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Pope Paul Bestows Honors On Five Diocesan Priests
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Fall River, Mass., Thursday, July 4, 1974 PRICE 15c Vol. 18, No. 27 © lS'74 The Anchor $5.00 per year
Holy Father Reviews Epoch of Vitality VATICAN 'CITY (NC) - Despite the suffering and inner con- . flicts troubling the Catholic Church the present time is nevertheless "an epoch of extraordinary vitality for the Church," Pope Paul XI told assembled cardinals in Rome. In the talk, Pope Paul reviewed a number of problems both inside the Church and on "the chessboard of the world" as well. He specifically singled out northern Ireland, the Middle East· and Portuguese Africa. Although the panel speech contained nothing startling or new, it nevertheless served as a sort of round-Up of topics that obviously had been on the Pope's mind over the past several months and most of which he was, in one way or another, touched on before. Noting that the opening of the Holy Year with its twin themes of renewal and reconciliation is only months away, the Pope first talked of how true observance of the Holy Year can
help solve some of the evils in society today. "Man's condition is very uncertain," he said. "Violence in all ,forms degrades him and drags him down to the level of a pawn in a blind cbess game and not infrequently destroys him 'ruthlessly and cruelly," he declared. Man is also being manipulated by mass media and "the consumer society makes him the slave of artificially created needs . . . Man is above all conditioned today by a materialistic atmosphere from which he cannot free himself." To counteract all the'se forces, the Pope continued, the Church has the mission of preachil'g that man is made for the true, the good and the beautiful. He added: "In accordance with her religious and human character she is at the disinterested service of mankind, all mankind, without distinction of mentality, race, religion or culture. She is there as Turn tofPage Four
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His Holiness Pope Paul VI has hestowed Papal Honors on five priests of the Fall River Diocese. The Most Reverend Daniel A. Cronin, Bishop of Fall River, announced the ecclesiastical honors on Sunday, June 30, 1974, the Anniversary of POPe Paul's Coronation. Named by the Holy Father as Pre'lates of Honor of His Holiness' were Reverend Monsignor Luiz G. Mendonca, Vicar General of the Diocese and Pastor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish in New Bedford, and Reverend Monsignor Henry T. Munroe, Officialis of t'he Diocesan Tribunall, Episcopal Vicar in the Attleboro-Taunton Vicariate, and Pastor of Saint John the Evangelist Parish, Attleboro. In addition, P,ope Paul has designated as Chamberlains of His Holiness the Reverend Monsignor Thomas J. Harrington, Diocesan, Chancellor, Reverend Monsignor Patrick J. O'Neill, Diocesan Director of Education, and Reverend Monsignor John J. Regan, Rector of Saint Mary's Cathedral in Fall River. Announcement of the honors bestowed upon the Diocesan clerics came on the eleventh anniversary of the succession of Pope Paul to the See of Peter. All the new monsignors are close collaborators of Bishop Cronin in Diocesan administrative and apostolic endeavors. In addition to the note of personal recognition inherent.in the bestowal by Pope Paul of the ecclesiastical honors on the five new prelates, the Holy Father's initiative is understood as a mark of esteem and a source of encouragement for the entire Diocese.
Bishop Cronin will install the new monsignors. Plans for the installation ceremony, which will
be at Saint Mary's Cathedral, have not yet been announced. Turn to Page Two
. Monsignor Mendonca
Monsignor Munroe
Monsignor Harrington
Monsignor O'Neill
Monsignor Regan
Year Recalls 7nose of Past
MOLY YEAR: Pope Paul reads from a talk given on the day he issued papal bull officially proclaiming 1975 as a Holy Year with twin themes of renewal and reconciliation.
Barrett McGurn covered the 1950 Holy Year in Rome for the New York Herald Tribune and here recalls memories of that event in view of the upcoming 1975 Holy 'Year. Author of "A Reporter Looks at' the Vatican" and "A Reporter Looks at American Catholicism," McGurn has also 'been with the u.s. State Department and is currently public Information officer for the U.S. Supreme Court. The approach of another Holy Year, in 1975, recalls vivid memories of the previous one, 23 years ago. Those in this country who have two full years of f~sci nating events ahead of them, the Holy Year in 1975 and the American bicentennial in 1976, may be interested in some of what went on in Rome in that other most recent Holy Year. One of my earliest sharp memories concerned a problem of news coverage. The Vatican press office was only a half dozen years old and had limited experience with handling the world press. An initial problem was how to assign space for the press
in the stand which had been constructed inside the great porch of St. Peter's Basilica looking down on the IS-foot tall "Holy Door." The Pope's act tn opening that door was to be the first event of the year. Perhaps some of those in charge remembered 1933 when there was a Holy Year for the 19th centenary of the Crucifixion. It was during the depression and only a few score thousands made their way to Rome in the course of the year. The news media paid little attention. But much had changed since 1933. Transoceanic air travel had come in. So had television. News coverage of E.urope in the wake of a world war had become far more intensive. So it was more with astonishment than rage that foreign correspondents of the world heard the press office's decision: half the press tribunal would be apportioned out among the representatives of the Catholic press and the other half would go to the rest: to the world news agencies, the correspondents of the major newspapers of a score of countries, and
all the international television crews! The calm with which the news initially was received was followed promptly by a storm. A new plan had to be drawn up. As it worked out, so many of us finally were jammed into the limited spaces of the stand that we barely ended up with, peeking space and were hard put to it to scribble a note. What the press office planners had not realized was that the Holy Year. only the third in this century and merely the" fifth since 1775, was an occasion of immense interest throughout the Western world. The origin of the Holy Years was in 1300 when the turn of the century had caused vast excitement and fervor in Europe and, at gradually more frequent intervals, the Holy Year series had continued since. The Holy Door opening ceremoTum to Page Five
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