VOL. 38, NO. II
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FALL RIVER, MASS.
Friday, March 18, 1994
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At a March 8 press conference. in New York announcing the award, Novak said that he will donate $250,000 to fund scholarships to Stonehill. Reacting to the announcement, Father Bllrtley MacPhaidin, CSC, Stonehill president, said of Novak, "Simply put, he is one of America's finest contemporary thinkers. Furthermore, throughout his illustrious and prolific career, he has never forgotten his alma mater. On behalf of the entire college
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Michael Novak, a summa cum laude graduate of Stonehill Col'lege, North Easton, and a religious philosopher whose writings have influenced political and social movements throughout the world, is the 1994 winner of the Templeton Prize for Progress in Reli~ gion, valued at about $1 million.
MICHAEL NOVAK
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and public policy at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, said he is following up his work of the 1970s and 1980s on the relation of religion and economics with a concentration on the moral foundations of a free society. He said establishing the welfare state and hiring people according to category had introduced much corruption into society. The war on poverty helped the elderly but was "exceedingly harmful to the young," he said. While emphasizing "our great responsibility to all the poor on earth," he said the answer does not come from those who only say, "The poor, the poor," but from those who have worked out ways "to help the poor not to be poor." Novak, who studied for the priesthood at Stonehill but withdrew shortly before he was to be
community, I extend our congratulations and thanks to him.',' Novak established the NovakSakmar Endowment in Slovak Studies at Stonehill, both in recognition of his family's Slovak roots and for the support and promotion of Slovak history and culture. The college is also the repository of his papers, including manuscripts, correspondence, books and articles. The collection is deemed central to a full understanding of American Catholicism in the second half of the 20th century. The Templeton Prize will be presented to Novak by Britain's Prince Philip in a private ceremony at Buckingham Palace May 4. A public ceremony will follow on May 5 at Westminster Abbey. In accepting the award, Novak, 60, who holds a chair in religion
ordained, was among prominent champions of new currents of thought in the 1960s who subsequently altered course to lead the neoconservative movement. He went from active involvement in George McGovern's 1972 presidential campaign to support of Ronald Reagan in 1980 and acceptance of appointments in the Reagan administration. When the U.S. Catholic bishops undertook to write their economics pastoral, Novak was vice chairman of a lay committee headed by businessman William Simon that held its own hearings and issued an alternative lay letter, "Toward the Future: Catholic Social Thought and the U.S. Economy." Novak also wrote an alternative to the bishops' 1983 pastoral letter on war and peace that was published Turn to Page II
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"COVER GIRL" Sisters Anna Bilodeau, 80, (rear) and Madeleine Boulay, 93.
Fall River natives represent retired religious nationwide By Teri Smith The following article is reprinted by permission from the Catholic Observer, newspaper of the diocese of Springfield. Where is it wr.itten that if a woman wants to he a "cover girl" she has to spend days on end front of the camera, being madeup, sending out portfolios and moving to the big city to sell herself, or sell an illusion. For Sisters of St. Joseph Anna Bilodeau, 80, and Madeleine Bou-
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lay, 93, "success" in the cover girl industry has literally come to them, because of their natural' beauty inside and out - a beauty that makes them the perfect representatives for retired religious nationwide. The two Sisters of St. Joseph, both Fall River natives, reside in retirement at Mont Marie in Holyoke. Three years ago when they lived in Fall River, Sister Mary Frances Turn to Page II
1940 al1d.'frdrn. Bentley College in I 94t3. 101'973 he completed an A.n1eric:ilrl Studies for' Executives pr~raltl~t Williams C.ollege. ' :ije ~a~' been an offIcer of the Qr~enwo;pd Home Owners Assn., and w~S!its vice pre~ident fr?rn RETURNING TO ROME following last August's World 1990 to Irn. At Chnst the Kmg Youth Day celebration in Denver, Ambassador Raymond L. parish, h$ isachoir member and Flynn and Pope John Paul II discuss the papal meeting with ¢a~tor, }aqristan, senior altar President Bill Clinton during that event. server, leqtor, Eucharistic minister nnel a vol~lIlteer at bingo and in the parish of(ice. Prior Mo moving to Mashpee, vrban w~sactlve at St. Raphael's parlsh,We:st N1edford as a parish counciloli, firiaJ!l~e ~ommittee m:m~ Flynn was to be featured speaker WASH INGTON (CNS) - U.S. bel'. al\d, 'I,ll relIgIOUS educatIon Ambassador to the Vatican Ray- at a March II museum fund-raiser teather; ! He is ,!nlll!rr:led (0 the form~r mond L. Flynn cancelled an ap- to honor Irish-American diploShirley!il :~t(lIi:van. The c4uplea~ . pea ranee at a reception for The mats. He and museum officials Catholic Museum of America in said they learned of State Departthe l ro~ five chil~r.c New York after the State Depart- ment disapproval March 10. ,a~;;, ,'ld~hildre~l A State Department official said ment disapproved his participation that Flynn, like any other official, in the event. FlFTY·THREE YEARS OF SERVICE Ina March II letter to Christine must get departmental clearance ,19<'2 ~ 1994 Cox, executive director of The for his activities when traveling DIlOCESE OF FALL RIVER Catholic Museum of America, outside his assigned country. The P G Flynn called the State Department State Department checks to see if 1 I E' action "confusing as well as dis- such activities are "compatible with If D his official position as ambassador appointing." E G E "I have strongly objected to the to the Vatican." The official said Flynn was travdecision," he' said in the letter, made available to Catholic News eling back to the United States for GOO CALLS U$ TO SACRIFICE AND GENEROSITY Service in Washington and Rome. Turn to Page II
Flynn museum appearance nixed by State Department