First Returns Exceed 1971 First returns from the 114 parishes and one mission, St. Rita's, Marion, added to Special Gift donations bring the total to $318,157.91 in the 1972 Catholic Charities Appeal. "It is most heartening to see the initial parish reports," said Raymond E. Lambert, Sr. of North Attleboro, diocesan lay chairman of this year's Appeal. "It indicates a most favorable response by the people in the parishes to the Most Rev. Daniel A.
Cronin's call for funds to maintain the works of charity, mercy ~nd social service of the the diocese," he noted. Every parish which surpasses its 1971 final total figure in the Appeal in this year's campaign is listed on the Honor Roll. The first parish to attain honor roll status in this year's Appeal is St. Julie Billiart 'of North Dartmouth with a total of $5,648.11 up to this date. The second parish to "go over the top" in attaining honor roll status
this year is Sacred' Hearts, Fairhaven, with a total of $968.50 already. It is foreseen that many more parishes will be on the Honor Roll. Last year, 90 parishes were honOred on this list. A new plan, inaugurated three years ago, divides the diocese into five areas, \ listing the first five leading parishes in each area. The areas are: Cape Cod and the Islands, the Attleboros, Taunton, New Bedford and Fall River.
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Communications Day Asks ~an to Search for Truth
Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., Bishop of· Fall River, is one of nine bishops from the United States who will participate in the forthcoming InterAmerican Bishops Meeting which will take place in Chateauguay Station, P.Q., Canada. The meet· ing will be attended by bishops from Latin America, Canada and the United States, and will discuss two topics, The Christian and Public Affairs, and The Church and Youth. United States representatives will include John Cardinal Krol, Archbishop Leo C. Byrne, Arch-· bishop Coleman F. Carroll, Archbishop Humberto S. Medeiros, and BisQQps Juan A. Arzube, Jo~ seph L. Bernadin,' William D. Borders, and John J. Dougherty. The United States bishops will be accompanied by reSQUrce experts and by the presidents of the Major Superiors of Men, Rev. Paul Boyle, and of Women, Sister Mary Thomas Aquinas Carroll.
VATICAN CITY (NC)-Caught stances, a full understanding." Listeners and viewers, espeil1 a "virtual1ly ceaseless flood" of news and entertainment, man cially Christian, also have a duty MOTHER'S DAY: This mother and child form a pair must search for truth with- "sin- to truth, he said. They must to illustrate the bond of love which is celebrated every cerity and diligence," Pope Paul "meet the aSjault of the mass May. NC Photo. media" using their own judgsaid in his message for World ment and freedom to find the Communications Day. The' theme of this year's ob- truth. In entertainment, as well as servance-scheduled for' Sunday, May 14-is "The Instruments of news, the Pope said, "truth reWASHINGTON (NC)-An of- of where people live and not Social Communication at the mains a vitally important thing," -and the viewer must not "allow ficial of the United States Cath- how many people there are. Service of Truth." olic Conference (USCC) told a his critical faculty to be lulled t6 John E. Cosgrove, director/,of In his 1,700 word statement,. congressional committee that the USCe's social developm~nt Pope Paul said that the obliga- sleep." the nation's population problem department, told the House PubPope Paul said that while "due tion to s'earch for truth rests Tum to Page Two should be tackled on the basis lic Works Committee that the with both communications and real pr-oblem "is not the total. the listeners and viewers of size of our population" since ~~e news and· entertainment. economy usually produces a surWhile "it is not always easy plus of food and fibet;: to grasp the truth in its entirety Tum to Page Two ..." the Pope said, "given the combined diligence. and combined sincerity of the person "Tell the religious to have a little altar boy" has become in- bishop, is that an integration of who communicates the fact and sense of ecclesia, a sense of the volved, in this post-Vatican II educational efforts in teaching the person to whom it is com· Bishop Cronin cordially invites , era, in the work .of teaching the the faith is needed in the diocese. municated, there is very good Church!" all the clergy, 'religious and faith. This was the message Plans Survey brought guarantee that 'the truth, the The Fall River Diocese, he He announced that it is in- laity of the Diocese . to par-, whole truth and nothing but the from Pope Paul VI by Most Rev. said, has had "fin admirable hisBishop Daniel tended A. Cronin when that a study will begin ticipate in the priestly ordination truth' will be safely transmitted." of Rev. Mr. George C. Bellenoit, The difficulty in communicat- the prelate addressed the .17th tory of preaching the word of soon in the diocese and that 'it Rev. Mr. Marcel H. Bouchard, God, and a comforting response." will involve a survey of Catholic ing truth becomes even "more annual Catholic Teachers' CoriHowever, he emphasized, times schools, CCD, adult education Rev. Mr. Timothy J. Goldrick onerous," Pope Paul said, in the vention at Bishop Feehan High change and a different response programs and the campuses. and Rev. Mr. Daniel F. Hoye in School, Attleboro. case of religious news. .Bishop Cronin, who recently is demanded. While the impor- "1m thinking in terms of the St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River, "A religious event cannot be had a private audience with the tance of the Catholic schools can young and the old-in terms of on Saturday afternoon, May 13 adequately understood as long pontiff, said the message applied never be minim~ed and while the whole teaching of the' at 2 o'clock. as it is considered in its merely equally well to the laity involved they must be preserved insofar Church." All priests present are invited human implications, whether in the CCD programs to whom as possible, the bishop declared As the study of the integration to take part in the laying of psychological or sociological," he extended "extraordinary grat- that the realities are that -a num- of the work of priests, religious hands in the ordination rite. They he said. ber of schools h,ave. closed or and laity gets underway, Bishop are to be -vested in cassock and itude" Religious' teachers, members will be closed, that vocations are Cronin urged that all "continue surplice or Mass vestments. Reporting such events, the Pontiff said, "requires something of the clergy and CCD instruc- lacking to the sisterhood, and to help in the mission" of teachPriests wishing to concelebrate beyond mere professional com- _tors attended the parley together there are other crises, both per- ing. petence. It requires the illumina- for the first time, and the bishop sonal and institutional, all of He toli! some 1.000 attending with Bishop Cronin are asked to tion of faith which alone' can noted that "the' whole Church which demand a new response. the second day of the two-day bring am ice, alb, cincture and What this means, declared the stole. offer, at least in some circum- of God, from the Pope to the Tum to Page eleven
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