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Really, ,it can be done~ Four diocesan pastors today announced they have achieved complete cover age of The An' chor in their'l'e spectiv~ parish es. They 'are the first to' accom plish this long dreamed-of-goal as this diocesan MSGR. GOMES newspaper com
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accomplished what the Most Reverend Bishop suggested as the goal in each of the 110 par ishes last week when he said he wants a weekly copy of The An chor in each and every home in the Fall River Diocese eve r y we e'k of the FATHER CARROLL year. Those who will be on the com plete family coverage plan this year are: ,Our Lady of Angels, Fall
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River, Msgr. Anthony M. Gom~ pastor. St. Bernard, Assonet (Free town) Rev. John F. Cronin, ad ministrator. St. John the Baptist, Central ,Village (West port) Rev. John G. Carroll, pas tor. Sacred Heart, FATHER CRONIN North Attleboro, Rev. Joseph S. Larue, pastor. ' " Sunday is diocesan day in this diocese when envelopes will be
Supreme. Pontiff Demands
Speedy .Post-Council Steps
St. Anthony's Church ~ New Bedford
Implementation of the decisions of the Vatican Council is to proceed With order, and speed. This was the substance of the, Pope's orders when he· addressed the first meet.' ing of the Post-Conciliar Coordinathlg Commission which is to direct the implementation. The Coordinating Commission, presided over by Cardinals Tisserant and Cicogn~4 is to draw up procedures to ' . ' ' be ,followed by the. other Christian Religions and, that crees., They ,will function 311 post-conciliar commissions. dealing with Atheists.' commissions, not as in,dividuals. The commissions dealing with, As groups-they have been called 11heir work is to b.e ready by, council decrees are "suicidal", on to propose the contents 'for
June' 29 when the decrees of the Council will go into effect. Other commissions preparing directives so that the decrees PRICE IOe may be followed smoothly and $4.00 per Year O~ ~ 1966;The Anchor with speed are: Liturgy and Conimun~cations Media (already active), Bishops and the Gov ernment of Dioceses, Religious, Missions, Christian, Education, Apo~tolate of the La~ty.' ' , The Holy Father' also. made permanent institutions of ,the, Christian Un i t y Secretariat, Commission for the Revision of _Rev. Robert Rioux, th~. son of Mrs. Elmh'e Canon Law, the Secretariat Bioux, is back in New Bedford as part of a' two-m~n team' dealing with relations with non-
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Promoting -8 full length film; The'Redeemer, which will ,be tiho'wn at the Strand Theatre, F':all River, beginning March' I, and at ,The Arcade The-: holds an M.A. in French from ater, New, Bedford, starting, Fordham University. A i t e l' March 11. teaching in several schools con : The film depicts the last ducted by the Holy Cross _M1ree dilYs in the life of Christ i\n a grapthic and beautiful man- . Iller. It is the first full length llIllovieproduced under Catholic auspices for national distribu ~;ion_ Recently it played at 28 different theaters in Texas and $oon will appear in major New England cities during the Lent en Season. ' The film was produced by IF'amily Theater of Hollywood, California, under the supervi sion of Father Patrick Peyton, C.S.C. of Family Rosary Crusade flame. He is responsible for the ifa.molls slogan "The Family that Prays together, stays together". The film is meant to bring the llIllessage of Christ 'to as wide an audience as possible and it fea tures MacDonald Carey as the voice of Christ. It was filmed in Eastman color and is technically well done. Father Rioux is a native of New Bedford.. He was educated fin local schools, attended Stone rmiH College, graduated from Vwversity of Notre Dame and
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fall River, Mass., Thursday~ Feb.' 10, 1966
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returned to the churches subscription lists a,dded to corrected. The number of total paid subscriptions to The Anchor has inched-up annu ally for the past nine years. Each year's paid sales have mounted. A number of FATHER LARUE parish~s today 'are close to com plete family coverage' as the greatast· bid: for total family' coverage hits its peak. .
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according to Archbishop Krol of Philadelphia, a member of the Coordinating Commission. By this it is meant that once their work of explaining the decrees and issuing directives is done. the commtssion will cease to exist. "The overall purpose of the post-conciliar commissions," the Archbishop noted, "is to insure the endurance of the councifs heritage in the Church, to reap the fruits of the Council and to apply its directives." ''The commissions have been· charged with interpreting the Council's 'd~crees,'~ the prelate continued, "with the precise ac curacy intended by the Council Fathers, and' assuring the cor reet implementation of the de
the 'decrees, of execution." The matter of council decrees will be applied in various ways. The Holy Father himself could. on his own - issue a directive• Archbishop Krol pointed to the removal of the obligation to re cite Prime in the Divine Office as an example of implementa- . tibn that came strictly from the Pope although the Liturgy De- . cree had called for-not ordered . -.:.such Ii suppression. Other' decrees will be' imple- ' 'mented by having Certain "in- , structions" issued that will spell ' out, the practicalllPplication's of ' one of the Council's decrees. One on the, Liturgy has already been issued; one on the Com niunications Media is aboui Tum to Page Ten
NEW YORK' (NC) - A radio broadcast to American school children by Pope Paul VI will open the Lenten campaign of the 20th annual Catholic Bishops' Overseas Re lief Fund Appeal. Some six million pupils are expected to hear the broadcast on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 23. All major networks are scheduled to carry the address. Pope Paul makes the Appeal each year, ask ing the children to make sacri fices and to give generously to the fund. Proceeds from the Appeal sup port the relief and welfare pro grams conducted in 80 countries by', Catholic Relief Services National Catholic Welfare Con ference, overseas aid agency of American Catholics. The 1966 Appeal will begin March 13 with a $5,000,000 mini mum goal.· It will culminate with a special collection in all churches in the U. S. on March 20.
; TAUNTONIAN RECEIVES BROTHERHOOD AWARD: William J. Fagan, left, of the Immaculate Conception Par ish, Taunton, is congratulated by Rt. Rev. Henri Hamel, Fall River, Diocesan chairman for the promotion of Christ ian Unity, on the Tauntonian's reception of the "Man of the Year" award presented by the Jewish Community of Taun ton on the tenth anniversary of Brotherhood Week of Christians and Jews.