Bishop Medeiros Favors Higher Minimum Wage For Farm Workers
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SAN JUAN (NC)-Bishop Humberto ·S. Medeiros of Brownsville favors higher wages for the Lower Rio Grande Valley workers, stressing that a $1.25 minimum wage is the accepted criterion for subsistence throughout the United States. Workers in . the area now are on strike own protection and to striIie for higher pay. 'Addressing when conciliatory talks have failed. He applied the same rule a standing-room only crowd to management on the right to in the cafeteria of the San Juan unite. shrine, the Bishop termed pres Bishop Medeiros did not speci ent f,arm wages in the valley un fy whether he believes the cur just and the direct cause of sub rent strike is justified. He ex standard housing, malnutrition" pressed hope that both sides wiU and' disease-which, he said, is meet and bargain for a just re the rule, not the' exception, suIt. among farm laborers of the '~iIn the present dispute be valley. tween workers and growers the' The recently elevated membel' role of the Bishops and p}Oiests of the hierarchy 'received a is clear," he said; "It is to preaclll standing ovation when he as the justice and charity of the serted those who receive iess Gospel an'd urge both sides to than the $1.25 minimum are not listen to the voice, of reason and. receiving what they need to live faith and adjust their differences decent human lives according to in a friendly way for the good the American standard of liying. of all. "We can act as mediators, 3fil The former Fall River (Mass.), chancellor unequivocally sup cO\lciliators; we can meet as I ported the '''right and duty;', of have met with labor unioill workers to form unions ~or their Turn to Page Five'
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'feT of one. pas~or, the appointment of an administrator and the re-assignment of a curate: Rev. J. L. Orner Lussier, pastor at St. Stephen's Church, Attleboro, to Sacred Heart Church, No. Attleboro, as of Padua, New Bedford and , , pastor; Rev. Donald E. Be Notre Dame, Fall River. langer, assistant at St. Math In July 1951, Father Lussier iew Chlirch, Fall River, to was named administrator of st. Stephen Church, Attleboro, Holy Rosary Parish, New Bed FR. DONALD E.BELANGER ford, and four ye'ars later was as administrator. Rev. Edmond L. Dickinson, named pastor at his present ,as assistant at Sacred Healot Church, signment St. Stephen.'s, Attle Mo. Attleboro, to St. Mathieu boro. Father Belanger iCburch, Fall River, as assistant. ,The assignmen~ are effective The new administrator of ~t. llaesday, July 26: ' , Stephen's Parish, Attleboro, was born in Fall River, on June lJ, Father lLussier JlI'ather Lussier, who will sue": 19't4; the son of Mrs. Alvine -.eed the late Rev. Joseph L. Gendron Belanger and the late· Larue, w~o di~dJune 9, at Ernest Belanger. Father 'Belanger, took his high S'acred Heart Parish, No. Attle lItoro, was born' Sept. 2, 1~3, in lJChool courses at St. Hyacinthe, .eedon, Cariada, the son of the Canada, and his classical studies at Sf Alexandre, Hull, Canada. JQte Louis 0.' and the late. Vic Following philosophical and the ~ria Labonte Lussier. He attended Notre Dame ological courses at Grand Semi School, Fall River; St. Joseph's nary, Montreal, he was ordained ffollege, Mont Laurier, Canada, on May 18, 1940, in S1. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River, by the an.d St. Mary's Seminary, Balti late Most Rev. James E. Cassidy. more. He has served as an assistant Ordained on May 26, 1927, in St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River, at St. Joseph's Parish, New Bed by the late Most Rev. Daniel F. ford, St. Michael's, Ocean Grove, Feehan, the new No. Attleboro St. Jean the Baptiste, Fall River, pastor served as an assistant in and in his present 'assignment st. Stephen's, Attleboro, St. at St. Mathieu's since August Roch, Fall River, St. John the 1964. lFR. EDMOND L. DICKINSON Turn to Page Two Baptist, Fall River, st. Anthony
WASHINGTON (NC)-The time has come for Cath olic school superintendents and administratvrs to close the "guidance gap" separating Catholic and public schools says Father George H. Moreau, O.M.I., guidance authority, who claims the growth and ex pansion of counseling and National Catholic Guidance Con guidance services in Catholic ference, was guidance specialist schools has been "extremely in the Buffalo diocese for 14 years. Since his appointment t,<» slow and erratic" for the past the NCEA last September, he 15 years. has worked to establish guidance Expressing his views in an and counseling programs in both article in the current issue of the individual schools and on a tiio Catholic High School Quarterly cesewide basis. Bulletin, he says little has been Father Moreau argues that ex';' done to help fashion or define' cellent guidance programs in the counselors' roie in Catholic Ca~holic schools have been the high schools-. exception rather than the rule. Father -Moreau, cOnsultant for "Interest was' on the local guidance services ~t the Natic:mal level and not due, primarily, te Catholic Educational Association 'leadership 0/1 a national scale and a for,mer ,president of the Turn to Page Nineteen
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Experimental Conlnl,unity of 10 Plan Inner City Area Work CLEVELAND (NC)-Ten Sisters of Notre Dame serv ing in the Cleveland Diocese have announced they have
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Ordinary' Designates Four Area Appointment of four Con fraternity of Christian Doc kine co-directors' in the Greater New Bedford and ]Fall Ri vel' areas, are announced today by -Most Rev. James L. Connolly, Bishop of Fall River.' The New Bedford co-directors tie Rev. Agostinho Pacheco of . Immaculate Conception Church and Rev. George E. Coleman of St. Kilian's Church. The Greater Fall River co-di rectors are Rev. John R. FoIster of Sacred Heart Church, Fall River and Rev. Richard P. De mers of S1. Michael's Church, Ocean Grove, in Swansea. Turn to Page Fifteen
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been dispensed from their vows and will form an experimental community to work in inner city areas in the Pueblo~ Colo.• Diocese next month. . Seven' are former facuIty members of Notte Dame College in nearby Euclid; two taught in high schools and one in elemen tary school." Under present plans, the new group will not wear a religious habit but will dress as laywomen. They will not use religious names, keeping their baptism;d and. family names. The 10 have been dispensed by the COAgregation of Religious in Rome from the traditional reli gious vows and fmm their pre vious structured form of com mittment to the Church and the Sisters of Notre Dame commu~ nity. They are now under pri vate vows. Explaining the, experiment, the joint statement issued by the 10 pointed to the Second Vatican Council decrees on 'the Church in the Modern World and on the Religious Life. '