Diocesan Teachers • Meet In 'Attleboro Rev. Charles F. Donovan,' S.J., academic vice-president of Boston College, urged Catholic educators "to be forthright in seeking and proclaiming spiritual as well as in tellectual excellence for our schools" in the keynote address at the opening session of the Fall River Diocesan Catholic Teachers Association's ninth annual convention this morning at Feehan High School, At the drive towards higher intel of our students but for the sake tleboro. Most Rev. James L. lectual standards and results. of our country and our society, Connolly, D.D., D.Sc.Hist., This movement has its apostolic it behooves us to reaffirm our as well as its academic dimen Bishop of the Diocese, pre most basic commitments, to be sided. Father Donovan, who is also dean of the BC School of ~;."-'"OI(l"" Education, said in part: l "It is ironic that we should , be falling over ourselves to earn for our schools reputations as Catholic Latin Schools, Catholic Newton Highs, or Bronx Schools ,. of Science; or Catholic Swarth mores or Reeds at the very time when our wisest and most sym pathetic critics in non-Catholic circles are urging us to be our selves, to be outstanding in those values that once inspired all of American education and from }'IRST TO REGISTER: Mrs. Evelyn Valero of St.. which most of American educa LOlli:-l' parish school, Fall River, registers for the diocesan tion is retreating today. teaehers' convention in Attleboro. Sister Miriam; R.S.M., "By all means we should keep alive and, even accelerate center, and Sister Felicita, R.S.M., are school supervisors~ ff
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Bishop to Ordain Two for Service In Diocese Most Rev. James L. Con nolly, BiRhop of Fall River, will. ordain three to the Roman Catholic priesthood
PRICE tOe $4.00 per Year
Hub Duplicates Fall River Hostel for Aged 'Priests
unashamed of the religious ori entation of our teaching, and to be forthright in seeking and proclaiming spiritual as well as intellectual excellence for our
schools" .. '"
"Unless our schools and col
leges wield results in spiritual
maturity and deepened faith as
well as in intellectual leadership,
then how can we justify the ex
penditure .of so much religious
talent and manpower in Amer
ican Catholic education when
Catholics and others around the
world need our help?"
. The convention will continue
through today and tomorrow,
with final sessions scheduled for 3:30 tomorrow afternoon.
Cathedral Ordination May 30
Fall River, Mass., Thursday, May 14, 1964
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sion, for our schools will not command respect i( they are backward or shoddy intellectu ally, nor should we expect Cath olic parents and young people to be penalized as regards edu cational quality because they desire education in Catholic schools. "But there is no conflict be tween intellectual and religious or moral ideals. Reaffirm Basic Commitments "As I said earlier, we are liv ing in a time which is long on scientific breakthroughs and mental sophistication and short on self-dicipline and moral re sponsibility. . "Hence not only for the sake
REV. MR. HARRINGTON
at St. Mary's Cathedral at 10 Saturday morning, May 30.
Two of the new priests will
serve in the diocese. The third
man is being ordained for the
Sacramento Diocese.
The ordinandi are:
Rev. Mr. Thomas J. Harrington
o£ New Bedford.
Rev. Mr. Donald J. Bowen of
Attleboro.
Rev. Mr. Edward J. Donaghy
of West Roxbury.
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REV. MR. BOWEN
See liturgical Education Need
A quarter of a century in service to the aged and con yaleseent priests of the Dioce'se of Fall, River is being By. Rev. John R. Folster completed by the Priests' Hostei on Highland Avenue, Fail St. ·Anthony Church -New Bedford River. At the time of the erection of the original building &f the Catholic Memorial , and the Star store, New Be~ford. , Members of diocesan litur education needed; (b) practical and missions should be given a
Rome, Bishop Cassidy built Blessed on July 2, 1939 by gical commissions met in solutions urged.
greater liturgical orientation. the hostel for the aged MQst Rev. James E. Cassidy, Greater Education In adopted "observations" sent Kansas City to discuss their priests through the magni third Bishop of the Diocese, the' . Both clergy and laity must be to the Bishops of the U.S., cer respective problems in the ficent generosity of the Mahoney first Mass was offered by the better educated in liturgical Family of New Bedford. It was the gift of Mrs. Maho Iley and her children Mrs. Wil liam Conroy, James H. Mahoney Ir., Francis J. and Thomas A. Mahoney in loving memory of a devoted husband and father. Mr. Mahoney Sr., K.M., K.S.G., ...as a former executive of the a. A. McWhirr Co., Fall River,
Ordinary on the same day in the hostel chapel. The need of such a home was evident to the far-sighted Bish op Cassidy. Now, it is being dup licated in other Archdioceses and Dioceses throughout the country. The Archdiocese of Boston an nounced over the week-end the Turn to Page Twenty-nine
Ch'arities Appeal
Response Heads
For New High
implementation of the Council's Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy. The National Liturgical Con ference sponsored the meeting which brought together some 250 liturgists from 101 U.S. dio ceses. The experts agreed on two fundamental PQints: (a) greater
matters. For this: 1. Qualified priests should be given the opportunity to study in liturgical and pastoral insti tutes; 2. Diocesan liturgical com. missions should encourage lay adult education committees to promote liturgical programs; 3. Schools, convents, retreats
tain steps were urged on a na tional scale: 1. The establishment of a national advisory committee on liturgical matters; 2. The creation of a national institute of higher studies in pastoral theology; 3. The compilation of a na
tional directory giving norlNl
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The 1964 Catholic Chari ties A p pea I total today reached $419,398. The total is four thousand dollars more
"Partial returns from many other parishes indicate slight in creases over last year which makes me believe we are heading for a new record," The fifteen leading parishes of the Diocese are: St. Lawrence, New Bedford $18,177.50 St. John, Attleboro 14,762.00 St. Francis 'Xavier, Hyannis 13,550.00 Holy Name, 12,745.50 Fall River St. James, 10,894.50 New Bedford
St. Mary, North Attleboro Immaculate Conception, North Easton Sacred Heart, Fall River St. Patrick, Wareham St. Joseph, New Bedford Cathedral, Fall River St. Patrick, Fall River St. Patrick, Falmouth Holy Name. New Bedford 81. Mary, Attleboro
than it was on the comparable day last year said Lay Chair man Larry Newman of Hyannis today. Twelve par ish e s scattered throughout the diocese have al ready gone over the top, Mr. Newman pointed out as he noted that this represents slightly more than 10 per cent of the diocesan parishes.
9,764.51 8,481.OG 8,263.00
7,228.00 7,084.00 6,526.50 6,256.55
6,178.00 6,0;;9.;;0 5,611.00
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