Maryknoll Missionaries· Observe 50th Anniversary of Founding
The ANCHOR An Anchor"f the Soul,
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FaU R,iv@r, Mass., Thursday, Ju~e 29, 1961
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Most Rev. Frederick A. Donaghy, M.M. of New Bedford and 15 priests, all natives of the Fall River Diocese now serving in the mission fields of 12 countries on four contio nents, are today observing, along with some 2,000 fellow members of their society, the golden jubilee of the founding of Maryknoll more formally, the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America. ' priests, which grew into the realo A product of, 20th century ity of a worldwide society of America, Maryknoll is this priests, Brothers and seminar~ nation's first foreign mis- ians. On June 29, 1911 at the reo sion society. It was established to' meet special problems of quest of the American Hier~ the present-day world. And 'arcl)y, Pope St. Pius X gave the while 50 years is comparable two priests permission to eso to only a moment in the long tablish a seminary for the trainc> history of the Catholic Church, ing of young American men fof' Maryknoll in· its half-century mission work in foreign lands. has attained a remarkable record On that day in Rome MaryknoIA of growth and achievement. . ' was born. . It' was the· dream of Fathers The 'fi,rst Maryknoll departJames A. Walsh of Boston and ure group of priests steamed Thomas F. Price of North Cal'o- out of San Francisco for the lina, two American diocesan Turn to Page Twenty
Catho.lic, Age~cy Is Leader In 1960 Relief Activities
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, ' WASHINGTON (NC) The U.S. Catholic foreign relief agency topped all other U.S. voluntary agencies in the total value of its relief activities during 1960, according BISHOP 'DONAGHY, M.M. to a government report. Money and supplies devoted to relief by Catholic Relief shipment~ to cour.tries particISeryice-Na tional Catholic pating in the leA overseas : A 1924 graduate of Notre Dame School, Fall River, Welfare Conference totaled freight subsidy program, placed! lh~s just been named Superior 'General of the Congregation more than twice as much as the value of the agency's pro-> ~f the Blessed Sacrament, represented on six continents by the next largest agency program grams at $60,792,353.47-more :D.,~OO priests and brothers, ,of which some 200 are in' the CALDWELL (NG)~"I'm -$115,890,326, compared with than half of the total for alii. United States. He is Rev. voluntary agencies of $109,8950'" grateful." That's. how Car"; $48,229,1'71 ~or CARE. 301.72. Roland' A. Huot, S.S.S., 49, These figures are contained in men Maldonado describes The tc.talvalue of calendaIt' native of Fall River. A a report on 1960 issued by the 1960 relit>! ·activWes by 56 vOlo why she plan·s to spend a Adv.isory, Committee on Volun~lassmate at Notre Dame year teaching il1 Catholic schools tary Foreign.' A.id 'of the Inter- untary agencies registered with School is now Rev. J. Omer the ICA unit walo $291,899,393,p in Alabama. national Cooperation Adminis- according to the new report. lLussier, pastor of St. Stephen's There the Manhattan-born tration. Church, Dodgeville. Besides Catholic Relief Ser.'girl, recently graduated from The new Superior General has A report issued early in June vices and CARE, the other agen.Caldwell College for Women, l!Il\any cousins still in the Fall will receive $150 per month and by the Committee showed CRS- cies in the top five, by expendilRiver al'ea, but his immediate an apartment which she will NCWC leading other voluntary tures, were: Church World Serfamily, including is sister, Miss share with two other girls she agencies :n the value of its relief vice. $35.065,244; the Americam Bertha Huot, now resides in has yet to meet, They will pay program:. in the fiscal year Jewish Joint Distribution Com.. lPmvidence. He last visited the mlttee, $28,628,270; and Luth.. for their own transportation to , which encled on June 30, 1960. area in 1958, immediately prior Alabama and w1ll supply their That '~port, limited to relief eran' World Relief, $15,239,572., to his departure for Europe. As own food. Superior General, he will make Like the others, Miss Maldonthis headquarters in Rome, said ado has been· recruited for her :Miss Huot. job by Father Paul Mullaney, who annually tours nort~ern He w ill make official visitCatholic women's colleges lookCl1tlons to houses of the order in ing for apostolic collegians to Africa and South. America,she Most Reverend James L. Connolly, D.D., Bishop of the volunteer for the teacher proaaid, following which he will Fall River Diocese, celebrated Mass in Minneapolis today gram in the Mobile-Birmingham probably visit the United States. diocese. '. . to open the annual convention of Serra International, a.n His term of office will be 12 organization of laymen who work to promote vocations to .v>eal's. He is the first America'll FR. ROLAND HUOT, S.S.S~' Turn to Page' Twentv . ~ head the Blessed Sacrament the priesthood. The Fall lrathers. Fall Riverite Joins Secular Institute River Diocese is represented Ordained in Cleveland in 1939, at the convention by Rev.. Father Huot has taught in both Daniel F. Shalloo, Fall River major and minor seminaries of area chaplain, and lay delegateal Illis congregation. While serving froin New Bedford,. Attlebom QS professor of canon law an~ and Fall River areas. spil'itual theology, he became Speaking at the opening M~ I!'eCtor of the major seminary in Rev. William O. Brady, D.D.. Cleveland in 1943. By Patricia McGowan Archbishop of St. Paul and a The new Superior General was Riv~r native. stressed thaf> A photograph and three lines of print in a diocesan newspaper-they changed the Fall ~l'ovincial of the American tprovince for nine years: For the life of pretty Jean Brocklehurst, 'daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Brocklehur,st, 483 'Read- the clergy must work among layo men "not as pals, but as priests.'" past three years he has been a He told the delegates: "Your member of the general council in'g Street, Fall River. A graduate of Sacred Hearts Academy, Fall River, and Pembroke Colle'ge, Jean. was .working as women's editor of a company'magazine issued '~by Bell friendship is precious to us, Your II)f the congregation in Rome. way of life could be a distra'c. T~ congregation, founded 1ft Telephone Laboratories in ··':E'~;i.;lt'i?':::;i~' ! :~~7-~~c-:;;:f~\;:;~::J tion '.' . Weare priests among i ]paris in 1856 by Blessed Peter New Jersey. Her life was a men, but our priesthood is of ,Julian Eymard, is devoted to career girl's dream come God." ' perpetual adoration of the BlesThe Archbishop said the 'Sac.. truE!-'-work she loved" a sed Sacral11ent, and the increase rament of Holy Orders "takes a etri devotion to the Holy Euchar- $7200 a year salary-but someman from among men and sends how she wasn't Satisfied. hit. him back among men in a new "I was lo~king' for something," and sacred role." she said. Clue as to what it might He continued: "AU men be came when she spied the tiny born for worship . • • All mea. item about Miss Mary Long, suare called to share the Chri~ perior of the Daughters of Our life, through baptism which is Brother Albertus Smith, C.S.C., Lady of Fatima attending a an anointing for life in the Taunton native and graduate of course at the University 'of world. Coyle High :{: ,.-' Notre Dame, .She wrote for in"But there is a special anoint-.. School, who ,. formation about the Daughters. ing of the priesthood' and a speill as just That was in Spring of 1959. cial choice and laying on oil lllOmpleted a By October of that year, she apostolic hands that divides the Geven year had fouild what she was looking 'called' from· other men and ooaching asfor. She joined the Daughters· commissions him with authority i3ignment at as a candidate. Now,'nearly two and with power to preach, to ~yle, will years later, $7200 a year days put teach, to baptize and to offe!? mark his silbehind her, she is. vowed to the Sacred Mysteries." ~r jubilee poverty, chastity and obedience, Ar~hbishop Brady emphasiz~ ll)f profession a member of a secular institute that by ordination a priest's 'ae<> Cl»f vows in process of formation. , tions are given new authority. lWednesday, "A priest's absolution is wI> The Daughters of Fatima are Aug, 16. casual. advice, though it ma1 a group of women banded toWhile a' come from lips without experiJD gether to form a secular insti&oyle stu-' ence," he said. "It is the direc:o tute. Rev. A. Paul Lambert, spirdent, Brot- Bll"other Alber&~ tion of God even if spoken by b itual director of the Daughters, ll!el' Albertus Smith, C.S.C. . , tongue that stutters. was highest-ranking member crl affirms that just as Sisters, when JEAN BROCKLEHURST = DAUGHTERS OF FATIMA ~l\IR'JIl to lPagGl JEnghteen ~Ulrn to lPage Twelve Turn t@ Page Two
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Bishop' Connolly Celebrates Serra· Convention .Mass
Gives Up $7,200-a-Year Position To' Devote Life to God/·s .Work
Coyle Instructolf To Note Jubilee
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