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HAPPY BIRTHDAY AT'95: :at. Rev. Antonio P. Vieira,pastor of Our Lady of. Mt. Carmel Church, New Bedford, thought to be the oldest active pastor in the country, celebrated his 95th birthday Saturday with business as usual. In' lef:t photo, he counsels engaged Couple and helps
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CAMBRIDGE (NC) - Historian Christopher Dawson said here the' Constitution's First Amendment has been twisted into a "bulwark of secularist dogma." Interviewed by Jubilee magazine on the question of Federal aid to private and parochial schools, the English scholar,. who currently occupies the Chair for Catholic Studies at Harvard University, commented: "Catholics are being forced to pay double for the right of freedom of education and
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Diocese to Distribute School Aid "Booklets
. Fifty thousand 20-page booklets are being distributed .... every one of the 108 churches of the Diocese Sunday with the title, "Issues .of Our Times-50 Questions and Answers on Federal Aid to Education and Related Matters." The booklet is being given ference, the coordinating agency out to assist Catholics to of the Bishops of the United have an over-all and com- States in Washington," was plete picture of the role of written by RuSsell Shaw, a staff
both the public and private echool in the American educational scene. It will provide Catholics with ftle position of the Church regarding the rights of Catholic parents to establish private schools that are completely within the framework of the educational system of a demoelacy. The pamphlet, prepared by the National Catholic Welfare Con-
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them make marriage pr~par~tion i~ rectory office. In right photo, he discusses school matters with, left to right, Lorraine Vital, Mother Superior Cran~hoff and Mother Franco of the $isters of St. Dorothy who staff Mt. Carmel School, and Virginia Senra. He 'has been a priest 72 years.
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are still not getting their money's worth, since, when they have done all and more than all they WASHINGTON (NC) - A crucial development in the can, their schools will be less well equipped and their teachers controversy over the constitutionality of Federal aid to less well paid than those of the private schpols is due on Monday-the day the adminisstate. . tration will take a formal 8·tand. The stand will be made "This is an obvious injustice 'in memorandum prepared and' a 'denial of the principal' of to education in general and ·by attorneys of the Depart- aid such aid to private and parochial . religious freedom. ~et any attempt to remedy it is invariably ment of Health, Education. schools first ,was requested by blocked by an appeal to the First and Welfare and theJustice Sen~ Wayne Morse of Oregon. The Senator is chairman of the Amendment." · Department. The memorandum will be,made education subcommittee of the Misunderstanding . But a secularist interpretation available to Congressional sub- Semite Labor and Public Welfare of the 'First Amendment, which committees hearing te'stimony on -Committee and sponsor in the Senate of the administration's sets up Church-State relations, recommendations for Federal. aid rests on a - misunderstanding he ·to education. Catholic spokesmen proposed $2.3 billion, three-year have appealed to'these subcom- program of Federal aid to publie .maintained. mittees for long-term, interest- grade and high schools. "Official policy, .as stated for bearing loans for private schools. Abraham Ribicoff, Secretary example' in the North West OrThe administration's 'stand on 01. Health, Education and WeIdinance of: 1787, lays' doWn the the constitutionality of Federal Turn to Page Eighteen general principle 'Religion, morality anei knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, scnools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged'; Turn to Page Twelve
Maine' Considers Pa rents' Rights Lie af Heart Free' Bus Rides For All Pupils .Of Strugg Ie
AUGUSTA (NC).- TaxNEW YORK ( N C) - A paid bus transportation for . New York archdiocesan offiprivate school students is cial said here the blame for not a religious issue, a com- neglecting the .general wel-
mittee of the State Legislature was told. Rep, Melvin Lane declared that "all small children, regardless of their faith, are entitled to safe transportation to their schools." Rep. Lane is sponsor of one of two bus transportation bills being considered by the Legislature's judiciary committee. He Turn 0 Page Eighteellll
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See C a II 5 World Workers" Conference More than 100,000 delegates from Catholic social action organizations from many countries will march on May 15 from the Colosseum in Rome to St. Peter's Square in eommemoration of the 70th anniversary of Pope Leo's encycli4Jal "Rerum Novarum" and the 80th anniversary of Pope Pius XI's encyclical. It is anticipated that His Holiness, Pope John XXIII, will deliver a major Allocution on the subject of Catholic social teaching to the assembled workers. This mass demonstration will be preceded on ~ay 14 and the morning of ~ay 15 by the first World Assembly of Catholic Workers. This meeting it; exTurn to Page Twelve
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fare and dividing Americans on the issue of Federal aid to private schools cannot be laid to Catholics. "In our judgment, the blame for. such inconsideration lies elsewhere," said Msgr. George A. Kelly. He indicated the criticism should be of persons who deny the parents' right to choose their children's education. Turn to Page Eighteellll
New Bedford-Nun Grant Contracts In Fall River Greets Envoy Sister Marian Teresa Dury, daughter of Mrs. Thomas A. Dury, New Bedford, and sister of Rev. James A.
72 YEARS SERVING GOD: Rt. Rev. Antonio P. Vieira, pastor of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, New Bedford, prepares to give Benediction on his 95th birthday which he celebrated last Saturday. Msgro Vieira, still activ~ has been a priest 72 years.
Dury of St. Vincent's Home, Fall River, a Maryknoll missionary to Tanganyika, Africa. was lunclieon hostess to G. Mennen Williams, American Assistant Secretary ()f African Affairs, during his recent tour of the area.. . The New Bedford Sister, recently appointed Superior of the ~aryknol1 community's Marian College in Morogoro, Tanganyika, directed a welcome by students to Secretary and Mrs. Turn to Page Eighteen
Mother Mary William, S.U.S.C., provincial of the Congrega.tion of the Holy Union of .the Sacred Hearts, Fall River, has announced the awarding of contracts for the new addition to the Sacred Hearts Academy, Fall River. The general contractors are F. L. Collins and Sons, Inc., Fall River~ George M. Montle, Fall River, has received the plumbing assignment, the Delta Electrical Co., Inc., Fall River, has been granted the electrical contract and Smith-Gibbs Co., ProviQ TurD to Page Eighteen