BIG BUT STILL TOO SMA~L: When fire totally destroyed the Holy Trinity Church in West Harwich last March 30, Rev. Finbarr McAloon, SS.CC., pastor, was deeply concerned about making provisions for the
large Cape Cod Summer colony to attend Mass. The tent he erected .has seating capacity for 1200, yet there are usually 100 to 300 standees every Sunday.
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Rev. Daniel J. McCarthy -To Serve as Provincial The Very Reverend Daniel J. McCarthy, SS.CC., has been appointed Provincial of-the American Fathers of the Sacred Hearts by the Superior General of the Congrega tion in Rome. The new Provincial succeeds the Very Rev erend William ~r. .Condon sponsibility af caring for the whose second term of office spiritual and temporal needs ot expired this year. For the the Province. There are 250 last four years Father Mc Fathers, Brothers and seminar.
Fall River, Mass., Thursday, August 1, 1963
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Carthy has been a professor of Philosophy at St. Mary's College, Winona, Minnesota. Born in Braddock, Penn. Jan. 20, 1915 the son of the late James Mc Carthy and the late Margaret Goulding McCarthy, he attended Providence College before enter. ing the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts. His major studies of Philoso phy and Theology were made in Washington at Sacred Hearts Seminary and St. Joseph's Sem inary, both affiliated with Cath olic University. On Sept. 14, 1937 he pronounced his vows and on May 28, 1942 he was ordained to the priesthood. After teaching for a year at Sacred Hearts Seminary in Wareham, Father McCarthy en tered the U. S. Navy as chaplain in 1944. In 1946 he attended Catholic University and obtained· his Licentiate in Sacred Theol ogy. He was-a· professor of The ology at Sacred Hearts Semi nary, Washington until 1950 wlwn he again became chaplain in the Navy during which time he reached the grade of Com mander. In 1956 he became Provincial Econome. . As Provincial of the American Province he 'will have the re-
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Fr. Hackett to Attend Canon Law Congress Rev. John H. Hackett, J.C.D. secretary to the Most Reverend James L. Connolly,.. D.D., Bishop of the Diocese, is listed as one of the delegates to the Second International Congress of Medieval Canon Law to be held at Boston College, Aug. 12-16, under the sponsorship of the In stitute of Res ear chand Study in Medieval Canon
FR. JOHN B. BACKET'l'
Law. . The delegates will include priests and laymen ·from some of -the world's major universitieS and learned societies. Four of the European .delegates are women. Their p·apers will bear on the history of sources, doc trines and institutions of canon law in the Middle Ages. Nearly 100 Church historians, canonists, legal historians and . medievalists from Europe, Can ada, Australia and the United
States will attend the Congress
at the .JesUit university. The first
Congress was held in 1958 in
Belgium, at Louvain and Brus
sels, under sponsorship of the
University of Louvain and the
Washington Institute.
Very Rev. Michael P: Walsh, S.J., President of Boston College, irjvited the Iristitute to hold its meeting in Boston· this year as an expression of the close coop eration between· American and European. scholars in the field of medieval canonistic research, Turn to Page Twenty
Diocesan Bishops To Attend Hub CCD Conclave . .
Bishop Connolly, Auxili ary Bishop Gerrard and Rev. Joseph L. Powers, Diocesan Director of the Confrater
nity of Christian Doctrine, will· be among featured participants in the 17th New England Re gional CCD Congress, scheduled Thursday through Sunday, Aug.
22 through 25, at Boston College. Father Powers will be chair. .Man and discussion moderator for addresses on the work of the Confraternity Fisher; use of mo· tion pictures in religious educa tion; the apostolate of good will to non-Catholics; and the need of religious education from the point of view of school psychol ogists. Bishop Connolly will preside at a session dealing with "The Parent-Educator Program. and the Spirit of the Liturgy in the Home," and Bishop Gerrard at a discussion of the use of t.he Old ~estament in religion classes. The Congress will include Turn to Page Twelve
CHICAGO (~'lC)-Two major universities begin to day an 18.. month nationwide survey to measure how paro FIRST: Sunday offers all chial school educa.tion affects the lives of Catholic adults. The study is being made by the National Opinion Research in the Diocese the first op portunity to manifest our Center of the University of Greeley, a Chicago sociologist s.upport to Pope Paul VI by Chicago in cooperation with who is a member of the researcll
means of· the traditional the Univ.ersity of Notre center staff, is directing the
Peter's Pence· collection. Dame. Father Andrew M. study. It is being financed by a
Qualities. of a Born Leader On September 26, 1897 a boy was born to Georgio and Guiditta Montini in the town of Concesio, a country vil lage nestled in the foothills of the Italian Alps. Three days later this "bambino" was bap. tized Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini. Today, 65 years later, Giovan ni Battista Montini goes by the simpler name of Paul VI - and rules the Church of Christ as the 262ndsuccessor of St. Peter. Unlike· Pope John's humble . Qrigin from farmirig folk, Pope Paul was born· into a· thriving upper middle class family. His
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Two Universities Apprais~ Po·rish School Education
Life of Holy. Father Exemplifies By Rev. Edward J. Mitchell
ians. Community houses, Semi. naries and parisheS are in Maa sachusetts, New York, New Hampshire, District of Columbia. Ohio, Minnesota and California. Outside the country the Province includes two communities ill County Monaghan, Ireland and foreign missiGns in Ibaraki and Yamagata, Japan and Great ancl Little Aba(!o in the Bahamas.
father was both a lawyer and the crusading editor of a local news paper, II Citadino. His progres sive political and social views swept him into the Italian Par liament, where· he served for three terms as a member of the Popular Party. He gUit politics . in 1924, when Benito Mussolini led Italy into fascism. In the year that the future
Know Your Pope Father Edward J. MitChell, a
Diocesan priest studying for his Doctorate in Canon Law at the Lateran University, Rome, today begins the first of a new series on the life of··His Holinesa Pope Paul VI.
pope was born, Italy had been a unified nation for only 22 years and was still suffering the birth pangs of its sovereignty. Since a vast area of central Italy had been until 1875 part of the Papal States, the new relationship be tween Church and State was a very strained one. Popes consid ered themselves' 'prisoners of the Vatican" and the tide of anti-clericalism was still on the rise. The tragedy of the age was that the Church in Italy once stripped of the Papal States, re mained coldly aloof from It.alian political life. This attitude only widened the gap and contriputed . Turn to P~e Eiehteea
$136,000 grant from the Carnegie
Corporation. The University_of Chicago said the· study is designed primarily to compare Catholics who at tended public schools with Cath_ olics who attended parochial schools. It is attempting to learn,
said the university, what differ. ences exist between the tWG groups with respect to religioua practices, occupational achieve ment, attitudes toward work and education, attitudes and opinions on representative non-religioua public issues and integration or lack of integration into the larger community. Plans are to interview about 2,000 Catholic families and 500
non-Catholic families. The latter
will be included, said the uni
versity, to measure whether the differences between the tw. groups of Catholics are greater . 1M' lesser than difference. be Turn to Page Twent,.
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