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The 'ANCHOR
Six hundred and thirty-six seniors will graduate from 10 high schools of the Diocese at ceremonies Sunday, June 11 and Monday, June 12. They include 234 boys and 402 girls. Largest clas's will graduate fro,m Coyle High School, Taunton, which will confer diplomas on 127 boys. Following is Mt. St. Mary Academy, Fall River, with 86 girls. Eight schools will hold graduations on Sunday, with Coyle and Sacred Hearts Academy in Fall River scheduling" cere- -
An Anohor of the Soul, !Jure aM F'irm--ST. PAUL
FaU River, Mass., 'Thursdayu June 8, 1961 !Vol. 5, No. 24 ©
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St.Chris·topher's Rank D~ma.nds Explanation~ . WASHINGTON (NC) - Church authorities in Rome have denied reports that St. Christopher might be eliminated from lists of the saints. Officials of the Sacred Congregation of Rites also labeled as false and baseless rumors that the Holy See grown up about these saints. plans to downgrade the feast The calendar issued last July of St. Patrick. Speculative reduced the feast of St. Patrick reports concerning the status from the old rank of "double" of' various early saints have been published sporadically in'a num_ beT of countries ever since the HOly See revealed in April fuat it ·considers "St. Philomena" fictitious. Actually, nobody ever !beard of "St; Philomena" until the beginrling of the last century, when remains found in a Roman catacomb were assumed to be those of a person of that name, Qnd were acclaimed as the relics 01 an early Christian martyr.
to that of a third class feast. Thus in most places, since March 17 always falls within Lent, the feast of St. Patrick is n(}w superceded by the Lenten Mass of the day. But in Ireland, because he is the national patron, and in local dioceses or churches where he is the patron, St. Patrick's Day is a first class feast. Old biographies of St. P·atrick abOund in marvelous deeds which are purely mythical. But historians know a great deal ab(}ut him, not only from records handed down by his followers, but from his own ac;. count. So there has been no serious suggestion th'at St. Turn to 'Page Thirteen
lllonies Monday. Dominican Academy and Mt., St. Mary's, both Fall River, will hold graduations at 2 Sunday afternoon. Bishop Connolly will preside at St. Mary's Cathedral for Mt. St. -Mary girls and Rev. John Cronin will speak. Mt. St. Mary's class day is scheduled for a tomorrow' -afternoon in the academy auditorium. Carolyn J. Howarth, valedictorian, will graduate maxima cum laude and summa cum laude graduates are Mary ~nn Christensen, Joan Majkut and Sylvia Ann Laureanno. Diane Perry, salutatorian, will be among seniors graduating cum laude. Auxiliary Bishop Gerrard will preside at Dominican' Academy ceremonies, to be held in the school building. He will present diplomas to 57 girls. Rev. John R. FoIster will be commencement speaker. The academy class day was held yesterday. Highest Turn to Page Thirteen
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Chancery Announces New Assignments
The Chancery Office today announced the transfers of two assistants and the appointment to area 'positions of two other priests of the Diocese. Rev. Cornelius J. O'Neill9 assistant at St. Joseph's, Church, Taunton, for the past fifteen montns, becomes asI~' addition, 'the Most Reverend sistant at St. Augustine's Bish(}p has appointed, Rev. Church, Vineyard Haven. Francis L. Mahoney, assistant at Rev. John F. Moore, assist- St. Margaret's Church, Buzzard8 ant at Holy Name Church, Fall River, since February, 1960, is transferred to S1. Joseph's Church, Taunton.
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Agency
Tops in ForeigOl Relne~ Aid . WASHINGTON (NC) More than one-third of the total spent in foreign aid by U. S. voluntary relief groups
during the last half of 1960 was spent by the U. S. Catholic relief agency. FATHER MOORE FATHER O'NEILL Catholic Relief Services-National Catholic Welfare Conference spents $55,511,997 for foreign relief be,tween July 1 and December 31, 1960. During the same six months the total spent' in foreign relief Rev. Mr. Efren L. Musngi, seminarian at La Saletto by 56 U. S. voluntary agenc\c:s Seminary, Attleboro, will be the first missionary of Our was $147,562,180. These figures are contained in Lady of La Salette to be ordained in the Orient. Leaving NEW YORK (NC) - The.present conflict over Federal a report made public here by the the United States Monday, June 26, he will be ordained ia aid to education is essentially one between religious minded Advisory Committee on Volun- - his home parish of Santiago, Foreign Aid of the InternaTomas, Manila, until he joined people and secularists, a priest warned here. Msgr. George tary tional Cooperation Administra- Isabela, Philippines 'Friday, the La Salette community m 'A.. Kelly, director of the Family Life Bureau of the New tion. Aug. 14. Ordaining prelate 1954. York archdiocese, said a new But keep'them private and keep Following ,Catholic Relief will be Bishop Teodulfo Arriving in the United State. Services in the amount spent was concept of the public school them small."_ Domingo of Tuguegarao. CARE with a total of $25,971,352. is in vogue today and its Thi,s kind of reasoning, Msgr. The other three agencie:t among Rev. Mr. Musgni, son (}f Mr. proponents' goal is the secu- Kelly asserted,. "is secularism at the- .top five are: Avelino T. Musgni and Albina larizatiQn of American culture.- its best and totalitarianism at its : Church. Wotld Service (Prot- Lapuz of Santiago, was educated worst." estant), $20,479,456; American in the Philippines and attended He told the annual Commu"Latter day pagans," he con- , Jewish Joint Distribution Com- the minor seminary of Tuguenion breakf-ast of employ,es of tlnued, "reject absolutely the mittee, $14,327,590: and Lutheran garao and the Central Seminary tihe New York Central Railroad Tum to Page Eighteen World Relief, $6,317,328. of the University of Santo that "evangelists" of this concept say "the major right of eduT? cation belongs to the State." J.~oreanishQp: He said they reason as follows: "If we are to have a unified country, the malleable .., minds of our young citizens 'B p' t" M G must be molded by. the State. y a rICla cowan Good citizenship requires a gov"In America you ask: How can I make my body thin? In Korea, the ~ople ask: How ernment monopoly of education. can I make my body fat? In America you wake 'in the morning and a'sk: How can I make Anything other than full acceptmy life more enjoyable today? In Korea th e people 'wake and ask: How can I stay alive &nce of this creed brings divitoday?" In these words Bishop John A. Choi of Pu'san, Korea, who visited'Sacred Heart sion and is un-American. Have Il'eligious schools, if you must. - parish, Fall River, this week ' , , " ; """)
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Short and slim, a third generation Catholic, the Kor;ean native apologized for his hesitant English. "If I had known that I would bec(}me a Bishop, I would lheeded Christian teachings be.. have studied more English fore Castro took over the na- , we have so many languages' to tion, according to Bishop Cole- learn: Chinese~ Japanese, KOFa. ean, Latin-" man F. Carroll of Miami. First Bish(}p of the newlyThe Bishop told the State Convention of the -Knights of created vicariate (}f Pusan, the €olumbus that during the years prelate has be'en in the United preceding Fidel Castro's rise to States since April.' He WIll travel power "nearly one-half of the -throughout the -country until people were said to profess no . mid-september, appealing for 1'eligion and only a fr\lction of his country's 'tWo great· needS' mission personnel and ':fUnds: ~ people went to Mass reguhu'ly." . Prefacing his sermons with ails "Had Cuba lived according to apology fur his pronunciati(}n. the teachings of Christ and cd Bishop Chol carefully rea~ an 'il'1ml to I"ap Eighkela ~B ~ Pago EltIhtcm
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in 1955, he completed a year of novitiate at Center Harbor, N. H.. then was assigned to the La Salette major seminary in Attle-boro. Rev. Mr. Musngi will join 26 La Salette Fathers and Brothers in the Philippine missions following his ordination and a brief refresher' course in philosophy at the University of,Santo Tomas. The community·staffs an elementary school, six high schools" a college and six parishes in tho Isabela province. Sunday, June 25 he will pafb ticipate in a departure ceremony at La Salette Minor seminary. Enfield, N. H. La Salette Fatherl;) from New Hampshire and Springfield also assigned to thft Philippines, also be honor. i!t the cel'emo~- J
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