Subscription Returns Are Encouraging
"Weare in for our quota" was the message received twice this morning at the Circulation Depart ment of The Anchor. The calls came from Rev. Fran cis J. McCarthy, pastor of St. Pat rick's Church in Somerset and from Rev. George E. Sullivan, pastor of St. Joseph's Church in Fall River. "And you can expect 8ubscrip
tiona in excess of our quotas," said the two pastors who were first to report the results of their parish subscriptions campaigns for 1965. They evidenced a desire to achieve complete family coverage so that each and every home will be abreast of the many liturgical changes being made in church renewal. There is every reason to believe that The Anchor will gain the most
quota parishes in its nine-year his tory this year. This total has been going up-and-up for the past eight years. The parishes are few and far between who do not reach their quota. Evidence that The Anchor is ap preciated more and more is the fact that few copies of each editions are available after they are placed on sale in the rear of churches. There
was a time when the size of the bundle remained constant. That day has long since passed.. The effectiveness of The Anchor has been related innumerable times by missioners laboring in far away fields who have reported philan thropies and other. gratuities as a result of our paper. We are proud of the record we are establishing.
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Warns About 'No·rrow Vision Of Church's Mission SAN FRANCISCO (NC)-A specialist in mission work eautioned here against letting concern for ecumenism in the western world overshadow the Church's mission to the non western, non-Christian world. Father Edward Murphy, S.J., Boston College missiologist, menical councn, as well as Pr0 told a meeting of North testants and Orthodox." American Jesuit mission di Citing statements like "the
rectors that one reason why !!eU menism is appealing is that its object is "one's next .door neigh bor or the Protestant minister or Orthodox p1'iest down the street woo moe present and so very real."
But, he added, such a vision is too restricted. ·"1 have thought if we really had the Catholic vision," Father Murphy said, "there would have been Buddist, Moslem HindU, Shintoist observers at the !!eU
Pre-School Child And His Religion On TV Series Religion for the pre-school ehild is the subject of a new TV series opening Saturday, February 20, at 9 :30 A.M. on WTEV, Channel 6, New Bed ford. . The weekly half-hour will be devoted to showing how the very young child can be given the basic notions of God's love and care for him, and the child's response of love, trust and obe dience. The Victory Noll Sisters who staff Holy Trinity School of Religion in West Harwich, Massachusetts, are producing the program. "The Little Flock" will show Sister Janet Marie, O.L.V.M.. teaching a group of kindergarten children. Her message and method will be briefly inter preted for parents by Sister Rose Annette, O.L.V.M. The Sisters are members of Our Lady of Victory Missionary Sisters, a catechetical community whose mother-house is at Victol7 Noll. Huntington. Indiana. .
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whole Church is in a state of mission, he said that "from some of the writ~ng surrounding these slogans one gets the impression that one is just -as. involved in the missions on 5th Avenue and the Rue de la Paix as one is on the Bund in Shanghai and the Ginza in Tokyo." But, he warned, the western ChurCh would stagnate if it con cerned itself only with its local. health and growth and failed to carry Christianity to other parts of the world. "A Church can grow apostolic cataracts which dim its vision of the wOTld and restrict it to things near at hand," Father Murphy said, "I desperately hope that all the ecumenical clamor does not develop apostolic catar acts in the vision of the Ameri can Church. I hope, too, that the present preoccupation with Latin America does not develop into the same thing."
Special Masses Will Illustrate New Changes In accordance with the wishes of the Most Reverend Bishop that both priests and people be prepared for the liturgical changes that are effec tive Sunday, March 7, special Masses were scheduled this week illustrating these changes. The new rites have been or dered adopted throughout the world on the First Sunday of Lent by the September 26 In struction of Pope Paul VI OIl implementing the ConstitutiOA to Page Twe
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ORDAINED AT NEW CONCELEBRATION RITE: Bishop Connolly ordained deacons to the priesthood in St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River, at tire new Concelebration Rite for the first time. Left to right: Rev. William P. Blottman of Attleboro, Rev. Michael P. McPartland of Fall River, the Bishop, and Rev. Thomas C. !..Qpes of Brighton. All will serve in the Diocese.j
Ordinary Attending Convo~ation On pacem in Terris Encyclical. NEW YORK-A distinguished invit~ audience of over 1000 persons began last even ing at the General Assembly Hall of the United Nations ·an International Convocation OIl Pacem in Terris (Peace on Earth), the last en~yclical of Pope John XXIII, to discuss im plications of the practical and moral issues dealt with in the encyclical for changes in U.s. attitudes and policies. Most. Rev. James L. Con Convocation, announced that radio and television stations. Among the nations represented are being audio-taped nolly, D.D.; Bishop of Fall sessions Turn to Page Six and will be broadcast by several River, is attending the Con vocation which continues today and through. Saturday. The Convocation is being spon sored by the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. Ro1;lert M. Hutchins, president of the Center and chairman of the
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Assigns Four Priests An assistant serving as administrator pro tempore and three newly ordained priests have been given as signments by the Most Reverend Bishop this week. Rev. Antonio Costa Tavares, admitiistrator pro tempore of at. Elizabeth Church, Fall River. Turn to Page Tw..
Priest Hunger Fighter Says Poverty Can Be Eradicated With Help of All CINCOINNATI (NC) - Msgr. Luigi G. Ligutti, veteran hunger fighter, is convinced "poverty can be eradicated from the world." Representatives of the Holy Father to the United Nations' Food and Agricultural Organiza tion (FAO), Msgr. Ligutti told a press conference here: ''The mbain limiting factor is man. If we can discover ways to get to the moon, I can't see why we cannot find better ways to produce and distribute food· • • If India were to apply the Jap anese method of raising rice, it could have a 100d lIurplua ill 1Z 8lOntha.,"
"Leaders of all religious groups must be involved in meeting the needs of men," he said "The world is hungry for leadership of a spiritual type." He said churches must be "unselfish" in their approach to human problems. He added: "If they go to secure their own in terests when they deal with the world at large, they are missi~ the point." The question that needs to be asked, he said, is not so much whether something is good for the church as whether it's good for man and for society. J/lsgr. Ligutti warned agaiDllt Twu to Page Twelve