Fr. Thomas Walsh Is New Attleboro Pastor Fr. Daniel Shalloo to Head Fall River Parish Bishop Connolly Also Announces Transfer of Two Assistants.
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Four Priests Start In New Dutie$ Next Week The Most Reverend Bishop t 0 d a yannounced clergy appointments involving the transfer . of a pastor, the
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Columnists Defend Federal School Aid
REV. THOMAS F. WAlLSH
NEW YORK (NC) - Hearst newspapers and columfttsts David Lawrence and George Sokolosky have defended dle appeal by Catholic Bishops for inclusion of private IFhools in Federal aid to education. The New York Journal :American, in an editorial quently supported the constituWhich appeared in other tionality of loans to private Hearst newspapers, said it schools, wrote in the New York thinks the Bishops are justi- Herald Tribune, which distribfied in seeking governmental ~ for private and parochial cehools. The paper recommended that iegislation to this effect be preQented to Congress. It supported Ilntroduction of a bill separate Irom the administration's measfor $2,3 billion in grants to DUblic grade and high schools. Mr. Lawrence, whose nation• syndicated column has fre-
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Local Firm Wins Church Contract In 'New Bedford The Chancery Office of the Diocl:1se announced' today that the Paul G. Cleary and eompany of New Bedford Ims been awarded the contract ~ the construction of a new
e'hurch for St. Hedwig's Parish ilia that city. Rev. Emil Tokarz, O.F.M. eonv., pastor of the Ohurch, has announced that plans call for work on the new church to begin immediately. The new structure will be built on Division Street, on the \
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utes his articles to other newspapers. He pointed to three "fallacies" 00 detects in opposition to the Bishops' appeal for loans for school construction. He said it is wrong M charge that inclusion of loans in the general Federal aid bHl would jeopardize the entire law in the event of a court suit challenging the loans. "The fact ·is," he wrote, "that Congress for many years has inserted in various laws a section, usually at the end, which says that if any provision is held unconstitutional by the courts, this does not affect the validity of the other provisions." <
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He also said it is a fallacy to say loans are not given chur~h schools today because they are unconstitutional. He pointed to a $400,000 construction loan to Sacred Heart College, Cullman, Ala. The third fallacy, he said, ~ that there is a constitutional difference between government aid to schools on the pre~college' level and aid to the colleges themselves because .pre-college
Religious Leaders Predict Era of Conflicts, Efforts WASHINGTON (NC) - A Catholic, a Protestant and a Jewish spokesman predicted the next decade .will see new conflicts and new efforts at understanding among religious groups in America. This will be the situation as churches seek to adjust to the chang- Clearing HouSe, an association ing conditions of American of organizations with an interest . society, they agreed. Making i<n civil liberties. Mr. Clancy said the question this prediction were William of Church-State relations was
Clancy, editor of ·Worldwide, magazine of the Church Peace Union; Rabbi Arthur Gilbert, director of interreligious cooperation for the B'nai B'rith AntiDefamation League; and Wayne H. Cowan, managing editor of the magazine Christianity and Crisis. 'They participat~ in a session on "Church and State Today and in the New Decade," held during tne 13th annual conference of the National Civil Liberties
"in no sense settled" during last fall's presidentl-al campaign. Instead, he said, the status of the discussion is "remarkably fluid." On religious lines, he said, American society is div,ided into four major groups: Catholic, Protestant, Jewish and secular humanist: Despite their surface "amity," he said, each of these groups retains a "deep distrust of the others' intentions."
Educator Urges Study of Latin In High School
Catholic College Educators Meet Next Tuesday
'COLUMBUS (NC)-Study of Latin in high 'school is "a preparation. second to none for those who hope to study modern languages," according to Father Lawrence R. Strittmatter, who teaches Latin at Elder High School, Cincinnati. The fact that "a vast network of modern languages take their origin from Latin," Father Stritt'l'nl'n to Page Twelvo
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WASHINGTON (NC) The president of Notre Dame and a Harvard University pvofessor will address Cath. olic college and university educators at the four-day convention of the National Catholic Educational Association in Atlantic City beginning next Tuesday. Father Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., of Notre Dame, will speak ~urll to pqe Seventeea
appointing of an administrator, and the transfer of two assistants. Rev. Thomas F. Walsh, pastor of St. Louis Ohurch, Fall River, becomes pastor of St. John the Evangelist Church, Attleboro, succeeding the late Rt. Rev. John J. Shay who died on J'an. 28. Rev. Daniel F. 8ha1100, assistant at St. Joseph's Church, Fall River, for 'the last 19 years and General Manager of The Anchor, becomes administrator of St. Louis Church. Rev. James W. Clark, assistant at St. Patrick's Church War e ham, succeeds Fathe; Shalloo as assista,nt at St. Joseph's, and Rev. Kenneth J. Delano, assistant at St. Patrick's Church, Fall River, goes to' St. Pa.trick's Church, Wareham, as asSIstant. Appointments of Father Wa19h and Father Shalloo are effective next Wednesday. Appointments of Father Clark and Father Delano are effective next Thurs_ day. FatMr Walsh
Father Walsh, son of the late James W. Walsh and Catherine (McDonald) Walsh, was born in Fall River Jan. 25, 1900. After receiving his early education in Fall River sohools, he graduated from Holy Cross College iJn 1923. He studied theology at St. Bernard's Seminary, Rocheste.., and was ordai'ned to the priesthood 'in St. Mary's Cathedral Fall River, on May 26, 1927, b; the late Bishop Feehan. Father Walsh served as assistant at St. Mary's Church New Bedford, Immaculate' C~ncep tion and St. Mary's parishes in Ta'unton, and Holy Name Chlirch, Fall River. . On Oct. 9, 1951, he became pastor of St. Dominic's Church, Swansea where he served three years. In October of 1954 he was transferred as pastor to St. Joseph's Church, North Dighton, where he remained two years, going to St. Louis Church, Fall River, on Feb. 14, 1956. Father Walsh is Diocesan Director of the Council of qathoUe Women. Turn to Page Eighieen
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\- - - - - - ' SOLEMN IHIOL'J[ WEIE:IT{ SEIRVlICES: Left, Bishop Connolly carries messed Sacrament from main altar of Cathedral on Holy Thursday to dtar of the repository. Center., faithful approach to kiss crucifix"during
Good Friday Liturgy. Right, Bishop at Easter Vigil service immerses lighted Paschal Candle, symbol of the Risen Christ, into container (}f baptismal water through which union with the Risen Christ is effected.