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Changes for ,II priests announced by bishop Bishop Sean O'Malley, OFM Cap., has announced three pastoral appointments, six changes affecting parochial vicars and two affecting hospital chaplains. Father John A. Gomes will leave the pastorate of Our Lady of the Angels parish, Fall River, to become pastor at Our Lady of Lourdes, Taunton. Father Raul Lagoa, parochial vicar at St. Michael's parish, Fall River, has been named pastor of St. Joseph's parish, Taunton. Msgr. John J. Oliveira will assume the pastorate of St. Mary's pa~ish, New Bedford, while remaining Secretary for Education/ Evangelization and director of the Office of the Propagation of the Faith. Parochial Vicars Parochial vicars changing parishes are Father Brian Albino, SJ, from St. John the Baptist to Immaculate Conception in New Bedford; Father Michael Camara, OFM, from Holy Family, East Taunton, to St. Michael, Fall River; Father David A. Costa, from St. Mark, Attleboro Falls, and chaplain at Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro, to St. Joseph, North Dighton, and chaplain at Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River; and Father Gregory Mathias from Corpus Christi parish, East Sandwich, to St. Mark, Attleboro Falls, and chaplain at Bishop Feehan High School. Father James Ferry, temporary administrator at Our Lady of Lourdes, Taunton, will become paroc~ial vicar at Espirito Santo, Fall River. Father Craig A. Pregana, parochial vicar at S1. John the Evangelist parish, Attleboro, will remain assistant director of vocations while moving his residence to Sacred Heart, Fall River. Also changing residences are Father Steven R. Furtado, from St. Anthony of Padua to Santo Christo, Fall River, while remaining chaplain at Charlton Memorial Hospital, Fall River; and Father David J. Landry, from S1. Mary's to Immaculate Conception, Taunton, while remaining chaplain at Morton Hospital, Taunton. All changes are effective June 28. Father Gomes Born on Madeira Island, Portugal, Father Gomes came to the United States as a child. He was ordained to the pri(:sthood May 3, 1969, and his first assignment as
parochial vicar was at Our Lady of Lourdes, where he will now be pastor. He was also parochial vicar at St. Anthony of Padua, Fall River, and then was chaplain at Charlton Memorial Hospital from 1977 to 1984. He was parochial vicar at St. John of God parish, Somerset, until he was named pastor at Sacred Heart parish, Oak Bluffs, in 1986, and then at Our Lady of the Angels in 1990. Father Lagoa A native of Villa da Santa Cruz, Graciosa, Portugal, Father Lagoa was ordained June 2, 1979. He was parochial vicar at St. Mary's parish, Norton, serving during that time as director of the Attleboro area Pre-Cana program. He was parochial vicar at Our Lady of Lourdes, Taunton, and St. John the Baptist, New Bedford, then in 1985 was named chaplain at Morton Hospital, Taunton, with residence at St. Mary's parish in that city. He served as moderator of the Taunton area Catholic Nurses. In 1991, he was named parochial vicar at St. Michael's, Fall River, a post he retained when he was named chaplain at Bristol Community College, Fall River, in 1993. Msgr. Oliveira A New Bedford native, Msgr. Oliveira was ordained May 20, 1967. He was parochial vicar at St. John of God , Somerset; Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Seekonk; St. John the Baptist, New Bedford; St. Anthony's, Taunton; and St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River. He has served as a notary for the diocesan marriage tribunal and was an instructor at the former Mt. S1. Mary's Academy, Fall
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MOTHER TERESA prays with members of her community in Calcutta last year on the eve of her 84th birthday. She will be 85 on Aug. 27. The world-famous nun is expected in the Fall River diocese on June 14. (CNSj Reuters photo)
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Mother Teresa to visit convent, attend Mass in New Bedford The Fall River diocese has announced that Mother Teresa of Calcutta will visit her community's convent in New Bedford on' Wednesday, June 14, and at Anchor press time was expected to speak at a 3:30 p.m. Mass at S1. Lawrence Church on County Street in that city. The Mass will be televised live on channels 6, 10 and 12 and will be broadcast by New Bedford radio station WBSM, 1420 AM. Sisters of her community, the
Missionaries of Charity, came to New Bedford in 1992. They work in prison ministry and outreach programs to the elderly poor and also staff a home for battered women and their children. The New Bedford sisters came to the Fall River diocese at the invitation of Bishop Sean O'Malley, arriving Dec. 19, 1992, six months and three days after the bishop's appointment to the see. But they were not strangers to
him. At his request they had established a mission in the Virgin Islands just before he left for Fall River and he also knew their work in the Washington archdiocese, where he had previously served. Mother Teresa's visit to New Bedford comes on the last leg of an extended tri"p she has been making to various foundations of her community in the United States. It will be her first visit to the Fall River diocese and her only one in New England.
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Over $1 million
BisilOP ends demonstration moratorium
Over $1 million! That's what the Fall River diocese has contributed to the Religious Retirement Fund since its inception in December 1988. The fund, which helps meet needs ofaging members of male and female religious communities, collected $26.8 million nationwide in 1994. Fall River's contribution to that total was 5152,105.
At abortion clinics
In solidarity with Boston Cardinal Bernard F. Law, Bishop Sean O'Malley has released the following statement with regard to demonstrations at abortion clinics: Five months ago, the Bishops of Massachusetts requested a moratorium on public demonstrations at abortion clinics. This was done to reduce any tension or hostility and to foster dialogue about support for alternatives to abortion. I am grateful to those who have respected the moratorium since
January and, in solidarity with Cardinal Law, I lift that burden from their consciences and no longer request that they refrain from these actions. At the same time,1 urge them to conduct themselves peacefully at these sites, to avoid direct confrontation there and to maintain a spirit of prayer
as the defining character of their behavior. The great pro-life activity of the Church is expansive in its scope and has many components. And so I take this opportunity to ask each parish, each religious education program, each school, all youth ministers, the S1. Vincent de Paul Conferences, indeed any whose ministry in the Church affects the Turn to Page Six