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46,246,175 Catholics
-According to the 1966 Official Catholic Directory, just issued by P. J. Kenedy & Sons publjshing firm, the increase in the number of Oatholics in the Diocese of Fall River amounted to 6,688 or 2.4% gain, while the national increase totaled only 1.3%. There are now 277,916 Catholics in the Fall River Diocese while the last report in 1965 listed! 270,228. The total Catholic population of United States dioceses with a total Catholic growth of 267,582 and the 12[ is now 42,246,175, an in population of 26,290,478. The dioceses 337,974. figure includes the two The seven archdioceses witilli crease of 605,556 in a year. later millio~ Catholics reported by
The increase was achieved dur ing a year when the fewest, number of converts in 12 years entered the r"mrch-123,149. There was a decrease' of 3,060 converts. compared to the 1965 statistics and the smallest total since 1953 when 116,696 entered the Church. The directory said the 1966 tot~l of Catholics includes those in the 50 sta~es, families with armed services perspnnel at home and abr9ad, as well as members of the diplomatic corps and other services abroad. The total represents a 10-year in crease of 12,672,158, or 37.7 per cent over the 33,574,017 recorded in 1956. There are 29 archdioceses in ·the U. S., with a Catholic pop ulation of, 19,955,697, and 1211
the Military Ordinariate. The 29 archdioceses reportt'!d a
Catholic populations in excess of one million are ChicagoD Turn to Page Four
Diocesan Vincenti(!JIns M~et At ,Regional Conclave
Vincentians from the Fall River Diocese are well repre sented on the program for the fir s t northeastern regional meeting of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, to be held this weekend 'at the DeWitt Clinton By appointment of Very Rev. John V. O'Connor, S.J., Hotel, Albany, N. Y. Provincial Superior of the Society of Jesus oj New England, At a panel on Vatican Council the Rev. John G. CorneIlier,8.J., wiII assume the duties of II to be presented Sunday, Rev.· Edmond L. Dickinson of Sacred P.rincipal at the new Bishop C<?nnolly High School in. Fall Heart Church, North Attleboro River. Father CorneIIier enwill be moderator, while panel tered the Society of Jesus at members will inClude Rev. John Shadowbrook, Lenox, where E. Boyd, pastor of St. Patrick's he made his novitiate' and Church, Fall River, and Rev. Edward S. Sharpe, Holy Ghost began his college training. Upon Church,Attleboro. To receive receiving his Master's Degree special consideration is the from Boston College, he was asbearing of the Constitution on 'signed to Baghdad College, the Church in the Modern Baghdad, Iraq, one of the mi~ World on the work of the Vin
sions staffed by New England Jesuits. During his stay in the The Spring meeting of the centians.
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Middle East, he taught at the Diocesan' Oatholic Pharma Among Vincentians serving as College and then studied Arabic cists Guild of St. James will group session discussion leaders, at the Language House in Bagh be held Saturday night, May. summarizers and coordinators dad, spending some time in Leb 28, at 7, o'clock at White's Res will be Thomas H. Cahill, Leon FR. ,EDl\lOND L. DICKINSOl'( anon and Jerusalem. taurant, Route 6, Westport. Gauthier, James S. Gillet, John He returned to the United E. Kane, Christopher J. Lake discuss "Salvage Operations iil States to complete his theolog Rt. Rev. Henri A. Hamel, pas ical studies and was ordained in tor of St.John the Baptist and H. Frank Reilly of Fall Fall River" at a special meeting 1959 at Weston College, the Jes Church, Fall River, and chair . River; and James Fitton of for delegates active in store and uit seminary in ,Weston.· man of the Diocesan Commission Attleboro. clothes room' projects for their 'Albert.Petit of Fall River will Vincentian' conferences. A year later he received his on Christian Unity, will discuss Licentiate in Sacred Theology the' work of the Commission in and then devoted a year to· the the Diocese. ' study of Ascetical Theology at :Reservations may be made by the Jesuit house in Pomfret contacting Virginio C. Macedo, Center, Conn. Upon completion Timothy P. Keating, Nestor .lEV.' J. G. OORNELLIER. S.I. of his seminary training, Father ' Mesquita, and Joseph Rebello Cornellier was assigned to the of New Bedford, or anyone of faculty of Cheverus High School, the following from Fall River, A dual announcement by the CathoUc Charities Appeal Portland, Me. Albert F. Dussault, Norman R., Headquarters is strongly indicative of a new high in this Tum to Page Four Caron .or Anthony R. Ruggiero. annual "Appeal of the Heart". A totalof $657,394 has been
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Catholic Cha:rities: Appeal Heading for New Record
CCD Graduation At Cathedral On Tuesday
realized and thus gives strength to the expectation for ~ new high, plus the announce.
ment that 39 additional par- Mt: Carmel, Seekonk; S~.
ishes have been added to the Thomas More, Somerset; St. 20 previously reported par- Mary, So. Dartmouth.
Most Reverend Bishop Connolly wiII preside at grad uation ceremonies at' 8 o'clock Tuesday evening, May 24th in St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River. Recipients of certificates will ' be some 65 lay teachers in the Confraternity of Christian Doc trine who h a ve completed teacher-training courses held in all five areas of the Diocese. Courses were held in each area by the Reverend Regional Directors, assisted by area -reli gious. The religious education Tum to Page Two
Ordinations Most Rev. James L. Connolly, Bishop of the Diocese, will or dain three deacons to the priest hood on Saturday morning, May ~1, at 10 o'clock in St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River. The ordi- '. lIlandi are: Rev. Mr. Paul E. Canuel, son of Mr. and Mrs. lRobert M. Canuel, 19 Oban Way, Swansea; Rev. Mr. Raymond A. Robillard, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Robillard, Westport; and Rev. Mr. Harold J. Wilson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Haroldl Wilson, Fall River.
MEETS APOSTOLIC DELEGATE: Brother Daniel Sullivan, O.F~M., brother, of Rev. Leo T. Sullivan, pastor of St. Ann's ,Church, Raynham, meets Archbishop Augustine Sepinski, newly consecrated Apostolic Delegate to the Holy Land, at Terra Sancta College, Amman, Jordan. From left, Rev. Stephen Sabbagh, Archbishop Sepinski, Brother Daniel, Brother Ambrose Beam.
ishes exceeding their 1965 totals. St. Pius X, ,So. Yarmouth; OUi' From Fall River, seven par- Lady of Fatima and St. Louis of ishes surpassed last year's total France, Swansea; Holy Trinity, contributions. They are: Holy West Harwich; St. George. West~ Rosary, St. Anthony of the Des- port; St. Joseph, Woods Hole. ert, St. Elizabeth, St. Matthew, The three leading parishes in St. Patrick, SS. Peter and Paul, the Diocese are St. Lawrence, and St. Roch. New Bedford; St. Mary, No, At~ The nine parishes from New tleboro; Holy Name, Fall River. Bedford, were: Assumption, Mt. Carmel, Our Lady of Purgatory, Sacred Heart, St. Anthony of Padua, St. Casimir, St. Hyacinth, St. Joseph, and St. Mary~ The investiture by Bisho~ Four Taunton parishes are Connolly of four pastors as Pro listed this week as additional tonotaries Apostolic will take members of the honor roll. They place on Wednesday night, May are: Holy Family, Sacred Heart, 2:', at 8 o'clock in 'St. Mary's St. Anthony, and St. Joseph. Cathedral, Fall River. The foul!' St. Joseph, St. Stephen and St. monsignori who have been hon Theresa from the Attleboro area ored by Pope Paul VI are: Rt. have become new honored par Rev. Albert Berube, pastor of ishes during. the past week. St. Anthony of' Padua Church, In addition to the above, 15 New Bedford; Rt. Rev. Raymond 'pa'rishes from various sections. , T. Considine, pastor of St. Wil of the Dio.cese have passed their liam's Church, Fall River, anell 1965 parish totals. St. Bernard, Diocesan Director of the Prop Assonet; Holy Redeemer,' Cha agation of the Faith; Rt. Rev. tham; St. Peter, Dighton; Sacred James Dolan, pastor of St. Hearts, Fairhaven; St. Francis Mary's Church, Taunton; and Xavier, Hyannis. Rt. Rev. Hugh A. Galagher, pas Also, Our Lady of Grace, No. tor of St.. James Church, New: We.stport; St. Ann, Raynham; Bedford.