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Vol. 8, No. 29 ©
1964 The Anchor
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• Fall River, Mass., Thursday, July 16, 1964
Ordinary Announces
Three Assignments
Transfer of two priests an~ the first assignment for • recently ordained priest, are announced today by the Most Reverend James L. Connolly, D.D., Bishop of the Diocese. Effective date i'8 tom9rrow, July 17.· Reverend Joseph L. Powers, Diocesan He remains as Diocesan Director Director of the Confrater of CCD. Ility of Christian Doctrine· Reverend Patrick ~. O'Neill, and chaplain at Bishop Stang . Superintendent of Diocesan Hig.h School, No. Dartmouth, is tmnsferred to Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro, as chap .... aDIi iDstnlctor JA Beli&ioa.
Schools, will become chaplain and instructor in Religion at Bishop Stang High School. He Turn to Page Twelve
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BRIEFING SESSION: Rev."James W. Clark, Diocesan Director of PAVLA and Ex tension Volunteer programs, briefs young women who have volunteered as teachers in foreign, home missions for one or three year periods. From left, Arlene Schreiner, See konk; Jeanne Olsen, Harwich; Mary Jane Collins, Fall' River; Judith Perry, Provincetown; Marguerite Desjardins, Central Village.
Five Girls Volunteer
For Lay' Apostolate
A clutch of pretty Young girls will be representing the Fan River Diocese next school year in places as widely separated as Colombia, British Honduras, Oklahoma, and New Mexico. They will be participating in two of the most adventurous programs open to lay apostles: Papal Volunteers for Latin America and Extension Lay Volunteers. The girls met for the first time this tea<lh English or history in a tion fur her ·year abroad she month at St. Joseph's Rec British Honduras high school. attended a Lay 'Apostolate tory, Fall River, for a brief She learned of the P AVLA pro 'School conducted yearly at Bos ing by Rey. James W. Clark, gram through Maryknoll mag ton College for potential lay
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FATHER O'NEILL
lntersession Period· Over; Commissions Finish Work By Rev. John R. FoIster
St. Anthony Church - New Bedford
in charge of both programs for the Dioctlse. Pre tty Arlene Schreiner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Schreiner, Our Lady of Mt. Car el parish, Seekonk, leaves Sept. 2 for a year in British Honduras .under the P AVLA program. Or dinarily P A VLA volunteers plan a three year stay in countries of Latin America, but because there is nQ Language barrier in British Honduras, one year stays are possible. Arlene, a 1963 graduate of Rhode Island College, taught last year at St. Margaret's School, . ,Rumford, R.I. She expects to
Set First Retreat For Handicapped Sunday, July 26
The next council session promises to be the most fruitful in that concrete results may be reached in the many debates and proposals. All this is due to the concen trated work-under the prodding guidance of Pope Paul A Retreat for the Handi during the intersession per capped, first such event to the details and put them into iod. Commissions have met action. be sponsored by the Fall in Rome together with the Monsignor Fausto Vallainc, River Diocese, will be held experts assigned them and head of the Oouncil Press Office, . Sunday afternoon, July 26 at
what has borne much fruit-they· explained the fruitful work of have held joint meetings thus the intersession and pointed to avoiding much repetition and the promising Signs of Vatican teeming contradictions. II; Session 3. The council's unfinished busi Coordinating Commission Iless has thus been reductld to This group .of Cardinals met 13 topics, each condensed-with not to re-examine new drafts or out any substantial modification. to check on the contents of '!'he joint meetings brought schemata. The Pope had given much of this about anti the pre real directives at the closing of sentation of "program direc the last session, thIs commission tives", statements of fundamen resolved to put such directives tal principles and policy also into action. It also studied pro aided. These matters, once ap cedural problems "to facilitate proved by the Fathers, will then the discussions of individual be turned over to post-conciliar subjects and to streamline the ~issio~ who will work out Turn fQ PaUl Six
the Catholic Memorial Home, Fall River. 'Dhe program will begin at 12:30, continuing until about 6. Supervised by Msgr. Raymond T. Considine, the retreat will be given by Rev. Anthony Rocha. The program will include a con ference, confessions and private conferences with the retreat master, a social !hour, and ques tion period. It will conclude with a dialogue Mass and re freshments. Miss Eugenia FarynlaTZ. iD. Turn to Page ThirteeD
azine, she said, and in prepara-
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Prelate Explains Apparent Biblical Contradictions ROME (NC)-Augustin Cardinal Bea, S.J., has giVeh some rules of thumb for reconciling apparent contradictions in the Biblical accounts of Christ's life. The head of the Church's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, who has devoted most of his 83 world had a manner of express years to the study of the ing themselves quite different Scriptures, listed "some prin from the manner of westerners . cipa,l rules" to bear in mind: of the modern world; That the Gospels are not,sten ographic records of Christ's words; That Christ probably repeated the same idea in different words; That each sacred writer has his own· distinctive style and that the Orientals of the ancient
That every account of an event
is shaped by the purpose the author has in writing about the event. Cardinal Bea styled this pur pose of the author "the funda mental ,question." He pointed Turn to Page Eighteen
La Salette Order Announces Major Changes in Personnel Following the general chapter of the Missionaries of of Our Lady of La Salette in Rome, the Very Rev. Alphonse Doutil, out-going superior general, announced two major changes. Father Doutil will be succeeded as superior gen eral by the Rev. Conrad Born July 25, 1915, Blanchet, M.S., and the Very Southbridge. the new general was educated at Rev. Lionel LeMay, M. S., the minor Seminary, Enfield, at will become secretary gen the Gregorian Institute in Rome, eral of the O'rder and director of the International La Salette Scholasticate. A native of New Bedford, Father Blanchet is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Blanchet ol
and in Three Rivers, Quebec. ,Ordained in 1942, Father Blanchet was the first La Salette Missionary to land on Philip pine soil and he became its first Turn to Page Eighteen