IRetrograde Is the Magic Word!1 A Most Interesting Letter From Vietnam "The Church in Vietnam is full of life," offering perhaps "the only real leadership" that the people have in
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that war-torn Southeast Asian country, according to Rev. Francis X.~ WaIlace, a diocesan priest serving United States troops. The observations of the 48year-old Colonel are contained in a letter he sent Most Rev. James L. ConnoIly, Bishop of FaIl River. Fr. WaIlace, whose first assignment was on Cape Cod at the Corpus Christi parish' in Sandwich, has been in the military service since 1951. He is a, graduate of both Holy Family elementary and high schools in New Bedford. "The seminaries are bulging
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and the priests are' deeply involved with refugees, both from the north and from the insecure areas in the south;' Fr. WalIace emphasized to the Diocesan Ordinary in his letter which follows: "Three months in Vietnam and I'm now qualified to teIl war stories with the best of them. I am still travelling two and three days a week, up and down the countryside and the once strange names are becoming as familiar as Sandwich, Hyannis, Woods Hole and Seekonk. Turn to Page Six
Gift to 'Hospital ,1
The' Special Gift phase of the Catholic Charities Appeal was ;1,.' highlighted by a ceremony at the Chancery Office, FalI River when Bishop ConnoIly, in a gesture of appreciation, gave a check of $50,000 to St. Anne's Hospital, FalI River in order that the great work contributed by the hospital might continue. Turn to Page Twelve
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FrQ ONReilly Requiem Rev. Msgr. Lester L. Hull, pastor of Sacred Heart Church, Fall River portrayed the life of the late Rev. James E. O'Reilly, pastor emeritus of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, Seekonk as a career of service and a life-time apostle of devotion to the Blessed Virgin and her Rosary. At a concelebrated Pontifical Mass of Requiem offered on Wednesday morning at.ll in the Turn to Page Four
MOST GENEROUS GIFT TO HELP SICK: Bishop Connolly, marking a quarter century as a member of the' United States hierarchy; presents a check to Mother Pierre, head of the ,Religious congregation which staffs St. Anne's Hospital. Looking on are Mother Ascension and Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, diocesan Catholic Charities Appeal director. The Fall River institution is the only Catholic hospital in the diocese.
The Anchor Offers Readers Two New Weekly Columns'" The Anchor today begins the weekly publication of two new columns which it believes its readers will thoroughly enjoy. They are vastly different in content, providing wider appeal. Mary Carson, mother of eight children, writes "One Mother's View" while Father Andrew J. Greeley, one of there, and I know the problems, the joys, and satisfactions of a the nation's top authors and mother raising her family. I sociologists, will comment hope to communicate some of on, "The Church - 1970." Mary. Carson, her husband Dan and tlleir eight children (ages 15 down to a baby of six months), live in the big house where Mary was born. In fact, the children go to the parochial school Mary attended. Dan is in organizational and public relations work, foIlowing some years in the newspaper business. Any mother of eight smal1 children needs other activities - at least for diversion. Mary 路finds writing her column such a . change of pace. But her real hobby, . which she shares with Dan and the children, is an aquarium in the basement, housing more than 100 fish. "I'm a veteran of 51 childparochial - school - years," Mary says, "including my own years
these joys and satisfactions in 'One Mother's View,"'," Father Greeley's column will Turn to Page Two
REV. MR. J. W. FAHEY
REV. JAMES E. O'REILLY
REV. MR. J. D. MAGUIRE
FR. (COL) fRANCIS X. WALLI\CE
Bishop Connolly to Ordain Five New Diocesan Priests His Excellency, Most Rev. James L. Connolly, will ordain five deacons of the Fall River Diocese to the Priesthood on Friday evening, May I, at 8 o'clock in 51. Mary's Cathedral in Fall River. To be ordained to the Priesthood are: Rev. Mr. James Walton Rev. Mr. Fahey's first Mass Fahey of Taunton; Rev. Mr. will be celebrated at St. Mary Joseph D. Maguire of Taun- Church, Taunton, on Saturday, ton; Rev. Mr. James Richard May 2 at 6:30 in the evening. McLellan of Wayland, Mass.; Concelebrating with the new Rev. Mr. Thomas Francis Mc- priest will be Rev. James Clark, Morrow of Taunton; and Rev. St. Mary Chur芦;h, Taunton; Rev. Mr. Thomas Louis Rita of New Edmund Fitzgerald, Holy Name Bedford. Church, Fall River; Rev. George Rev. Mr. Fahey Harrison, St. Mary Church, Taunton; Rev. Bernard Kelley, Rev. Mr. James W. Fahey, the son of James L. andG. Irene , St. Francis Xavier Church, Hy(Walton) Fahey, was born in annis; Rev. Cornelius Kiley, St. Joseph Church, Fall River. Taunton. Rev. Walter Sullivan, CatheAfter elementary education, he studied at St. Columban High dral Camp, Freetown; Rev. RonSchool, Silver Creek, N. Y. and ald Tosti, Fordham. U.; Rev. prepared for the priesthood at James Lyons, St. Mary Church, St. Mary's Seminary in Balti- Taunton; Rev. Eugene Walsh, Turn to Page Three more.
REV. MR. J. R. McLEWN
REV. MR. T. f. McMORROW
REV. MR. T. L. RITA