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GUIDES CLERGY AND FAITHFUL: His Eminence Cardinal Ciriaci, Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of the Council, presides over the Congregation which wat,ches over the discipline of the Catholic clergy and faithful throughout the world. Msgr. Francesco Roberti (right) is secretary sf the Congregation of the Council. Priest in rear not identified. NC Photo.
He also directed that the oration "For Peace" be in cluded in Masses now as an "oratio imperata pro re gravi,"-a special prayer to be said on all except the greatest feast days. After the Leonine prayers at the end of Mass, and after the Divine Praises at Benediction, the faithful are now to join with the priest in reciting the Post Communion Prayer from the Mass for Peace: 0, God. the author and lover of peace, to know Whom is to live, to serve Whom is to reign, shield tJ,y supplicants from all assaults, so that we who trust . Turn t~ Page Twelve
ROME-His Holiness Pope Pius XII, in the first radio "invisible audience" with the world's cloistered nuns, stressed that the principal ele ment of their. life is, and must be, contemplation of God and divine truth. "In the same way as the hu man body although it has all its organs but lacks a soul is not a man," explained the Pope, "so too all the rules and the exer cises of a religious order don't build a contemplative life if con templation itself-the vital prin ciple-is lacking." The Pontiff spoke over a Vati can radio hookup from his pri vate library at the Vatican. The address, in French, was the first of three which' he will deliver to Turn to Page Seventeen
"THAT WE MAY FEAR NO ENEMY": Bernard F. Sweeney, Jr. distributes copies of the Prayer for Peace to Mr. and Mrs. P. ,Henry Desmond and their family at Church of the Hoh' Name, Fall River. Children are (left to rig>ht) Patrick 9, Elizabeth 3, Mary Louise 7, and Timothy 5.
Archbishop Answers Proponents Of Religious Test For Presidency
ST. PAUL-Noting the debate over whether a Catholic should be President, Archbishop William O. Brady of St. Paul and a Fall R,iver native, said : Our national charter declares that no religious test may be made of anyone seeking to serve his country ing about future attacks upon in public office. Realistically, the Constitution seems a cloud VATICAN CITY-A priest reading his breviary' daily, we know that such tests are screen over the present viola • family abstaining from meat on Friday, a man getting applied in spots. tions of it." up earlier than usual to go to Mass before work on a holy . : American Way "They where Ad' d~y of obligation-all are obeying the decrees of the Sacred . . .are applied I . h t d' the n m Ch'lcago, spea k'mg be maJorlty IS bo d enoug . o. 0 so. f th L ·ttl FI M' Congregation of the Council. minimum of contact with: the Some grow bolder and wish a ore. e 1. e ower en I test for the presidency. Such un- Councll, Fathe~ John Bo~m, ~.J.. This congregation has the spi-:itual life. · . . to be regretted professor at Fairfield UmverSlty, Am erICanls\Il difficult job of drawing up Canon law broadly describes IS . C· 'd' "R th th d' How long can we tolerate such onn., sal. a er. .an IS and enforcing rules which the Council's duty as watching 'ne our C·onparage our loyalty, It 15 about tt emp ts t 0 un d e rm 1 astitution?" t·Ime. f or crlT ' t· " . th seek to insure that Catholics over 'the discipline of the clergy les 0 reJoIce 111-. e will have, at the very least, a Turn to Page Eleven Turn to Pa/:,e Twenty Observing that our nation's founders had wisely planned that there should not be any privi
leged Church in our pluralistic society, the Archbishop said: SIster Mary de Chantal, daughter of Mr. Louis E. "Forgetting the genesis of the Off;r.;,.I'~ '. ~alIigan, Sr. of 8 Winthrop Place, Taunton, was elected regulation, brisk, modern, dou NEW YORK (NC)-Na bletalk aims a sharp target to '·Third Councillor to the Mother General at the Sixth General tional Catholic groups have ward the Catholic Church as if SOLDIER-SAINT: Today :€ h apter of the Maryknoll Sisters held at the Motherhouse it were the target of the original joined area Catholic organ " ~t Maryknoll, N.Y. She has perience iq the Philippine is the feast day of St. Igna enactment. . . . Catholic alle izations in supporting' this Just completed a term as Islands. With Mother Many Col- tius of Loyola, Confessor giance for almost 200 years city's commiSl'ioner of hospitals who has become a center of con Fourth Councillor. man, recently elected Mother and founder of the' Society ought to be the measure of Cath Entering Maryknoll from Turn to Page Twenty olic loyalty to come. Much shout- troversy because he refused to of Jesus. NC Photo. permit a doctor to prescribe a St. Mary's Parish, Taunton, Sis contraceptive device. ter Mary de Chantal has had Telegrams to Dr. Morris A. more than 20 years mission exJacobs, the commissioner, have come from the National Councils of Catholic Men, of Catholic Women and of Catholic Nurlles, By Patricia'McGowan 'all of Washington, D. C. Probably the most modernjstic conven t and school building in the Diocese are 10 These are in addition to a eated in the pleasant Cape Cod town of Orleans. There, surrounded by daisy fields and statement on the pl,lrpose of framed by shrubs and trees, are St. Joan of Arc convent and school, conducted· by the marriage issued by the New York Archdiocesan Chancery of Sisters of Divine Providence. Large classrooms and modern fice and another statement frQm grown, additional Sisters have The only Catholic school been sent to it. Six are scheduled equipment combine to make St. the Guilds of Catholic Physi on the Cape, St. Joan of Arc to be on hand for the opening of Joan of Arc a teacher's dream cians of the five boroughs of has been growing yearly. classes in September. school. But that's not why many New York City. This September it 'will add 1 Turn to Pa/:,e Fifteen 'Dream' School non-Catholic parents vie to en a seventil grade, and a classroom Both convent and school are ter their children there. The Pope's Collection to accommodate the increased built to admit a maximum of air discipline and character training enrollment is under construc and light. "Almost too much imparted by the Sisters are The Peter's Pence CollectIon tion. In fact, while we were visit highly esteemed in the area. light," admitted Sister Georg will be taken up in all churcnell ing the Sisters a load of concrete ette, the superior of the com 8t. Joan of Arc has unusual . of the Diocese on Sunday. This block arrived for the foundation munity. "When the kindergart extras, too. Revl James E. Lynch, is the collection that is ~ent to of the new room. ' ners are out playing, we have the pastor, has inaugurate' a the Holy Father tnat he might The community arrived in the to draw the curtains so the up school orchestra which, although aid the needy and Sl,lffering . Diocese in 1952 to .staff the new per grades won't be completely CQmposed only of grade school;, throughout the world who look Tura .io Page Sevea to him for aieL >lChool· and. afib,achool' has clistracted!" ~'
Congregation of Council Insures Contact With Spiritual Life
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In a letter to pastors and priests 0 fthe Diocese, the Most Reverend Bish op has directed that a novena of prayers for the persecuted Church and for world peace be held' in all churches an d convent chapels of the Diocese be fore the Feast of the Assumption of Our Blessed Lady on Aug. 15.
Pontiff Directs NunsGuidance Be Moderate
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