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TWENTY-FIVE YEARS LATER: Served by his four brothers who performed the same task twenty-five years ago, Rev. (Col.) Henri A. Hamel of the Air Force Inspector General's staff celebrates his Silyer Jubilee Mass in St. Mathieu Church, Fall River. Left to right, Normand of Taunton, Dr. Albert of New Bedford, Father Hamel, Roland of Newport News, Va., and Dr. Fernand of Taunton.

Anti-Catholic Enmity Persistent in Colonies

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· 'l'his is the second of a series of articles reviewing the position /lnd eXI)erience of the practicing Catholic in the life of the' American community from Colonial times. 'l'he author holds a dl~ct~rate in American Church History. has taught in various OIluivl"rsities. and is presently Archivist and Historian of the £,.ll"c~~ioce9C of St. Louis.

Hy Rev. Peter '1. Rahill, Ph.n. · A universal Christendom under the suzerainty of the' JPope was shattered by the Protestant Revolt. Not that this idet\l of the Middle Ages ever had been fully realized. But the. goal of the future was wrecked completely on the shoals of private ambitions and e x . them,do ' not claim English an:aggeratecl nationalism. Carl- cestry. Notwithstanding partonJ. H. Hayes, the convert ticular attention must be given historian, has expressed well to Ellgland because the colonies

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LONDON (NC)-The official Church of England yearbook urges Anglicans to be . "quick to respond to\the geniality of the new Pope." In its long preface summarizing Church of England affairs, the new Crock fords Clerical directory has a special section on the papacy. After criticizing the' Catholic teaching on the primacy of the successors of St. Peter, it says: "Pope John has at least given indications of a new. spirit in' his attitude to I)on-Roman

the contmry spirit. In one of ~lol~g the Atlantic seaboard many essays he pointed out that wel'~ l!nder her rule and laws. antf-Catholicism has chiefly. Elizabeth I · .._ been based In the mother country that upon the inhad. mel\nt outright persecution berent .dl'ead of Catholics almost iinmediately jprotestantism from the accession of Elizabeth bas for the I in 1558. Reneging on her super-nationprol~liseto Mary Tudor to re- . at influence main a Catholic, the new queen whi~h' radimilitantly espoused the Angliates .fl'Om can Church established by her Rome. father, Henry VIII. T9 no one . N~t especially attractiv'e percountry or sonally but .certainly efficient, religion was Elizabeth quickly brought both the lantagopchurCh and state under the sway ism .limitcd. of her scepter. The Act of SuAnd most Americans today, premacy of 1559 completely outmuch less the Catholics among Turn to Page Thirteen

Father Considine's Book Faces Mission Problems

Christians. It is also clear that his ideas are meeting obstruction and English churchmen would be very unwise to rest their hopes too much upon the liberal currents flowing from Germany and France. Eag'er to Welcome "Anglicans should be eager to welcome every move that is made from Rome, but they must realize that issues have to be settled with the Roman Catholic's' in England. Relations have been' ~ery difficult in the past and they are still not too Turn to Page Eighteen

STAMFORD (NC) - Stamford's Board of Educatioll has rejected a ministerial league's protest against' th. appointment of Joseph J. Franchina, a Catholic, as superin. tendent of this city's public sch09ls. The Stamford-DarieR Minjsters' Lea g u e, com- ethnic and religious character of posed of 63 Protestant our city." ministers and Jewish rabbis, The league alSo had opposed urged that' "ethnic and the appointment of Mr. Fran. religious" considerations be taken intQ. account in the appointment and advan~ement of teachers. in .Stamford's public school system. Th~ league proposed that "evidence be given in the selec'tion of new teachers and their advancement in line. with a fair and equal regard of the true

"The greatest service that can be rende.red the majority proximately 100 members of the. Diocese have already had hllm~m need of an their reservations confirmed by economic nature is guidance to solve their problems by their the Fall River Catholic Travel own efforts." This is the theme carried out by Father John BUl·eau. . J. Considine, New Bedford . With the exception of a few born Maryknoll Missioner, in olics interested in the social. .Archdioceses in this country, rio apostolate, the book begins with Diocese has responded to a 1ltis~ new book, "The Missionan ovel'view of the Catholic European Pilgrimage invitation ary's Role in Socio-Economic approach to world socio-eco~ 'as has Fall River, according to 'the C:atholic Travel League Directors. Uoder. the spiritual direction of Bishop Connolly, the Leonardo da Vinci, which arrived in New York last week on its maiden voyage, will sail from New York on Oct. 4, on. the first step. of a 36-day pilgrimage to' ·.Turn to Page Eighteen

.' A famous fellow-member of the Fall' River Diocese ill at least partially responsible for the Marykn911 vocation of Sister Christiana Maria, the former Honor~ Felix of St. John the Evangelist parish, Attleboro. He is Rev. John J. Considine, M.M.,· aut h 0 1', "Before I knew it I was having world-traveler and recently an interview at the Mother. appointed head of the Latin house," she said.. She entered America Bureau of the Maryknoll in 1956 and was pro. National Catholic Welfare Conference. The vocation assist occurred when -Sister Christiana Maria, then a college stUdent, visited Maryknoll to interview Father Considine for a student publication.- She· casually mentioned she might be interested 'in entering the sisterhood.

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When 'speaking to a' group of' Armenians on Febr~ary 1, 1959, Pope John XXIII made the observation that "the best hope of reconciliation between the Orthodox and the Catholic Church is our' common love of the Mother of God." The simple, but regrett~ble, fact is. however, that at the present time, as the Christians of the East know little about devotion to Mary in the Pope's Suggestion Rhodesia, Viet-Nam, Formosa, . West,' so do the Catholics of At the Boston' Convention of Australia, Chile,' Iraq, England, the West know little about the Lay Apostolate prominence Ireland and Canada. A copy of _ devotion to Mary in the was given to the icon of the the icon appeared in the center

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East. Witness the fact that last .year fOl' the first time a group of Russian Orthodox pilgrims made their way to Mary's shrine at Lourdes; witness, too, the general unawareness among Christians of the West of the place of icons in the religious lives of devout 'Eastern Christian&.

china, who is of Italian ancestry. on the ground, that. lie does not have a doctor's degree. A doctorate is not listed as a reql,liremen~ for . the superintendent's post. Mr. Franchina holds two masters degrees and is working toward a doctorate. The Board of Education stated Turn to Page Eighteen .

100 Register ·A·s· Pilgrims Attleboro Maryknoll' Sister Officials of the first Diocesan Pilgrimage to Europe annoi.mced today that ap- Runs Puppet Show for God

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Betterment" published .t ·h.i s nomic problems. month. Father Considine then examA well-known mission author- . ines modern techniques necestty and dil'ector 9f the newly- sary for a realistic approabJi: to formed Latin America Bureau .problems at the community level. Gi. .NCWC, Father Considine Emphasis is placed on a knowlbased his volume on the papers e ·.,:e of less-developed areas presented by 40 interna~ionally through th~ study' of social anprominent socio-economic speTurn to Page Twelve cialists .at .conferences held at Maryknoll headquarters in April, 1951" An invaluable tool for Cath-

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Vladimir Mother of God. In answer to the Holy Father's indirect suggestion that more attention should be paid to "our common love of the Mother of God" this XIIth Century Byzantine icon was honored in a special way qy over 3000 delegates, mimy of whom came frolll u far away aa Southera

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fessed in 1959. Now on a home visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Felix, 319 South Main Street, Attleboro, Sister Christiana Maria is preparing for an 'assignment in Mexico, where Maryknolll Sisters teach and conduct a no. vitiate for a Diocesan commun· ity of Mexican reli~ious. Already she .can look' back upon an excitingly val'ied assort. ment of experiences in the reliTurn to Page Twelve

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of the first page of the BCLA program. After the Byzantine Liturgy had been celebrated on Wednesday, September 2, by Rev. Paul Mailleux of the 'Russian Center in New York, Cardinal Cushing, through his official delegate, Rt. Rev. Franc.is ~. Rossiter, blessed a large , 8ISTE&.. CHRISTIANA Twa to Page Filieea

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