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Busy Chicago Week
WASHINGTON (NC) - The Bishops of the United States will meet in Chicago OK! Monday, April 10, for the fil'st semi-annual meeting of the National Conferenee of Cath· olic Bishops. More than 200 cardinals, archbishops and bishops are expected to be pres ent. Traditionall)r, the .bishops met once a year in Washington in November. With tho formation of the NCCB last November, however, it was priests, religious and lay persons longing to the Pope alone, th. voted to meet twice a year to assist responsible Church au Vatican Council invited national thorities on parochial, diocesan conferences of bishops to propoS4 until the U.S. bishops have and candidates from their areas; national levels;
implemented the various decrees • Resignation of bishops, e3 of the Vatican Council. _ Changes in diocesan and pecially the care of bishops upo!J For the first time in U. S. provincial boundaries; Church History, the meeting will retircment; $4.00 po, YQa, be held ,under an elected presi_ Nomination of new bish @ 1967 The Anchcw _ PI' ie s t s: formation on , PRICE lOe dent, Archbishop John F. Dear- ops. Though this is a right be priests' senates i'n the '1arioWl den of Detroit, president of the dioceses, social secul'ity and sal NCCB. aries; For some time to come, there
fore, thc bishops will meet in
_ Distribution of the clergy: Washington fo/ five days, Mon looking to the possible transfer day though Friday, in the week of clergy from one diocese to • in which November 15 occurs. another and even from one They will also hold a three-day country to another, to mee~ Rt. Rev. MHgI·. Augusto L. Furbado, pa~tor of St. meeting, Tuesday t h I' 0 ugh acute shortages of priests in cer tain arcas; <John of God Church, Somerset, in June will 'join a select Thursday, during the second week after Easter and this last group of priests in the Diocese of Fall River who have meeting _ Canon Law: this commit may be held elsewhere ~iven 50 years or more of service in the vineyard of the . than Washington. tee is to report concel'l1ing the possibility of fulfilling the Sun 1601'<1. To commemorate the The work of the NCCB is car day Mass obligation by attcnd ried on. by some 40 committees golden jubilee of Monsignor ance at Mass on the preceding but the work outlined for Chi Fudado, the parishioners of Saturday;
cago this year will deal mostly ti'he Somerset Church are with reports by special (ad hoc)
_ Deacons: a report on the pianning a testimonial to their committees. Rome meeting for the establish \l)eloved shepherd on Sunday, Matters to be dealt with in ment of a permanent diaconate Apr,n 30 in the Venus de Milo Chicago inclu~e: is to be given to the bishops !Restaurant, Swansea. and debate as to whether a per _ The establishment of inter A special Mass of Thanksgiv , manent diaconate is to bc intro diocesan offices, through which fng will be offered by the jubi duced into the U. S.;
appropriate resources in two or l'Jar'ian earlier on the same day. more dioceses would be pooled
Monsignor Furtado, son of _ Books:. the requirement in order to deal more effectively ebe latc Antonio S. and Maria E. for advanced approval for books with certain projects on regional !Loeal Furtado, was born May 5, and other pubiications dealing and perhaps national levels; 11892 at Castillo Branco, Fayal, with Church matters is to be Azores. Following studies at the reviewed; The establishment of pas Seminary of Angra, he was 01' toral councils composed of ARCHBISHOP DEARDEN Tum to Page Six lJaincd June 7, 1917 by Most Rev. Manucl Damasceno da Costa in the Cathedral of Angra. Hc scrved on the seminary lbculty for three years and came flo the Fall River Diocese in (September, 1921. He sel'ved as ~istant at St. Michael, Fall ~GR.A.L.FURTADO lltiver until April 1928 when he established st. John of God The Holy See's Instruction on Music, issued March 5 and effective May 14, serv~ :parish, Somerset, which he still two purposes: it is partly an exhortation to congregational singing and an effort m Clerves. clarify the role of choirs and trained singers, explained .Rev. Frederick R. McManus, di Sincc the erection of the Som rector of the secretariat of the Bishops' Committee on the Liturgy. Because much of lR'Set parish in 1928, the popula fl(.()n has grown from 700 to the the lengthy instrllction-69 The 1967 Catholic Chari ]ptesent count .of 2700. singing a,t all. It also retains pected for a high or sung Mass ties Appeal in the Diocese sections-is quotation and at;ly Monsignor Furtado is a Pro the technical' classification of is explained as: the sung dia exhortation, it is possible to solemn Mass, sung or high Mass logue of priest ~l11d people, the aynodal Judge of the Matri. will start officially at 3 ~on day afternoon when 109 par miss the i.n d i cat ion s of (Missa cantata) and the recited Sanctus and the' Lord's Prayer, lDOnial Court of the Diocese. change and progress. The major The jubilarian served for a ishes will send representatives the "presidential" prayers of the or low Mass. development in the di'scipline or 4I\Ial'ter of a century, 1921 to lay and clerical-to the 'kick-off' Turn to Page Twenty The minimum singing ~xl!841, as the editor of Novi Dades, meeting at Jesus Mary Academy regulation of church music is the
gradual'lessening-almost to the
lIbe only Portugues.e Catholic auditorium in Fall River. point of extinction-of the ar
Bishop Connolly and Raymond Turn'to Page Two U. Kelliher, lay chairman, will tificial'line always drawn be
l tween the sung liturgy and the address the parochial represen tatives who will include parish spoken liturgy, between the chaitmen, pastors and assistant high Mass and the' low Mass. True, the instruction does not pastors, parish trustees and ATLANTIC CITY (NC)-A priest said here that un· say simply that each part of the committee members. corrected abuses and "irresponsible" criticism are equally Mass be sung or spoken as 'the ''The importance of this meet destructive to the image of the priesthood. Father Louis occasi'on and the capacity of the SALZBURG (NC) - Re ing cannot be overstressed. It participants J. Luzbetak, S.V.D., made.the comment in an address to the suggest. Instead, the could be simply a nice gathering. Eieving priests of non-priest But there is so much to be done various 'possible degrees of a National Catholic ]~ducation The long wait endured by tv functions would go a long in the field of charity for our more or les's sung liturgy are de al Association convention on many priests before they are way toward increasing vo community that we cannot let scribed, .with almost complete "Vocations in Time of Con given the full responsibility oil ceations and solving the problem the great opportunity become flexibility. fusion: The Impact of Un pastors. First, the instruction retains M clerical shortages, an Austrian simply a social event," Kelliher The round of "unchallenging certainty and Criticism." He is carefully the distinction between IlIlriest of the Salzblll'g diocese said. executive director of the Center tasks" that take up most of a "If this "age of the laity" is the fullest form of sung liturgy decla red here. for: Applied Research in the priest's time. "in which everything that de The priest said there would to be worthy of the opportuni "Restl'ictive features" of many llJe no lack of priests in Austria ties and means we have to mands singing is in fact sung" Apostolate (CARA). U. S. rectories and chanceries. provide in all areas of human and the simplest form without fii work that was unrelated to Noting that criticism "is a two Inadequacies of training and the pt'iestly office and to clerical· need, we laymen must take up edged sword," Father Luzbetak formation, and lack of in-service the spirited leadership we have fllraining were undertaken by urged what he termed "objec educational programs for the liuch persons as graduates of inherited from our spiritual tive" criticism of the priestly clergy.
l3usiness schools or even ordinary mentors. life. He said such criticism But in addition to "respon
"I am particul81rly desirous elementary school gt'aduates. should take account not only of sible" criticism of the priesthood.
that each parish be rE~presented He said that if this were done, the defects in the priesthood, 'but there is also the "irresponsible"
by a large group of laymen who ~e pricsthood and its require 'also of the fact that most reli kind, Father Luzbetak continued!.
ment of celibacy would be more are anxious to provide the dy gious orders and most seminaries As 1m example of the latter, he
attracti ve to young men. The namic leadership the 1967 Ap have welcomed responsible criti cited press "obsession" wi th the
k<Ulling of a priest, he said, is peal deserves and needs. If cism and profited from it. problem of celibacy. The Special Gifts section of IIlOt directed toward such func "Celibacy is one of the topics Father Luzbetak acknowl flions as bookkeeping, typing, the 1967 Appeal wilD. be con most open to sensationalism, dis edged, however, that some abuses correspondence or work which ducted from. April 24 to May 6 in thc priesthood still need to be lJuised anti clericalism and biased li:ould, and should, be performed and the Parish phase from May Turn to Pa~e Six corrected. Among them: , to 17. ~ laypersons. ~llllIllIllltlllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllIlUtIlUII"IIUIlr.;
fall River, Mass., Thursday, April 6, 1961
,Vol. 11, No. 14
Somerset Pastor Marks
Jubilee in Priesthood
Music Changes on May 14
Outline Choir - Congregation Roles
Appeal Drive ,Ready to Go
Hits Abuses Irresponsible Criticism of Priesthood
Give Priests Own Work
MAY, 1-11