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PRINCIPALS AT CHA;RITIES APPEAL KICK-OFF: Atty. Edward B. Hanify of Belmont, main speaker; Roland "Aime La France, 1968 lay chait'man; Bishop Connolly.
New York Educator to .Be .Keynoter
Diocesan Teachers' Convention' Next Week in Attleboro at. Rev. Magr. William M. &oohe of Rochester will be the keynote speaker wi; the 11th annual two-day conven
Itt. Rev. Msgr. Paul P. :R.ynne, executive director of the Com mission on Human Rights in Bos ton, will discuss the teacher's role in improving race relations lion of the, diocesan Catholic at the Friday convention session. ltel'Chers Association which will MOI'e than 180 religious and' . . held next week-Thursday lay teachers who staff 72 schools ~ Friday, M~y 2 and 3-at the nn the diocese will attend the Bishop .Feehan High School in conclave at which the latest de ~tleboro, velopments in the educational MS1{r. Roche, who is Superin world will be discussed in depth; lkmdent of SchooJs in the Di Experts in various educations ~e of Rochester, is head of areas will speak to the element CIte Superintendents' Department ary and high school instructors of the National Catholic Educa-" on topics varying from sex ed ~lal Association. He is a prom ueation to the latest develop': llnent speaker and well-known ments in reading programs. author on the pelltinent issues of A concelebrated mass will ~holic education. mark the convention opening at
Bishop Connolly Invites Suggestions From Faithful
9:30 next Thursday. Msgr. Roche will discuss the topic, "Can We Afford Not to Have Catholie Schools?" at the first general session at 10:30 Thursday morn ing.
At the 2 Thursday afternoon session for secondary instructors, Rev. Roger C. Roensch,. S.T.L.. an instructor of theology at Car dinal Stritch College in Milwau kee, will discuss "The Personal ity of the Teacher-A Prime Factor in ReligioUs Education." The 3:30 elementary session for, teachers of gl'ades one to three will hear. a book publish ing fi rill consultant consider "The Primal'y Teacher Looks at Social Studies." Mrs. Ann Saute of the War wick, Rhode Island, SChool De partment will speak on "Social Science in the Middle School" at the elemen tary session for teach Turn to Page Eighteen
Initial Charities Appeal Special- Gifts Heartening
. In launching this yea.r's Catholic Charities Appeal, Bishop Connolly has announced the intention to add a lfursing Wing to Fall River's Catholic Memorial Home rih a view to provide for marl'ied couples in need of re ~bilitation facmties and professional care. As has al panding centers to aid excep Ileady been announced, a tional children into two or three Rudy is being made of the urban al'eas is being made.
Bishops Finish Agenda Today,
''1.'he Public Aid Iss'ue," will be the topic of Edward J. 'Riley, executive director of the Rhode Island Catholic Education Fed eration, at the 1:30 Thursday afternoon session. The elementary session at 2 next Thursday afternoon will feature Sister Susamle Breckel, R.S.M., Ph. D., directOr of Phy chological Services at Salve Re gina College in Newport. The Sister of Mercy nun will use as her theme, "Conformity's Child: Hindered. or Helped?"
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Investigation is also being bomes for children in the Dio made into the need of a home eese., Both St. Mary's Home in for the aged and chronically ill Drew Bedford and St. Vincent's :JIome in Fall River date back on Cape Cod. The Diocese has several tracts of land that could !!Dany years. . The Bishop has indicated that be used for this purpose but Cberc is need in the Diocese fOIr oilce again the need must be ....ernight care for the mentally present and the possibility of staffing such a Home must be ~tal'ded and a study of this, as _U as the possibility of ex- assured. The Bishop lias asked the faithful of the Diocese to reflect on these needs and' to give the benefit of their thinking to him. This could be done by a discus sion of these matters in Parish Councils and the forwarding of ST. LOUIS (NC) -The ad .inish'ative committee of the suggestions to the Bishop. . At the kick-off meeting of :Motional Conference of Catholic Bishops has recommended that the Appeal last week, Attorney tIte Spring meeting of the U. S. Edward B. Hanify of Boston, a Catholic bishops here consider native of Fall, River, made n establishing a board for the ar plea for compassion in support I*I'ation or mediation of dis of the needs met, by the Appeal. Before an audience of 600 DUtes between individuals or OI"ganizations within the Church comprised of clergy, parish· trustees, parish chairmen and .. this country. The recommendation is on an friends of charity, Atty. Hanify
said: "Life, of course, locates
~cnda approved by the commit tee fOI' consideration by the the valley of tears for all of us,
and none of us escapes its ~ncral meeting scheduled to mouming and its weeping, in eontinue through today. ways happily withheld from' the Other items on the recom comprehension of small boys on
mended agenda included: Election of a chairman Of the roUer skates who do not know
&mmittee on the Liturgy and the special pang of desiderium -the vain backward glance of of Ii member of the administra adult life that must often turn tive committee. Tum to Paee Tbirtaen Turn to Page Eleven
Most Rev. James L. Connolly; Bishop of Fall River, will pre side at the Thu.rsday morning session.
A dedicated group of Special Gifts solicitors, numbere ing over 625, is in the midst of the first phase of the Catholic Charities Appeal - Special Gifts campaign which ends Monday, May 4. Over 2,150 contacts will be made with professional, bus iness, fraternal and industry Efforts for increased giving in I e a d e r s. These community this year's Appeal must be made leaders are given the oppor because Bishop Connolly has an
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High ~ourt Decision Provides Youth Protection WASHINGTON (NC) "Obscenity is' not within the ai'ea of protected speech or press," has been llgain re peated' by the Supreme Court but this time with the weight of law. "The well -being of its children is, of, course, a sub ject withill the state's constitu tional power to regulate," the nation's highest tribunal de,Turn to Page Fifteen $
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tunity· of contributing to the 3Q Appeal agencies which bene fit in whole or in part from the funds collected every year !from every area of the diocese and fr,om those of the Protestant and Jewish faiths as well as from Catholics. ' "The fiest returns are heart ening" said Roland A. Lafrance, 1968 Catholic Charities Appeal lay chairman. He went on to say that "early returns from the Special Gifts phase indicate a cordial reception to the solicitor and a generous response to the needs of charity by the donors." Every year the generosity of the donors to the Special Gifts serves as a barometer for the expected increased giving when the sec ond phase, the, House to House Appeal, is made on Sunday, May 5. The special gift solicitors are making returns speedily and it
is hoped that all solicitors will have their contacts made and returns filed at headquarters by Saturday, May 4. The slogan of the Appeal this year' is: "At least a dollar more in '68" from those who contributed in
'67. The solicitors find this slogan appealing to the contributors thus far approached in the Special Gifts campaign.
nounced an expansion of the Catholic Memorial Home for the Aged and Infirm in Fall River. Bishop Connolly said: ''The accommodations at Cath olic Memorial Home are to in crease through the construction of an addition to the Nursing Wing. This is done with a view to provide for married couples, and for such others as could ben efit in spirit by being closer to rehabilitation facilities, and pro fessional care."
Sees Underground Church Divisive ST. LOUIS (NC) - Auxiliary BishOp James P. Shannon of St. Paul and Minneapolis toid newsmen here that the so-called underground church is by its nature' "divisive." Speaking at a press confer
ence held the day before the
opening of the Spring meeting of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, Bishop Shan non pointed out that the goal
and purpose of the liturgy is "the unity of Christians 010 <) " The underground church, on the other hand, results in a small coterie or clique cutoff from Turn to Page Eighteen