05.28.04

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VOL. 48, NO.21 • Friday, May 28, 2004

FALL RIVER, MASS.

Southeastern Massachusetts' Largest Weekly • $14 Per Year

Appeal signs promising at the half-way point

DEACON CANDIDATES pose with Bishop George W. Coleman and Msgr. John J. Oliveira, diaconate director, following their admission to candidacy for the diaconate in the Diocese of Fall River. Front, from left: Victor K. Norton, Steven F. Minninger, Joseph A. McGinley, Bishop Coleman, Msgr. Oliveira, Karl G. Buder, . Richard G. Lemay, and John W. Foley. Second row, Michael T. Zonghetti, John S. Warren, Alan J. Thadeu, David E. Pierce, Daniel M. Donovan, Joseph K. Kane, Adelbert F. Malloy, and Peter Robert Cote. (Photo by Donald Veronneau)

FALL RIVER - As the Catholic Charities Appeal passes the halfway point and approaches the $2.5 million dollar mark, a number of parishes have begun to eclipse their previous year's total. The hope of those working in the central office of Catholic Charities is that when the Appeal ends on June 17, all parishes in the diocese will have done the same. Accord~ng to Michael Donly, diocesan director of Development, 75 percent of the parishes exceeded their previous year's total last year. "Obviously our hope is that each parish exceeds their previous year's total and then keeps going until 'the final

shot is fired', so to speak. If parishes were satisfied with simply exceeding their previous year's total the Appeal would definitely suffer. Parishes working to the very end of the Appeal, many of them long after they have surpassed their previous year's total, has had a dramatic impact Qfl our overall success in the past," Donly said. Msgr. Thomas J. Harrington, director of Catholic Charities, observed, "The efforts of pastors and parish committees to encourage new donors to contribute and regular donors to consider increasing their gift is now something that continues for the enTum to page 10 - Appeal

Fourteen called to candidacy for the permanent diaconate NEW BEDFORD - Ceremonies marking the call to candidacy for 14 men aspiring to be permanent deacons, were held during a May 4 Mass at St. Mary's Church celebrated by Bishop George W. Coleman. Admitted to the diaconate program for the Fall River diocese were, Karl Gustav Buder of Good Shepherd Parish, Martha's Vineyard; Peter Robert Cote, SS. Peter and Paul Parish, Fall River; Daniel Michael Donovan, St. Margaret Parish, Buzzards Bay; John William Foley, Our Lady of the Cape Parish, Brewster; Joseph Kevin Kane, Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, Wellfleet; Richard George Lemay, Sacred

Heart Parish, North Attleboro; and Adelbert Francis Malloy, St. John the Evangelist Parish, Attleboro. Also, Joseph Ambrose McGinley, St. Mary Parish, Norton; Steven Francis Minninger, Holy Redeemer Parish, Chatham; Victor Kenneth Norton, Corpus Christi Parish, Sandwich; David Edward Pierce, Christ the King Parish, Mashpee; Alan Joseph Thadeu, St. Paul Parish, Taunton; John Sherrill Warren, St. Margaret Parish, Buzzards Bay; and Michael Thomas Zonghetti, St. Mary Parish, Mansfield. The admission to candidacy for ordinaTum to page 13 - Candidates

AREA COLLEGE students help unpack medical and toiletry supplies when they arrived in Guaimaca, Honduras during their spring break trip. Story and other photos on page eight.

Three diocesan priests celebrate 50th jubilees; another observes his 25th FALL RIVER - Three retired priests of the Fall River diocese are marking their golden jubilees in the priesthood and a Somerset pastor is celebrating the 25 th anniversary of his ordination. Father Roland Bousquet and Father Edward Burns were ordained to the priesthood on May 22, 1954, by Bishop James L. Connolly in St. Mary's Cathedral. Father Luciano J. Pereira was ordained a priest on May 30, 1954, in Angra, Terceira, the Azores, by Bishop Guilherme Augusto da Cunha Guimarais. Father Raul M. Lagoa, pastor of St. John of God Parish, Somerset, since 1996, is observing his silver jubilee. He was ordained a priest on June 2, 1979 in St.

Mary's Cathedral by Bishop Daniel A. Cronin. Father Bousquet, 77, is a native of Fall River. He attended Blessed Sacrament Grammar School and the former Msgr. Prevost High School before entering the Seminaire de Philosophie and the Grand Seminaire de Montreal, where he earned his licentiate in sacred theology, magna cum laude. Following ordination he served as a parochial vicar at Notre Dame Parish in Fall River, St. Joseph's in New Bedford, St. Jacques in Taunton, St. Louis de France in Swansea; was administrator at St. Roch's in Fall River; was a parochial vicar at St. Stephen's in . Attleboro; and was nallied pastor of Our

Lady of Grace in Westport in 1982. He was appointed pastor of St. Theresa's in New Bedford in 1990. Among his diocesan appointments were various positions on the diocesan Marriage Tribunal; as director of the of the New Bedford Pre-Cana program; as a member of the Board of Examiners for the clergy; and as a chaplain at Taunton State Hospital. He also contributed stories to The Anchor. He retired in 1999. Father Burns is also 77 and a native of Fall River. He graduated from Durfee High School in 1945, and attended St. Meinrad Seminary in Indiana and St. Peter's College of Western University in London, Ontario. He pursued graduate

studies in semantics and liturgy at the universityofNotreDamefrom 1951 to 1953. Following ordination he was a parochial vicar at St. Joseph's, St. Louis' and St. William's in Fall River. He was named administrator at Our Lady of Fatima in Swansea in 1972; pastor of Immaculate Conception in Fall River, in 1977; and pastor of St. Peter the Apostle in Provincetown in 1978. He was made pastor of St. Mark's in Attleboro in 1987. His other diocesan appointments include serving at the Diocesan Tribunal; as a member ofthe former Diocesan Commission for Sacred Liturgy; and as chairman of the Diocesan Ecumenical ComTum to page two - Jubilees


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