Catholic Charities Appeal Nears New Record High for Diocese ( I
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A new total of $;323,555.63 released at the Catholic Charities Appeal head quarters today' indicates a successful 1958 campaign. Returns will be tabulated for anoth er full week~and if the present strength is maintained; last year's total of $354,477.92 will be exceeded. Special gifts and parochial
remittances combined to es
tablish today's increase of
$34,747.67.
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Seventeen more parishes have
gone "over the top"; they are as
follows: St. Anthony of' the
Desert, Sacred Heart, SS. Peter
and' Paul, St. William of Fall
Riv>er; St. Casimir, 'St. Mary of
New Bedford; Holy. Family,
Sacred Heart of Taunton; Sacred '
An Anchor of the'Soul, a,nd F'irm.:.-ST. PAUL, ,Heart of No. Attleboro; St. Fran , . ' cis Xavier of Acushnet; St. Jo seph, St. Mary of Fairhave!J.;~St. 'Patrick of Falmouth; si.. An thony of Mattapoisett; St. Peter of So. Dighton; St. Patrick, St. PRICE lOe Second CIua Mail Prh·lIecM John of God of S~merset. . ,$4.00 Pe' 'Year A~thoriaod ai Fall Riv.r. M.... In the Diocesan' parochial standing Holy Name of Fall River leads with $11,764.00, fol lowed by St. Lawrence of New Bedford $11,603.80 and Sacred Heart of Fall River $10,731.10.
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'Th'u,rsday, May22, 1958
Vol. 2, No. 21
Leading Parishes
INTEREST MOUNTS IN LAY APOSTOL~TE: A small section of the group of women who crowded the audi torium at the Joseph P •. Kennedy Youth C~nter in· New Bedford for the annual meeting of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women is pictured above. Council leaders are enthusiastic over an ever-increasing interest in the Council activities.
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Mcpermott to Open Parish in Swans,ea Today
-Photo by Calvey FATHER McDERMOTT FATHER GALVIN Today marks the opening of the, new parish of Our' Lady of Fatima, Swansea. . Named as first administrator by His Excellency, Most Rev. James L. Connolly, is Rev. James F. McDermott, who lass been administrator of and completed his semhiary St. Peter's Church, South studies at St. Bernard's .Semin':' , Dighton, since 1956. 'ary, Rochester, N. Y. He was Fat her 'McDermott, a orda.ined by the late Bishop poaduate of Taunton H i g h ,Cassld~ May 21: 193~. School attended Boston College ' PrevlO~s to hiS assignment to, St. Peters Church, Father Mc-
, Dermott served as curate at St.
.Joseph's, Fall ~iver; Holy Name,
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Advises Parents, Teach Respect For Authority
SPRINGFIELD (NC) The "priestly aspects" of Christian parenthood should exert "a profound influence ill the training of the Catholic dlUd."
Emphasis on these "priestly aspects" would provide a solu tion to the grave juvenile delin quency problem, said Father Edgar Schmiedeler, O.S.B., for mer director of the Family Life Bureau, National Catholic Wel tare Conference. Father Schmiedeler, addressing the locar unit of Te Deum Turn to Page Twenty-One
Notes Hungarian Prelates Under Great Pressure VIENNA (NC)-Despite
the efforts of' Hungary's bishops to relax the Red government's anti-religJous policies, the Church in that satellite nation is under greater pressure than ever before. Church authorities are virtual prisoners of the so-called '"bearded bishops,". the name ~ven to the commissars ap pointed by the. communist re Ilime to the, Hungarian Office ... Church Affairs. . Minister of State Gyula Kallai ...lIed out the Red regime's pol . . . .. Pace TweIKF-OM
Dispensation The Most Reverend Bishop granted a dispensation from law of fast and abstinence Friday, Memorial Day, May ~
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has the for 30.
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Major Religious Heads to· Meet On Saturday Major superiors of New England, representing 50 religious orders and congre gations, will 'meet at· the_ motherhouse of the Felician Sis ters in Enfield, Conn., for their second annual meeting Saturday. The superiors will also con duct a seminar to discuss prob lems affecting religious living in contemporary society. Most Rev. Henry J. O'Brien, Archbishop of Hartford, will offer a low mass. His Excellency will give the invocation and, opening address for the regional conference. The morning session includes a talk by Rev. Robert W. Gleason, S.J., of Fordham University. Most Rev. Christopher J. Wel don, bishop of Springfield, will· close the conference. Solemn benediction will follow the last session. The New England region ill pert of the conference of major. iluperiors of wome.n's· mstitutell eI. tbe United State&. .
. 11,603.80
Sacred Heart-Fall River 10,731.10 St, John-Attleboro 7,998.00 St. 'James-New Bedford 7,686.05 NEW YORK (NC)-Catholics in the United States, Holy Name-New Bedford' . Alaska and the Hawaiian Islands now number 36,023,977 7,123.00. accordirig to the 1958, Official Catholic Director)" just issued St. Mary-Fall'River 6,497.00 b p' J K d & S bl' h St. Mary-Taunton: 6,321.25 y . . ene y ons, pu IS er. St~ Mary-No. Attleboro 6,062.00 ' . The new total represel)ts claimed memberllhip" in tb. St. Mary-Mansfield. . 5,796.50 an increase of 1,460,126 over Church. St. Francis Xavier-Hyannis last year. There are· now' Significant I1Iifference 5,163.75 35,846,477 Catholics in the The editorial acknowled~e. Immaculate Conception-No.
48 states and 177,500 in Alaska that the Directory ,figures are Easton 5,116.00 and Hawaii, it was reported. 1'he "low" and that the Census Bu reau Statl'stl'CS are "hl'gh" I" St. Patrick-Fall, River 4,313.00
" • new total represents a 10-year St.' Joseph-New Bedford
t te . increase of' 9,948,280 or 38.1 per s a s. "The figures reported by the . 4,162.65 cent over the 26,075,697 reported B ureau are based upon a samp Ie SS. Peter & Paul-Fall River
in 1948. 4,109.54
Designed to explain the diver study of 35,000 households gence between the statistics spread over 330 sample areas contained in the Directory and comprising 638 counties and in- . estimates of the number of U. S. dependent cities. A projection of Catholics based on Census' B'.l this study indicates that about reau figures, an editorial writ 43,635,OOf Americans regard ten by Thomas B. Kenedy, themselves as Catholics-25 per Graduation exercises for those editor, for the new volume cent of the total United States who have successfully completed stresses the difference between population, and some 9 million the Confraternity of' Christian' "recognized membership" and Turn to Page Twenty-Four Doctrine Teacher Training "Course wil be held atSt: JQseph~s Church, Taunton, Gn Saturday afternoon, May 24, at 2:30. Cer tificates will be presented to 151 Sisters, lay men and women, and high school students from 'all Five hundred women from sections of the Diocese of Fall CLEVELAND (NC)-The River. nation should be concerned all parts of the Dioces~ at Turn to Page Twenty-Four tended the fifth annual con more about parental delin vention of the' Diocesan quency rather than juvenile shortcomings, Msgr. Joseph E. Council of Catholic Women at Schieder, director of the Youth the K!!nnedy Center, New Bed , Department; National Catholic ford. The were addressed by Rt. Rev. Welfare Conference, has empha Msgr. James J. Gerrard, V.G., sized. . ST. PAUL (NC) ~The representing the Most Rev. Staunchly defending the James L. Connolly, and by Mrs. Archbishop asked the ques younger generation in an address Henry C. Barkhorn, Newark, tion: "What has become of before the seventh annual dioce N. J., a representative to the the Sunday suit ?-then im san CatholiC' Youth Organization , World. CongreliS of the Lay plied that discard of the once convention, Msgr. Schieder said Apostolate, held last October in popular family custom has con it is high time "that we distin Rome. tributed to the cur'rent irrever guish between the 97% per cent "Catholic Action means living ence toward the Lord's Day.
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R d ·In U nlte · d S tate.s eporte
CCD Graduation' Scheduled for Sa.turday .
Defends Youth, Flays 'Pa renta I Shortcomings
Dioces<ln Council Catholic Women Hold Convention
St. Paul Prelate Urges Decorum In Mass Dress
NEW ENGLAND SUPERIORS MEET SATURDAY: Provincial Superiors will par ticipate in the second annual meeting of the major superiors of New England at Enfield, Conn., Saturday. Planning the sess.ion are, left to' right, Mother Loretto ~rulia, Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur,' Waltham; Mother Mary Catherine, Sisters of M~rcy, Providence; Mother Mary Laura, Felician Sisters, Enfield; Mother Mary Philip, Ursuline Sisters, Boston and Mother Made DiPiro, Sisters· of Dorothy, Taunton. .