JUSlHIOPAND ClHlAPLAIN lHIAVE IP' A:P AI. AUDIENCE: Following Bishop Connolly's Confirmation tour of the U.S. Air Force Bases in Europe and Africa, an audience with the Holy Father was held in the Vatican. Left, Bishop is welcomed by His Holiness at the general
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audience. Right, Rt. Rev. (Col.) Henri A~ Hamel, of Air Force kisses ~e ring of Pope John XXIII in the presence of, Monsignor Mario Nasa.fili 'Rocca di Corneliano, Maestro di Camera, center rear. Both Bishop COJlc. nolly and Monsignor Hamel conversed with the Pope in French.
Nation's Top Court Determines Government-Composed School Prayer Is Unconstitutional The U.S. Supreme Court has struck down a 22-word prayer in New York publie schools on the grounds that it was "composed by government Officials." Associate Jus.. tice Hugo L. Black, speaking for a six-man majority of the court, held that the socaned Regents' Prayer is "wholly inconsistent with the establishment clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution." "In this ~ountry if is no part of the business of DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER government to compose ofFall River, Massachusetts
ficial prayers for any group of the American people to recite as a p'art of a religious program carried on by government," PRiCe lOc Justice ,Black said.' $4.00 J).~ Year If this is the whole intent of this decision and the limit of , its ,application;-to ,forbjd government offici,als from compo'sing prayers--then little ex, ceotion can be taken to the "de- ' , cision', as it is ilimpiy providing
Swansea Parish_to 'Obse~'e Golden Jubilee' ~n ,S,ur-day'
.Bishop Connolly will officiate a~ ~"solemn Te Deunrat : ~~~r~~d:na:l~~~ ~re~~e;~i~,~~ 4 thIS Sunday afternoon at St. DommIC s Church, Swansea." official. ' , It will mark the parish's gold~n jubilee. To be sung by a If the decision is i~tended to male quartet, the Te Deum wIll be followed by a sermon remove from the American govby Rev. George E. Sullivan, , ernm'ent' and ,school scene the with solemn Benediction,' atf l' '. God past pastor and now pastor which ,the' Bishop will be,cele-., very concept 0 be lef m , of St. Joseph's Church Fall brant. then;" in, the words of Professor Th' . WI "11',cI'ose to p'a'ge Fl'fteell" Mark ',A. DeWolfe Howe of the 路 R lver. e serVIce TUI:n Harvard Law School, "Justice
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Black's opinion is ridiculous. It has no social,路 political or historical \'alidity.". ' . Bishop Walter P. Kellenberg of the Diocese, of' 'Rockviile center, Long Island, has commented on the 'decision: '''I am astounded that, the men who are' leading jtidicial figures of our country have shown, themselves to be confused concerning the 'establishment of religion' and religion itself. "These are two distinctly dif_ ferent things. This apparent misunderstanding on the part' of our judges about the 'establishment of religion' (a' state church) and the virtue of religion is most disturbing. Our' founding fathers placed the noestablishment clause in the Constitution to guarantee freedom of religion and 'religious practice, as well as to foster the growth of God-fearing men as members of the newly-found republic which has now become Turn to Page Four
PLAN PARISH JUBILEE: Rev. William R. Jordan, . h tr us t ees d'ISCUSS pans I f or, th e G0 lden pastor, and parIS ~nniversary observance to be held Sunday at St. Dominic's parish, Swansea. Trustees are James Griffin, seated; Leo Berard and.Anibal Medeiros, standing, left to right., ','
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June 23, 1962 Dear Friends of Catholic Charities, Please 'accept my cordial thanks for the 'generous support shown our 1962 Charities Appeal. Ii iS"most heartening to all who administer t~is benevolent :work, ,but even more so to those who benefit from it, to note particularly your expression of sympathy for our' Care for the Aged and Infirm projects. ' ' ,I am particularly grateful to the people in the Attleboros, since, almost without exception, every parish increased the' measure of support given us. This' type of endorsement we cannot fail to notice, in a special way. But to all the contributors who maintained interest and to, all the, new givers to Catholic Charities my sincere thanks and' an assurance of constant remembrance for ~U they hold, dear at the Altar of the Lord. ":" '
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CINCINNATI (NC)-The ethics, legality and profit.. ab'ility of marketing suffer from the three fundamental weaknesses of incompetence, cowardice and shortsightedness, a Jesuit educator told a businessmen's convention here. In the business world in- ness," Father Garrett said. "It competence tempts men to is necessary, then, to attack the hide their mistakes through problem of incompetence before trickery and di~honesty, Fr. we can improve either the ethics,
Thomas M.Garrett, S.J., of the ,the legality or the profitability University of Scranton told of marketing." delegates at the 45th National Cites Cowardice Conference of the American The ancient and dishonorable Marketing Association. ' battlecry "cheat or starve" well "The short-run profit will dis- illustrates the force of cowardice appear when their incompetence in marketing, the Jesuit decomes to light and their dis- clared. He r~cal1ed in the honesty leads a'loss' of bus!:. ,. Turn'to Page Twelve
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