.' Charities Appeal Contributions Continue to Mount'
Generous Response 0/ Populace Reflects Support of Expanding Diocesan Services
The ANCHOR
The Catholic - Charities Appeal Headquarters in Fall River announced today that a total of $410,469.88 had
been reached. "The Appeal is still in its strong stage," J. Harry Condon, lay chairman, stated, and he urged "all area and special gifts workers to complete their contacts as soon as possible in order to facilitate coordination of all phases of the Appeal." The Appeal office has listed the following parishes as having surpassed their 1961 totals. They are: Our Lady of the Angels, Fall River; St. Anthony of Padua, Fall River; Holy Rosary, New A.n Anchor of the Soul, Sure a.nd Pirm-ST. PAUL Bedford; Our Lady of Lourdes, Taunton; St. Mary, Hebronville; Our Lady of Victory, Centerville. Also, St. Mary, Fairhaven; Our Lady of the Isle, Nantucket; St. Peter, Provincetown; St. Ann, , PRICE 10c Raynham; St. Patrick, Somerset; Vol. No. 23 © 1962 The Anchor $4.00 per Year St. Dominic, Swansea. The fifteen leading parishes of the Diocese are: St. Lawrence, New Bedford 13,827.00 Holy Name, Fall River 12,362.50 . . ' . St. John; Attleboro 10,301.00 St. James, New Bedford 10,298.00 St. Francis Xavier, .Hyannis 10,293.00 St. Mary, No. Attleboro 10,138.00 Rev. Mr. Peter P. Mullen, M.M., North Attleboro, will Sacred Heart, [~8 ordained a priest of the Catholic Foreign Mission 'Society , Fall River 9,362.10 ~f America Saturday, June 9 at Maryknoll Major Seminary. St. Mary, Taunton 7,847.50 1¥[ost Reverend John W. Comber, M.M., Superior General of . St. Mary, Fall River 7,270.50 Turn to Page Two Maryknoll will be ordaining seminarian at St. John's SemJ!lJrelate. The following ·day, ,Continued on Page Twelve
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Ordain North Attleboro Marykno~~er on June 9
Mansfield Buys Property f,or New Church,
Mr. Mullen, son of Mr. GCpd Mrs.. Peter Mullen of
1122 Ellis Road, North Attleboro, 'l;<l'ill take part in the annual C/faryknoll Departure Ceremony. Assigned to the missions of laIawaii, Father Mullen will reaaive his mission crucifix with 43 other Maryknollers, depart~g for missions in 10 foreign a>untries. Father Mullen will celebrate [)nis first Solemn High Mass at 11 0unday morning, June 17, in his ll)arish church of St. Mary's. lRev. Edward B. Booth, pastor, Bill be assistant priest.
REV. MR. P. P. MULLEN, M. M.
Charities Office NEW BEDFORD AREA 7054.50 itoly Name 488.40 Assumption 550.00 Holy Rosary Immaculate Conception 1223.20 6637.60 Mt. Carmel Our Lady of 139.00 Perpetual Help Our Lady of 305.00 Purgatory 2446.00 Sacred Heart 1853.00 St. Anne 3341.50 St. Anthony of Padua 162.00 St. Boniface 509.00 St. Casimir 584.50 St. Francis of Asslsi 368.00 St. Hedwig 1241.75 St. Hyacinth 10298.00 St: James 3915.75 St. John the Baptist 7106.55 St. Joseph 3476.75 St. Kilian 13827.00 Lawrence 4373.80 1St•. Mary 2403.25 St. Theresa Acushnet 2251.00 St. Frands Xavier Fairhaven 330.00 St. Joseph 1326.22 St. Mary 434.00 Sacred Hearts 110. Dartmouth 3830.00 St. Mary
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Cardinal Says' Chinese Famine Indicts Reds
Thomas Cardinal Tien, S.V.D.• first Chinese Cardinal. 'was a guest this week of Bishop Connolly. The prelate, Apostolic Administrator of the archdiocese of Taipe~, Formosa. is in the United States to contact Bishops and friends in the interests of. his work in ForIn 1958 he attended the Conmosa. Converted as a child, clave which elected Pope John the 72 year old Cardinal was XXIII and cast China's first vote ordained in 1918 and labored in a papal election. He was ap.The Dioces'an Chancery as a missionary until 1929, when pointed to his present post as, Office today announced tha't he entered the Society of the Apostolic Administrator of St. Mary'sParish, Mansfield, Divine Word. Taipei in 1959. His appointments have inhas purchased a property The Chinese prelate reported
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Rev. Joseph E. Mullen, S.J., Ocle of the ordained, stationed ci Gonzaga Retreat House, Gloucester, will deliver the ser(3on. Rev. Mr. Lawrence Tak!i0,
CARDINAL VISITS BISHOP; Bishop Connolly, right. was host this week to Thomas Cardinal Tien. first Chinese Cardinal in the history of the Church.
with the ultimate view of build_ ing a new Church. .Bought by the Church is the Rose Garden property, a 17 acre parcel of land on Route 106 in Mansfield, about one mile from the present Church. Rev. Edward L. O'Brien, pastor of the Parish, has announced that the hall already on the property will be used for catechetical instruction and for CYO activities.
R~~og-~s
HYANNllS AREA Chatham 1990.50 Holy Redeemer Centerville Our Lady of Victory 1676.00 E. Brewster 830.00 Immac. Conception East Falmouth 1674.00 St. Anthony Falmouth 4554.50 St. Patrick Hyannis 10293.00 St. ""rancis Xavier Orleans 1220.00 St. Joan of Arc Osterville 2431.00 Assumption Provincetown 2518.00 St. Peter Sandwich 2674.00 Corpus Christi So. Yarmouth 4011.00 St. Pius X Wellfleet Our Lady of Lourdes 1305.00 West Harwich Holy Trinity 2265.25 Woods Hole 1050.00 St. Joseph NORTH ATTLEBORO AREA 3546.00 Sacred Heart 10138.00 St. Mary
cluded work as Prefect Apostolic of' 'Yangku in Shantung, China; Vicar Apostolic of the same area and consecration as a Bishop in 1939. Designation as a Cardinal came in 1945. From 1949 to 1959, Cardinal Tien worked and prayed for his 3,000,000 people on the Chinese mainland from his headquarters in exile at the Divine Word Seminary, Techny, Ill. '
Latest Individual Parish
FALL RIVER AREA st. Mary $ 7270.50 1452.05 Blessed Sacrament 1227.00 Espirito Santo 12362.50 Holy Name 606.50 Holy Cross 3872.00 Notre Dame Our Lady of the Angelll 3660.30 1109.50 Our Lady of Health Holy Rosary 1498.00 Immaculate Conception 5918.85 9362'.10 Sacred Heart . 1224.05 St. Anne 1750.60 St. Anthony of Padua St. Anthony of the 680.00 Desert 494.50 St. Elizabeth 2852.00 St. John the Baptist 4174.70 St. Joseph 2502.00 St. Louis 1567.00 St. Matthew 3194.75 St. Michael 3948.00 St. Patrick 3544.00 SS. Peter & Paul 1410.50 St. Roch 95.00 St. Stanislaus 3206.50 St. William 501.20 Santo Christo Assonet 1423.00 St. Bernard Central Village 1754.00 St. John Baptist
FALL RIVER AREA No. Westport Our Lady of Grace 2226.00 Ocean Grove ' 2519.00 St. Michael Somerset St. John of God 2101.00 St. Patrick 4375.50 St. Thomas 'More 5500.25 Swansea Our Lady of Fatima 3501.75 2990.00 St. Dominic 3135.50 St. Louis of France Westport St. George 4657.00 WAREHAM AREA Buzzards Bay 3375.50 St. Margaret Mattapoisett 483.00 St. Anthony Wareham 6760.50 St. Patrick VINEYARD HAVEN AREA Nantucket Our Lady of the Isle 2838.00 Oak Bluffs Sacred Heart 2219.00 Vineyard Haven St. Augustine 1546.00
that Red China is experiencing a genuine famine this sear because of the collapse of its agricultural program and' also because of failure of its transportation system. The exodus of the starving people from Red China into Hong Kong is a compelling indictment ,of the failure of the Communists to 'provide a better way of life for the Chinese people, the visiting prelate declared.
Tota~s . TAUNTON AREA 1795.50 Holy Family 976.00 Holy Rosary Immaculate Conception 2985.50 2927.75 Our Lady of Lourdes 2765.50 Sacred Heart 1859.25 St. l\nthony , 970.00 St. Jacques St. Joseph 3712.00 St. Mary 7847.50 2980.00 St. Paul Dighton St. Peter 805.50 No. Dighton St. Joseph 1419.50 No. Easton Immac. Conception 6210.00 Raynham St. Ann 2500.50 ATTLEBORO AREA Holy Ghost 2819.00 St. John 10301.00 St. Joseph 2941.00 St. Mary 4772.00 St. Stephen 2523.50 St. Theresa 4662.15 Mansfield St. Mary 6921.00 Seekonk Mt: Carmel 2793.25 Norton St. Mary 2683.50