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Fall River, Mass., Thursday, August 5, 196~ Vol. 9, No. 31 ©
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CCD Training Courses Give Experts to Each Parish . Among the most valuable sessions for present and iuture CCD members in the parish will be the five-hour training courses featured at the New England Regional Congress of the Confrate~ity of Christian Doctrine, August· 2(J to 29, at Bishop Stang . H i g h School, North Dart . Mouth. The training courses, eo\rering every phase of CCD activity, will be given on Satur day, Aug. 28,""from 12:30 to 2:01 and from 4:30 to 6:00 P.M., and Oft Sunday, Aug'. 29, from 1:30 to 3:30 P.M. , There will be three specialized eourses for elementary.teachers: 04The Liturgy-Source and Sum,:,,' mit· of Religious Education;" ~sing Scripture in Elementary Religious Instruction;" "Confir mation Catechetics Forming the ehristian Witness." Two special ized courses are scheduled for high school teachers: "Approach .to Dating, Courtship and Mar riage," and "Adolescent Psychol ogy and Counseling." Five of the Oui:' Lady of Victory Missionary Sisters will conduct these eourses. 'Rev. William· B. Greenspun, e.s.p., from the National Center IfIf CCD, Washington, D. C., will eOnduct the course for Apostles of Good Will. This section of the GCD program which extends the band of friendship to those not ..f the Catholic Faith has been. f)romoted and developed by Father Greenspun in all sections !O,f the United States. The pro-
Bishop Sheen and·Dr. Nelson To Speak on Ecumenicity :Most Rev. Fulton J.-Sheen, D.D., National Director of the Propagation of the Faith and Auxiliary Bishop of New York, and Rev. J. Robert Nelson, D.D., Fairchild Professor of Systematic Theology in the Graduate Schoolai Oberlin College, will be the speakers the Federated Church of Hy at an ecumenical meeting of annis, will give the invocation. co-sponsored 'by the Cape Father Thomson will give the Cod D e a n e r y of the Fall final blessing.' River Diocese and the Cape Cod Council of Churches at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon in Barnstable High School, Hyannis. Bishop' Sheen, whose theme will be' "A Catholic View of Ecumenicity," will be introduced by Very Rev. William D:Thom son, pastor of St. Francis 'xavier' Parish, HyanIiis, and Dean of Cape Cod. "A Protestant View of Ecu menicity" will be the theme of Rev. Dr. Nelson, who will be in troduced by Mr. Wesley F. Ren nie, retired YMCA executive and president of the Cape Cod Coun cil of Chur;ches. ' Rev. Carl F. Schultz, pastor
Musical selections will be of fered by the .Falmouth Inter Faith Choir, directed by Rev. John G. Carajanes, pastor of Christ Lutheran - Church, Fal mouth. Organist is Rev. William G. Campbell, assistant at St. Pat~ rick's Church, Falmouth. The audience will participate in congregational singing. Co-chairmen are Fat her Thomson and Rev. William F. Vandever, pastor of the Congre gational Church of South Dennis and executive secretary of the Cape Cod Council of Churches. - Purpose of the meeting is ex plained in programs as follows:' "In keeping with a growing interest in ecumenicity this
Seo.res Clergy CHIGAGO (NC) ~ Msgr. Daniel'M. Cantwell, chaplain rtf . the Catholic Interacial Council of Chicago,' has' sharply critici~ the tactics of fellow priests who have taken part in civil rights demonstra tions here against School Super-, intendent Benjamin Willis. , : Msgr. Cantwell, who went to
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Selma, Ala., 'ellrlier this year. during the demonstrations ·there· against the denial' of Negro voting rights, said that. "what Chicago needs is not only a ,new superintendent· of public instruc';' tion but men 'of God who' know the difference between religion and politics and are willing to live with the difference." He made his comments in an
BOLOGNA (NC)-A noted French author and Vatican council lay auditor has suggested dropping the title "lay apostolate" in speaking of the laity's vocation, and sub stituting "mission of the faithful." Jean Guitton of the University of Paris. said he tion of Pope John: also objected' to the word "The word 'apostle' has special "layman," in an interview significance and should be re published in an it,alian Cath served to the Twelve Apostles," olic newspaper. Guitton was the only Catholic layman to attend the first session of the council, and did so at the special invita-
he said. "The word 'layman," on the contrary, is a belittling word. Ii belongs' to the 1€lllguage Turn to Page Six
FR.. WM. G. CAMPBELL
REV. JOHN CARAJANES
ORGANIST
DIRECTOR
Native of New Bedford CCD 'Congress Speaker Very Rev. Msgr. Russell J. Neighbor, a native of New Bedford, will be the speaker at a closed 'session for priests at 10 o'clock Friday morning, Aug. 27, at the 19th Regional € o ngress of the Confraternity of Christi-an Doctrine at . Bishop Stang High School. Monsignor Neighbor, asso War II he attended Dartmouth College and Notre Dame Univer ciate director of the National sity and was awarded a Master's ~CD Center, Washington, Degree by Boston College Grad
D. C., will speak on ''The CCO Fullest Expression of Christ's I"riesthood in the Parish." Rt. Rev. Msgr. Humberto So. lIIedeiros, S.T.D., Diocesan Chan cellor and pastor of St. Micha~l's Parish, Fall River, will preside . . the session. Born in New Bedford Sept. 23, 11920, Monsignor Neighbor at ienaed primary schoolS there ,and in Chicago, where he com . pleted his high school education. I"ollowing four years service in 'tile U~ S. NaVY. durin&: W'OI'I4\
uate School. Following studies at st. Pau1'll Seminary in Ottawa, Canada be was ordained on June 12, 1954: for the Diocese of Manchester, N.H. He served as assistant in three parishes while doing dioc esan CCD work, organizing Pal' ish boards and one regional e» ecutive board. The prelate taught high schools methods to lay people ill the diocese and teaches a similar 4aOurse at Catholic UniversitT • Tura to Pale Twelve
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inter-faith program has bee. prepared and presented to the people of Cape Cod. The' Dellll of the Cape Cod Deanery and the Executive Secretary of the Cape Cod Council of Churches have served as co-chairmen of the committee on arrangements.' The Diocesan newspaper, The' Anchor, has called this meetin, a 'Dialog,' and such it is. We ask to understand better eacla other's points of view."
Demonstrations
Noted Council 'Auditor Sees Two Church Functions
REV. JOSEPH L. POWERS DIOCESAN DIRECTOIt gram is most timely and very much in accord with the ecu menical spirit of the Second Vatican Councn. . The other' training eoursea, Turn to Page Twelve
VERY REV. W. D. THOMSOM
article hi New City magazine published by the Catholic COUll-. ell Working Life; He is chap.. lain of that group and an asso ciate editor of, the magazine. . Thousands of persons, includ ing mariy priests and nuns, have taken part in repeated demon strations here protesting Willis policies which they say contrib ute to school segregation. The demonstrators also have been highly critical of Mayor Richard ~. Daley. . Three priests and a Catholie lay leader recently were fined $125 on .charges of disorderly conduct and obstructing traffic during a demonstration June 11. They are appealing their con victions. Msgr. Cantwell also referred to the action of a group of priests who issued a sharply worded .reply to a statement by Mayor Daley that communists had taken part in the demonstrations. He said that when clergymen, "acting apparently as citizens," use an expression like "as Cath olic priests," their "appeal to their clerical status * * * clearly states that they are not willing to meet in the policital arena as citizens, but that as ministers of God they claim some kind of special value to their moral in,. dignation and/or civic wisdom...· Referring disparagingly to "the trend among clergy to en vision themselves as ward' com mitteemen," he asked: "When clergy act politically, do they have any right to sanctuary where their judgments are be yond question?" Msgr. Cantwell said that "neither the truth, nor good government, nor true religion is served by ciergymeli publicly creating the fiction that the city's mayor is not willing to see the civil rights protestors when such is not the case, or by in sulting or belittling gestures such as clergymen offering the mayor something to read." He asked whether it is "fair to make Benqamin Willis the 'enemy,' the 'symbol' and to im pute to his making the sinful community habits which all neighborhood forces, not by' any means excluding religions, have created for him."
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