-----***e-..
ii••I=.'JZ.£I£IIIZF!I!l$!l!'!",Il!!!<II!II"~J""'''fR!Z--*--.-oIIl' ••'''''''----------~----__- - - - -..- - - - - - - -...- - - - -..
_ REV. MIt. BENOIT
REV. MIt. LABOULmRE
REV. MIt. LOISELLE
The
ANCHOR
REV. MR. LEVASSEUR
REV. MIt. MA.lOR
- IIIl. ..- - -
REV. MR. MARTINEAU
Bishop To Ordain Six
LaSalette Missioners
Six Missiona.ries of La Salette will be ordained by Bishop Connolly at cere " monies set for 10 Saturday "morning, Feb. 2 in St. Mary's Cathedral. They are Brother
Roger Labouliere, Brother Mau rice J. Martineau, Brother Roger Benoit, Brother George Loiselle, Brother Romeo Levasseur and Brother Franklin Major. At the same ceremony the
Bishop will also ordain three Diocesan priests. Brother Labouliere, the son of Mrs. Lydia Labouliere, 1193 Rod man Steet, Fall River, is from Turn to Page Twelve
Fall River, Mass., Thursday, Jan. 17, 1963
Vol. 7, No. 3 ©
1963 The Anchor
PRICE IOc $4.00 per Year
Dr. 'Ratner Lists Dangers In Birth Control Pills ...
.
WASHINGTON (NC) - A prominent phySIcian has llrged a go-slow approach to oral contraceptives because of their potentially harmful physical effects. Dr. Herbert A . Ratner, Oak Park, Ill., director of public health, says the attitude of informed persons supply birth control informa lias changed "from" inno tion and devices to any public cence to sophistication" as relief recipient "with a spouse more has become known or' child" who requests them. .bout the effects of the birth Dr. Ratner noted before that control pills. decision that the Federal Food Dr. Ratner's "medical critique" and Drug Administration has of the oral contraceptives is con liniited use of the pills to not tabled in a leaflet published more than two years for any NEW NOVITIATE: Announcing the establishment of the Grey Nuns Novitiate in aere by the Family Life Bureau, woman because of uncertainty Fall River are ,left to right: Sister St. Pierre Gonzales, S.C.G., superior; Rev. Lucien National Catholic Welfare Con about their long-range danger"s. .Madore, spiritual director of St." Joseph's Home; and Sister St. Matilde, S.C.G. ference. . The leaflet comments on the The leaflet is a revision of a "distinctly American pheno memorandum submitted by Dr. menon" of unqualified enthu~ Ratner to the Illinois PUblic Aid siasm for new drugs and says € o mmission during the recent the general public impression dispute over use of tax funds to about the birth control pills has support contraceptives for wel been that they are "1) tremen fare clients. The commission dously effective, 2) remarkably Yoted six to four in early safe, 3) unusually free from December to use tax funds to Turn to Page Seventeen
Sisters of Charity To Open
U.S. Novitiate in Fall River
Leper Missionary Thanks Diocesan. Donors for Help
. With the approbation of Bishop Connolly, announcement has been made by the motherhouse of the Sisters of Charity of Quebec, popularly known as the Grey Nuns, that the community will found a postulancy and novitiate at St. Joseph's Orphanage, :<'all River. To open in September. the new foundation will serve young women from the United States, who will no Contributors to the annual Diocesan collection for the longer go to the Quebec be at St. Joseph's Orphanage, 56 will be established. "Some five or six postulants relief of leprosy directed by Msgr.Raymond T. Considine motherhouse for their period St. Joseph Street, where a floor will enter the community in of" the institution will be re for the Society of the Propagation of the Faith are thanked of" postulancy and novitiate. modeled for its new use. In the September at the new facility. by Rev. John Sweeney, Maryknoll Missioner stationed in Temporary headquarters will near future, separate quarters Reverend Mother Mary of Korea, and known as the . Grace, super:ior general of the Grey Nuns, is expected to visit "leper priest" in recognition the convent in September and of his years of devotion to assist at official opening cere those afflicted with this dis monies. Meanwhile, Mother St. Martin, report to Msgr. Considine, provincial of this area, will Father Sweeney notes that he' come to St. Joseph's to initiate bas in operation six leprosy cen. In preparation for future missionary work, 14 seminarians from La SaIette Major plans for the novitiate and direct tel'S, each with mobile teams Seminary in Attleboro provide weekly religious instruction classes for more than 430 a campaign of publicizing it to working from them. interested young women. ''They serve some 70 groups of children of three neighborjng p'arishes: St. Mary's, Norton; St. Stephen's, Dodgeville . The Sisters of Charity of and St. Mary's, Hebronville. Am"ong them are three Brothers from the Fall River Diohomeless outcasts and" a greater Quebec were founded in Mont " number of early cases living at cese: Brother Paul-Andre Much of the seminarians' free following article. Pictures of the real in 1771 by Mother d'You home whose tragic secret we try Gagnon and Brother Ronald time is spent" .preparing their classes in action appear on page ville. Later the community di ~ keep." Hebert, F a II R i vel', and classes, with emphasis on the use 15 of this issue o~ The Anchor. vided into six branches, in The Maryknoll dispensaries Life in a semb:lary is as varied cluding the Quebec house, which have over 11,000 patients, "not Brother Wtlliam Slight, New of visual aids. The seminary bus cooperates in this project too, as one can possibly imagine. The was established in 1849 and ec>unting thousands of general Bedford. They, with their 11 cO'-work pro v i din g transportation for candidate for the priesthood made its first United State. eases," but with their present foundation, that at St. Joseph'. ers,' prepare for their work" of many of the' catechism class finds himself lost in metaphy facilities can see only about one by a course in child children. sical concepts and suddenly Orphanage, in 1890. third of this number regularly. instruction This work has been going on awakes from his philosophic psychology and also gain" much Other American houses are Father Sweeney operates' a experience from service as coun for the past 15 years at La" musings as he begins to sweep Sacred Heart Home, New Bed Iransient home" for non-infected selors at Camp Pius XI, a boys' Salette Seminary and thoughts the back stairs of the seminary. ford, and the Franco-American children of lepers and continu. Summer" camp operated. by the of the young teachers them A varied life offers many con Orphanage, Lowell. The com .uy resettles cured or arrested La Salette community at En selves are presented by Brother versational topics, and these are munity operates schoola and Turn to Page Four field, N.H. Paul Charbonneau, M.S. in the Turn to Page FourteeP hospitaltl in Canada
LaSa lette Semtnarmns · · P re pare f or p. rtest l y
ea:~'a
Ministry Teaching Area Children Catechism
'1
....