Finish School
Land Survey
In Fall River
The
ANCHOR
Vol. 8, No. 31 ©
1964 The Anchor
The initial survey of the 70 acres of land that will be the site of the new Catholic Memorial Regional H i g h School for Boys in Fall River bas been completed. The land is bounded by Elsbree St., Pre9 ident Ave. and Route 24. Through the use of instru ments, a contour survey has de termined the various levels of 1Jhe site and borings have estab lished the soH structure. PI'ans are progressing :for the new school that will open in the Fall of 1966 with a faculty com .posed of members of the Society of Jesus, familiarly called the Jesuits. The Bishop today wrote to his Honor the Mayor and all the councillors of the city of Fan River requesting assurance that the city be committed to provide fuU and adequate sewage facil ities for the new high school by late Spring of 1965.
PRICE lOc $4.00 per Year
Fall River, Mass., Thursday, July 30, 1964
Prelate Sees Danger Of Indifferentism WASHINGTON (NC)-Bernard Cardinal Alfrink de dared here that anything less than unity of faith among Christians could lead eventually to religious indifferentism and "sham unity." The Archbishop of Utrecht warned dele gates and observers at the ''There is no denying that this Interfederal Assembly 0 f 'ecumene of love,' as it is called, Pax Romana, international is extremely important and eatholic students' and intel equally as indispe~sable as the lectuals' organization that Chris tian bodies must not be content wit h friendly meetings or a *federal con ilection" of ehurches. "Many tunes we hear voices - impa tient voices":"' of people for ~hom the (the ological) way to· unity is too tedious and too protracte~," he 6aid. "'l'hey should like to find 1Ulity by the way of meeting eaclJ. other in love for the Lord, apart from the question about one's precise creed.
labor of the theologians,' he continued. "But when we think really ecumenically, we may never-in my opinion-be able to forget that in the end the unity of faith is at stake." Cardinal Alfrink, a noted Scripture scholar, said men must seek for the unity Christ wanted among men. "Must He not have meant more than a mere bond of love between all who believe in Him, or more than a federal con_ nection of the communities who believe in Him, without stress on what we believe about Him and His redemption?" the Car dinal asked. . The Cardinal told the students Turn to Page Eighteen
Bishops To Consider Church
As First Council Business
By Rev. J~hn R. Foister
st. Anthony Church - New Bedford
As soon as the opening ceremonies are over on Sept. 14, the Bishops assembled in Rome for the third session of the Vatican Council will have plenty of work. The first matter of business is the schema entitled "Concerning the Church." This schema con Bishops expressed during the sists of a document 220 last session. Lastly, the document closes pages long. It contains the six chapters examined by the with the text of the two chapters Bishops during the Second Ses sion and then the text of these same chapters with the amend ments made by the Theological Commis. sion during the 1 ft t e r s e s eion. These amend men ts were formed on the basis of the sug. gestions or crit icisms made by the Fathers during their debates in council. The two texts are printed in parallel columns 90 that the Fathers will know at a glance the changes proposed. In addition, every chapter has Its own footnotes. These refer ~ the detailed reports on each chapter. There are then separate, general reports for each of the eix chapters and an additional l'eport to explain how the ori ginal text was revised to con Ionn with the proposals of the
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that must be looked at by the Fathers for the first time. These are not simple hold-overs of ideas suggested before the F·athers came together in coun cil. They have been written and re-written in line with the vari. ous comments and proposals ex pressed by the Fathers since they began the council. There is hope, therefore, that the chap ters will find quick approval from tJ1e majority. Just what is the "college of bishops"? This the Bishops will have to answer clearly. What did Christ intend concerning the relationship between bishop and bishop, between pope and bishops, between the bishops and the pope in the running of the universal Church? During the Second Session a sort of "straw vote" was taken. It decided nothing-it was not meant to. However, it did indi. cate the majority opinion of the Bishops. In short the Bishops stated that they thought: "that Turn to Page Eighteea
Negro Priest Is Hopeful NEW YORK (NC)-Dri~ ing down the all but sunless eanyon of Lenox Avenue in. .the heart of Harlem, it's
Faithful To Make Offerings
To Pope Paul on Sunday
easy to believe all the worst that you have read in news papers and seen on television. about rioting and racial Violence. The shabby tenements look menacing. The policemea grouped in knots of as many as six or seven appear tense and ready for trouble. And be hind the faces of the Negroes who you see you readily imagine feelings of contempt, perhaps hatred, for you-a white man. Then you step into the rectorY of • small Catholic Church wed'ged between tenements and: high rise apartments and yo. talk to a young Negro priest who was born and raised in Harlem. and a different picture begins to emerge. You come to see that ou·t of the hundreds of thousands of Negroes living in this, the Turn to Page Fifteen
Beloved in Christ, On Sunday next, August 2nd, we join in expressing devotion to the Holy Father, in the form of Peter's Pence, Pope Paul ha-s already captured our hearts, and won es teem from the whole Christian world by his competence and kindness. He goes as spontaneously to an orphanage, hospital, or prison, as he went less than a year ago to the places that Jesus loved, in the Holy Land, where he pleaded for true peace and brotherhood among men. We see him as a skilled statesman; but he is more particularly a shepherd concerned for his own and also those not of his fold. It is heartening to have another g·reat pontiff in the distinguished line of 20th Century Popes. But we must recognize, none the less, that so heavily burdened a leader needs the assurance of prayers, our obedience, and our generous support. Next Sunday brings us our chance to do this. It is little enough to make an offering, once a year, I to help the Holy Father meet his ever growing needs in solioitude for all the Churches. If we but think of what a great expense the Ecumenical Council involves, we might WASffiNGTON (NC) perhaps be a little more generous. The National Catholic Edu By long tradition, we have testified, in Peter's Pence cational Association has an the loyalty of the fa>ithful to the Vicar of Christ. I am nounced personnel confident that this year will equal, and even excell what changes in major its college and ele we have done in the past. And it will be a great privilege mentary school departments. for me to place your offerings in the' hands of Pope Paul Father William J. Dunne, S.J.. VIth., when I go with brother bishops for the convening associate secretary of the college unit since 1957, has returned to of the Third Session of the Vatican Council in mid-Sep . work in the California province tember. of the Jesuits. He is stationed at Devotedly yours in Christ, the Jesuit Retreat House, r.o. Altos, Calif. His successor wUl JAMES L. CONNOLLY, Bishop
Educators Make Major Changes In Personnel \
Name Fr. Bedard Provincial Superior of La Salettes The major superiors of the Missionaries of Our Lady of La Salette have elected Rev. Roland R. Bed'ard, M.S., 46, son of Mrs. Elvina Bedard, 10 Pinard Street, Manchester, N.H., as Provincial Superior of the La Salette Missionaries' province of the Immaculate Enfield, N. H. in 1933 and pro Heart of Mary. Born in St. nounced his first vows as a La Adrien, P.Q., Canada, Father Salette Missioner in 1940. For six years he continued his Bedard received his primary education at Sacred Heart School in Newport, Vt. He en. tered the then newly founded La Salette ~inor seminar)" iA
studies at the La Salette Major seminary in Attleboro, after which he was ordained to the 'lW'n to Paie Eighteen
be named shortly. Sister Mary Richardine, asgo,. ciate secretary of the elementary school departmeilit for the past six years, has returned to her community, the Sisters of Char ity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Dubuque, Iowa. She is being succeeded by Sister Mary Nora who served for three years all assistant secretary of the ele mentary school department. Sister St. Regina Marie hlla been named new assistant sec retary of the elementary depart ment. She has taught in Canada. Japan and the United States, most recently conducting • course in principles of college teaching at the Catholic vm. yerllit)" of America.