Four New American Ca"rdinals
VATICAN CITY (NC) 'l1\)pe Paul VI has named 27 oow cardinals, including fOl.lllr A un e r i e a n s" to bring the membership of the college of( ardinals to an unprecedented. Wal of 120. The. Americans lItamed are Archbishops Patrick A. O'Boyle of Washington, John J:. KI'OI of Philadelphia and John JED. Cody of Chicago, and Msgr. Francis J. Brennan, dean of the Roman Rota, high church court fn Rome. The United States noW' bas nine cardinals, more than ~'Ver in the country's history. The 2ll"Chbishops will remain in their Sees, and Cardinal - designate Brennan is expected to continue !living in Rome and will become a eardinal in the curia. Also named for elevation was Archbishop Egidio Vagnozzi, apostolic delegate in the United Slmtes.
CARDINAL BRENNAN A consistory creating the n~w cardinals will be held June 26. JFll"ancis Brennan. lDean of the Sacred Rota, dedicated to intri-
inary in Overbrook, Pa., and WM ordairied in Home in 1920 * i; 0) Later returned to this count!·Y' and was curate at St..Carthage Church in Philadelphia'" * * Als9 taught at St. Cbarles Seminary before being named to serve in the Tribunal of the Sacred Rota by Pope Pius XII in 1940 ¢ * $ Member of Pope's official family, with right to assist him in more solemn ceremonies at Sl. Petel"s * '" * Was consultant to Central. Commission of the EcumenicaU Council 0) * * Considered by ob servers to be one of the most reserved and hardest workers among those in the administra tive structure of the Holy See. John Patrick Cody, Archbishop of Chicago, scholar and linguist" 'CARDINAL O'BOYlLlE CARDINAL KROL he has headed the largest Cath cacies of. theology, he has ta\Jght practiced in coal fields of north.,., olic arcl1diocese in the United! and ill regarded. as an authority eastern Pennsylvania, ,'he was States * * * Considered by many on moral theology and canon law born 73 years, ago in Shenandolih it champion of: racial justice'" ¢ " • 0:0 • Son of a physician who • • • Studied at St. Charles Sem.,. Turn to Page Four
$772,709 Appeal Total Record Charity High
The' ANCHOR fuU River, ·Mass.11 Thursday, ·June 1, 1967
Parish contrib~tions and Special Gifts in unprecedented generosity have increaged , the final total of the 1967 Catholic Charities Appeal to the largest amount in the his tory of the Appeal;$772,709.85. The final total is an increase of $31,592.73 over pre vious high of 1966. Holy Name' Parish, Fall River, led the' parish listing with a totai of $25,326.21. This also , . ' . ' . · t, t' . th 470.50~ a figure of' $20,806.50 status by exceedmg their fmal, k th f n~ar s e Irs Ime m e placed St. Mary's, North Attle':' total of the previous Appeal. U history of the Appeal that ,bol'O in third position of gene 1'- was particularly in this phase ole a p~\rish has contributed, ·osity. ' the Appeal that tlie new slt'engtlla $25,000 or mQre. St. Lawrence of . 'ilIi the parish phase of the '67 was evident. New Bedford was in second Appeal 100 of the 110 parishes in Chairman Raymond U. KeUA place, having contributed $2<l,- the Diocese~ttained Honor RoU Tur'n to Page Seventeen
Colonel Fenton Receives .. 'Priest Scholar 'Urges Third . Legion ()f ·M:er'it'
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·Early Sex Education SYDNEY (NC)-A priest-sociologist urged here that dtildren be told the facts of reproduction before the age :M 10. Father John L. Thomas, S.J., oI: the CAim~ridge' lehool for Social Studies said "we tend to give such'knowl edge to them at puberty. "About the only social life we' when they· are involved 'provide for our young, people is 'I!mlotionally. We are reach the type with a couple-centered ing them far too late with basis," Father Thomas conftl/lformation which they should Turn to Page Six Ilunve had much earlier." o Father Thomas lecturing 0lIl ""'Jl.:he Christian Family in a' /Eucharist Instruction Changing World," advised par ents: "If you dare to have a child. you had better take your respoa&- ' Gibility seriously. Any time you touch 1ife, you touch something that is going to be around for a llong time-in fact, for all eter lllity." He said that no other society ]laas experienced such rapid dlange. The Holy See's latest In Speaking of the education oj( llbe young, Father Thomas said: struction on the Worship of "'Practically all of our studies, the Eucharistic;,Mystery is a almost without exception, show summary of the Church's that OUI' young people ha'(e teaching on the Eucharist and llearncd what little they do know details practical rules about the ifrom their peer group - from celebration of the Eucharist, con each other-and not from their celebration, Communion under parents, and very little from the both Species, etc. Dated May ~urch or from their teachers." 25 and to become effective Aug. "Every person must seriously 15, the, Instruction brings to rnhink of family life education," gether much of the legislation and instruction given about the llile declared. "We cannot con ttinue to victimize our children Eucharist over recent years. llts stress is CIliIl positive 'teaching ~.v not giving them any answers, land yet throw them into a socl,. about the Eucharist lIlS the catv which gives them veq !few "source and summit of the wbo10 ~ti"p,~" Tul'll to Page Sixt
Chaplain (Colonel) Bernard J. Fenton, of ~rau,Qton, in what is thought to be sometblnlt of a "first" for Army' Chaplains, has. received' his,third' a.ward of the Legion of Merit as he retired from' the U.S. Army Chaplain CorPS~ All'eady, the holder of the SiIvel!" Star and two .Purpl~ Heart awards, Chaplahi 'Fenton was presented the Second Oak
Leaf Cluster to his orlginal Legion of Merit at ceremqnies held at Head'quarters, U. S. Army Combat Develop-
menta-Command (USACDC),Forl' great responsibility as Chapra!~ Belvoir, Va: Chaplilin Fenton waS for USACDC from October 10Q cited for his outsta'nding meri- to May 1967. torious service in a position: of Turn to Page Six
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THIIlD LEGJiON OF MERiT:' Colonel Bernard J.' Fenton, left, receives award from Major General J. Ewell, Deputy Commanding General.