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C E f President.. InY@~ved. ~,n Catholic Education
Appeal Contributions Are Close to New
AII-T'ime Mark The 1968 Catholic Ohanties Appeal total reached $583,379~34 this morning, Last Oh:ail"man Roland A. Lafrance announced at Appeal Headquarters. The Lay Chairmallll Staid: ~'The Qooks of the Appeal will close on Friday at noon, May 24. It is hoped that aU parish solicitors and S1Pecial gift voluntee I" workers will. oomplete their remaining con . toots this week." Mr. Lafrance continued, "it is a'very "... _.._ ....BlPParent that every area in the diocese is charity-conscious and this is all due to the yearly appearance of new programs of' ohari'ty becoming realities. Charity is oontagious and love of neighbor in need has Fifteen leading parishes: beoome an essential way of Holy Name. Fall River$22,659.5@ life for members of aU sects St. Lawrence, 19,921.3lD New Bedford and. denominations through
NEW YORK (NC) - 'The head of the nationwide Citizens for Educational Freedom and the director of the Bducation Department of the U.'S. Catholic Conference are JiWesently hooked-up in a cOllUtrovei'sy relative to Catholic ~cation which had its iUl. tePtion in a Jesuit periodical. -"") M ignores the fairest 'anell ,National C E F President, most effective education pro Ifi....,.l Meckl,eborg of Cinci ••- goom ever adopted in this IlI'<MI country. . llL'
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has criticized !.Isgr. J'ames Donohue but the latter has
"We agree with Msgr. Dono . hue that Catholic schools are facing a financial crisis. But we
~lied that his critic "should . (jI) back and carefully read, the trilCle" which is'in line wt'th the d.isagree on both. the cause and lltand taken QY the U. S. Bishops the cure," Meckleborg SSlid.. lli:i their' recent St. Louls con" "He attributes the schools' ~ave.. 'difficulties to 'the failure ,of the REV..ROBERT J. LAUGHJ.IN Asserting that the .prelate:s' ilaithful to support them ade ~cle has caU1led a national requately.' He does not' even ad
.tion among parents which 'vert to the true cause--the basic 9aIlges fro m "disappointment fuct tha t Catholic parents· are' (Ift(J "disbelief to anger and alltalt~ so heavily and so unjustly
~ish," Meckleborg listed four for public education that 'many objections' to the . position he of them 'Can no longer afford, the ldIeges the prelate has' enunci- schools of their free choice,", the OIled: Ohioan asserted.
.~) It is opposed to the cieal' The CEF solution is to ask lMooing of the Second Vatican that education "funds, which are lII9uncil. " raised by equitably taxing all ~ It, would encourage state families, be equitaQly distrib ~nopoly at the expense of 'reuted to· all families, Mecklen... llGious freedom in education. -borg said. This could be done ~~ It is impractical and' eco-' u.nder a plan similar to the GI !iIilimically unsound. .' Tum to Page 'E,we.nty
Taunton Priest
In Army
Cqrps Post:
Penna. School ·Aid 'Measure 'Achieves Crucial Backing
Rev. Robert J .. Laughlin, assistant· at $t:· 'Joseph's Church, Taunton has been C<'llled to active duty in the u. S. Army Cliaplains' CorPs
PHILAPELPHIA (NC)~Public 'and 'Catholic school officials have hailed the passage by the Pennsylvania House .. Representatives of a bill which ena'llles the st:~te to pur thaBe educational servic~s from non-public .schools. ·John ~;dinal Krol o~ Plliladel- Philadel~hia, praised the bill's umia has calleQ, the vote a passage asserting: . ~tesman}ike action" which : "It . ~ just as important· for ~howed an understanding of parochial schools to survive as
with the rank of Captain. He leaves today for Fort BliSl/, EI Paso, Texas, and reports for duty on Saturday, May 18 as' <II. post chaplain to the Army Ail' Defense. The son of.' John F. and Ma'r jorie J, Dooley Laughlin, mem bers of St. Mary's Parish, Taun ton, he was born in Providence. Fr. Laughlin attended St. Mary's Turn to Page Two'
6b.e erisis now facing all education-both non-public and publk. . 'file Cardinal sald the law makers' action, "while it rec ognized the justice and wisdom
CiJf aid to n'On-public education,
Eliso recognized that today trou
&lie for non-public educatioo dJirectly spells trouble for public OOucation.
The' Cardinal has also coun
IJelled the state Senate and Gov. Ilaymond P; Shafer that pareots "'\have not been deceived-nor .,ill they be deceived-by spe aous pleas that, however much \\he Commonwealth may spend 160r other purposes, rigorous aus ~rity must be observed where aon-public school children are. IillOncerned" or "by tactics, both erude and subtle, aimed at de-' llay , confusion or the ultimate Cleath in committee of this vital~ l\y needed legislation." , Richal'dsoro Dilworth, presi l\lIent of the Board of Public Ed McaUon and former mayor 9Il
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it ia f()r ~lIblic :;lchools to sur vive." Turn to Page Two
St. Ja'mes, . New Bedford St. John, Attleboro "llt ill evident from the ll'e :M:t. Cal'mel, New Bedford sp'onse to this' 1968 Appeal to St. Mary, Fall River the Heart that the 'sugge8tions of St. Joseph, Fairhaven Bi9'hop::..Conn~11y at the opening Holy Name, New Bedford meeting were taken to heart. His St. Josepjl, indicati()n that there is a need New Bedford fur overnight car~ for the'men St. 'Pius X, tally retarded has ;been stren~tb. So. Yarmouth ened ~ the generosity of thee St. Mary, So, Dartmouth populace." St. Thomas More, Somerset "'J'lhe Bishop's announcement that am. investigation Jis .being , Sacred Heart, made into the need 01.' a home . '.Fall River St. George, Westport for the aged and chronically ill St. Patrick, Wareham ~ Cape' Cod has ~~ ack.no~l edged ·by the number who re
sponded. to ·the theme 'At least • dollar more in 1968'." . Otllt the 1194 square mile Dio cese of Fsll River....
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Holy Cross Dean
Is New Jesuit
Mr. Lafrance hopefully assert- .
Proyin~ial
cd: "It is my sincere prayer that again this year we will top .all The Jesuit. Provincial head past figures, an acknowledge ment of the appreciation of the .<lu'arters in BOston announced faithful for the many and varied the appointment of Rev. services offered by· the diocese William' G: Guindon, S.J., as to young arid old alike." . the new Father Provincial ->f the New England Province off Twenty-one .parishes are' on the Society of Jesus .to succeed! the Honor Roll· of parishes eX- , the Rev. John V. O'Connor, S.J. ceeding la'st year's ,~nal total. The appointment will become The new parishes added since .effecti ve on June 13. the .last publication are: Espiriio tather Guin!ion' is presently Santo, St, Anthony of the Des':: Vice President and'Dean of the ert, St.. Louis, &to ltoeh, .. St, College of the Holy Cross, Stanislaus, Fall River. , Worcester. ~. native of Boston, .upon completion of his sopho Our Lady, of Purgatory, St.; more y'ear at M.L.T. in 1936, he Anne, St, Francis of Assisi, st. e"tered the Jesuit Order. Hlclv, Mary, St, Theresa, New Bedf9rd. jng received his A.B.. and M.A. degrees' from' Boston College Also Holy Filmily, St. JQseph, and licentiate degrees in Phil Tawlton; St. Stephen, AttlebOro; 099phy' .and Theology from St, Francis. Xavier, Acushnet; Weston College, he was awarded St. Bern·ard; Assonet. '11 Ph.D. 'degree in Nuclear The Our Lady of the Isle, Nan , ory by M.LT. in 1948. 'After oi..dination to the pries.t tucket; Assumption, Osterville; St, John of God, Somerset; St. h()()(j, by Cardinal Cushing illl 1950, he spent the final year of George, Westport. Turn to Page Two
For Cigarette Money· You Can Bring Tot Hope, Chance for Education
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Five dollars a month isn"t vel'y .muc;h':'-far less than many people spend on cigarettes, allU occasional beer or a night out. But for 8 year old Pasquale Ahka of Burma it's
the difference between destitution and hope, between complete illiteracy and at least
the rudiments of an educ,ation. Pasquale is one of 6,000· "orphans of poverty" cared.
for by missionaries in Bur · t He is enthusiastic about the cause I have a certain hunger rna, India an d E ast P a k IS an, project, especially since th roug h " de 0 f my h ea, rt an d thOIS " -mSI and he's the special "son" it he has acquired two sons. "I hunger can only be satisfied by of Theodore LeBlanc of St. have two daughters,'" he ·said,· pleasing' God. God, doesn't only'
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Frands Xavier parish, Hyannis. 1MI'. LeBlanc haS been sending $5 monthly to the Foster Par~ts Mission Club at 9800 Oakland Avenue, Detroit, Michigan for the past three years; and Pasquale, is his second adopted child. His first he explalns, is now beyond the age level cared for b,v the missionary plan.
"but no son of my own." ,Some' want us to love Him; He also time ago he wrote to one of his wants 1J1S to work for Him., I orphans telling him this. - "Dear hope you will still have this Son," ne wrote. "This is the first letter to read when you are a time I ever wrote to a lovely grown man. young boy and I like to call him "Seeing your picture has made my son, because I never had at me feel that you are certainly son, as much as I would like to worth while to have, to love, to have one. 'support, and I am going to try "I hope, you don't mind, beTurn to Page Three
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