'Ordi'nary Extends Faculties to Priests
For Convenience of Diocesan Flock
The priests of the Diocese of Fall River received a greater share in the Bishop's powers and responsibilities as the faculties extended to the Episcopate by Pope Paul VI were in turn applied to them. As' of Thursday, Feb. 27, they will be able to better answer the laity's needs and their own. Mass privately at any hour of the day Each priest may now "for a as long as he observes other Church -just reason" celebrate the Holy laws relating to this. But it is in regard to the people Sacrifice twice a day and even three of whom he has charge before Christ
·times on Sunday. Since there may be a hardship in doing this, the priest may now also take nourishing liquids be tween his Masses regardless of time. For his own devotional purposes or Wlhen ill, the priest may also celebrate
that the priest who has faculties in the Diocese must see to it that the people participating in the Sacrifice he cele brates must receive instruction during that Mass no matter where he celebrates Turn to Page Five
The CHOR Fall River, Mass.; Thursday, March 5, 1964
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World-Famed -Cardinal To Speak in Boston Francis Cardinal Koenig, Archbishop of Vienna, Aus tria, will bea guest speaker in the Paulist Fathers' Christian Culture Lecture Series on Wednesday evening, April 1, at 8 :15, in the Main Ballroom of the Statler-Hilton Hotel, Boston. A former seminary professor and expert on com parative religions, Cardinal Koenig is a member of the Theological Commission of the Second Vatican Council. The 68-year-old Cardinal is consid ered to be one of the leading liberal prelates of the Roman Catholic Church. Cardinal Koenig served as ambassador for Pope John XXIII to the Iron Curtain countries of Poland, Hungary and Czecho lIlovakia, and has served in an advisory capacity to the present Pontiff, Paul VI. He carried on negotiations with the Hunga rian government in seeking the Turn to Page Fifteen
CARDINAL KOENIG
A general authorization extending the privileges for the celebratioll of Masses on Sundays and at all special church devotions has been granted by Most Rev. James L. Connolly, Bishop of Fall River. . The BishOp's directive to the clergy is designed f9r the spiritual benefits of all the laity in his flock. late Sunday .Mass, .choosing either 5 in Bishop Connolly's authorization the afternoon or 7:30 at night. to his clergy has been granted unNo parish is allowed the luxury of der the faculties .of the Motu Proprio two Sunday Masses after the noon hour. "Pastorale Munus" promulgated on Feb. 22, 1964 by His Holiness Pope Paul VI. Pastors and administrators may now provide one Sunday Mass in the afternoon or evening.' The pastor in each parish must decide upon the hour of the
The Bishop has also authorized priests to celebrate public evening Masses as follows: . l)-Qn New Year's Day, Jan. 1, the Octave of·the Nativity of Our Lord. 2)-On other holy days of obligaTurn to Page Twelve
Hyannis Parish Effort· Gains
Complete Family Coverage
St. Francis Xavier parish in Hyannis today joined the ever-growing list of ect!
parishes with complete parish coverage of The Anchor, and "that
means every home in our Cape Cod parish will receive a mail-delivered copy of the dio
cesan newspaper every week for the next year," Rt: Rev. Leonar-d J. Daley announced
today. "We are doubly proud,
too," said the Hyannis .pre
late. "We had never been in the quota-class before. We meni~al-minded
Catholic School Boards
were close but never quite made it. And, this year, thanks to the interest and spirit of our people, we have gone -zooming by the quota requirement right up to complete fa mil y coverage." Monsignor Daley reported. Two other parishes which were once on the quota-list and then dropped out, are back in the quota-bracket again this year. They are St. George's par ish in Westport where Rev. Lorenzo H. Morais is pastor and St. Patrick's parish in Somerset which is headed by Rev. Francis A. McCarthy, pastor. Three other parishes which are on our "old reliable" list have reported quota. subscrip tions again this year. These par ishes year after year have achieved quota subscriptions for honie":delivered copies of ,this newspaper, the largest weekly in Southeastern Massachusetts. They are: St. Boniface, New Bedford, Rev. Charles P. Kellagher, SS,CC,., pastor. St. Hyacinth, New Bedford, Rev. Herve Jalbert, administra tor. St. Mary's, HebronviIle, Rev. Cornelius J. Kelleher, pastor. The Anchor has attained its greatest circulation in the eight_ year history of this newspaper. More parishes are in the quota class this year than ever before.
Increase in Lay Member~
UNION CITY (NC) - Lay men and women are rep. resented on 26 diocesan school boards and 31 other boards are considering lay appointments' for the first time, a Sign magazine survey says. The magazine said it queried all 143 diocesan superintendents of Sign said a survey similar to schools in 50 states and its own made in 1951 by Msgr. Puerto Rico. Eighty-nine Carl J. Ryan, superintendent of U.S. dioceses have school Catholic schools in CincinnatI. boards.
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Vocation Masses Are Scheduled March 16·19 Pontifical High Masses for Vocations will be celebrated Monday morning, March 16, at 10 o'clock at Notre Dame Church, Fall River; at 10 Tues day morning, March 17, at St. Lawrence's Church, New Bed ford, and at Bishop Stang High School, No. Dartmouth; at 10 Wednesday morning, March 18, Turn to Page Eleven
Dispensation The Most Reverend Bishop has granted a dispensation ....om the law of fast to all in the Diocese of Fall River for Tuesday, March n. and Thursday, March 19.
showed only four diqceses re porting lay membership on their school boards. Four dioceses reported the laity in the majority on their school boards. These Sees are: New Orleans, Providence, R. I .. Saginaw, Mich., and Steuben ville, Ohio. The magazine said ten super intendents reported no current interest in lay membership and 16 dioceses having all-clergy boards did' not reply to the questionnaire. The magazine, in an article by Edward J. Sullivan, said the survey showed the idea of lay i~presentation is still experi mental. "The structure of boards, lines of authority and procedural rules are still being hammered out," it said. But it added: "Wherever lay membership has been tried, su perintendents without exception report satisfaction with the re sults: gains in curricula, school. Turn to Page Fifteen
Vocation to Sisterhood Takes on Added Dimensions
Work Begins on Beatification Cause Of Mother Mary Katharine Drexel
Secretary of Sup'eriors' Conference
Sees Revitalization of Communities
By Msgr. Anthony L. Ostheimer
By Sister Mary Josetta
PHILADELPIDA (NC) - Archbishop John J. Krol has announced file beginning. of work on the cause of beatification of Mother Mary Katharine Drexel, foundress of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for Indians and Colored People. The community's motherhouse is located at Cornwells Heights, Pa.
Although no nomination for woman of the year hal! come her wa,/, the Sister in the United States has lately received a large share of news coverage. Readers of .the American press recognize that it has suddenly become a best selling item to know what. She has seriously examined her life lest Sister thinks, has thought, will she build on sand, and examined her think; does, has done, will do. And conscience concerning the sins of the no one reads more avidly on the just.
Father Nicholas B. Ferrante, e.ss.R., stationed at the motherhouse of the Redemptorist order in Rome, has been named postulator of the cause. Father Francis J. Litz, C.SS.R., St. Peter's Church, Philadelphia, will be .<:e postulatoJ.;
The announcement by the Archbishop of Philadelphia focuses attention on the Philadelphia-born Religious who died March 3, 1955, in her 96th year and the 65th year of her religious life. The story of her life is one of a wealthy girl who not only gave her entire multi-million dollar fortune to Turn to Page Fifteen
subject than Sister herself. Just as the Church is looking at herself· and askirig, "who am I?", so, too, is the Sister studying her identity.
This has made for the Sister a most grace-ful time. In the truth of the Book of Eccle siastes, she has come to know that there Turn to Page Seventeen