Mission Secretariate Reports-
Diocese Above Average • In Missio narles Overseas
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The Diocese of Fall River is above the national average in the contribution of Ameri. can priests and Religious serving the Church overseas. Twelve per cent of the priests and 18 per cent of the Brothers born in this Diocese are now serving outside the country's borders. The national average is about six per cent, according to the Mission Secretariat's Report from Washington. The national average for Sisters is 1.7, while the Diocesan average is three per cent. American Catholics serving the ChUl'ch overseas now total 1!,782, an increase of 658 over the 1958 total, the survey shows, .The Most. Reverend Bishop today announced the American Catholic missionaries around the world include purchase of a parcel of land in Tauilton as' a site for a Girls' 3.032 priests,. 2,827 Sisters, 575 High School to serve the greater Taunton area. The land Brothers, 170 Scholastics and was purchased from the Adams Realty Company of Taunton 178 lay men and women. and. is located at the corner Although admitting a shortschool will begin. age of teaching Sisters in this of Adams and Hamilton St. MaQ"s High School, concountry, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, ducted by the Sisters of the Streets, near Hopewell Park. national director of the Society Holy Union, is the only girls' of the Propagation of the Faith, This is the third Diocesan high school in the greater Taun. states: "It may never be presumed, however, that Sisters High School announced in the . ton area. In 1911, an annex was may' be sent on missions only last three years, -Stang High added to St. Mary's Elemental'y whell national needs are satis- School in North Dartmouth-a School so that high school fied. We are members of the co-educational school for 1000 courses might be given to the boys and girls of that parish. A Mystical Body; it is only by students-opened to its first year later a separate buildin~. diffusing our spiritual lymph class last Fall and is acceptthrough its world organism that ing a 250 student Freshman class known as SI. Rita's Lodge, was fOI' this September. Feehan High constructed to house the labora\[Ve attain normal growth and School in Attleboro will be an- tories. Turn 10 Page Eighteen other co-educatIonal high school St. Mary's continued to serve for 800 boys and girls and is the boys and girls of Taunton pl'esently being built. It will acuntil Coyle High School {or cellt its first Freshman class in boys opened in 1933. St. Mary's the Fall of 1961. has continued as a girls' higb No information has been re· school. It gl"aduated 37 studenta · leased yet on when the Taunton in June.
New Girls' School F'or Ta'untonArea
Area Couples Aid "Family Movement
Catholic School Value Outweighs Problems
Married couples from Fall River, Attleboro and Mansfield will, attend the first Christian Family Movement region~l meeting to be held in the New England area. It is MUNICH (NC)-'l'he difficulty in operating CathOlic planiled for the weekend of Aug. 2'6 to 28 at St. Joseph's College, professional schools in the U. S. is far outweighed by their Standish, Me., according to Mr. · value, an American priest told an educational conference and Mrs. Paul Dumais, Diocesan in n~arby Bayern. Father Edward J. O'Donnell, S.J., presicontact couple. for the organizadent of Marquette Univertion. of the problems confrontin~ . Representatives of a Tiverton sity in Milwaukee, Wis., Catholic universities "either acknowledged that the bur- stem from or are aggravated by group which ·is an offshoot from the Fail River unit will also be den' of operating Catholic the central problem of lack of in attendance; said Mr. Dumais. law, medical and dental schools adequate financial resources." Rev. Roger P. Poirier, chaplain is a heavy one. This, he said, handicaps Cathof N'otI'e Dame parish unit, Fall olic' universities in recruitinl: But he said the· difficulties River, will accompany delegates. are compensated' for by the and . retainillg superior faculty The regional meeting will re- value and effectiveness of Cath- membel's and in distributing liberal scholarship aid to needy place the national convention olic professional schools. fOl'merly held yearly at Notre The Jesuit priest ,addressed students. Dame, .Ind. About 200 couples the German-American CathOliC "Trying to make limited fifrom. the New England states, Educational .Conference held at nancial resources do an unlimNew YOl'k, and New Jersey al'e the Catholic Academy in Bay- ited 'educational job would in. ST. WILLIAM'S PARISH lONER BREAKS GROUND: expected to attend. ern. He was one of 10 American deed' invite a thinning out of Mrs. Margaret Boodry, center, a pioneer parishioner of Among speakers will be Catholic educators who ex- quality and a_ consequent mediSt. William's Parish, Fall River, turns over the traditional Bishop Christopher J. Weldon · chan'ged ideas with a group of ocrity," the university presidel'~ observed, shovel of dirt for the new church in the presence of her. of Springfield, episcopal modGerrhan Catholic educators. Turn 10 Page Eighteen Father O'Donnell said many Turn 10 Page Eighteen daughters Margaret, left, and Irene, right.
Break Earth For Church Rt. Rev. Raymond T. Considine, paf~tor of St.. William's Parish, Fall River, with the assistance of Rev. .James A. McCarthy, broke ground Sunday for the new St. William's Church, A unique feature of the ceremony was the pal"licipation by 13 pioneer pal'ishionel's or their representatives and MI'. and Mrs. Michael O'Connell, whose daughter was baptized in the afternoon, as representative of the newest membel' of the parish. Monsignor Considine stated that while the present basement church was originally designed 55 years ago to serve as the foundation fOl' a superstructure to be built later, a new building would be mOl'e economical and provide more modern facilities. The new Church will be built east of the rectory on Chicago Street at an estimated cost of $400,000. It will be of contempOI'ary Georgian architecture. A general purpose room under Turn 10 Page Eighteea
Swansea Pastor. Recalls Link of Diocese To Atom-Smashed City of Hiroshima Fifteen years ago' this Saturday the United States dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. American reaction varied from outright horror and shame to a feeling that the action may have saved worse disas tel'. But residents of. Fall River Diocese need. take nothing but pride in the fact :that two priests from here were instrumental in restoring the Blessed Sacrament " Oriental rainy season on Okiand initiating the return of j nawa.· spiritual life to the crushed . Father S~llivan:s ne~ station . was a 20-mmute Jeep rIde from city. Hiroshima, which had been The story began in Italy, devastated only weeks before. where Rev. George E. Sullivan, He soon learned that 15 nuns now pastor of St. Dominic's had sought refuge 'from the city Church, Swansea, and then an in a 'nearby cottage loaned by a Army chaplain, had been preJesuit novitiate, sen ted an altar and candelabra It provided living quarters but and monstrance hammered from .... no chapeL At length engineers 90 millimeter shells by his GI from the 41st Army· Corps built flock. the Sisters a new convent and Survive Torpedoes chapel' back in Hiroshima. When, in 1945, Father Sulll·Fa1her Lenaghan van w.as transferred to Japan, But the chapel was altarless. he was going to leave the altar "A million' d'ollars couldn't have and fittings for his successor, bought a·· religious article in but his commanding officer Japan," said Father Sullivan. urged him to take them as a Gladly lie gave the new chapel memento. his altar, together with the Carefully crated, they withcandelabra and monstrance. Still stood a torpedo attack en route needed were vestments, a ciboto Japan, two typhoons and all ll'ium and a chalice. the usual mud and damp of the F_ther Georn E. Sullivan Turn 10 Pa&"e Ei&"hken
Busy Fingers Help Lepers As a result of a Propaga. tion of the Faith Appeal and a front-page article in The Anchor last week, many stores are reporting a rush of business as zealous women buy cotton thread to knit or crochet bandages for the lepers. And marlY of the world's 3,000,000 lepers will be a little more easy in body, and much more happy in soul, knowing that .they are being aided in their suffering by people miles away. Here are essentials: Thread-One 250 yard ball of white crochet cotton, American (Star) Puritan Bedspread Cotton, four ply. Knit-No. 1 steel needles; cast on 30 stitches and knit eaeh row, slipping first stitch of each row. Use entire ball. Crochet-No.4 crochet hook~ make chain of 21 stitches, turn and single crochet next row. Repeat and use entire ball. Finished bandages may be brought or sent to the Propagation of the Faith Office, 368 North Main Street, Fall River.