Fr.A. E. Bowen Taun~on Parish Head
Fr. Morifis Us Transfer of one pastor and
the appointment of one ad ministrator were announced tOday by Most Rev. James L. C'onn~lly,
BisQop of Fall
Riv~r.
!l'he new assignments are effec iIfIo'e Wedlwsday, March 27. They . ~ Rev. Ambrose E. Bowen, pas
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~!' of Corpus Christi, Sandwich, ilo'St. Joseph Church, Taunton, 00 pastor.
!Rev. William F. M"orris, assist
em:!; lilt Corpus Christi, Sandwich, Cl3 administrator of the same muish. . Father Bowen was born on May 4, 1905 in Attleboro, the· (JOn of the late William H. and Wlian E. Deneen Bowen. He ~ended Attleboro schools and :was graduated from Bryant and . fl!;ll'atton College, Providence. He
REV. AMBROSE E. BOWlEN
New
Cape Administrator
attended St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore and received his the ological training at St. Bernard's Seminary, Rochester. Ordained on May 26, 1934, in St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River by the late Bishop Cassidy, the . new Taunton pastor has served as an assistant at St. Mary's, So. Dartmouth; St. Pa trick's and St. Louis in Fall River; St. Francis Xavier, Hy annis. From Jan. 1942 until May 1946, Father Bowen served as a chaplain in the U.S. Navy and was stationed at the Naval Base in Iceland. On May 1,1959, he was named administrator of Corpus Christi Parish, Sandwich, which also in cludes the missions of St. There sa's in Sagamore and St. John's in Pocasset. Father Bowen succeeds the
REV. WILLIAM IF. MORRIS
late Rt. Rev. Msgl.. Patrick H. Hurley who died last month after serving the Taunton parish for more than 16 years. Father Morris was born June 19, 1919 in Taunton, the son of the late William F. and Anne C. Reilly Morris. After attending Taunton public schools, the new. Sandwich administrator attend ed Providence College and then studied philosophy and theology at St. Mary's Seminary, Balti more. Ordained on Nov. 27, 1943 in St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River, by the late Bishop Cassidy, Father Morris has served as an assistant at St. Peter's Province town; Our Lady of the Assump tion, Osterville; St. Louis, Fall River; St. Margaret's, Buzzards Bay; 14 years at St. Mary's, Taunton and since 1962 in his present assignment.
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The ANCHOR
Vocations Novena Starts
In Diocese on Sunday
Rev. John J. Smith, assist ant at St. James Church in New Bedford, and Diocesan DIrector of Vocations, has
announced that theAnnual Nove na for Vocations will take place in the Diocese beginning Sun day, March 17. During the period of March 17-25, a special Prayer of the Faithful relating to vocations will be offered in all Masses. Fall River, Mass., Thursday, March ]968 The sermon topic for Sunday as prescribed by the Bishop in his © 1968 The Anchor $4.00P:~;\~~ Lenten pastoral letter is, ap-;" propriately, "The Sanctifying Power of the Priest Living by the Altar." The Novena is intended, how. ever, not only to ask God to touch the lives of today's young men and women in the interest of becoming priests and brothers and sisters, but to help all young YOUNGSTOWN (NC)-Ohio parents who send, their people to select the role in life dhildren to non-tax-supported schools have st'arted to re in which they are to work out salvation. ceive aid from the s,tate education fund. The grants will their It is hoped that parents will total Illore than $10 million a year..The aid is for auxiliary contribute their share, a major one, in preparing young people Bervices which were included in the state education found church and state-making little for their vocation whether it m:i'On fund authorized during legal distinction', if any, between be to the married state or as redirect aid to the pupil arid' aid file last legislative session. to a particular school. "ftle foundation fund, which is The onl:r other Ohio aid· to llIePlenished every two years non-tax-supported school stu when the legislature meets, in dents are bus rides which have ibe past has been used to sup been in effect for the past two plement the local tax income of years but do not affect all stu public school boards throughout dents in the state due to mini the state. This past session, un mum dis tan c e from school der an auxiliary services section, clauses. Transportation funds The alleged apparitions of benefits were included for non are not included in the school; public school students, more foundation fund. Our Lady· in Garabandal, than 90 per cent of whom at Spain, have been completely Turn to Page Fifteen tended Catholic schools.
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ligious or as single per!IOns. The modern tendency to let the school do much of the work of guidance does not take into lIC-
count the fact that the parents still are the prime teachers and the first teachers and those who largely set the pattern of values and ideals that young people will follow throughout· life. Father Smith points out that the Diocese of Fall River today has more than 70 young men studying in various seminaries preparing to serve as future priests within the Diocese. While Bishop Connolly will pre the number may sound impres side at the annual Acies and sive, it is well to note that the Consecration Ceremony of population of the .Diocese has the Legion of Mary, to take steadily increased and now nears place at .2:30 Sunday afternoon the 300,000 mark. Increasing de mands on the priest, the work at St. Mary's Cathedral. Open ing prayers and the rosary will of the priest in special aposto lates, the desire to create new be led by Rev. Albert Shovel and smaller parishes-all these ton, director of the New Bed ford Curia of 'the organization. call for more priests. The sis Music will be by the choir of ters and brothers are besieged Holy Family High School, New with appeals to widen their Bedford, and the preacher will . apostolates, to increase the size be Rev. Cornelius O'NHll of St. and numbers of their schools, and to participate in other works Paul Church, Taunton. Rev. James Clark, Taunton of religion and this means that they have a need for more vo Curia director, will lead Le gionaries in renewing the Act of cations as well. The affluence of American so Consecration, and the service will conclude with Benediction, ciety in the last twenty-five Turn to Page Seventeen celebrated by Bishop Connolly.
Legion of Mary Aci'es Ceremony On Sunday
Garabandal Only Natural Spanish 'Apparitions' Not Authentic
Meanwhile, debate continues over two bills which have been introduced in the Rhode Island Legislature concerning state ed ucational aid. The Citizens for Educational F.reedom are sponsoring one measure, designed-as in other :jurisdictions-to have the state oontribute directly to the indi vidual student in accordance
with the child benefi.t theory. The second Rhode Island bill calls for direct payment to non public schools. Opponents of both object on tile same ground-separation of
discounted point by point by
a diocesan commission of the Bishop Of Santander and findThe Spring Conference for all ings of the Holy· See. the clergy exercising faculties in After an exhaustive study by the Diocese will be held at 2 Church officials in Spain, in on Thursday afternoon, March vestigations showed that: 28 in the Jesus Mary Academy - 1) . There has never existed an Auditorium, Fall River. apparition, either of the Blessed Very Rev. Paul P. Purta, S.S. Virgin, or of St. MiclUlel the provincial of the Society of ·St. Archangel, or any other heavenSulpice in the United States - ly person; . will speak on the Priesthood. 2) There was no message; Rev. George W. ColemaQ, as3) The occurrences that took sistant at St. Louis Parish, Fall place in Garabandal, Spain, River, will speak on Recent Im- have a natural explanation. plementation of the Decrees on The findings, officially reached the Worship of the Eucharist. on March 17, 1967, were fol-
Clergy Confer@lJ'u:e
lowed by an appeal of the Bishop of Santander for accept ance by the faithful. "We regret," the Bishop wrote, "that this example (of filial obedience) has not been followed by other persons who by their imprudent conduct have sown confusion and mis trust towards the Clergy, and who by a tremendous social pressure have prevented some thing which began as an inno cent game of children from fad ing away. "Once again, it is good to re call that the true messages from heaven come to us by means of the Word of the Gospel, through the Popes, the Councils, and the Ordinary MagisteriuITl of the Church.."
The Sacred Congregation of the Doctrinp of the Faith, in a letter signed by the then Pro Prefect, Alfredo Cardinal Otta viani, confirmed the deCision of the Bishop of Santander in whose diocese Garabandal is located. "This Sacred Congregation has examined carefully and atten tively all the documentation, including that Which has been sent' from other places," the re ply stated, "and has finally ar rived at the conclusion that this question has already been mi nutely examined and decided by Your Excellency and that therefore there is no reason why this Sacred Congregation should intervene in it."