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The ANCHOR \

An Anchor of the Soul, Sure and Flrm-St. Paul

Fall River, Mass., Thursday, March 8, 1973 Vol. 17, No.1 0 © 1973 The Anchor $4.0~:.~rE~e;;

Boston Archbish'op Named Pastor. of St. Susanna As a student priest preparing for his doctorate in Theology, Humberto Cardinal Medeiros often celebrated Mass in the Catacombs of Rome (see page 4). Somehow the willing sacrifice of martyrs gave inspiration and mearuing to the daily crosses of a young priest, and to the normal, realistic Christian living of the day. . Now, twenty years later, he is the Papal appointed pastor of a Roman church linked in antiquity with the martyrdom of a young dedicated Christian woman and fam!.ily. Today, the newly appointed Cardinal, in the midst of jubilant Fall RJiverites, Bostonians and Americans from every part of the country, took possession of St. Susanna, American Parish Church in Rome. The church, administered .by the American Paulists and near

the great tourist hotels of the Eternal City, a stone's throw from the AmeI1ican Embassy, has gradually taken on an increasingly American atmosphere over the years. The past titular head of the church was .Cardinal Medeiros' predecessor in Boston, Richard Cardinal Cushing, who had been given the Church by Pope John XXIII.

During the reign of Pope St. Caius (283-296), the Church and the Roman government were not on the best of terms. Persecution was part of normal Christian life. The Pope's brother and family lived in a particularly !lich urban sector of Rome. The neighborhood was spotted with exclusive· mansions. The niece of Pope St. Caius, Susanna, had dedicated herself to the service of the Church bY Turn to Page Five

Pope Paul Charts Changes In New Electoral College VATICAN CITY (NC)-Pope Paul, in raising the number of cardinals to an all-time high of 145, has indicated he may broaden the electoral body of future papal elections to include Eastern-rite patriarchs and elect- . ed representatives of the world's bishops. At the same time he decreed that the number of card,inals entitled to take part ·in a papal election may not exceed 120. With the creation of 30 new cardinals and the revelation of a cardinal he created four years ago without publicly naming him, the number of cardinals below the age-limit of 80 stands at 117. With a combination of realism

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ACKNOWLEDGES TRUST: Humberto Cardinal Medeiros, Archbishop of Boston, bows respectfully to Pope Paul VI after having professeq, his Faith, promised filial fidelity and received the scarlet zichetto and biretta of the cardinalate. NC Photo.

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Acclaim Cardinal dinal Medeiros received the scarlet zuchetto and biretta and took his place at' the side of Pope Paul VI as a trusted· advisor. As he knelt with bowed head before the Holy Father, the purple of the archbishopric was removed and scarlet took its place. Pope and archbishop exchanged Miss Virginia M. Waldron, 623 a prolonged embrace and earnest Somerset Ave., Taunton, a mem- conversation. The Supreme Ponber and trustee of Sacred Heart tiff recognized a faithful son; the parish in that city, will serve as' prelate opened his heart to his 1973 lay chairman for the Taun- Father. The Scriptures used for the ton area in this year's Catholic charities Appeal. This area in- public acclaim to the. new cardicludes Dighton, North Dighton, nals always emphasized the pasNorth and South Easton and toral duties of shepherds and the hopeful unity so prayerfully Raynham. . Miss Waldron will assist Rev. eX!pressed by Christ following Walter A. SulHvan, pastor of the the Last Supper. . It was on a tangible, living Sacred Heart parish, who is picture of the universality of the Turn to Page Six Church that the Pope looked out. Various living apostolates were there vibrant -before his eyes. He mentioned that he recog-

In the midst of a Bible Vigil, rocked by the enthusiastic applause of Fall R,iverites and Bostonians each time his name was mentioned, Humberto Car-

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and tact, the Pope expressed the "hope" that future Popes would "desire to preserve this carefully considered rule" of 120 as the maximum number of cardinal electors. Each future Pope is free to decree what he sees fit about the election of his successor. Addressing cardinals attending the March 5 private consistory 'at which he named the new cardinals, the Pope also clarified his concept of the nature and function of the college of cardinals. By Church tradition· and Church law, the cardinals are the Pope's "principal counsellors and collaborators, supporting him in his apostolic office of goverllling the Church," the Pope said. .., "The cardinals thus constitute as it were a senate to assist the successor of Peter, whom Christ' willed to be the 'perpetual and visible principIe and foundation of the unity of faith and of communion'" the Pope continued, • quoting -the Second Vatican Council. "For this reason -the sacred college can in a certain sense be called a 'part of our person,' as MISS VIRGINIA M. WALDRON Turn to Page Six

Rome nized the ancient sees of even biblical times, the besieged sees of the ancient and persecuted Church of the f,irst centuries, the missionary sees of Africa, Asia and the Pacific. As a human note, he turned to the new Luis Cardinal Aponte of San Juan and saluted Puerto Rico and especially the' elderly mother of the honored prelate who was also the mother of 18 children. Looking directly at the prelates he had just publicly named in Secret Consistory, he said he expected leaders of them, as the avant-guard of the Church; each contributing his own talents, each doing his all to restore all into the one great famIy of God. In these new cardinals, the Pope pointed out, he saluted all pastors, all priests, all missionaries. He hoped that this ceremony and the vibrant Ilives of Turn to Page Two

Prelates Seek Help This Sunday For American Negro, Indian The Cardinal Archbishops of Baltimore, New York and Philadelphia issued an urgent appeal in behalf of the Negro and Indian Missions of the United States. Sunday, March 11, the First Sunday of Lent, a special collection will be taken up in the parishes and chapels of the Diocese of Fall River to answer the appeal. At present, the Church's deep concern for the spiritual welfare of Negro and IndJian is most evident from the fact that twice as many priests now serve -them in proportion to their numbers as serve white Catholics. The increased ministry has proved fruitful. The number of Ca~holic Negroes, presently 900,-

000 has increased 50 per cent. The 140,000 Indians show an increase of 20 per cent. Year after year one out of eight or nine converts has been Negro or IndJian. The missions to these Amer~ ican people may be a growing apostolate hut dt is not yet selfsustaining. The new outposts and many older 'misssions and parishes still depend greatly upon the help of the People of God for their existence. This is particularly true throughout the South and on the Indian Reservations in the West, where congregations are generally small and the members very poor. Devoted and self-sacrificTum to Pag~- Two


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