Special Gifts Indicate Most Successful Charities Appeal in Diocesan History Business and Faithful Sa~ute Ordin~ry
The ANCHO
Otrn Te~th Ann~versary
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An Anohor of the
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Som, /J1ttN and F'irm-8T. PAUL
Rive,r, Mass., Thursday, May 4, 1961
Vol. 5,
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1961 The Anchor
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Women ·of Diocese Convene Saturday Leaders of 127 councils and guilds affilia.ted with the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women will attend the eighth annual convention of the organization this Saturday at St. John the Evangelist school auditorium, Hodges Street, Attleboro. Theme of the day Sullivan and Michel' Methot, will be "Catholic Youth· Fall River, speaking on primary Needs Catholic Education.~ school education; Patricia SulliRegistration will begin at van and Thomas Walker, New 10:45 in the school foyer, with Bedford, discussing the CYO the morning convention session program in general; Carol Dustarting at 11:15. In charge of arte and Michael Hickey, Mrs. George Bauza, Norton, and Taunton, secondary education moderated by Rev. Walter Sul- and its effect on students' lives; livan, Diocesan CYO " Director. Patricia Ford and Carol Higgins, it will feature a youth panel rep- representing the Cape and IsEe~enting all parts of th~ Dio- lands, the Confraternity of cese. Principal speaker will be Christian Doctrine and parish ' Most Rev. James J. Gerrard, life. Also Ann DeCosta, Norton, auxiliary bishop. . Panelists will be Mary Rose Turn to Page Eighteen
Catholic Education Facilit·ies Grow NEW YORK (NC) - The 1961 Official Catholie Directory, just issued by P. J. Kenedy and Sons, publishers, gives a complete over-all picture of Catholic educational· facilities in the country. Full-time teaching ,staffs of all educational institutions parish elementary schools, 8n un de r Catholic auspices increase of 235; and 462 private increased by 8,230 to a elementary schools. Also listed were 130 protective institutions record total of 168,677. They with a total attendance of include: 11,560 priests, 570 scho- 12,072. There were 12 new !astics, 4,807 Brothers, 98,856 seminaries of religious commuSisters and 52,884 lay teachers. nities established during 1960. The increases included 670 Th e 96 di ocesan semInaries .. priests, 29 Brothers, 385 Sisters had a total enrollment of and 7,378 lay teachers. 21,320, an increase of 1,042, '\ A new high of 13,961 separate hil th 44 ·t· d educational; institutions was w e e 1 nOVI lates an listed. These include 96 diocesan scholasticates of religious comBeminaries; 441 seminaries or munities reported a total enoovitiates and scholasticates of rollment of 20,551, an increase of /religious communities; 267 uni- 933. This indicated a total of versities and colleges; 1,564 41,871 candidates for the priestdiocesan and parish high schQols; hood. 869 private high schools; 10,132 Turn to Pa.ge Twelve
ROME (NC) - Italy's population grows by 400,000 persons a year, but the number of priests here has dropped steadily during the past five years. The situation is about the same for all of Europe and the world picture of priestly vocations offers reasons for of studying and remedying tho concern. The imbalance be- vocation problem. tween the ratio of priests to Turn to Page Sixteen people is continuously grow- ~"'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''~''''''''''''''' ... ing and thus th~e is need for Televisu@lfil 1'"(1:lIk greater efforts to stimula.te voMost Rev. James .11'. Gerrard, cations to the priesthood. V.G., Auxiliary Bisho]!) of the These facts were disclosed by Dloce!ile, will maugurate the Giuseppe Cardinal Pizzardo, house-to-house phase of the Prefect of the Sacred Congrega1961 Catholic ChariUes Appeal lion of Seminaries and Universby a television tank Sunday at Wes, who io the man charged 12:45 P.M. 0:11 Channel 12" with the over-aU resDonsibility WPRO-TV.
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Parish Committees of the Anniversary Oatholic Charitiea Appeal win begin theilP phase of the Appeal on Sunday. Thousands of solicitors will participate. Each home will be v·isited by the solicitors during the announc ed hours-between 12 and 2--or 1 and 3. Last Monday each working person in the Diocese received 8. contribution card. The Parish solicitors will collect these cards on their visit to the homes. In addition, ea.ch received a copy of a brochure entitled "Why Do You Call This ,Charity?" The booklet explains the capital expansion nature of the Appeal. Special Gift Solicitors have been rewardingly active for the past week. Business houses, individuals, and national firms have all indicated their desire to honor Bishop Connolly's Anniversary through the 1961 Charity Appeal. Just as the families of the Diocese, each of these contacts received a copy of the Anniversary issue of The Anchor. The listing of Bishop Connolly's achievements contained in this issue has moved many to mor0 generous contributions. Chairman Joseph E. Fernandes commented this morning: "Headquarters is happy to see Turn to Page Eighteen
Fin a I Services In New Bedford Church Sunday Thirty six years ago, the first Mass was offered in St. Casimir's Mis s ion Church, New Bedford, for the Polish speaking people of the North End of New Be.dford and Acushnet. The growth in parish population in two years caused it to be raised to the status of a' parish and now in 1961 'the growth has brought about the need of fA new edifice. On Sunday afternoon, Rev. Joseph F. Sutula, pastor since 1932, will conduct the final services in the present structure Turn to Page Nineteen
DOOR-TO·DOOR PHASE: Shown lIecelVmg thetr Catholic Charities Appeal contact cards as they prepare to make their visits Sunday in St. Joseph's Parish, New Bedford, are, left to right, Marcel Trahan, Lucien Beaulieu, Rev. Joseph A. Martineau, Parish Chairman Arthur L. Seguin and Normand V. Miranda.
U.S.Catholics Number Over. '42 Million NEW YORK (NC)-There now are 42,104,900 Cath. olics in the 50 United States. The 1961 Official Catholia Directory just issued here by P. J. Kenedy and Sons, pub-. lishers, reported the total represents an increase of 1,233,598 over last year and a 10-year . rectory said. There now are increase of 13,470,022, o;r 33,141 diocesan priests, an in47.04 per cent, the 28,- crease ~f. 572, and 21,5~1. priests · . of rehglouS communItIes, an h 1 C 634,878 at 0 lCS reported 1fi increase of 314 the directory 1951. The new tot~l. includes r.eported. It list~d 1,675 .newly members of all famlhes in the ordained priests. The directory armed forces at home and also reported totals of 10 928 abroad, in. the di~lomatic Brothers, an increase of 455, ~nd and other serVIces. The dIrectory 170 438 Sisters an increase at , recorded 136,953 converts to the 1 9il. ' C~tholic Faith in 1~60. It said 'The directory said there are thiS marked the eIghth con- eight archdioceses which have secutive year that the number a Catholic population of mor() of converts exceeded 125,000 than one million-Chicago 2and reported th~ total number 118,831; Boston, 1,661,233; Ne~ of converts durmg the last 10 York, 1,610,366; Philadelphia. years was 1,343,377. 1,548,285; Newark, 1,451,702; An increase of 886 in the Detroit, 1,361,892; Los Angeles, number of clergy brought the 1,348,104; and San Francisco lr total of priests to 54,682, the 093,595. ' largest ever recorded, the diTuPn to I'!QGC Twelve
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New Bedford Man Is Named
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MANUEL SARDINHA
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Rev. William D. Thomson, Diocesan Chaplain of tho St. Vincent de Paul Society, announced today the appoint.. ment of Manuel Sardinha, 275 Brook St., New Bedford, and a member of the Immaculate Conception Parish, as treasurer of the Diocesan Council of ere th of the 1 te Ed the St. Vincent de Paul So- LY~ns of New ;edford "'{:~9~: ciety. This appointment fills Mr. Sardinha has always beeR the vaeancy caused by. the active in St. Vincent de Paul activities in his parish and is now serving as treasurer of the parish Vincentian organization. CO&'il'l1entscn The annual Catholic Charities Almost 1000 teachers from Appeal has always considered the 58 e!ementall'Y and 11 high the new treasurer an active s0sch@ons oli the Diocese aJre licitor. Mr. Sardinha is parish meeting today and tonnOll'row chairman for this year's Appeal. at §tang lHIigU! Schoon, No. 'Dartm01llth lioll" the Sixth The new appoint~e has also Annual CathoDic Teac~ &Bdevoted many years to the Boy sociatioD CODWXlticm. Scout movement.