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Bishop Connolly was celebrant of a Solemn Pontifical Funeral Mass Tuesday morning in Sacred Heart Church, New Bedford for Rev. Alphonse E. Gauthier, pastor of the parish since July, 1949. Father Gauthier died Friday in t1).e 45th year of his PriestJ. Hayes, subdeacon of the hood. Officers of the Mass John Mass. were Rt. Rev. Humberto S. Rev. Arthur C. Levesque and Medeiros, assistant priest; Rev. Edward C. Duffy were acoRt. Rev. Alfred J. Bonneau and Rt. Rev. Louis E. Prevost, deacons o£ honor; Rev. Rene E. Gauthier, deacon of the Mass; Rev.
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Bishop AnlJ1]@CJ~tes Adult Cerem~~y The Chancery Office has announced that' a special ceremony of Confirmation will be held in St. Mary's
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Cathedral, Fall River, on Sunday, May 20, at 2 in the afternoon for· adults from all over the Diocese. ,This will give the opportunity of receiving this Sacrament to recent converts and to other· adults who for some reason have not yet received the Sacrament and would feel more at ease receiving it in this special ceremony arranged for them. Adults who have not yet been confirmed are asked to cooperate· with their pastors in making arrangements for receiving' the Sacrament on May 20.
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Protestants Fearful Of Church Structure MILWAUKEE (NC)-To Protestants the Catholic Church is overwhelmingly an institution rather than a faith-a brick and mortar enterprise .in the community and a power block· on the national level, a Protestant editor told a Catholic audience here. The view was presented by Dr. Martin E. Marty, associate editor of the Christian Century of Chicago, in a talk at Marquette University. Dr. Marty is a member of the Missouri Synod of the Lutheran Church. "I am convinced that if we correct the institutional picture we are on the verge of entering. a new stage," he. asserted. "Personally, great good will exists between most private Catholics and their neighbors. Enormous reservoirs of good will exist here as a counteraction against the pressure groups, the hate movements in each confession. To be told that CatholicisJ:Il . is a conspiracy to annihilate Protestantism and the American way of life does not ring true as he observes .his harmless formfollowing Catholic neighbor." Dr. Marty said that Protestants and Catholics had a mandate to regard each other as co-inhabitants and participants in a free society. "The good of the city of mail is somehow dependent upon how they resolve the elements of conflict in their separation and how they assert the elements of unity in ·their brotherhood," he' safd, adding: ' '''For their individual' mental health and for their share of equanimity and dignity they Turn to Page Seventeen
Pope Urges Children Pray For World's Needy Youth
NEW YORK (NC)-Pope' John has appealed to the Catholic 'school children of the U.S. to pray and make sacrifices for the "countless" children in need throughout the world. His Holiness, in a message broadcast nationally by the four major radio proceeds are used to supnetworks, also asked the whose port the work of Catholic Relief school children to pray for Services - National Catholie world peace and for the sucTurn to Page Seventeen cess of the coming Ecumenical Council. The' Pope's Ash Wednesday appeal on behalf of the needy children' of the worl launched the 1962 Bishops' Relief Fund Appeal in the Catholic schools of the country. The appeal will be conducted throughout Lent in the nation's Catholic schools. The school childrE!n usually collect about a million dollars of the total. The main appeal in the annual drive will be made during the week of March 25, culminating in the traditional Laetare Sunday collection, April 1, in some 16,500 U. S. Catholic parishes. An overall goal 6f $5 million has been set for the fund appeal,
Nursery To Open Next 'Aonday St. Savior's Nursery at 405 County St., New Bedford, will hold Open House this coming Sunday from noon until 7:30 P.M. Registrations for the care of children be... tween the ages of two and six will be accepted beginning next Monday. Children will be cared for from Monday through Friday each week and the fee will be Turn to Page Seventeen
Educators See .SignificG'nce In Declaration on Latin What impact will the Holy See'slatest statement on the place of Latin in the Church have on seminary studies and the movement for more use of vernacular languages in the liturgy? Put 1:0 a sampling' of top U. S. seminary educators end liturgists, that question these opinions was signed by produced agreement onsev- Pope John in a solemn ceremony eral basic p,oints. ,Among the in' St. Peter's basilica. Among areas 'of 'agreement were Turn to Page .Twenty these:
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Pope,John's apostolic constitution "Veterum. Sapientia" will uquire sweeping changes in the seminary curriculum to reinstate Latin as the language of philosophical and theological sl;udies. "Stern stuf£," one seminary rector called it. The document plainly will put a crimp in any all-out agitation for the use of the vernacular in the liturgy. But on the critical issue of whether the door is left open for continued efforts on behalf of the vernacular, there was disagreement. Several' liturgists felt the door remains open, provided such efforts are carried' on in submission to the will of the Holy See and do not involve any ~ attempt to undermine the primacy of Latin. But one veteran liturgist commented that, in view of the new document, there is "very little likelihood that 'any further vernacular will be allowed in any foreseeable future." , The document which drew·
Youth To Attend Lenten Forums Young men and women of both the Greater Attleboro and Greater Fall River areas will benefit from a series of Youth Forums scheduled for Lent. These Forums are a part of the general CYO program. In Attleboro the sessions will be held; beginning this' Sunday evening at 7:15, at Bishop Feehan High School. The Greater Attleboro CYO will sponsor the Forums which will be under the direction of Area Director Rev. Bernard F. Sullivan assisted by Diocesan- CYO Vice President Miss Ann DeCosta, Area CYO President Leonard Silvia and Diocesan CYO Treasurer Robert Almeida. On Sunday night at Bishop Feehan High the Forums will get under way with a talk on .Communism by former Harvard Turn to Page Twelve
'REMEMBER MAN' ••• : Donald Hebert of St. Francis Xavier Parish, Acushn~ with ashes 'on fo;ehea:etfollowing. traditional Wednesday: ceremony marking the a tart of the Lenten ,season.