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For Mass Priests throughout the Dioceoe of Fall River will meet ,in the immediate future to witness and l'articipate in the .offering of a Masseel~l'ated accol'ding to the neWl\r rites going into effect on Thursday, June 29. The Masses are scheduled to bring about . uniformity in the offering op Stang High School, North of Mass throughout the Din- Dartmouth, on Thursday, June . cese. The celebrant of the 22, at 3 in the afternoon.
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Masses will be the Very Rev. RObert L. Stanton, Rector of the Cathedral and Secretary of the Liturgical Commission. Queries on the adapted rites will be answered by the Very Rev. Reginald M. Barrette, Diocesan Chancellor. The priests from the Fall River-New Bedford Area will attend the Mass celebrated at Bish-
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Warns CCO Catechists ,'~Of Experimentation LOS ANGELES (NC)~Religious formation of chil4ren . should not be sacrificed for the sake of. senoeless ;- iocperimentation. Teachers of religion should adhere to fun. "mentals and not become involved in conveying mere epinions. Strongly emphaaized, these twin admonit- by oPinions, these are like hy-ions were voiced here by potheses in relation to estab"Auxiliary Bishop John J. li~hed, fact."
Msgr. Clarke li~ened the CCD Jvard of Los Ang.eles and" Msg'r. . John K. Clarke at a graduation to a small boat that must $tay路 near the shore, near fundamenlweakfast for 1,100 men and '.omen Who had completed 50- tals, for the sake of the children IIour c~urses to become lay cate- bein'g taught and for the sake of *ists of the Confraternity of the teachers路 being trained. It is necessary. he said. to ....ristion Doctrine. abide by definite textbooks in "You must stay close to fun. rder to teach prescribed mate"mentals," said Msgr. Clarke, -.. . . o M"Chdiocesan eCD director. Our rial. GCD policy is this: )"ou simply He added that he had written 411m-not afford to experiment be-- .to religion textbook publishers ij' . .use you -must- convey the who do not include the text of tKndamentals. prayers, asking them to print "The CCD," Msgr. Clarke such prayers as the Our Father, .,ph:as.ized, Uis not concerned with the Creed and the Act of Con-.pinions. We must allow for the trition. These, he said, are necdevelopment of dogma, but we- essary to form in children the Are not interested in teaching practice 01 prayer. "nions. Do not be scandalized Turn to Page Twelve
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College of Cardinals Loses Two Illustrious Members BRO. RICHARD KINIRY, C.s.C.
ProvinCial Names Brother Richard Coyle Principal Brother John Donoghue, C.S.C., provincial of the Eastern Province of the Brothers of Holy Cross has announced that Brother Richard Kiniry, C.S.C., presently dean of men at Notre Dame High School, Turin to Page Nineteen
Monsignbr Denehy Named School Commandant Rt. :Rev. (Lt. Col.) John F. Denehy of Fall River is the new commandant of Air University's Air Force Chap-
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Bishop Cassidy High School will be the scene of the Mass ex" emplifying the new rites for the priests of the Taunton-Attiebora Area. It will be offered at 3 Friday, June 23. The new Mass rites will then be witnessed by the priests of the Cape-Islands Area at St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, at 4 Monday, June 26.
lain School, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. Monsignor Denehy has been deputy commandant since May of 1966, a few months before activity was transferred from Lacklana AFB, Texas, to Maxwell. ' The Fall River diocesan priest entered the Air Force in 1950. In addition to various assignments at Air Force installations in the United States, he has Turn to Page Fourteen
Two eminent cardinals--Joseph Cardinal Ritter of St. Louis and Ernesto Cardinal Ruffini of Palermo, Sicilydied within the space of 24 hours and deprived the Church of noted leadership in pastoral application of Vatican II. Not only were Cardinals Ritter and Ruffini from the Lo~s since 1946 and a leading oPPoJite sides of the world figure in the American Catholie but the American Cardinal hierarchy, died in De Paul Hoswas known for his progressive id~as in renewal and relevance with the issues of the world; Cardinal Ruffini, a most active and outspoken participant in the Vatican Council was a leader of the more conservative element in the Council.
At home, the U. S. prelate launched many types of renewal to render the Vatican Council more meaningful to his diocesans: Operation Renewal, a synod, an archdiocesan council of priests, Religions and laity, an archdiocesan council of priests.
In Sicily, the Italian prelate, although he opp!>sed some key proposals eventually adopted by the council, accepted the Council's decisions wannly as "a great, extraordinary miracle of the moral orde,r. a brilliantly shining proof of the holy Church's fresh vitality and force." A concelebrated funeral Mass was offered t his morning in St. Louis Cathedral for 'Cardinal Ritter; the funeral of Cardinal Rufini will be held Saturday. Cardinal Ritter, Archbishop of St.
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pital Saturday. a month short of hi$ 75th birthday. ' The 20 years that Cardinal Ritter served the St. Louis archdiocese were marked as much by his leadership in a changing universal Churoh as by his guidance of the" local People of God. From Oct. 8, 1946, when he left the Archdiocese of Indianapolis to succeed the late Cardinal John J. Glennon as Archbish()p of St. Louis, through the day of his death, the Church moved forward in its own renewal under his leadership and sought a new relevance with issues: of the world. In these years, Cardinal Ritter became a recognized leader in racial justice, ecumenism and the second Vatican Council. The cardinid had a national impact when he integrated St. Louis Catholic schools in 194'7, seven years before the U. S. Supreme Court made school integration the law of the land. During the Vatican council, he emerged as a pr 0 g res s i v e leader among Americtan prelates and bishops throughout the
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