Fa" River. Assignments
FATHER CHILDS
Bishop Names Pastors For Two Churc.hes
The ANCHOR Feill
The Most Reverend Bishop announced today the appointment of Rev. Felix S. Childs to be pastor of Sacred
Heart Church, Fall, River, and Rev. Edward F. Dowling to suc, ceed, Father Childs as pastor of . Immaculate ,Conception Church, 'Fall River. Father Childs' ap-pointment is effective June 28, . . and Father Dowling's on June 30. . Father Childs succeeds the late Rt. Rev. J. Joseph Sullivan who died May 16 after a pastorat.e of ni~e years at the ~all" RIver parIsh. Father DowlIng has been pastor of Our Lady of , ' the Isle Church, Nantucket, ~nd Att ~tichor of the Soul. Sur, (lInd Pirm-ST. PAUL has r~cently been r~cuperatlllg.. ~rom Illne.ss at the PrIests" Hostel In Fall RIver. R.iver, Mass.; Thursday, June 23, 1960 Father Zhilds, the son of Wilton'L. Childs and the late Em© 19~O ~he Anchor $4.o::e~Ey~~." rna J. McKenna, was born ,in Centerville on OCt. 23, '1891. He second Class 'Mail Privilege. Authori:red at Fall River. Mall. attended 'elementary and sec'ondary 'schools on the Cape. He made his classical studies at St. Anselm's College, Manchester, N. H., and then stUdied philos'ophy and 'theology"at St. Mai·y·s Turn to Page Two , '
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Open Dighton Novitiate September will see the opening of the first American
~ovitiate o~ the Dominican Sisters of Charity of the
Presentation Qf the Blessed Virgin ,Mary, according to announcement made today by Rev. Mother Pierre Marie; 8uperio.r ,of St. Anne's Hos- ceremonies, said Mother Pierre pital, Fall River. The novi- Marie. tiate will be located a"t 16 The Dominican Sisters of Elm Street, Dighton. Addi- Char,ity have been active in the tional construction will be· un,. dertakcn in the future,' but the large house now on the property will serve' as first head-' quarters for the novitiate, said Mother Picrre Marie. Shc said that a novice mistress will comc from the community's mol;hcrhollse in France to undel·take training of applicants. Seven or eight young women al'e expected to form the initial group of novices. Most are from the Diocese, noted Mother Pierre Marie, with one coming from Virginia. Exact date of .openipg for the novitiate is unsettled pending arrival of the Mother General of the community from France. She will take part in opening
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Diocese since 1906. Except for a Washington house of stUdies, St. . Anne's Hospital is the only foundation they have in the United States, although the community numbers hmidreds of members in Europe and South America. ' Founded in France in 1684', the motherhouse was originally located, in Sainville but has been in Tours since 1812. In other COllJltries the Sisters opera.te schools, orphanages and homes for the aged in addition to hospitals. Within 51. Anne's itself th~re is room for candidates interested in clerical, technical and domestic work in addition to nursing. Applicants should be between 16 and 35 and have completed high school, said Mother Pierre Marie.
"S:ta rt ,W 0 rk On' Addition T'oAcademy Bishop, Connolly will presid e at groundpreaking ceremonies tomorrow afternoon at 3 for an addition to Sacred Hearts Academy, Fall River. Parents of academy students and friends ()f the Religious 'of the Holy, Union of, the Sacred Hearts, the, community staffing the institution',' are invited to be present, said Mother Mary William, S.U.S.C., provincial superior., Tomorrow was chosen for the ceremonie,s, she said, because it is the feast of the Sacred Heart and also the feasf day of St. John the Baptist, patron of l'Abbe Jean Baptiste Debrabant, founder of the Religious of the Holy Union. Citing the expansion of the community since 'the pioneer Turn to Page Eighteep
SAN ANTONIO (NC) Three of the, 265 Catholic colleges and universities of the U.S. were singled out during the National Catholic Family Life Convention for recognition of their courses in the field 'of family living. The' Catholic University of. Amel'ica, in Washington; Iona College, New Ro~hell~" N. Y., . and Marywood College, Scranton, Pa., were given special aWllrds named in honor of veteran leaders of t~e family life movemcnt. Catholic 'Universiiy, which has courscs on various aspects of marria'ge and family life on ,bo'th the graduate and undergraduate levels, as well ils a clinic for training students in marriage counscling, was given the Bishop Peter' W. Bartholome Award, named for the Bishop who was for many years episcopal moderator of the F'amily Life Bureau of the National Catholic Welfare Conference. lona, a men's College conducted by the Christian Brothers of Ireland, won the Bishop Chris> TUB io Pa&"e Ei&"hteen
FATHER DOWI..ING
Travel League Plans Full' 'Tour, of Rome
.This yefl~,-~hqu~andsof. Ca:tholics will' be traveling to Europe :to attend conventions and programs of special interest.: But no matter what events of particular importl;\nce are added to the E~ropean schedule, there remains one eternal" mecca for' pil- . Peter!s is the tomb of the Saint. grimage trav'elers - Rome. . Above the shrine flame th'e And Rome appears on the lamps wh'ich are never permitted itinerary planned by the Fall ' to ;fail. On the tomb Emperor River Diocesan: Travel Lea'gue for- the' First Official Diocesan Pilgrimage from Fall River,' which departs on the' new' Italian' liner, Leonardo da Vinci, on Oct. 4. In addition' to the' secular sights of.Rome, visi'ts,to,the Vatican and' an audience with His Holiness, Pope John XXIII,' the' Fall River pilgrims, may make a tour of 'the "Seven Pilgrimage 'Churches of Rome," which' consist of St.' John L,ateran, St; Peter1s, St., Paul's Outside-theWalls, St. Maria ~aggiore, ~t.. Lawre?ce"Santa ~roce and St. Sabashan. The, fIrst four are considered, the ranking' churches of the Holy City because of their sacred traditions', and those whom they were er'ectE~d to venerate. .Under the High Altar of 51.
:Constantine, who was present ~at the building of the original .basil~c.a; l;lnd; St. 'Helena placed ~ cross' of gold weighing 150 ,pounds. ·After 1100 years, the walls of St. Peter's were weak! eniilg, and . the:' historic basilica ,was: demolished. All that remains of 'the original great ,Pa~iarchal Ohurch tod.ay is its' " 'crypt with the tomb of 51. Peter " deeply protec,ted in the magnifi:cent structure which is St. I ' Peter's' today., St. Paul's Outside-the-Walls is the second Patriarchal Church, which pilgrims are required to visit. It was erected over the tomb of 51. Paul, who was martyred about two' miles beyond this place. Constantine ordered a basilica built over the mauso.:. leum, which. was, later replaced Turn to Page Twelve
St. Vinc,ent Camp :Begins '~int~ Season onM9 h day .
. ~t. Vmcent d.e Paul Health Camp in Adamsville open~ Its .nmth season on Monday as it r!,!ceives 100 boys from the Greater Fall River Area in this, the tercentenary year of the death of its patron saint. The Camp, an a'gency of the Catholic Charities Appeal, is . under the dire t' f R another 100,boys from' the Taun~ IOn 0 ev. ton-Attleboro Area will move in John E: Boyd, dIrector of the for their two-week stay, to be Fall RIver Catholic Welfare followed on July 25 by the New Bur-eau, and has a resident chap- ;Bedford Area contingent. Finlain, Rev. Donald E. Belanger, ally, on August 8, 100 boys from assistant through the rest' of the the Cape. Cod Area will enjoy year at St. John the Baptist the~r two weeks. The Camp Church in Fall River.. closes on August 20. Eleven diocesan seminarians The Camp program includes serve as counsellors and the variety shows, talent shows, kitchen is in charge of Mr. Jo- field night, camper,-counsel softseph Lima, assistant chef at St. bal~ games, boxing, baseball, art Vincent's Home, Fall River. shop, craft work, nature hikes, Nurses are supplied by the museum for nature collection. Catholic Nurses Association of - There is a unit of the Smokey the Diocese under the direction Bear Jr. Forest Ranger program of Miss Anna Donovan of Ne~ for fire prevention instruction Bedford. at the Camp. On Monday the Camp will be A feature of the Camp is the host for twp weeks to boys from Indian. program, the Order of the Fall River Area. On July "11 . Turn to Page Eighteen
Christian Attitude on Sex· Need ',of ·Today's Families . SAN ANTONIO (NC)-"There is as much ignorance about sex,today wl:len. everyone talks about it as there was at the begiri~ing of, the 'century when no one talked about it,"· the National Catholic Family Life Convention was told .on its opening day: F,ather Father Knott' told convention ' "John -Knott, director of delegates that the "sexual heresy the m,'arriage" and family of the past~' is rooted in Protest-
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archdiocese,' said that "in eithe'r: case, the. Christian notion of sex, has. gotten lost in the shuffle.", Father Knott was 'one of the initial speakers in a four~day 'conferenc~ wl).ich 'brought lay peQple; priests imd Religious here from. all parts of the United States and .from Eqrope. The convention, held under the patronage of Archbishop Robert _ E. Lucey of San Antonio, was sponsored by the Family Life Bureau of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, in WashiIU!ton. D. C.
in its Cath()lic counterpart, Jansenism. ",To the Jansenist, sex is a dirty, shameful thing," he said. "It is colored with guilt and with sin." The reaction to all this has been' to go to the other extreme, according to the Connecticut priest. Thus the heresy of today is that sex has become a "recreational" thing, he said, and the attitude is that "as long as both are willing, it's nobody else's business but theirs." Against, both these heresies, Turn to Page Eighte_