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PopeTakes Initiative From Reds

All Men· Hail Encyclical's Blueprint for World Peace

BY FR. J. F. CRONIN, S.S. . NC Social Action Dept.

Pope John, from the be­ ginning of his reign, has as­ toimded and delighted the world by his paradoxical be­ havior. He was advanced in years,. yet he moved with the vigor of youth. He called Vatican Council II, primarily to renew the inner . life of the Church. But the spirit ,f this Council has already attracted our separated brethren

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and breathed a new atmosphere into relationship between the Churches. He is gentle and kindly, pre­ ferring exhortation to condem­ nation. Nonetheless, he has made dec i s i v e and far-reaching changes within the Church, in the space of a few years. . His latest· encyclical letter, Peace on Earth, is perhaps the most remarkable paraliox of all.. Here is a profoundly anti-Mar­ xist document, yet it has much that should appeal to the com-

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munist world. The veiled re­

ferences to communism are

kindly. Nevertheless, this En­

cyclical will steal Communist

thunder on the peace issue, just

as Christianity and Social Pro­

gress undercut the social and

economic appeal of Marxism.

Pope John made history by

receiving in private audience

Alexei Adzhubei, son-in-law of

Premier Khrushchev. In the pre­

sent Encyclical, as will be noted

presently, he widens somewhat

the "opening to the left." But

the basic tenor of the Encycli­

cal is totally different from the

Marxist approach to peace and to

history.

To Marx and Lenin, the state'

is supreme. The individual does

not enjoy rights, only privileges.

By contrast, the Encyclical states

at great length and with pro­ . found eloquence the dignity, rights, and duties of the indivi­ dual person. It bases these truths upon God and the moral law implanted by God in the hearts of men. The specific rights explained by the Pope are in sharp con­ trast to Communist theory and practice. "By the natural law

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1963T~e Anchor

Area Sessions Next Week.

PRICE tOe $4.00 per Year

Most Reverend Bishop

'Marks 18th Epi~~opate

Year onMay24Nex~t:

The Most Reverend James L. Connolly, Bishop of the Diocese of Fall River, 'will celebrate the 18th anniversary of his Episcopal Consecration .on Friday, May 24. The ceremony of consecration took place in the Cathe-' dral of St. Paul, St. Paul, Milin., with Most Rev. John Gregory Murray, Ordinary of the St. Paul Archdiocese, con­ secrating prelate. Bishop Connolly's chaplains

at the ceremony are now

members of the Hierarchy.

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They were Rev. Russell J;M~­

Vinney, now Bishop of Provi.

dence and Rev. James J. Gerrard,

now Fall River's Auxiliary

Bishop.

At the time of his appoint­

ment, Bishop. Connolly was

named Bishop of Mylasa and Coadjutor, with the right to succession, to the Diocese of Fall River. He succeeded the late Most Reverend James E. Cassidy, the third Ordinary of the Diocese, on May 17, 1951 as the head of the Diocese of Fall River. Tracing the Apostolic Succes­

sion of the Episcopal Consecra­

tion of Bishop Connolly, the first

step in this series, dating back to

the early fifteenth century, is

Archbishop John Gregory Mur­

ray.

His Excellency the Most' Rev.

James L. Connolly, received the

episcopal consecration as Titular

Bishop of Mylasa on May 24,

1945. The consecrating prelate

was His Grace the late Arch­

bishop of Saint Paul, John Mur­

ray.

Most Rev. John Gregory Mur­

ray, who was at fitst Titular

Bishop of Flavias, was conse­

crated on April 28, 1920, by the

then Apostolic Delegate to the

United States, Giovanni Bon­

zano, later Cardinal.

Most Reverend Giovanni Bon­

zano, Archbishop elect of Meli­

tene and Apostolic Delegate to

the United States, received epis­

copal powers in Rome on Marcil

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Speakers for the area meet­ ings of the Catholic Charities Appeal to be held next week in 'five areas of the Diocese were announced today.

With priests and lay delega­ tions organized by the clergy in attendance, the meetings will be . addressed by the following: Monday at Mount St. Mary Academy, Fall River:-Rev. An. thony Gomes of Our Lady of the Angels Parish and Rev. Reginald Barrette of St. Roch. Tuesday at Bishop Stang High School, New Bedford Rev.' Joseph Martineau of. St. Joseph's and Rev. Manuel Ferreira of Mount Carmel. Wednesday at Bishop Cassid,. High School, Taunton -.' Rev. Edward Oliveira of Our Lady of Lourdes and Rev. Daniel Ga­ mache of St. Jacques. Thursday at Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro - Rev. . 'James McCarthy of St. John's and Rev. Edmond Dickinson of Sacred Heart, North Attleboro. Friday at St. Francis Xavier Church Hall, Hyannis - Msgr. - Leonard J. Daley of st. Francis Xavier and Rev. John Brennan, SS.CC. of Holy Redeemer, Cha­ tham.

Church Missions Take on Role Of Cinderella DETROIT (NC)·- A vet­ eran missionary has charged that present treatment of the missions makes them the

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every human being has the right to respect for his person, to his good reputation, the right for freedom in searching for truth and in expressing and communi­ cating his opinions, and in pur­ suit of art, within the limits laid down by the moral order and the common good. And he has the right to be informed truth­

Schedule Charities Appeal

Fall River, Mass., Thursday, April 18,1963

Vol. 7, No. 16 ©

FR. JOHN F. CRONIN, S.S.

fully about public events." Relations between individual. should be governed by a sense of personal responsibility and initiative. Individuals should act for the common welfare for rea­ sons of conscience, not as a re­ sult of external pressure. "For any human society that is estab­ lished on relations of force must be regarded as inhuman, inas­ much as the personality of its members is repr.essed or re­ stricted, when in fact the,. should be provided with appro­ priate incentives and means for developing and perfecting them­ selves." _ Government; of course, must have authority to enforce laws. _ Yet since "authority is chiefly concerned with motal force, jt follows that civil authority must appeal primarily to the con­ science of individual citizens, that is, to each one's duty to collaborate readily for the com­ mon good of all." The Pope notes that "where the civil authority uses as its only or its chief means either threats and fear of punishment or promises of rewards, it cannot effectivel,. Turn to Page Twent,.

"Cinderella of, the Church." Fat her Nicholas Maestrini, provincial sup e rio r of the P.I.M.E. Missionaries in the U.S., says there is a "fantastic dispro­ portion" between resources al­ located to the missions and those assigned to other Church pro­ grams. "In the midst of our current 'population explosion,' we may well speak of the scandal of the loss of world masses to the Church because of our inactivity and indifference to missionary problems of the Church," Father Maestrini says in an article in his community's monthly maga­ zine, Catholic Life. Turn to Page Four

All meetings will. start at 8 P.M. Each Diocesan institution will be repre'sented at area meetings by two Sisters from its staff. They include the following: Fall River Carmelite Sisters for the Aged

and

Infirm (Memorial Home): Sisters of Mercy (St. Vincent'. Home, Nazareth); Sisters of Charity of Quebec (St. Joseph'. Orphanage) ; Franciscan Mis­ sionaries of Mary (St. Franc~ Guild).

. Dominican Sisters of the Pre9'

entation (st. Anne's); Sisters of St. Dominic of the Congregation of St. Rose of Lima (Cl\ncer Home); Dominican Sisters of the Congregation of St. Catherine of Siena (St. John's Day Nurs­ ery); Daughters Of the HoI,. CHICAGO (NC)' - The Ghost (White Sisters - Bishop Day Nursery); Sisters of instruction and consolation Stang the Love of God (Cuban Sisteu of Sacred 'Scripture are es­ -Regina Pacis). sential for the proper spiri­ New Bedford tual development of Christian Sisters of' tbe Resurrectloll .students, a professor of Old. (St. Saviour's Day Nurs.ery); .TeStament studies said here. Sisters of the Third Order of St. "The Scriptures provide in­ Francis (St. Mary's Home); Sis­ struction by interpreting for us ters of Mercy (St. Joseph's Con­ the meaning of life in Christ," vent); Sisters of Charity 'of Que­ said' Father F.A.F. MacKenzie, bec (Sacred Heart Home). S.J., of Regis Coll~ge, Toronto, Carmelite Sisters for the Aged at the convention of the Society and Infirm (Our Lady's Haven); of Catl¥llic College Teachers of Turn to Page Twelve . Sacred Doctrine. The Jesuit priest, citing the distinctive attributes of certain sections of the Bible, said that "the whole sweep of Old Testa­ ment history shows us the loving Providence of God over the human race." He told some 200 theology pro­ MINNEAPOLIS (NC) ­ fessors from the U.S. and Canada Apr i est experienced in at the meeting that "the Psalms youth work said here that offer a virile, objective, utterly Catholic high schools should genuine expression of our rela­ drop all school-sponsored social tionship to God." The Book of Ecclesiasticus, he affairs requiring dates. "Do not most Catholic boy. continued, "has something for everybody. It contains even and girls have their first date humor (sometimes intentional, at a school-sponsored event?" occasionally not),- profound psy:' asked Father Francis Kenney, chological insights, and beautiful assistant pastor at Ascension passages on justice and charity parish. ' in family, social and political "Does not that date lead to life." others, which lead to steady St. Paul's First Letter to the dating, which leads to early Corinthians, Father MacKenzie marriage?" said, is attuned to people of this "It seems to me," he said in century-. an interview, "that all social af­ Turn to Page Eighteen fairs and maybe even varsity sports should be taken out of the schools and handled by the community. And there should be practically no dating among Catholic teenagers." The Chancer,. Office aDo Father Kenney has worked nounced tha~ ~he Most Rever­ with youth groups at Ascension end Bishop has granted a dis­ parish for seven years and haa pensation from the law of taught religion at St. AnthODt Abstinence tomorrow. AprU Turn to' Page Twelve . 19. Paklo1a' Dar

Bible Gives Soul Food

Views on Dating Sure To Arouse Controversy

Dispensation


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