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Priesthood.Ordination ·Set for May 22 Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., ~ill ordain Rev. Mr. Richard J. Beaulieu to the Priesthood
Rev. Mr. Richard J. Beaulieu
(HARITIES APPEAL TOTAL NEARS $600,000 MARK Cathlic Charities Appeal Diocesan Director, Rev. Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, announced today that the 1971 Appeal has reached $585,865.47. Special Gift solicitors will complete their remaining. contacts this. week. Parish solicitors are urged to make final returns by Monday, May 17. Msgr. ,Gomes said: "Final donations from the two phases of the Appeal can be registered until Friday noon, May 21. The books will be closed then for the 1971 final tabulations." Diocesan Lay Chairman of the Appeal, Dr. David Costa Jr. of New Bedford stated: "We are pleased at this new total and
at 2 o'dock on Saturday after.noon, May 22 in St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River. Rev. Mr. BeaUlieu of 195 Perry Street, Acushnet was born on April 8, 1946 in New. Bedford, the son of Mrs. Florence E. Gou'. .' NEW YORK (NC)-The num~ let Beaulieu and the late Octave ber of American Catholics in~ J. Beaulieu. A graduate of .St. creased slightly last year,.' alAnthony's High School, New though .the number of priests; Bedford, he attended Providence Religious' and seminarian;; coi1~ College, St. Thomas. Seminary, tinued to decline. Bloomfield, .Conn.;. and received According to statistics com~' his philosophical and theological piled by the 1971 Official Cath-. training in St. John's Semnary; .olic Directory published here by .' , Brighton. ·P.J. Kenedy and Sons, the D.'S. Frpm St. John's Semjnary, the Ca~h()lic'( ,popuiation stands at' Acushnet deaco'n has received .48,214,729, a .gain· of 342,640 a B.A. and B.D. a'nct on the tenth OV$!r the' previous year's statis.of June will receive' an °M.Ea. tics. . degree from Boston College. Sisters and seminarians showed His deacon internship has the most. ~ignificant drops, wi.th, been been served at St. Joseph's the number of Religious, womeri . Parish, Attleboro during the declining more than 7,000 frqm Summer of 1979 and .during the their' 1969 total and the seminarians declining by more than Turn to Page Three.
we look forward to an increase within the next few days. Special gift contacts are still outstanding. Many parishes have more returns to report." Many parishes are close to surpassing their 1970 totals. The number of parishes enrolled in the parish Honor Roll for exceeding last year'sfin;ll totals is 16. Since the last reporting, parishes added are: Mt. Carmel, Seekonk; Assumption, Osterville; St. John, Pocasset; St. Mary, Holy Cross, St. Anthony of the Desert, SS. Peter and Paul, St. Roch, St. Stanislaus, Santo Christo, Fall River; Our Lady of Grace, No. Westport; St. Louis de France, Swansea; Our Lady
Directory Revea·ls Catholic Population Up Slightly 3,000 from the '69 figure. The ranks of both Sisters and Brothers have each dropped by more than 16,000. in the last 10 years, according. to the directory, issued today. . Turn to Page Six
Attleboro A~ea Mt. St. St. St. St.
Carmel, Seekonk $ 9,457.00 Mary, No. Attleboro 9365.00 John, Attleboro . 8,826.00 Mary, Mansfield 8,428.25 Mary, Attleboro 7,295.00
Cape & Islands Area st. Francis Xavier, Hyannis 10,013.00 St. Pius X, So. Yarmouth 9,713.50 St. 'Patrick, Falmouth 7,851.50 Assumption, Osterville 6,643.0;) Holy Trinity, West Harwich 6,251.00 Turn to Page Two
Bishops Receive New Synod Doc·um·ent. on World Justice DETROIT (NC)-The American bishops recejved fror'nRome at their Spring meeting here a startling new synod document pn world justice that. calls for radical changes in how' individ· uals and nations relate to each other.
School Closings. To Cost State Millions BOSTON' (NC) - Transfer of students from Catholic schools to public schools has already cost Massachusetts taxpayers $100 million and could cost $75 million a year for the next five years, according to a special legislative study commission. The study group, set up in 1969, also said that the declining Catholic school enrollment probably cannot, be halted no matter how much, state aid is provided. But it said the decline can possibly be slowed to a less critical rate. The commission estimated it would cost $426 million to stem the decline in the Catholic school population and suggested that in the short run it would be cheaper for the state to allow Catholic-operated schools to close. But in the "long run" it would be inadvisable, it said. The report suggested that a way to arrest decline would be to "supply sufficient public funds next year and every year thereafter to freeze at present levels, or to reduce, not only tuition charges but also the proportion 'of parish and diocesan church revenue required to support the schools." Turn to Page Two
of Fatima, St. Hedwig, St. Theresa, New Bedford. There are 114 parishes in the diocese. A final report of the 1971 Appeal will b~ issued five days after the final closing of the books. Msgr. Gomes announced that parish chairmen or priest directors should make their reports in person at Headquarters by noon on Friday, May 21, in order to receive proper credit for this year's Appeal. Leading Area Parishes are:
It puts a clear burden on those Catholics who divorce panel sothil teachings from papal doctrinal teachings to stop separating their thinking, stating bluntly: . "The synod will have to deal with the scandalous fact that in many sectors the community.of 'the faithful neither know 'nor practice the Christian. .soCial' message." The latest draft pays unus~al tribute to the idealism of mode!n youth thirsting to see. injustices corrected in society, says that use of force "might eventually be legitimate" to vindicate grave violations of basic rights after all legal means have failed, strongly links social action with the Gospel, endorses active involvement of priests in social issues, and says in effect that ,a person ',can not really consider himself a true Christian if he draws' the line between faith in ,God arid tangible support of fellow man. The 235 bishops at the hierarchy's national meeting got into only brief discussion of the 25Turn to Page Six
Father Murphy To Taunton
CATHOLIC TEACHERS CONVENTION: Meeting on opening day at the 16th Annual Convention of the Catholic Teachers of the Diocese, were: Archbishop Humberto S. Medeiros, of Boston, keynote speaker; Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, Ordinary of Fall River, Who presided at the opening session; Rev. Msgr. Robert L. Stanton, rector of the Cathedral and member of the Dioc'esan School Board.
The Chancery Office has announced the assignment of Rev. James E. Murphy as assistant pastor of St. Mary Parish, Taunton. Father Murphy has recently returned to the Fall River Diocese from five years of service in Latin America as a member of the Missionary Society of St. James the Apostle. While in South America, he served in Santa Cruz and Laguardia, both in Bolivia. Turn to Page Three