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LAYS CORNERSTONE' AT MADONNA MANOR: Civic leaders met Bishop Connolly as he arrived in No. Attleboro to lay the cornerstone of the fifth Catholic Horne for the Aged in the Diocese. Left to right: Leo Deblois of Sacred Heart Parish, chairman of the selectmen; Bishop Con Ilolly; G. P. Glaiel .of St. Mary's Parish, selectman; Mayor of AttIe ~ro Cyril Brennan. In the center photo, Bishop Connolly completing the
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Sees Need to Alter Church Laws Now Regulating Nuns ST. LOUIS (NC)-The director of a training center b nuns called for an end to Church laws and regulations that treat Sisters as something less than adults. "For too many years, Sisters were taken for granted and ignored, er patronized and pam pered," said Sister John Marie Riley, superior of St. Joseph's Juniorate of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Caronde let and professor of theology at I'ontbonne College. If nuns were to "unite to de mand their rights of Holy Mother Church," Sister John Marie told the St. Louis Serra Club, "I think our first request ~ould be that we be treated as adults." She sharply criticized a provi lion of canon law forbidding :.omen Religious to go out alone. U Any prudent woman, what ~er her state in life, will know that there are places and times :When it is improper or unadvis able or socially unacceptable for her to go unaccompanied," she 88id. "Could not we Sisters be trusted to make similar pruden tial judgments?" Sister John Marie, holder of a Turn to Page FouI1e~ I
ceremony. Right photo: F. L. Collins of the general contracting firm that did the work at the former Hixon Hotel now Madonna Manor~ Gerald E. Riley, president of the Manufacturers Trust, No. Attleboro; Rt. Rev. Raymond T. Considine, Diocesan Director of the Catholic Cha~ ities Appeal; No. Attleboro's Chief of Police Stanley Lykus. The Home 18 expected to open late this year.
Vocation Masses Are Scheduled March 22-24
Vatican Radio Reviews
'Reform Reasons, Hopes
Pontifical Low Masses for . Vocations will be celebrated Monday, l\farch 22nd, at 10 o'clock, at Notre Dame
VATICAN CITY-In a commentary on the liturgical changes that went into effect on Sunday, March 7, Vatican Radio looked both into the past and into the future in its examination of the reasons for and the hopes contained in liturgical renewal. Wheth schools and in public offices, er the reforms are too soon pious pictures honored every for the present to solve. How home. Religion was a part of for thepresent to solve. How every human activity; the citi
Church, Fall River; at 10 Tues day morning, March 23rd, at Bishop Stang High School, No. Dartmouth, and at St. Anthony's Church, New Bedford; at 10 Wednesday morning, Mar c h 24th, at St. Mary's Church, Taunton and at Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro. The annual novena for voca tions starts on Friday, March 19 and extends through Sunday, March 28. Priests of the Fall River area Turn to Page Twenty
Dispensations The Most Reverend Bishop has granted a dispensation from the law of fast to all In the Diocese of Fall River for Wednesday, March 1'7, St. Pat rick's Day. The Ordinary has also dispensed from the laws of fast and abstinence for Friday, March 19, the Feast' of St. Joseph.
ever, why is it that in the past such reforms were not thought necessary~ Why is it that the attempts at renewal are thought not only possible but even nec essary? Before the Industrial Revolu tion there was a nearly unani mous sharing of the Faith in all those countries that remained faithful to Rome. Men followed similar rites in similar churches -even if they did not fully understand the meaning of the rites. Yet there was a general idea of what was going on. This. was especially true because of . the religious sense that pervaded all at that time. Everyone spoke of God, of Christ and of the Church. Statues bordered all the roads, crucifixes were displayed in the
West Harwich Parishio,ner Describes Her Work
.As Papal Volunteer in Latin America
Miss Jeanne C. Olsen, Papal Volunteer to Latin America, whose home parish
is Holy Trinity, West Har
wich, has reported in "Newslet
ter Number One" to her family
and friends on her adventures
and activities in Bogota, Colom
bia, where she is teaching "34
lively boys" in second grade at
Colegio San Carlos, a Benedic
tine school. "All the students are boys from upper middle class homes," she explains. "We are teaching them good Christian principles now because 20 years from now they will be the ones to govern Colombia. "The temperament of the child here is different from that back:
borne. These children have very little discipline in the home.
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but are eager to learn. They are dynamic in personality and fun to teach. They keep us on our toes trying to find new ways .each day to challenge ,their thinking." Before Miss Olsen began work in Bogota, she spent several weeks in Cartago, 150 miles dis tant, where she aided a PAVLA group from the Diocese of Man chester, N. H. "This is real mission country," she wrote. "I made home visits with the nurses, cooked for the volunteers and sewed baby layettes for the poor. Some babies in Cartago have such poor parents that when they are born they are wrapped in old clothes or newspapers. Turn to Page TwentY.
zen saw religion no matter where he looked. The priest was involved in all the events of Turn to Page Six
Bishop Forms CCD Council ':Vhe Most Reverend Bishop has authorized formation of a Teaching Sisters and Brothers Committee to work! in conjunction with the Confra ternity of Christian Doctrine on. a Diocesan leveL The new committee, directed by Rev. Joseph L. Powers, Dioc esan CCD head, has for chair man Sister Dolores, O.L.V.M. of Holy Trinity parish, West Har wich. Vice-chairman is Brother Thomas Mulryan, C.S.C., of Coyle High School, Taunton. Sister Marie Therese, M.S.B.T• . of St. Patrick's Cenacle, Ware ham, is committee coordinator and Mother Mary Fidelis, R.J.M. of Jesus-Mary Academy, Fall River, is secretary-treasurer. The teachers' committee will function as a liaison group to co ordinate and correlate all CCD activities involving teaching Brothers and Sisters. Aims in clude issuance of a CCD school year calendar, indicating report card dates; the setting up of CCD institutes; and the organ ization of teaching aids for those participating in the CCD pro gram. Every community of teaching Sisters in the Diocese is repre sented on the committee, noted Mother Mary Fidelis. Next meeting is set for Wednesday, April 28 at Bishop Stang High School, l'Iorth Dartmouth.