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.Vol. 8, No. 25 ©
1964 The Anchor
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Fall River, Mass., Thursday, June 18, 1964
Brief Seeks· Minimum Marriage Age of 18 OTTAWA (NC)-A standard regulation fixing 18 as the minimum marriage age should prevail in all provinces of Canada as a means of haIting teenage marriages, .the marriage preparation service of the Montreal archdiocese recommended in a brief to the Canadian Conference on the Family. The brief, one of 40 presented to the conference, contended that both civil and for boys in Prince "Edward Is studies and cultural achieve Church laws now seem con land. All provinces in cases of ments, and most were from fam ~erned only with the physical ilies on lower social levels. pregnancy allow marriages be The survey found the follow low the minimum age, the brief ~apability of marriage, disre garding psychological and emo tional maturity. The existing minimum mar riage ages in the Canadian prov inces, the brief said, range from 12 years for girls and 14 for boys in New Brunswick, Newfound land, Quebec and Nova Scotia, to 18 years for girls and 21 years
Summer Session At Sacred Hearts To Open Monday The 31st annual Summer session of the College of the Sacred Hearts will open Mon
day in Fall River. For the
first time the institution, in
tended primarily for religious
Sisters, will admit laymen and
women.
Two visiting lecturers from
England are members of the
Summer faculty. They are Sis
ter Imelda Marie, S.U.S.C., who
will give an introductory course in contemporary Bri+ish poetry and Sister Mary Anita, S.U.S.C., who will conduct a two week Turn to Page Eighteen
Chairmen Nam"ed For Legion Meet This Sunday
HOLY FAMILY JUBILARIANS: Bishop Gerrard, tenter, and Rev. John A. Chippendale, right, pastor of St. Patrick's Parish, Wareham, members of the 1914 class at Holy Family High, New Bedford, meet with Sister Mary Rose, R.S.M. who taught the golden jubilee class.
Urges Churches Annihilate Practice of Child Salesmen . PITTSBURGH (NC)-Diocese of Pittsburgh parishes Itave been asked to stop using school children for selling eances, or. door-to-door solicitations in connection with eharity or religious drives. The recommendation was made by the Laymen's Advisory are often nat voluntary or per Council of the diocesan sonal, but motivated by a sense school board. In approving it, of competition, or to gain a ma
the school board asked pas terial reward, they may have
tors and parishioners to treat the as official
board policy. The lay councll said "certain Undesirable practices" have crept into parish charity drives that threaten to erase the benefits which school children can gain by participating. It declared: "These include: the fostering of an embarrassing spirit of competition among individuals, elassrooms or schools; the use of unworthy incentives, such as a point system or prizes; and the employment of school children for the selling of chances or for door-to-door solicitation. "Although these extremes may aid the charitable organization materially, such benefits are often gained by jeopardizing the epiritual enrichment of the child, and the public image of tile Church. Since these effona ~commendation
Chairmen for sessions of the third Diocesan congress of the Legion of Mary sched uled for this Sunday at Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth, have been announced. In charge of the first session, to discuss charity within the Legion and towards other organ izations is James Lamb, Taun ton, president of the Legion Comitium. James E. Lenaghan, Fall River, Comitium vice-president, will head the second session, to dis cuss "Heroic Love." Turn to Page Eighteen
little value spiritually."
The lay statement said it un derstands the need for charitable and religious drives, and it stressed that proper participa tion by children can be benefi cial. It commented that what should be emphasized is "a sense of duty and responsibility toward others, and appropriate spiritual motives in assisting others;" This, it said, would bear greater fruit than any "super ficial motives." r::::;;:7.::F,,,:r;:I"@~7C:T~::::::::n:@:f@;E~::rr':::1!
VOWS: Brother Ronald Hebert, M.S., son of Mr. Ed Sessions in the elementary and secondary schools of the Diocese mond Hebert, 320 Third St., will end tomorrow. The Fall Fall River, will take perpet term will begin on Wednesday, ual vows in the La Salette September 9.
Order on Saturday morning mi';;WiWW;W;~W~~iti~ in Memorial Chapel, Enfield.
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ing characteristics in these mar said. The brief said a survey of the riages: lack of consideration and Archdiocese of Montreal in 1961 understanding for the serious showed 178 marriages of girls ness of marriage with many de in the 14, 15 and 16-year age pending on their parents for bracket; 407 girls 17, and 745 support; failure to prepare for girls 18. It added there were 87 marriage and uncertain ideas marriages in which the groom about the education of children; inability to adapt themselves to was 17 or younger. The brief said the teenagers the new and more difficult role in marriage, and a sense of were found to be psychologi cally immature; had been "going being trapped by responsibilities steady" for some years and they had not considered. many of the girls were pregnant . The survey showed 55% of -more in the 14 and 15-year the brides regretted their mar
riages-this was true especially
bracket than in the 17 and 18 year groups. The survey showed of 76% who married because of
a number also married to get pregnancy. Mixed marriages pre
away from unhappy homes; dominated among the teen others were uninterested in agers, the survey disclosed.
Welfare of Individual Must Be State's Aim By Rev. John R. FoIster St. AntJ1 0ny Church - New Bedford
VATICAN CITY - "The human person is' ever at the center and alone responsible in shaping his own life and the performance of his actions before God and man'" * * the in dividual must not be allowed to become the mere instrument of anonymous forces-an irrespon sible unit of the ideological or ganizing and administrative cen ter." Such wath the message sent by Pope Paul VI to the 13th Spanish Social Week held in Barcelona, Spain, this week. The Holy Father's views were con tained in a letter written by His Eminence, Amleto Oardinal Ci cognani, and dated May 29. After saying that the people of today tend to look ever more to social organization and so ciety itself to organize the cir cumstances of their lives-and do away with the sense of inse curity and worry that oppresses most-the letter draws attention to some dangers. The Cardinal's letter warns of the dangers of an unbalanced or completely one-
sided socialization-like that of exclusive state control or of warped ideologies which instead of leading to man's greater well_ being, result in a lessening of human values. This lessening of values is shown in the lessening of reponsibility in the family, in work in all forms of civil life, creative enterprise and individ ual personality-hence a lessen ing of freedom itself and the fundamental duties and rights of life. "The trend of modern society to launch ever new forms of socialization," writes the Cardi nal Secretary of State, citing "Mater et Magistra," "can and must therefore, be seen in prac tice as guaranteeing the citizens greater advantages and fewer disadvantages." The letter goes on to say how -- for the Ohurch - the human person is ever at the center and alone responsible in shaping lid own life and the performance of his actions, before God and men. "Traditional human values must be safeguarded along with Turn to Page Six
Bishop Gerrard to Bless Fleet at Provincetown The Most Reverend James J. Gerrard, D.D., Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese, will officiate at the "17th annual blessing of· the fishing fleet at 3 Sunday afternoon, June 28 at Provincetown. The three-day celebration will include social activities and athletic con tests Saturday and Monday. Sister Musician Skippers and crews of fish ing boats will assemble at 10 At World's Fair Sunday morning to attend an 11 World's Fair visitors saw o'clock High Mass in St. Peter the Apostle Church, with Father how a grammar school cur Thomas C. Mayhew as celebrant. riculum makes use of one of 'I1he fishermen will escort the most modest instruments
Bishop Gerrard and other clergy
in the music world-the harmon
to the wharf at 2:30 for the
ica-when Sister Adrienne Elise, a Holy Union Sister from Taun ton, now stationed at New York's St. Francis De Sales School, presented her harmonica students at the Fair's Hall of Education auditoriUlI' yesterday. ~rn to Page Six
blessing ceremony. They will re turn to dockside after the rite and escort the clergy back to St. Peter's. A banquet will be held at 7 P.M. General charirmatl .• Ensley Catoa.