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WORCESTER MINISTER TO SPEAK,
AT AUGUST REGIONAL CONGRESS
Rev. Joseph L. Powers, Diocesan Director of the COD and general chairman of the Congress, has announced that Rev. Kenneth E. Bath, pastor of Greendale People's Church of Worcester, a non-denominational Church, and an observer at the second and third ses sions of Vatican Council 11, will address the Saturday evening, Aug. 28, General Sessioa of the 19th New Engl'and Congress of the Confrater nity of Christian Doctrine at Bishop Stang High School,
Fall River, Mass., Thursday, July 8, 1965
Vol. 9, No. 27
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'Notable, Capable Nurse 'Community Superior Mother Marie Ascension has been named suPerior of ,the Dominican Sisters of Charity of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the community which staffs St. -Anne's Hospital in Fall River. Mother Pierre Marie is Vice-Provincial of the United Mother Marie Ascension has a States Province and admin 'Bachelor of Science degree in istrator of the hospital. Nursing from Boston College Mother Marie Ascension .and has been aclinical instruc was born in Avignon,' France and studied at Ecole Superieure de Carpentras where she ob tained Brevet Superieur. After training at Ste. Marthe School of Nursing she obtained' French State Board. She entered the Sisters of the Presentation in November, 1945 and made her first profession in 1947. She taught fi,rst grade at the school of Christ Roi near Tours and came to the United liiaw. ill lG48.
tor at St. Anne's for the past six years. She attended the" General Chapter of the Order May 16 in Rome and then made a retreat 'at the Mother House in Tours prior to her new 'assignment. In addition to St. Anne's Hospital, Mother Pierre Marie has also under her charge Mar ian Manor in Taunton, Madonna, Manor that will open this Fall in Attleboro, and the Order'. Novitiate in Diihto~
REV. KENNETH E. BATII
Solemn Mass On Sunday The Rev. George W. Cole man, son of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Coleman, Sr., 150 High Street; Somerset, will sing his first solemn Mass Sun day afternoon at 5 o'clock in St. Patrick Church, Somerset. Officers of the Mass will be: ,Rev. Raymond W. McCarthy, Deacon; Rev. Peter J. Mullen, Sub-deacon; Rev. Daniel J. Bow~ en. Master of Ceremonies; Rev. Fra~cis A: McCarthy, preacher. A reception will follow at 6:30 at the K of C Hall, Swansea. :rather Coleman, who was or dained to the Priesthood in Rome OIl December 16, 1964, was born In Somerset on Feb. 3, 1939. Following graduation from Monsignor Coyle High in Taun ton, he took his classical course at Holy Cross College in Wor eester. Turn to Page Twelve
Canon Lawyer Explains Vow Of Obedience WEST DE PERE (NC) Religious obedience imposes obligations on superior and subject alike, a canon lawyer
NEW SUPERIOR: Mother Marie Pierre, seated, vice provindal of the Dominican Sisters of Charity of the Pre sentation of the Blessed Virgin in the United States dis cusses the spiritual phase of the Sisters' lives with her successor as superior of tba Mmm!JD'j~ Mother Marie ~llo '
said here. , Criticizing those who feel they should have a voice in "practicaily all decisions and in the determination of means to carry out the decisions,.. Father Francis N. Korth, S.J., theology professor at Marquette University, told the Conference of Major Superiors of Men here in Wisconsin that the vow of obedience taken by members of religious communities "ex plicitly and implicity includes the carrying' out of the just commands of the authority necessary in any society." Religious life, he said, "must Inspire a willingness to carry Turi} to Page FoUl'
No. Dartmouth. His topic will be "Vatican II: Dialogue and the Apostolate of Good Will." Rev. Bath received his edu cation at Suffolk Law School, the Andover-Newton and Union Theological Seminaries with special graduate work at the American Institute of Religion and Psychiatry. He is now in his 24th year as pastor of the Worcester Church. The Greendale Church, having grown from a membership of 200 to 1200 during Mr. Bath's pastorate, is pioneering in the care of' elderly. The Church operates a rest home for the aged, and is negotiatirig for the ,construction of a 70' bed nursing home with future 'expansion to 111 beds. A past president of the Na tional Council of Community Churches and its delegates to the founding assembly of the World Council of Churches in ,Amsterdam in 1948, and its Third Assembly in 1961 at New Deihi, India, Mr. Bath is at present chairman of the Ecume nical Relations Department and represents the Com m u nit y Church on the General Board of the National Council of Churches and the consultation on Church Union. ' As president of the Commu-' nity Travel Seminar, he has visited the Middle East three times and gone around the world Once in the last nine years, leading a travel study group of professional and, civic leaders. ' Father Powers is encouraging all to attend the Congress be.,. cause of the world import of the Ecumenical Movement started by Pope John XXIII.
Answers Council Critics
The Vatican Coun~n.......-what it has decided; what it shan or shall not decide-provided ,council news for this week. Controversy concerning the im plementation of the liturgical reforms, the proposed religioQ liberty statement and birth con trol decisions all occupied coun cil spotlights. Some so-called "traditional ists" have taken the positioa that many liturgical reforms 88 they are being put into practice in the U.S. were not actually intended by the Council but were rather devised by council ex Perts on their own authority. These self-named conservatives have objected to the introduction of the vernacular in the Mass, it. offering facing the people and demand parish self-determina';' tion in liturgical affairs. Some eve n picketed the Liturgical Conference recently held in Baltimore, Md. Rev. Frederick R. McManus, secretary of the U.S. Bishops' Commission on the Liturgical Apostolate-himself directly ac cused by the Traditionlist Move ment--cleared some of the air of controversy. The decrees of the Vatican Council, he pointed out, are not the work of specia lists or experts but that of the Pope and the Bishops. , It took four years to frame the council liturgical document, thorough debate by the world'. Turn to Page Six
Requie~
Mass on Saturday For Father James E. Lynch Rev. James E. Lynch, pastor of St. Joan of Are Church. Orleans, for 18 years, died Wednesday morning after a long illness. His body will lie in state in St. Joan of Are Church, Orleans from Thursday afternoon until it will be . transferred 0 n Saturday ==~'W morning at 9 :45 to Our Lady of the Visitation Mission Church, No. Eastham, where the first Nocturn of the Office for the Dead will be chanted. Following the Office for the Dead a Pontifical High Mass of Requiem will be celebrated at 10 o'clock. Interment will be in St. Pa tricks Cemetery, Fall River. Father Lynch was born Feb. 2 1898 in Fall River, the son of the late James and the late Mrs. Teresa Barry Lynch. He was graduated from St Mary's Paro chial School and B. M. C. Dur fee High School and attended Holy Cross College for two years. ,He studied philosophy and theology at St. Mary's and the Sulpician Seminary, Ba!timore, and was ordained June 6, 1925 in St. Mary's Cathedral by the late Bishop Feehan.
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