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NEW YORK (NC)-Pope Paul VI will open the U.S. schools students' phase of the 22nd annual Catholic Bishops' Overseas Aid Fund Appeal on Ash Wednesday with a special radio message to pupils in Catholic elementary and high schools. The Pope's message, . which will be carried by the sonal contributions during Lent major radio networks and be for aid to poverty-stricken child heard by an estimated 6 mil- ren overseas.
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A ,;eries of sermons for the six Sundays of Lent has New DiolCesan' l()OOn directed by Most Rev. James L. Connolly Bishop. of ~aIl River, in his annual Lenten message to .the faithful @f the Diocese of Fall River. The Ordinary has listed the The Fall River Diocesan ~lIowil1g topics as the homi : . Executive :Board of the CCD rb' loA . 8Q' Bli JecW): March 31st, The .shephurd of: has announced electl'on of -Mal'Ch 3rd, The Visible Church, the flock, "servant of the' set Mrs. Charles .H. Fuller of
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March 10th,· The Lay Apostol - . b~'inging Faith and Love ii!:» famllY,friends and the world lilt-large. . . March 17th, The sanctifying power of the Priest. Living by • Altar. March 24th, Priest and reli ~ous givin~ their best in meet ilbg men's needs for faith, hope,
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Hew.· Superior At La Sa lette Revel:end George Morin, •.S. assumed the. responsi bilities of provincial secre .'y and local superior at the .... Salette Provincial House in ~lebol'o, Friday. He succeeds aev. Paul Dalbec, M.S;, now sta iioncd at St. Paul's Church in ;Daytona, Florida. ,Fathcr Morip. taught Canon lwaw and Liturgy at the Attle boro seminary for six years,' and took an active part in the Chris etan Family Movement. When -tile seminary was moved to the Vnivcl'sity of Ottawa in 1964, be was assigned to La Salette parish in Windsor, Ontario. A native of Fitchburg, Mass., ~ was born 1929 and was a anembcr of St. Joseph parish _ich is staffed by the La SaTurn to Page Eighteen
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Hon pUPils, will begin a special 40-day Lenten campaign in Catholic schools on behalf of sick and needy youngsters over seas. The annual appeal, conducted in the name of the American bishops, raises funds to support the global relief, self-help and social welfare projects conducted by Catholic Relief Services, the overseas aid and development agency of American Catholics. The appeal is conducted in two phases. The first begins with the Papal radio message on Ash Wednesday urging Catholic school ehildren ·to per:fl:lrm acts of self-denial and to make per . • . I
The second major phase of the appeal will be conducted in the more than 18,000 Catholic par ishes in the nation from March 17-24, concluding with a special collection in the churches on March 24, Laetare Sunday. Proceeds from last year's ap peal enabled CRS to conduct aid and development programs in areas of distress in more than 70 countries throughout Asia, Africa and Latin America, distributing food, clothing, medicines and other acutely needed relief sup plies to more than 40 million impoverished persons, entirely without regard to race, religion or color.
vants of Christ." "Teacher con Buzzards Bay as its new presi secrator of prelatC$ and P'riests, dent, responsible to all, and for all Mrs. Fuller succeeds Edward in the community." Angelo of New Bedford in the April 7th, The Holy l!'ather, Confraternity post. She will as chief shepherd, Vicar of Christ, sume responsibility for coordi to whom we give reverence nation of the CCD Lay Execu love and obedience. ' . tive Board which, with its' di ,Bishop Connolly in a Lenten rector, Rev.. Joseph Powers, is SAGINAW (NC)-Three speakers in widely divergent message, says: responsibie for the religious· ed-" "Woe betide me' if I preach· ucation of"over 36,000 Catholic occupations agreed here that tlie crisis in private schools not the Gospel," St. Paul: 1st children attending public schOols' demands public fund for the ed\lcation of nonpublic schools Corinthians 9:16 in the Fall River Diocese. st·udents. The speakers were Father Virgil C. Blum, S.J., Beloved of the household of Mrs. Fuller has a masters'lie author,.· c.onstitutional law Faith:· gree in education granted·' by . . Hubbell, former national presi ,This is the background 'from Bridgewater State Teacher's· authority and political sci dent of Citizens for Educational ence teacher at Marquette Freedom, now Michigan CEF which the recent Pastorlll·Let-· College. She obtained her· un tel': The Church in Our Day' was dergraduate degree in education· University, Milwaukee; Dr. executive director. written. It is presented to the from Fordham University in . John Choitz 'of Detroit, Luther They agreed such a fund is faithful, to· prompt us >'make" Turn· to Page ·Eighteeil· an .college head, and, Stuart . not ·only needed but is just and t';.' . more intelligent, religious;"real desirable for both the public istic response to the demands· and private school systems. of our times. ' ' Auxiliary Bishop James A. With this end in mind, ~e Hickey of Saginaw, set the consider two things: a) What is mood for the meeting in St. the Church? and b) What· is Paul Seminary here by telling our individual responsibility as . the 650 persons present that the mem~ers of Christ visible in us gathering was "important for to the world. the welfare '" co '" of all the chil The Church is the continua BROWNSVILLE {:NC)-The Valley Catholic Witness, dren of our state" so they may ti~n of Christ's ministry of diocesan paper of Brownsville, is now a regular supple continue receiving an education mercy on earth. All thai; is vis ment of the Brownsville Herald, the Valley Morning Star of Harlingen and,the Valley Evening Monitor of McCallen, in a "school of their free choice." ible to our eyes, in homes for thereby tripling its circulation. ' Father Blum declared "wheth aged and infirm, welfare bu The diocesan paper previously had been a regular er Pllrents have tax funds for ~aus, youth activities, and in supplement of only the Brownsville Herald. church-related schools will af the dedicated service of. conse Bishop Humberto. S. Medeiros of Brownsville an fect the whole future of our cul crated men and women, staffing nounced the decision l;Ifter consultation with the pastoral ture." He warned that if the schools, nurseries and hospitals, council, the senate of priests and the diocesan consultors. financial problem of such shows how good christians lend The Texas See 'Ordinary, shepherd Qf the southern their hearts and their hands to most United States diocese, is a former Chancellor of the schools is not resolved "AmeriDiocese of Fall River where he was one of the staunchest . Turn to Page Seventeen supporters of The Anchl?r. that .Mass. diocese's newspaper. Turn to Page Four
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It's State Aid, or Close Schools
Transfer of Pupils PHILADELPHIA (NC) Enrollment in the Catholic schools of the Philadelphia archdiocese has dropped by
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7,600 in one year, Msgr. Edward T. Hughes, archdicesan super intendent of schools, has told a Penna. legislative committee. The sharp decline is cited as proof that non-pub'lic schools in Pennsylvania must begin re ceiving some sort of financial support from the state or close down completely. The latter result means dras tically higher public school costs and the need for sudden capital mveStment.
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Msg,r. Hughes, testifying be fore the Pennsylvania, House Committee on Basic Education, which is considering several means of providing the state support, noted the most sweep ing proposal calls upon the state to create a speciaf authority to purchase seculaL" education of students in non-public schools. Msgr. Hughes said Catholic schools enrollment. in city o£ Philadelphia dropped 4,000 to a new total of 152,457-36 per cent of the total school enrollment in the city.. . The city drop, he said, will cost the city $2 million in oper
Over·B~rden Taxpayers ating expenses and more than $7 million capitol outlay for new facilities. Outside the city, 3,600-pupil decline brought the total Cath olic school registration to 113, 868. Father Paul Curran, assistant Catholic school superintendent, stressed that in the five-county archdiocese the drop cost public schools about $17 million-or about two-thirds of the project ed cost of state aid to non-public schools in the entire state. "This enrollment drop," he added, "represents less than three per cent of our total sl;u.daDJ
population" and could well con tinue in the future. "In the light of these factors, one need not be a dev:otee of non-public schools to believe that their dissolution would be undesirable." Msgr. Hughes told the legisla tors that it would cost the Phil adelphia public schools $85 mil lion annually to 'educate the 152,457 pupils in the city's facili ties and that almost 6,000 new teachers would have to be found. Other points he made in his testimony: While about five per cent of Turn, to Page Eighteen