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FALL RIVER DIOCESAN NEWSPAPER FOR SOUTHEAST MASSA:CHUSEITS ,~E' COD & THE ISLANQS t ~tl
VOL. 46, NO.4¡ Friday, January 25, 2002 r=Ti~-
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i ,lllocese's education
, leaders mull changes in responsibility By DEACON JAMES N. DUNBAR FALL RIVER - The winds of change are sweeping through the top echelon in the Diocesan Office of Education. At a meeting last week with the new Director of Education George A. Milot, and Superintendent of Catholic Schools James A. McNamee, they sketched an administrative profile of what was in the offing. ''Traditionally, there has been three positions, the director of education, and two other positions in which one person was primarily concerned with the high sC,hools and the other was
concerned with elementary schools," said Milot. Until his retirement in January, Augustinian Father William T. Garland was director of education. Milot, the former principal ofBishop Feehan High School in Attleboro, had been appointed last summer to succeed him. "We might say that people had looked at Superintendent McNamee as the high school person and Sister Ann Landry as the elementary school person," Milot said. Sister Landry is no longer with the office. I would like to change the Tum to page 13 - Changes
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Diocesan schools plan wide array of events ~
Stqdents ready to show academic skills, good citizenry and future workforce capabilities. By DEACON JAMES N. DUNBAR
SKIPPERS - Superintendent of Catholic Schools James A. McNamee and Director of Education George A. Milot, met with The Anchor to talk about Catholic Schools Week. (Anchor Photo)
FALL RIVER - Students in Catholic schools across the Fall River diocese are helping to put the spotlight on the contributions of Catholic education and its services to the Church and ~o the country as they observe the 28th annual Catholic Schools Week, Sunday through February 2. With a theme of "Catholic Schools: Where Faith & Knowledge Meet;' the observance underscores
the importance of a faith-based education and its vital role in the community. While a myriad of innovative, fun-filled activities are planned in the four high schools, two middle schools and 22 elementary schools throughout the diocese, many encourage parents to take full advantage of the benefits of local Catholic schools by enrolling their children in them. And the week is also an occasion to interest citizens in volunteering their time and talents to the local Catholic schools attended by a total 8,746 students. Tum to page 13 - Schools
Bishops' liturgy director urges Lenten fast from violence; apathy' By CATHOUC NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON - This Lent, Catholics should fast not only from food but from violence, apathy and sin, said Father James P. Moroney, executive director of the U.S. bishops' Secretariat for Liturgy. In a reflection on Ash Wednesday he said the cross of ashes Catholics receive on their forehead this February 13 may remind them of the "ashes before our eyes too often these past six months"
from the grim destruction at the on its Website, www.usccb.org. He described Lenten fasting as World Trade Center and the Pen.more than just eating less. tagon. "By letting go of the food and While ashes "conjure up death and darkness and the end ofthings," pleasures we do not really need, he said, Catholics are marked with we participate in Christ's selfashes at the start of Lent "so that emptying in becoming man and eac,h of us might tum from all that in dying upon the cross. An empty is earthly, dark and sinful and re- stomach makes room way deep inside - room for God, room for turn to the Gospel ,of life." The U.S. Conference ofCatho- prayer," he said. Father Moroney called Lent a lic Bishops posted Father Moroney's reflections recent~y, along with other Lenten resources, Tum to page 12 - Lent
THE PENITENTIAL season of Lent in the Latin Church begins on Ash Wednesday, February 13 this year. (CNS file photo)