VOL. 45, NO. 19 • Friday, May 11,2001
FALL RIVER, MASS.
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Swansea parishes to merge By JOHN E.
KEARNS JR. ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS
SPEAKERS AT the Ecumenical program ''The Holocaust and 'The Triumphant Spirit,'" at Tifereth Israel Synagogue, New Bedford, share a moment. From left: Durfee High School Teacher James Wilcox, photojournalist Nick Del CalzQ, Rabbi Barry D. Hartman' of the Ahava~h Achim Synagogue, Father Marc H. Bergeron, Dr. Irving Fradkin, and BishopSean O'Malley, OFM Cap. (ArichonGor.~. don photo) . '
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at Holocaust'l'Ilemorial night· ~ Bishop O'Malley shared the dais With
author and photojournalist Nick Del Calzo. By MIKE GORDON ANCHOR STAFF
NEW BEDFORD - While many tuned in May 3 to see who would be declared the winner of the second "Survivor" installment on CBS, another group gathered to see and hear the stories of the true survivors .:....- those who lived through the Holocaust of World War II. The program for the evening ''The Holocaust and 'The Triumphant Spirit,'" was held at the Tifereth Israel Synagogue and featured several guest s1?eakers inCluding
. Bishop Seari P: O'MalleyOfM Cap., and photojournalist and author of the book "The Triumphant Spirit," Nick Del Calzo; . Bishop O'Malley gave a perspective on the Holocaust and his presentation featured ideas from his November 5, 2000 reflection "Kristallnacht Remembered," and Del Calzo's talk featured slides and commentary from his book of portraits and stories of Holocaust survivors who found new life and success .here in America. This was the second ecumenical event in recent weeks and brought many people of different faiths together. It was sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Greater New Bedford and coordinated by The Holocaust Education Turn to page eight ~ Memoria~
~ AT LAST week's Cape Cod and the Islands Catholic Charities Appeal kiCkoff, Cluny Sister Eugenia Brady chats with campaign officials after giving a presentation on Rainbows, an appeal-funded diocesan program she directs that reaches out to children and teenagers who have experienced loss in life due to death, divorce and separation. With Sist~r Brady are, from left, Appeals Director Msgr. Thomas J. Harrington; Assistant Cape Cod Area Appeals Director Msgr. John J. Smith; and Diocesan Director of Development Michael J. Donly. (Photo by John E. Kearns Jr.)
SWANSEA - After a careful assessment ofthe neigh. boring parishes of St. Michael's and Our Lady of Fatima in the southern section of Swansea and a consultation between priests and a representative group of parishioners, Bishop Sean P. O'Malley, OEM Cap., is asking that the two communities come together'as a one parish. In a letter read at all Masses at both churches last weekend, Bishop O'Malley explained that it was no longerpossible to maintain both parishes because of "a continued shortage of priests and the demands of a growing Catholic population in other areas of the diocese." As a result, the bishop is rejoining Our Lady of Fatima Parish to St. Michael Parish, the original parish in the area and one frqm which a large portion of the territory of Our Lady of Fatima was separated in 1958 to become a new parish. The bishop said he is pleased to report that both churches "can be maintained" at this time for use by the parish. Masses will continue to be celebrated both at St. Turn to page 11 --:- Merge
Fall River pastor .to be homilist at consecration of national shrine ~
Father Kaszynski will preach at dedication of Our Lady of Czestochowa Basilica in Pennsylvania on Mother's Day. , By JAMES N.
DUNBAR
FALL RIVER - Father Robert S. Kaszynski, pastor of St. Stanislaus Church here, will be the homilist at the solemn consecration of the National Shrine Basilica of Our Lady of Czestochowa in .------:. - . Doylestown, Pa., on Sunday. In a chat with The Anchor, Father Kaszynski said he accepted "with great de- . light" the irivitation offered by. Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua, archbishop of Philadelphia, who will preside at the consecration, as well as the superior of the FATHER ROBERT
S.
KASZYNSKI
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