Ca'th'olic Charities Door-to-Door Drive Begins S,unday A dedicated corps of Special Gift Committeemen have completed their first week of contacting business, industry and professional groups in the 1964 Cath?lic Charities Ap peal. This committee is working out of the five Area Headquarters. Next Sunday a force of twelve thousand parish workers will take the spot light. During a pre-announced period on Sunday, either 12. to 2 P.M. or 1 to 3 P.M., these charity-minded solicitors will visit every family in the
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Communicant Enters Dialogue With Priest Individuals receiving Com munion from. now on are to take part personally in the prayers during the distribu
DCCW CONVENTION SPEAKERS: Mr. and Mrs. F. Eugene Moore of No. Attleboro will· discuss "Liturgy and the Home" at the convention's morning session, Saturday, at Cassidy High, Taunton.
Non-Sectarian Convocation To Study Encyclical'Pacem' NEW YORK (NC)-An international non-sectarian
eonvocation on the late Pope John XXIII's encyclical Pacem in Terris and its meaning for world peace will be held here Feb. 18-20, 1965, under sponsorship of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institu of the world are being tions. Robert M. Hutchins, tinents asked to the invitation-only president of the center, said meeting. Some 700 are expected that heads of state and lead at the convocation. ing scholars from most con-
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Television Mass
The regularly televised Mass that takes place every Sunday morning at 10 over New Bed ford television station WTEV -Channel 6 will be celebrated this coming Sunday by the Most Reverend Bishop with members of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women as the congregation.
By Rev. John R. FoIster St•.Anthony Church - New Bedford
In recent weeks the NCWC News Services has been interviewing many of the Bish ops who took an active part in the Vatican Council. Following is a compilation of the first
prelates interviewed and their views on certain propects for the future of the Council. Mentioned here are: Augustin Cardinal Bea, Head of the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity; Guiseppe those treated in the priority must be given to every Cardinal Siri, Archbishop of problems: past and not completed, as Rev thing concerning the nature of Genoa, Italy; Alfredo Cardi elation, Nature of the Church, the Church and Ecumenism." nal Ottaviani, Secretary of Religious Liberty, Jews. New Problem of freedom of con.
CRITICAL PROBLEMS? BEA: In general: those prob lems of "dialogue of the Church with the modern world. Old
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problems: Schema 17 (Church and Modern World): population problem, peace. SIRI: Sources of Revelation, Doctrine on Bishops, all material that concerns laymen and pre sence of the Church in the modern world. OTTAVIANI: Collegiality, Na_ ture of Church. MAXIMOS: Collegiality. Tog
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tion of the Eucharist, according . In early Christian Era, the to a new decree of the Sacred ordinary form for distributing Congregation of Rites. Communion was "CorpllS Christi". The Fall River Diocese was This had the significance of a one of the first to express its profession of faith. An early filial devotion and obedience to Christian text described the for_ the Holy Father by putting the mula saying: "As each person decree into effect immediately. . receives Communion, he will The Pope signed the decree on bear witness to the priest that Saturday morning; the formula he understands this to be truly was used throughout the diocese the' Body of Christ." on Sunday morning. Thus, there was special stress The rapid response was made on the recipient's response of possible thanks to a systematic the "Amen". Gradually, larger calling of H>ctories to spread the formulae were used, e.g., "Amen, news officially. Thus, there was I believe." Besides this, where no need to await the printing possible the recipient was even and distirbution of letters. mentioned by name, and when The Papal Decree, dated April the occasion demanded, with his 25,. abolishes the prayer the ecclesiastical title. priest traditionally has said However, with the Middle while distributing sacramental Ages, the tradition seems to have hosts. In its place, the Congrega been broken. Gradually, a new tion of Rites, with the approval formula was created but this of .Pope Paul,. restored a more was more of a wish or blessing ancient practice and decreed on the part of the priest. One
Prelates Discuss Issues Rel:1aining for Council
the Curia's Holy Office; Pat riarch Maxomos IV Saigh, Mel chite Patriarch of Antioch and ell the East; Bishop Larrain of Taka, President of the Latin American Bishops' Council.
that henceforth the priest will say only the words "CorpllS Ch,isti" (Body of Christ") and that each person will respond
science must be treated. All the rest can be done by postconciliar bodies. LARRAIN: Collegiality, Rela tions of Bishops to the Curia, Ecumenism especially con cerning the Jews and Religious Liberty. Schema 17. the Aposto late of the Lait, Turn to Page Sixteen
of the Rites that remained tra. ditional in this regard was the Ambrosian Rite (that used in the city of Milan where Pope Paul was himself Archbishop for some years). Now it is again re stored to the Universal Church. The decree does not simply permit or recommend this res toration. It imposes it. It has abolished the longer prayer re cited with difficulty beforehand. Though the prayer was long, constant appeals to Rome were always answered by stating that the rormula was to be recited in full for each person receiving Communion. This proved cum bersome to the priest; unintelli_ gible for the communicant. A second decree of the COR gregation of Rites, bearing the same date, provides for the in sertion in the Divine Praises- recited mainly after the cere mony of Benediction-the in vocation "Blessed be the Holy Spirit. the Paraclete." The prayer is to be inserted after the invocation "Blessed be Jesus in the Most Holy Sacrament 0/ the Altar:'
Official Directory Shows 44,874,371 U. S. Catho,lics NEW YORK (NC)-There now are 44,874,371 Cath olics in the 50 United States, according to the 1964 Official Catholic Directory. The total represents a year's increase of 1,026,433 and includes all Catholics in the armed forces at home and abroad, in the 576,983, and Providence, diplomatic and other ser ton, 532,692. vices abroad. The directory Five dioceses reported no just issued by P. J. Kenedy change in Catholic populations & Sons, New York publisher, said the total is a 10-year in crease of 13,225,947, or 41.5%, over the 31,648,424 U. S. Catho lics in 1954. There are now 28 archdioceses in the United States, with a Catholic population of 19,328,909, and 120 dioceses with 25,545,462, including 2,000,000 Catholics re ported by the Military Ordi nariate. The 28 archdioceses re ported a growth of 500,557 and the 120 dioceses 525,876. The seven archdioceses with Catholic populations in excess of one million are Chicago, 2,317, 700; New York, 1,782,630; Bos ton, 1,767,274; Los Angeles, 1, 532,411; Newark, 1,528,798; De troit, 1,461,567, and Philadelphia, 1,309,308. Brooklyn continues as the largest diocese with a Catholic population of 1,576,073. Other dioceses with more. than 500,000 are: Pittsburgh, 910,655; Buffalo, 897,203; Cleveland, 853,148; Rockville Centre, 770,112; Tren.:
and 18 reflected decreases. Ad vances were reported by 123 Sees. Eight additional Sees re corded increases of over 25,000. The directory lists 244 mem bers of the Hierarchy, an in· crease of seven-five cardinals, 32 archbishops, and 207 bishops. An increase of 788 in the clergy brings the total of or dained priests to 57,328, the largest ever recorded. There are now 35,077 diocesan priests, an increase of 612, and 22,251 priests of religious communities, an in crease of 176. Listed for the first time are 1,629 newly or dained priests. Pope John XXIII, two arch. bishops, three bishops and 841 priests are listed in the Necrol ogy. Professed Religious person nel include 12,132 Brothers, an increase of 164, and 180,015 Sis ters, an increase of 2,861. The directory reports 16,930 parishes with resident pastors. an increase of 140, and 515 par· Turn to Page Seventeen