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very special friends. The 12th annual Bishop's Chl~rity' Bali scheduled for Wednesday night, Jan.H, at the Lincoln Park, Ballroom, is most important to thEl lives 9f the ex~ep­ tional, and underprivileged children as is, evide~lced from an interview with the superiors of the two Naz­ 1'urn to Page Six

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Serra Inte-rnational. President Planning Diocesan Vi'sit . Jan Berbers of Montivideo, Uruguay-world famous lay worker for the church and the Interncitional President' of' Serra-will visit the Diocese of Fall River on T u e s day night, Jan. 31. Affectionately known as The Flying Dutchman, the head of Serra win speak at a joint meeting of the diocesan Clubs at White's Restaurant, Sate Road, North Westport. It will be the first ness, a wife and two teenage time that the Serra Interna­ tional President has visited sons in the South American city Montevideo. Since he was the organizations in the 14 of elected president of Serra last years' existence of the club in the, diocese.

. Bishop Connolly, who estab­ lished the Serra Clubs through­ out the Diocese, and Bishop Ger­ rard, Auxiliary Bishop in the Diocese of Fall River, will join Serrans from Fall River, Attle­ boro, New Bedford, Taunton, and Hyannis on this historic Qccasion . . Mr. Berbers has a textile busi-

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Church Membership lags .Behind Population Growth, N:BJW YORK (NC)-The growth of total chureh mem­ l1&ership in the United States failed to keep pace with overall JlW>pulation expansion during 1965, according to latest figures 00mpiled by the National Council of Churches. The Council's )1967 Yearbook of American The Council emphasized, how­

®hurches, to be published Jan. 9, reveals that members ever, that comparisons between

denominational bodies may not

~f all religiotks bodies in­ be meaningful as there are no

ereased from 123,307,449 to 124,­ complete annual 'compilations of

582,422 during the year. church statistics gathered by

The 1,374,973 new church uniform methods.

members represented an in­ Roman Catholics and a few <;:rease of 1.1 per cent while the, Protestant bodies number· all <l:ountry's estimated population baptized persons, including chil­ lhncrease between April, 1964, and dr"en, while most Protestallt April, 1965, wa.s 1.3 per cent. bodies include only adults 01" The percentage growth in Ro­ persons more than 13 years of ooan Catholic mell)bership ap­ age. lJIlroximated the population in­ The lag between total church <l:ll"ease. The Catholic figure of gro.wth and population increases 46,246,175 members at the end of was the first such reported since Mte year', as cOmpared with 45,­ i961. 11)40,919 members at the' begin­ The latest annual compilation !!ling, reflected·a g~in .of 605,446 covers mainly the calendar year ~I'sons 01',1.3 per cent. 1965 or' a fiscal year "ending in The Protestant churches re­ 1965. It is based on reports by ~I·ting showed a total member­ official statisticians of 251 reli­ lIIhip of·· 69,088,183' 'as ' against . gious bodies of all: faiths in the ~,299,4~8, th.e previous yeaI:, a 50 states and the District of Co­ lumbia. ' , ' .in of 778,705 or 1.1 Per cent.

"Sea' '" A ,Drugstore. PHILADELPHIA (NC)-The sea may be just a lot

.r water to most folks, but to a priest-scientist here it's like ~

dl·ugstore. Weekdays Father George D. Ruggieri, S.J., 41, is an assistant biology profesl:lor at St. Joseph's College lkere, but weekends he com­ mutes to New York whel'e Requiem Mass llte works with .other scielll­ tJists in trying to solve some A Solemn Month's Mind Mass

, ... Neptune's best kept secrets. "The sea, in a very real sense, lG a drugstore full of the answers 110 many of today's most difficult IlDedical problems, and yet we bow much more about outell" Tum to Pale Six

of Requiem will be offered Mon­ day morning, Jan. 9, at 10 in the sacred Heart Church, Fall River, fOJ: the repO$e. of the soul ,of the late Rt. Rev. 'M.gr. John H. Hackett, J.e.D., chancellor of the Qiocese of Fall.River.

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Catholics to Join With Orthodox In Same Easter CAIRO (NC)-Beginning in 1967, all the Catholics of the United Arab Republic will celebrate Easter at the same time the Orthodox. 'faithful do, it was reported by Archbish­ op Neophytos Edelby. Previously, like Christians in other areas of the Middle East, Egyptian Christians had been divided on the celebration of Easter. Catholics and Protestants here celebrated Easter according to the computation introduced in . 1583 by Pope Gregory XIII (Gregorian, calendar). Among theOrj;hodox, only the -Arll1E;nian Gregodan Orthqdox havecelebra'ted it at the same . time that the Catholics and~r'ot.:. estants did. All the other Ortho­ dox have celebrated it according . to the older computation by Em." peror Julius Caesar (Julian cal­ endar). In this country there are about 4 million Christians in a total population of 30 million. There are only about 170,000 Catholics of various rites and about 60,000 Protestants. Christians were often humili­ ated for their division on the celebration of ERster and were subjected to the sarcasm of their M""lem countrymen, who pointed o,ut that, some Christians. were celebrating 'the Resurrection of Chris't while others-sometimes Turn to Page Twelve

June he has seen them for: ex­ actly 10 days prior'to his Christ­ mas visit last month . By the time he completes his planned swing around the world, Berbers will have been away from home a full year on Serra business. He spends so much time on jets, he jests that his friends call him the "Flying Dutchman". Tum to Page Twelve

Parochial Responsibilities To Be Shared in Renewal WILMINGTON (NC)-Pal:i"h responsibility must ba shared by the pastors with the other priests, the laity and the Religious of the parish. This is the conclusion of the Wilmington Diocesan Clergy Committee on Renewal. Referring to pastors, the committee recommended that seniority alone not be the criterion for selecting pas­ tors but that ability and past performance also be weighed. , A pastor should serve a max­ imum of 10 years in each parish, the group advised, for this "would afford a new challenge to the priest and give the par­ ishes involved greater vitality as a result of new points of view and approaches to parish prob­ lems." Another recommendation was that a priest be permitted to 1'e­ tire at 65 from administrative responsibilities and be required to submit his resignation to the bishop at 70. The statement add­ ed; however, that the bfshop ,would not have t~ accept the resignation. . ... Turn to Page Eleven

Ball Preparations All members of the Deco­ ration Committee for the Ball will meet at the Lincoln Park Ballroom at 1 on Sun­ day afternoon, Jan. 8. A 11 members of the Dioc­ esan Council of Catholic Women and St. Vincent de Paul Society are urged to be present and to aid in thil1 decorating project. Presen­ tees and their fathers will rehearse for the presentation at 2:30 Sund,ay afternoon at Lincoln Park...

Creation of New Church Berated

FORT WAYNE (NC)-"It is not our task to create a new Church but to renew the old one," Bishop Leo A. Pursley of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indi­ ana, advised in a special New Year's message. Observing that "we have much to learn from history," the bish­ op said: "Whatever progress we make in updating the Church will take its direction not only from our awareness of the pres­ ent needs but from our, under­ standing and evaluation of the past.~ , , Warning against "criticism which is negative in character, extreme in viewpoint, ill-tem­ pered in tone, contemptuous . alike of long-standing traditions, treasured devotion and even of authoritative teachings," the bishop declared th"t "some Rre now speak'ng almost as if they wmit a creedless, churchless, mancentered Christianity." Expressing gratitude that "we have begun to put into practice the principle of collegiality on all levels,'.' Bishop Pursley added that "there is imperative need of the utmost mutual understanding and good will." "Only thus," he said, "can we achieve the far-reaching bene­ fits destined to come from the united actron of the whol~ r.hurch."


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