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Pop.e Awards Benemerenti Medal to CU Professor
HIS HOLINESS RECOGNIZES LONG AND FAITHFUL
COLLEGIATE WORK OF DR. KATHERINE STEFIC
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Mrs. Katherine (Keneany) Stefie, Ph.D., daughter of the late John and Mary Keneany of New Bedford, associate professor in the department of Psychology and Psychiatry of the Catholic University of America, Washington, will today receive the Benemerenti Medal awarded by His Holiness, Pope Paul VI, in recognition of more than 25 years of faithful sm;vice to the Uni. versity. metropolitan Washington area The presentation will· be made by the rector, Most Rev. William J. McDonald, at a reception which he will give for the faculty in the Social Center. Dr. Stefic, a member of the Catholic University faculty since 1939, is also director of the University's Remedial Reading Clinic. The former Katherine G. Keneally, a member of St. Lawrenee's Parish, while a resident of New Bedford, is a graduate of' New Bedford High School, and Fitchburg Teachers' College. She taught in the John Hannigan School, New Bedford, from 1921 until 1939, then went on to Catholic University in her present position. She is a member of various psychological and reading associations and recently gave a series of ten weekly television demonstrations to viewers of the
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to Eclipse ,Debate at Council •.~ VATICAN CITY (NC)-Les8 debate and more voting '- the outlook for the fourth and final session of the ecu • enical council that begins on Sept. 14. That is the opinion r.xpressed in an interview by the director of the Council Press office, Msgr. Fausto .ail'ainc. Msgr. Vallainc said missions, and priestly life and ministry. &hat as a result it may not As of the present it is likely be necessary to have five ~hat the religious liberty schema teneral council meetings a·week.
lie reported that a procedure is J»eing considered which may cut 4Iown on the number of meetings _d give more time for council -ornmissions to get pending doc~ents into final form. eouncil Fathers, however, will Ifill have to debate four major jehemas-religious freedom, the Church in the modem world,
will be the first item on the ~genda. At the last working meeting of the third session on
Nov. 20, Eugene Cardinal Tisser ant, dean of the council presi.. dency, announced' that while Pope Paul VI had turned down an appeal to bring the document to a vote at that time, it would be taken up again at" the fourth Tum to Page Six
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. Pope May Attend Western Hemisphere Event " (NC)-Government and Church leaders met here to make final SANTO DOMINGO preparations for the two international Marian congresses to be held here in March. They are the fourth Marian congress and the 11th Mariologicaloongress, bringing together leading scholars, churchmen and people interested in furthering devotion to Mary. Being built at the present offered the services of the the city stadium was offered 88 time in Higuey is a model He government tourist bureau and a site for the general ceremonies. village, called Villa Na~aret, appointed Wenceslao Troncoso Official buildings will be orna of 200 homes for the poor. as coordinator between govern mented. Complete facilities will Also under construction at Hig uey is a hospital to serve the village, a communal dining room and a farm. The village was built in part through a gift from ~is Holiness, Pope Paul VI. Donald Reid Cabral, president of the triumvirate currently rul ing the country, promised the government's full cooperation.
.' "In order that the liturgical services may exhibit a 80ble simplicity in harmony with the mentality of our times" this is the reason for further reform of the liturgy, MCording to the Papal Instruction which further imple Ments liturgical reform in Mass. Though it touches . . all forms of the Mass :ft'ead, sung, solemn) it. is perhaps in the Read (low) Mass "'at most will see the changes lIS they attend Mass on Sunday. March 7.
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Psalm 42 is to be omitted. All the prayers at the foot of the altar .-e omitted whenever another liturgical service immediately precedes the Mass. ~oper of the Mass . Those parts of the Proper
Jrilich are recited by the people "e not said privately by the telebrant. Ordinary of the Mass The Celebrant may recite the parts of the Ordinary together .-ith the people. "'essons and Chants Between J.essons (Const. art. 51) The Lessons and the Epistle, together with the intervenient ehants may be read by a quali fied lector or server, while the telebrant sits and listens. Therefore, in Masses cele brated with the people, the Les tons, Epistle and Gospel shall be Turn to Page Twen~
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ment and religious committees. Special assistance will be given to facilitate the entrance of congress delegates into the country and to arrange living quarters, food and medical as sistance for them. Army vehicles will assist with transportation. Government buildings will be used for congress meetings and
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on "Efficient Reading." The medalist has two sistel'8 Hving in New Bedford, Miss Mary A. Keneil1ly, assistant superintendent of Schools in New Bedford, in charge of ele-' mentary education, and Miss· Winifred F. Keneally, home eco nomies teacher in the Keith Junior High School, New Bedford. The Papal Decoration, the Benemerenti (to a well deserv ing person) Medal, was instituted in 1832 by Pope Gregory XVI as the means of recognizing distinguished service and exceptional accomplishments. The word "Benemerenti" is engraved on the face surface and surrounded by a crown of oak leaves. The ribbon is yellow and white, the papal colors. Myer N. Sobiloff of Fall River received the Benemerenti Medal in July, 1963, for distinguished service to the community•
thedral, Fall River, on Saturday, Feb. 13, at 10 o'clock, by the Most Rev. James L. Connolly, Bishop of the Diocese. They are Brother Fernand Cassista of Nashua and Brother Richard Lamontagne of Central Falls. . At the same time, three young men will be ordained for service in the Diocese. They are Rev. Mr. William P. Blottman of At tleboro, Rev. Mr. Thomas C. Lopes of Brighton, and Rev. Mr. Michael P. McPartland of Fall River. Brother Cassista entered the La Salette minor seminary in Enfield. in 1952 and made hia Tum to Page Twelve
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Clothing Drive At New Peak For Giving NEW YORK (NC)-Con.· tributions to the 1964 Thanksgiving clothing drive eonducted by Catholic Relief Services-National Catholic Wel fare Conference are expected to total a new high of more than million pounds. This estimate was made by Edward M. .Kinney, CRS NCWC purchasing and shipping director, who said last year's 16th annual nationwide collec tion "hit a new peak."
Kinney said Catholic Relief Services, the U. S. Catholic over seas relief agency, is now fur nishing 60% of all clothing shipped by U. S. agencies to the needy overseas. Shipments of clothing collected in the 1964 drive have already been made to 22 countries and allocations have been made to an additional 34 countries. Auxiliary Bishop Edward E. Swanstrom of New York, execu tive director of the agency, de-. scribed the response to the cloth ing drive as "very gratifying." He said it is "of great help in our efforts to alleviate the sufferilll TUM to· Page Twelw
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