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DIOCESA.N NEWSIPAPER FOR SOUTHEAST MASS" CAPE & ISLANDS Vol 26, No. 25
Fall River, Mass., Friday, June 25, 1982
20c, $6 Per Year
Aid for Lebanon
By NC News Service Catholic Relief Services, the Catholic Near East Welfare Association and Caritas Interna tional have announced plans to increase aid to war-torn Leban on. An estimated several hund red thousand Lebanese have been made homeless by the Israeli in vasion which began June 6.
to a $200,000 recovery program announced by CRS executive di rector, Bishop Edwin B. Broder ick, in New York and a $300,000 grant from the U.S. Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance.
Meanwhile, Cardinal Terence Cooke of New York, president of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association, authorized immedi ate disbursement of $100,000 to CRS, overseas aid agency of assist in relief work in Lebanon. U.S. Catholics, increased its emergency program for Lebanon The decision was announced June 21 by beginning a massive in Rome by Msgr. John G. Nolan, food distribution effort focused president of the Pontifical Miss on children and the elderly. ion for Palestine and national . The food program, valued ini- . -secretary for the near East asso tially at $3 million, is in addition ciation, also known as CNEWA.
Msgr. Nolan also announced the start of .an CNEWA intensive campaign in the United States and Canada for funds for food, clothing, medical supplies and blood plasma f()r Lebanon casual ties. Meanwhile, Msgr. John Mean ey, regional director in Lebanon for the Pontifical Mission for Palestine, told NC News Service in a June 17 interview, that he would "not be surprised if the tally shows that 10,000 Lebanese have been killed up till now." Describing Lebanon as a country ravaged for decades by outside forces, Msgr. Meaney Turn to Page Eight
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ST. JOSEPH, WOODS HOLE
One hundred years
Numbers tell story
There are 784,660,000 Gath· olics in the world, 17.9 percent of the population of the plan et, according to the latest Vatican Statistical' Yearbook, which gives figures through 1980. Of those, 340,000 were in the Fall River diocese as of Jan. 1 of this year. The nose-counts are some what skewed, since world fig ures are as of 1980 andl U.S. figures, compiled by the Offi-
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cial Catholic Directory, are basically as of Ig81. But they are ballpark num· bers and they are interesting. To continue: although .the number of Catholics in the world increased by nearly three percent during 1980, totals for priests and Religious registered slight drops. However, the total number of Catholics engaged in apos tolic activity increased be· cause of rises in totals of per-'
manent deacons, catechists and lay missionaries. Most of the increase in the permanent diaconate program was in North America. The total rose by 978 to 7,654 worldwide. In North America at the end of 1980 there were 5,023 p~rmanent deacons, an increase of 704. The number of priests 'worldwide dropped by 0.6 per cent to 413,600 at the end of Turn to Page Six
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AMONG THE BEST-LOOKING diocesan statistics are these youngsters from Holy Redeemer parish, Chatham, St. Pius X, South Yarmouth, and Holy Trinity, Harwich, confirmed in recent ceremonies at Holy Redeemer. (Kelsey Photo)
Tomorrow S1. Joseph's parish, Woods Hole, will mark its hun· dredth year. At the same time its unique Mary Garden will reach the half-century mark. The occasion will be observed with an 11 a.m. Mass to be cele brated by Bishop Daniel A. Cro nin, followed by a luncheon at the Cape Codder Hotel. Another observance is also planned: the restoration of the Mary Garden to its original beauty. Adjacent to a bell tower .which rings the Angelus thrice daily, both it and the tower were given to the parish by the late Mrs. Frank R. Lillie, together with a trust fund for their main tenance.
She added an interesting note about the Angelus bells. Recent· Iy a Nova program on public television featured th'e Marine Biological Laboratory. Filming was done at noon and the bells were clearly audible as back ground to the scientific discuss ion going on. One scientist re ported that he had seen the program while in Europe and recognized St. Joseph's bells. What the glory of the Mary Garden was is described by John S. Stokes, Jr., a retired engineer, who, inspired by a 1950 visit to the garden, which he thinks is the first of its kind in the world, founded a nonprofit organization to spread the idea among gar deners everywhere.
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In April he spoke at S1. Jo president of Woods Hole famed
Marine Biological Laboratory and seph's about Mary Gardens and it was' Mrs. -Lillie's hope that . previously he had published an the shrine, so close to the labor· 'article about the parish's pion atory, would heighten "the pray· eer project. Excerpts from that erful sense of the biological article follow: work, seen as a collaboration "As visitorS to Woods Hole, with God's providence in sus we first learn of the shrine when taining life." ,we hear the ringing of the An The bell tower was erected in gelus, or see its bell tower ... a 1929 and the garden was planted prominent landmark clearly visi in 1932. Until 1937 it flourished, ble across the inlet from the but was then heavily, damaged town center.
by successive hurricanes. Up un
"With a sense of adventure, til the present it had not been we put our hand to the wooden restored to its original design, gate in the hedge. Opening it, we 'b':lt work is now in progress. step through to find ourselves before a door in the tower. base. Miss Jane A. McLaughlin, a To the left of the door is a parishioner involved in the cen tennial celebration, said that bronze placque bearing the in weather conditions this spring scription: have prevented extensive plant SAINT JOSEPH'S BELLS ing but that the garden should The large bell is named regain its former glory by "mid Turn to Page Six to late summer."