long extolled prin ciple. of indifferentism finally be accepted even by the Roman Church? Does it. matter any Ilna, 71, member of the Council He called for more-up-to-date more what one eommission on Bishops and the terminology in describing the believes or in Covernment of Dioc~ses, today office of a bishop, and said that tends to do with .xtensively quoted Mar tin equal status should be given to I if e ? Sharp, j,uther on the Councii floor in religious and diocesan priests quick, crisp an swers often will 4efense of Catholic devotion to engaged in parochial work. the Virgin Mary, and ended his "In this Ecumenical Council be thoughtless Intervention by quoting an em attention has several times been and only open the wa,y for Inent Lutheran pastor in War directed to the miserable condi .w who recently said, "Mary tion in which so-called fallen greater confus • ill teach both us and you a away priests find themselves," ion and misinterpretation• J>etter understanding of Christ." he said. The bishop pointed out The Church has not sold its Archbishop Gawlina said that that the Council schema on the birth-right title of the only tru~ 1leferences to the Blessed Virgin Pastoral Duties of Bishops indi Church; the Church has not Mary in Pope Paul's recent en cated that fallen away priests given up all attempts at conver eyclical appeared to the Polish should get 'merciful treatment" sion for some peaceful coexist .shops as proof "that the privi- but he added "that-the possibil- ence; the Church has not watTurn to Page Fifteen Turn' to Page Thirteen It£.. Turn to Page Fourteen .~
ROME (DW) - Speaking ciscan Vicar Apostolic of rn·the name of Polish bishops Sukarnapura in Indonesia, today in the Council Hall asked Inside and outside of Poland, for better treatment by the ~rchbishop Giuseppe Gaw Church for fallen away priests.
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Jamaica Ordinary Hierarchy in Soulh For Cooperation America Reiects ROME (DW) - Bishop Tille-Change John J. McEleney, 68, Jesuit
Bishop of Kingston in J a maica and former Provincial Superior of the New England Province of the Jesuits· in the United States, today told Coun cil Fathers that harmonious co operation between bishops and religious orders working in their dioceses could be better secured if a "mixed commission, com posed of bishops and religious, would give careful consideration to various problems and then present their conclusions to the Holy See." Bishop McEleney said this commission should be "a new permanent agency of coopera tion between bishops on the one hand, whose apostolic succes sion and responsibility give them precedence of rank, and Turn to Page Fifteen
ROM E (DW) - Bishop Sergio Mendez Arceo, 58, head of the Cuernavac'a Dio cese in Mexico, today in the Council Hall called for the ex clusion of the title "Mother of the Church" in the chapter on tlle Blessed Virgin Mary. He said he was speaking in 'the name of 40 bishops of Latin America, including Cardinal Raul Silva Henriquez, the Sale sian Archbishop of Santiage Chile. Bishop Mendez prefaced hill remarks by saying he had ''the greatest praise for the Doctrinal Commission for the middle course it had followed in adapt ing the previous schema on the Blessed Virgin Mary for incluTurn to Page Fourteen
Faithful Experiences Difficulty in Following Balloting Procedure Implored by Fathers At Sessions of Ecumenical (ouncil The voting procedures at the Vatican Council are complicated. Just when if! a pro posal adopted? The same proposal is voted on many times before the final vote is taken bef~"e the Pope. To this day, the world press has stated over and over again that the Council has adopted the doctrine of Collegiality and it quoted votes to prove it. Yet, Col legiality .is not yet a result to study just this one suggestion:. sent it to the ••• of' the Vatican Council. A and 4. The Committee (formed 3. Theology Commission: Since brief description of the Bishop A's suggestion treated of from some of the Theology Com life and trials of a proposal the nature of the Church, it con mission members) discussed the
"college." They spoke with ex cerned theology, so this commis might clear some misunderstand perts, studied past councils and sion received his suggestion. The ings. We will take the suggestion PRICE lOc Commission (formed by inter scholarly works and formed an. "the bishops form a college" and © 1964 'The Anchor $4.00 per Year , national experts appointed by opinion: "it would seem that the see how it becomes (will possib the Pope) saw that there were bishops did form some kind of ly become) council teaching. 1. At the invitation of the Holy many Bishops who had made college". A report was drawn Father, Bishop A writes to Rome similar suggestions and they up, votes were taken on its Turn to Page Eighteen and suggests that the bishops in voted to form a special committee council discuss fully the teach ing that "the bishops form a kind of a college.' (This happened in The Catholic Bishops' 16th annual Thanksgiving Col. mid-1959 when Pope John invit lection will take place from Sunday, Nov. 1 to Nov. 7 in all ed the world's bishops, scholars, the parishes of the Diocese. Rev. Francis A. McCarthy, universities, associations, etc. to pastor of St. Patrick's Parish, Somerset, and Diocesan Di make apprQpriate suggestions). Rev. Bernard F Sullivan, assistant at St. Mary's parish, 2. The Pre-Council Central I'ector of the Drive, stated, the proper contributions to this Commission received all these Norton, will delivel' the sermon 3It the 19th annual pilgrim. ~he early announcement of most important work of charity." suggestions and sent them to age in honor of Our Lady of Fatima to be held Sunday the campaign is to enable all The Diocesan Director contin newly created commissions set afternoon at 2:30 before the Shrine at M,t. St. Mary's Con to have ample time during ued, "the serviceable used cloth up to specialize in the study of vent, Cumberland. The pil menical Council. Ing, blankets, bed linens, and particular suggestions. This com the great American houseclean grimage is being offered for The procession Is scheduled Ina period to pick and choose shoes will be distributed to the mission received Bishop A's sug impoverished of 70 countries, gestion, thought it was serious the intentions of world peace to start at 2:15 from the Mt. St. ~ Turn to Page Sixteen enough to demand further study and the succes's of the Ecu- Rita Convent and will include delegations fro m Mercymoun$ Turn to Page. Twelve
Vol. 8, No. 40
Annual Clothing Collection In Diocese Starts Nov· 1
'Norton Priest to Give Tall< At Cumberland Pilgrimage
St. George's Parish in Westport
To Observe 50th Anniversary
Sunday, Oct. 11 will mark ceeded by Rev. Alfred E. Couthe 50th anniversary of St. 10mbe. The present St. George's George's parish, Westport. Church was built in 1923. Prior Parishioners past and pres to that time services were held
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ent will gather at a Pontifical High Mass to be celebrated at 5 Sunday afternoon by Bishop James J. Gerrard. It will be fol lowed at 6:30 by a banquet at Lincoln Park Ballroom at which speakers will include town of ficials. The present pastor of St. George's is Rev. Lorenzo H. Morais, who has served the Westport church since 1951. His curate is Rev. Edmond R. Le vesque. First pastor was Rev. Charles Clerk, Y/hQ was sue-
'children baptised at st. Oeorge's, Mrs. Albert Brulotte, was chosen to burn its mortgage in 1950. Designed ~ Joseph T. Higgins, Fall River architect, St. George's is Romanesque in style. It seats . 700 and is 113 feet long and 51 feet wide. Pastors serving the parish after Father Coulombe's death includ ed Rev. Philias L. Jalbert, Rev. Albert Masse Re-v. Joseph C. Bourque and Rev. Alphonse Gauthier. A parish hall was erected in 1925, two years after the new church was opened, and in 1955 a former restaurant building was acquired and renovated for use
in a small building on the Head of Westport Road, owned by Westport Manufacturing Company. , The opening of the church was marked by tragedy, the fun- eral of its pastor, Rev. Alfred E. Coulombe. Father Coulombe was killed in an automobile accident in Westport just as he was readying St. George's for opening ceremonies and thus his requiem Mass became the sad first service held in the church. More happil,1., one of the first~.
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