Acushnet Native Is New u. S. Provincial
For .Society of White Fathers
Father Paul G. Sorelle, W.F., 41-year-old native of Acm~hnet, is the new United States Provincial for the So ciety of Missionaries of Africa <While Fathers). Father Sorelle succeeds Father AnthollY J. Coolen, W.F., who beld [he post since July 1960. Thc latter will shortly' take up his new appointment as an as sistant to the Treasurer General at the White Fathers' headquar tel'S in Rome. Until his appointment as the
U. S. Province's third Provincial Superior, Father Sorelle was rector of the Society's seminary adjacent to the campus of the University of Dayton in Ohio. Ordained to the priesthood in 1953, Father Sorelle spent two years teaching in the White Fathers' seminary then located in PennsYlvania. In 1955, he went to Rome ,to continue his
studies at the Gregorian Univer sity where he earned a licen tiate in philosophy. From Rome he went directly into general mission work in Bukoba, Tan zania, and then to teaching once again, this time at Katigondo S e m i J1 a l' y in neighboring Uganda. Teaching, however, was but one of two main categories of work assigned him at Kati-
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gondo. The other was the job of procurator. In this latter capacity, it was not only his duty to attempt to balance the books each month, but also to supervize the cooks, cater to 122 seminarians, manage a 900 acre farm entailing the supervis ing, hiring, firing and paying some 50 employees. Returning to the United States in the Summer of 1960, he was named Assistant Master of Novices at the Society's novi tiate in Franklin, Pa., and later Master of Novices for the Broth ers. In 1962, Father Sorelle be came rector of the White Fath ers' oollege-seminary lin On chiota, N. Y. When, in 1966, the seminary relocated llE~ar the
~~ternal Di"isBVene§$ Thr~@~~n1ing Popes' Dream
FR. PAUL G. SORELLE
VATICAN CITY (NC)-'I'he l1ites for conferring the three major orders of the Catholic Church-the Diaconate, the Priesthood and the Episcopacy-have beeJi revised to make them more understandable and briefer and to allow more particip3ltion by the candidates, and then invite aU faithful. Revi&ions were an nounced in the Apostolic to pray the Litany of Sa-ints. The central part of the rites Con s t i- t uti 0 n "Pontifi will then follow: imposition of
Coyle Grraduate Holy Cross
In
Pope Paul Modifies -Rites Removing Medieval Po~p
Two documents were announced by the Vatican (June 25), Tooth aimed at conforming in liturgical rites; with the teachings of the Sec participation Among the innovations is ond Vatican Council calling that the bishop's throne in' his for the simplification of lit cathedral is no longer to be
nrgical rites to make them more \l1l1dcrstandable. The first document was a motu propl"io of Pope Pau: VI entitled Pontificalis Insignia. It limits {hose who may wear the tra <liitional pon tifical insignia of the
bishop, such as the zucchetto or rs'ltullcap, red birretta, pectoral cross, episcopal ring, miter, crosier and special vestments. The second document issued lJy the Congregation of Rites, is Ian instruction reducing and ~lifying details 00: a bishop's
Latin Am<arican Appeal Sunday
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A collection will be taken up in all the churches of the diocese on Sunday, ~rune 30 for the' benefit of our in
Bless Fishill1g FI'eet Sunday Most Rev. Bishop James L.
Connolly will bless the Province
town fishing fleet Sunday.
The ceremony at McMillan
Wharf, will follow the 11 A.M. mass in St, Peter the Apostle Church. Rt. Rev. MSgL'. Leo J. Turn to Page Eighteen
The out-going Provincial, Father Coolen, was born in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, in 1910. He was ordained a priest in North Africa in 1937 and taught theology in his home country for 10 years. From there he went to Tanzania, East Africa, as a professor of Moral Theology at the Major Seminary of Kipalapala. He came to the Un'ted States in 1952 to open the Society's first U. S. novitiate at Alexan dria Bay, N. Y. He remained Master of Novices until his ap pointment as Provincial in 1960, at which time he became an American citizen.
Ordinations, Consecrations Revised and Simplified
calis Romani" but will not be published by the Holy See until sometime in July or August. Some rites, which could lead t9 misconceptions, have been dropped. As an example, the RomePo~gtion practice of invoking the Holy DAYTON (NC)-An "internal divisiveness" -is threat Brother Francis Leary, C.S.C., Spirit as the bishop imposes 4)ning- the dream shared by Pope John XXIII and Pope son of Mrs. W. Ar.thur Leary of hands on an ordianadus has :!Paul VI of a new life for the Church, according to Auxiliary 1()01 Highland Ave., Fall River, been dropped because many Bishop Edward A. McCarthy of Cincinnati". The prelate and the late Dr. W. Arthur ei'rol1eously thought that these Leary, has been named secre wOrds were the form of the 'Warned of the danger of divi sacrament. coming true," Bishop McCarthy tary and translatol' for the gen sion in the Church at a listed Another major problem was som'e of the signs: "The· eral chapter' of the Holy Cross Knights of Columbus exem marvelous improvement in the Brothers now in session in the specifying of the sacrament plification ceremony spon al formula by which an order way' we worship with under- R,ome. -A graduate of Coyle High is conferred. It was found that oored here by the Southwest standing, interest and devotion, School, Taunton, Brother Fran only the formula for the ordi Ohio District, K. of C. now that we are emerging from He told the Knights that Pope our first bungling efforts; the cis received his habit in Aug. nation of a priest "fully suc 3Qhn had a dream that through wonderful increase in reception 1!l56 and took final profession ceeded in expressing the nature of the order received and of (he Vatican council the Church of the Eucharist-almost 50 per on Aug. 23 1960. He has just completed a year the mission bestowed." :would become "a powerful new cent of the people at Mass in Earlier -texts of the diaconal transforming influence for good, this archdiocese' recei ve Holy of teaching at Cardinal Mooney, ordination - have been assumed for peace, for sanctity, for unity Gommunion; religion has High School, Rochester and prior to this assignment served "enriohed in conformity with tin our world." . become a live subject in e<mver Vatican II's teacning," and the
Pope Paul shares the dream," sation and in the newspapers; as a teacher at Notre Dame Col rite is to be the same for per
(he bishop continued, recalling un-Christlike hostilities among lege, Montreal, Canada, :in the exchange program between the manent diaconate and diaconate 4he Pope's admonition to "love men of differing faiths are van Canadian 'Province and the U.S. as a step to the priesthood.
the Church because an awaken ishing; the potential of the Episcopal consecration has Catholic community ,is being' Province of - -the Congregation ing, a ferment, a restlessness, a of Holy Cross' Brothers. been greatly revised with a hope have been proclaimed aroused like a sleeping giant to prayer of St. Hippolytus sub :Within the Church." become involved in the social Brother Francis is a nephew Suggesting that we "should problems of race and poverty." of Rev. Leo T. Sullivan, pastor stituted for the present conse
cration formula. This, rite was Turn to Page_ Two ~ult in the signs of the dream of St. Ann's Parish, Raynham. taken from, the saint's "Apos tolic Tradition", the Church's fullest and most important ex isting source for the Roman liturgy in the second and third centuries. Henceforth, ordinations will be conferred after- the Gospel VATICAN CITY.,(NC)-The ceremonies, vestments of the Mass. The candidates will ~nd baroque pomp surrounding bishops at liturgical func be presented; the bishop will tions has been greatly reduced by orders of the Holy See. preach a homily, question the
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campus of the University of Dayton, Father Sorelle col1 tinued as rector.
BRO. FRANCIS LEARY, C.8.0.
digent neighbors in Latin Amercia. The statement of Bishop Con 'nolly that was read in the churches ~nd chapels of the diocese on last Sunday follows: Next Saturday, June 29th, marks the close of a Year of Turn to Page Sixteen
the hands in silence. At the or dination of a priest, all priests present will impose hands; at the consecration of a bishop, all bishops present will impose hands. The presentation of the ring, crosier and miter has been retained for an 'episcopal con secration. The consecratory prayer-es sential formUla-is then said and the appropriate annointings performed. Once the Latin texts of the rites are published in Rome, they will be sent to national episcopal conferences which will be able to make translations which, after review by the authorities in Rome, can be used. No dates have yet been set.
.Fr. Leo Sullivan Named Personnel
Boa rd Di rector On the basis of an election by priests of the Diocese, Rev. Leo T. Sullivan, pastor
of St. Ann's Parish in Rayn
ham, has been appointed Direc
tor of the Personnel Board
which was recommended by the Diocesan Senate of Priests and approved by the Bishop. Assistant Directors appoi_nted from the election are Rev. Don ald Belanger, pastor of Ste
phen's Parish in Attleboro, Rev.
Bento Fraga, assistant at st.
John of God's in Somerset, and
Rev. Edward J. Mitchell, as
sistant at St. Mary's Cathedral
in Fall River. The Senate 'of Priests will now choose five priests to be board members with the choice being based on the election re sults and taking into considera tion geogl'aphical and age con siderations, so the- Board will be truly representative of all the priests of every area of the Diocese. The Board will serve to assist the Bishop in personnel train ing and placement and will make other recommendations to him regarding priests and their service to the faithful.