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Family Life Meeting

Hits Secular- Ideals

BUFFALO, (NC)-The American secular 'image of marriage and the family was referred to by a priest here as immature and "schizoid in its romantic inability to face reality." Father Lucius F. Cervantes, 8.J., of Regis College, Denver, Colo., told

delegates to the National Catholic Family Life conven­ An Anchor of the Soul, .!jure and Firm-ST. PAUL tion that the secular ideal of marriage and the family in this country has three chief characteristics: romanticism, in­

dividualism and role-confusion.

PRICE lOe 8eeond C I... M.i1 Privileg.. He said that romantic love is $4.00 per Yea' Authorize. .t F.II River. M..... not new, but he deplored' the tendel}cy to regard it as an abso­ lute, "In no civilization but our own," he said, "has it been'made , '- the unique basis of the, total social edifice insofar as it has been accepted as 'the quicksand Turn to Page Eleven

Fall River, Mass. Ttlursday, July 17, 1958 ------------,------"'01. 2, No. 29

.Diocesa n Sisters Of Mercy' Mark .Golden Jubilee

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Six Sisters of Mercy of the 'Fall River Diocese who were among the 15 that made pro­ fession of perpetual vows at St. 'Mary's Pro-Cathedral on July .CARDINALOF THE SACRAMENTS: His Holiness 16, 1908, marked, their Golden Pope Pius XII greets Cardinal Aloisi, Masella, Prefect of Jubilee yesterday.: the Sacred Congregation of Sacramental Discipline, during Sister Mary Leo, RS,M" a na­ th-e of Ireland, bas, taught the a ceremony at the Vatican. Between the Pope and Cardinal pupils of the first grade during Masella is' Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani (rear), Pro-Secretary her entire period ,of teaching, first at St. Joseph School, Fall of the Holy Office. River, later at St. Kilian School,

TO TEACH IN BELIZE: Sister Mary JaCinta, R.S.M., points to town in British Honduras where she will continue New Bedford, and since then at Holy Name School, New Bed­ hler career as teacher. Interested onlookers are (left to right) ford. Norma Phippen, Linda Sil!l0n ms and Dorothy F'eid. Sister Mary Elizabeth, R.S,M., a native of Pawtucket, R. I., has VATICAN CITY (NCh-There are seven sacraments taught music and in the elemen­ tary grades at St. Vincent 'Home but the Sacred Congregationof Sa('ram~ntal Discipline must and St, Patrick' School, Fall devote most o{ its working t~me to the problems of only one River. She was a former superior -Matrimony ~ ' '. Turn to Page ,Fifteen This congregation is one Codex of Canon Law which It's the teacher who'll be htte for school when Sister of the 12 top administrative sta~es t?at "to it is e~t~.us~ed all Mary Jac.inta arrives in BelizEl, British Honduras.,Although 'ff' f 'th C th I" legIslatIon on the dlsclphne of , 0 . Ices 0 e a 0 IC the seven sacraments"

the. Mercy Sister will r~ach h ~r mission assignment in mid­ Church. Specifically its task By far the greatest 'part of thi/

A,ugust, school will.have been in session nearly two months. is to help the popes regulate and discipline concerns marriage. A teacher at St. Mary's She looks forward to missio~ _ safeguard, the daily use of the Two out of three of the congre­ 8C~hool, North Attleboro, for work with special e!lgerri~ss be­ Our Lady of Victory Church seven sacraments, gation's commissions are devoted the past nine years, Sister cause :she ~ill be reunited .w.ith in Centerville on Cape Cod The congregation takes its exClusively to its problems. Mary Jacinta volunteered for t~o SIsters ~ho entered relIgIon from its duties as deOne section deals solely with ttl f ' .. t· ' wIth her, SIster M. Magdalena wI'II hold' its First Annual name scribed in canon 249 of the Turn to Page' Seventeen ,e orelgn mISSIOns some Ime d S· t M J B th Summer Ball on Tuespay . a~:o and recently received notifian f IS er t a~y, ,amNes. BOd e2ltion of the Belize assignment. fared ormerh:alc ehrs lIn ew e- evening at the Sherwood Forest ; or paroc la sc 00 s.

She will probably remain in 'Schools' in British Honduras, Ballroom fr~m' 9, p,m, until 1,' ' 'w'e .~ee. 0 British Honduras five years~ Turn io Page Seven The Ballroom-the newest and S finest on the Cape-wasrlonated AN FRA,NCISCO (NC)-"What the theatre needs for the occasion by the owner, most today is laughter." Anthony C. AlosL' Completed' . The man sits in front of a huge mirror, daubing on. " less than a month ago· the Ball- • pasty. orange makeup~ His Australian voice rolls like the room has a dance floor large rf h'IS d'IC t'IOn and ' man' ,"The theater to'day needs more Word has just been received from the General Mother­ enough for 1,500 persons to dance su , f l'S ' h,008e in Rome, that the Very Rev.erend Philippe LeBlanc, hakespearean comedy-high comedy, not prat­ comfortably. The parking lot caD ner re ect schooling. His name is Cyril' falls and slapstick. The gutter M.S.,. has 'been named Provir: cial Superior of the Immacu- . service over 1,000 cars~' . stuff has been overdone. It was late Heart of. Mary Provincl i of the Missionaries of Our . The Ballroom is located on Ritchard. Higgins Crowell Road, in West ~'It ,is hard to laugh when popular fo!:' a while· and that's Lady of La Salette. . pointed for a period of six years. Yarmouth, within five miles of things are grim, but .Jtell you all they 'were writing-but it', . Father LeBlanc will be Reverend Father LeBlanc, who downtown Hyannis. Higgins that is ,what we must do-laugh time to reject it no~,time for all'lsisted, in his duties, by the is well-known in many .com­ , Crowell Road is the' main access at .. ourselves; laugh with others a laugh," Mr. Ritchar'd -urged. R,everend Elmeric A. munitiesof New England, has. road from the Mid' Cape High- -if we are not to let this time Laughter Best been Treasurer" of La, Salette way to West Yarmouth, bois, M.S. as 1st Councillor; Rev­ of trouble get us down," .he deMr. Ritchard was here starring Turn io Pa&"e Eleven' erend Ho:ri.orat Gauthier, M.S., , Turn·io Page Four elared. / in the touring production of the ~Ild Councillor' and Treasurer; hit comedy "Visit to a Small Reverend Maurice Viens, M.S., Planet;'" in the same role he Councillor; and Reverend Lionel created on Broadway. He said LeMay, M.S. as Councillor and he believes the times call for a Secretary. The new Provincial more hopeful; less morose out­ administration has been apTurn to Page Seventeen , . , By Patricia McGowan They have half the parish working for them. They have' after-school catechism elasses and transportation organized right down to a special lady who sees that tots don't 'get their fingers caught in car doors. They have' nearly 500 children in two parishes at­ tendin,g instructions one or two days a week. How many Sisters are accomplishing all this? The answer is four t Transportation was, th,e main motels, offered the use of near;' Only four members of Our problem in organiziQ.gcatechet- by installations to the Sisters., . . .. . ical classes, since almost no chil- Since catechism classes are l1eld L~dy Qf. VIctory MI~slOnary dren livM within walking dis-' in the winter and the motels SIsters are responSIble for tance of the. churches., "You'll are' used only in the summer, all .the catechetical activity in have about 70, children," pre- the double arrangement has the Cape Cod parishes of West dicted the, pastor. worked beautifully. Harwich and Chatham, both in But with a motorcade·of transMothers Are Drivers . charge of the Fathers ol the portation arranged by the Sisters, "Every 'time I run short of ",Sacred Hearts. ' not 70,' but more than 200 chil- classroom' space, I borrow anTo understand how they do, it, dren showed up for instructions, other motel unit," laughs Sis­ you would have to meet S~ster which immediateiy created an- ter Mary Regina, And the Tay­ Mary Regina, their energetic other problem. ,The parish halls 'lors are truly generous benefac­ Superior, and her three equally weren't large enough to accom- tors in that they underwrite the active co-workers. ' modate the classes crammed into cost of light, and heat in the When the Sisters arriv~d in them. motels. ' CHARITY PATRON: St. ,West Harwtch five yearli ago, What to do? For a ,time Sister In fact, three years ago, ~hen the Sacred Hearts Fathers were Mary Regina' was stumped, but they built a new motel near Vincent de Paul, whose feast attempting to handle catechet- .. then'" a novel solution was of- the church, they put in heat day is Saturday, is patron' ical activities in addition to al~ . teredher. " solely for the benefit, of its win­ of all societies :devoted to the other duties of two fat-flung Parishioners Mr. and Mrs. John tertime users. . , , works of charity. NC Photo. .A'I'HE& LeBLANO "rishes. ' , , .. Taylol', operators· of. chain ol. Turn to Pace l'iy~

Congregation Regulates Discipline of Sac~aments

No. ,Attleboro Nun to Teach In Belize, Britiish Honduras

A.nnu'al Ca' pe Ball . iII Be Held W ' On Tuesday

Cyril Ritchard Asserts Laughter G ...... d f

reQt Toda'y's Theater

F:,ather 'LeBlanc ~Iained Provincial ~: ()f M~issionaries c.f ~ La Salette

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,1Uissit)ndrg Nuns Instruct 500

Cope •.Chlldren in Catechism


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