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Catholic High Schools En·trance Exams Feb. 5 All Catholic high schools in the Fall River diocese will conduct entrance and placement . examinations Jor new students from 8:30 to 12:30 Saturday morning, Feb. 5. Students wishing to enter any of these schools next September should report to the school of their choice. There will be a $3 fee, payable at the time of the examination. The students need bring no records, nor is it necessary for parnts to accompany them. Comlete information as to courses d school activities will be 'en. t this time it is anticipated tuition fees will increase at diocesan schools, although e schools have not as yet e final determination of this tter. Proposed tuition is $400
at Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro; Bishop Gerrard High School, Fall River; Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth; and· Coyle-eassidy High School, Taunton. The final decision regarding tuition at the Sacred Hearts Academy has not been made but officials at the Fall River school assure all that it will not exceed $400. Holy Family High School, New Bed~ord, expects to charge a $250 tuition fee; and St. Anthony High School, also New Bedf~d, lists $200. Both high schools offer a $50 reduction to members of their parishes. Bishop Connolly High Sch~ol. Fall River, lists a tuition rate of $450 for the next academic year.
ays Prosperity Sends Russians On Search for Spiritual Values
Family Life Alive and Well But Must Direct Society CHICAGO (NC)-At a three- to teaching young people about cago sociol'Ogist who has' been day meeting here of diocesan marriage fidelity, rather than close to Cana during its 25-year family life directors from around discovering new reasons to jus- history, told the seminar that the country, Father Walter Im- . tify divorce. friendship is the basis of marbiorski, director of Cana of ChiFather Leo Mahon, pastor of ria'ge, and marriage is the best cago, told the meeting that in the San Miguelito Mission in example of human friendship. the midst of apoc,\lyptic howl- Panama, called for greater con- Father Eugene Kennedy, Loyola ings about the end of the family, cern for minorities and the University psychologist, noted he found that the families he needs of developing nations- that young people look for a had known during the past calling them the contemporary marita~ rela,tionship that affirins quarter century were alive and counterparts of the early Chris- the value of each partner, and thalt marriage must allow for the well and were preparing not for tians. a wake but for a party. Turn to Page Three Fa'ther Andrew Greeley, ChiFather John L. Thomas, author of "The American Catholic Family," reviewed changes that have taken place since 1955. Father Thomas said that although Catholics may no longer be a sub-culture, they have a value system that can help make Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, marria'ge more stable and more S.T.D., Bishop of the Diocese of faithful. Fall River will ordain Rev. Mr. Msgr. James McHugh, family Michael R. Nagle to the Priestlife director for the U. S. Cath- hood at 7 o'clock on Friday olic Conference, said that in. night, Feb. 4 in St. Mary's Calooking to the future, the family thedral, Fall River. must girve direction to social Rev. Mr. Nagle of 309 Doherty change so as to respect man's Street, Fall River was born in dignity and humanness, rather Dothan, Ala., the son of Robert than faUing victim to an imper- J. Nagle and M. Rita Flynn sonal technology. Nagle. A graduate of De La Salle Rising divorce rates, poor Academy, Newpolt, he attended marriage preparation, and pop- Mater Christi Seminary, Albany ular talk about changing Church for his courses in the classics laws focused attention on mar- and St. Louis University in Misriage fidelity and indissolubility.. souri for philosophical training. Father James Burtchall, provost Following three years of theolat the University of Notre Dame, ogy at St. Joseph's College, Lonsaid that the Gospel and Chris- don, Eng., he completed his tian tradition-look on marriage traiqing at Catholic University, as a faithful, unbreaking" rela- Washington. tionship-requiring of those who His -deacon internship has REV. Ma. MICHAEL R. NAGLE enter it maturity and strong been served at St. John the Bapmotivation. Human law is hard- tist Parish,. New Bedford. Church, New Bedford; Rev. ly able to reflect the real value Father Nagle will be principal Paul McLaughlin, St. Matthew's of the marriage' bond, or ade- concelebrant at a concelebrated Parish, Forestville, Conn.; Rev. quately protect it, he said. Mass at 1 o'clock on Saturday . Terrence Maguire, M.H.M. of the Father Henri Nouwen, Notre afternoon, Feb. 5 in Holy Name PhHippine Islands. Rev. Mr. Jeremiah F. Kenney . Dame psychologist, spoke of Church, Fall River. "creative fidelity" in marriage' Concelebrants wiII be Rev. of Baltimore will serve as deaas an antidote to the loneliness Msgr. Daniel F. ShaHoo, pastor con at the Mass and homilist. . A reception for Father Na'g)e of many people in today's world. of Holy Name Church; Fall Speakers,and participants agreed River; Rev. Manuel P. Ferreira, will be held in the Holy Name that more effort should be given pastor of, St. John the Baptist School Hall on Read Street, immediately following the Ma~s.
Priesthood Ordination Set for February 4
NEW YORK (NC)-A yearn- diUonal sense. It does siging for something beyond mate, nify a deep and profound" searcl1 rial progress has sent millions for values in life in a postof Russians on a "metaphysical, Turn to Page Six poetical search" that often leads them into contact with the Christianity that is so inextricably a' part of Russian history, a leading secular journalist ha~ reported. Writing in the Saturday Review, Ohicago Daily News correspondent Georgie Anne Geyer declared that 50 years of Marxism has brought the Soviet people significant economic progress. . "Materially, the country has progressed" said Miss Geyer, "and it has progressed to a point where new needs now come into play-needs for which the (Marxist) system has few answers." What is happening in the Soviet Union today, said Miss Geyer, is "one of the most fascinating and broad-reaching currents of spiritual and intellectual development in Russia today: a return to Russian nationalism and even to nineteenthcentury Slavophilism... " "This phenomenon has arisen out of what many young Russian writers and even officials acknOWledge as a 'spiritual empCHRISTIAN UNITY: Opening services for the Week of Prayer tiness' in Soviet life," she conwere held at All Saints Episcopal Church, Attleboro, for believers in tinued. "And, although at least From left, Rev. Thomas Fr~ederick Airey, rector of All Saints, Sister at this stage, it does not point to any return to religion in a tra- Brian Boucher, Mrs. Boucherr Robert· Boucher. .)'
Local Ordinary Concelebrates In Two Sees'
for Christian Unity the Attleboro area. Claire ColI, C.S.C., "
Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., Bishop of the Diocese, was a concelebrant at the Mass of Ordination to the Episcopacy of two new New England Bishops this week. On Tuesday morning at 10, he was a concelebrant wt the Ordination Mass of M'Ost Rev. John A. Marshall in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Burlington, Vt. Bishop Marshall succeeds Most Rev. Robert F. Joyce as Ordinary of the Vermont· Diocese. Bishop Joyce retired as head of the Burlington See. On Wednesday afternoon at 4, Bishop Cronin was concelebrant at the Mass of Ordination of Most Rev. Louis E. Gclineau in the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul in Prorvidence. Bishop Gelineau succeeds the late Bishop McVinney who died on Aug. 10 of last year. Bishop Marshall is a native of Woreester while Bishop GeUneau is a native of Vermont.'