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Regional Meetings Promote 1963 Bishops~ Relief Fund
NEW YORK (NC)-A series of four regional meetings to promote the 1963 Bishops' Relief Fund which aids the world's needy was launched helle. Bishop Edward E. Swan strom, executive director of Catholic Relief Services National Catholic Welfare Conference, said the other operate a program valued at meetings will be held in .Chi $165 million which brought aid to some 30 million hungry and Cago next Tuesday, San homeless persons, in more than
Francisco next Thursday and New Orleans, Tuesday, Feb. 12. -The Bishop estimated the Meetings will bring together priests who will direct the 17th annual appeal in more than 130 arc h d i 0 c e s e s and dioceses throughout the United States. A minimum goal of $5 million bas been set for the 1963 appeal which will be conducted, gener. ally, throughout the country from March 17 to 24. The ap peal will be climaxed with the traditional Laetare Sunday col lection, taken up in Catholic • hurches on March 25. As a result of the appeal last ,.ear, CRS-NCWC, the world wide relief. agency maintained tty U.S. Catholics, was able to
70 countries. The relief ill dis pensed solely on the basis of need, without regard to .race, color or creed. CRS - NCWC, established in 1943, has grown 'in the largest Turn to Page Twelve
StonehiII College to Commence Con'stroction of Ne-w Wing At North Easton Campos' Plans have been completed for a new wing consisting of eleven classrooms and a 250 capacity lecture hall to be added to Holy Cross Hall, the main classroom building on the Stonehill College campus in North Easton Very Rev. Richard H. Sullivan, C.S.C., college pres ident, announeed today. Bids are now being taken for the structure and it is expected that ground will be broken during February for the addi tion. The new construction will also contain language labora tories with latest language study equipment and faculty offices and will nearly double the amount of classroom space now available at Stonehill College. "We anticipate that, the new classrooms and other new facili ties will be ready in time for the opening of college next Fall," Father Sullivan said. "By relocating classrooms now in our Science Building into Holy Cross Hall, we will be able to expand
considerably Stonehill's science facilities. These moves will give the college a student capacity of over 1200, thus putting us in a better position to accommodate ever increasing college entrance demands." The new program represents the eighth major contruction operation on the Stonehill cam pus since the founding of the
Coordinating Group Holds Meeting on Council Work VATICAN CITY (NC) - The coordinating commis sion of the Ecumenical CounciT has finished a week-long meeting here which promises to expedite the work of the second session of the Council beginning September Ae cording to Archbishop John told the N.C.W.C. News Ser J. Kroll of Philadelphia, one vice that it had limited itself to Of the five undersecretaries coordinating elements that, were of the Council presidency, found to be duplicated in the
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the commission set up a work program for the interim period between the Council's two ses sions which gives every hope that the work scheduled fur the second session will be effectively accomplished. In a statement on the com mission's work, Archbishop Krol
Ozanam School Second Session In Attleboro
Pope John Sees Athletics as Aid To Brotherhood
The second session of the Ozanam School of Charity sponsored by the Attleboro Particular Council of the So
VATICAN CITY (NC) Pope John said here that international athletic com petitions can promote peace
ciety of St. Vincent de Paul will be held at 8 Monday night, Feb. 4 in St. Joseph parish hall, Attle boro. / William J. Fagan, president of
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ALBANY (NC)-A lead ings." "Spiritual Life-A Rule of Life" ing legal scholar said here he will be given by Rev. Edmond thinkR government tuition L. Dickinson, assistant at Sacred grants to pupils for use in Heart ChurCh, North Attleboro public or in church-related and Spiritual Director of the At tleboro Particular Council. schools appear constitutional. ~ This position was taken by St. Joseph Conference, Attle Prof. Robert McKay of the New boro, headed by Arthur Pelle. York University Law School. tier, will be host for this session His conclusion came as a sur which is held on the first Mon-· prise ending to a debate on day of the month. The purpose Federal aid to church-related of these courses is to help every schools in which he had vigor Catholie man in the area obtain ously upheld absolute separation a better knowledge of the Soci of Church and State. ety and its history. McKay debated William B.' Imitating the desire of Fred Ball of Harrisburg, Pa., who erick Ozanam, founder of the argued for inclusion of church Society, to help the poor and fol I'elated education in Federal aid lowing the thought of st. Vin proposals. cent de Paul, the slogan for these In the discussion before the sessions is~ "We must go to the Capital Area School Develop poor." '
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Asserts Federal Student Grants Are Legal Aid
PRIEST: Rev. Gerald P. Cohen, C.S.C., son of Mrs. Louis Cohen of SomerviUe be ordained Feb. 17 by Amleto Cardinal Cicognani, Vatican Secretary of State, in the Chapel of the Holy Cross Fathers International College, Rome. Father Cohen is nephew of Sister Mary Carolyn, R.S.M. of St. Pat rick's Convent, Fall River, and grand-nephew of Sister Mary Joseph, R.S.M. of St. Mary's Convent, North At tleboro.
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college in 1948. Since that time enrollment has increased from 127 initial students to a current enrollment of 940 students. En rollment is expected to increase during the 1963-64 academic year to well over a thousand students. More than 300 resident. of this region enroll in Adult Education evening courses eacb semester.
and brotherhood among men. The Pope spoke at a special audience granted to delegates to a convention to promote sports organized by a number of Italian sports organizations. Pope John said that "today the barriers of distance have been . removed and brothers have been brought closer ,together, leading to greater understanding, to mu tual esteem and to readiness to know and help each other. "In this providential coming together, sports also have a place of value. "Honest competition, in which the ever new energies of the youths of all nations compete, has led to more frequent and more peaceful meetings between na tions, thus considerably favoring the process of drawing closer to gether in charity." The Pope told the sportsmen that athletes can exert an influ ence for good not only in terms of "their skill and physical ca pacities, but also of amiable grace of characater, of the correspond ence between life and intimate Turn to Page Fifteen
various projects submitted to the Councll by preparatory com missions. :He emphasized that the com mission did not discuss the merits of the material in the projects and did not alter their sub s tan c e. The commission'. work, he said, was to combine what could be combined. He said the commission would
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Bishop Connolly To Ordain Nine At Cath'edral Bishop Connolly will or dain three seminarians for service in the diocesan priest hood and six La Salette mis sionaries at 10 A.M. Saturday ill St. Mary's Cathedral. ' To be ordained as diocesan priests are Rev. Mr. William G. Campbell of Vineyard Haven, Rev. Mr. Joseph F. D'Amico of Mansfield and Rev. Mr. John A. Perry of Attleboro. . La Salette missionaries to be ordained are Rev. Mr. Roger Labouliere, Fall River; Rev. Mr. Maurice J. Martineau, Manches ter, N.H.; Rev. 'Mr. Roger Benoit, Southbridge; Rev. Mr. Romeo Levasseur, Mattapan; Rev. Mr. George Loiselle, Paw tucket; Rev. Mr. Franklia Major, Nashua, N.IL