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Religious and Dropouts Seek Real Meaning of Life MANCHESTER (NC) - For popularity of Eastern thought Brother David Steindle-Rast, the and religion among the young. heart of the monastic life is a He viewed the new-found inradical quest for meaning in terest of the student generation which he finds only two groups in Eastern religions with apin modern society actively en- proval. .' gaged: religious communities "How tragic," he commented, and colIege dropouts. "that many people look on this "Very much of the activity in involvement as a competition to our universities today," said the Christianity. Benedictine monk, who was here "Instead," he insisted, "we in Connecticut to' give a workTurn to Page Seventeen shop on prayer to the New England Region of the Sister For- i111b"ili..;.,,2';:X;';':%'WMti@mlmKtf~Jllmn'§rt, matlon Conference, "appears to me to be a kind of mOl"astic re'@l~~,; Jamlbill~e® vivaL" The folIowing telegram was "It hasn't entirely jelIed yet," sent by Bishop ConnolIy to Pope he said in an interview. "It hasn't Paul last Friday on the occasion taken its final form, perhaps. But of the Pope's Golden Jubilee of the communes, for instance, of priestly" ordination: the student dropouts, are certain- Pope Paul VI ly monastic foundations." Vatican City Brother David, whose speech Diocese of FalI River joins is still tinged with the accents joyfulIy, prayerfully, thankfully of his native Vienna, where he commemorating fifty golden acquired a doctorate in experi- years of Your Holiness. mental psychology before enter~ James L. Connolly ing the Monastery of St. Saviour ~ J aJ!les J. Gerrard in Elmira, N.Y., said he has a special interest in the current l;li$'!'l.'li1lt<'r'?'~;mm:mw'$:"l~~it!Zffi'?ilT"'f"'P*fu.'%'l1ll
Fr. Resendes to Taunton, Fr. Andrade to Fall River The "Chancery Office today. announced the transfer of Rev. Manuel M. Resendes, pastor of Our Lady of Health parish, FalI River, to pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes parish, Taunton, and the appointment of Rev. Manuel Andrade, assistant at Immacu-
late Conception, New Bedford, to administrator of Our Lady of Health, Fall River. The new assignments are effective Wednesday, June 17. Son of the late Leonel M. Resendes and the late Mrs. Mariana Turn to Page Six'
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High Schools of Diocese To Grant 1153 Diplomas Twelve high schools of the Diocese will graduate 1153 students in ceremonies next ·week. Seven schools have scheduled Sunday programs, three will graduate on Monday, one on Tuesday and one on Wednesday. 513 boys and 640 girls, totaling 1153, will receive diplomas. Continuing to hold first place in the numQer of graduates will be Bishop Stang High of No. Dartmouth with 116 boys and 135 girls for a total of 251. Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, will hold its first commencement exercises at 8 on Sunday night, June 8 in the school's auditorium on Elsbree St. Bishop Connolly will preside while 87 boys will ever be known as members of the first graduating class from the Fall River Diocesan High School for Boys. In addition, it will be noted that a record of 84 of the 87 graduates will continue their education on the college and university level. Bishop Connolly' will present the diplomas. Rev. Joseph D: J?evlin, S.J., director of Jesuit Secondary . Education in New England will deliver the commencement address. Other graduations scheduled for Sunday are the Holy Family High School of New Bedford. Prevost High and Jesus-Mary Academy in joint exercises will grant diplomas in Notre Dame Church, FalI River. Dominican Academy and Mt. St. Mary's Academy, both located in the See city, will hold exercises at 4 and 1:30 respectively. Turn to Page Seven
Fall River's Bishop Connolly High School Gll'8duates !First Class; Sunday
Facts About Poor Combat Ever-Circulating Myths Almost half were under 18 WASHINGTON (NC)-Myths about the poor don't die easily. years of age. To combat circulation of unAlmost 20 percent were 65 and truths about the poor, the Ur- ov,er. ban Coalition has released a About 20 perecent were family number of myths and facts about heads. poverty. Some of these are: Almost three-fourths of the Myth: Most of America's family heads worked and about poor people are black. . Fact: Poverty knows no color, half of those worked full time. Of the family heads who didn't race or creed. Seventy percent work, about a third were ill or of the poor are white. Myth: American poverty is disabled and. half were female family heads with children. exclusively an urban problem. Fact: More than one-third of About 100,000 able-bodied, single poor men didn't work. the poor live in rural areas. Myth: What money the poor The Urban Coalition Action have, including tax-supported Council pamphlet entitled "A benefits, is spent on expensive Minimum Standard of Decency cars and other luxuries. Beneath Which No American Fact: The poor have little Shall Live," states that "Welmoney for such expenditures. fare rolls can be reduced only POPE PAUL VI The President's Commission on by helping the poor to help themIncome Maintenance determined selves." that a family of four with a This, the pamphlet says, "remonthly income of $284 ($3,408 a year) spends all but $9 of it quires jobs, adequate job preparfor such basic necessities as ation for the able-bodied and food, housing, public transporta- work incentive for those receivtion and clothing and personal ing assistance." care. The food budget for such a PastorCll~ CGUllld~ ·family adds up to $1 a day NEW ROCHELLE (NC) - In per person-an amount too low His Excellency, the Most Revpreparation for the 50th anniver- for a nutritionally adequate diet erend Bishop, has convoked a sary of Pope Paul VI in the according to the U.S. Depart- meeting of the Diocesan Pastoral Council for Tuesday, June 16, priesthood last Friday, a letter ment of Agriculture. writing campaign was conducted A 1966 breakdown (latest at 4 o'clock ill the afternoon. in the eastern province of the available from Office of Econom- Lay, religious and priest memSalesians of St. John Bosco. ic Opportunity) of 30 million bers of the Pastoral Council will Thousands of letters were re- people who were poor by that meet at Bishop Cassidy High' ceived at province headquarters year's standard of poverty shows School in Taunton with Bishop Turn to Page Three Connolly. that:
Some Letters 'To Pontiff On Jubilee
Rev. Manuel M. Resendes
Rev. Manuel Andrade