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Charities Appeal $600,000, Climbing Catholic Charities Appeal Diocesan Director, Rev. Msgr.· Anthony M. Gomes, announced today that the 1973 Appeai has reached $610,244.40. Special gift solicitors are requested to complete 'their remaining contacts this week. Parish solicitors are urged to' make final returns to their parish .centers by Monday, May. 21. . Msgr. Gomes said: "Final donations from the two phases of .the Appeal can be, registered until Friday noon, May 25. The books will be closed then for the 1973 tabulations of parish and special gift solicitations." Diocesan Lay Chairman of the Appeal, Joseph H. Feitelberg of Somerset, stated: "We are pleased with this new total and 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 1972 totals. The number of parishes enrolled in the 1973 Honor Booll for exceeding last year's final totals is 10. Since the last reporting, parishes added to the honor roll are: St. Francis Xavier, Hyannis;' Our Lady of the Isle, Nantucket; Corpus Christi, Sandwich; Our Lady of the Angels, Fall River; Our Lady of Grace, N. Westport; Sacred Heart, St. Kilian, New Bedford; Holy Family, Taunton. A final report of the 1973 Appeal will be issued five days after the final closing of the books. Parish chairmen, priest directors and special gift solici-
Spiritual Values Theme For Communications Day FATHER BOIVIN
FATHER GAUTHIER
Two Pastors to Celebrate Silver Jubilee as Priests Rev. Louis R. Boivin, pastor of St. Louis de France Parish, Swansea, and Rev. Rene G. Gauthier, pastor of St. Theresa Parish, New Bedford, will, on Tuesday, May 22, observe. the Silver Jubilee of their ordination to ,the priesthood. One of eight children of whom four are nuns, Father Boivin is the son of Mrs. Mathilda (Madore) Boivin and the late Euclide A. Boivin of Taunton. Sisters to Father Boivin are Sr. Anna Imelda, SUSC; Sr. Lucille Theresa, SUSC; Sr. Pauline Louise, SUSC and Sr. Gabrielle SSJ, all serving in vanious ministries of the Diocese of Fall River. Born November I, 1923 in Taunton, he was educated at St. Jacques Parish School and Msgr. Coyle High School. He spent his college years at Ste. Anne College, Church Point, Canada.
After preparing for the priesthood at St. Mary's Seminary in in Baltimore, he was ordadned a priest on May 22, 1948 by Most Rev. James E. Cassidy, Third Bishop of Fall River. Father Boivin, pastor of St. Louis de France Parish in Swans·ea since November 1970, began his priesthood there as assistant for four years. He then served as ass'istant at St. Hyaointhe for a few years and for 15 years at St. Joseph Parish in New Bedford. A ,pallish celebration of the pastor's jubilee will include a 'special Mass at 9:30 Sunday morning, May 20, and a banquet at Venus de Milo Restaurant in Swansea at 12 noon. Rev. Rene G.. Gauthier, newly appointed pastor of St. Theresa Parish, New Bedford, is the son of the late Ignace and the late Turn to Page Twelve
WASHINGTON - The idea that mass media can win large audiences only by presentations which "depreciate the higher Christian or human values" is "a gratuitous insult to the great body of humanity," according to a Vatican communications agen. cy. A statement issued by the Pontifical Commission for Social Communications says it has been "<lemonstrated over and over agai~ that first-class material, presented with skill, good taste and artistry ... is capable of attracting enormous followings." The statement by the Pontifical Commission for Social Communications' was issued to explain and illustrate the theme of the 1973 World Communications Day......::..The Mass and the Affir. mation and Promotion of Spiritual Values." World Communications Day
will be observed this year on Sunday, June 3. The annual, worldwide Roman Catholic observance seeks to promote the development of church-related communications efforts and also to encourage Catholics and others to study the role of communications media in order to understand better their function in contempor·ary society. World Communications Day is sponsored by the Pontifical Commission for Social Communications - whose president, Arch-' bishop Edward L. Heston, C.S.C., has just died-and coordinated in the United States by the U. S. Catholic Conference's Department of Communication. It was established as an international observance by the Second Vatican Council in its de. cree on social communications, Turn to Page Six
LEADING AREA PARISHES Attleboro Area St. John, Attleboro $12,190.95 St. Mary, Seekonk 8,351.00 Mt. Carmel, Seek;onk 8,173.50 St. Theresa, S. Attleboro 6,918.00 St. Mary, Mansfield 6,729.50
Cape & Islands Area St. Francis Xavier, Hyannis . 14,059.00 St. Pius X, S. Yarmouth 11,860.50 St. Patrick, Falmouth 8,967.00 Corpus Christi, Sandwich .8,875.00 Assumption, Osterville 8,178.00
Fall River Area Holy Name, Fall River 22,079.00 Our Lady of the Angels, 13,725.00 Fall River Cathedral, Fall River 11,408.00 Sacred Heart. Fall River 9.732.00 St. Thomas More, Somerset 9,146.00
New Bedford Area St. Joseph, Fairhaven 12,155.35 Mt. Carmel, New Bedford 11,671.51 St. Lawrence, New Bedford 11,517.50 St. James, New Bedford 10,368.25 St. Patrick, Wareham 9,307.00
Taunton Area St. Mary, Taunton 10,121.00 Holy Family, E. Taunton 6,910.50 Sacred Heart, Taunton 6,531.85 Immaculate Conception, 6,050.00 North Easton St. Joseph, Taunton 5,333.00
Appoint New Feehan High Principal Rev. Patrick J. O'NeiH, Superintendent of Diocesan Schools, has announced appointment of Sister Mary Faith Harding, R.S.M. as pl1incipal of Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro.
She 'Succeeds Sister Therese Antone, R.S.M. who has been. princip'al for four years anq leaves Feehan to assume a position on 1fue pl10vincial team of College, the' course will feature the Sisters of Mercy. Sister Mary Faith is a native English-speaking scholars from Rome's academic community and of Pall River and a graduate of offer insights into Vatican agen- the former Mt. St. Mary Academy. She ,is the daughter of Mrs. cies and their operations. Since its foundation in 1970 Deborah Harding of Rodman by Msgr. Richard Mahowald of Street, Fall River and the late Sioux Falls, S. D., the institute William Harding. She has one has been attended by 150 U. S. brother, William Harding, Hyde Park, Mass. priests and three bishops. Msgr. Mahowa'ld said that let- . For 'the past nine years, the ters had been sent to the nearly new pl1incipal /has taught· and Turn to Page Two been libl1ari-an at Bishop Feehan
High School. She isa member of the FlClculty Council, moder-
Rome Seminary Classes Resume F'or Thirty American Bishops ROME (NC)-About 30 American bishops are expected to enroll in a month-long course in theology, liturgy, law and history scheduled by the Institute for Continuing Theological Education for September 1974. Expressly tailored to update U. S. bishops who could not spare the time to attend the regular three-month course at the institute, located at th~ graduate house of the North American
tors of the Appeal should make their reports in person at Headquarters beginning Wednesday, May 23 to the closing on Friday, May 25 in order to receive proper credit for this year's Appeal.
SR. MARY FAITH HARDING
ator of th~ Alumni Associat·ion and f.ormer co-chairman of an accreditation steering committee. Sister Mary Fa'ith holds a bachelor's degree in education from Catholic Teachers' College and a master's in libmry science from Ca'tholic University. She also attended tlhe, University of Del,aware, Salve Regina College and Boston University. Before coming. to Feehan, Sister Mary F~ith was Hhrarian at St. Mary Academy, Bayview in Rhode Island. She was also a supervising teacher at Bayview. She has taught at St. Mary School, Bristol,and Holy Ghost sohool in Prov>idence. 'As principal, she hopes to continue the w9rk done by her predecessnr, especially in areas of public relations and curriculum development.