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Prelate Stresses. Clergy's Du~y To He~p· Aged
PurceU Bmcgraphy A~c~riif'~ Times of Sf. Anthony
DETROIT (NC) ;. Churches, synagogues and . their clergy have a responsi, bility to help the aging solve their special problems, Msgro
By Rt. Rev. Msgr. John S~ Kennedy One of the best writers' of biographies of the saints Is Mary Purcell, an Irishwoman. Miss Purcell's n~west · subject is of interest to a vast number of p.eople. It IS ~t. ' . · Anthony, to whom there is widespread devotion, generation after generation, despite the In 11 years as a :F'ranciscan he fact that he lived and died did a prodigious amount of more tlian 700 years ago. work.. .', . of the Although he spent tune m B. ut th e s~con dP pa rt 11' work' Morocco and Sicily, his principal .
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-seminar' here. He termed care of the aged "the greatest social work challenge today" in addressing the one-day session sponsored by the southeastern region 01 the Michigan Nursing Home Association. Catholic Charities of the Detroit Archdiocese Wail among the co-sponsors. Msgr. Suedkamp, secr,etary of charities for the .Detroit archdiocese, said the clergy's respon. sibilities to the aged-ill include the need for knowing the resources of a community to make proper referrals. He also called for an aggressive approach to counseling-"to seek out and find the older harderto-reach persons." . MJ question whether we caB take the family and youth and psychiatric-centered principletl of casework techniques and apply them without reservation to the field of social gerontology. We must specialize in social gerontology as we have in ch~ld welfare," said Msgr. Suedkamp.
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endeavor was in Italy and France. He went about northern and His Times Italy, preaching in the public: ( Han 0 v e r S q u a r e s , rousing the people to House. $3.95), . penitence and a more devout should probablife and winning heretics back ly be the more to the Church. he a v i I)' ac-' In France, too" he dealt with cented. For a heretics; for this was the age great deal of of-the Waldenses and the Albiwhat the book genses, sectarians whose queer contains deals creeds won many adherents. . FIRST NIGHTERS: Judith Cohen and Robert Curry with the period Prominent'in Order rather than diHe held important positions in of Holy Name Parish, Fall River, enter Strand Theatre for reetly with the his '{)rder, first as custos, then premiere performance of i ':;Embezzled . Heaven,'~ . co-sponsaint. ' as provincial, and he· figured This is unde'rstandable, be- importantly in the memor~ble . sored by Catholic Woman's Club and Clover Club for benecause much that has been set dispute between the partisans fit of Nazareth Hall. down about St. Anthony is open of the powerful Brotl~er Elias, to critical challenge. Thus, large who would depart from:·the ,prisnumbers of miracles of ~ll sorts tine Franciscan simplicity, and are said, by various writers,. to the brothers who insisted on. have been wrought by h~m being faithful to the spirit of t~e Four Sacred Hearts priests are ,Hearts Church, Fairhaven. during his lifetime. In some l.n- founder and the letter of )U8 affected by transfers announceq Rev. Regis . Kwiatkowski, · stances the same supposed ~ur- rule. .Diocesan TV Series by Very Rev. William J. Condon, SS.CC., has replaced Father acle is reported· s~vera~. times As he sensed the approach of provincial. Arsenault at St. Francis Xavier. SACRAMENTO - The Sacra-. over, each time set m a.dIfferent death,he withdrew jrom' the mento Diocese is producing • Rev. Louis R.. Arsenault, He' was formerly at_St. Joseph's city or town. I.n other mstances, active'ministry, spent some time '13-week series of half-ho'ur a ·miracle attnbuted to St. An- at Mount Alvernia, where Fran- SS.CC., formerly at St. Francis Church, Fairhaven. Two new assistants will serve television programs to explain thony seems to ha,:e been bor- cis had received the stigmata,.' Xavier Church, Acushpet, has at St. Joseph's, Fairhaven. They .Catholic doctrine and practice. rowed from a chro~llcle ~oncern- and finally retired to a house on been . transferred to Sacred are ·Rev. Joachim Shults, SS.CC., ingsome other ..samt. . the outskirts of Padua, where be and Rev. Anthony Pohle, SS.~C. Miss Purcell could have fl1~ed died in 1231. R. A. WILCOX CO. Father Shults, a native' Of her ..pagesand chapters With Commanding stature ~ochester,has served at Sacred OFFICE FURNITURE accounts of fanciful wonders, Th d t iIs which can be-doco, . Hearts seminaries in Wareham had she so chosen. But 'she has e ea. . hi StoU row I.medi... Delh~ HONOLULU, (NC)- and Honolulu, and has belonged elected to put aside what seems mented are, ,as the foreg.omg • DEsKS • CHAIRS an 'suggests, sparse. But th~re ar:e to .mission bands in the west, I egen d ary, although citing . his writings to· attest,·to hIS A Philippine Senator has mid-west and east. . FILING CABINETS occasional exam~le to .glve the learnin _ especially in the praised U. S· Catholics for• FIRE FILES • SAFES Father Pohle, holder of a their "dynamic" practice of FOLDING TABLES ·licentiate in sacred theology . t d th verifiable fea- 10 matters spmtual, a~ well a~ hiS .religion. AND CHAIRS from Catholic University, was ms ea f ~? life Salesian bent for 111ustratlOns Philippine Sen. Francisco Rod- provincial procurator ,before tures 0 I~~m;~irtrait from natural history .There is rigo said he would like to bring being assigned to Rochester, These provide scarcely more enough about to enable .us to the' intensely practical spirit of from where he returns to Fair22 BEDFORD ST. than a sketch. They let us .per- realize t~at he was a samt of U.-S. Catholicism back with him haven. . FAU RIVER. 5-7831 to the Philippines. ceive the saint but ~im)y. There commandmg stature. . is a considerable body of his Miss Purcell,. as has b~en .sald, Philippine Catholics have a writings extant, comprising out- lavishes l1ttel1h?n o~ hiS t~mes. more "emotional" .a t t i tu d e .lines of sermons which . he They warrant It, bemg as cr~ ·toward religion, he explained. PLUMBlNG & HEATING, INC. preached. But he was not one to ativeas."they were, tum?ltuous, "A happy mixture of both would When it's time i f o r Domestic . speak of himself. marked ~by lofty sanchty and be ideaL" . ~ & Industria. "He forgot Anthony so com- abysmal violence. He~ account, to retire 0 • 0 Buy o ~ Sales and pletely-never once mentioning enables us to gr~sp theIr e~sence ep cuces· Issloners Oil Burners· Service" himself never giving a clue to and theseren,lty and s1Ogle-, : . . AMSTERDAM (NC) - Thirty I WY 2-9447 his per~onal likes .and dislikes- minded?ess of .Anthony a~re the Dutch priests of the Congrega2283 ACUSHNET AYI. that he is the despair of.biog- more Impre,ssl~e. when seen NEW BEDFORD . /' raphers." against this riotous background. tion of Missionaries of t~e Holy In this he contrasts strongly Dull'Fhriller Family nowbe stationed nesia will replaced in by IndoGer- , ':============~ r ,with his master; St. Francis of I have been sampling the latest . man priests of the 'same congreAssisi , during whose lifetime he of Van Wyck. Mason's popular gation. Indonesia, which won its entered the Franciscan order. stories of international intrigue 'independence from the Dutch Anthony was not Italian, as is and .adventure, featuring the re- after the war, is' trying to get commonly s4Pposed. He was doubtable Colonel Hugh North rid of all missionaries of Dutch Portuguese, born in London in of U. S. Army Intelligence: It is nationality. 1190. Nor was he the tall slim, entitled Secret Mission to Bangpallid figure which some statues kok (Doubleday. $3.95). Not to represent him as, . but short, put too fine a point on it, I stout and swarthy, in later -life found the inishmash. preposterbe ";as described as corpulent ous and perilously close to and dropsical. . illiterate. ' 276 Central St., Fall River South Sea Sts. At' 16 h(~ -entered the Orde~ ·of It may- be that the author's CO~ Canons Regular of St. August1Oe, word~coining is the attraction, Hyannis Tel. HY 8.1 OSborne 6-8279 was ordained in due season, .and as' to 'some extent in the case of So., Dartmouth pursued tlle regular, retired life such contrasting writers as and Hyannis of his community, reading and James Joyce and Walter Winstudying, meditating, taking his chell So. Dartmouth turn in thf~ several offices of the Thus,a cMracter is described WY 7·9384 bouse. . as "mickeyed." At first I took Becomes Franciscan. this .to mean, that the man was Hyanriis 2921 One day' when he wa:; servmg blessed with those Irish eyes SOMERSET, MASS. - Next to Stop & Shop as.dispenser ·ofal~s, there came which, in song . at least, are o invites your participation in the to the doo~, be~g1Og, a group of always smiling. The real meangrowth of a new Bonking Institution the new l!.ra.nclscan~. T.hey had ing, though, is that ,the person ·set up a ~ut 10 th~ dlstr~ct. S~on had been 'served a Mickey Finn. • COMMERCIAL and SAVIN(;S SERVICE after their. meetmg With him, So has the reader. .• MORTGAGES..,.... AUTO and. APPLIANCE LOANS they set off Joyfully for Morocco, Accounts Insured Up To $10,000 where they were martyred for the faith. This impressed him Missioner Pre,pare,s Member Federal Deposit Insurance Co. Bow~ing & Skating deeply. Bookletsin.Tago log Harold J. Regan, President He asked to be allowed to KALAYAN (NC) -A young. Million Dollar Ballroom leave the Carionsand join the Minnesota priest is w.riting, a sons of -St. Francis. The permis- series of religious booklets' in AVAIL~BLE . sion was granted. He was now_ Tagalog, the language Of the 30 years old and was to die at 41. natives of central ·Luzon. For Your Father J. Patrick McMahon, • TESTIMONIAL DINNERS Plan Scholars,hips M.M., of St. Paul has already' • BANQUETS ST. PAUL (NC)-A drive is written' two booklets on t~: • FASHION SHOWS now underway to provide Catho- sacraments in the language; ·of . • ANNUAL DANCE PARTY his parishioners at· this Philiplic high school scholarships for non-white students in the 81. pine mission in the Laguna Paul-Minneapolis area. At .l~ast province. The Unive'rsity of For information call six scholarships will be available Santo Tomas Press in Manila 653 Washington Street,' Fairhaven Roland Gamache or this Fall. The Twin Cities MS published the first two and ' Frank Collins Catholic Interracial Council will MS asked Father McMahon' to.' WYman 4-5058 pay .any costs above tuition write Tagalog booklets on: all! WYman 9-6984 e:Kpenses•. the sacraments. ,.r'
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