Hotel To Become Home for Aged
PROPOSED NEW HOME FOR AGED IN NORTH ATTLEBORO TO SERVE FAITHFUL IN NORTHERN SECTION OF DIOCESE His Excellency, Most Rever~nd :lames L. Connolly, D.D., Bishop of Fall River, is interested in a petition to the Zoning Board of Appeals of the Town of No., Attleborough' for. necessary iIluthority to .establish a Resi.., dential and Nursing Home for. the Al!ed on the premises of the present Hotel HIxon. If the MceSSary authority is granted 0
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to the, Diocese of Fall River, 'Bis- Chapel will accommodate aphop Connolly plans' to refurbish proximately 150 and the nursing the present Hotel, facilities and , area will include 80 beds, with construct a million dollar addi- four-bed wards, double and tion to serve approximately 125 single rooms. ' Included in the plans are Aged. The planned facility will in- dining rooms, a new main. kitclude a Chapel to be built in chen, social and T.V. rooms, front of the present structure occupational and. physical therand a new Nursing Wing which apy areas, a beauty parlor, be added to the rear. The nurses lounges, treatment ro~ms
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and a recreation center. The institute will be staffed Modern hospital equipment by the Grey Nuns of Ottawa, and specialized installation for Canada, who will serve in the safety and care of the Aged supervisory capacities. They will will dominate the. new structure. , be assisted by a comp.1ete staff The former hotel rooms will of lay personnel in the engibe 'revitalized for residential neering, malhtenance and kitguests and, will have accommo- chen departments. In the house dations of private rooms and and nursing areas lay people as baths for approximately forty maids, aids" licensed practical individuals and couples; , ,Turn to Page Twelve
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Non-Catholic 'Observers To Attend Council
ROME (NC) - Non-Catholic observers at the forthcoming Second Vatican Council will not be limited to formal fJessions but will be able to attend the plenary sessions. Augustin Cardinal Bea, S.J., head of the Vatican Secretariat for Promoting Chris- emphasis than that of non-Cathtian Unity, told more than olic Christians, he said. 60 representatives of the, The non-Catholic observers at world press that' the Holy the council "will have broad See will invite- to the council @lose non-Catholic observers -'who want to be invited." Cardinal Bea made it clear Giat non-Catholic representatives at the council which opens next Oct. 11 will be observers m fact, and will take no active part in the work of the council. He said also, that the observers cannot simply be interested ehurchmen without any official ~atus, but must be representing Christian bodies of significant iltanding., ' , Asked if non-Christian observe era might also attend the counen, the 80-year-Old Germanborn Jesuit said that the matter lhad been discussed by his secretariat lind was still under study. tlhe interest of non-Christians MJowd certainly be different in.
poss~bilities of studying and following the work of 'the counCil," according to Cardinal Bea. "These 'possibilities evidentlY will not be limited to, assisting at the solemn sessions 'in· the presence of the Pope, in which there is no further discussion,' but in which those theses which have already been discussed and approved in preliminary sessions are simply read out and formally voted on." ~n addition, he continued, ob· servers "will even be able to participale in the, plenary se(lsions, the so-called general congregations of the council fathers -the cardinals and bishops, that i&-i,n wWch the theses which have already been examined by the various commissions' of the Turn to Page Eighteen
Delivering the keynote address at the Seventh Annual D i 0 c e san Teachers' Convention, meeting today and' tomorrow at Bishop Feehan High SchOOl in Attleboro, Rev.
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N~xt Su~d1ay for 5)eamerrtl Catholics are asked to observe May 6 as Apostleship of the Sea Sunday, offering special prayers for the welfare of seamen here and throughout the nation at the request of Most Rev. Leo R. Smith, S.T.D., director of the National Catholic Apostleship of the' Sea Conference. In this Diocese, Rev. John F. Hogan, director of St. Mary's Home, New Bedford, is also port chaplain in partiCUlar charge' of the ,spiritual welfare of seamen. The sea apostolate is difficult, notes Bishop Smith, because men at sea have no contact with priests and must go for long periods without attending Sunday Mass. "The ordinary means of grace which \ the Church provides in abundance to landsmen are lacking to them. Still, perhaps because of our Lord's special love for them, immense numbers of them are deeply Catholic men." Bishop Smith 'said that Pope ' John has called attention to the fact that "seamen must be very dear to our blessed Lord, for He chose them to found his Church."
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John P. Driscoll, Assistant General Manager of The Anchor, called upon Catholic teachers, .both religious and lay, to further the cause of Christian unity by an understanding and communicating of the truths' of the Faith in the prayerful atmosphere of charity. . Father .Driscoll charged, before the almost 1000 teachers present, that "too manyCatholics, even teachers, look upon their. F.aith as a sort of spiritual , grab-bag, in which the doctrine of the Incarnation, the green scapular, the Holy Trinity, and devotion to St. Jude all seem to be on the same level of value, all holding equal importance, all equally necessary for salvation. This, confuses the non-Catholic
mind and causes our separated brother in Christ to draw strange conclusions about the validity of Catholicism to be the bearer of the Christ-announced good news of salvation." "Some Catholics, in speaking of the Faith to those outside the Church, slight essential doctrines while making much of what are, at best, subjective reactions to, and devotions following upon, these doctrines. We all know of the Catholics who have made more of the Fatima letter than the' necessity of feasting upon' the Body and Blood of Christ at the Sacrificial Banquet of the Mass," Father Driscoll commented. The teachers of the 12 high Turn to Page Twelve
"IN CHARGE:: Supe~isirig DiOcese's thousands of elementary :andhigh 'school.g.tu~ents are Rev. Patrick J. O'Neill, 'superintendent,. Sister Miriam, R.S.M. and Sister M. Felicita, R.S.M., Diocesan supervisors of elementary schools.