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..::.---,--~~ NEW, HIGH SCHOOL "DEDICATION: The Most Reverend/Bishop blessed the cornerstone of the new high school for ~rls( in Taunton on Friday. Left picture, the Bishop blesses corn,erstone assisted by Very Rev. Patrick H. Hurley and Rev. William Dolan. Center picture, the )3ishop speaks over radio at the event significant in ,the educational life of Taunton and the Diocese. Right picture, the Bishop and Mother
119 Booklets Contain Projects' for -Council
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, VATICAN CITY (NC) - A blueprint of what the Second Vatican Coundl will do is contained in 119 booklets now being send to the bishops of the world. By a conser~ vative estimate these booklets with their 2,060 pages represent a highly concentrated distillation of the work of over 1,000 men who, in the three years of preparatory work for the council, put in more . . . Commission by the than 20000 man-hours of effort. Th~se fIgures, whIch Preparatory 10 preparatory commissions and are exclUSIve of the work of ,
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Mary William,· S.U.S.C., Provincial of the Sisters of the Holy Union of th~ Sacred Hearts who will staff the school, inspect the cornerstone inscription, which is from Virgil's "Georgics" and reads: Felix qui potuit rerum· cognoscere causas. (Happy was that man who could learn the causes of things.) The Sisters of the Holy Union of the Sacred Hearts have been in Tau~ton since 1890.
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Ordinary Announces Transfers Mos,t Rev; Bishop James L. Connolly has approved reassignment of four members of the Congregation of· the
full-time employees, should con- the two preparatory secretariats. vince any observer that the After the Central Commissions council has not been prepared reviewed them and they were , given the approval of Pope John, hurriedly. Instead, no previous' council has been more thor- they became the agenda for the forthcoming council. oughly prepared. The agenda will not 'be a rigid . These booklets represent the program for the council Fathers. "schemes" or the, projects which Not al~ matters in the text will were submitted to the Central Turn to Page Fourteen
Reports Rise in Catholic ·'Newspaper Circulation
WASHINGTON' (NO)-The Holy See insists on wide \l;raining in Latin because the Church must have on~ lailguage in which it can talk to all~ its people, 'ArchbIshop Dino Staffa, secretary of the Sacred Congregatiqn of Se~i. 'n'aries and Universities, told Slve . trammg " f Lt'; I 0 a 10 R't I e semsome ,300 educators a t the; inarians in Latin. The decree Cat hoI i e University of' was a followup 'to ~ February America here. The Archbish- apostolic constitution of Pope
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op spoke in Latin. 'The congregation which Archbishop Staffa serves issued ,in June a lengthy series of direct' es calling for more inten-
~eprese!'tatives tion of the Catholic Press Directory, published by the Catlioiic Press Association here, reveal that, this substantial in. NEW YORK (NC) ~ A crease in Catholic newspaper circulation was offset by a loss council of Jewish Orthodox in Catholic magazine circula-: rabbis has opposed any secution and resulted in a decline in lar "representations on be~ total U.S. Catholic publication . half of the retigious Je'wish circulation' of less than one per community" at the Second Vaticent-0.6 per cent. can Council in October. The grand total U.S. Catholic The Rabbinical Council' of press circulation is listed as 26,America resolved at its conven· 953,511, compared with the previous year's total of 27,133,481. tion here that such representa. As' of January 1, 1962, there tions "may jeopardize and imwere 130 Catholic newspapers, pair the improvement of Chrislisted'in the Directory, the same tian-Jewish relations." Rabbis Abraham AvRutick, fig)l,eas last year; and 118 Catholic magazines accepting president, and Israel Miller, advertising, plus 253 U.S. Cath- first vice president of the counolic magazines not accepting ad- cil, praised the "sincere efforts vertising-a total listing of 371 of Pope John XXIII, who had directed that references to PROTECTOR: A m let 0 Catliolic ,magazines in the U.S. 'perfidious Jews' be eliminated Altogether, the new Catholic Cardinal Cicognani has been Press Directory lists 545 Catho- from the Holy Week liturgy." appointed Cardinal Protec- , lic newspapers and magazines in The two leaders maintained, tor of the Institute of the the United States and Canada, however, that it would be imReligious Sisters of Mercy of one fewer than, the previous proper for· Jews to participate . in a council that was purely rethe Union, according to a year. ligious in nature and concerned 'Circulation of weekly dioceletter received from the san newspapers increased by 7.8 primarily with Christian docHoly See by Mother' Mary pt:. cent from 3,913,093 last year trines. Interfaith cooperation Regina Cunningham,R.S.M., to 4,217,364 as of the beginning can be strengthened through other channels, they said. . Mother General. of 1962.
Joh.n, "enti~led "Veter?m, ~apienba, .wh!ch held up Lat10 as the prmclpal tongue of the Church. . , Archbls~op Staffa, who came IV to the Umted States for the recent Serra International convention in Philadelphia;" said that "my message is to express the mind of the Holy Father for the restoration and promotion of Latin language." , From the Church's earliest days, he continued, Latin has Members of the Society of been "a bond of great value for St. Vincent de Paul are ob- the Catholic Church, a protecserving the saint's feast day 'tion for Christian truth and the today by attending Mass and instrument for the proper perreceiving Holy Communion in formance of our sacred rites." their pari~h Churches. "Today," he said, "opponents Fall River particular council of the use of Latin desire to see will hold a general meeting in it destroyed; hence, its propoconnection with the feast at 3 nents feel that, without further Sunday afternoon, July 22 at st. delay, every means should be Vincent de Paul Camp. It is used to· restore it to its pristine noted that a plenary indulgence state. "This must be done for the' may be gained by members complying with the rule of the proper preparation for studen,ts society regarding the celebra- for the priesthood, as well as fo! the preservation of our culture." tion of this patronal feast. "True," the prelate said, "the Members are invited to bring families to the camp for the Church first used the Gi'eek general meeting, at Which plans language and each individual for the annual retreat, Ozanam nation received the faith in its Sunday and other matters will own tongue. ~ut the Church in· Turn to Page Eighteen be discussed.
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NEW YORK (NC) - Circulation of Catholic newspapers in the U.S. increased by 5.5 . per cent' during 1961 to a new record high of· 5,305,212, while circulation of Catholic magazines in this country at the beginning of 1962 totaled 21,648,299, a decline oJ; 2.2 per cent from the previous year. Figures released in the 1962-63 edi-
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