FALL RIVER DIOCESAN NEWSPAPER FOR SOUTHEAST MASSACHUSETTS CAPE COD & THE ISLANDS
VOL. 28, NO. 15
FALL RIVER, MA$S.~ FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1984
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u.s. editor gets press post
Vatican changes VATICAN CITY (NC) - In a major reshufflinE! of top Vatican personnel, Pope John Paul II has named a U.S. priest to direct Vatican communications and has named a black African cardinal 'to head the key post of head of the Vatican Congregation for Bishops. . The changes, announced April 9, include increased responsibili ties for Cardinal Agostino Casa roli, secretary of state, named papal representative in his role as he~d of state of Vatican City Msgr. John Foley, 48, of the Philadelphia Archdiocese, editor of the archdiocesan weekly, The Catholic Standard and Times, will be ordained an archbishop and becomes president of the Pontifical Commission for Social Communications, a post vacated by' Polish Archbishop Andrzej Deskur, who resigned for reasons of health. Archbishop Deskur was named president emeritus of the communications commission and
a consultor to the church's Sec retariat of State. Cardinal Bernardin Gantin, 62, a native of the African coun try o~ Benin, leaves the presi dency of the Pontifical Justice and Peace Commission to be come prefect of the Vatican COJ;1 gregation for Bishops, which supervises the sppointment and activities of bishops in most of the world. ' The personnel shifts included resignations of several curial de partment heads who had been in office for five years, a Policy called for by Pope Paul VI in his curial reform of 1967. Resigning for reasons of health was Archbishop Jean Ja dot, 72, propresident of the Vati can Secretariat for Non-Chris tians since 1980 and apostolic delegate in the United States from 1973 until 11980. He said he will return to his native BelgiuM where he hopes to be involved in pastoral ministry. Turn to Page Six
Anchor drive
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_ "April is Anchor subscription month, kicked off last Sunday by distribution of envelopes in diQcesan parishes for renewals and/or new subscriptions. Why a diocesan paper? Why, in a time of tight money, does it make sense to spend $8 a year for The Anchor? An excellent answer to those questions was given by the late Father John Reedy, CSC, in one of the last of his nationally syn dicated columns. "In some way," he wrote, "a diocese - a local church - has to be a community of faith. It has to have some means of es tablishing and recognizing its distinct identity as a commun ity. "And it 'has to have ways of perceiving how this distinct com munity shares in the life and identity of the universal church. "You can't develop this sense
of the reality of a local church from the collection of bulletins which flow from chancery offi ces or from an occasional white paper. It ha,s to come from an ongoing recognition of the life, the relationships, even the argu ments which link the people of this diocese to their local church. "But the locsl church also needs to be constantly aware of its participation in the life and ministry of the universal church. "We simply are not Catholic in our thinking if we see our re ligious life as completely focused Turn to Page Six
For Holy Week A Holy Week picture story featuring the Discalced Car melites of South Dartmouth appears on pages 8 and 9.
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