National Family and Parent Education Committee Head
Women's Council Honors Mrs. Adrien Piette
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Mrs. Adrien Piette, St. business man, and now employed Theresa's parish, South At at Peter Thacher· Junior High tleboro, has been named National Chairman of t,he
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Family and Parent Education Committee of the National Council of Catholic Women. Long active in parochial and DIOcesan organizations, Mrs. PIette was recommended for the post because of her "outstanding contributions in various fields of Catholic Action," according to a letter received from Mrs. Joseph McCarthy, national pres ident of the Council of Catholic Women. The South Attleboro woman will work with' a national vice chairman, a consultant from the professional staff of the NCCW and a national committee secre tllry in implementing the exten sive program of the organization with regard to the area of family a~d parent education. The wife of Adrien Piette, for
many years a South Attleboro
Emphasizes Freedom Among those attending the Hub lecture were Richard Car dinal Cushing; Metropolitan Ath'enagoras, religious leader of the' Greek Orthodox throughout kung has told a Massachusetts· Canada and Bishop Malcolm F. eapital city audience that in- Peabody, retired Bishop of the' . duded a Roman Catholic Cardi Episcopal Church' of Central Del, a Greek Orthodox metro-. New York' State and father of t»olitan and an Episcopalian Bay State Governor Endicott Bishop. . Peabody. (' 'The Swiss-born theologian ~phasized that the "realiza tion" of freedom, although a difficult task, is of decisive im Portance" for the Church. , Citing two Church elements,
the internationally recognized dean of the theological faculty at the University of Tuebingen in Germany, said that the "exter nal un-nature" of the Church
"may in ways resemble com munism in its enslavement of men" but the Church's "inner bature" is "radically· the oppo Site pole from that pseudo ehurch with Its pseUdo_faith."
~he visiting theologian observed that "in her inner-nature she is, despite all external signs to the
eontrary, the place of freedom.'"
BOSTON (N C ) - Free clom in the Church "has al~ ways to be won over' and ever again," Father' Hans
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MRS. ADRIEN PIETl'E
Church Constant Goal
Every manifestation in the that- 'the Church's free nature should n6t bel. impenetrably Church of lack of freedom, how ever harmless, however under . covered and displaced in men's eyes by hE!!' un-free un-nature," cover, whatever religious trim mings it may have, contributes he said. "No talking, no preach toward making the Church less ing,' no t1ieolog'izing about free l.'redible in the eyes of the world dom in .the Church: can have and' of men in general, Father effect without there bl~ing free . Kung said. "And that," he iife ,in the Church." He defined this freedom as a added, "is a miserable disaster.". "It is of decisive. importance "freedom in order."
',Cu:rate Changes' Affect Two Priests
Ordinary Greets Curia Cardinal On U.S. Visit ROME (N C) - While
obstacles to Christian re union are still "enormous," they should spur Christians
to trust in God. Augustin Car-' dinal Bea declared on the eve of bis departure for the United States. ; Cardinal Bea, President of the Secretariat for Promoting Chris
tian Unity, was greeted in Boston tuesday by Cardinal Cushing who was joined by Bishop Con Dally and other Catholic and DOn-Catholic religious leaders. : After receving an honorary degree from Boston College on Tuesday, Cardinal Bea called for all men to work together in areas not strictly doctrinal. As • guide for Catholics he quoted ~e words of Pope John: "Em phasize what tends to unite men, Gtnd accompany every man as far along his way as is possible without betraying the demands ~ justice and truth. The German-born Scripture ~holar granted a ·television in terview prior to leaving for Boston, where he was to deliver ~ree maj or addresses in the eourse of a symposium involving Catholic and Protestant theolo gians at Harvard University. Asked about "immediate and I'emOte prospects for the union et Christians," Cardinal Bea said , TUfn to Page Three
'FR.
WILLIAM FARLAND
School in Attleboro, Mrs. Piette is also at Peter Thacher School, holding the position of secretary to the principal. The couple has five children, including four sons and a daugh ter. Robert, 28, is a graduate of Providence College. George, 25, and John, 23, are graduates of Sacred Heart Academy, Central Falls.. Peter, 18, is a junior at Attle boro High School and Adrienne, 14,' is a member of the freshman class at Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro. Mrs. Piette has been district and Diocesan chairman of Fam. ily and Parent Education Com. mittees; served as president of the Confraternity' of Christian Mothers in St. Theresa's parish from 1958 to 1959; has for the past four' years been chairman of a Bolivian mission project at St Theresa's; and is a member of the South Attleboro executive
board of the Confraternity of Chdstian Doctrine.
The Most Reverend Bishop announced this morning 'the transfer 'of two 'parish' as sistants to take effect Wed . nesday, April 3. Rev. William E. Farland, assistant at St. Patrick's Church, Falmouth, since 1958, . 'will . become assistant at St. Kilian's Church, New Bedford. Rev. William G. Campbell, as sista at St. Mary's Church, Taun ton, since his ordination on Feb. 2, 1963, has been appointed to
succeed Father Farland in the Falmouth parish. Father Farland, the son of Donat and Mabel Phelan Far land, was born in Fall River on Jan. 11, 1924. He attended Provi denCe College, St. Charles Semi nary, Catonsville, St. Mary's Turn to Page Two.
FR. WILLIAM CAMPBELL
Vocations Mean Salvation of Souls
,Accept The Call of Our Savior By Rev~ John J~ Hayes Diocesan Director of Vocations There was a train wreck. The laborers into His' vineyard." The hfllside was a mass of twisted ever increasing number of Cath steel and mangled bodies. A olics at home and abroad means doctor working feverishly to help the suffering was kneeling over
a man badly i!ljured and was heard to say, "I could save this'
man, but I haven't got my in. -struments." As the Divine Redeemer bends dowil over fallen human. ity, He sees countless souls that could be saved if He but had His instruments. In the Divine Wisdom, not angels, but men and women are His selected instru ments. Only through the coop
eration of souls called by God in a special way, will Christ's redemptive grace restore strick en SOUls. Salvation of souls is
at stake and the sole remedy lies in that· single word "voca tions". God has chosen no other way. It is just as simple as that. Our Saviour said to His apostles, "The fields are white for the harvest." "Pray the Lord f'R. JOHN J. HAYES et tile harveat,that'He send·
. "Just as there can be no true order in the Church without true freedom, so there can be no true freedom in the Church without order," he said. "Anyone who through dictatorship and terror destroys freedom in the Chur~h, also destroys true order and authority in the Church. And anyone who. through rebel-' lion and revolt. destroys order and' authority in the Church also destroys true freedom in the Church.' Both freedom in order and order in freedoql make up the Church of Christ."
TtJ.e first session of the Second Vatican Council has "become a manifestation of freedom in the Church observed by the whole world," Father Kung said.
"Is it an illUsion," he asked, "to hope that with this Council a new period has begun in the history of the Catholic Church: the period of a new and fruitful freedom in the Church?"
He suggested that the Catholic Church of the United States "will take an important, a lead. ing 'position in this new period of the Catholic Church." Turn to Page Four
Vocations Lack Makes Diocese Disaster. Area CLEVELAND (N C )
Shortage of vocations here has. made this diocese a reli gious "disaster area," ac
cording to a- vocational news_ letter published by the diocesan direCtor of vocations. Father James A. Viall, editor more parishes, more sd;ools and of the newsletter, called "Chos
hospitals to be staffed. More en," was appointed first director
vocations are the monumental of vocations in the diocese six need; that is the crisis that chal months ago. l~mges' the expansion of Christ's The newsletter says there is a Church in our day. .
"pitifully small force" of 861 Ohly God gives a vocation. I'riests to care for the spiritual "You have riot ch'osen Me, but I needs of 818,000 Catholics and have chosen you." But, of this more· .than' two million non. we can be certain, that the Holy Catholics in the diocese. Spirit will be active in the meas "In the U. S." it continues ure of the Church's need. 1£ there is a ·shortage of vocations, "there is one· priest for every it is because the iIivitation .of 771 CathoIfcs. But in the Cleve. Our' Lord' goes unheeded. That land diocese, there is only one priest for about 950 Catholics." IS why it is important for youth
There are 250,000 Negroes in today to seriously ask, "Have I Cleveland, the newsletter states, a religious vocation? Is God in viting me to serve Him as a priest, but only "about two per cent" •
brother or a sister?" Our youth are Catholic. must be' given a glimpse of the "Yet experience has shown," ,neaning, sublimity and. reward the letter adds, "that they are of a life completely dedicated. to anxious to become Catholics Christ. Before the eyes of youth when they learn of the teachings must appear the vision of the of the Church. But little progress magnetic personality of Christ, is being made to convert them the 'one peerless Leader worthy because there are not enough of a.p.erson'& besi eUort. To those priests and Religious ~. teadl, .' "TUrn' {ocIiag~' seventeen" . tbiID Of Christ."· , . ,