Congressional Leaders. Battle President Over" Federal Aid to Parochial Schools
The ANCHOR
Opposition' to President Kennedy is rising throughout the country with the insistence that p r i vat e
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schools on the elementary and high school level be permitted to share in the proposed aid to Bishop Paul Leonard Hagarty, O.S.B., of the newly education through long-term established Diocese of Nassau, in charge of 750 islands' in' Federal loans for construction. Congress has before' it a bill the Bahamas, has welcomed the Fathers of the Sacred · from the President proposing Hearts for missionary work on the· Island of Abaco. The Federal aid to public grade and high schools but no assistance for missionary provincial house private pre-college schools. The is in Fairhaven. Three years President has also proposed a ago Bishop Hagarty conprogram of loans for all types of (:olleges and Federal scholarships ferred the Sacrament of for students who would be free Confirmation in several parto select their own institution. ishes of the Fall River Diocese, An Anohor of th, Soul, lfuN tIM rlnn-8T. PAUL The college they attend would making known at that time the · get a "cost of education" grant great need of priests in his misfrom the government. The bill sion islands, especially at Abaco. Last November in Rome, Very to implement the· proposals has · not been introduced in Congress. Rev. William Condon, SS.CC., The President has stated that provincial of 'the Sacred Hearts PRICE ICc © 1961 Anchor $4.00 per Year he opposes a loan program which Fathers, received permission would aid construction of private from the Sup~rior General to Second Class Mall Prlvlleg9'1 A"thorlzod at Fall River, Mall. . and parochial schools under the send missionarIes to aid Bishop college level as being unconsti- Hagarty. The first Mass was offered on tutional. Abaco in February by the Rev. McCormack House Majority Leader John Francis Larkin, SS.CC., and a W. McCormack of this State has second Mass was offered by the said that he would support a Rev. Damien Veary, SS,CC., the move in Congress to amend the two Sacred Hearts missionaries bill to include a program of chosen for the new assignment. long-term loans to private Thirty-five Negroes and wihites schools. He said, "There is cer- attended the.first services. BISHOP HAGARTY tainly no question involved in Great and Little Abaco extend the Federal government making over 100 miles with the south to have Benedicti()n. FatrJer long-term loans at reasonable point 50 miles north of Nas- Larkin made a censer from II rates of interest for the construc- sau. The total population is tin can -and Father Veary made tion or renovation or the repair 4,000 and there 'are 500 Catho- incense from a combination at' dried roses and herbs., "It of private schools. We're helping lics. worked out very well," they reThe two priests have rented a Our educational system, and . certainly when we put through small house. They report the ported. '11he missionaries have been a bill to help. the public schools roof sags, there are no windowQ it has an unintentional effect and tomato crates serve as fur- given a whale boat with inupon the private school system." niture, "but a start has been board motor well suited to the made and the future for too island waters so they may visit Not Unconstitutional smaller surrounding islands and Msgr. Frederick G. Hochwalt, church looks promising." director of the Department of , All their supplies had not ar- •cays. They have been aided , .,';,.<::' \_;~Edu"cation of the NCWC, the rived with them so it became enormously by two families of American Bishops' voluntary co- necessary to improvise in order ]a., persons. _ .....:..-.....;__IIII!MI.IIIi· e"=(.'iO< ••• ,lt-:.'.~i.' _ -_.._- .. -~.~ ordinating agency; has pointed S1'ONEHILL COURSE: Rev. Thomas G. Brennan, out' in an 'interview which is of Stonehill College, North Easton, is conducting a · printed in this issue' of The 8tonehill course at Holy Family High School, New Bedford. Anchor on page three that "The courts have never ruled against Shown enrolling for his course on "Introduction to. Sacred the constitutionality of loans to Pontifical High Masses for Vocations will be celebrated Scripture" are Mr. and Mrs. Francis Donaldson of Monument · institutions. As you know there Beach. . . ' is a college housing loa~ pro-. at 10 A.M. Monday, March 20, at Notre Dame Church, Fan gram in effect at· the moment. River; Tuesday, March 21, at St. Anthony of Padua Church,' What we are suggesting is a par_ New Bedford, and Wednesday. March 22 at St. Mary's Turn to Page Three Chur«h, Taunton, Rev. John Mary Academies will attend the J. Hayel:l, diocesan director Massat'Notre Dame. The Proper of vocations. aIUiounced to- .will be sung by the Monsignor The. Most Reverend Bishop Prevost High choir. Rev. Bernard day. .,. ' With the recent acquisition of the Taunton Inn to serve . has, granted . a dispensation Sullivan; assistant at St. Mary'a, The entire student' bodies of Norton, will preach. from the laws of fast and ab• a guest home for the aged and the infirm, the Diocese Monsignor Prevost High School s1inenee on Friday, March l'l. Students of Holy Family and of Fall River now has accommodations in its homes for the and Dominican, Jellus-Mary, st. Anthony's High Schools, New S,. Patrick's Day. elderly for one out of every 365 Catholics in the. DioCese. Sacred Hearts and Mount st. Bedford; Sacred Hearts AcadThis is the highest ratio of emy, Fairhaven, and Bishop Stang High, North Dartmouth any diocese in the entire will attend the Mass in New 8Ountry, and its ratio is betBedford, at which Rev, Patrick tered by only one archO'Neil, acting superintendent of diocese, the Archdiocese of Stdiocesan schools, will preach. Louis, whioh has accommodaThe Proper will be sung by SL . ' Au~iliary Bishop' Gerratd today set ,the mark for pastors in all parishes of the tions for one out of every 306 Anthony's High choir. ' diocese when he announced that St. Lawrence's, parish in New Bedford has achieved its Of its Catholics. . Turn to Page Eighteen The Fal,l River Diocese con- quota of. weekly home-delivered c~pies of 'this diocesan newspaper, The Anchor. Within ducts the Cath()Uc Memorial few subscriptions of their quota 011 several occasions in past years, the faithful and Home and Bishop Cassidy Wing for . Chronic III in Fall River clergy put on a spirited drive with accommodatiof\s for 244 this year to lead St. LawLOCATION PARISH PASTOR guests. Sacred Heart Horne in rence's into, the quota bracNew Bedford can care for 195 ket set for every parish by Complete Family Coverage guests, and Our Lady's Haven Most Rev. James L. Con.the Most Reverend Bishop: Our Lady of the Isle Fr. Daniel E. Carey Nantucket lin Fairhaven for 140 guests. nolly will preside at the The New Bedford parish and It is expected that the TaunDouble Pari.sh Quota Legion- of Mary's annual Immaculate Conception in' Fall ton Inn, when renovated, will River, both with more than 450 Sacred Heart No. Attleboro Fr. Joseph S. Larue Acies ceremony at 2 :30 P.M. provide accommodations for· paid weekly subscribers, riow Sunday, March 19 in' St. Mary's Exceed Parish Quota. more than 125 guests. only the Sacred Heart parCathedral. Preacher at this year's An important aspect of these trail Fr. John J. Brennan Chatham ish in Fall River in weekly Holy Redeemer ceremony will be the Rev. Franhomes is that while they are bome-delivered copies of this Our LadyofMt.Carmel Fr. Lester L. Hull Seekonk cis Regis, SS.CC., Director of eonducted by religious they pro- newspaper. Fr. Charles P. Kellagher New Bedford St. ,Boniface Regina Pacis, New Bedford cenvide work for many lay people Ft-. Alexis C. Wygers Acushnet St. Lawrence's is the first iarge St. Francis Xavier ter for Spanish speaking people. _nurses, therapists, attendants, Fr. William R. Jordan Central Village The Acies is a Consecration ehefs, kitchen help, domestic New Bedford parisb to achieve St. John the Baptist 'Bishop Gerrard . New Bedford, Illeremony in which all Legion~ . workers. In the homes already quota-sales. "The good people of' . St. Lawrence aries, Active and Auxiliary, reFr. James E. Gleason Falmouth in operation, there are over ,170 St. Lawrence's now have their . St. Patrick's . new 'their fealty to Our Blessed .Fr. Leo J. Duart Prov.incetown lay people in the full time em- sights set on the lead established St. Peter's . Lady. Members of the 19 Praeployment of the Diocese. When by their brethren on Nantucket Parish Quota sidia of the Diocese will particithe Taunton Inn goes into op- Island where The Anchor is Fr. Finbarr McAloon West Harwich pate in the ceremony includuing eration, this number will be mailed into every Catholic home · Holy Trinity Fr. Edward IF. Dowling Fall River . Legionaries from Fall River. in the parish directed' by Father Immac. Conception' increased substantially. Somerset, Taunton, New BedFr. Felix S. Childs Fall River Sacred Heart 'r.he homes, then, play an im- Daniel E. Carey." ford, Acushnet and Fairhaven. portant role in the economic Fr. Edwin J. Loew Woods Hole St. Joseph's The Sacred Hearts Fatbers, The 19 Praesidia have .186 aclife of a community as well as who direct several parishes in St Mary's Fr. Cornelius Keliher Hebronville . tive members, 456 adjutorians .,providing vital care for elderly Fr. Christopher Broderick So. Yarmouth the eastern section of the diocese. St. Pius and 4,540 lay auxiliaries. The dtizens. And the Diocese of Fall are among the 'most ardent sup- St. Roch's . Fr. George S. Daigle Fall River report of the various activities River is blessed in having such porters of The Anchor. Four •Fr. Gerard J. Chabot So. Attleboro St. Theresa's during the year will be read • hi~h ratio of accommodatioDB during the Acies ceremony~ Tun to Page Twelve b' its diocesans.
Fall River, Mass., Thursday, March 9, 1961
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Auxiliary Bishop. Sets Pace for Parishes In Weekly Home ·S~les of T·he Anchor
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