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Pope Paul Coronation. Sunday
New Pontiff Closely Identified With Working Man
By Rev. Edward J. Mitchell [SPECIAL TO THE ANCHOR]
The ANCHOR-
It was the first day of Summer. It was the feast of the Sacred Heart. It was that sun - drenched morning of June 21, 1963, when a quar ter of a million people in ;'3t. Peter's Square saw the puff of white smoke and knew that a pope had been elected.
"I announce to you a great joy," proclaimed the Dean of the Cardinal Deacons, his voice trembling with emotion, "we have a pope." The crowd roared. Perhaps it half - remembered those history lessons of long ago that told of popes who were not so easily elected. Perhaps its lusty cheer was a prayer of thanks that the apostolic suc cession was continuing. What PRICE 10c ever its reason, the shout that © 1963 The Anchor $4.00 per Year went, up into the cloudless blue sky was one that must have taxed the microphones. "John Baptist ..." continued the spokesman for the College of Cardinals. But that was enough for the crowd. It knew from those two Christian names that the 262nd successor to St. Peter was the very holy and capable Archbishop of Milan, VATICAN CITY (NC) - With the facade of the Cardinal Montini. Up went an larg-eHt church in Christendom as the backdrop for the other volley of cheers. The riteR, the coronation of Pope Paul VI will take place at crowd was overjoyed. And well they might have 6 P.M. Sunday (1 P.M., D.S.T.). The entire ceremony, in been, the new pope, Paul VI, eluding- the Coronation Mass, burns it. It flashes for a moment, showsforevery promise of con will be held outside, since then dies into smoke. tinuing the rich legacy left to the th~ greater portion of St. The master· of ceremonies Church by Pope John. The feeling generally here in Peter's is blocked by tiers chants: "Pater sancte, sic tran of'seats erected for the Fathers sit gloria mundi." (Holy Father, Rome is that Pope Paul VI win of the Ecumenical Council. In thus passes the giory of the be a happy blending of the qua world.) He performs this re
lities of both Pope Pius XII, un the initial part of the corona ·der whom he served as Pro-sec tion ceremony the Pontifical miI)der three times.
The ceremony is scheduled retary of State, and of John Master of CeremQnies holds up before the Pope a reed with a for the evening hour because the XXIII, whose program of reform he pushed forward in his own handful of flax attached. He Turn to Page Eighteen .
sprawling· diocese of Milan, and (rumor has it) espoused in the Second Vatican Council last Fall. A Roman observer expressed Turn to Page Twelve
Fall River, Mass., Thursday, June 27, 1963
Vol. 7, No. 27
Half-Mil·lion to Attend Ceremony at Basilica
Pope Paul First Cardinal To Applaud Council Plan
Ordain Viatorian In New Bedford Next Saturday
Pope Paul VI was prominent as a Card·inal in ap plauding publicly Pope John's plan for an ecumenical coun cil. As the successor to Pope John he is 'expected to recon vene the Second Vatican Council at the earliest possible moment. The day after Pope Most Rev. James J. Ger Since that initial support, the John's Jan..25, 1959, an rard, Auxiliary Bishop Cardinal was an active supporter nouncement that he was of ~he council and of Pope John'lI ·of ,theD.D., Diocese, wilL ordain going to eall the council, "aggiornamento" - the bringing Rev. Mr. Ronald Picard as then--Cardinal Montini wrote a letter to the priest. and clergy of Milan. "This councU win be the rreatest which the Church hu ever celebrated in its 20 cen turies of history," he said. "It will be the greatest for the universality of its dimensiON and its true interest to the· entire world," he wrote.
of the Chureh up to date. And when Pope John died, tIM future Pope appealed to Catho licS not to let the new spirit die. He. told a memorial Requiem Mass for the Pope· in Milan: . "Can we turn aside from the path that he opened so boldly :to future religious .history, that Turn to Page Seventeen .
Bishop Connolly to Bless Fleet at Provincetown The Most Reverend James L. Connolly, D.D., will offi ciate at the 16th annual Blessing of the Fishing Fleet at 2 :HO Sunday afternoon at Provincetown. The celebration will be a three-day affair, with social activities and athletic ct'utests scheduled for Satur Wharf at 2:30 for the blessing day and Monday and the reli ceremony. Boats participating gious highlight on Sunday. will form a circle in Province Ski p per s and crews of town outer harbor and approach fishing boats will assemble at the wharf for i n d i v i d u a I 10 Sunday morning on Ryder blessings. They will return to Street and march to St. Peter the dockside after the ceremony and Apostle Church to attend an 11 escort the clergy back to St. o'clock Solemn High Mass and Peter's. ' receive Holy Communi<m. Cele , RetIred fishermen and their brant will be Rev. Leo J. Duart, wives will be guests of honor at pastor. Bishop Connolly will the Mass and at a banquet Sun bless each fisherman indivi day night in Provincetown Inn dually. The fishermen will esoort for participants. Bishop Connolly and other Seraphino Codinho k ieneral clergy to tile end of MacMillal1 chairman.
·a priest in the Congregation of St. Viator at 9 Saturday morning in St. Tlieresa's· Church, New Bedford. Son of Mr. Pheode Picard and Mrs. Claire (Harnois) Picard of Ashley Bouleva~d, the ordinan dus was educated at St. Anthony High School, Joliette College, iUld St. Charles Scholasticate, Joliette, Quebec. He will celebrate his First Solemn Mass at 10:30 Sunday morning in St.Theresa's. Rev. Jastin Pinard, C.S.V.. will preach.
Directs Prayer For Coronation The Most Reverend Bishop has directed that the following coronation prayer be said at all Masses in all churches in the Diocese on Sunday:
o God, Shepherd and Ruler of all the faithful, look favor ably on thy servant Paul. whom Thou has been pleased to appoint chief shepherd of Thy Church. Enable him to fur ther by his teaching and good example the salvation ..f those over whom he is placed, so that. with the flock entrusted to his eare, h,e may attain life ever lasting. Through ChrW .01' Lord. Amen.
HIS HOLINESS POPE PAUL VI
Cardinal Cicognani Again Papal Secretary of. State v ATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope Paul VI reappointed Amleto 'Cardi~aICicognani as Papal Secreta-2" of State in one of the first acts of his pontificate. The Pope and the Cardinal-who held the same post under Pope John XXIII were associates when Cardi Church, and became an expert nal Cicognani was Apostolic in the problema of Eaatern Rite Del ega t e in the United Catholics. As Apof>tolic Delegate to the States and Pope Paul was
an official of the Secretariat of United States, he played a State, first as Substitute for major role in a period of une Ordinary Affairs and later all qualed growth for the Church in America. His public addresses, Pro-Secretary of State :for Or dinary Affairs under Pope PiUll covering many facets of Ameri. can Catholic life, comprise five XII. published volumes. The 80-year-old Secretary of A t the consistory of Dec. 15, State, who served in the U.S. for 1958, Pope John XXIII pro 26 years from 1933 to 1958, waa .. claimed him a cardinal. In the also President of the Commis months following his arrival in sion for the Oriental Church of Rome he was named to seven of the ecumenical council. He was the 12 Vatican congregations and President of the commission that four pontifical commisssions. His revised the proposals to be main post was that of secretary presented to the coundl at, ita of the Sacred Congregation for second session. the Oriental Church. He published a noteworthy On Aug. 14, 1961, he was volume on canon law in 1925, named to what has been called one of his many scholarly works the second highest post in the as an author. From 1928 to 1933, Catholic Church, Secretary of he -was Assessor of tht~ Sacred State..His appointment lapsed' Congregation for the . Ol'iental .. with the death of Pope John.