FALL RIVER DIOCESAN NEWSPAPER FOR SOUTHEAST MASSACHUSETTS CAPE COD & THE ISLANDS
t eanc 0 VOL. 28, NO. 26
FALL RIVER, MASS., FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1984
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BABY ZOE, the world's first baby born using the frozen embryo technique, rests in Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne, Australia, following her birth in April. (NC/UPI)
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Fall iMARYK:NOLL, N.Y. - The Fall River diocese will be very much in the spotlight when the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothrs honor more than 70 Maryknoll Missioners celebrating anniver saries of their ordination and first oath as Maryknoll Brothers with a speCial Mass at the Maryknoll Center July 2. Three Maryknoll Missioners from this area wiH be especially honored. Father John Edward Morris, 95 years old, marks ,the 70th an niversary of this ordination. The other diocesan men are both bishops. The Most Rev. Freder ick Donaghy, former bishop of Wuohow, China, marks the 60tq anniversary of his priestly or dination. The Most Rev. Joseph W. Regan, retired bishop of Ta gum, Vte Philippines, was or dained 55 years ago. Father Morris Father Morris was born Jan uary I, 1889, in Fall River. Or dained for the Fall River diocese in 1914, he entered Maryknoll
in 1921 and received his first overseas assignment in 1923 to Korea. He was named Prefect Apostolic of Peng Yang, Korea, in 1930 and in 1936 was trans ferred to Kyoto, Japan. With the outbreak of World War II, Father Morris was in terened by the Japanese and was repatriated to the U.s-. in 1942. 'Prevented by the war from re turning to the Asian missions he worked with the Korean popula tion in Los Angeles, then in 1944 was assigned to Hawaii. Returning to the United States in 1948, he served briefly as di rector of Maryknoll' brothers in Bedford, returning to Hawaii in 1949. Back on the U.S. mainland in 1956, he was named regional director of Maryknoll activities in the North west, residing in Seattle. In 1959 he returned to Korea for a three-year assign ment. In the 1960s the veteran mis sioner did promotioniil work for Maryknoll in Buffalo and New
WASHINGTON (NC) -·Sc;en tists and officials "should take whatever steps necessary" to save two frozen embryos whose parents were killed in a plane crash, said an aide to the U.S. bishops' Committee for Pro-Life Activities. Those scientists have a re sponsibHity," said Richard Doer flinger, legislative assistant to the committee, part of the Na tional Conference - of Catholic Bishops. "They (the scientists) are almost as much the parents as the donors of the sperm and egg are." Doerflinger was reacting to the moral and legal dilemma of officials in Melbourne, Australia, when they discovered that the parents of two embryos frozen in 'liquid nitrogen had been killed in a plane crash in Chile last year. Mario and Elsa Rios of Los Angeles had traveled to Mel bourne in 1981 to try to conceive a baby by in vitro fertilization, which involves fertilization of the female egg with the male sperm through laboratory pro cedures rather than sexual inter
course. Three of Mrs. Rios' eggs were fertiHzed: one was im planted in her womb and result ed in a miscarriage; the other two were frozen. The embryos will remain fro zen at the Queen Victoria Medi cal Center.in Melbourne until a government-appointed committee can make a recommendation on the matter, probably in July. Doerflinger said those. in volved must "make the best of a bad situation." Although the church usually opposes surrogate motherhood, the next step would be to find wo men willing to bear the children if they can be iJnl>lanted success fully, Doerflinger said. Scientists have said these embryos probably Turn to Page Six
NOTICE
For the convenIence of sum mer visitors, our annual listing of Cape Cod Mass achedules ap pears on page 10. It wiD appear every other week' during the summer months.
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Orleans. In 1970 Father Morris retired to St. Teresa's Residence at Maryknoll. Bishop Donaghy Bishop Donaghy was born January 13, 1903, in New Bed-
ford. After attendance at Holy Cross College, Worcester, he pre pared for the priesthood at St. Mary's Seminary Baltimore, and at Maryknoll Seminary. Ordained Jan. 27, 1929, he
began his mission work in Kay ing City, South China, where he served under Maryknoll 'Bishop Francis X.' Ford. After 10 years, he was appointed 'Prefect of the Turn to Page Six
BISHOP DONAGHY
FATHER MORRIS
BISHOP REGAN