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FALL RIVER DIOCESAN NEWSPAPER FOR SOUTHEAST MASSACHUSETTS CAPE COD & THE ISLANDS F ALL RIVER, MASS.
Friday, May 20, 1994
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At 41st DCCW convention
Women ,asked to oppose birth control handouts .
By Pat McGowan At their 41 st annual convention, held last Saturday at St. John. of God parish center, Somerset, members of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women were asked by retiring dnocesan moderator Very Rev. James F. Lyons to make it a priority to oppose a proposed Massachusetts requirement that welfare applicants be given birth control information. Retiring next month, Father Lyons thanked the women for the years he had spent as moderator and asked their prayers as he began hi!; new life. Another convention highlight was provided by 12-year-old Colleen Leal, a student at Somerset Junior High School and
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a member of St. Louis de France parish, Swansea. Granddaughter of Mrs. Claudette Armstrong, convention chairman, she was responsible for a beautiful depiction of the Holy Family that appeared on the convention program, was enlarged to provide a backdrop for the speakers' platform and was also used on notecards distributedas convention souvenirs. Good Counsel Awards Our Lady of Good Counsel awards, annually recognizing outstanding service to paris,h and DCCW events, went to Mary S'ullivan, FaIl River District I; Annette Dwyer, New Bedford District 11; Grace Enos, Taunton District 111; June Turn to Page 10
Changes affect 40 priests
Bishop Sean O'Malley has announced changes that affect 40 priests of the diocese. Three are retiring; one is assuming the post of senior priest; 21 are moving from one pastorate to another or assuming the post of pastor for the first time; six are assuming special ministries; and nine are moving from one parish to another while remaining parochial vicars. Retirements Father Andre P. Jussaume has been pastor of St. Louis de France parish, Swansea, since 1988. Ordained March 29, 1952, in Fall River, he was parochial vicar at Notre Dame, Fall River; St. Theresa's New Bedford; and St. Jacques, Taunton, where he was appointed pastor in 1972. While in Taunton he was chaplain at Taunton State Hospital. Father James F. Lyons has been pastor since 1976 at St. Patrick's parish, Ware-
ham, where he also served his first assignment as parochial vicar following his ordination Nov. 27,1943, in Fall River. He was later parochial vicar at Immaculate Conception, Taunton, and administrator at St. Peter's, Dighton. In 1967 he was named pastor of Our Lady of Victory, Centerville. He was also pastor' at St. Mary's, Taunton, before his assignment in Wareham. He has been spiritual moderator of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women and of its New Bedford district since 1990, having previously moderated the Cape and Islands and Taunton districts. At various times he was spiritual director of Taunton district Vincentians and chaplain for Queen's Daughters, Taunton Serra Club and Wareham Knights of Columbus. He was appointed dean of the New Bedford deanery in 1990 with the title Very Reverend. Turn to Page Three