Charities· Appeal Gifts Set New Record, Total Reaching Toward $600,000·
The ANCHOR
The continuous growth of the Catholic dharities Appeal has been maintained this year. A new high of $587,010.20 has been reached, This is the highest amount ever contributed in a Catholic Charities Appeal. Chairman Joseph E. Fernandes issued this statement at .Headquarters this morning. "It is wonderful to see the Charities Appeal of 1961 growing to a new high. It is wonderful because it shows the affection of the people of the Diocese for Bishop
Connolly. The generosity that ; has been evidenced in this Appeal is a true sign of. approval of all accomplished for charity in the ten years Bishop Connolly has headed the Diocese. And the most consoling point is that the money is still arriving at Headquarters in sizeable sums." The leading fifteea parishes An Ancw of 'h, !otIl, Itw. tmd rirm-ST. PAUL • are: Holy Name, Fall River PRICE lOe $21,916.37 © 1961 The Anchor V~1. $4.00 per Year St. Lawrence,. New·Bedford 19,941.26 196.1 St. John, Attleboro ;13,979.00 Socond Class Mail Privileges AUlhorized at Fall River. Masa. St. Mary, North Attleboro 13,563.00 Sacred Heart, Fall River . . 13,228.50 St. James, New Bedford. . 12,594.30 Tum to Page Two
5, No. 22 ----__1_---Fall River, Mass., Thursday, May 25,
president Declares May 30 Day of .Prayer for Peace
WHEREAS the high courage and the supreme sacrifice of Americans who gave their lives in battle have made it pOssible for oU>r land to flourish under freedom and justice; and WHEREAS the ideals and patriotism of those who answered the call to service stand· as all inspiration to every new gen·el'ation of Americans; and
Father Canuel Is Jubil,ar;an Rev. Henri R. Canuel, administrator .of St. Hyacinth Church in New Bedford, is observing the .25th anniver-
WHEREAS the same prineiples and revolutionary beliefs for which our fo:rbeaN fought and died are still at isstre in the world and the ehallenge against them can be met only through the same qualities of courage, strength, and unflinching determination shown by our Doole dead; and WHEREAS Memorial Day year provides a fitting occasion upon which OUT people may not only commemorate the Nation's heroic dead bu t may also unite in prayer for the preservation of liberty and peace free :£".1'om the threat of war; and ~ch
t>RlESIDENT K.ENNEDY
sary of his ordination to the priesthood. Fr. Canuel was ordained June I) 1936 in St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River, By the late Most Rev. James E. Cassidy, Bishop of Fall River. The New Bedford administrator is well known in the diocese. He has served at St. George's in Westport, St. Mathieu's and Notre Dame parishes in Fall River, Sacred Hear~ in New Bedford, St. Joseph's in Attleboro and on Sept. 20, 1960 he was appointed to his present position by Most Rev. James L. Connolly, Bishop of Fall River. On Nov. 21, 1941, Fr. Canuel Turn to Page Twenty-seven
Federal School Aleasure Is Confusing Alinisters Kennedy Position President's Bill 'Like Ba ptistsl" Helps Catholics, Says Graham ·Says Methodist NEW YORK (NC) - ExDES MOINES (NC)pressing admiration f.o r . A Methodist bishop's con-. President Kennedy's stand rention that President Kenagainst Federal aid to pa- nedy's Federal aid to publie rochial schools, Evangelist Billy schools only program "actually Graham said "in some ways he's is a bill helping church educaturned out to be a Baptist Presi-. tion" brought repercussion.s frOOD dent." . Washington., Pressed by newsmen to explain The interpretation of the bin this characterization, he said: by Rt. Rev. R. Gerald Ensley, "Why, he's taken the Baptist Methodist Bishop of Iowa, was stand on aid against that of his . disseminated among Methodist own Church." ministers and church members Mr. Graham was iJiterviewed throughout Iowa. This resulted here before he departed aboard in a flurry of letters which the liner Queen Mary for Eng- expressed opposition to the Fedland. He said the question of. eral aid bill; to members of. Federal aid to church-supported Congress. Turn to Page Twenty-seven Rep. Cleveland M. Bailey of. West Virginia, member of the House education subcommittee, said that the Federal aid issue had been distorted deliberately and misinformation had been spread about it. He emphasized .that statements by President Kennedy and the bjl1, itself, limited the $2.5 billion aid program to public schols. The legislator said he had received hundreds of letters, most of them from Iowa, that identified the bill as "giving aid to parochial schools." Without making any specific. accusations. Rep. Bailey said "spreaders o;f misinformation are liars."
Diocesan CYO Meets Ma.y 28 REV.HENRIR.CANUE~
Says Refusal to Patronize Trash Films' Is Ba!~t Way to Control Movie lndu~~ry
By. Msgr. Thomas F. Little There are good films and there are bad films. Yet the s'ad truth is that not an of the WHEREAS ta this· end good films have received the public support at the box office which their Own excellence <fhe Congress,,, in a joint· warranted. While the public was decrying Hollywood's so-called preoccupation with "sex l'eoolution approved May 11, and violence," a "Sundowners" was weak at the box office, a "Sunrise at Campobello" wae 1-950 (64 Stat. 158), re- dying an<J. a glQrious "Anne largely contributed to this box Are we suggesting that every film must be suitable for the il1Je8ted the President to issue Frank" was long since bur- office success. youngest theater-goer? Hardly a proclamation calling upon ied by the Americ~n theaterthat, for every reasonable person d h b d t1le people of the United goer. An t ere are a will encourage the motion picture industry to provide us with States to observe each Me- films. Some are bad in the sense mature, worthwhile adulJt entermorial Day as a day of of being trash· as entertainment tainment. prayer for pennanent peace·: What we are suggesting, howHow serious· is the need for NOW, THEREFORE. ][, oontrol over movies and what IOHN F. KENNEDY, Preldtype of controls should there be? Here are some answers dent of the United States, to these widely debated ques~ do hereby urge the people of (lions about films from the the United States to observe executive secretary of the Tuesday, May 30, 1961, National Legion of Decency. Memorial Day by invoking the blessing of God on those as the rash of "spear and who have died in defense of ,-such sandal" epics with which we our country and by praying have been recently deluged. for a new world of law where Others are bad in a much more peace and justice shall pre- serious vein-they are bad so-, V3il and a life of opportunity cially. They are the so--called films, the so-called adult shall be assured for all; and "sick" dramas which have been conI designate the hour begin- ceived by juveniles and heavily Ding in each locality ~ sold to adolescents. Or they are the cycle of films eleven o'clock in the morning have glamorized and all of that day as the time to . which but canonized the lady of easy\ wnite in such prayer. virtue with the heart of gold. The sad truth is that too many .:[ also urge the press, radio, of these films have been unbetelevision, .and aU other med- lievably successful at the box ia of information to coop- office. ..ate in this observance. More depressing perhaps Is 'llurn to Page Twcntl'-sevell
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HONORED: Bishop Honore van Waeyenbergh, rector of the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, will receive an honorary LL.D. degree at the annual Commencement of Assumption Colleg~ Worcester~ in June,
ever, is that there are more and more films today which only an irresponsible parent will permit minors to view. There are also some films which even a mature adult should recognize as being socially disruptive and morally corrosive. The undeniable fact of good and bad films calls for some control of the motion picture medium. But what kind of control? The legion favors, and has suggested, a system of classification of films imposed by the industry upon itself. The legion believes classification would be an information service for parents, could be a guarantee that morally wholesome adult films would be produced and would forestall undesirable action by the states. For some people, motion picture control means but one thing -pplitical censorship on the municipal, state or Federal leveL Such censorship, they feel, is the only practical and sure deTll!lll'1l! to Page Twelvo
Representatives from sixty~ five per cent of the parishes in the Fall, River Diocese will be on hand Sunday, May 28 to coordinate CYO activities for the coming year. His Excellency, the Most Rev. James L. •Connolly will head a large group of clergy together with State and local representatives of the civil government at the convention. Preparations for the Fall River meeting have been in the works for this convention for some few weeks. Nominees \for office will be presented by the area directors of the CYO from Attleboro, Taunton, New Bedford and Fall River. Outstanding personalities from these areas will conduct their office-seeking campaigns. with the hope of being selected by the voting delegates to reoresen:t the program and youth of the CYO m the coming year. The caliber of candidates from each area will make the job of electing the new officers a very difficult one. The CYO has taken a prominent role in the lives of the youth of our Diocese and many young men and young women have been able to show their abilities and talents in the area CYO convention. The keynote address for the affair, which will mark the slogan to be used by the CYOs in the coming year. will be given by Mr. Donald Montle, the head coach of football and baseball at B.' M. C. Durfee High School in Fall Rive.r.
The Fall River Counen of Catholic Women under the direction of Miss Mary Cabral and Mrs. James H. Sullivan will prepare a buffet lunch to be served to the conventionaires. The Fall River Area CYO Glee Club Tusl'l to P~0 Twentl'-seveD