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
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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