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DIOCESAN NEWSPAPER FOR SOUTHEAST MASSI, CAPE & -ISLANDS Vol. 26, No. 22
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Fall River, Mass., Friday, June 4, 1982
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The Most Reverend -Bishop has announced retirement of a pastor and appointments involving changes of pastorate for three priests, .naming of an adminis" trator to a pastorate and the naming of two administrators. Msgr. Arthur G. Considine will retire from the pasto~ate of St. Mary's parish, South Dartmouth, to which 'ne will he succeeded by Rev. Walter A. Suillivan, now pastor of Sacred Heart parish, Taunton.
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Rev. Cornelius J. O'Neill, now pastor of St. Paul's parish, Taun ton, will succeed Father Sullivan as pastor of Sacred Heart.
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Msgr. Robert L. Stanton, now pastor of St. Patrick's parish, Somerset, will assume the pas torate .of. St. Paul's.
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administrator of St. John the Baptist. Rev. George W. Coleman will become administrator of St. ,Pat rick's parish, Fall River, while remaining diocesan director of education. All appointments will be effec tive Wednesday, June 16. Msgr. Considine Msgr. Considine .celebrated his golden jubilee of ordination on May 21. Born -in New Bedford Oct. 24, 1906, he studied for the priesthood at St. Bernard's Sem inary, Rochester, N.Y. He was ordained May 21, 1932 and served from then until 1947 at St. Joseph's Church, Taunton, with the exception of three years as a Navy chaplain.
Rev. Edward J. Sharpe,' now administrator of St. John the Baptist parish, Westport, will become pastor at St. Patrick's, Somerset.
He was at St. Mary's, North Attleboro, from 1947 to 1954, when he was appointed to the pastorate of St. Mary's, South Dartmouth, where in 1969 he was named a monsignor.
Rev. Gilbert J. Simoes, asso ciate pastor at Santo Christo parish, Falll River, will become
Msgr. Considine is one of six brothers of whom two others Turn to Page Three
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AT WESTMINSTIER CATHEDRAL, London, Pope John Pal,ll II concelebrates a his toric Mass with British bishops. It was the first Mass ever celebrated bya pope on Brit· ish soil. (NC/UPI Photo)
Pope seeks unity
By NC News Service A visit to the seat of world Anglicanism and a landmark agreement in Catholic-Anglican relations highlighted 'Pop~ John Paul II's six-day trip to Great Britain May 28-June 2. On the first-ever visit of a pope to England, Scotland and Wales, Pope John Paul' also pleaded repeatedly for an end to British-Argentine hostilities in the South Atlantic, met with Queen Eilzabeth II and embark ed on a full schedule of events designed to give new spiritual vitality to British Catholicism. In meeting after meeting with British Catholic groups he urged them to be living witnesses of faith in their lives and to resist influences of selfishness, division and hatred. While praising marriage as "n sacrament of salvation" and "the pathway to holiness" at a key meeting with families near York May 31, he warned against self· centeredness, " the growing num
ber of divorces, the scourge of abortion, the spread of a contra ceptive and antilife mentality." But his explicitly pastoral and ecumenical visit reached its high point on the second day, May 29. The 62-year-old pontiff and Arch bishop Robert 'Bruce of Canter bury, primate of the world An glican Communion, met at his toric Canterbury Cathedral to pray and renew their baptismal promises together and to sign a "common declarati.on" establish ing a new Anglican-Catholic commission to resolve remaining doctrinal differences and rec ommend "practical steps" for the reunion of the two churches. The pope's visit was also his first to a country at war and had almost been called off a week earlier because of the Brit ish-Argentine fighting in the Falkland Islands, called the Mal vinas by Argentina. The pope saved the trip by stressing its pastoral, non-poli tical character and by agreeing to make a quick "pastoral visit"
to Argentina two weeks later. Yet repeated papal pleas for an end to bloodshed and a negotia ted solution to the dispute over the islands puntuated the pon tiff's travels in Britain. However, the Falkland Islands crisis had a surprising side ef fect of apparently diminishing promised protests of Protestant at papal stops extremists throughout the visit. A~out 200 protesters demon strated peacefully outside the Anglican cathedral in Liverpool as the pope visited there May 3D, and the next evening about 100 Protestant extremists pelted the papal car with crumpled paper in Edinburgh, Scotland. Elsewhere small groups carried anti-Catholic signs but in most cases lowered them at the re quest of the police. Although papal peace pleas made the biggest headlines, Pope John Paul's pastoral and ecu-' menical program was the chief focus of his own emphasis. Turn to Page Six
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CHARISMATICS PRAY at annual Pentecost prayer meeting at St. Mary's Cathedrat Earphones are worn by Portuguese participants who were given simultaneous transJation of English portions of service by Father Jose dos Santos, coordinator for Portuguese prayer groups.