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Fall River, Mass., Thursday, May 25, 1972' Vol. 16, No. 21 © 1972 The Anchor $4.0::~\:~~
Survey Young Adults On Mass, Motives Patterns of concern for Mass OMAHA (NC)-Most Catholic teenagers attend Sunday Mass attendance: 64 per cent consider regularly but, their motivations occasional absence from Sunday vary greatly, according to an Mass a sin; 42 per cent consider it slight; 22 per cent believe It is Omaha' archdiocesan survey. Of 5,000 questionnaires sent" serious; while 36 per cent consider occasional absence "no sin to high school students, 4,116 were returned - 2,023 by boys at all." and 2,093 by girls. The students definitely desire The results, reported in The a more informal and friendly True Light, archdiocesan paper liturgy, a smaller .place and the here showed: option to wear casual clothes. Attendance at Sunday Mass Some 98 per cent want the atamong high school students is mosphere to be friendly, while high. Some 76 per cent attend 72 per cent say they presently every week (85 per cent of fresh- ' find it so. Some 75 per cent demen compared with 68 per cent sire a greater degree of informal' of the seniors). Some 86 per gent ity. attend their parish church. Some 76 per cent of the reExternal 'motivation is a key spondents find homilies (serfaotor. Some 18 per cent of the mons) inapplicable or not unteenagers said they attend Mass derstandable; 14 per cent think because it is a habit; 33 per cent the sermon.. should sometimes inbecause it is an obligation; 21 clude group (dialogue) participaper' cent because their parents tion. Some 49 per cent of the sturequire it; iix per cent because it is a means of grace; and 22 dents said they'd be willing to per cent because they think help plan a liturgy if such an opportunity w~re offered. Jesus wants them to.
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The 1972 Catholic Charities Appeal climbed to $783,804.62 today with still many incomplete parish returns and special gift donations to be reported. The official closing is 12 noon tomorrow. This should see more parishes exceeding their 1971 final totals. Appeal headquarters in Fall River has issued the final notice. Raymond,E. Lambert, Sr., of North Attleboro, this year's diocesan lay chairman of the Appeal, said: "All special gifts,
Calls. Views Na%i~Like NEW YORK (NC)-The views of some advocates of population control are similar. to those of the Nazis, say the leading article and an editorial in the May issue of Commentary, a'monthly, published here by the American Jewish Committee. In the article, "The Population Controllers," Samuel McCracken, who teaches literature and the humanities at Reed College in Oregon, notes that Paul R. Erlich, author of "The Popul,ation Bomb," a' best-!!eller advocating Zero Population Growth, and other supporters of population control favor "the quality of life rather than. its quantity." Remarking that the cpncept is not original with them, McCracken recalls that the Nazi program envisioning the starvation of millions in the occupied territories was developed by Hitler's Gestapo chief and minister 'of the interior, Heinrich Himmler, "in the explicit belief that he was opting for racial quality over quantity. "The difficulty, in short," McCracken states, "is how to pre- . Turn to Page Two
Three Observe Gold.en Jubilee Three Fall R'iver priests, all retired from the active parish ministry, today celebrate their golden jubileee in the priesthood. Rev. Msgr. Edward B. Booth, retired pastor of St. Mary ·Parish, No. Attleboro, Rev. Msgr. Joseph A. Cournoyer, retired pastor of . St. Michael Parish in Ocean Grove and Rev. F. Anatole Desmarais, retired pastor of St.
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Jacques Parish in Taunton were ordained to the priesthood by Most Rev. Daniel F. Feehan, Second Bishop of Fall River, on May 25, 1922. Monsignor Counoyer who retired in 1969 after having headed the Swansea parish for 24 years now resides' with his family in New Bedford. Father Demarais, who retired from the Taunton
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parish in 1966 due to ill health, resides at the Catholic Memorial Home in Fall River. Rev. Msgr. Edward B. Booth retired from the North Attleboro parish in 1969 after serv,ing in practically every sector of the Diocese resides with his family in Fall River. Rev. Msgr. Edward B. Booth Turn to Page Three
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priests' donations and parish contributions must be at the office by 12 noon tomorrow to be included in the official 1972 tabu'ation. We advise that all re- . turns be made in person to insure proper accreditations. The. final Appeal total will be '. pub; lished in next week's edition of The Anchor. We hope all the parishes will be over the top by tomorrow." Fifty-four parishes have sur·· passed their 1971 final totals and these are members of the Honor Roll. The new members are: St. Mary, St. Stephen, St. Theresa, Attleboro; St. Mary, North Attleboro; St. Mary, Norton. Our Lady of the Cape, Brewster; St. Margaret, Buzzards Bay; Holy Redeemer, Chatham; O. r:.. of the Isle, Nantucket; St. Joan of Arc, Orleans;. St: John, Po-
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casset; Corpus Christi, SandwiCh; St. Pius X, South Yarmouth; St. Joseph, Woods Hole. St. Mary, Esplrito Santo, Notre Dame, O.·L.. of Health; Holy RosarYI Immaculate Conceptibn, Sacred Heart, St. Anne, St. Anthony of the Desert, St. Anthony' of Padua, St. Elizabeth, St. John the Baptist, 81. Joseph, St. Louis, Fall River. O. L. of Grace, No. Westport; St. John of God, St. Thomas More,. Somerset; Our Lady of Fatima, St. Dominic, St. Louis de France, Swansea. Immaculate Conception, O. L. of Perpetual Help, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Hedwig, St. Hyacinth, St. Mary, New Bedford; St. Mary, Fairhaven; St. Anthony, Mattapoisett. Holy Rosary, Sacred Heart, Taunton
Prelate Stresses Church's Healthy, Positive Aspects Bishop Bernardin was asked WASHINGTON (NC)-The top executive of Catholicism's two to comment on the May 14 artinational bodies disagrees with a cle in the Vatican's Sunday Tabstrongly negative image of the loid, in which an Italian theoloAmerican Church as presented in gian anticipates the anihilation the Vatican weekly L'Osserva- of American Catholicism 'within 20 years because it is being tore dello Domenica. "torn apart from top to bottom" "The Catholic Church in the by defections and waves of selfUnited States certainly has prob, criticism. lems," said Bishop Joseph L. The article stresses a version Bernardin, general secretary of of Catholic life in the United the National Conference of CathStates as presented in newsolic Bishops and the U. S. Cathpapers and magazines, and "this olic Conference. perhaps contributes to .its some"So does the' Catholic Church what one-dimensional vision of anywhere and everywhere in the the Church in this country," said world. But ,to focus exclusively the American prelate. on problems and controversies~ Bishop Bernardin' told NC whether of the Church in this News: country or of the universal "In many ways the Catholic Church - means overlooking Church today is in a period of much that is healthy and posi- change and transition. Much of tive and also leads to a misin- this change has been officially terpretation of many current mandated by Vatican Council II difficulties." Turn to Page Six
Dominicans The Very Rev. R. Gabriel Blain, O.P., was installed as prior of the Dominicans of St. Anne's in Fall River on Friday, May 19th, after being elected to this office by the Fathers and Brothers of th~ priory in accordance with a more than seven century old tradition of democratic government in the Order. Father Blain is a native. of the Province of Quebec, Canada, where he was born August 29, 1920. He joined the Dominican Order of St. Hyacinthe, Canada, August 3, 1951. After completing the required studies at the Dominican House of Philosophy and Theology in Ottawa, he was ordained to the priesthood the 11th of April, 1958. The new prior of St. Anne's is already well known in the Fall River area. He was first sent to St. Anne's in September 1960 to help simultaneously at the parish and at the Shrine. He continued his ministry as a full time member of St. Anne's Shrine staff until he was elected prior of the Dominican house at Lew-
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iston, Maine in January 1969. .During his first stay in Fall River, Father' Blain became known as an active member of the Greater Fall River Ministerial Association and a man deeply involved in many ecumenical works and undertakings.