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ORDINATION IN LISBON: Emmanuel Cardinal Cereleiro, Patriarch of Lisbon, receive~ the promise of obedience in'the name of Bishop Connolly. from the newly-ordained ~ev. Anthony P. Rocha of Immaculate Conception Parish, ¥e.w Bedford. Father Rocha was ordained by the Cardinal ... Feb. 21. A Canon of Lisbon is at right. '
Cardinal Ordains Priest In .Lisbon for Diocese Rev. Anthony P. Rocha, son of Mrs. Frederico A.·Costa ana the late Antonio P. Rocha, of 27 Elm St., Fairhaven, was ordained to the Priesthood for the Diocese of Fall River by. His Eminence; Emmaunel Goncalves Cardinal Cerejeiro, Patriarch of Lisbon, in the . ' After the Ordination, Father ehapel of the, Patriarchal Rocha was the first priest to 8e!'ninary of Christ the give his blessing to the Cardinal. king, Olivais, Lisbon, PortImmediately after the Ordi-
_aI, on February 21.
Father Rocha, a native of Immaculate Conception Parish in New Bedford, went to Portugal last Fall for his final year of 'J'heology. He will return to this ~untry in the Spring tQ receive his assignment in the Diocese 6Io~ the Most Reverend Bishop. Father Rocha was ordained by tbe Cardinal in a four-hour ceremony at which the Cardinal gave IIII-Qrders-from Tonsure, which ~akes a man a cleric, to the hiesthood. Priests were ordained from three continents - Europe, JIorth America and Africa.
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Name Consecra~tion Ceremony Officers The Chancery Office has released th e complete list of officers for the Consecration Ceremonies of Bishop-Elect James J. Gerrard, V.G. Bishop Gerrard, who will be consecrated by BishQp Connolly on the Feast of St. Joseph" March 19, in St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River, will become Titular Bishbp of Forma and Auxiliary Bishop to Bishop Connolly. ' His Eminence, Richard Cardinal Cushing, Archbishop of Boston, will be present and will preach at the Mass. The Consecration Mass will be a Pontifical Mass sung by Bishop Connolly at 10 o'clock. The Bishop will use his throne and the Cardinal will occupy a special throne as Metropolitan of the area and a Prince of the Church. The complete list of officers for the Consecration follows: Consecrator: Most Reverend James Louis Connolly, D.D., Dr. Sc. Hist. First Co-Consecrator: Most Reverend Russell Joseph McVinney, D.D. Second Co-Consecrator: Most Reverend Jeremiah Francis Minihan, D.D. Assistant Priest: Rev. Arthur W. Tansey. First Assistant Deacon: Rt. Rev. Msgr. James Dolan. Second Assistant Deacon: Rt. Rev. Msgr. Louis E. Prevost. Deacon of the Ma~s: Rt. Rev. Msgr. Hugh A. Gallagher. Turn to Page Eighteen
Laetare Sunday Appea I to Aid World Needy "Your Charity • • Their Hope." This is the theme of the 1959 Catholic Bishop's Relief Fund Appeal now being conducted throughout the world. A collection in support of the Appeal will be taken up at all the churches in the Fall River Diocese next Sunday, Laetare Sunday, March 8. A statement by , Bishop Connolly urging support of the Appeal is published oil Page 'Two of this issue. , A $5,000,000 goal has been set , to ,finance the world's largest private volunteer overseas program which serves 40 million, of the needy in every location in the world. You can help continue this great work of charity' by your dQnation at mass Sunday.
McVINNEY
BISHOP MINmAN
Missions Report 595,155 Negro Catholics in U. S. WASHINGTON (NC)-There are 595,155 Negro Cath· olics and more than 120,110 Indian Catholics in the United States. These statistics have been compiled by the Commission for Catholic Missions Among the Colored People and the Indians,' and distri- Indians have been received into buted by Father J. B. Ten- the Church." It added that "the nelly, of the Society of St. Church manifests her maternal Sulpice, who is secretary of concern for the Negroes and the the commission. The' statement noted that "during the past year alone * * * nearly 12,000 Negroes and 1,000
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Plans for Foundress' Beatification Delight Nuns at Fall River Home There IS great joy at St. Joseph's Home in Fall River and among the 7,000 Grey Nuns· of Mont'real who are work'ing in, all places throughout the world. The reas.on i~ the announcement that their foundress, Mother Marl~ D Youville will be beatified at St. 325 houses of the Grey Nuns will ,p t " B '1' . 'R me on attend the beatifi~a~ion ceree er s aSI lca III 0 monies and later serVIces at the Sunday, May 3. Church of the Canadian Martyrs Representatives of' the in Rome it was disclosed.
Two New Bedford Parishes Reach Quota Seventeen Parishes in 100% Bracket
Marie Dufrost Layammerais d'Youville was born Oct. 15, 1701, at Varness, 15 miles from Montreal. Widowed while a young woman, she became the first Canadian to establish a religIOUS community, the Sisters of Charity, who. became known popularly as the Grey Nuns because of the color of the religious habit. ,Dedicated to serve the poor and the sick in educatiQn and in the social field, the Grey Nuns spread rapidly after their esta~ Turn to Page Fourteen
St. Boniface parish, New Bedford, Seven more diocesan parishes .today ~here Rev. Charles P. Kellaghan, SS.CC., is joined the constantly increasing list of administrator, has reached its' quota for parishes meeting their quotas of homethe second year.. delivered subscriptions to The'Anchor. This Rev. James E. Gleason, pastor of St. means The Anchor, will have at least 70 Patrick's parish, Falmouth, haS announced per cent more parishes in the 100% quotathat for the third year his parish has atsales class this year than at any time since tained its quota. it commenced publication two years ago. ~acks Rev. Cornelius E. Keliher, pastor, reTwo of the seven parishes reporting quota sales today have achieved the mark , ports St. Mary's parish in Seekonk has again met its quot~ of mail-delivered weekly for the first time. They are St. George's NOTRE DAME (NC)-A HOLYOKE (NC)-Mayor subscriptions. This is the second year for Negro priest says America's parish in Westport where Rev. Laurenzo Bamue] Resnic says "I'd do the Seekonk parish in the 12.2 million non-Catholic It again," in reply to Ameri- H. Morais is pastor and St. ' 100% class. Joseph's parish in Woods Negros 'offer the Church ean Civic Liberties Union We publish on Page Three the greatest opportunity for its Hole where Rev. Bernard H. criticism of thp use of three pub~ead today the percentage of own extension in the United Be school buildings by classes Unsworth is pastor. home-delivered subscription States." Father Rollins LamOf Mater' Dolorosa Catholic Rev. James A. Dury, pasbert, a convert tQ Catholicism, $chool here. sales in the parishes of the said tor, has reported for the that the Catholic Church The Mayor's strong statement' Diocese. The quota ,estabis particularly appealing to Neitas been made in answer to a third successive year that' lishe~ for each parish repgroes because of its "univerletter sent to the Holyoke Corpus Christi pl:l.rish in' resents only a proportion of sality" and its extensive eduSchool committee by Rev. Sandwich has sUfficient sub-' system. Cardiner Day, Massachusetts scriptions already in hand to the families in each pariI' h. cational No Slanted Views, "The Church has been gaining ehairman of the Civil Liberties meet its quota. Buy your subscription a name for itself among Negroes Union, who charged that "proNo Biased News. now. Help your parish gain , in that it accepts all classes of St. Joseph's parish in New 9iding housing for a church priits circulation quota. The people," Father Lambert emBedford, where the Rt. Rev. 'lJ8te school without charge is a Read the Truth ••• yiolation of the Federal and Msgr. Louis E. Prevost is Anchor already is the larg- phasized. He claimed that many parents want their Massachusetts constitutions." est weekly newspaper in non-Catholic pastor, climbed back into the children to have a Catholic eduSubscribe Now The Mayor, first person of Southeastern Massachusetts cation "to protect them from the 100% quota sales class this ~ish faith to be elected chief and growing all the time. Turn' to Page SixteeD Swn to Page Eighteea Tear.
Holyoke Mayor Building Use for Pupils
Sees Opportunity For Expansion Of U.S. Church
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