Bishop As'ks Crusade Against Obscenity
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More than 60,000 families of the Diocese were warned Sunday of the vicious aspect of the mail order traffic in pornographic literature. Following the directives of a pas~oral letter issued by Bish~p Connolly, priests from all pulpits exposed the methods of thIS $500,000,000. a year business. Based on past complaints, Postmaster Arthur Summerfield recently esti-, mated that from 700,000 to 1,000,000 ,chil<iren will receive invitation~to depravity .
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. , A half centui-y devoted to training first graders and, pre-primary children in the Diocese of Fall River was celebdted this mori'th at St: Mary's, North Attleboro by Sister Mary Raphael, R.S.M., who obse'rved the golden anniversary of her entrance into the ReI i g i ou s Sisters of Mercy. The 50th jubilee Mass was eelebrated in St. Mary'~ Church by 'Sister Mary Raphael's nephew; Rev. Romauld Reiter' of' the' , Ogdensburg, N. Y. Diocese. 'Rev. Raymond W. McCarthy, Sacred Heart Church, Fall River, imd Rev. James A. Clark, St. Mary's, New Bedford, were pre'sent at the ceremonies. Four nieces of the jubiliirian also were in attendance:, Mrs. Ann Schmitt and Mrs. Michael, Washington, D. C., and Mrs. Ann Curran and Mrs, Emma Giddings, Greenfield.. Mass. 'A dinner was held at St. Mary's Convent for clergy and guests, followed by a reception and buffet for the Sisters. , Sister Mary Raphael has been SISTER MARY RAPHAEL Turn to Page Sixteen' \
pope Again Urges Active Participation in LiturgyVATICAN CITY (NC)-People at Mass should not be "like telegraph poles," but should all join with the priest iIi the offering of the Holy Sacrifice, Pope John, has declared. The Pontiff chose the metaphor of telegraph poles to describe the attitude of some because of the infinite merits of Catholics during Mass. He the Sacrifice itself, but also betold several thousand per- I cause of the benefits 'and advansons from 10 countries- tages of every nature gained gathered for a general audience from it for the family, and for in St. Peter's Basilica-that the everyday living throughout one's , person who attends Mass, with life. The Mass occupies the highest ~the proper dispositions~' knows "that he possesses an insuperable and most exalted place in the - treasure of interior peace, of mil'Jd and hear'~ of every Chri~ tian, the Holy Father declared:' '-race and well-being." ' Among those present for the Pope John stressed that to , Rope's plea for acti:ve participaassist at Mass frequently and de- tion in the liturgy of the Church Youtly not only constitutes an were a group' of officer's, and immense value for the individual men of the U.-S. armed forces. (.
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New Be d f o"rd Parish .I th~a~~:U:~~h~~~:ht:~~~::~'de_ -Marks 'H"alf 'c' entury
vised by these smut distributors , " " ./ • _ for obtaining the names and a d - ' , 'By Avis Roberts dresses of children The common " practice, Mr, Summerfield has Parishioners of St. Boniface Church lin New Bedford' said, is for these distributors will, participate in the celebration of the golden jubilee of to complete their mailing lists the parish this Surtthiy.'Most Rev. James J. Gerrard, auxilfrom children's replies to in- iary bishop and pastor of St. Lawrence's Church, will preside nocent ads for dolls,' sporting equipment, model airplanes and at a 10 o'clock Solemn High stamps. Other agencies cull Mass, to be celebrated by names from the year' books of Very Rev. William J. Conour high schools and' thus obtain don, SS.CC., provincial of a list of our teenage population. the Fathers of the,Sacred Hearts: According to the law of our land, postal authorities cannot Other events marking the juopen first class mail, which is bilee will be a smorgasbord and always used as a protection by musical program at Kennedy the distributors. Hence, com- Center from '1 to 3 Sunday afternoon. 0 plaints from citizens receiving this type of mail is necessary for Mrs. Catherine Krumholz prosecution. Branchaud is general chairman The Post Office Department is of the jubilee committee. Rev. working on a fourfold method Charles Kellagher, pastor, ia Turn to 'Page Sixteen honorary chairman. They are assisted' by Ernest Kruger, ticket chairman; Kenneth Nelson, assistant ticket chairman; Annette LeBlanc, sec_ retary; and a large committee. St. Boniface's was organized as a national parish for German ~ev. Edward, J:. Gorman, Catholics in 1906, but first Diocesan Superintendent of services were held at Holy RosSchools, annouri.c~d,t 0 day ary Church. Christmas Day, 1908" the first Mass was said ;it the FR. C. P. KELLAGHER, SS.Cc. that sales of strip tickets to , Turn to Page Sixteen St. Boniface Pastor parochial school chi 1 d r e n throughout the Diocese indicate that well over 16,000 will be in attendance at the two-day School Picnic scheduled for Monday and Tuesday, June 22 and?3 at Lincoln Park, North, Dartmouth. , NEW YORK (NC)-The Apostolic Delegate to the Over 8,600 children are expected on Monday and. more Uni~ed States says Catholic education is an "absolute necesthan 9,000 on Tuesday. Accom- sity" for the well-being of the Church. panying t!.J.em will be over "It is almost a rule of thu'mb that where Catholie 2,000 lay chaperons, '700 Sisters schools are developed, there the vigorous Catholic education and over 100 priests. Approximately 950 of the lay helpers the Chur~h progresses," de- system has developed to where will be at the Monday picnic, clared Archbishop, Egidio it now stands as the bastion of 1050 on Tuesday. Vagnozzi. "Where Catholic the Church in America." schools are lacking, there tne Archbishop Vagnozzi comTurn to Page Sixteen Church retrogresses." mented that in today's world, Archbishop Vagnozzi, in a "which increasingly emphasizes commencement address at Man- the secular," many persons "view hattan College, pointed out that' the philosophy behind your edu"fortunately, here in the United cation as an anachronism." States of America your foundNevertheless, he told the ing fathers established the graduates, it is "almost impos, Miss Mary Lou Betten- blessed tradition of freedom of sible to exaggerate the worth of COtlrt, daughter of Mr. and education. Under this protection your education." Mrs. Manuel J. Bettenc9urt, Trus~ees 49 Fielding Street, New Bed-, ford, and a member of ImmacU=late C9nception parish,' will fly on Tuesday from Logan Airport, , PITTSFIELD (NC)-The headmaster of Maine Central , Boston"to La Paz, Bolivia, where Institute who forbade 16 Cat.hoiic students to attend graduas a memoer of the Lay Apostolate Movement'she will teach ation exercises will not have to defend hi~actioJl before the ,for one y'ear at the Englisn'Cath- high school's board of trustees. olic College !taffed bY,the Sisters That he would'have to do' of religion at Bates College, a of the Good Shepherd. so 'had been reported but privately operated in$tituWm. The Lay Apostolate'Movement, , 'D' / The school whi'ch Mr, Stanley r. Harry . Rowe, preSI- heads is the only high school through which girls are sent to here. It was founded in 1866 by understaffed missionS as teach- dent of the board and dean of faculty. at, Bates, College, the 'Free Will Baptists, but now !'lrs, began at ,Regis College in 1950, and has since spread Lewiston, has denied the report., is non-sectarian. Pittsfield stuHeadmaster Edward R. Stan- dents, inclUding the 16 CathTu'rn to Page Si~teen ley barred the Cath,olics be,cause olics, attend the institution. Their they refused to attend the tuition is paid out of tax funds. school's baccalaureate ceremony, The nearest Catholic high school held in the institute's gymna- is in Bangor, 35 miles away.. sium, which was, addressed by The 16 students who did not Dr.' James V. Miller, professor Turn to Page' Sixteen
Thousands Plan School Picnic ",f$;, Attendance'
Papal Delegate' Emphasizes Catholic Schools Necessity
New, Bedfordite Goes to""Bolivia As Lay Apostle
1'he Sisters of Notre 'Dame de Namur, who will staff new Bishop Stang High School which opens in Dartm6uth. this iaU, ,are 'getting mo're entrants to the congregation in the United States than in Europe, the, superior' general of the French-found- cations to th,e religious life are ' ed sisterhood has said; Moth~ fostered in the same way, she Josepha de St. Francois, added. "Young women who see whose headquarters is at the Sisters happy and purposefui general motherhouse in Namur, will want to imitate the religious Belgium, is in the U. S. to visit life." her congregation's 128 hO,uses. She said vocations to her conFrank in her admiration for gregation are greater in the U. S. what she called the "intensitY' than in Europe. She credited the U. S. parochial life," Mother vigor of her American provinces Josepha said, "The Faith has for this success. definitely moved into the United Of the 4,500 Sisters of Notre States. America, once a mission Dame de Namur in the world, field, is now a training' ground 2,750 of them are in the order's , for missioners ,to the rest of the four American provinces of world." Waltham (Mass.). Baltimore, She emphasized the best mis- Cincinnati and California. The lI1onaries' are the Catholics of sisters operate five colleges, 12 each country who live exemplary academies, 56 high schools and lives. It is these, she said, who 153 grade schools in the United will attract non-Catholics. Vo- States.
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WASHINGTON (NC)-Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield ruled, here that the unexpurgated, version of the novel "Lady Chatterly's Lover" is "an obscene and filthy work" and may not be sent through the U.S. mails The Postmaster General stated: literary merit the book may hav~ "The book is replete ·with deis far outweighed by the pornoscriptions in minute detail of graphic and smutty passages and sexual acts engaged in or disi' words ..." Mr. Summerfield also ruled cussed by the book's principal that advertisements for the D.' characters. These descriptions , H. ,Lawrence novel are non-mailutilize filthy, offensive and de- able, since they"give informatioD 'l'uriato Page Sixteea grading worda, and terms. Any .
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