Swansea Pastor First to'Seek Complete Parish Coverage
A Swansea parish has decided it is what they were going to get when they ({ling' to be the first parish in the diocese subscribed to The Anchor last year. ~ realize complete family coverage for They were asked to buy a paper before it The Anchor-that is, a paper delivered by commenced publication. Everyone can be Jl1,ail every week to each and every family be mighty proud of 'olir diocesan paper ,in the parish. \ now. It stacks up with the best Catholic Rev. Joseph A. Cournoyer, pastor, has newspapers in the country. The Anchor iKlvised the Circulation Department of The should be in every diocesan Catholic Anchor, that he will not be:aatisfied merely home/' with meeting a parish quota, this year as The Ocean Grove pastor said his two he set about on his laudatory program of assistants, Rev. Maurice E. Parent and .omplete parish coverage. ·"We w<;m't con Rev. Clement E. Dufour, are as interested elude our drive until we' succeed and we in the success of The Anchor as he is. "And will succeed this year," the Ocean Grove they, too, want The Anchor, delivered by mail to every family in St. Michael's parish pastor asserted. Father Cournoyer was loud in his praise every week. The Catholic,press is the right arm of the church pulpit," Father Cour of The Anchor. "The people did not know
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Pope Sees New Springtime Of His'tory for, Mankind VATICAN CITY (NC)-Pope Pius XII told more than 000 young Italians packed into St. Peter's Square here that "all the world is reawakening" 'and that mankind is on the threshold of a new "springtime of history." He said that humanity is ing and a time of ~pring."" "d k ' "All the world IS reawaken comlllg out of a .ar Wlll- ing," the Pontiff said. "Material fler" of errors, dIshonesty life even in the 'midst of so and war. Not only this year's ma~y sadnesses and miseries, is l~O
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spring, but also the springtime of history is not far off, he said, and beyond that there lies "a bcilliant summer" for mankind. The Pope traced the passage of. the "dark winter," which was made dark, he said, by "errors which have disturbed so many minds; dark because of the mud which has contaminated so many hearts; dark because of dish<lnesty . . . because of badly oriented people and broken femilies; because of devastated Ilations; because of a world torn apart by the horrors of war." World Reawakening "But God" he continued "who has permitted the dark ~inter and has readied a brilliant summer, obliges us all to live and work in a climate of reawaken-
moving always toward better and more widely distributed welfare. He who considers the ascending curve of scientific progress' notes that it follows almost a type of chain reaction." "Also in the life and activity of the spirit," he said, "there are evident signs of a reawaken ing. Man will be ever more free from material labor and fl'om servile work. Automation is transforming the greater part of human labor into intellectual activity, while extraordinary technical progress is making the diffusion of culture among men always rtIore possible and easier. "We also .not~ evid:nt ~ig~s of a reawakenmg 111 SOCial hfe, the Pope stated. , Turn to Page Twelve
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noyer stated. "The Anchor covers items and provides instructions that cannot be given with such completeness from the pulpit on Sunday." Father Cournoyer's' complete parish coverage plan-which sets an example for every other pastor in the diocese-is even more ambitious when it is noted that the Ocean Grove parish fell short last year. Most annual subscriptions to The Anchor expire in two weeks. If you have not already renewed your subscription, drop your renewal in the collection basket at Mass next Sunday. Use any type envelope and mark it The Anchor.
Fairhaven Catholic
Exposes Red Plot
"If I had gone to church I wouldn't be here today." With t~ese words, Armando Penha, 44, of Fairhaven summed up the worst part of an eight-year ordeal as an FBI counterspy ~or the Communist party.' ' COIQmunist ; activity in
volved giving up many
things, including a well
paying job, Mr.' Penha said.
But the thing that he missed the
most was the regular practice
of his Catholic ~eligion.
A plot to assassinate Louis
F~ancis Budenz, former editor
of the defunct c'ommunist Daily
Worker newspaper who returned
to the Catholic' faith, was dis
closed in testimony by Mr. Pen
'ha before a special session of the U. S. House of Representatives
committee on un-American ac tivities here. .
School Bomb Plot
The plot was formulated by a
communist group in New Bed
ford after it was announced that
Mr. Budenz was scheduled to
lecture at a New Bedford high
school. Mr. Penha did not dis
close the date of the assassina
tion plot.
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Against Queries
On Religion
DENVER (NC)-Former
President Harry S. Truman
said here that ques'tions
about the religion of a can
didate for the U. S. presidency
should be "baJ,3red."
Asked by a reporter, "Do you
think a Catholic could be elected
president?", Mr. Truman replied:
"I don't' like to make any state
ment in regard to religion in
politics in this great country of
ours."
Later he added: "1£ you'll read
the first ten amendments, you'll
find out that they (questions
about 'a candidate's. religion)
ought to be barred." Mr. Truman implied that reli gious principles are essential to any American president. He said: . "I think any man elected to the presidency will have enough religion to believe in the 20th chapter of Exodus and the fifth, sixth and seventh chapters of 'Matthew." He later included the fifth chapter of Deuterono my. "Now you read 'em and you'll find out what' they are," Mr. Truman said with a grin. (They contain the Ten Commandments and the SermOn on the Mount.)
FBI COUNTERSPY: Mr. and Mrs. Armando Penh. leave St. Mary's 'Church, North Fairhaven, on Sunday. Penha was revealed last week as an FBI counterspy inves tigating communism. He was forbidden to attend Mass by the Reds while in the underground.
Rev. E. J. Sharpe Celebrates First Solemn Mass
Most Rev. Russell J. McVin ney, D.D., Bishop of Providence, ordain~d Rev. Edward J. Sharpe of Needham to the priesthood in St. Mary's Cathedral, on Sat u~clay morning. Father Sharpe was ordained for service in the' Fall River Diocese and will receive his as signment shortly from Bishop Connolly. In the ordination ceremony Bishop McVinney was assisted by Rt. Rev. Msgr. William Mur ray, chancellor of the Providence Diocese; Rt. Rev. Msgr. Hum-, berto S. Medeiros, chancellor of the Fall River Diocese and Rev. Daniel Riley, Providence, mas ters of ceremonies; Rev. John J. PAMPA (NC)-The Celanese Hayes of New Bedford and Rev. Corporation announced here 'in, Alfred Gendreau of St. Mar\,s •
Texas that its' employees again Cathedral. will be grante-~ a paid holiday Ht. Rev. Msgr. James J. Ger
rard, P.R.,V.G., pastor, of St. on Good Friday, April 4. This is the ~econd year that Lawrence Church, ~ew Bedford,
was seated in the sa,nctuary. the closing has been put in ef fect. Catholic employees com Father Sharpe celebrated his
prise 33 per cent of ,the working first Solemn Mass last Sunday' force at the piant here. in St. Joseph's Church, Needham.
Assert Religion Helps Catholic Office Seekers I
BOStON (NC) - An inter preter ,of national voting pat terns said here a future presi dential candidate who is a Cath olic will be helped, rather than hindered, by his religion. Dr. Lawrence Fuchs of Bran deis University, who has studied voting behavior since World War made this statement in an address to 200 faculty mem bers arid students at Boston Uni versity's Citizenship Project. T~lrn to Page Twelve
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NEW CHAPEL SCENE OF CAPPING: :at. Rev. Msgr. Jemes J. Gerrard, V.G., presides at the capping of 36 stu dent nurses at St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, on Monday evening. At Msgr. Gerrard's left is Rev. Augustine Seguin, Q.POf hospital chaplain.
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