"Increase in Special Gifts Signals New Record High For· Charities Appeal
The ANCHOR An Anchor of the Soul, Sure and Firm-ST.
Fall River, Mass.
Vol. 3, No. 17
The Catholic Charities Appeal started on an increased tempo and enthusiasm this week. Special Gift solicitors have been making their contacts for the past several days. Their reports have been very encoQraging. 'l;'hey have received a gracious reception fro m of the Appeal gave a unified industry, business and pro- understanding at the 1959 ap;. fessional men. In many in- proach to the Charities AppeaL stances, attributable to the A~ty. Daniel. F. Sullivan, Lay, pledge option, there have been Chairman, am". Mr. Harold substantial- increases in giving. Me~han were I,n charge of thIS senes of meetmgs. They were While the Special Gift part aided by Rev. R. T. Considine of the Appeal is under way, ,and Rev. R. W. McCarthy, Mr. the final planning for the Par- Russell Brennan and Mr. Willhlm ish Appeal section, is now beiiIg Fagan. Great emphasis was done. Parish Committees are pre- placed on the manner of makJ)aring their contacts,· assign-' ing contacts and the' reasons ing contacts, and planning their for contributing. kic,Koff ' committee ' '!leetings. ,In his presentation of per-tinEach of, the' Areas "of the Dio-' 'ent Appeal information, M .. has heid Han:: 'Are~ 'lr:leeting '·Meehan plit .primary empha'sia for" Special 'Gift :SoliCitors. ·To on increased giving in 1959~ ,these meetings, a priest: from ' "The gift of last year," he said, each area parish was invited. "can in most' instances be subThis bringing together of the stantially increased by the uae Special Gift and Parish phases Turn to Page Sixtee'n
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,Bishop 'Connolly to Preside At Masses for Vocations
Says Increased Comic Qook Sales DLie to Decency Code ,NEW YORK (NC)-The president of the Comics MagazimfAssociation of America has reported comics sales have. increased as a result of an indu'stry code ,banning sex and'
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wa.nt ,filth and .gore." , He added: '.'The economic success of our industry 'cannot be that sales of comic books permi,tted to be dependent in the' now total 6?O. million per " slightest d~gree'" upon' the ,pur-· year - 150 millIon more than". veyance of the indecent or hor-' ~hen the code went into effect rendo:us..It must' '~e bas'ed upon' m.l954. quality,. good taste, originality Mr. Goldwater contested' re- arid creat~vity." , . '.. " " ports thatth<.. code had hurt . Mr. Goldwater told the comic , comics sales, saying: "It' is' a bo'ok: publishers "it.is up to' tis' slander upon the,youth of Amer~ toikeepmaking our publications ,'." ica to Say; as somenewspaperbetter-'-and' the better"Uiey. are; articleS .. indicated,' that kids th(mor!!they., WillS~,li."· ',.:":
DANIEL" F. SULLIVAN" .Listen'~o WJ~R-TY At, 12:15 Sun,day
T'aunto Tl First Friday, C~ub.'·Members 'Pl~ln~ing
, His excellency, the Most Reverend James L. Connolly will preside at three Solemn Masses for vocations, to b; held at 10 o'clock Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday mornings, May 4, 5 and 6, for high school and academy students of the diocese. ' Rev. Jphn H. Hackett, episThe Monday Mass, sched- copal secretary will preach and uled to be held at· Notre the Mass proper will be sung by Dame Church, Fall River, the Holy ,Famil.y .c~oir ,,:ith the will be attended by all area c~~gregat~on Jommg In the priests, the stugent bodies of 0 er pa~ s', Prevost High School, Dominican, ,St. Mary s, Church, Taunton, Sacred Hearts,Jesus Mary and' WIll be the scene of the WednesMount St. Mary Academies'. day Mass,. to be attended by, R P tr' k O'N'll St ,Taunton and Attleboro priests, ev. a IC e l , . students from Coyle and St" · T~omas M~re Church, Somerset, Mary's' High Schools. Will preach, The proper of the " Mass w.ill be sung by students ,0£ Rev, Edward J. Mitchen, Sacred Hearts Academy, and Sacred Heart Church, Taunton, the entire congregation will join . will preach at the ceremony and, 'in thecomrrion. ' Coyle students will sing the At ,St. Lawr,ence's 'Mass, prop.er. '. .{ H.' . Tuesday's Mass will beheld at " ,Also in connection with'stim- ; St. ,Lawrence's" Church;. "New ·,ulation of interest in vocations,·; Bedford,; and, will, be· attended ,. the CYO" of Blessed Sacrament· by. New· Bedford'· priests, and . parish; .Fall.. ,River, will'sPlWllOr, stude'nts from Holy Family, and, an:' elaborate· vocation displ~.· · St. Anthony's. Hi~h Schools,·' Saturday' ~nd' Sunday,. May.S ~. . New Bedford, aQd Sacred Hearts and,·3. All area" youth' are 1ftAcademy, Fairhaven. ' vited to the exhibition.
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, .'By Marion Unsworth' , . • . " _ . .. ,. ' . . . , ;.1 "" •. ' . ' Ii . ", • A ,group ·of Cathol,icmen in ,Tauntonrepte!?enting·~v~i'iety. of' profession~ and ~cu, 'WASHINGTON (NC)"'"-A warning that·"we are deve1- . ))ations ha~ been meeting'once a month for'~lin()st a year in an organization unique in .the 'oping large hard 'c'ore of unemployed ~ork~rs,", arid· that Taunton area of the Diocese;; , . ." '''we cannot· permit this: to cpntinue witpou't a' s.erious· effort Established in May'of 1958 as 'aFirst F~:id;:ty Club•. the" group, . ranging' in :number tQ do something ,abput it" haS been sounded by Msgr. Joh. , " . from 10 ~o 39;, have met'. O'Grady. ' ' "I do not want to be an alarm,eac.h First Friday. The meetAppearing before the House ist;" the prelate told the com. ing- includes a talk on a.' mittee, "but a'. the same time Com'm'l'ttee' 0'n "'w' ays "and I' . spiritual subject,· usually by believe that we ought to be one of the ,priests of the city, Means, the secretary of the - conscious of the mentality that National' Conference of Catho- ,long-lasting mass unemployment followE:d by lunch. The club was formed as a lic' Charities' said anyone who ,can develop among the qlasse. project Of the, Catholic Action has had direct personal contact· of the unemployed. I hope that Committe ~f the Knights· of Co- with the· ·country's unemploy- the leaders of our country will lumbus, Monsignor James Coyle ment, situation during the past become more conscious of and Council, Taunton. Anthony two years ,"cail'not fail to be .im- more sensitive to this situatioa Costa, 66 Plair. Street, an active pressed by its seriousness." before it is too late." participant in other committee programs, was ,asked to contact Spifr~':·'ual possible members. . The first meeting was held in En~rgy May with Rev. Edward Oliveira of Our Lady' of Lourdes parish as guest speaker. At the first , anniversary luncheon next Four . members of the, BROOKLYN (N C) month, Father, Oliveira will Congregation of the Sacred Thanks to the inspiring again address the men. Hearts, formerly of this Dio- leadership of its bishops, the , Several: members of the clergy cese, attended Honolulu cere- Church in the ,U.S. has beattend each meeting, including CQme ','a veritable dynamo 01. Rev. Francis', McKeon, pastor of monies celebrating the centenspiritual energy. ; unpredictable nial of the arrival of the, Sisters Sacred Hear,' d~urch, and chapof the c'ongregation in Hawaii. in the extent of its future polain of the Knights of Columbus tentialities." They were: . . and the First Friday Club. This is the "priceless heritage Mother Mary Gertrude,SS.CC., The men atteric; First Friday "St , Mass· in their own, parishes.' until 1952,a faculty' member o:f we, give to our young bishops FIRST FRIDAY CLUB: Shown are priests and laymen ' Although most of them are Sacred Hearts Academy, Fair- ,today," said Auxiliary Bishop active in the First Friday Club of Taunton. Standing (left Knights; this is n·ot a require- haven, now Mother,' Provincial John J. Boardman of Brooklyn in l:Jis sermon here at the double ,of the Province of Hawaii. to right) are Rev. Francis McKeon, pastor, Sacred: Heart ment for joining' the First Friday Father Octave Igodt, pastor consecration Of the Most Revs. ' group. Costa se~ds out cards Church, ,Taunton; Gerald Dooley; Rev. J<,>hn Galvin, St. each month to remind members until 1945 of Sacred Hearts, CharlesR. Mulrooney and Jo.Peter's, South ,Dighton. Seated, (left .to'right), Francis and 'reports. . that'. each meeting Church, North Fairhaven. seph P. Denning whn will ··be Frazier :and. Anthony F.. CQsta,.. dub ,chairman Turn to PaJre -Sixteen Turn to Page Sixteen TatD" Pace 'Eia-b&eo .. . . ' · .... . .' ~
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