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Jioly Union to Participate In Co~perative Education WASHINGTON (NC)~Eight communities of nuns have agreed to sponsor a cooperative education center here for their members, the purpose of which, said Sister Joan Bland, who is coordinating the) project, is "to continue the religious education and The center will operate In a professional preparation of building to be constrUcted near young Sisters after their Trinity College, which will have v.ows." academic jurisdiction over the Communities participating in Gte project include the ImmacU late Heart Province of the Reli gious of the Holy Union of the Sacred Hearts, Fall River. Members of the particpating eommuni-ties will live at the center and take courses there and at other colleges and uni versities here. Plans for the cur riculum were worked out recent ly by representatives of the COm munities in nearby SilVPI Spring, Md.
The following appointments have been announced by the Sisters of Mercy, Province of Providence: From Naza reth-on-the-Cape, Hyannis: Sister Mary Joel as superior to St. Joseph Convent, Pine Harbor, P'ascoag. To Holy Trinity Convent, West Bar. Eva to St. Kilian School, New wich; Sister Marie Celeste Bedford, Grade One; Sister as superior and principal Joan Marie to St. John Baptist from St. Joseph Convent, School, New Bedford, Grade
center and will award degrees. It will be a two-year senior college, offering courses in ele menta,ry teaching leading to either a B.S. degree in education or a B.A. in teaching, Sister .roan said. Members of the com munities will complete two years of general liberal arts prepara tion before coming to the center, where they will do work in their m'ajors. The center's faculty will be . Turn to Page Four
Duration of Fourth Session Now Topic of -Speculation How long will the Fourth Session of the Vatican Council take? We know it will·begin on Tuesday, Sept. 14 but when will it end? Pessimists hold that the session will be a long one going even into Spring of 1966. Optiniists hold that they'll be home ther debate nor any added for Christmas. The all im amendments. . portant question is : "How Semi-Final Sta~e , can all that remains .to be Two other documents have
New Bedford; Sister Margretta One; Sister Mary Johnelle tit Cathedral Convent, Providence; form Mt. St. Rita Convent, Cum Sister Mary Brian to St. Louis berland, R.I.; Sister Marie Leo School, Fall River, Grade Two; from St. Leo's, Pawtucket; Sis ter M.. Margaret Ann from St. Sister Mary Madeline, to SS. Peter and Paul School, FaU Joseph, Pascoag. From Cathedral Con v e n t, River, Grade Three. From Mt. St. Rita Providence: Sister Mary Rose From Mt. St. Rita Convent, SISTEER MARIE CELESTE Angela to Bishop Feehan High Cumberland: Sister Mary Elene School, Attleoro. From Holy Name Convent, to St. Patrick School, Fall River. Grade Seven; Sister Mary Pas New Bedford: Sister Mary Con cepta to St. Joseph School, Fall chaline to Bishop Feehan Higb. River, Grade Four; Sister Mary School. From Our Lady 'of Lourdes Immaculate to St. p, a t ric k Convent, Taunton: Sister Mary School, Cumberland. From' Immaculate Conception Roselle to St. Mary School, New Convent, Westerly: Sister Mary Bedford, Grade One. From Our Lady of Mercy Con., . Sister Marie Celeste, R.S.M. Hope to Bishop Feehan High vent, Attleboro: Sister Mary School. born in Marystown, Newfound Placide to St. Kilian School, From Mt. St. Mar,. land, has been appointed first From Mt. St. Mary Convent, New Bedford, Grade Six; Sister principal and superior of the Mary LaSalette to Mt. St. Mary Holy Trinity Elementary School Fa~l River; Sister Mary Char lotte to St. James School, West Academy, Fall River; Sister Turn to Page Two Mary Emeline to Holy Family Warwick; Sister Mary Assump High School, New Bedford; Sis ta to St. Mary School, North At tleboro, Grade Eight; Sister ter Mary Ambrose to St. Joseph Mary Margaret to St. Mary School, Pawtucket; Sister Mary School, North Attleboro, Grade Kateri to Holy Family Higb. Three and superior; Sister Mary School, New Bedford and supe· - Edouard W. Lacroix, president Dolores to St. Patrick School, rior of St. Joseph Convent. of Fall River Particular Council Fall River, Grade Two; Sister Sister Mary Dolorine to Holy of the Society of St. Vincent de Mary Dunstan to St. Mary Con· Family Grammar School, New Paul, announces a general meet vent, Warren. Bedford, Grade Eight and prin ing to be held Sunday, July 25, cipal; Sister Mary Rochelle to Sister Mary Silveria to St. Jo in connection with the feast of seph School, Fall River, Grade St. Xavier Academy, Providence: St; Vincent, at st. Vincent de Two, superior and principal. Sister Marie Walter to Bay View, Paul Camp, North Westport. Sister Mary Julian to Bishop Riverside; Sister Miriam Josepb. . . Members are asked to receive Feehan High School; Sister Mary Turn to Page Sixteen Holy Communion in their parish churches on that day and to at, tend the meeting, sChedulJ!d for
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invited to enjoy the camp facil ities and plans for the annual retreat and other matters of in terest to members will be dis VATICAN CITY (NC)-P.ope P'aul VI lamented th8 cussed.
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Meeting Plann'ed For Vincentians
Pope Pau_1 Laments Absence Of Respect for Authority
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. ,The Offiee of the Catholie done be accomplished in a rea nQt gotten quite as far as the Welfare Bureau of the Diocese sonable amount of time?" Pessi previous five. These are: The. has moved from 344 Highland mists, remembering the record of Lay Apostolate and Divine Rev· 'Avenue, Fall River, to 4'7 Un achievement to date (5 docu Turn to Page Eighteen derwood Street. FaD River. ments in three sessions, nine "months of five day weeks), are Doored by the prospect of fin ishing 11 documents in one ·short" session. However, the optimists-those who want to be home by Christmas - see it differently. There are not 11 new documents to tackle. Five of the eleven documents are nearly finished; two are in the "semi-final" stage and only four must be tr'eated as Three Massachusetts-born ·newly born." Final Stage Passionist priests will play The five documents that are major roles in the 20th trien nearly done are: The Pastoral nial chapter of the Holy Office of Bishops, Religious, Cross (Western) Province of the Priestly Formation, Christian C<'ngreg'ation of the Passion July Education, Relations with Non 26-27 at the Mother of Good Christian Religions. These await Counsel Retreat House in War only the immediate and final renton, Mo. vote of the Fathers. Each has They are the Most Rev. Theo been debated and voted upon section by section. Each has dore Foley, C.P., of Springfield, been returned to the appropriate Mass., superior general of the commission together with the 111 0 r ethan 4,000 Passionists around ,the world; the Very Rev. suggestions for changes or im provements desired by the James Patrick White, C.P.; of Boston, Holy Cross provincial;
Council Fathers. The amend ments for each' have already and Rev. Joyce Hallahan, C.P., of Taunton, provincial econome.
1been drafted. Father General Theodore is The only work that remains, therefore; is to accept or reject coming from his headquarters the amendments and then accept in Rome to preside over the w reje<;t the whole document u· chapter meeting which involves " •• :Whole. ·There· will be ·~of,",- . U. S•. Pa,ssioaist .c:ommuni~ies, BEV. ;l9~CE.~AL"'AIIAJ(
lack of respect for authority in the Church in a speech at his weekly general audience, noting that obedience is con. stantly being questioned "as' being contrary to the develop. ment of the human person" . He urged that the idea of and "unworthy of free, ma authority in the Church be deep. ture and ~ d u 1t human ened and purified. Experience and bistory, he said, offer ex beings."
Bay Staters Play Major Roles
Passionists Plan .20th 'Triennial Chapter
Taunton Native Is Provincial Econome west of Pittsburgh and in Korea and Japan. NinetEien administra tors and superiors and another 19 deleg'ates-at-Iarge will attend the chapter. An important function will be to elect a new council, con sisting of four consultors to the Holy Cross provincial, whose term continues until 1968. The new council will then elect superiors for the 15 communities of the province. HoI y C r 0 s s province was founded in 1906 by the Passion ists who came to America in 1863. Headquarters of the orig inal U.S. Passionist foundation -St. Paul of the Cross Province named for the order's founder is at Union City, New Jersey. It serves the East, Southeast, Canada, West Indica and The P~Ii.PPiRello
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amples of the Church's author ity "which are not always faith ful and are not always hapP1 ones., "It is necessary to deepen the idea of the authority of the Church, to purify it of fol'lM which are not essential to it .•• and to return it to its original and· Christian priniCiple." A Vatican official explained that the Pope's talk centered on the concept of authority in the Church at all levels of the bier. archy and was not intended as insisting solely on papal auth ority. He noted that Pope Paul urged those at the audience to have understanding and com passion for everyone who has the office of priest, teacher or shep herd. This, the official added, shows' that the Pope was speaking not only of papal authority but 01 the authority of the whole Church, centered in the papacy but exercised at various levels by bishops and priests.
One reaction to the Church's authority, the Pope said, is "fear
and diffidence, as if this hier achial and authoritarian order worked toward abasing the per sonality of the ;follower, as if it :were a human invention con· , ~ TUJU to Page Twent): _ .. <