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Schools to Receive Easter Collection Just before Easter it was announced by Bishop Connolly that the traditional Easter collection would be used to help defray the cost of educating needy children in the 54 elementary schools of the Diocese. Following the recommendation of Rev. Patrick J. O'Neill, Ed.D., Di- thousand dollars. More than was distributed. ocesan Superintendent of $62,000 Elementary school tuition for Schools, the Chancery Office each child has been set at one is currently distributing these funds. Special attention has been given to schools and areas having extraor.dinary need. A sum of fifty dollars is being allocated for each needy child. In addition, schools with special needs as gauged by the Dioce,san School Department are being provided with a grant of one
hundred dollars with the parish paying half and the child paying half. There are, however, many instances in which the child, cannot afford tuition and this is to be no bar in accepting him and keeping him in a parochial school. However, since expenses still must be met the allocation of the Easter Collection money will assist to meet this need.
Dennisport Youth and Social Center Slated for Opening November 1 A center to accommodate summer parishioners at Dennisport has been transformed into the Holy Trinity Youth and Social Center for all denominations in the HarwichDennis area. The $200,000 building has a basketball court, a fully equipped kitchen, 20 showers, storage rooms and a heating system. A program committee, meeting weekly, will implement and project plans for the use of the center. Already planned are programs for pre-school children, elementary school youngsters, junior and senior high school students, and older citizens. Rev. Finbarr McAloon, SS.CC., pastor of Holy Trinity Church, West Harwich, whose idea it
was to transform the 700 capacity hall into a permanent building has stated that he fervently hopes that this project will be an ecumenical success. The youth and social center will be inaugurated on Nov. 1 with a dinner-dance.
Bishops Seek Roles Of Papacy; College Pope Paul both to limit , debate at the ops and also
VI attempted the amount of Synod of Bishto provide for
a thorough review of all problems plaguing the Church today. The Synod of Bishops was called together to discuss one question - how the Pope can share authority with the bishops while retaining his supreme power in the Church, that is, a practical and efficient collegiality. However, many bishops have insisted that the present agenda does not touch on many problems that are mounting to a crisis stage within and without the Church. To touch on these, Pope Paul invited the bishops to bring one or two of their priests with them and meet with John Cardinal Wright to discuss the celibacy question and other priestly
Weekly Classes In 13 Fields Encouraging The Diocesan CCD Office has reported good attendance at adult education courses which opened at 10 centers this week. The CCD Fall semester schedule offers 24 courses covering 13 fields of adult education and catechetlcs. Several new features have been introduced into the adult program, according to Rev. Joseph L. Powers. Diocesan CCD Director. Included is a new basic doctrine course, "Our Developing Faith." The new course has been developed by CCD Directors of the five areas of the Diocese to meet the needs of the average layman and the CCD teacher and to provide them with an overview of basic Christian beliefs. Turn to Page Four1
problems. Cardinal Wright is head of the,Congregation for the Clergy. The Pope also appointed a commission, headed by Pericle Cardinal Felici, to receive all controversial questions instead of having them brought up before the 147 bishops in the synod. The Cardinal has strongly backed the Pope's views on celibacy and birth control in the past. Some have seen this as an attempt to control discussions of controversial topics. Others, however, have seen this as the Pope providing the bishops with an opening to assure more attention by the Pope himself to these problems and more adequate debate at a subsequent synod. The bishops speaking in the synod so far have carefully, struck out at the extremes of collegiality: where the Pope would decide all and deal with bishops only as his delegates;
Sunday and Holyday Obligations Distinct The Apostolic Delegation in Washington has released a decision recently promulgated by the Sacred Congregation for the Clergy concerning the obligation Catholics have of assisting at Mass on Sundays and holydays. In many dioceses where an indult permits satisfac- is left to the discretion of each Catholic. tion of the Sunday or holy- individual However, since the two obliday obligation on the pre- gations are di~tinct and separate, ceding evening, a question had arisen concerning those occasions when holydays fall on Saturdays and Mondays. The Sacred Congregation pointed out that whenever a Sunday and a holyday of obligation fall upon consecutive days, Catholics have two distinct obligations. The choice of time for assistance at Mass in fUlfillment _of these obligat.ions
Parishes Unite In Drug Role Eight Catholic parishes from the southern section of Fall River, together with members of three other Christian denominations, will meet at 7:30 Monday night in St. William's Parish Center for a program on "Drugs -Their Use and Abuse." Under the sponsorship of the CCD of St. William's Parish, members from Marathon House, Attleboro will speak and Mr. Albert Champoux will moderate the program. All are asked to use the ample parking lot of the parish at Chicago St. and Stafford Rd.
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or where the bishops would decide all and review all of the Pope's pronouncements beforehand. Justinus Cardinal Darmojuwono, an Indonesian, stated that "The Supreme Pontiff certainly should ask logically for' the counsel of his brethren in the Episcopate. If not, then I fear he will experience the same thing as followed Humanae Vitae (the birth control encyclical)." Leo Cardinal Suenens continued by saying that many persons in the Church would like the papacy to resemble the absolute monarchies that existed before the French Revolution. Referring to the Pope as the Successor to the Apostle Peter, he said that bishops are not only under Peter but exercise power with Peter. He found that the Vatican agenda for the synod seems to show bishops only as the Pope's assistants. Turn to Page Six,
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MISSION SUNDAY, OCT. 19: If the hungry of the world lined up outside your door, the line would stretch around the world 25 times.
they should not be simultaneously discharged by assistance at one Mass only.
Education Parley Takes Hard Look At New Programs Rev. Patrick J. O'Neill will be one of the Catholic school superintendents from the entire U. S. who will take a hard look at school religion study programs. sex education, instructional television, and federal assistance to non public education at their annual meeting in Washington Oct. 19-23. There also will be a considered probe into the future, with several speakers examining development and goals of Catholic education. For the first time, this year's meeting will include' a special session for "Education Direc-, tors," described as "those in charge of coordinating the total diocesan education program." Reflected is the trend toward incorporating other than traditional classroom instruction into the Catholic education picture. Sponsored by the National Catholic Educational Association and the United States Catholic Conference, the sessions are scheduled for the Washington Hilton Hotel. More than 250 Catholic education officials from across the nation are expected to attend the meetings. Speaking at the main banquet will be Leon Lesinger, Associate Commissioner for Elementary Turn to Page Six