diocese of fall river
t eanc 0 VOL 23, NO. 29
FALL RIVER, MASS., THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1979
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Father LeDuc Is路 Sacred Heart Administrator
Lay Evangelism Will Be Subject Of Major Parley
The Chancery Office, has announced appointment of Father Roger LeDuc as administrator of Sacred Heart parish, North Attleboro; and of 路Father Richard Ohretien as assistant at St. Joseph parish, New' Bedford. Father LeDuc Igoes to North Attleboro from the assistant's post at St. Joseph's, where he will be replaced by Father Chretien. The new administrator will fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Father George S. Daigle. Born in New Bedford, the son of Lionel and the late Jeanne Charest LeDuc, Father LeDuc attended St. Joseph's grammar school and completed high school and college at the College de I' Assumption in Canada. He con-. tinued' his studies for the priesthood at St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore and was ordained on April 2, 1960. 路For nine years he served as Tum to Page Seven
Announcing to the nation that the American Catholic Church is "energizing and commissioning the laity as evangelists and using our tremendous resources to share the life of Christ" a major aim of a three-day national "celebration of evangelization" , expected to draw 2,500 lay Catholics to Washington, DC, August 16 to 18., The lay leaders, joined by priests, bishops and religious in the first annual national Catholic Lay Celebration of Evangelization, will be taking part in a major national expression of the U.S. Church's awareness of the vital role of the laity in reaching out to the 80 millIon unchurched Americans and the 12 million inactive Catholics with an invitation to "new life in Jesus Christ." The event will be sponsored by the Paulist Fathers' National Office for Evangelization in cooperation with The Catholic Turn to Page Seven
. Oldest Cardinal Dead at Age 93 LOS ANGELES (NC) - Retired Cardinal James Francis McIntyre of Los Angeles, 93, called Qne of the "pivotal personalities of our time" by his successor, died Monday at St. Vincent A memorable picture. Medical Center in Los Angeles. Cardinal McIntyre guided the West's largest and fastest growing See for nearly 22 years. He was, according to the Los An-' geles diocesan archivist Msgr. Francis Weber, the oldest American cardinal in history. Pope John Paul II in a teleA deep hunger for prayer on gave last year to The Long gram said he revered the memory. ,of the cardinal and praised the part of both lay people and Island Catholic, newspaper of the his' '''example of Christian sim- those in religious life is one of Rockville Centre diocese. the most encouraging develop"It's a help that's given to a plicity and pastoral charity." . in the post-conciliar ments person as he grows in greater The Mass of Christian Burial maturity in faith, hope, and love. for Cardinal McIntyre is set for church. Helping to "feed that hunger It's not the kind of help that's Saturday in St. Basil Church, is a Dominican sister, a gradu- prescriptive-it's a walking with Los Angeles, the parish he served as priest following his retirement ate of the fonner St. Mary's the person in his own journey. until 1976 when he entered St. Cathedral School and Dominican " "It's a way of helping the perAcademy in Fall River. son respond to the Spirit. It is Vincent- Medical Center. She is Sister Kathleen Murphy God who initiates, and then we The son of James Francis and of the Amityville, Long Island respond-we want to help people Mary Pelley McIntyre, the fuDominicans, founder of the Spir- grow in their prayerful response ture cardinal was born June 25, . itual Life Center, New Hyde to the Spirit. 1886, in mid-Manhattan. His Park, N.Y. "Anybody who's trying to grow father was a civil engineer. His needs some help, some_ time to At the center, she directs a mother was a native of Ireland. two-pronged program, giving do it. Young Francis, who was to . spiritual direction to people "The spiritual director has to distinguish himself as a builder seeking to grow in their rela- really have the faith to know of parochial schools, himself at- tionship to God and training that God is the director, that he tended a public school. There candidates, mainly priests and or she is only facilitating God's was no room for him in the par- sisters, who wish to become di- movement within the person's ish school around the comer rectors themselves. life." from his home. Spiritual direction is better Sister Kathleen is well equipHis mother died when he was described than defined, said Sis- ped for her project. She holds a Tum to Page Seven ter Kathleen in an interview she doctorate in counseling psychol-
Religious Heads Back Carter NEW YORK (NC) - Terming President Carter's July 15 speech on energy a "call to action," a coalition of religious leaders has pledged the support of AInerica's religious organizations in the fight to reduce energy consumption. Three of the 10 religious leaders who met with Carter at Camp David during his 10-day "domestic summit" held a news conference in New York City a little more than 12 hours after ogy and came to the Spiritual the president's nationally-televLife Center from a teaching post ised energy address and said a at Boston College. statement of support for the She says she has taught at energy battle is being circulated every level and was a guidance am~ng the rest of the nation's counselor and pupil personnel religious leaders. coordinator of 42 high schools By the time of a news conin the Brooklyn diocese. "But I ference Monday the statement feel that, by far, 'the most grati- had received the support of 35 fying work I've ever been in- religious leaders, with more volved in is what I'm doing now signers said to be on the way. -giving spiritual direction myThe statement called for the self and training people in the articulation of a "communitarart of helping others to deepen ian ethic" which might have a their relationship with God." unifying effect on all AmerAlthough women spiritual di- icans. ' rectors have always been known The statement also noted that in the church and there is in the battle to control America's fact a community, the Religious of the Cenacle, which special-' energy problems should not be izes in the art of direction, the fought at the expense of the notion that someone not a priest nation's poor. "We must never lose sight of can share in "the care of s.ouls," is surprising to many Catholics. the needs of the poor, the jobBut Sister Kathleen points out less and the more vulnerable that ordination is for a specific members of our society: The Tum to Page Seven Turn to Page Seven
Fall River Native Is Founder-Director Qf Unique Spiritual' Life Center