Door-to • Door •• Person-to • Person Th(' door to door collecting for the Catholic Charities Appeal hegins one week from Sunday. Each of the 114 parishes of the Diocese will have willing solidtors contacting everyone of the parish families fora donation to the annual Appeal for agencies (\f mercy and charity in the Diocese of Fall River. It would be easy this year for people to cry out that the pressing economic difficulties will hinder the success of the Appeal nnd limit the amount of the gift or even the giving at all. It will not be a reason, of course, but it could be an ex.. , euse. But instead of seeing a parish collector on the doorstep - a neighbor, a man or woman from down the street-suppose when a person answered the door a week from Sunday he saw a Sister standing there. Perhaps it would be a white-garbed Sister from the Rose Hawthorne LaI hop Home in Fall River. She would come not to be lectured to about economic recessions but. to ask for a contribution to assist the Home in caring for patients who are taken in without either 'giving or being allowed t.o give a cent in payment to the
Sisters. Would the sight of a life in dedication to alleviate in-
curable sickness cause the one answering the door to open wide
both the door of the house and the door of his heart?
Bishop Cronin Witnesses the Endorsement of the Appeal by Guests of Our Lady's Haven, Fairhaven
Perhaps shock would come over the face of one who opened the door to a Sister Of Mercy standing there with one of the. exceptional children from a NazNeth Home in Hyannis or Attleboro or Fall River. It would be difficult to tell this child about the hardships in keeping up a car-or two-and 'a color television set, so that little money was left over to assist him know about God. It could be a Dominican Sister of the Presentation from Taunton's Marian Manor, waiting to tell about the delight of the aged in being cared for .with dignity and reverence in a pleasant home-like atmosphere, fre~ from the worries of what to dEl if sickness came quickly, delivered from the loneliness of living with 110 one to care. It might be a White Sister from Fall River who' had just complet.ed her rounds of ringing many doorbells of many sick persons and giving them professional nursing help' in their own homes. What kind of a story of economic difficulty could be given to this Sister who happens to be giving her entire life and all her' efforts because she loves Turn to Page Seventeen
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Diocesan· Council of Women Meets Saturday Mrs. Richard Deschenes is chairman for the 18t.h annual convention of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women, to be held this Saturday at Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro. Proceedings will begin at 9 with registration and a coffee hour. A business meeting ",ill follow,
Archbishop Education J Keynoter Archbishop Humberto S. Medeiros of Boston will be the keynote speaker at the Catholic Teachers Convention on Thursday, May 6 at Bishop Feehan High School in Attleboro. Archbishop Medeiros who served for many years in Fall River as priest, pastor and Chancellor before his consecration as Bishop of Brownsville, Texas will speak on The Teacher As a Model of Faith. The Archbishop is a, national fi&,ure, prominent in renewal and reform within the Church, as well as being deeply involved in the plight of minority groups. Archbishop Medeiros has openly expressed his concern for the ,needs of education, particularly financial aid from the state and federal government. The keynote address will be given at 10 on Thursday morning. Approximately 1000 educators will be in attendance at. the Convention during this two day session on May 6 and 7, Over 75 exhibitors of textbooks and educational materials will exhibit in the large Feehan, gymnasium.
conducted by Mrs. Charles Landry, DCCW president. The morning sessioh will. also' include a panel discussion on the ECHO retreat program, moderated by Rev, Thomas Mayhew,'
and a concelebrated' Mass with 'Bishop Cronin as principal cancelebrant. Participants will in'elude DCCW moderators and 'other priests in attendance. Following a luncheon, for
which reservationsJ must be made in advance, Bishop Cronin wilt deliver the principal address of the day. Committee Chairmen Serving with Mrs. Deschenes
Birth ,Control
Bish,ops Oppose Law Changes The Catholic Bishops of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts yesterday issued - the following joint statement concerning proposed changes to the laws en' Birth Control: " "We, the Catholic Bishops of the Coinmonwealth of Massachusetts, dissatisfied as we are with the present birth control law, wish to make clear that we are strongly and 'completely opposed to any further relaxation in it. The proposed amendments to the law would make birth control information available to
the unmarried, regardless of age or maturity, This means that even the inexperienced young and' the irresponsible' adult would have the right under the , law to demand the application and use of birth control devices. Making contraceptive advice and service legally available to the unmarried condones pre-marital sexual experience and encourages promiscuity. Moreover, it compromises existing criminal laws prohibiting extra-marital sexual ~elatio'nships. . "Pre-marital chastity remains
Survey on Priests Ready For B,ishops' Meeting WASHINGTON (NC)-Lack of freedom, not celibacy, is the major problem facing American priests today. Most priests, according to exhaustive sociological and psychological studies directed by a U. S. bishops' committee, are more concerned with questions of authority, loneliness and relating to people than they are with, optional celibacy. Those findings were part of tl survey that found, "no evi-
dence that the Catholic priesthood is in a state of collapse or even near collapse." A four-year effort described as the most comprehensive survey on the priesthood, the survey was commissioned by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB), which will review it at the bishops' April 2729 s~miannual meeting' in Detroit. The sociological study is based Turn, to Page Three
the ideal preparation for the married state and for the preservation of essential family values. The proposed changes in the law would place a significant barrier to the attainment of these values. "The claim that availability of birth control devices prevents unwanted pregnancies has not been proven in places which Turn to Page Seventeen
will be Miss Adrienne Lemieux, convention registrar; Miss Angela Medeiros, lUncheon; Mrs. Adrien Piette, parliamentarian; Mrs. Emmett P. Almorid and Mrs. James A. O'Brien Jr., Mass nrrangements; Mrs. Harry B. Loew, coffee hour and publicity; Mrs.' Thomas Fleming and Mrs. Russell Robinson, first aid; Miss Margaret M. Lahey, ecumenical guests; Mrs, John J. Mullaney, election committee; Mrs. George Whalen, judge; Mrs. John Joust and Mrs. Joseph Veloza, tellers. Also Mrs. Alfred Leonard, Mrs. Annie Eldridge, Mrs. Robert Nedderman, Mrs. ,Theodore Calnan, Miss Emily Medeiros, nominating committee; Mrs. Aristides Andrade and diocesan board members, hospitality; Bishop Feehan High' School students, aides.
Bishop Announces Support For Walk for Development Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., has given moral support and encouragement to the Fall River Youth Action Group which will stage a Governor Sargent designated "International Walk for Development." Similar walks, also encouraged by the Bishop, will take place in North Easton and the lower Cape. The Fall River walk has tentative plans to proceed from Bishop Connolly High School and proceed through Somerset and Swansea before returning to the campus. Such walks are being promoted by the Freedom from Hunger Campaign of the United Nations Food and Agricultural
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