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Vel. 14, No. 24

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Nixon Taps Lodge As Vatican Envoy WASHINGTON (NC) - Henry Cabot Lodge intends to make his first exten~ed visit to Rome in about two weeks, as President Nixon's newly named personal envoy to the Vatican, and will set up office in a hotel there. The 67-year-old former U. S. Ambassador to Saigon discussed his plans with NC News when reached by telephone at his Beverly, Mass., home a few minutes before the White House announced his appointment. He was given no formal diplomatic status, although he is ranked in the U.S. State Department as a roving ambassador. "I'm deeply grateful for the honor," said Lodge, "I'm looking forward to visiting the Vatican. I pray that this will open up great opportunities for exchanging points of view that will advance the cause of peace." Asked how soon he expected to make his initial visit to the V&tican in - his new capacity, Lodge said he expected to go "toward the end of the month." He said he would remain in Rome "a few weeks" and would live in a hotel, maintaining an office there, rather than provide himself with a leased apartment. Occasional visitors to Pope

Paul VI from the Nixon administration over the past year, such as Transportation Secretary John Volpe and, twice, presidential assistant Peter M, Flanigan, have stayed no more than one or two ·days. Lodge was last received in papal audience on Jan. 16, 1967 after he had ended two tours as ambassador in Vietnam for President Johnson and before heading the Paris negotiating team for President Nixon throughout 1969. Nixon's decision to name Lodge marks the first time the United States has set up a personal emissary arrangement with the vatican since President Franklin D. Roosevelt sent Myron C. Taylor over in February 1940 as his liaison man with Pope Pius XII, less than two years before American entry into World War II. The time Taylor actually spent in Rome covered only a few months, although he remained on the books until 1950 as special envoy. Concern over the search for peace was evident in the Washington announcement of Lodge's appointment and in the words of Turn to Page Fourteen

Holy Rosary Church Scen@ Of Ordination on Sunday Rev. Leo Polselli, C.S.C., son of Mr. and Mrs. Gaetano -Polselli, 103 Varley Street, Fall River, will be ordained to the priesthood on Sunday, June 14,

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at noon, by Bishop James J. Gerrard, Auxiliary Bishop of Fall River, in Father Polselli's ·parish church, Our Lady of the Holy Ro~r~ . A native of Fall River, Father Polselli was born on May 22, 1940. He attended Fall River public schools 'and was graduated from Durfee High School in 1958. Upon completing high school, he enrolled at Stonehill College, North Easton, from which he received an A.B. degree in economics in 1962. In the Summer of 1962, he studied at Purdue University and for six weeks in Puerto Rico to acquaint himself with the cooperative movement in preparation for the Peace Corps. He received an assignment to Chile in November, 1962, to work in the formation and assessing of production cooperatives in southern Chile. He returned from the Peace Corps in September, 1964, when Turn to Page Seventeen

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FIRST COMMENCEMENT: Bishop Connolly congratulates George J. Banville, one of the 87 seniors of the first .graduating class from Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, as Rev. Charles J. Dunn, S.J., rector, second left, and Rev. John G. Cornellier, S.J., principal, right, participate in the ceremonies.

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Federal Voucher Aid To Begin in 1971 CAMBRIDGE (NC)-A voucher system for education which might prove a financial help to both public and non public schools has been proposed by a group of researchers here. Christopher' Jencks, author and associate professor of education at Harvard University, directed the study under an Office of Economic Opportunity grant. Jencks said the proposal-to be tried out in one or two areas in Fall 1971 - would probably help alleviate money troubles in nonpubli~ schools. One section

father Tosti CeD Di@ce$Qn Director The Chancery Office announced today the appointment of Rev. Ronald A. Tosti as Diocesan Director of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine. Following philosophical and theological studies at St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore, the newly Turn to Page Sixteen

REV. RONALD A. TOSTI

in the proposal argues that parochial school participation in the program would be constitutional. On Monday the State Supreme -Judicial Court of Massachusetts called unconstitutional the so-called Mooney bill which proposed a voucher system of state aid. Under the bill, filed by State Rep. Jolm J. Mooney (D-Canton) the stote would provide It voucher of $100 a year for each child attending an accredilled pubnfic or private school, with the voucher to be turned over Kor redemption to the school of alttendance. The present prollltern lIlttendallt upon this OlEO proposal is this: can it be implemented in Massachuse1lt5 nn

view 'of the strl.ctures of the Massachusetts Sll&t<a Constitution, the mosll severe in the nation in thl: matter of state aid to non-plllbnc schools? The OEO plan aims, at giving parents in an area more freedom to choose where U:eir children go to school, as we:1 as to provide the _ financial assistance needed to upgrade education programs jn all participating schools. Parents in a given area would receive one voucher per elementary school age child equal to the am.ount spent by neighborhood public schools for educating each pupil. Children could then be enTurn to Page Six

Praises Charity and Zeal Of Late Msgr. IPrevost Rev. Joseph A. Mar-tineau, ad-ministrator of St. Michael's Parish, Swansea lauded the charity and energy of Rev. Msgr. Louis E. Prevost, pastor emeritus of St. 'Joseph's Parish, New Bedford in a homily delivered at Pontifical Concelebrated Mass of Requiem offered on Tuesday morning at 10 in St. Joseph's Church, New Bedford. The homilist, who served as Monsignor Prevost's assistant for 15 years in the New Bedford Parish, stated: "Monsignor Prevost was a' charitable and energetic priest. His daily Mass was the 'source of his untiring interest and enthusiasm in the building of Christ's kingdom on earth." In verbal pictures seen as the late pastor emeritus' assistant, Father Martineau wove a tapestry that depicted the benefits received by missionaries, parishes and schools through Monsignor

Prevost's incessant charity. Bishop Connolly was the principal celebrant of the Mass. The Turn to Page Six

MSGR. LOUllS E. PREVOST


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