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Archbishop· Krol Hits
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The CHOR
PHILADELPIDA (Ne) - Archbishop John J. Krol of Philadelphia told a Jewish audience h~re that the New T.estament gives "no basis for hate or anti-JeWish feeling." Archbishop Krol said that "in recent 'years' some have dis torted the Gospel account of about the fate of these two the Crucifixion, and have declarations. used the distorted version as He said, however, that there a pretext for persecuting the is "no reason for doubt" that the
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Hub Doctors In Tribute To Sister Members of the St. Luke's Guild of Greater Fall River and friends of Sister Maur een Thomas, M.D., of Mary knoll will be among the hun dreds and hunCireds planning to attend the charity dinner dance of the Boston Physicians' Guild of St. Luke in Boston on Friday night, April 3. Richard Car din a 1 Cushing, Archbishop of BOi;lton, will pre side at the social honoring the Fall River native who is re turning from her religious and medical labors in South America for the outstanding annual event of the Hub Catholic physicians. The Maryknoll physician, who was 'Anne Marie Higgins before she joined the religious, curTurn to Page Fifteen
Monsignor Vieira Seriously Sick Consecrated Auxiliary Bishop of Fall River Diocese
March 19, 1959
.. Bishop Gerrard Marks
Episcopal' Anniversary
Five years ago this morning, Most Rev. James J. Ger rard, D.];}., V.G., rector of St. Lawrence Church, New Bed ford, was consecrated Titular Bishop of Forma and Auxiliary Bishop of the Fall River Diocese. Consecrating prelate was the Most Rev. James L. Con. nolly, D.D., Dr.Sc.Hist., Bish- New Bedford on June 9, 1897, C1I. op of Fall River. Most Rev. the late William and Elizabeth Livesey Gerrard. He attended St. Russell J. McVinIJ.ey, D.D., Mary's Parochial School, which Bishop of Providence and Most Rev. Jeremiah F. Minihan, D.D., Auxiliary Bishop of Boston, were eo-consecrators. Richard Cardinal Cushing, Archbishop of Boston, was the preacher at the consecration. Heading official witnesses was Monsignor Achille Lupi, Charge d'Affaires at the Apostolic Dele gation in Washington. He rep resented the Apostolic Delegate who was in the Far East on of ficial visitations. Seventeen Bishops, in addition to those taking part in the rite of Consecration, were present in St. Mary's Cathedral, in addition to scores of other prelates, priests, representatives of reli &ious orders and laymen. Bishop Gerrard was born ia
is attached to St. James Parish, and graduated in 1914 from Holy Family High School, whioh is the Parish High School of St. Lawrence Church where he .. now rector.
The Auxiliary Bishop attended St. Laurent College, Montreal, Can a d a, and St. Bernard's Seminary, Rochester. He was ordained to the Priesthood in St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River, by Most Rev. Daniel F. Feehan, D.D. second Bishop of the Dio cese, on May 26, 1923. After his ordination, Bishop Gerrard was assigned to Sacred Heart· Church, Oak BlUffs, for the Summer. In October of that year he went to St. Patrick', T~ to page Sevea I.
- Rt. Rev. Antonio P. Vieira, pastor of Mt. Carmel Church, New Bedford, and the oldest ac tive pastor in the United States, is reported in fair condition at St. Luke's Hospital, New Bed• ford. The latest medical report stated that Monsignor Vieira had a restful night and his heart seemed stronger. However, he is still d,angerously ill. A spiritual bouquet was for warded to the hospital yesterday by the children from Mt. Carmel School 'in honor of his 98th birthday.
Legion of Mary· Acies March 22 At Cath'ed ra I Most Reverend James L. Connolly, D.D., Bishop of Fall River, will preside at the annual Legion of Mary Acies Ceremony Sunday afternoon, March 22, at 2:30 in St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River. The Acies is the Legion's Con secration ceremony d uri n g which all Legionaries, Active and Auxiliary, renew their feal ty to Mary their Queen. Taking part in this year's ceremony will be the members of 23 Praesidia in the Diocese, together with their Spiritual Directors. Preacher at the function will Turn to Page Fifteell
Jews." He said a proposed statement on Jewish-Christian relations pending before the second Vat ican Council "should help to eliminate future attempts to pervert the Gospel narrative from a Gospel of love into a Gospel of hatred." Archbishop Krol spoke on the ecumenical council to 300 Jew ish leaders at a meeting spon sored by the B'nai B'rith Anti. Defamation League and the Federation of Jewish Agencies of Greater Philadelphia. He is one of five undersecretaries of the council. . He told the Jewish leaders that the ecumenical council's proposed statement on the Jews rejects the idea that the Jewish people are "deicides--slayers of God" and makes clear that the New Testament cannot be used as an excuse for anti-Semitism. Noting that the council's sec ond session closed last Fal'. with out taking conclusive action on the statement on the Jews or on another statement of religious liberty, the Archbishop said this fact had led some "skeptics" to rna k e "gloomy predictions"
two·-statements will eventually get a full airing at the council But, he added, it is "not a fore. gone conclusion" that they will remain in their present place as sections of a larger schema on ecumenism, since the council has rearranged subject matter in the past and may do so in the future. Discussing the proposed state~ ment on religious liberty, he said it "restates" a longstanding teaching of the Church that "all men who follow their conscience have a natural right to truly religious liberty; that every man has a God-given right to the free exercise of religion without coercion or interference from the state." But, Archbishop Krol empha sized, this "does not mean that man is free to solve his religioul problems by personal whim and caprice and with no moral obligations to God." He said it would be "f061 hardy" to make guesses about when the council will end. How. ever, he added, there are "cer-' tain indications that the conclu. sion will be reached more quickly than anticipated."
Cincinnati Auxiliary
Cites Liturgy .Import
By Rev. John R. FoIster
St. Anthony Church -
New Bedford
The great modern divorce is that which makes "religion only one phase of man's life rather than its very substance." It shows itself in a certain passiveness in regard to modern separation of religion and ordinary daily life. With this real threat in mind, Bishop men-independent of the Curia Paul F. Leibold, Auxiliary -to work out all the changes in of Cincinnati, pointed to a texts and rites as proposed by weakness of Catholic law the Council. The members of organizations and the remedy as offered by the Second Vatican' Council. "No group of men is so poor ly organized as our Catholic laity to constitute a real influ ence . . . in all things which concern our social and public life," the prelate explained. Then, turning to the Council's Constitution on the Liturgy, the Bishop explained that it is the liturgy which should provide the light and strength which Catho lic men need to accomplish their role in the Church. "It is the liturgy that is today a distin guishing mark of the Church's life, indeed the whole tenor of comtemporary religious thought and action." "The council envisioned the' renewal and revitalization of the Church's liturgy as the first step in instilling the life of God in man and accomplishing the mission of the Churcp," the Bishop said. He added that the liturgy is the "key to our aposto lic action as an organization of Catholic men." Progress in getting this needed vitamin into the bloodstream of modern Catholicism was re corded with the establishment and first work of the new litur gical commission formed by Pope Paul VI. . In January, the Holy Father formed a commission of three
the commission were Jacomo Cardinal Lerearo, Archbishop of Bologna, Italy; Arcadio Cardi nal Larraona, the present Pre fect of the Congregation of RiteS; and Father Annibale Bugini. C.M. a consultor of the Congre gation and a Council expert. Recently, the Pope expanded Turn to Page Twenty
Cardinal Alfrink Warns Against Indifferentism
v lEN N A (NC) - The head of the Catholic Church in the Netherlands has warned that the ecumenical movement should not be allowed to lead to indifferentism. . Bernard Cardinal Alfrink of Utrecht, speaking in this Aus trian capital, said: "The purpose of the ecumenical movement is not to promote Christian indif ferentism or a leveling down process in which each party abandons part of its heritage of faith in order to accept a common basis of a commoa truth." Cardinal Alfrink noted that for members of different churches to celebrate the Eu Turn to Page Twelve