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Mary's Cathedral, Fall River, on Most Rev. Ja-mes L. Con _ly, D.D., Bishop of Fall . Saturday morning, May 18,·at 10. Those being ordained priests RWer, will ordain eight dea-' are: Rev. Edward E. Correia, rams to the priesthood in St. Rev. Edmund J. Fitzgerald, Rev.
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Workshop and Dedic@1rion Saturd@y in Fall. River Saturday will be a momentous· day in the history !If the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine in the Diocese of Pall River. The new Diocesan Center for CCD at 446 High 1l&nd A venue, Fall R·iver, will be blessed and dedicated by Bishop Connolly at 9 :30 'and ' -;:nl be followed by a day- Martha Mal'y, O.L.V.M., a mem w·w ber of the Diocesan CCD staff. ~ng seminar for CCD teachMrs. Charles Fuller, president -1IIrs of the Fall River area. of the Confraternity in the DioThe Confraternity Center, cese. indicated that the discus Iormerly the elementary school sion lounge would be dedicated l2If the Sacred Hearts Academy, in memory Qf the late Msgr. was acquired by the Diocese IiIl Nov. 1967 and has since un aergone extensive remodeling. A full-page of pictures COlll cernillg the new JFaIn' River 1i't now provides space for a CeD center is on JI>alge 20 of bUmber of classrooms, a discus this issue. tllion lounge, a bookstore. and i1Udio-visual center, and meet ilng rooms for the Diocesan Ex John H. Hackett, J.C.D., who ~utive Board of the CCD. Offices are provided for Rev. served as chancellor of the Dio Ioseph L. Powers, diocesan CCD cese from April, 1966 until his death in December of the same ~irector; Edward P. McDonagh, CCD lay coordinator, Sister year. Plans call for the Center to Joan Louise, O.L.V.M., Diocesan roD supervisor and Sister be open daily from 9 A.M. to 5 Turn to Page Seventeen
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George E. Harrison, Rev. Wil liam J. Hurley, Rev. Cornelius F. Kiley, Rev. Robert A. Mc Gowan, Rev. Donald E. Messier and Rev. Kevin F. Tripp. Rev. Mr. Correia, son of Er nest L. and Clothilde Pacheco Cort"eia of 98 Lexington Ave., Dartmouth, was born July 6, 1942. He graduated from. Holy Family High School in New Bedford, took his college studies in St. Thomas Seminary, Bloom field, Conn., and studied philos ophy and theology at St. John's Seminal'y, Brighton.
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Mr. Correia served as deacon in St. Jean Baptiste Parish, Fall River, St. Vincent's Camp, West port, and St. Joseph's Parish, Fall .River. Rev. Mr. Fitzgerald, son of Dr. Edmund J. and Eunke Dunn Fitzgerald of 127 Broadway, Taunton, was born Sept. 3, 1942. He graduated from Msgr. Coyle High School, attended Boston College, and studied ph:ilosophy and theology in St. John's Sem inary, Brighton, from which he received his A.B. degre,e. Mr. Fitzgerald served as a
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deacon in Our Lady of Fatima Parish, New Bedford, and St. Joseph's Parish in Fall River. Rev. Mr. Harrison, son of Frank P. and Catherine Sweeney HalTison of 1837 Robeson Street, Fall River, was born Feb. 14 1943. He graduated from Msgr. Coyle High School and took his college course at St. Mary's Col lege in St. Mary's, Kentucky, from which he received his A.B. degree. He studied theology at St. Mary's SeminarY in BaIti-' more. Turn to Page Six
Early Appeal Contributions
Surpass First '67 Returns
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The 13,200 parish solici tors of the Catholic Chari t~es Appeal rang the door bells faithfully Sunday. The 94,250 homes were Visited. Combined with the Special Gifts, the first reports from the pal"ishes gave the Appeal a total of $282,614.50. Diocesan Lay Chairman Ro land A. Lafrance said this morn ing: '.'It is heartening to see the first reports from the parishes. They show that solicitors made their contacts and that the peo ple were at -home'· to receive the volunteer workers for the Ap peal." "The slt'eilgth of the Appeal has been equally divided. Good incI'eases have been received in Special Gifts and a large group of parishes is definitely headed for the Honor Group. We are 'especially pleased with those donors who have taken to heart the 1968 Appeal slogan to give at least one dollar more. They realize that this small increase made by many can mean a sub-
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stantial difference in the over all total. "What I said at the kick-off meeting, .. Chairman Lafrance continued, "is eminently true to stand still is really to stag nate, while to grow means to go forward. And we hope that this Appeal will be the means of growth and going forward for the projects that the Bishop has under consideration-the growth
Appoints Pastor In Brown,sviUe Rev. Joseph P. Delaney, for merly assistant at Sacred Heart Parish, Taunton, and presently on . loan to the Diocese of Brownsville, Tex., has been named pastor of the Good Shep herd Parish, that city. The newly erected parish has some 3,000 inhabitants, a tem porary church hopefully to be Turn to Page Two
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Most Rev. Humberto S. Me deiros, S.T.D., Bishop of Browns ville, Texas, and former Chan cellor of Fall River and pastor of St. Michael's Church in Fall River, stopped briefly in Fall River today on his way to Paris. Bishop Medeiros is a member of the Latin American Commit"; tee of the American hierarchy and is a representative of that group at a me~ting in France. He recently returned from a fact-finding mission in Latin America and will meet in Paris with other Church leaders in the interest of preserving and building up the faith in pre dominantly Catholic' South America.
in the means to help the youth and the aged and the exceptional children." The Honor Roll of parishes means that parishes have sur passed the 1967 total. Our Lady of Grace, No. Westport and Our Lady of Angels, Fall River achieved this distinction on Sunday. Special Gift and Parish solici tors are asked to bring all re turns to their respective Head quarters on a dally basis. • The ten leading parishes of the Diocese 'are: St. James, New Bedford $10,525.03 Our Lady of Angels, Fall River 8,084.25 St. Lawrence, New Bedford 7,607.00 St. Mary, Fall River 7,399:00 St. Joseph, Fairhaven 7,391.00 Immaculate Conception, North Easton 6,206.00 St. Mary, New Bedford 5,976.50 St. Joseph: Taunton 5,911.00 St. Mary, Attleboro 5,766.00 St. Mary, Mansfield 5,762.65
FR. JOSEPH P. DELANEY.
Beginning next week, The Anchor will carry "The Prog ress of ]Peoples," a column by JSarbara Ward seeking to an swer the question: "What can I do to help make this moment illl history the starting point foil' a better tomorrow?" l\'iiss Ward (Lady Roberti .Tackson in private life) is a British author, economist and lecturer, now Albert Schweitzer Professor of international eCO lllomic deve'lopment at Columbia University. Educated at Oxford University and the Sorbonne, she became assistant editor of the London periodical "The Economist" in 1940 and in 1946 was named a ~ovemor of the Turn to Paae Seventeen