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Taunton Rt, Rev. Msgr., James :1. Ger-, rard, V.G." will preside and pre- / sent diplomas to 116 boys at Monsignor James Coyle High School at 8 P. M. next Monday. Rev. John J. Hackett, vice chancellor of the Diocese and a Coyle graduate, will speak. Rt. Rev. Msgr: James J. Dolan,
P.R."pastor of St. Mary's Church,
assisted by Rev. William F. Mor
ris, will present diplomas to' 36
girls 'at St. Mary's' High School
exercises' Suhday in the church. Rev. Edward J. Mitchell will be the preacher. A combined baccalaureate for
both schools will be held at 10
A. M. Monday in St. Mary's Church, with Rev. Brendan C. McNally, S.J., of Holy Cross Col lege as the preacher. Turn to Page Seventeen
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Father McCarthy Planning' Recollectio~ Day for Deaf
Deaf and hard of hearing residents of the Fall River will participate in an after:noon of recollection, Sun day, June 22. Services, to be conducted in both speech' and sign language, will begin at 2 at Our Lady's Chapel, New Bedford. Rev. James A. McCarthy
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of. hearing, says it is hoped that
the event will mark the 'begin ning of a social' and spiritual program for the deaf of the Diocese. ' The preacher will be Rev. John Bosco Valente, O.F.M., of' St. Francis' Chapel, Providence. Himself afflicted with deafness, he has studied' lip-reading and sign language for many years and has just completed a w.eek's mission for the deaf and the giv ing 01 a retreat to deaf children in New York, ,The program at Our Lady's Chapel will include an opening talk, instruction, hymns, and ser mon, to be followed by a social hour in the Chapel basement. Final instructions, a sermon, and Turn to Page Fifteen •
Ail' examination for college' stu'dents who are' desirous of studying for the priesthood, will be· held in the Conv.ent of the Holy Union of the Sacred Hearts, Prospect St., Fall River, at nine o'clock on Thursday June 19. The matter_ for the examina tions will. consist of those sub jects usually undertaken during the first two years of the classi, cal college courses. There will be no examination in Philo~Qph~ Each candidate appearing for the examination will be required to present the, following papers: . ,1. A letter of recommendation Turn to Page Twenty REV. J. B. VALENTE, O.F.M.
Holy Father Says Secula,r Institutes Reinforce Catholic Apostolate "Outwardly," Archbishop Richard J, Cushing of Boston Jemarked in 1955, "there is no difference between them and you or the person next to you. Inwardly, they are dedicated 110 God." , The Archbishop was refer- cent development within the ring to the same group of Church and because they, do not people whom His Holiness court publicity, the secular institutes are riot understood very Pope Pius XII has called "a well by many people. But that strong arm which has come to reinforce the Catholic apostolate In these troubled and sorrowful times." The men and women thus delIeribed are members of the secular institutes, a new, relatively unknown - and perhaps immensely significant - move ment. Both because they are a re-
Americans Today Recognize Value ,Of Intellectuals' CLEVELAND (NC)-The tfttellectual is more tolerated .. 'America today than pre.. nously, but only "insofar as
leaders of ,the Church see'in the tremendous potential for good is clear from such' a comment as that of the Pope, that they are "a new division. ;, • come to swell the army of those who proTurn to Page Sixteen
Deplores Neglect, Of Liberal Arts In U.S. Schools INDIANAPOLIS (NC)-Too much stress on vocational train ing in high schools and colleges to the neglect of liberal arts courses is a basic weakness in U. S. education. Dr. Jerome' G. Ker~in, politi-' cal science professor at the Uni versity of Chicago tQld the co educational Marian College grad uating class, that among other weaknesses were anti-intellectu alism and the needless 'prolong ing of adolescence. A decline in the study of phil osophy, on the plea that it is too theoretical, is evidence of Turn to Page Twenty
REUNION OF .sISTERS: M. St. Roland, right, a mission ary sister of th~ Religious of Jesus-Mary from India, now touring the American Province before her return to the misson field, chats with her sister, M.' Mary Nathalie, a member of the faculty of Jesus Mary Academy, Fall River.
Language Pupils in America Have, Easy Time, Says Nun By Patricia McGowan American youngsters who groan at studying onefor~ign language should be grateful they don't live in India. So says Mother Mary Roland, R.J.M., who has been visiting her sister, also a member of the Religious of Jesus Mary, at Jesus-Mary Con- tongues, and Sanskrit is a dead vent Fall River while on language studied for its cultural - f 'B' d value, as Latin or Greek are h ?me'Ieave rom aro a,In- studied in the West. dla. Teen-agers at the JesusStart All Over 'Mary School in India, she explains, study English, Hindi, Gujerati and Sanskrit. Hindi is India's national language; Gujerati is one of the 12 regional
Nor does the language prob lem stop there. If an Indian·" moves from Baroda to Bombay for instance, he must' learn ~ Turn to Page 'Five
Surroundings ~f Diocese Impre.ss, Prie~t Visiting from 'England The many activities of his bustling parish in th'e' south of England were described here today by Rev. James Gerard Devlin. In the United States for the first time on a six-week visit to his cousin, Mrs. Ed- its surroundings are so pleasant, ward O'Brien of St. Patrick's h~ .doesn't particularly 'want to . F h VISIt other parts of the country
parIsh, Somerset, at er during his stay.
Devlin says Fall River and Yearly pilgrimages to 'Lourdes
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conducted on a unique lottery
basis, a thriving men's club
house, and a whole battery of
. services to the aged of the parish are only a few of the project. Turn to Page Fifteen
Prelate Cautions Against Dollar Sign StanClard
By Rev. Edward J. MitcheB , . 'Not eVeryone can ride into Paray-Ie-M onial with a, second-hand ear dealer from Algiers. And no one ever should! French politics and' ,eranky ear do Ilot at all mix with the beauty of Burgundy. ' ,'-, . ,'Howeyer,'when we missed our morning train froI,D Lyons there was only one course, CINCINNATI-A college open to us if. we, wanted to Blessed Virgin "to become one symptoms disappeared. president urged graduates of arrive at ~he, "City of the. of, her daughters" if she were Her symptoms disappeared, Sacred Heart before dark--- cured: The hext, day all her but her - real troubles began. Our Lady of Cincinnati Col lege here to refuse to con f h't hh'k They were ,the troubles of a ~he anCIent, ar ..0, I C 1 pretty . eighteen-year-old girl form to success standards meas
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be .. \!seful in working out the. techniques forpr~ lItl~tion of a more efficient l.ng." , . iiuided missile." While 'our driver debated and Dr. John J. Meng" dean of ,gestured about the problems of IIdministration at Hunier Coi French Africa (at times with lege, New York, made this state both hands), the hometown of ment in a commencement ad- , St. Margaret Mary Alacoque dress to graduates of Ursuline flew by the window; It was in . tilIollege ~ere. this little village that the Saint More than just, the conven of the Sacred Heart was born ience of a few individuals is at over three hundred years ago. atake in American anti-intellec Symptoms Disappear tualism, he warned, for every "If this Algerian has troubles," weakening of the intellectual life I thought to myself, "young marks a further step toward Margaret Mary's were even greater."o Her father,died when lIlaterialism. she was eight years old and Human Progress shortly afterwards she herself Dr. Meng, a native of Cleve land and former faculty, member was stricken with a deadly disease. For four years she grew lit the Catholic University of America, Washington" declared progessively thinner and weaker. that, if the American way of life The doctors gave up hope. Then III • be preserved, "we must be one day, at the prompting of' her ~other. Marcaret promised ,1be . . . . . Pac.F~
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A total of 561 seniors, including 218 boys and 343 girls, will receive diplomas this month from the 10 Catholic Secondary schools,of the Fall River Diocese. The schedule of, graduation exercises ,for the schools, located in five dif ferent communities, is as follows:
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with a good dowry, a swarm of suitors, a mother with marriage in her eye, and at the same time (wouldn't yO\! know it!) a vow and desire for the religious life. . When the parish priest spoke of dispensing with the sick-bed vow, Margaret refused. Her mother's ready flow of tears, however, kept her from entering the convent. for five long years. 'Th t D id d It' a ec e Duri?g this time Margaret dated the wealthy and eager suitors who beat a path to her Burgundi~n d0o.r. 'She dated them untIl, commg home from a party one night, she found Ghrist waiting for her in her room. wearing the. crown of SACRED HEART SHRINEthorns.and blood-stamed robe 01. Cancel' HOGle, .fall Kivu TurD M Paa-e Eichteea
ured in terms of ~he dollar sign. Msgr. Alfred F. Horrigan, president of Bellarmine College in Louisville, declared that the modern Christian must be both a co'nformist and a non-conform ist. The "neat little solution" of deciding always to be one or the other, he stated, is not allowed to "the intelligent and virtuous man." Dismal Failure He told the graduates they "must 'conform to God's laws" but should "refuse to conform to prevailing success standards which measure' human worth and achievement in terms of the dollar sign and the number of tail lights on the new model ears." Declaring that mere adjust . rurn M' 'Pace 'Twelft