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Of New Church A 100-foot cross topped tower will dominate Bett'fonf Street, Fall River, and mark the site of the new St. Anthon.. , of Padua Church that will serve the religious and social needs of the Portuguese speaking Oatholics of that part 01 Fall River, 'l'he new 600 seat quartz aggregate surface on aD church will face Bedford other walls. Street and be flanked bv The Baptistry is set apart from Sixteenth arid Seventeenth the body of the chUl'ch in a six Streets. sided glazed area supported by Replacing the 53 - year - old concrete frames and connected to the church nar·thex by a ~tructure, the' new building will combine poured concrete with glazed passage. Stained glass bush-hammered texture on the walls will linc the baptistry and battered-buttress walls and pre passage. cast wall panels of concrete with Turn to Page Six
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Congregation Clarifies. Fast-Abstinence Law
Impatience Questioned
VATICAN CITY (NC)-The Congregation of the Coun has ruled that a pel'son would sin gravely, in,regard to f)be prescriptions on fast and abstinence, only if he failed to ~sel've a significant part of the 'new rulings as a whole. In an official explanation of his decree the Pope directed . that flbe decision, the Osservatore abstinence was to be observed on R,.omano said: . "A .pel'son all Fridays-unless: it was de would sin gravely against the cided, as in the U. S., by the lb.... of penitence who, for a hierarchy of a region to drop I!l()table number of penitential Friday abstinence-and that fast tiays (quantative negligence) or and abstinence be retained for <!Kl some of the days especially Ash Wednesday and' Good Fri <iedicaled by the Church to peni- day. .. The Pope had laid special em tJence, such as Lent (qualitative lJIegligence) neglects to do pen- phasis on the Friday abstinence ance j, one of the forms pre- of Lent. He had also given na': scdbed by the Church," tional bishops' conferences the The papal document refelTed authority to change the times of ~ is that of Pope Paul, Poeni- these observances or to replace oomini, dated Feb. 17, 1966. Ian Turn to Page Six
BELFAST (NC) - Those who want to leave the church because they are impatient over the slowness of in stitutional 'changes "should ask themselves what kind of alle giance they really have toward the Church, and what is the quality of their faith," Bishop William Philbin told the annual meeting of the Diocesan Truth Society. The bishop attributed "light readed . thinkinif' to contempo rary writers who seem to suggest that, at' the "time of the Second Vatican Council, the Holy Spirit began again to w.ork in the Turn to Page Six
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VO,ticon Answers Bishops On Liturgy Requests WASHINGTON (NC)-The ©oncilium, the Vatican's JilIostconciliar. liturgical com mission, answered the re~ (Qluests asked of it last November by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. Most of the requests were -ap Iltll'Oved by the Vatican Commis o!on. The request to experiment with the Ordinary of the Mass, Decently revised by the Concil B1lllIn, was postponed for the Iltlresf!nt. The request for use of 3be vernacular in the Canon of the Mass was not treated. The new liturgical changes, ])4'rmitted in the United States lI.!l'C the followine:
Supplementary optional read ings for weekday Masses; Approval of five Bible trans lations for these readings for weekday use only; Recitation of the "silent parts" of the C&f\on of the Mass aloud. or the chanting of these texts, following the pattern already ap proved for concelebrated Masses; Use of prose translations of the five "sequences" from "Hymns of the Roman liturgy" by J. Connelly, as alternatives to the metrical translations already ap proved; The sequence "Dies Irae" is left to the choice of the celebrant illl Masses where it must now be included;
The Nicene Creed may be re cited without chant in Masses which are otherwise considered to be sung Masses. The AposHes' Creed may be submitted for the Nicene Creed in Masses with a congregation of deaf persons (because of the dif ficulty of "reciting" the longer creed in the sign language.L Weekday Readings Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan of Atlanta, chairman of the Bishops' Committee on the Lit urgy, emphasized that the most important of the decisions ap proved and announced thus far is the weekday lectionary. It is intended to provide variety in Turn to Page Six
Catholic "Schools
Active Partner's
WASHINGTON (NC)-America's Catholic schools con-. sider themselves in the "total American education effort," and they would like to be "not only receiving partners" but contributing partners as well." That statement sum marized part of the testi mony.presented by four men Education Commissioner Harold! prominent in Catholic edu Howe II for "fair handling of cation before the Education problems involving non-publie school participation." and Labor' Committee of the He noted, however, that "there House of Representatives. The testimony was' read' by ~re still some problem areas Msgr. Ja,mes C. Donohue, direc where pal·ticipation is less tham tor of the Education Department realistic and a few places where of the U. S. Catholic COJlference. it is all but non-existent." "There is a large, trained, able He was joined by Msgr. William E. McManus, superintendent of and" willing body of educators the Chicago archdiocese's school which has not been tapped . . • system; John Cicco, deputy su more than 177,000 private ele perintendent of the Pittsburgh mentary and secondary schoo1l diocesan schools; and William R. teachers who could be available Consedine, director of the to staff ESEA programs. "Private schools," he said, "cam U.S.C.C. Legal Department. Turn to Page Six The House committee, chaired by Rep. Carl D. Perkins of Ken tucky, is midway th,rough hear ings on the 1967 ameJidments to the Elementary and Secondary Act - the major legislation The Eucharistic Fast for through which most federal aid the reception of Holy Com to education is channeled. munion is abstinence from Msgr. Donohue, generally sup solid foods and liquids, ex ported the two-year-old legisla cept water, for one hour tion. He testified that under before the time one re ESEA more than 1.2 million pri ceives Holy Communion. vate school pupils have been This fast pertains to any aided; 85% of the children in and all Masses - whether non-public schools have received morning or evening Mass on loan library books, textbooks, or the Easter Vigil Mass. an<l. audio-visual materials and At the Easter Vigil. almost 40,000 private school those persons who receive teachers have participated in Holy Communion during in-service training programs. the midnight Mass may He also praised what he called again receive Holy Com "a high degree of consultation munion at a later Easter and cooperation between public morning Mass. and private school education" in The drinking of water in implementing the federal pro gram. " no way breaks the Eucha ristio Fast. " Msgr. DonohYe praised U. S.'
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