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PITTSBURGH (NC)-Pittsburg's Bishop John J. Wright empha,sized here that personality and family claim.~ "should be the last to be changed or challenged" in times of social upheaval. The family jig first. All other societies, the organized state included, are The bishop observed that "so subordinate; it is not the cial forms, in the nature of other way around," the bisn things; admit of change." He op told some 500 persons at offered as an example Alabama. the seventh annual diocesan family life conference here. When there is a conflict be tween the claims of society and the rights and purposes of the family, Bishop Wright said, "those of the civil society sho1l1d be the first to be changed or challenged." Bishop Wright declared the claims of personality and family "are always more nearly a part of that which emanates directly from God; the forms and pro grams of organized society are numbered among those things which may be changed and will be changed so that, if need be, nothing of them will be tomor row as it was yesterday."
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Connolly Asks Aid for World Poor "Ke""edare they who r.ear the word of God, and keep it.: St. Luke, 11-28
TO HELP HIM: Hungry children like little Paul, this African lad who lives along Beloved in Christ, the Congo river, love their I write again to ask your charity for our neighbors in powdered milk when it is Our prepared. need throughout the worrel. The Bishops' Relief Collection properly will be taken up throughout the country, next Sunday. Our American agency, Catholic Diocese has always shown a fine catholic sense in this Relief Services-NCWC, dis matter. We have risen above the level of cautious giving tributes food as well as clo and have tried to match our generosity to the needs of the thing and medicines in more homeless, the hungry, sick, impoverished people of the than 70 nations of the world. Plan to oontribute to this w-orld, regardless of race, 00101' or creed. project in In the past, I have caned this type of giving the "best monumental kind of good neighbor policy.'~ Because, mind you, these Christian charity on MarcIl Sunday. ii",\..~1.- vIles arE; Gur neighbor3,' even though we do not, see 28, Laetare the~. They are the one~ our Blessed Lord had in mind when he directed us to "love your neighbor as yourself." For He says in many ways: If you love only those, that love you, what reward do you expect? Do not even sinners do this? "If you greet only your own brethren, what are you. doing more than others? Why even the heathen do M much as this." No, my brethren and beloved in Christ, we Thefir~t of the Joyful must lift the measure of our charity and concern to take in Mysteries of the Rosary, the those who have no one to turn t'O, who cannot help them.,. Annunciation, is being cele aelves, but who have learned -to know that they are not fop brated today throughout the IrOtten. . Catholic World. Since Gabriel The Bishops' Relief Work is it fabulous thing. For every appeared to. the Blessed Virgin dollar contributed in this country we get the benefit of over 1900 years ago, the saluta about 'twenty dollars when our alms are distributed. Such tion "Hail, full of grace" hll6 repeated beyond count. an investment is impossible to beat. But we are storing been Whenever Mary is mentioned, up resources where rust and moth consume, or where which has been from time im thieves may break in 'and steal. Next Sunday's offeringa memorial to the second VaUcaR should prove one thing, and an important one, and that is: Council and' the first encyclical "Blessed are they that hear the word of God and keep it," of Pope Paul VI, the world is sure of the strong faith that has Turn t<o Page Two been developed by devotion to
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Osterville Parish to Hold Open House Next Sunday Our Lady of the Assumption Church, Osterville, witt eonduct an Open House Sunday afternoon, March 29, from. I : 0 5 in order that aU members of the community, non Catholics as well as OathoHcs, might be enlightened in mat ters Catholic and see the Catholic form of worship hi !laving questions about the Cath a new light. On display win obc religion. Following the visitation of the be the sacred vessels, vest Church, all will be requested to
jl;ents and altar appointree11.ts used at Mass and other Catholic devotions. Statues and the va1' rous sacramentals will be elC p1ained as well as the religio.u "Ymbols found in the Church.' A display will be exh~:O:~etll ar.d guests will be instructem O~ the confessional and its func~;;::m.• The sanctuary with the a:~2lJ:' Y Icing the people together w~~i:~ "h,c '-'lass explanation win ;~ a h~::1tral point of the entire ~c?,,:oo \'( the Open House. Guides will be placed at stl!"il '/y"gic points of the Churcl1 !li'>-~ ~ be available f~r any visltix
go downstairs to the Church Hall where the Sisters, Missionary Sisters of the Most Blessed Trin i.ty, win be in charge of a cate chetical display. Th.e room for pre-school chit d>:e're and kindergarten classes wm also be open to the public. 1Re~lreshments will be served folLow5.r.g the tour. Rev. John J. Higgins, pastor, and Rev. Ronald A. Tosti, assist ac>.t, have announced that guests f,ltm neighboring communities 3n'd throughout the Diocese lll,~t welcome.
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especially through man's devo tion to her Rosary. In these times, when Ecumen ism and the revival of the Litur gy has become the topic of man,. theological discussions, Mary's place in the Church's worship of God and in the devotional life of God's children must also be of concern. The devotion of the Rosary HI not unique to any nation or any period. During one of the ses sions of Vatican Council II last September, Archbishop Giusep pe Gawlina, a member of the Turn to Page Two
Bishop Approves New Assignment The Most Reverend Bishop has approved the nomination made by the Very Rev. Daniel J. Mc Carthy, SS.CC., Provincial of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts, Fairhaven, of the assign Inent of the Reverend Raph~el Flammia, SS.CC. to St. Mary's, North Fairhaven, as Adminis trator effective March 27tiL.
"where society changes with each footfall from Selma to Montgomery." "When there is question of whether to cut down the rights of the person and the life of the family to fit the demands of the state-or to alter, if need be totally, the patterns of soci ety to fit the needs of the fam ily and the person-there is no doubt as to where the revolu tion should be aimed," he said. "Whether in Selma, Alabama. or in social service bureaus of Washington, Harrisburg or Pitts burgh, the pressure must be on the changing economic or polit ical society-not on the unchang ing person," the bishop added.
Lutheran-Catholic Meeting Inaugurates New Era BALTIMORE (NC)-When Winston Churchill was asked to comment on the Allied invasion of North Africa in the early years of World War II, he remarked: "I can not say that this is the beginning of the end, but I would rather hold that it is the end ()f the beginning." Such a cedng this meeting will be the of papers concerning the statement could most pro- writing "status of the Nicene Creed u pitiously be applied to the dogma of the Church." The
meeting held in Baltimore (March 16) which brought' to gether for. the first time in the U. S. five Roman Catholic rep resentatives and five LutheraR representatives tor the purpose of inaugurating "dialogue-in,;, depth" discussions.
The meeting was preliminary in nature to be sure. It was in fact a discussion aimed at deter mining what will be discussed at future meetings. There were no theological points raised or an liwered. This was not the pur pose. Its aim was to etablish areas of particular Lutheran Catholic interest where discus si{)ns would prove most fruitful. Growing out of this meeting is a more formal dialogue sched uled to take place, again in. Baltimore, in early .ruly. Pre-
papers will attempt to ask ques tions concerning the other side'. understanding of tliis proposi tioR as well as supplying back ground information aimed at clarifying the pertinence of the questions.
The papers win then be ex changed so that at the July meeting· each side will have an understanding of what prompted the questions as well as havin« been able to do the necessary research work to answer them properly. A key point recommended at the preliminary meeting here tG insure the fruitfulness of future discussion is a projected dual re search into disputed matters and events which will lay commou ground work for the dialogue.
32 Year Career
Coyle's Burns To Retire As Head Football Coach Rev. Patrick J. O'Nem, Superintendent of Dioces,all Schools, announced today the retirement of James Burns, head football coach at Monsignor Coyle High School, Taun ron for the last 32 years. However, he will continue to ooach baseball and remain as
;ac~~~.b~n:rti::eo/~~~~e': r" port, Conn., Coach Burns
was a close friend of the late Bishop Cass~C;y, Lhe third Bishop of the Diocese, who founded tl1e Taunton secondary school. When the school opened in 1933, Jim Burns was there. A member of the football squad at Notre Dame University, the retiring football mentor started his coaching career at 'Holy Cross High School in New Orleans. 'Burns has had more than or dinary success at Coyle. His clubs are always among the best trained and best conditioned ill
this area. Five times h.e ~
directed undefeated and u!1~~e1i grid combines.
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