Campaign Con,ti'nues ~ntil All Meet Pa'rish Quotas Three more parishes-St.' Jean the Baptist
parish quota sales of annual home-delivered subscriptions. St. Michael in Ocean Grove-this week joined The third parish to join the 100 per cent the" ever-growing' list of diocesan parishes to group this week, St. Michael's' at Ocean .Grove, I'e8eh their quotasoI' weekly home-delivered under the leadership of Rev. Joseph A. Cour8Ub8criptions .to Th~ An¢hor. ' ,noyer, repeated the aehievement of last year despite the division last May which 'affected the : Two of the parishes are, newcomers to the parish boundaries. ' 100% quota sales brac~et.,Rev. LeoJ. Duarte, , The add~tion of St. Jean the Baptist, St. pastor at the Provincetown- parish, has been Peter's and St. Michael's bring to 20 the numclOse to his parish quota the last two years ber of 'parishes that have attained their quotas. bUt this year he has established the' best sales Fifteen parishes scattered throughout the diopercentage of any parish in 'the entire ~iocese. cese have yet to report their subscription totals. - Rev. M. P. Leonidas Lariviere, pastor at the , One thing is certain. The Anchor this year Maplewood church in Fall River, reported ~ will reach a new high in weekly home deliveries. substantial sales increase to ,climb into the 100% ' T~is record is the result of the substantial in-
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crease in parishes meeting their quotas. The 100% parish quota sales bracket is now twice as large as it has been in any previous year. Then, too, s~nie of the parish returns are incomplete, with pastors assuring the Circulation Department o( The AncHor that their final ,returns will boost their standing into much higher percentage brackets than they are now in. 'The Anchor again today publishes on page five of this issue the percentage of home-delivered subscription sales in the parishes of the Diocese. The quota established for each parish represents only a portion of the families in each parish. The Anchor will continue its drive for subscriptions until every parish meets its quota.
Hierarchy· of New England To Attend ,Con·secration At Cathedral Thursday
The ANCHOR
St. Mary"'s Cathedral of the Assumption, Fall River, will be a brilliant setting next Thursday morning at 10 o'clock as the Most Reverend James L.' Connolly, D.D., Bishop of Fall River" consecrates as Titular Bishop of Forma and Auxiliary Bishop of Fall River the Most Rev. James J.Gerrard, D;D., V.G., rector of St. Lawrence Church, New , Bedford. An Anch,()r of the Soul. Sure and fi'irm....,...ST. PA tiL ,The Consecration will take P·lace in the presence of 'y:' " .J Richard Cardinal Cushi'Iig, Thursday, March 12, 1959 c O. ' ,Archbishop of Boston, who will PRICE 10. ~i'ld c'••';' :M.i1 ·Pri..i1e .. preach., Co-C.onsecrators will be -Upwar.ds of 350,000 specVol. 3, ~o. 11 Authorized $4.00 per "ear .IF.n Ri..er. M . , the Most Rev. Russell J. MeVintators are expected to vie.w ney, Do.D.,' Bishop of Providence, . the,. second 'annual ,parade and the Most Rev. Jeremiah't. Minihan, D.D., Auxiliary Bishop , spons'ored by· the' Fall Riv~r of Boston. Present also will be Clover Club, Frienilly Sons' of many Bishops and prelates all St. Patrick. through the city's well as most of the priests of the main street ~unday afternoon Diocese and representatives of to honor Ireiand's Patron Saint. , , all the various congregatioris of Special guest a,t the head of men and women religious in the 'Very Rev. Thomas Joseph Moriarty, Fall River native the line 'of march will be Right Diocese. who 'has been pastor of St. Patrick's. Church in Council Honorable James Gannon, ~ord M 0 n s i g nor Achille Lupi, Bluffs, Iowa, since September 1953 has been, elevate~' to Mayor of Sligo, and his wife; Charge d'Affaires at the Apos~e dignity of Papal Chamberlain. Msgr. Moriarty was , also, the' Lord Mayor: of Dublin, tolic Delegation in Washington, Mrs. ,Catherine Byrne, with ordained to the priesthood will represent the Apostolic Irish consulate members of the Delegate who is on official ecby His Excellency, the Most State Department. Government clesiastical visitations in the Reverend Daniel F. Feehan, officials, will in~lude federal, Far East and thus will be unable second Bishop of Fall River, State and local J:epresentatives. to attend. , in St: Mary's Cathedral, +V!ay 26,' Members of the hierarchy Music: will be supplied by 75 > li927. 'bands, drum, fife and,bugle corps MSGR.ACHILLE LUPI Turn to Page Eighteen Son of the late John T. and and drill teams from various lohanna Moriarty, the newly-, sections of New England. Legion elevated monsignor attended and other veterans organizations Sacred Heart elementary school, as well as nationality, labor, civic Fall River, and Holy Family and fraternal groups 'will be High School, New Bedford. He if)., the line of march. Elaborate studied for the priesthood at St. wi'll compete for more than floats Bonaventure's University and ROME (NC)-Red Chinese authorities are forcing 300 50 trophies to be offered in comSeminary. native Cathoiic nuns to work in steel mills in Shanghai. petition. Following ordination, Msgr. Fides, international news agency of the Sacred CongreMoriarty served in administraLast year's parade, one of the tive positions at Dowling Colmost .spectacular in the city's gation for the Propagation of the Faith, has revealed that history, was viewed by thous- Chinese nuns representing Zi-Ka-Wei suburban district of lege, Des Moines, as business ands of residents of the Dio- several religious congrega- Shanghai. manager and secretary, then was cese, and the turnout Sunday is tions are grouped at a fornamed pastor of Christ the rhe nuns are led every mornKing; parish, also Des Moines. expected to equal" if not exm"er convent situated in the in~ to the nearby small ste~l VERY REV. T. J. MORIARTY ce.ed, the 1958 tribute. Monsignor Moriarty is a memmills located at the former reSiber of the Diocesan Clergy Redence of the Jesuit Fathers. lief Society which is headed by They are forced to work at furMost Rev. Edward C. Dilly, O.P. naces along with a number of Bishop of Des Moines. ,\ priests. , The prelate has II brother and , Reports also indicated that the A much-tJ;~veled', photograph' pf Fa11 River's first (bishop, Most ~evered Willi~m nuns aister in Fall River, Sister M;iry are often submitted to Camilla,. KS.M., .assigned i9 Mt. Stang, holds a place of honor in 'the home of Francis l\:lacDonald, 1350 North Main Street, communist fn d oc t r ina t ion St. Mary's Convent Fall River FalL River. '" ;" , , '. courses in the' chapel of the forand Frank S: Moriarty; ,member. He found· it in 1946 ina carpenter's shop whil~ stat~one4 jn Mannheim, Germany as mer major. seminary of Zi-Kaof St. Mary's Cathedral parish. Wei. Over 800 boys and girls . ,rial, the photograph caught are reported living at the semHe is a nephew of Rt.Rev. Msgr. a military' p<:llic.ema.~ ,. wi~h MacDonald's eye because the in- inary where' they are beine Edward Moriarty, late pastor of the army,. of occupatIon., In St. Patrick's Church, Fall River. a heap of di,scarded ',mateTurn to Page Fifteen Turn to Page EleveD
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Door-to-Door Canvass Helps Swell Provincetown Mission A 100 per cent increase in 'mission attendance at St. Peter the Apostle, Church, Provincetown, can 'be credited 110 the efforts of parishioners who made door to door calls throughout the' city inviting householders to, attend and distributing pamphlets. ' 'week's missioner,' Rev. Nelson Response has been won- Ribeiro. derful, said Rev. Leo 'J. Father Ribeiro"who conducted Duart, pastor. He mentioned services in Portuguese is being particularly non-Catholic re- followed this week a'nd next eeption of the mission invitation, by Franciscan Fathers, who are which he termed more than holding English services for wocordial. Many of those called on men this week and for men expressed interest in attending starting Sunday. the mission and appreciation of Thirty parishioners particibeing asked. pated in the door to door canvass, Another factor in increasing putting, tnoo literal action the attendance was • pierside visit scriptlire quotation, "Beh!Jld, 1 • f.ishermen made b)' the fizat itand at the d.oocand knock."
Diocese Rich in Traditions Of Ireland's Patron Saint
FRANCIS MacDONALD
As the 8hamrock-sprinkled day of St. Patrick arrives once more, Irishmen of the Diocese, real and wishful, can reflect with pride on the large part played by the Saint . iIi: early days of the Church in this area. : . Sure, 'tis real galaxy of Bedford. Later Father Patrick Patricks that dots the first' Byrne became pastor of New pages of our Diocesan his- Bedford. tory. Wouldn't the very first Devotion to the saint of the family to settle in Fall River Emerald Isle is reflected in four be that of Patrick Kennedy, him, churches named for him in the his wife ahd his four children. Diocese. The first church for A stout soul, he several times the entire south end of Fall walked to Boston to make his River was St.' Patrick's. In aft Easter duty. area now inhabited by 55,000 A skip and a 'hop later, and souls and served by eight 'twas Father Patrick Canavan, churches, it stood alone. God bless him, that was pastor In Somerset, too, the pi()n~ of Sandwich, Wareham and New Turn to Pace Ten