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Building Construction In Diocese Reflects Growing Church Needs Increasing growth of the church in Southeastern Massachusetts and the correspond. ing increase in church activities to meet this challenge is reflected today in the building program which will reach its height in the Diocese of Fall River by this Summer. A total of approximately $7,000,000 in construction will be underway within the next few months, 'providing work for hundreds of tradesmen and business for· innumerable concerns..
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The largest amount of money will be expended in the northern area of the Diocese. The second regional diocesan: high school will be constructed in Attleboro at an approximate cost of $2,900,000. The school has already been named for the second Bishop of the Diocese of FaU River, the Most Rev. Daniel F. Feehan. Another tremendous project' which will be undertaken in the northern periphery of the diocese will' be Cardinal O'Hara Hall at Stonehill College. This is planned to meet the growing needs of the institution conducted by the Congregation of Holy Cross. It will be the first dormitory on the campus. At the other end of the diocese, the Most Reverend Bishop has directed the enlargement of two churches to accommodate the tremendous growth of the Catholic population on old Cape Cod. St. Margaret's Church at Buzzard's Bay and Our Lady of the Highway, which is a mission of St. Pius X in South Yarmouth, will both be doubled in seating Turn to Page Eighteen
Youth Talks Open Sunday , IRISH BISHOP IN UNITED STATES: Bishop Michael Browne (right) of Galway looks: at map to see .where his brother, Thomas J. Browne, has his pastorate in San Leandro, .Calif. Francis T. Hurley, NCWC Ass't Gen'l Secretary in Washington and Francis Heneghan (left)' of Ga1way look on. NC Photo. .
Advanced Math Easy··as 'Pi' For Sister Barbara Mary , Who says women aren't mathematicians? Never mind " the canards about unbalanced checkbooks and housekeeping accounts that won't behave properly. Not when the fair sex can boast members like Sister Barbara Mary, S.U.S.C. Her record includes a B.S. -·~--l degree, summa cum laude, from St. John's University, New York, where' she maj-
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Bishop Approves Attleboro, Area School ,Plans Plans for the Bishop vaniel F. Feehan Regional High School in the Attleboro area haVe been approved by Most Rev. James L. Connolly, D.D., and detailed specifications are in the process of being completed. Borings are being made on the' site at the present time preliminary ,to the awarding of the contract. Construction is expected to be started in the early Spring, with the' opening of the' school planned for the Fall of 1961. The fund-raising campaign conducted in the area last Fall under the direction of Rev. William D. Thomson, pastor of St. 'Mary's Church, Norton, was ov~rsubscribed by approximately $140,000. Judge Edward A. Lee was gener~l chairman.
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RECEIVES MISSION CROSS: Father Martin Kelly of Newark receives his mission cross from Richard Cardinal Cushing, Archbishop of Boston. There are now 30 priests in the Society of St. James the Apostle founded by Cardinal Cushing 20 months ago to serve Latin American missions. . Msgr. Edward F. Sweeney of Boston, soCiety superior, is in center. NC Photo. .
For the third successive year, a Lenten Forum for young adults will be held on the five Sunday evenings of . Lent at the Kennedy ComlJlunity Center in New Bedford and at the Catholic Community' Center on Franklin Street in Fall River. The talks w'lu begin Sunday at 7 P.M. and are for high school juniors and seniors and for all others 16 ~rears of age and over. The talks are sponsored by the Catholic 'Youth Organization with the speakers supplied by the Family Life Bureau of th~ Diocese.. The talks are open to Catholics and non-Catholics and there is no admission fee. Each talk will conclude. with a ques'" tion and answer period. The first talk has as its ti tIe "The World Needs You" and will . Turn to Page Eighteen
Franciscan to Offer Mass in Fall River
Frater Brian V. Flynn, O.F.M., son of William J. Flynn of New .York and the'late Anna (!Iarrington) Flynn of Fall River, will he ordained a Franciscan priest March 12 at the Franciscan Monastery, Washington, D. C., by Archbishop Egidio Vagnozzi, Apostolic visit Fall Rivet and offer a SolDelegate to the United emn Mass of Thanksgiving for States. Frater Brian is the his relatives and friends at 11 nephew of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Saturday, March 19, the Walter Lawton and Mr. and Mrs. George Beaulieu, both of 866 Locust Street, Fall River. After his first Solemn Mass in New York, Frater Brian will
Academy Exams All four girls' Academies in Fall River will hold scholarship .md placement examinations on the same day-Saturday" March 12, at 9 A.M. Eighth grade girls are eligible and should register at once at the school of their choice, preferably by Wednesday, March 9. . The schools are Academy of the Sacred Hearts, Dominican Academy, Jesus-Mary Academy, and Mt. St. Mary Academy.
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Total of 13 Parishes Now in Qu'ota Bracket Five parishes today are" for the first time, in .the constantly increasing quota bracket for home. delivered subscriptions to The Anchor. A' total of 13 parishes have already reported quota sales in their par'ishes for 196,0. fl'he incomplete re. ' .. ate, 'tS lSt, r01V turns from the current circulation 1959 1960· campaign are sufficient to indicate Parish' L~cation . 'Sales Sales that the 1960 circulation of The Anchor :Blessed Sacrament Fall River . 193 195 'will be the greate~t in its .four-year Holy Redeemer Chatham' 58 '76 his,tory. ' . ' .' Holy Trinity West Har~ich' 25 100 A total of ·22 parishes were i~ the Immaculate Conception No. Easton 69 457 qu~ta br~cket . last year. T~ere .IS no Our Lady' of Mt. Carmel S'eekonk' 105 108 doubt now that more parishes than . ., . .' ever before will attain, or surpass, their St; J!'!an Baptiste Fall ~lver. ,254 265 quotas this year. St. John the Baptist Central Village 78 85 The five 'pa;ishes .in the quota class SL Mary's Fairhaven 17 126 for the first time are: 'St. Mary's Seekonk 161 169 Immaculate Conception, North Easton. St.·Pius SO. Yarnwuth '100 100 Holy Re~e.emer, Chatham.. St.·Joseph's. Taunton 347 383 Holy Tnmty, West HarWIch. St.' Jose',ph's W 00d' H' I 51 90 St. Mary's, Fairhaven. . S 0 e St. Thomas More, Somerset. St. Thomas More Somerset 112 460
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Feast of St. Joseph, at the Ch.urch of the Holy Name. Rev. William H. Harrington, pastor and cousin of the newly.ordained, will be assistant priest; Rev. Raymond McCarthy, deacon; Rev. Norbert Norton, O.F.M., subdeacon. Rev. John H. 'Hackett will preach. Frater Brian stUdied at St. Joseph's Seraphic Seminary,' Callicoon, N. Y. He entered the Franciscan Order Aug. '12, 1953, at St. Bonaventure's Monastery, Paterson, N. J. After Simple Vows, Aug.. ,13, 1954, he studied philosophy at St. Francis College, Rye Be:lch, N. H.' His theological studies were taken at · St., .Anthony's ,Monastery, ButTurn to Page Eighteen
,Lebel Firm Gets West Yarmouth Chapel Contract The cOl).tract for construction of an addition to Uur Lady of the Highway Chllrch on Route 28 in West Yarmouth has been awarded to · John: Lebel and Sons, Inc." ~t , Osterville, who constru,cted the Church of Our Lady of Victory . ~t Centerville, ' . ' As announced in The Anchor on Jan. 28, the addition will · seat, 330, doubling the present · capacity of 320. Used pnly in Summer'," the'church is the resporisibility of Rev. Christopher · L. Broderick" pastor of St. Pius X Churth, South Yarmouth. Plans include an open sanctuary, with the celebrant facing part of the congregation; two altar rails, a new confessional a'nd a built·in speaker system. The archit:ct is Earle L. Kempton of Walter M. Gaffney AssociatQS, Hyannis.