H.o"m'e Solicitations 'For'Taunton High Begin Wednesday
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Vol. 5, No. 2 Š 1
Second Clas,s, Mail
One thousand good Catholic men, dedicated to Bishop Connolly's diocesan secondary school '~xpansion program, will participate in the solemn opening of the house-to-hous0 solicitation ,phase of the fund d,rive, at St. Mary's Church
Thursday, Jan. 12, 1961
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1961The Anchor Privile~. Au,horized at Fall River.
PRICE 10e $4.00 per Year Mass.
REV. EUGENE L. DION
Fr.DionDea'th "Is Lamen'ted ' B.JI'V D:o ' " cese
th' t 1 ea IS a grea oss to the parish, Church and' country," said Rev. Anatole Desmarais of Taunton in his eulogy at the pontifical requiem mass for'Rev, Eugene 'L, Dion,' pastor of the Blessed Sacrament, ,Church in Fall River, on Monday. "H'
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in Taunton next Tuesday tanc~ from St. Mary's. In addinight. "This is the phase of tion, parking will also lle 01the campaign which we ex-' lowed on Broadway, Washinf:itO:Jl pect will push our drive over ' Turn to Page Five the minimum goal :of $1',125,000," Father James' F" Lyons,' priest- ' director, deClared today. " ,"These men, 'are' intereSted, - They are eager to see the Catholic education' system grow, especially' in' Taunton, They wIn not be ha,ppy, until, Taunton matches the' effortS of their brethren in New Bedford and Attleboro," 'said the I,mmaculate Conception "curate'. ' , 'HO n of our own sons, Father ' William A, Donaghy, S.'J., a native of New, Bedfo!,d,'will deliver the s'ermon at St. Mary's Church Tusday nighi," Fr, Lyons' noted. "Anef, the solemn opening highlight will bea 'talk by the Most Reverend Bishop'," " To acComm'Odat~\ the large number who will' attend the opening ceremonies;' parking facillties are ,available in the lot on Washington St:; a short '~isFATHER D()NAGHY, S.J.
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Most Rev, James L. Connolly, Bishop o~'~allRive~, celebrated~", I~ the pontIfIcal reqUIem fur the ' 69-year old Canadian native', ' " " who directed the advancement of his Fall River ,pal'ishfor the past five ye,ars. .. Father D,esmarais emphasized, WASHINGTON (NC) - The U.S. Catholic overseaa the importance ot the priesthood" relief agency lead all other lj.S. voluntary agencies in' to the hundreds of .religious and foreign reli~f ,expenditure~ durin,g the first six months of ' 'laity who crowded' the church y' for the ecclesiastical services. 1960. Relief, expenditur~s' by Catholic Relief Services The Taunton pastor noted the National Catholic Welfare the ICA agency in its semiannual respect and' esteem in which Conference totaled $60,378,- r~port as having spent more than Father Dion was held by his 329 between 'January 1 'and $500,000 for relief. Besides ' Turn to Page Sixteen J,une 30, 1960.. The second Catholic Relief Services and CHURCH STATUS IN CONGO: In' area (1) the largest total during the period CARE, they were: ~urch has been hindered very little. In area (2), Oriental ,Church World Service, Inc.. was spent by CARE-$22,257,819. 'A total of $144,337,213 was $14,585,788; American Jewish province, violence threat rema~ns. In area (3), Katanga spent dur~ng the six months by Joint Distribution Committee, ~rOvince, inter-tribal warfare continues and some religious the 57 voluntary relief agencies $14,300,680; Lutheran, World Rehave been victims. NC Photo. registered with the Advisory lief, $8,922,244; Had ass a h, From every corner of the Committee on Vytlntary Foreign $6,972,487; Christian Children's Diocese thousands converged Aid of the International Coop- Fund, Inc., $1,991,747; Foster eration Administration. Catholic Parents' Plan, Inc., $1,878,562; 1 a s t night upon Lincoln' Relief Services' sum represented Am e ric a n ORT Federation., Park's Million Dollar BaH- about 40 per cent' of the tot~l. $1,373,188. room for the outstanding social , Subsidy Program ' .Also: American Friends Servevent of the ,Winter, the seventh Organizations registered with I~e '.committee, Inc., $1,230,903; annual Bishop's Charity Ball. the IcA agency are eligible for Uilited HIAS SerVice, $1,075,142; 'Soft lights,. tasteful decora- the ocean freight subsidy p*o- the Near East Found,ation, $1,I' LEOPOLDVILLE (NC) - Six months of chaotic tions, a pre-ball buffet, and the gram adrriinistered' by' the lCA O~l,OOO;the Mennonite Central htdependence in the Congo have left their mark on the enchanting' s t r a ins of Art Church but have left it substantially free to carry on its Mooney's MGM orchestra com-' and for donations o(U. S. surplus Committee, $911,071; Seventh food from 'the Departinen~ of Adventist Welfare Service, $836,work. In about two-thirds of the country's 33 dioceses the bined to make an ,unforgettable Agricult'ure. " 538; MEDICO, $791,668; and evening for the formally clad 'Sixtee'n 'groups' were listed 'by ; Turn'to Page ,Fourteen Ohurch is prospering. The a: minor seminary at Kalenda in menace of communism that the Luluaburg diocese and tried guests, whose evening wear 'added to the picturesque beauty of hunv: over the Congo im- to' force a Congolese teacher, the occasion. mediately after independ- Father Thomas Beya, to tell The Most Reverend Bishop ence appears to have receded, them who among his pupils be- headed a long list of distingftlough it casts a deep shadow longed to an enemy tribe. The uished guests that included over some parts of the country. priest refused and was beheaded Most Rev. James J. Gerrard, VATICAN CITY (NC)-The beatification causes of In other parts the Church is in front of his pupils. V.G" Auxiliary Bishop of the Ilindered by savage intertribal Political independence has Diocese, JYle~J:>ers of the Dioc- I two Americans and a Lebanese monk will move another ~uding. Thousands of women been grossly misunderstood by a esan Council, leaders in govern- ' step ,forward during'the public: consi'story on Janu~ry 19. cmd children as well s warriors Turn to Page Twelve Prior to his conferring red hats' on the four new cardinals, Turn to Page EightellD, bave died in the mutual butchery His Holiness Pope John and in famines that pursued XXIII will be formally asked those able to escape the knives to order the advancement of of their tribal enemies. t~e-causes of the Ven. John Missioners Back Nepomucene Neumann, fourth 'Virtually all the missioners NEW YORK (NC)-The "dialogue" among religious groups in the United States' Bishop of Philadelphia, and 'Who were forced out of their ii!'osts by mutinous troops or ram- holds out great hopes, but contains pitfalls as well. That is the consensus voiced by 12 Kateri Tekakwitha, a Mohawk Indian squaw. A similar plea will '1!>aging tribesmen in the weeks Catholic, and non-Catholic scholars writing in the January 14 issue of America, national be made in behalf of the cause 1mmediately following freedom from Belgium have long since Catholic magazine published by the Jesuits. Each of the contributors to the sYI11Posium of Sharbel Maklhouf, Maronite feturned, There are more than was asked to reply to the destroy some of the caricatures other and listen to one another," Rite monk who died in 1898. 400 native Congolese priests and' question: "What hopes and Formal Appeal we have of one another." he said. about 6,000 foreign missioners, The formal appeals in their what misgivings do you en"The clearing up of misunder.Jesuit Father John Courtney ancluding about' 2,350 priests. tertain regarding the cur- standings will not come about Murray dec}ared that in the field behalf will be made by Professor , A third of the Congo's approx- rently emerging religious dia- as insulated Protestants' talk" of biblical schplarship "the pos- Camillo Corsanego, dean of the qmately 14,000,000 people aae logue in America?" about Catholicism to one an-' sibilities of agreement between College of Advocates of the SacCatholics: Father Raymond T. Bosler other, and vice ver'sa. It will Protestant and Catholic are con- red 'Consistory. Th-e Pope traditionally grants the advocate's Most of the fears that com- warned in his reply' against come about ,only as Protestants ' siderable." ' ~unism will take Ii hand focuo ,He warned, however, that request, and orders that the self-deception that the "dia- ail.d Catholics talk to' one anOtt the Oriental province in the logue" has achieved more than there is no chance for agreement causes be continued. fur northeast of the country. The - in fact it has. A petition for the beatification on strictly theological issues threat is an attack on the Church "The problem of Church unity "when both parties to the dia- of Bishop Neumann was forby Red-oriented leaders, since ls a little like the problem of logue must admit that they'dif- warded to Rome by the late John oommunism as a doctrine does the alcoholic; it will not be c6nfer radically about ,the meaning Cardinal O'Hara of Philadelphia not appear to hold much appeal quered until we realiz"e how of the word with which the' in 1957. Bishop Neumann, a Refur the Congolese people. helpless we are and how much traditional creed begins, 'Credo,' demptorist, served as Bishop of Congolese priests with ,very we need God's help," he said. Philadelphia from 1852 to 1860. "I believe'." few exceptions have kept clear Dr. Robert McMee Brown of Dr. William Lee Miller said he Kateri Tekakwitha who waG oi intertribal strife. But some , Union Theological Seminary exhas "misgivings" about the 'fact born at what is now Auriesville, have been its Victims. In Octo- pressed the hope that interthat the diaJogue so far haa N. Y .. in 1656, was declared "a ber. Kanioka tribesmen invaded religioU& communication "can '1'Ufll1 &0 Page JEighteel!! TuIl'D. eo Pac-e Fou~e ...
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