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Pastors, school principals and Confratern'ity f1l Christian Doctrine directors have already rallied to the support of the 1959 ANCHOR Drive in. the Diocese. Preliminary reports, that are the results of' long range planning, indicate a d8cided circulation gain over 1958. Rev. Felix S. Childs, pastor of the Immacu~ Conception Church, Fall River planned his eampaign so well that he was able;. to report that at least 450 subscribers from his parish
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will receive The ANCHOR every week by mail. . Reports fom the Sacred Heart Parish, North Attleboro, show that the plan of Rev. Joseph Larue, pastor, and Rev. Edmond Dickinson are indicative that school cHildren on a parish level are being successful in their drive to pass the quota set by the Circulation Department. Rev. William E. Collard, pastor of St. Theresa's Parish, New Bedford, and Rev. Clement Dufour, his assistant have inspired the
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226 children in the school to bring home the message "-The ANCHOR in Every Home-.:.-Every Week". The pastor of the Holy Trinity Parish, West Harwich, reported that the Sisters of Our Lady of Victory and the Christian Doctrine Confra'ternity directors have made a special appeal ill all of their classes on the absolute need of the Catholic Press in the field of Adult Education. Fatper McAloon, SS.CC., is confident or success. .
The -ANCHOR An Anchor of the Soul, SureI and li'irm-ST. PAUL .
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Vol. 3, No. 6
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R.ed Chinese to Brain-Wash Arrested Maryk'noll Bishop , HONG KONG (NC) - Chinese communist Red Cross officials have accepted a parcel for Bishop James E. Walsh, last U.S. Catholic missioner on the mainlimd who is now reported to be under house arrest in Shanghai. In December the same of- that "his name is not on' our ficials refw;;ed to accept a list." Nothing definite concernsimilar package. for the ing the. Bishop had' been heard Maryknoll Bishop, whose at the' time "for over two months. exact .whereabouts are still not known to American consular authorities in Hong Kong.' ;Jacob Hildebrand,' an Ameri- ' CIian Red Cross official, passed the package for B~shop Walsh . Over . the Red Chinese border along with parcels ,for four American civilians still detained ill communist China. The ChineseR-ed' Cross re-' j80ted a package for the prelate Jiate in. December with the excuse
Mr. Hildebrand reported that, following this first refusal, an agreement to send food parcels to Bishop Walsh was reached in cable negotiations between Gen. Alfred Gruenther, American Red Cross president, and ;Madame Li Teh-Chuan, who heads the Chinese Red Cross.. .' Mr. Hildebrand declared that Ii package would now be delivered for Bishop Walsh Qn the last Turn to Page Eighteen
Pope Plans M~ssage to American Children on Ash Wednesday·.
FIRST· REUNION IN NINE YEARS: For the first time in nine years Mr. and Mrs. Pete Mohr of St. Mark, Kansas, are pictured surrounded by all 18 of their children at a family reunion. The children include Sister Mary DeniSe, the eldest, and Father Bonifaca.
Americans to _Pray O,L~~~t~I~~t!v~ For Silent Church Plan Mee.ting
Diocesan Sodality Union will . Catholics of the Fall River Diocese will join with tbe carry out the Holy See~s wish for lay participation in the Mass whole Church in making the first Sunday of Lent a day WASHINGTON (NC)-The first message from, Pope when· they hold· the first· High of special prayers for the Church of Silence in China. Mil to Americans, especially schoolchildren, :will be deliv- . School .' So'dality J.C6nyention 'in. . '. The Holy Father has. requested that China be the ered on nation~l radio networks on Ash W,ednesday, Feb. 11. the Diocese on Monday, Feb. 23. object of prayers and sacri· with faith we may effectually : Sodalists will participate in Archbishop Karl J. Alter of Cincinnati, chairman of the the singing of a noonday Mass .fices as the Holy Season of "9{~btain. T-hrough Our Lord, JesUli administrative board of t h e ' ., . Christ, Thy Son, Who lives and at St. Anne's Church, Fall River, Lent opens. . . National Catholic' Welfare, ~ith boys from Prevost High, . The Most Reverend Bishop reigns with Thee" in. the unity of tonference, will read the Fall River, and .Holy Family has directed that the special the Holy Spirit, world withO\llt High, New Bedford, taking part prayer from the Missal-For Any end. Amen. papal message which has in the Offertory Procession and Necessity-be added to· the reguHolT Hout' become an annual event at the reading the Epistle and Gospel. lar Oration of the Mass on the k1 addition the Bishop directa opening of Lenten campaigns in . Talks on the liturgy in the life first Sunday of Lent. . that a Holy Hour of Reparation Catholic schools in behalf of the of a Sodalist, a "dry." Mass, chant This prayer says: 0 God; '()IH" be held in every parish of the Bishops' Relief Fund Appeal. rehearsal and discussion periods refuge and strength and the au- Diocese in the afternoon or ev,Archbishop Alter disclosed he are scheduled to be held in thor of mercy hearken to the de- ening of the fi'rst Sunday o{Lent. bas received a letter from the. Dominican Academy Auditori- vout prayers of Thy .Church, The purpose of the Holy Hour ill Pope saying that it is his wish to um. . eontinue the' tradition estaoand grant that what we ask fOe Tum to Pag~ Fifteen - Moderators and Sodalists are lished by Pope Pius XII. who planning the convention under annually .' gave a message, of the direction 9"f Rev'. Gerard "fatherly greetings" to children Boisvert, DioceShn Sodality DiIII Catholic schools. Aid Needy Children' , r~tor. The campaign in schools to A classic pattern of persecution has begun t{) emerge raise funds in behalf of the U. S. from Chinese communist atta~k8 on the Ghurch-divide Bishops' worldwide relief effort and conquer. runs throughout Lent. The proCeeds are used primarily to assist To this end the Reds have bent their effortS. relen" DeedY children overseas. lessly to cutting off the Catholics, a communist fabriThe week of March 1 to 8 has €atliolics of, China from the been designated as "Catholic ST. LOUIS,(NC) - The source of their spiritual vi- cation set up in Peking in 1957. Bishops' 'Relief Fund Appeal But the communists have not manner of people's support tality, the Holy See. Week." It will culminate in a stopped· with organizing the is a good indication of the Special collection in the more A plant severed from its roots Patriotic Association. With diathaR 16,000 U. S. Catholic: MARYKNOLL BisHOP: spiritual condition of the will die. So too, the communists bolical cleverness they have hit ehurches on Laetal'e Sunday, Father John W. Comber, parish, Archbishop Joseph .E. evidently believe that Catholic- on the device of forcing bishops March 8. Ritter of St. Louis has said in a ism served from the Holy See to consecrate as members of the M.M., (above) Superior Gen- pastoral Appreciates Charity letter to all churches in will wither away--()l" at least hierarchy priests "approved" ~ The papal message received by eral of the Catholic Foreign this archdiocese. . be reduced to a condition of the Reds. . Al'chbishop Alter stated: Mission Society of America "Parish finances .are not as weakness in.· which it' can be So far, 20 priests have been . ''Together with this appeal to (Maryknoll), and native of many think, a necessary evil," dominated and directed by the consecrated in this way. Reports the continued generosity of the Lawrence, Mass.,· has been he declared. "It is through them state. indicate that 12 Ol" 15 othe~. youth of your country, We desire that. we can rather' accurately The Red's chief means of at- have been "e~ected" bishops. named Titular Bishop of' to express Our warm appreciagauge the religious condition of taining this end is the so.:.called Tum to Page Eighteetl Foratiana. NC Photo. Turn to Page Eighteen Patriotic: Association of Chinese Tum to. Page Sixteen
Communists Attempt to Cut Off I C,hinese Catholics From Rome~,
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