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Diocesan Council to Hear Weston Psychologist
Price 10c $4.00 per year Vol. 14, No. 16, April 16, 1970
Faith Crisis Papal Topic VATICAN CITY (NC) Pope Paul VI has said that , the general decline in voca· tions is the most urgent problem troubling the Church, but he rejected the abolition of celibacy as a solution. In his message for the World Day of Prayer for Vocations Pope Paul said that there are many causes for the vocation decline. The "present crisis of voca· tions is but one aspect of the crisis of faith which troubles the world," he said. The priesthood, Turn to Page Six
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The Diocesan Council of Catholic Women will hold its annual convention on Saturday, May 2 at Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro, with Mrs. Richard D. Deschenes, North Attleboro, as chairman. The day long program will begin with' registration from 9 to 10 A.M., followed by a business session presided over by Mrs. Charles Landry, Diocesan Council president. ' Workshops and a Concelebrated Mass with Bishop Connolly and diocesan moderators concelebrating will complete the morning session. Principal speaker at the afternoon session will be Rev. John R. McCall, S.J., professor of psychology and spiritual director at Weston College, major seminary for Jesuits in the New England area. He was formerly professor of psychology and clinical child guidance at the Boston College Graduate School' and director of personnel for New England Jesuits. Father McCall was born in Bridgeport, Conn., and received his early education in the public schools of that. city. He attended St. Bernard's Seminary, Rochester, New York.
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In 1942 he entered the Jesuits at. the novitiate at Shadowbrook,Lenox, Mass. and pursued his early training both there and at Weston College. After obtaining the doctorate in clinicaL psychology at the Catholic University in Washington, DC., he returned to Weston CoIlege to complete his theological education. He was ordained in 1953 by Richard Cardinal Cushing. After a three-year period of teaching and directing the Guidance Service at Fairfield University in Connecticut, Father McCall made further studies in Europe before taking up his present duties. Specializing on the emotional problems of children and adolescents, and on the parent-child relationship, Father McCall has lectured extensively throughout the United States. Because of his duties at Weston, he is also particularly concerned with the relationship between psychology and religion, and has written several articles on this topic. Turn to Page Six
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CATHOLIC CHARITIES APPEAL: Denise M. Canuel of Fall River, left, a pupil at Nazareth Hall praises her school to Joseph C. Murray, lay chairman of the 1970 Appeal; Bishop Connolly and Mrs. Joseph C. Murray.
Priest Member Criticizes Pornography Committee WASHINGTON ( N C ) Father Morton A. Hill, S.J., a member of the IS-man Presidential Commission on Obscenity and Pornography, wants Congress to investigate
HONORING, BISHOP CONNOLLY FOR 25 SILVER YEARS
CATHOLIC' CHARITIES APPEAL MAY 3-13, 1970 I
the commission's activities. Father Hill, president of the New York-based Morality in Media, Inc., has been feuding with the commission because of its refusal to hold public hearings. He conducted a series of eight hearings on his own in eight cities in February and March "to hear alternative views of the public." He was joined in this project by Rev. Winfrey Link, a Nashville Methodist minister who is also a member of the commission. The commission, which met here announced its decision to hold public hearings in Los Angeles on May 4 and 5 and in Washington a week later. Commission officials denied that the clergymen's hearings pressured Turn to Page Four
More than 900 men and women from throughout the diocese, filled the Bishop Connolly auditorium,' .Fall River on Tuesday night and heard Joseph C. Murray, lay chairman of the Catholic Char· ities Appeal for 1970, emphasize the importance of each in· dividual in conducting a successful ~ampaign. Speaking in the presence of Bishop Connolly, who is being honored this year on the occasion of his 25th year as a member of the hierarchy, Mr. Murray opened with an informal prayer.. "Appealing in the name of Christ that we spend our lives trying to show the same love, the same compassion, the same concern for the poor and the sick which Yo'u showed when You lived on this earth." "Please help each one of us understand that we are important to this campaign" summarized the prayer of the lay chairman. In stressing th,e role of communications in a 'successful campaign, Mr. Murray stated the most important phase is that "we speak to one another about the work of charity and give of ourselves to this whole appeal". "Joy and love should fill our minds and hearts during these days-the reason being that we Turn to Page Twenty
Serran Con,Jave On Wednesday Serrans of District No. 40, which comprises the Serra Clubs of Fall River,' New Bedford, Attleboro, and Taunton together with Newport, Providence and Kent County in Rhode Island will hold their Annual Spring Conference on Wednesday evening, April 22. at White's Restaurant, Westport. There will· be a social hour at 6 and dinner will be served at 7 to Serrans and their wives. Dr, Vincent P. Wright, administrative assistant to the president of Stcmehill College, will be guest speaker.
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KICK.OFF OF CCA: Discussing the 1970 Catholic Charities Appeal at the Tuesday night meeting, were: Mrs. Ronald l'ltalien of New Bedford; Frank R. Mason of Seekonk; Bishop Gerrard, speaker; Rev. Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, Appeal Director.
Says Evaluators to Require 'Imprimatur' on Textbooks WASHINGTON (NC)-Religious textbook publishers have been told that only books already carrying an "imprimatur"-the acknowledgement by a Catholic bishop that "it may be printed" because nothing inside is false in faith or morals-will be "If our committee were to reviewed in a newly started judge books regardless of impritextbook evaluation project. matur, we would be establishing Father Thomas Donlan, O.P., ourselves as a national board of
the man in charge of the project, censors," said Father Donlan. gave publishing representatives He said it would mean making the details at a special session judgments on theological as weIl during the National Catholic Ed- as educational correctness. Instead, teams of evaluatorsucational Association convention religious educators, th'eologians, in Atlantic City, N. J. "Weare taking a stand for .parents, pastors and school offifreedom," he explained later in cials-will be trying to appraise an interview-with NC News. He religious texts. on the basis of defended the project, insisting it "efficacy, clarity and excelwas not censorship because the lence." Father Donlan said findings of evaluators would be looking at the books from an educator's the evaluators, based on uniform Turn to Page Six viewpoint.