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Four Pastors Sell Twice Parish Quota Four parishes - two national and two territorial of the 110 parishes in the entire diocese, a tremendous -today reported they will sell more than double their accomplishment for a medium-sized parish. quota of subscriptions to The Anchor during the Rev. Joseph LaRue, pastor of Sacred Heart in coming year. North Attleboro, is confident that every family in his The four parishes are among the 18 who have parish soon will be a regular subscriber to The achieved their quotas as set by the Circulation DeAnchor. He is getting nearer and nearer to his obpartment of this diocesan newspaper which is the jective. He sells more than twice his quota. 18.rgest weekly in Southeastern Massachusetts. Rev. Lester Hull, administrator of Our Lady of The success of the four pastors, in selling twice as many copies as their quotas, is t1le best evidence that every parish in the Diocese should at least attain its quota. The zeal and enthusiasm of the four pastors also augers well for the expectation that The Anchor will be delivered by mail to every home in the Diocese within the im· mediate future. Rev. Anthony Gomes, administrator at Our Lady of Angels Church in Fall River, still is "our best friend." Proportionately, Father Gomes sells more home-delivered FR. CARROLL FR. LaRUJi FR. FR. GOMES copies of this newspaper than any other:
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Expect New Emphasis On Secular Institutes Secular institutes have already proven their value, and the Fathers of the Second Vatican Council in their work of revitali~ing and modernizing the Church will devote some att~ntion to them. The status of secular institutes is still up in the air. Their members ular institutes are better depledge themselves to pover- ferred to a more opportune time ty, chastity and obedience, lest the present evolution of do Religious. But they do these institutes be retricted."
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not wear uniform clothing, are not bound to conventual life, and do not change their social status. Thus if lay they remain lay. If diocesan clergy they remain secular, not Religious. It was Pope Pius XII who gave formal approval to these in. stitutes - as recently as Feb. 2, 1947. That their present law is not to be regarded as complete ana final is evidenced from the Instruction of the Sacred· Congregation of Religious, Cum Sanctissimus, of March 19, 1948. It states that "the complete and definitive Dorms l'espect~ sec-
Are secular institutes to be accorded a special place in a revised canon law code similar to that of religious institutes, such as orders or congregations of priests of Siste·rs? Present legislation recognizes three classes of persons: clergy, religious and la·ity. The Ecumenical Council will probably ~mphasize the secular character and apostolate of these institutes rather than increase their resemblance to religious congregations. . This will increase the possiTurn to Paie TwentY'
Mount Carmel in Seekonk, today reported a 20% circulation gain over last year as he rioted sales in his parish are more than double his quota. Rev. John G. Carroll, administrator at St. John the Baptist in Central Village, has repeated his performance of last year - twice as many sales as his quota. We announced last week that the first nine parishes reporting to the Circulation Department had attained theit quotas. Ten more are added to the list this week. They are: Holy Redeemer, Chatham Our Lady of Angels, Fall River. Our Lady of the Isle, Nantucket Our Lady of Lourdes, Wellfleet Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Seekonk St. Boniface, New Bedford St. Joseph's, Woods Hole St. Patrick's, Falmouth St. Pius X, South Yarmouth St. ROeh's, Fall River Will your parish be listed amonl; the HULL quota-Class next week?
Harvard Law School Dean Asserts Supreme Court Leading Americans Into Darkness on Religious Life SALT LAKE CITY (NC) - The Dean of the influential Harvard Law School has sharply attacked the U.S. Supreme Court for leading Americans into darkness on mat• ters of religion and public life. Erwin N. Griswold has also stated flatly that the court was wrong in ruling as unconstitutional the voluntary recitation in New York public schools of a 22-word, nonsectarian p ray e r recommended by the State Board of Regents. He told a University of Utah audience it would be "sheer 'invention" if the court reasons that the Constitution requires that all traces of religion must be kept out of public activities. The high court is guilty of narrow "constitutional absolu-· tism" and t'his reasoning is "more likely to lead us· into darkness than to light," he said. He cited Justice Hugo Black's decision for the majority against Turn to Page Fourteen
New Cassidy High School Blessing On May 24 His Eminence, F ran e i g Cardinal Spellman, Arc h . bishop of New York, will bless the new Bishop Cassidy High School in Taunton and will preside at the dedicatory exercises that will follow. The high school for girls will be dedicated on Friday, May 24 at 2 :·30 in the afternoon. ' Cardinal Spellman, a friend and admirer of the late third Bishop of the Diocese, expressed his desire to bless the school which bears Bishop Cassidy's name as a mark of his esteem for the late prelate. The student body is already attending classes in the school having moved from St. Mary'~ High School the first of the year.
NEW SCHOOL RECEIVES CHALICE: Rev. Thomas Taylor, pastor of Immaculate Conception Church, Taunton, presents chalice to Sister Stanislaus Joseph, S.U.S.C., sacristan, for new Bishop Cassidy High School, also Taunton. Sacred vessel was given to Father Taylor by Bishop Cassidy and was originally ordination gift to the late Bishop from Archbishop Corrigan of New York.
From Far, Far Away Borneo Prelate Calls on Bishop Connolly A visitor from half way round the world was in the Fall River Diocese last week. He was Most Rev. Lambert
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van Kessel, S.M.M., Bishop of Sintang, Borneo. Returning to his Indonesian see from the Ecumenical Council, he has been visiting Montfort Fathers foun. dations in the midwestern and eastern United States, including the newly-established Montfort Mission House in Taunton. Accompanying him in this country is Very Rev. Roger Charest, S.M.M., Provincial Superior of the Montfort Fathers in the United States and a native of St. Anne's parish, Fall River. Formerly served by Montfort Fathers of the Dutch Province of the congregation, the Borneo
mission has been under jurisdiction of the American province since 1958. Bishop van Kessel's Diocese is 60,000 square miles in area and numbers some 8,600 Catholics among its 260,000 inhabitants. Most of the population is pagan, said the Bishop, with some Mohammedans and Buddhists among them. Montfort Fathers are the only priests ~n the territory and there are 24 assigned to the Diocese, including five Americans. Of six Mont. fort Brothers, one is from the United States. Sisters of St. Anthony, a Dutch congregation, assist the priests. There is no hostility towards the missionaries on the part of the pagans, noted the prelate, saying that ~he people of his
island Diocese were friendly and hospitable. "When they are in danger of neath, they are quite eager to be baptized," he said, but otherwise they adopt a "wait and see" attitude towards Christianity. About 200 adults are converted a year, he said, and about 300 babies in danger of death receive baptism. "It is not a quick affair," he concluded. Neither is travel about Bishop van Kessel's Diocese a quick affair. There are no roads and no air transportation. Journeying is done by small boats or Oil foot via jungle trails only one person wide. The Bishop is on the move several months a year in the process of visiting each 01. _ TurD ~ Paie Twelve