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V'@O. 11 No. ~ 6

Tllullrsday, April 20, 1961

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Special Gifts Open

Jubilee Appeal

DEDICATION, :QEVOTION, THE CHARITY OF CHRIST:' 1.'he annual diocesan Cath­ The twenty-fifth Catholic "Charities Appeal assumes oli~ Charities Appeal will. be ~eld th.i s year ~rorn)vIay 7 through May 17. Directing the lilIiQ momentum this week. Activity will be the r.ule in every " drive ~or fU!1d~ to ~eet ev~r~mcreasmgneedsare, left to right, Auxiliary Bishop JameS! MI.ect of the JL967 effort for charity. Next Monday' the. J., Gerr~rd, ·Raymopd U. ~~lliherof Attleboro, lay c~ajrman; Bishop Connolly and Rt. Rev. ~al contacting for funds will get underway in the' Speci~l. ,}Isgr. Ra~mond T:, COlH.Hdme, djocesan director of .the ·Propagation of the·.Faith, who iSl Gifts section. From April 24 .. , ,. .. also the dIrector of the annual Catholic Charities Appeal. '. ' 1Jl) May 3 a large corps of Catholic Boy's Day. Camp, Naz-" . ' .' W'Ol"kers will contact profes­ iU'eth Day Camp and St. Vincent , .ional people business and de Paul Health C;:anip' will ap­ ~stry throu~hout the Diocese. MtU17 of the workers will be

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pear. on the program' M~nday momlllg at 8. They will ~lSCUSS . •.• IIOmpleti ng their twenty-fifth the work at St. Vincent sand velll' of sel'vice in the Appeal. ~ the Camps sponsored by. the JIw. many instances, .these same ppeal. ~ and women will also activeChairman, Raylnond U. Kelti­ IV participate in the parish phase her,.i!\ 'commenti~g on the start <Jf t~ Appeal. of. the Special Gifts Section of The Lay Advisory Committee the. ,Appeal, said: "This ~s a sig.., . The bishops ~f the U.S.: illll CJll the Charities Appeal estab- nifican~ week. E:0r. the twenty­ three d~ys 'o~intensive"a~d Rashed a norm of twenty:"'five fi'fth year, our industrious team <lonnars iii honor of the twenty­ of solicitors will contact friends cooperative activity dealing Jl'ive ycars of service rendered ,of ~at~olic Charities throughout with reports and expl;essing ~ ~e community by the Appeal. the Community.. A quarter of II their individual wishes and de­ lln a small brochure which will centu'ry of service to the, com­ cisiuns by vote, d'iscuss'ed a wide be distributed with the c'ontrib­ murHty will be used as' a means' ral~ge ,of topics that will pl'Ove ~iolt cards~ the Committee of' increasiIig the. 9uaritity and 'important for the American speUs out the need for, this the, size of contributions. Church. . , ft1R~r.easc. Rising 'costs and fixed "To accomplish the goals of the 'A~ter haviI)g :voted. for their btoomc arc the d~minant cau!!.es Appeal, we must cOnstantly in­ rep'resentatives :to the ROnlan' ebat necessitate the raising of the cl'Case OUI' resources. The .great-, Bishops' Synod" for September . oorm; .., est resource we have 'is a gener­ ar~d agreeing 1,l,.at all bishops Representatives of the Cltll,l'Hy ous community. This has seen will henceforth meet twice a Appeal agencies will tape two us through twenty-fiye ·glorious year and the NCCB Administra.:. 1)I"0grams for viewil\g.on WTEV's years of charity. We areconfi­ tiye COlnmittee, 'four times 31 Il:Qmmunity Show, next· week. dent that. it will provide 'well year, the bishops 'aiso spoke to l1Qther John F. CrOnin, Pirector for today and the future. the faithful concerning,: ~ St. Vinccnt's Home, Fall.River "I wish. all of my fellow HERESY and Mr'. John .E. Kane, Chairman' workers for. charity good con- .. ,The Church in the U.S. maY' <Ii Ute Camp Committee, for thee tributions and speedy returns." have some, doctrinal problems but the bishops do 'not think hel;esy is one of them. They did not resent the "private" ~nqi.I,I'Y of Cardinal .OCtaviani"':"as other hiemrchies did-but they instead returned a "private" but opti­ mistic answer. , '''We find ri<> heresy in this LONDON Cr.W)-The controversy created b~r an ·edi.:. oolrial in an English Dominican 'magazine that ac<:used' the country," a press-spokesman for, . the bishops stated, "We are con­ @lurch of being "corr.upt" was inevitable because of the cel'lled somewhat about some ex­ JI)lt'imary task of the. D6minican Order, said the order's E11­ aggerations here and there which lJ'l.ish provinciaI._ The COl'l'UI)-" ' people with the bestintentioris toon charge was made by Fr. to follow Father Charles Da~is and great 'enthusiasm are trying H b out of the Church. er ert McCabe, O.P. in the Father Davis had announced Febl'uary issue of the mag. on December. 20 that he waS t!2!ine, New Blackfriars. leaving the Church over his lIn the magazine's April issue, "concel'll for author~ty at the ex­ tlhe provincial, Father Ian Hislop, pense of truth." He was inarried OJ?, said that the aim of Father Feb, 4, McCabe's editorial was to show The provincial said that ~holics that they did not need Father McCabe, who was dis­ The Evening of Christian missed as editor of New Black­ Renewal sponsored by the ~1II1l1l1l1ll1ll1l1ll1l1l11ll1l1l1ll1l1ll1ll1ll1l1l1l1ll1l1ll1l!.!: fdars, after his controversial editol'ial appeared, tried to show Diocesan Confraternity of Christian Doctrine originally that the Church, although "holy 5 § with the holiness of Chrst, is, as s c h e d u led for March 15 a visible institution, in need of and postponed because of a major snowstorm has been re­ pUI·ification .." ~ ~ The primary task of the scheduled for Wednesday eve­ Dominican Order, Father Hislop ning, April 26 at 7:30, Rev. said, is the theological analysis Joseph L, Powers, Diocesan di­ 5 § of contemporary experience. rector, has announced. "This is simply thinking about The Fall River meeting will our anxieties and preoccupations be held at Mount St. Mary Acad­ ~ M£Yf j7 = ~ j7 ~ in the light of revelation. It emy with James Kelleher of Turn to Page-Fifteell) Turn to Page Fifteen BJMlllllIIlItIlIIlIIIIIllIIIIlIllIllUIIIIlUIUl1l11l!W!!!!!';?

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to promote. for. the welfare of the Church. But at the same time, we feel there.is nothing hereti~ cal being taught in this country." It was stated· for' certairi that "it (Cardinal Octaviani's "letter) was not directed at the U.S. This was "8 general ietter in response to-'rumblings' heard throughout the world." ,The U.S. bishops an­ swer was cill~racterized ail'· ;'a benign reac~io':l'" ,',

Canonical Affairs 'Since the .Yaiican conditionecll permission' for Saturday substi.­ ~u'tion of Sunday Mass where III Shortage of pl'iests exists on the ap.proval of the regional confer­ ence ·of bishops, the U. S. gave itS 'appi'oval for any bishop·who thought this co.ndith _1 to exist in his diocese to go ahead and ask: and then receive thi8 permission. Turn to :Page Six

Diocesan Sch-ool Head

Aff.irms 'A:id 'Needed

'Rev. Patrick J. O'Neill, supe;intendent of Diocesan schools, has pr!3dieted, that the pa'rochial school system 'as it now exists "w~ll begin togo out of business within 10 years unless some form .'of...federal aid program to non-public schools is 'established." Fr. support the increased costs OIt O'Neill made the· as'sertion public education. Father O'Neill said those whet after a panel disCllS$ion on "Federal A.id to :ffiducation'" fear that aid to private schools

at Adas I~rael Synagogue ,in will wreck the public school system are 'naive. Public schools, Fall River. :' " The enrollment .in diocesan he. said, are too well established schools, the superi,ntendent said, and private schools provide III has leveled in the last two desirable diversity in education. He argued that non-public years. If Federal aid is not forth­ coming then highElr parochial schools provide a definite public school tuitions must be increased . purpose and have a tradition in education of the poor. to meet the rising cost of educa­ "If the American people find! tion and such an action will be­ come too burdensome for many in their hearts that the non­ public schools serve a purpose," parents to bear. he' said; "they will find a way to Federal aid to non-public enable these schools to exist." schools is an educational and not a . religious question, Father C';KG~ET,'('~;(,:tnu;rg,::::::w::":.:::~:::'::·:::~~L.:::::::!l O'Neill said. COIl1l~irmatccn The superintendent main­ tained that the Federal govern­ 'COJy.&nedl!'~d ment must be realistic when you \:Iring to light the fact that 6.7 million young people are ed­ . Fa~~ lRiv<e1l' ucated in non-public schools. "When we talk about the S~ndav A[Plsoil. 30

overall welfare of American children," he declared, "we can· ~ not neglect one-seventh of the student population." ~* you are DlOfr lCon~irmedl, sSG

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