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Fall River, Mass., Thursday, July 3, 1975
Vol.19,No.27
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Church Is Advocate Of All Human Needs WASHINGTON. (NC) - The president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops-U.S. Catholic Conference has challenged the claims of a priestcongressman that the Catholic Church's legislative priorities are dictated by institutional selfinterest. In a letter to Jesuit Father Robert Drinan (D.-Mass.), Archbishop Joseph Bernardin of Cincinnati told the congressman that his "charge of institutional self-interest in the legislative priorities of the bishOps simply is not true with respect to the United States Catholic Confer· ence. Nor do I believe that it·
is true of the bishops or the Church generally. "I must conclude tbat your remarks were the result of your being unaware of the facts." Archbishop Bernardin included a summary of USC.C congressional testimony on a wide variety of social issues and noted that Father Drinan's criticism" came at about the same time he and four other bishops had met with the President to discuss five key issues, including the world food crisis. The USCC's "very heavy in· volvement" in the food area alone "would be sufficient to Turn to Page Twelve
ORDINATION IN ROME: Newly ordained priests prostrate themselves before Pope Paul (extreme left) during a ceremony in St. Peter's Square June 29. About 20 of the ordination class of 359 are Americans. The ordination of one American, the Rev. Mr. Millard G. Boyer, was postponed when his parents were killed in an airline crash in New York.
Pope Asks Priests Give • Selves In Total Service
VATICAN CITY (NC) - In a ceremony Pope Paul himself described as "never before equaled," he ordained 359 deacons to the priesthood in S1. Peter's Square June 29. The Pope told the new priests that total priestly dedication opens up to them "the panorama of mankind."
Father Andrade Assumes Seminary Work Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., Bishop of Fall River, has today announced the granting of permission to Rev. Manuel Andrade, pastor of Our Lady of Health Parish, Fall River, to resign from that parish ministry and devote himself to the care of seminarians at the Seminary of Yucatan, Mexico, for one year. Rev. Luciano J. Pereira, assistant pastor at St. Michael Parish, Fall River, has been assigned by the Most Reverend Bishop as administrator of Our Lady of Health Parish, Fall River. Father Andrade, pastor of the Fall River parish since June, 1970, has always had a strong
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inclination to be associated with the training of seminarians. He always entertained the hope of studying at the Gregorian University in Rome and serving as a professor in a seminary. A Taunton native, Father Andrade studied at the Angra Semi· nary in the Azores where he hoped to remain as a seminary professor, Continuing to St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore, he also prayed to be accepted among the Sulpicians to do seminary work. The permission had to be denied because of the need of Portuguese priests in the Diocese of Fall River. Later, together with Rev.- Augustinho Pacheco, now in pastoral work in the. Diocese of Brownsville, Texas, Father Andrade petitioned Richard Cardinal Cushing to be accepted in the Society of St. James the Apostle and do missionary work in South America. Arrangements could not be completed at that time. . Three years ago,· receiving a usual letter seeking financial support for the Seminary of Merida in Mexico, Father Andrade asked that a particular seminarian be chosen by the faculty whom the Fall River pastor would adopt and help to the priesthood. The seminary faculty invited Father Andrade to visit both the seminarian and the seminary. His visit became a close association with ail the seminarians on Mer-
ida. Seminary officials eventually asked Father Andrade to join them. It was only this year that Bishop Cronin was able to agree to the petition of Archbishop Manuel Castro Ruis and permit Father Andrade, with his blessing and encouragement, to undertake seminary apostolate in Mexico. Born in Taunton on March 30, 1926, the son of Manuel and Maria Hortensia Medeiros Andrade, Rev. Manuel Andrade was educated at the Village of Rabo de Peixe, on St. Michael Island in the Azores. After beginning his preparaTurn to Page Five
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Pope Paul, who was marking the 12th anniversary of his coronation as Pope, stressed the priestly function of service to people in need in a talk to the deacons from five continents, including 25 Americans. "Know how to listen to the groan of the poor, the candid voice of the child, the thoughtful cry of youth, the complaint of the tired worker, the sigh of the suffering and the criticism of the thinker," the Pope told the newly ordained priests in the course of the almost four-hour, openair ceremony. The Pope personally laid hands on each of the deacons who came up in twos to kneel before him on the steps of S1. Peter's Basilica. Ten cardinals annointed the palms of each ordained. Then
each of the 359 returned to the Pope to receive from him the kiss of peace. Before the actual ordination, the .deacons lay face down in eight long rows on a huge red and gold carpet, while a crowd of about 70,000 chanted the Litany of the Saints. The Pope knelt during the litany at a crimson prie-dieu. He appeared to be deep in prayer. The 77-year-Old Pope, calling the priesthood an "exciting adventure," reminded the· ordinands that their vocation "has upset the normal and attractive plans of your life." The priesthood, he continued, "has even asked from you reo nunciation of conjugal love in order to extol in you an extraordinary fullness of love for the Turn to Page Four
LIBERTY and JUSTICE FOR ALL By FATHER MARION A. HABIG As the first rays of sunrise pierced the darkness of the easte,rn horizon on the morning of July 4, 1776, the Angelus bell of San Jose Mission in the Spanish province of Texas an!l0unced the dawn of another hot sunny day. About 275 Coehuiltecan Indians, who lived in stone apartments abutting the walls of the mission square, got up from their raised wooden beds covered with , buffalo hides and gunny-sack sheets, and quickly assembled for morning Mass and instruction. Franciscan Father Pedro de Ramirez, who had begun the building of a beautiful new stone church eight years before, was waiting for the mission Indians
in the spacious triple-domed sacristy. Because the church proper was still under construction and was not completed until six years later, the sacristy was used. for divine services and the overflow of the congregation stood in the arched hallway of the ad· joining "convento" or priest's residence. A year and a half later Father Juan Agustin Morfi (a Spanish phonetic spelling for the Irish "Murphy") visited San Jose Mission and found Jits new church to be "very beautiful, having a lovely cupola and a rich facade, decorated with statues and ornaments." It was nearing completion at this time. Father Morfi wrote in his "History of Texas, 1673. Turn to Page Twelve