Says Americans Are Greatest Samaritans
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NEW YORK (NC)-The United States is "the worl<fs greatest Samaritan," Francis Cardinal Spellman declared here at the first of a series of regional meetings on behalf of the 1962 Bishops' Relief. Fund Appeal. Thirty diocesan directors of the fund from 7, when some five million Maine to South Carolina at- March students in Catholic elementary tended the meeting. "We can and high schools throughout the take pride, justifiable pride, nation will be called upon to
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FaU River, Mass., Thursdayu Feb. 15, 1962
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Circulation Dri"e In Flying Start More parishes win achieve their quotas in weekly home-delivered sales of The Anchor this year' than ever before. First returns from the annual subscription campaign indicate that this diocesan newspaper's net-paidCireulation will increase again Immaculate Conception parish this year, as it has each year in Fall River has met its 450 since its establishment. quota in each of I ast three Twenty-four of the 109 the years, and, Rev. dlocesan parishes last year reached their quotas in mail-delivered subscriptions. The quota in each parish is, only a smal;) part of the total number of pm-ish families. We at Tohe Anchor know of Q half-dozen pastors who this year are more determined than over that their parishes will attain this minimal objective. "We at St. Joseph's parish in mew Bedford have our sights set not on quotaachievement but I!"ather on complete parish cover~ge, that is, The Anchor in every home," says Rt. Rev. Msgr. Louis E. Prevost, pastor. "You can count ~ us again this year for our quota. ~hat's an old story MsgIl". Prevost with us. We have exceeded our quota in four of the' five years The Anchor has been operating. We wi~l not be satisfied until we accomplish ~mplete parish coverage." "Sacred Heart parish in Fall River has had more fuan 600 copies of The Anchor going into homes via the mails every week since The Anchor started," observed Rev. Felix S. Childs, pastor. "We have no~ reached tine sat~ uration point, we know, and we '\vill continue .,to en- Fr. Childs courage more people to read The 'Anchor regullarly because The Anchor is worthy of that support," opined the Fall River pastor, adding "we're over our quota with only partial returns." "You could not have a more loyal corps of supporters in any parish in the diocese than you have in St. Joseph's parish,' Taunton," according to Rev. Patrick H. Hurley, pastor. "The people at St. Joseph's look forward to each issue. They like it, th e y enjoy it.........="""" They find it is in- lFr.lHlUlurI0:7 formative as well as instructive. The Anchor has certainly succeeded in tying the ~ntire diocese together. IndirectOCy, it has aroused parish i'ival~ l'l'ies, resultine in a mO!'0 ze:illoll.O 拢lUthful~"
Edward T. Dowling, pastor, assures the Circulation Department that quota achievement is a certainty again this year. "People in Immaculate Conception parish have Fr. Dowling enjoyed the New England Catholic college series The Anchor has b'een running. The alternating features by our own diocesan priests, Questions and Answers and Worthwhile Recipes, are excellent," Father Dowling declared. "I know I have learned of many things going on in the diocese that I would have not known if it had not been for The AnchQT." he asserted. i "We'll have far mQre than our quota at St. Roch,'; said Rev., George S. Daigle, pastor of the Fall River parish. "We have exceeded our quota four out of five years. This year there is more interest a m 0 n g our people in ,The Anchor than ever before," Fr. Daigle observed. "The Anchor is Fr. Daigle flhe only paper reporting all the news of aU the parishes in the five counties of our 1,194-square路 mile diocese. The Anchor alone lets the people in our section know what their fellow Catholics are doing in another area' of our dioCese. We will do much' better than oUr quota,'" Fr.' Daigle conclu,ded:' . . "The people here in North Easton, on the periphery of the diocese now feel. ... .' ..
Cardinal Spellman
Council to Give
Non-Catholic 'Christian Position HEIDELBERG (NC) The head of the Holy See's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity said here it is very important that the coming ecumenical council give a basic explanation of the position of non-Catholic Christians with the Mystical Body of Christ. Augustin Cardinal. Bea, addressing a gathering of Protes-路 tant and Catholic stUdents and university professors here, said that the nature of the one true Church of Christ should be spelled out by the council. , The council must make clear the indelible effect of every valid baptism, he said, as aU who are baptized are incorporated in Christ and made' children of God. Such a d"eclaration would Turn to Page Twelve '
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P~@ra LOO'll~Cl1U COrnYe!filtD~1)1 LONDON (NC) - Some 800 'Catholic doctors from 50 countries including 140 from the U. S., will hold a week's
congress in London from July 9 to 13. . The 10th International Congress of Catholic Doctors is being oI:ganized by Britain's Guild of, St. ,Luke, SS. Cosmas and Damian. , Its theme will be "The Catholic Doctor in Changing Societies." Separate sections will deal with the problems of adolescence, the aged, mental ~ealth. hopeless cases and Cathohc doctors in newly inc:iepe,ndent countries. . , Some 300 doctors from contil}ental Europe and another 300 from Britain itself are expected at the' congress. Delegates will John J. Casey\/ attend a special Mass at Westpastor of Immac-'}t minster cathedral, a reception by ulate Conception ", the British Bishops and a banparish in North quet and baU at the Dorchester Easton. Hotel, as wel~ as visits to interesting medical institutes in the "Our parish }[lIr. Casey climbed into the area. quota class last year for the first Many of those attending will time. You can be certain we'll also take part in a separate onebe included in that bracket again , day international convention for this year. doctors being organized by the "'l'he stories you publish of Cat hoI i c Marriage Advisory the activities and accomplish- Council on the subject of the ments of diocesan natives in fertile period. The council said church work throughout the it is planning this convention to world haG aroused considerable help overcome the widespread intere~ and comment !xl OWl' .ignorance of this matter among Catholics. C~(ltt1m ~ ,the (Hoc~o '"
in the fact that we as Americans are able to participate in this, great work of tlie Bishops' Relief Fund in helping our needy brethren," the Cardinal said. . He lauded the U. S. Government for donating surplus foods which are distributed throughout the world' by relief agencies. One of these agencies is Catholic Relief Services--National Catholic Welfare Conference, which distributes the food without regard to race, creed, color or political adhere.nce to the needy in' 67 countries. CRS-NCWC is the worldwide agency maintained by U. S. Cath'olics and directs the annual BisQ.ops' Relief 'Fund, Appeal. The 1962 fund campaign will be opened Ash Wednesday,
Says Teenagers Inherit Values From Parents MORRISTOWN (NC) Today's teenagers are falling heir to amoral and materialistic attitudes from their parents, warns Father John M. lfahey, S.J., of Loyola Retreat House here in New Jersey. The 41year-old Jesuit in the past 10 years has conducted closed retreats for well over 8,000 Catholic boys of high school age. "Eight out of 40 boys," he said in an interview here, "have something to say about drinking problems." "When a kid drinks a lot," he added, "invariably his parents' are drinking a lot. "And when a boy has a sex problem, you usually find that there is unfaithfulness or birth control in his home. "And when a boy of 17 years hears his parents criticizing priests about money requests or a sermon against birth control, is it any wonder he winds up critical too?" Father Fahey sees one other Turn to Page Twelve
make Lenten contributions. , The main appeal will be made during the week of March 25,climaxed by the traditional Laetare .Sunday collection, April I, in more than 16,500 parishes throughout the country. Minimum national goal of the campaign is $5 millon, the same total as last year's quota which waa exceeded by a million dollars. .' Cardinal Spellman said the recipients of the surplus food distributed by CRS-NCWC know it comes from the American people. , He said: "All sacks and cartoni are labeled 'donated by the people of the United States' and 011 the other side of the sacks the' same phrase in the language of the people ceiving them." Clothing, medicine and other relief supplies distributed by CRSo NCWC are labeled similarly. ,"It has been a wonderful! source of good will throughout the world," the Cardinal said. "We are at the present time the world's greatest Samaritan not only in what we give but in the way we do it, because all the food and medicine and clothing is given ,not to encourage favo!: or for any other motive but solely to help those in need."
S c h 0 0 I Grades Above Average St. 'John the Baptist Scho~ New Bedford, has become the second elementary school of the Diocese to receive an evaluation of its students and grades from the fourth to eighth by tho Science Research Associates. Robert Hoye, staff associate, presided. The Science Research Achievement Series was used and p>rOo file sheets of each student werm given to the parents of each individual child. The mental ability of the child was shown and the standing of each grade in. relation to the national norm was shown. The tests were evidence that the' grades of this school were above t~e national norm.
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, PRESS BOOSTER: Rev. Edmond L. Dickinson, assistant Sacred ,Heart Church, No. Attleboro,presents $25 Savings Bond to Michael Bonneau: fortunate winner in The Anchor subscription drive contest in the Parish School, as his teacher, Sister Claire Elizabeth, S.U.S.C., looks on. School is 115% over its subscription sales goal of The Anchor..
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