The ANCHOR An Anchor of the S&Ul. Sure (tnd Firm-ST. PAUL
Bullock to.· Direct
Charities Appeal
James E. Bullock of the Holy,Name Parish, Fan River, win be the Lay Chairman of the 1958 Catholic Charities Appeal. His appointment was announced tod~y by Bishop Connolly. Mr. Bullock will assist Bishop Connolly in directing the Special Gifts and Parish phases of the AppeaL As one of the Fall River Area's most respected busi ness ·men and' best known citizens, Mr. Bullock's back
ground suits him especially well for the charitable work he is -undertaking. He is the Presi PRICE lOc. dent of the Fall River Electric S~ond Clu. Mall PrlylJell'ea $4.00 per y~ru Light Company. DOring World Aathoriled at Fall River. Maaa.· War II, he served as the coor dinator on the Airborne Radar. Project for 'the Radiation Labor atory of M. I. T. His activities embrace community, parochial and diocesah projects. . Active Serran Mr. Bullock is PresIdent of the . NOTRE DAME '(NC)-Frank M. Folsom, a top Radio C!:orporation of America executive and a militant Catholic' Greater Fall River Development This' group has leyman, has been named diamond jubilee recipient of the Corporation. been instruinental iri many prac University of Notre Dame's Laetare Medal. tical efforts to revitalize the Father Theodore M. Hes- being named a Knight of Malta, economy of the Fall River Area bUrgh C.S.C. Notre Dame the oldest order of laymen and by inducing new industry to lo . " prelates of the Church, and be.,. cate in this Area and locating preSIdent, announced the ing appointed a papal chamber- more desirable sites for existing Belection of the 63-year-old lain, an honor given laymen industries which wish to expand. industrialist as recipient of the .
He is a Director of the Fall River MVard given annually for distin
Electric Light Company, Mon llUished accomplishment for
taup Electric Company, a Trustee Church or country.
of Bradford Durfee College of Presentation of the honor to Technology and of the Fall River Mr. Folsom, to take place at an Savings Bank, a' membet and anannounced date, will complete former Chairman .of the Fall the 75th year of the medal's River Industrial Commission, a presentation. . Director of the Rotary Club of From 1883 to now, 59 men and Fall River and Director of the Je women have received the United -Fund of Greater Fall award. It is named for Laetare River. Sunday, the fourth Sunday of The 1958 Appeal leader is an Lent, an occasion of joy in the active member of the Holy Name liturgy of the Church. Parish School Building Fund Mr. Folsom is executive com Committee, is Past: President of mittee chairman and former the Serra Club of Fall River and president of RCA. He has been is a member of the Holy Name associated with the corporation Parish Conference of the St. since 1944 and became the fourth Vincent de Paul Society. president of the giant communi The Bullock family comprises _tions firm in 1949. Mr. Bullock; his' wife, Mrs. Well known as a Catholit: lay Laura A. Dupont Bullock; man, he is serving as permanent James E., Jr.; and two daughters, representative of the State of FRANK M. FOLSOM Laura M. and, Martha. James Vatican City to the new Inter Jr. is a Senior in the Depart Dational Atomic Energy Agency. and priests who are made hon ment ·of Electrical Engineering orarymembers of the Pope's of Papal Chamberlain , at Brown University. Laura is Be has been honored many ficial s~aff. a Freshman, at the University of times by the Church and her in He is also a Knight of the. U. 8. Massachusetts .and Martha at .itutions. His honors include Turn to Page Eighteen tends 'B.' M. ,C. Durfee, High where she is a Sophomore. Mrs. Bullock formerly taught school in Sheldon, Vt. and Chelsea, Vt. She is a member of. the Holy. Name Womens Guild: . Mr. Bullock issued the follow-. VATICAN CITY (NC)-The Holy See has declared today: that while coeducational secondary schools are not approved iogIt statement is 'with' deep' sense of hu in principle, there are cases when the.re is no alternative to mility . that I accept the invita having both boys 'and girls attend the saJ:lle Catholic high Turn to Page Seventeen
Three More Gain Quota For Anchor
Fall River, Mass. Thursday, March 20, 1958
Vol. 2, No..12
Three more parishes haw .either attained C)I' surpassed their quotas ill. the second annual subscription cam
Laetare Medal Is Awarded To Prominent Ind~strialist
Holy .See Urges Separate Schools For Sexes on Secondary Level·.
eehool. .~' The Holy See's stand was outlined in its official publi cation, Acta ''Apostolicae. Sedis, in an instruction drawn lIP by the Sacred Congregation crt the Affairs of Religious. The instruction which out lines regulations wherever Catholic coeducational second ary schools are deemed neces sary, said the whole topic was given considerable study by the Church. It said the Congregation of Religious consulted on the Ilubject with five of the other 11 eongregations which handle the business of the Church. Follow ing these consultations, it said, the whole matter was submitted to His Holiness Pope Pius XII, and the Pontiff ordered publi .tion of the instruction. Basis for Test '!"he instruction listed five principles which it said form the basis on which one can judge eoeducation honestly from both Ute theoretical and practical points of view: Jt) Coeducation should gen ll'ally not be approved. 3-) Although coeducation pre -.mts certain advantages,' never theless because of the possible DllOI'.al dangers it can engender,. 'l'arn to Page Twent,.
.JAMES E. BULLOCK
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Expects Catholic' To Serv~ Soon As President CLEVELA~D (NC) - A Unitarian minister declared that "a Catholic might make a . better President of the United States than some of the recent office holders." But the Rev. Irving R. Mur ray of Pittsburgh told the Unitar ian Society that a Catholic aspir ant for the presidency should be "unequivocally and irrevocally" committed to the "full implica tions of the First Amendment of the U. S. Constitution," which provides that Congress shall make a law respecting an estab lishment of religion. . Papal Leadership The Pittsburgh. minister said that "the Catholic influence on a President" would be "all to the good" in racial integration, intel ligent farm policies,. economic justice and international peace. He claimed that "no recent president has consistently and Turn to' Page Sixteen
Radio' Vatican· Notes Steppe'd-Up . . Anti...Church··Campaign: in Italy VA1'ICAN CITY (NC)-Radio Vatican has commented that Italian communists and fellow trav elers have steppec up their antiChurch campaign using any excuse to attack the .nation's Catholicity. The Radio Vatican news com menta tors singled out the wide-
Sons of Ita Iy Sponsor Play At Mansfield \
IRISH VISITOR RECEIVES ROSARY: Rt. Rev. Hum berto S. Medeiros, Chancellor of the. Diocese, presents rosary beads to Mrs. James Carroll,'as her husband, the Lord Mayor of Dublin looks on. Monsignor Medei~os made the presentation in behalf of Bishop Connolly to thli! distinguish ed Irish visitors ~m th~occasion 9f their visit ito Fall River last Sunday.
paign for The Anchor. This brings to eight the num ber of parishes to report they have reached the quota set for them by the Circulation Depart 'ment of this diocesan newspaper. Most subscriptions to The Anchor expire early next month, Readers, who purchased sub scriptions when this paper began publication April 11, 1957, must renew their subscriptions now. if they want to continue to re ceive the' paper each week through, the mail. The example.ofJhe first eight parishes to report complete re
turns establishes a goal for every
pastor in the diocese. We sin
cerely hope that all will follow
the lead of those parishes where
. a determined and successful ef
fort is being made, not only to
see that a quota is met, but, also
to see that a Catholic newspaper
is in every diocesan Catholie
home each week. Rev. James E. O'Reilly, pastor, reported today that Our Lady of· Mount Carmel parish in Seekonk has exceeded its quota. Rt. Rev., Msgr. J. Joseph Sul livan, pastor at the Sacred Heari; parish in Fall River, and Rev. Alexis C. Wygers, S8. CC., ad ministrator at St. Francis Xavier in Acushnet, have notified 1U that their parishes again have reached their quotas. All pastors are reminded to make complete returns before the end of the month so that there will· be no interruption in the receipt of papers by parish ioners who have purchasecl subscriptions.
A sacred play on the Passion and Death of Christ will be pre sented at the new High School auditorium, Mansfield, on Wed nesday, March 26, at 8 in the evening. Co-sponsors of the play will be the Women's and Men's Lodges of the Order, Sons of Italy. It will be presented by Nino Di Salle, radio announcer of WPAW, Pawtucket, and will be narrated by Rocco De Russo . and his company of New Yor,k. The play will be given in Ital:' ian but before each of the twelve scenes a narration will be given in Englisl).. . Those in charge of ticket sales in the Mansfield area are Mrs. . Olivia Carbonetti, president of the Women's Lodge, and At torney Louis Baldini, president of the Men's Lodge.
spread publicity and distortioa of facts in leftist newspapers reporting the trial of Bishop Pietro Fio~del1i of Prato and the legal actions taken against French writer Roger Peyrefitte who is charged with slandering the Pope in a recent article pub lisped in ijle communist-oriented newspaper, Paese Sera. . The Vatican commentator said the communist press and their Turn to Page Sixteen
Visitors Conduct West ,Harwich Parish Survey Sixty Home Visitors of Holy Trinity Parish, West Harwich, will· conduct a Parish Survey from Ma~ch 16 to March 25. The Home Visitors are mem bers of' the Confraternity of
I Christian Doctrine and will take
'the survey under the guidance
'of their pastor, Rev. Finbarr
McAloon,' SS.CC., and the Ex
ecutive BoarQ of the CCD. The Home Visitors will work in teams on this census, and will canvass from door to door every town and rural, district in the parish. Ib this way they will secure an accurate list of all parishioners. Each canvasser bears a letter of authorization from the pastor.
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