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CORPORAL WORK OF MERCY: On Sunday morning, Bishop Cronin visited the New Bedford House of Correction and offered Mass and words of encouragement to the inmates. ,Left: Bishop preaches the homily; Inmates receive Holy Communion from Bishop, who. is being
assisted by Rev. William W. Norton, chaplain to the inmates. Sheriff Edward K. l)abrowski presents a plaque to Bishop Cronin to commemorate his first visit to the New Bedford Correctional Institution since his in'stallation on. December 16 as the fifth Ordinary of the Diocese.
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WASHINGTON (NC) - The U.S. bishops' anti-poverty Campaign for Human Development raised over $8.4 million, .the largest total ever obtained in a
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single national' Catholic collection. Auxiliary Bishop Michael R. Dempsey of Chicago, the campaign's national direc~or, an-
Changes Affecting Clergy Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, F. Kenney who has resigned to S.T.D., Bishop of Fall River, an- - assume the position in the Diocnounced today the acceptance esan Curia of Secret~ry of the of a resignation, the transfer of Office of Finance and Adminisfour pastors, the appointment tration. of three new pastors, the transRev. Donald A. Couza, pastor fer ,of two assistant pastors and of St. Elizabeth's Church,Edgarthe assignment of a. newly- town, will become pastor of St. ordained priest. All assignments Mary's Church, Norton. were made after consultation Rev. Edward C. Duffy, pastor with the priests involved. of St. John the Baptist Church, The Bishop has acceded to the Central Village, will become pastor of St. Mary's Church, Attlerequest of Rev. Msgr. Hugh A Gallagher, P.A., pastor of St. boro (Hebronville). James Church, New Bedford, to New pastors are Rev. Corneaccept his resignation. Msgr. lius J. O'Neill, Rev. William F. GaJlagher proferred his resigna- O'Connell and Rev. Justin J. tion two years ago and, in an Quinn. action typical of the ChurchFather O'Neill, assistant pasminded prelate, asked Bishop tor of St. Paul's Church, TaunCronin last week to accept it. ton, will become pastor of St. Rev. Thomas F. Daley, pastor John the Baptist Church, Central of St. Mary's Church, Norton, Village. succeeds Msgr. Gallagher as pas- . Father O'Connell, assistant tor of St. James. pastor of St. Lawrence Church, Rev. Cornelius J. Keliher, pas- New Bedford, will become pastor of St. Mary's Church, Attle- tor of St. Augustine's Church, boro (Hebronville) will become Vineyard Haven. He succeeds pastor of St. Mary's Church, No. Rev. Joseph F. O'Donnell who Attleboro, succeeding Rev. James has been appointed' pastor of
Immaculate Conception Churc!J., North Easton. . Father Quinn, assistant pastor of St. Lawrence, New Bedford, will become pastor of St. Elizabeth's Church, Edgartown. Assistant pastors tranferred are Rev. Thomas E. O'Dea and Rev. Raymond P. Monty. Father O'Dea, assistant pastor of St. James Church, New Bedford, will become assistant pastor of St. Lawrence Church', New Bedford. Father Monty, assistant pastor of St. Patrick Church, Fall River, will become· assistant pastor of St. Paul's Church, Taunton. Rev. Michel G. Methot,' ordained by Bishop Cronin to the priesthood on February 20, will go in his first assignment to St. Lawrence Church, New Bedford, as assistant pastor. Father O'Connell will become pastor of the Vineyard Haven parish on March 10, and Father Methot will go to St. Lawrence Church on March 10. All other appointments are effective on Thursday, March 18, 197"1.
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nounced the amount at a news conference here today. The funds will be used for self-help programs-not necessarily under Catholic Church sporisorship"':"'aimed af attacking the root· causes of poverty such as poor' housing, inadequate education and job training and the lack of legal services and health care. ' . Bishop Dempsey said the first grants to groups applying for the funds would be made by July 1. Deadline for funding applications is April 30. Guidelines and criteria covering distribution of the funds
specify that the poor must have a "dominant voice in planning, directing and implementing" the program. About 200 groups have thus far submitted proposals amounting to a- combined total of $7 million. A Human Developm'ent spokesman, . who said preliminary reviews of some proposals had already begun, said the campaign hopes to distribute "as much as possible" of the $8.4 million this year. A list of guidelines, prepared by the campaign's 40-member National Committee for Human Turn to Page Fourteen .
Ms:gr. Hugh A. Gallagher Retires! From St. James Most Rev. Daniel A Cronin, S.T.D., Bishop of Fall River, has accepted the request of Rev. Msgr. Hugh A Gallagher, P.A, pastor of St. James' Church, New Bedford, that he be allowed to resign the pastorate that he has exercised there since May 1, 1947. Monsignor Gallagher was 81 years of age on February. 17, and w)lile he had submitted his resignation two. years ago, he asked again that it be accepted. The distinguished prelate has given 39 years of service to .St. James in the South end of New Bedford and his presence and influence there is almost legendary. Monsignor Gallagher was born Feb. 17, 1890, the son of the late William H. and Bridget (Goodwin) Gallagher. A native of Taunton he attended local schools and graduated from Holy Cross College in 1912. He studied theology at St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore and was ordained to the priesthood on May 27, 1916 by the second Bishop of the Diocese, Most Rev. Daniel Feehan. Upon ordination he served as assistant at St. James in New Bedford until February, 1932, when he became pastor of St. o
.Joseph's Church, Woods Hole. In 1935 he was transferred as pastor to St. Mary's Church in Mansfield, and in 1942 became pastor of St. Kilian's Church in New Bedford. He succeeded the late- Rev. Msgr. Henry Noon as pastor of S~ James Church on May 1, 1947. He was made a Domestic Prelate on Feb. 27, 1958, and was elevated to the distinction of Prothonotary Apostolic on April 21, 1966. Turn to Page Nineteen r--"-"'-"T:""-~-'T------
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