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Priests' Senate Publishes Counselling Directory At the regularly scheduled meeting of the Fal1 River Diocesan Senate of Priests, held at the Catholic Memorial Home, Friday, March 16, the presentation of the Social Concerns Committee was finalized. Rev. Robert A. McGowan, cochairman along with Rev. Thomas C. Lopes of this committee made the presentation first of al1, of the "Marriage and Family CounselJing Directory." The 31 page directory was prepared by the committee over this past year and contains the descriptions of the many and varied public and private agencies concerned with family an(J marriage counselling throughout the entire Diocese of Fall River. The Senators had received copies for study at the February meeting and reports received on the directives were more than favorable. Father McGowan then presented the two following resolutions: That the Senate will fund the printing of "Marriage and Family Counselling Directory" published by .the Family Life Committee of the Senate. The Senate will fund the distribution of the Directory to all priests of the Diocese. Both resolutions were unanimously passed by the Senate
Greater Research In Family Life Needed by All There is nothing typical any more about .the Catholic family in Amellica, or, as one f,amily life ,leader put it: "If U. S. family styles were ever homogeneous, they are not so today." With that thought to guide them, leaders from Catholic marriage and family organizations met in Chicago recently' to exchange ideas and to form some loosely knit cooperative projects. On one point they all seemed to agree: that the changing needs of the Catholic family have to he studied, and researched more today than ever before. And those needs have to be fulfilled, they added. The meeting was attended by representatives of the Christian Family Movement (CFM), the International Confederation of' Family Movements which deals with the Turn to Page Threp.
and all priests and agencies of the diocese will be receiving a copy shortly. Father McGowan, referring to GATHERING OF FRIENDS: Pope Paul greets Bishop Cronin warmly as Cardinal the lengthier report of the Social Medeiros, center, and Auxiliary Bishop Gerrard, left, share the joy of .the audience Concerns Committee presented at the February meeting, then granted by the Holy Father to a small group of those who accompanied the Archbishop of Boston to Rome on the occasion of his elevation to the College of Cardinals. Before proceeded to present the followhis episcopal ordination, Bishop Cronin served Pope Paul in the Vatican. ing proposals to the senate for ultimate presentation to the Most Reverend Bishop: That a ful1-time Diocesan Director of Family Life be appointed by the Bishop and that the priest who is appointed has nothing more than Sunday responsibmties in a parish. That the person appointed to this position have the competence described in the family life WASHINGTON (NC) - The 'create a community united by since 1959. She was then 36 report. president of Trinity Col1ege here faith and ethical and moral val- years old, the youngest col1ege That the procedure recom- has urged Catholic institutions of ues." president in this country. mended in the Committee report higher learning to become ceO'路 Sister Claydon, a leading Last year, she was one of nine for appointing the Director be ters for research into "the sa- spokeswoman on education, U. S. delegates from the U. S., fol1owed. credness of life and the right to made her comments in a speech -and the only woman delegate That the Director of Family life." to the John Carroll Society, an from 23 nations, at an internaLife be given a job description Sister Margaret Claydon of the organization of Catholic profes- tional Conference on Catholic including the responsibilities of Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur _ sional men in the archdiocese of education at the Vatican. In her address to the John the director as given in the com- also recommended that Catholic Washington. mittee report. Sister Claydon has been pres- Carrol1 Society, Sister Claydon . universities and col1eges proThe assistant directors of vide chaplains who will redis- ident of Trinity Col1ege, a smal1 noted that the past decade has Turn' to Page Six cover for students "the way to liberal arts school for women, seen "the erosion of moral values" anq. "the removal of any sense of th-e transcendent in our CATHOLIC CHARITIES APPEAL lives." A reflection of the turmoil in society was the U. S. Supreme Court abortion ruling in January Arthur Edgar Wills, St. Mar- parish, Attleboro, will serve in Castro, an Attleboro native, by which the majority of the garet's Parish, Buzzards Bay, a similar capacity for the Attle- attended Coyle High School and jurists "decided against life and . Bryant College. He is treasurer for death," she said. John F. Coyle, St. Pius X, South boro area. "Our colleges and universities Yarmouth, have he-en named of Attleboro chapter of the Red The men will assist Rev. John area lay chairmen f.or the Cape F. Andrews and Rev. Bento R. Cross, a trustee of the Portu- must, particularly 路at the univerand Islands area of the Fal1 River ,Fraga, Cape and Attleboro area guese-American Club and a di- sity level, engage in serious,ondiocese for the 1973 Catholic appeal directors respectively, rector of the Attleboro Lions going research in these areas Charities Appeal. Thomas O. Joseph H. Feitelberg, diocesan Club. He has been active in pa- which will be the most seriously challenged in the days ahead, Castro, St. John the Eva~gelist lay chairman; and Msgr. An- rochial and religious groups. those areas concerned with the thony M. Gomes, diocesan apsacredness of life and the right peal director. to life," she said. "Another obligation of colWills, :administrative officer leges and universities in these for -the Cape Cod Canal office of the Army Corps of Engineers, Turn to Page Two is active in SCouting and the Confraternity of Christ路ian Doctrine and was a 1972 recipient of ,the Marian Medal. He was educated in the Boston public Pictures schools and at the University of of Massachusetts.
Catholic College ProgramRight to Lifei Way to Live
-Cape Cod and Islands Lay Chairmen
ARTHUR EDGAR WILLS
COYle, who served as parish appeal Chairman last year, is also active in the Holy Name Society. A World War II veteran, he served under General' Patton, and after .the war was employed by Westinghouse Electric in Boston, moving to Cape Cod in 1947. He attended Harvard and St. Botolph Art School. .
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Cardinal Medeiros Pages 10, 11, and 20 Photos for The Anchor by Tony Medeiros of Fall River and Ray Guillette of Attleboro.
JOHN F. COYLE