AN ANCI,,1I0R OF THE SOUL, SURE AND FIRM -HE•. 6:19
t eanc 0 VOL. 21, NO. 20
FALL RIVER, MASS., THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1977
Catholic Charities Drive at $919,359 The 1977 Appeal is in its closing days. The official closing is tomorrow. There are still many parish returns, priests' donations and special gift contrIbutions to be reported. Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, diocesan director of the Appeal, said today: "All special gifts, priests' donations and parish contributions must be made at central headquarters in Fall River by noon tomorrow for accreditation in this year's Appeal. These reports should be made in person to insure credit for this year's Appeal. The final total of the 1977 Appeal will be published in next week's edition of The Anchor. I hope that every one of the 112 parishes will be "over the top" tomorrow. This will be necessary to beat last year's final record total. Fifty-three parishes have thus far surpassed their 1976 final totals. Some parishes are very close to achieving Honor Roll status. The goal is one hundred percent enrollment in this year's Honor Roll. The following parishes were added to the Honor Roll since the last reporting: Holy Ghost, St. John, St. Mark, St. Theresa, Attleboro; St. Mary, Seekonk. Our Lady of the Cape, Brewster; St. Margaret, Buzzards Bay; St. Anthony, East Falmouth; St. Patrick, Falmouth; Our Lady of the Isle, Nantucket; Sacred Heart, Oak ,Bluffs; St. Joan of Arc, Orleans; St. John, Pocasset; Corpus Christi, Sandwich; St. Augustine, Vineyard Haven; Holy Trinity, West Harwich. 'Blessed Sacrament, Holy Cross, Holy Rosary, Immaculate Conception, Sacred Heart, St. Elizabeth, St. Louis, St. Roch, St. Stanislaus, St. Williams, Santo Christo, Fall River; St. Patrick, St. Thomas More, Somerset; Our Lady of Fatima, St. Michael, Swansea. Our Lady of Fatima, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, St. Anne, St. Hedwig, St. Mary, New Bedford; St. Francis Xavier, Acushnet; Sacred Hearts, Fairhaven. Holy Family, East Taunton; Holy Rosary, Our Lady of Lourdes, Taunton; St. Peter. Dighton; St. A~n, Raynham.
Cape Cod Area St. Pius X.. South Yannouth St. Francis Xavier, Hyannis Corpus Christi, Sandwich St. Patrick, Falmouth Holy Trinity, West Harwich
24,293.43 20,960.00 14,524.68 13,005.00 12,216.00
Fall River Area Holy Name 27,952.00 Our Lady of the Angels 14,923.80 St. Mary's Cathedral 14,400.00 Turn to Page Six
Novak to Speak At Stonehill Stonehill College will award 420 baccalaureate degrees and four honorary degrees during its 26th commencement eXe!rcises on Sunday, May 22, at 10:30 a.m. on the college quadrangle. Michael Novak, a member summa cum laude graduate of the Stonehill class of 1956 and a noted and prolific writer, will deliver the commencement address. Novak, Watson-Ledden Distinguished Professor of Religion at Syracuse University and a syndicated columnist for the Washington Star, will also receive an honorary Doctor of Humanities degree. He is the Turn to Page Four
All the Numbers Come to One Latest statistics for the Fall River diocese as given in the new Official Catholic Directory show us to have a east of thousands, with 325, 000 Catholics out of a total population of 530,000 in our part of the vineyard. We're urged along the paths of virtue by 435 diocesan and religious order priests, plus 801 Sisters and 46 Brothers. That's about one priest, Brother or Sister for each 250 of us. There are 114 parishes, 18 missions and 75 chapels. Uncounted Is the number of bingos, penny sales, suppers, whists and dances they generate. Education statistics list seven high schools enrolling 3,381 students and 24 elementary schools with 8,822. Four private elementary schools have 752 students and 123 children are in three specialized institutions. Uncounted are gallons of spilled milk per lunch period, how often squeaky chalk sets teachers' nerves on edge or how many hopeful eyes scan the sky each morning to ~ if the weather is decreeing a no-sehool day. In-patients and out-patients at St. Anne's Hospital: 69,579. Tears, prayers, sighs of relief: unrecorded. Tum to Page Five
Announce 4:hanges, First Assigrlments His Excellency, the Most Rev'erend Bishop, has announced the transfer of five associate pastors and the first priestly assignments, of the five newly ordained members of the presbyterate of the diocese. Father Martin Buote will be the new assistant in St. Joan of Arc parish, Orleans. A native of Somerset, Father Buote was ordained in 1960 and has served in several parishes in the diocese. His most recent assignment has been in St. Michael's, Ocean Grove. In 1964 Father Buote received a bachelor of science degree in physics from Boston College. Long active in the Boy Scouts, he is presently Scout chaplain for the Fall River area. 'Presently stationed at Mt. Carmel. New Bedford, Father Edward Correia will be the new assistant at St. Anthony of Padua parish in Fall River. Born in New Bedford, he is a graduate of Holy Family High School. He attended St. John's Seminary, Brighton, and was ordained in 1968. His first parish assignment was to Our Lady of Victory, Centerville, where he also served as assistant CYO director for the Cape Cod area. Father Edward McIsaac, a native of Woburn, will assume pastoral duties at the Catholic Memorial Home, Fall River. Ordained in 1948, he is currently assigned to St. Joan of Arc parish, Orleans.
Attleboro Area 20,140.00 13,173.50 12,817.00 12,118.00 12,013.00
A native of Fall River, Father Michael Nagle, will be the assistant in St. Peter the Apostle parish, Provincetown. Ordained in 1972, he has the past five years been the associate at St. Mary's, Taunton. Father William Norton, a graduate of ,BMC Durfee High School, Fall River, attended St. John's Seminary, Brighton, and was ordained to the priesthood in 1967. He has served in various New Bedford parishes since that time as well as being chaplain and director of St. Mary's Home. In addition to his duties lit St. Mary's parish, New Bedford, his current assignment, he ~Ilso has served as chaplain to the New Bedford Catholic Nurses' Guild and moderator of the New Bedford area CYO. His Tum to Page Two
IRadio-TV Board IElects Ordinary Coincidentally with the designation by Pope Paul VI of Sunday, May 22 as World Communications Day, Bishop Daniel A. Cronin has been named to the board of directors- of the Catholic Communications Foundation, an organization devoted to aiding the radio and television activities of the American Catholic Church through training, counselling, funding and publishing. The foundation is funded by Catholic fraternal benefit societies. With Bishop Cronin will serve Archbishop Edward A. McCarthy, coadjutor archbishop of Miami, Fla.; D. Thomas Miller. president of the CBS television stations division; and Robert S. Walsh, vice president and general manager of WRC-TV, washington, D.C. 'In connection with World Communications Day, Father John F. Moore, diocesan director of communications, has asked priests of the diocese to use a special prayer of the faithful this Sunday. In Rome, Pope Paul's media advisor said, with regard to this Turn to Page Five
An Explanation
Leading Parishes St. John, Attleboro St. Mary, North Attleboro St. Mark, Attleboro Falls St. Mary, Mansfield Mt. Cannel, Seekonk
15c, $5 Per Year
UTANY OF SAINTS is chanted by choir, congregation as deacons near moment of ordination last Saturday at St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River.
As Is annually the case durIng the Catholic Charities ApIleal, space requlremeJJts neet,ssltate abbreviation or eliminaltlon of many of our regular stories and features. We assure the many readers who have c:aUed or written to us about this matter that we will retum 1:0 our normal format as soon liS possible.