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No. 28

, Thursday, July 10, 1,958 Second Claal Mail Privilelfell Authori••d at Fall Ri~er. Ma....

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Sisters to Open Novitiate

At St. Anne's Hospital v

A novitiate house will be opened by th e Dominican Sisters of Charity of the Pre­ sentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary staffing St. Anne's ,Hospital, Fall River, it was announced today. by Mother Pierre Marie, superior.

Plans call for the opening of the novi tiate when the releases space now used f~r will provide classroom and liv­ student nurses. This should . ing accommodations. ' be within the next two years· "Some think it is necessary to stated Mother Pierre Marie. be a registered nurse to join . At present, candidates for the our congregation," said Mother' congregation must travel to the Pierre Marie, commenting that motherhouse in France for their recent entrants from the Diocese novitiate and return there to have all been graduates of the take temporary and fin~l vows. School of Nursing, "but we_ The Fall River novitiate' will should like to emphasize that eliminate these journeys. Postulants and novices will be housed in the present School of Nursing building, adjoining the hospital on the southwest corner, of Middle and Forest Streets. It

Stresses Familial~\\ Duty to Provide More Vocations :, \ <

CHICAGO (NC) The family has the primary re­ sponsibility of nurturing re­ ligious vocations to help the Church remodel the world ac­ cording. to Christ's' teachings. Coadjutor Bishop Thomas J. McDonnell of Wheeling told .2,500 Serrans at their 16th an-' nual convention that thousands of priests and Religious are' needed to overcome the "ter­ r,ific handicap" the Church faces ,"in preserving .and reaching all natiops with the teachings and CONTRACTOR, ARCHITECT OF SHRINE HONORED: ·eommandments of Jesus Christ." Shown at the presentation of the annual Marianist -Award . Diocesan Serra Club· mem­ of the University of Dayton are (left to right) Very Rev. bers in ~ttendance were Rev. A. L. Seebold, S.M., president of Dayton; John McShain of' .James F. McCarthy, Robert Mc­ Philadelphia, general contractor; Very Rev. J. A. Elbert. Gowan, Eugene Farrell, Russell Bren!1an, John Graham and S. M., Marist superior'anq Eugene F. Kennedy'Jr; of.Boston, Harry Condon, all of the' Attle­ architect. ..',) , boro area; also Dr. Raymond R. Costa and Quinlan Leary of Fall . River. , "If the world today is to be 1'emodeled to the Chri~ian way Turn to Page Seven

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erection of a new building only a high school education is required. Many activities be­ stdes. nursing are open to our Sisters." . , . Among the last who will travel to France for profession and renewal of vows are five from this. Diocese. They will

leave this week for the mother­

house in Tours. Renewing vows

will be Sister Irene Therese, Sister Eileen Marie, Sister Mary William, and Sister Mary Patri­ cia, all from Fall River. From New Bedford comes novice <;:laire Deneault, whose name in religion is Sister George Ay­ plard. With the exception of a Wash­ ington house of studtes adminis­ tered by its SoutH Americall province, St. Anne's hospital w the sole North American foun­ dation of the Dominican Sisters of Charity of the Presentation; but the congregation operates sChools, hospitals, orphanages, and homes' for the aged ill Europe, South America, and many French possessions. It iii' hoped that the Fall River novi­ tiate will, encourage local voca­ tions, and be a step towards the expansion of the congregatioa in the United States..

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Catholic Press ,Has .Record Circulation of 23,716,418

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NEW YORK (NC)-Total circulation of Catholic news.. papers and magazines in the United States set a new record of 23,716,418 as of Jan. 1, 1958, it is disclosed in the new 1958-59 Catholic Press Directory, published here by the Catholic Press Association. listings of magazine representaThis figure represents an tives and a geographical index increase of 348,070 over the of national newspapers. circulation figure of' a year Catholic ~dvertisin~ ~~rket previous, which 'was also a Announ~lI~~ publIcation. of record high at that point _ 1~58-~9 edlt~on of the a~thorIta­ 23 368348 a f J 1 1957 bve CatholIc Press DIrectory. With its virtual completion next year, the National , , ,s 0 ~nuary '. " John J. Daly, CPA president, The new ~ath~h~ Press Duec- pointed out that ~he Directory Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington will tory contains lIstmgs for 581 would be distributed to more take its place among the great churches of .Christian newspapers and ~agazines in than 6,000 national advertisers history. ~' the U. S., p!us 32 In Canada-a and advertising agencies, and to ,-Largest Catholic Church mensions exceeding those of the ~ort~ Am.encan total o~ 612 pub- other interested areas, inCluding BERKELEY (NC)-Don-' lIcatlOns In the CatholIc field. in the United States, the Shrine. schools libraries and similar The Shrine's highest point ill ~ld E. Marlowe is a mechan­ · Included in the Difectory list- institutions.' ' Shrine will also be, among ical engineer by trade, a l~gS are, facts and figures on The Directory also contains . the largest in the world, 329 feet, the height of its Cam­ panile or Knights' Tower. In scholar by outlook' and a CIrculation, advertising rates, information on the Catholic with an outside length of 459 comparison, the highest point ~taff personnel, frequency of market as a source of sales for'­ feet, a width at the nave of 157 reached by a church in the Fall teacher by inclination. national advertisers such as: For 13 years the Navy useli ISSUe, and ,representatives. feet, and at the transepts of River Diocese was 'attained by · The 612 total is'divided into America's Catholic p~pulation is only a third of his talents. ·.tn 240 feet. Notre Dame of Fall River. Be­ 1955 he resigned as associate 139. newspapers, 144 magazines incl'~asing almost twice as fast St. Peter's of Rome, mother fore the 1938 hurricane its spires director. of the Naval Ordnance whIch ac~ept ad~ertising, and as the overall U. S. population. ehurch of Christendom, and measured 300 feet. Laboratory at White Oak, Md., 329 magazines which do not ac:" and Catholic families are about largest in the world, will be one Afterwards 'lowered as a safe­ to become Dean of the School cept ~dvertising. In addition, one-third larger than other of the few structures with diTurn to Page Se'Ven of Engineering and Architec- the DIrectory contains special American families. ., ture at Catholic University of America in Washington. \ ~, One result has been a nuclear reactor in the heart of· the na0 0 SEATTLE (NC)-Church leaders J'oined the rest of tion's capital. Another has been. yATICAN CITY (NC)-Like an iceberg, only a smaD a completely revamped engin- f a t f th S S d C .' . the nation in hailing the vote to admit Alaska to the Union eering prograII1 at Catholic U. l' C IOn 0 e upreme acre ongreg,atlOn of the Holy as the 49th state. Retain Humanities Office is visible on the surface. Archbishop Thomas A. Connolly of Seattle, Metropol- '''Our rea~tor, supplied by the Though most of its activities are known only to a few itan of the Province of Seat- see the cloud that has hovered Atomic Ene~gy Commission, -bound by strict secrecy- Roman congregations, through tie which includes Alaska, over my American citizenship went 'critical'° last November," the Holy Office is among the which Pope Pius XII governs he reports. "In other words, the t power f u I 0 f th e 12a d - the Church 'ons to dispelled forever. For today I mos .' . ' offered congratulatl .reaction is now self-sustained. It 1 b th t·tl "S Turn to Page Seventeen T to P F'ft ministrative bodies call~d . a one ears. .e 1. e. u­ the people of, Alaska. urn age I een , preme" because Its Job IS lInked ~~~~~ COOM~ $W: --------------~---------------------------~-J v~th fue rupreme du~ ~ the

Contributio~s Build Na,ti~s Largest Catholic Churc:h

CU Dean Expects Exciting Future For Engineers

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Prelat.es Hail Vote of Congress 'J,I Granting Statehood to Alaska :/',

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vancement to equal status in the Union. It is another indication ef the growing importance of ~ that vast area in our national By Patricia McGowan ./ economy." It was stifling hot as we drove towards Villa Fatima in Taunton. But once we entered ,the eool greenness of the Villa grounds' we felt degrees cooler. And when we met the Alaska Bishops Bishop Dermot O'Flanagan of l appy crowd of novices and postulates for the Congregation of St. Dorothy who receive luneau, Alaska, declared: ''The tneir training there we forgot the heat t o g e t h e r . ' granting of statehood to Alaska One doesn't think of truck straight from. Ireland. "You see, we've only had our religious • • . is both the fulfillment of ouJ;, driving and .chicken tending 'C .habits and novices' veils for two iondest hopes and is the proof to &0l f:A days, and everyone still calls me ~, . '"t~ Betty." Two others received the the world at large that we as part of preparation for Americans practice what we t rIe religious life, but the •~ SUPPORT ~I habit with Sister Elizabeth, inprofess about self-determination. girls at Villa Fatima were enV "...... eluding Carmen Carreiro of Our self-government and the superi­ thusiastically occupi'ed in these THE . Lady of Mount, Carmel parish, ority of the democratic: way of a ld the many other tasks in.. ~ New Bedford. life, v)lved in semi-farm life, in adUnique Congregation "Speaking as one who came d:tion, of course, to the more • BUY FROM THE The Villa Fatima is the only to Alaska from Ireland some 25 conventional activities of D09A.. ADVERTISERS IN .... American novitiate of the Sisyears ago-where the struggle kes and postulants. ... CATHOLIC '" ters of St. Dorothy, but the confQr full citizenship rights lasted «I'm not used to being called ~ '? gregation numbers thousands in more than 400 years--I count S ster yet," shyly confided blue'. ~ PAPERS ~. many countries. It's a congregathis as one of the great moments el'ed Sister Elizabeth Hayes, her ~WS P 1\ \' tion, too. that's possibly unique in . . IR¥ life, the moment wheD. I Ii .tine accent betraying bel' 11£ r Turn to Page Fiv..

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wCaotrhldol.ics in 'all parts of the

·Established ,in 1452, the Holy Office deals with problems of heresy and acts leading to the suspicion of heresy. Its court has power to judge the religious crime of .apostasy, heresy. schism, profaning the Holy Eucharist and certain cases of, immorality among the clergy. In a decree issued in April, 1951, the Holy Office automatically excommunicated any Bishop who would consecrate a bishop . without the appointment and' consent of the Holy See. A similar excommunication was leveled at anyone accepting such an illicit consecration. Thus, almost seven years before it happened, the Holy Office an­ ticipated the illegal consecration of "patriotic bishops" such lUI Turn to Page Twent7


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