FALL RIVER DIOCESAN NEWSPAPER FOR SOUTHEAST MASSACHUSEns CAPE COD & THE ISLANDS
t eanc 0 VOL. 28, NO. 23
FALL RIVER, MASS., FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1984
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Four young men will be or dained for the Fall River diocese ,in ceremonies at 11 a.m. June 16 in St. Mary's Cathedral. Four others were admitted to candi dacy for the priesthood at a re cent Mass at St. Vincent's Home, Fall River. To be ordained are Rev. Mr. James Ferry, Rev. Mr. James Fitzpatrick, Rev. Mr. Mark Hes sion and Rev. Mr. Thomas Mc Glynn. All attended St. John's Seminary, Brighton. Admitted to candidacy were Mr. Thomas Frecette, Mr. Edward Healey, Mr. David Landry and Mr. John Loughmane.
was for five years a dairy farmer, before entering St. John's Sem inary in 1976. He served as a transitional deacon at Espirito Santo Church, Fall River. Rev. Mr. Ferry will offer his first Mass, at which "Rev. John J. Oliveira will be homilist, at 2 p.m. June 17 at St. John of God Church. His concelebrants will be Father Daniel Freitas, Father Stephen Salvador, Fa,ther Luis Cardoso and Father Oliveira. Music will be by theSt. John of God choir. A reception in the parish cen· ter wiH follow the Mass.
Rev. Mr. Feny Rev. Mr. Ferry is a native of St. John of God parish, Somer set, and the son of John and Emily (Costa) Ferry. He has two brothers and seven sisters. Born Feb. 20, 1953, he attend ed Swansea grammar schools, graduated from Bristol County Agricultural High School and
Rev: Mr. Fitzpatrick A native of Immaculate Con ception parish, Taunton, Rev. Mr. Fitzpatrick is the son of Wil liam J. and Ann (Rose) Fitz patrick. He has three sisters. Born in Taunto~ August 24, 1958, he graduated from Taun ton Catholic Middle School in Tum to Page Fourteen
RECENTLYADMmED to candidacy for the Fall River diocesan priesthood by Bish op Daniel A. Cronin (center) are, from left, Thomas 'frechette, David Landry, Edward Hea ley, John Loughmane.(Torchia Photo)
Religious call for return to roots
By Jerry FUteau
WASHINGTON (NC)
Archbishop John R. Quinn of
San Francisco defended diversity
June 1 before a national organ
ization of religious, many of
whose members question whether
there is not too much departure
from essentials in religious life.
Archbishop Quinn, who heads a papal commission to study re ligious in the United States, spoke at the opening session of the national meeting of the In stitute on Religious Life. The institute, which counts about 22,000 members, met June
1-3 at The .Catholic University original charism of an order, re of America. More than 250 re- suit in many diverse ways in ligious, mostly nuns in-traditional which religious .can 'follow the habits and veils, attended the same general norms of the meeting. church for community life, he Throughout his address Arch- said. bishop Quinn stressed the need While some speakers at the for diversity in religious me. He meeting questioned whether said that church norms calion many American religious are orders to adapt their rules and still living the, essential elements lifestyles to changing. demands ,of religious life,' Archbishop .of their apostolates, to the physi- Quinn vigorously rejected that cal and psychological character· view. istics of their members and' to' Dominican Mother Assumpta the social and cultural situations Long from NashvUle, Tenn., also they face. among speakers, opened the These factors, as weB as the question session by referring to
a document addressed to U.S. religious, "Essential Elements of Religious Life." It was issued by the Vatican last year when the Quinn commission was appoint ed. She suggested to the arch bishop that "the majority of .(U.S.) religious do not consider 'Essential Elements' to be es sential." ' "I don't have the same im pression," Archbishop Quinn re sponded. "The Holy Father in his letter (estal>lishiiig the commission) said that the essential elements
are lived in different ways in different institutes -(religious orders)," he said. The pope also said that they are .Jived in differ ent ways "in different cultures," he added. Jesuit Father John Hardon, another speaker, asked Arch bishop Quinn whether "one of the main reasons" behind the papally mandated study "-is that so many institutes have 'de facto, departed from 'Essential Elements.' .. The archbishop answered that he did not view his role as "an Tum to Page Two
Ireland gives Reagan mixed recep'tion
'By NC News service During his June 1·4 trip to Ireland, President Reagan de nounced the Soviet Union but cal1ed for dialogue with .ft, urged peace in Northern Ireland and visited what was said to be his forefathers' hometown. While some Irish citizens dem onstrated against him, others gave hJm an exuberant welcome. The president, in a ta,lk strong ly app\auded by the Irish Parlia ment ip Dublin June 4, but boy cotted by 20 members, urged the U.S. and t~e Soviet Union to en
gage in "greater dialogue" to and some students burned their promote peace. diplomas ·in protest. He said that ,the U.S. is will Bishop Eamonn Casey of Gal ing to stop or even reverse de way, chairman of Trocaire, an ployment of medium-range mis Irish relief agency, also boy siles in Europe if the Soviets ~nd cotted the ceremony because he U.S. reach accord on ,arms ~on opposes U.S. policy in Central trol. America. Two days earlier, in a speech Ireland has sent many mission at University Col1ege, Galway, aries to Central America and where he received an honorary Bishop Casey has visited the re degree" ~eagan had described 'gion several times. the Soviet Union as "an enor mously powerful adversary," Opposition to Reagan's poli The speech was boycotted by cies in CentraI America and on some university faculty members nuclear weapons marked the
president's visit to other sites as well. ' Some 70 priests and nuns be gan a fast June 1 to protest the visit. Before the visit, some Irish priests had publicly criticized U.S. foreign policy, and the Irish Conference of Major Religious Superiors said it welcomed Rea gan but was repulsed by various aspects of his foreign policy. Protesters in various cities in cluded Catholic nuns and monks, middle-aged parents with young children, leftists, Communists,
students, homosexual rights acti vists, antinuclear weapons groups and others opposed to one or another aspect of U.S. foreign policy. The number of protesters was pegged at about 1,000 in Gal-' way, 400 in Ballyporeen, believed the home of Reagan ancestors, and 5,000 in Dublin, where 100 priests and nuns led marchers. In Galway, the president ad dressed an audience of 500 while his visit to Bal1yporeen drew some 3,000 spectmtors. Tum to Page Two