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Regional CCD Congress at Hartford Church 01 Today Is Theme 01 Session Mrs. Charles H. Fuller of St. Margaret's parish in Buzzards Bay on Cape Cod will head a delegation of approximately 200 Fall River diocesan members at the 23rd three-day New England Congress of Reli: gious Education which opens on Friday, Aug. 22 at the University of Hartford. 'The diocesan CCD lay president expects that the Fall River See will have one of the largest groups at the seminar which will be staffed by authors of, textbooks in the field. Working with the Cape Cod leader to improve religious teaching in the diocese, as well as augmenting the already capable staffs in the individual parishes, are Edward J. McDonagh, diocesan lay CCD coordinator, of St. Mary's parish in North Attleboro, and Rev. Joseph L. Powers; administrator of St. Mark's parish in Attleboro Falls, who is the director of the diocesan CCD organization. Seminars are scheduled in twohour sessions on Friday afternoon and evening, Saturday
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Seminarians Profit' From Summer Work PHILADELPHIA (NC)-For 10 Philadelphia seminarians, the Summer of 1969 has provided an 'opportunity to experiment as "worker priests" in an inner-city religious community. The seminarians""":"all students at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Over- seminary advisory board, live an brook-hold down a variety informal "community" life. T~rn to Page Twelve of Summer jobs during the working day, but all return in the evening to a row home in a North Philadelphia black neighborhood for dinner, an evening of apostolic work and community prayer. The idea-developed over the last two years by James W. Devlin and Paul J. Haggerty of the seminary's deacon class-is to serve and to learn. The seminarians, under the direction of Father John J. Conahan, a faculty member at Cardinal O'Hara High School, Springfield, and a member of the
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Sunday Mass extension allows Catholics to fulfill their obligation by attending Saturday' evening Mass. This also applies to Holydays of Obligation. Catholics may fulfill this obligation for the Feast of the Assumption, Friday, Aug. 15, by attending Aug. 14 Thursday evening Masses provided in Churches of the Diocese for this purpose between 4 'and 8 o'clock as authorized.
inars for the pre-school teacher. A demonstration will be conducted by Mrs. Frank Baehr of Hamden, Conn., for the benefit of pre··school teachers. Sister Janaan Manternach, coauthor with Rev. Carl Pfeifer, S.J., of the Life, Love & Joy series, published by the SilverBurdett Company, will work with teachers of grades one through three. A seminar for teachers of grades 4 through 6 will be led by Sister Mary Michael O'Shaughnessy, author of the Benziger Word and Worship program for the grammar schqols of religion. Mrs. Eileen Anderson, a wellknown speaker in the New England area, and author of Sadlier's Forming Catechists, will conduct the junior high cshool seminar. The Daughters of St. Paul, who publish the Way, Truth and Life primary grade texts, will staff a seminar called "Present Currents in Catechetics" for teachers of grades I through 6. Thirty other seminars directed towards the Christian adult will Turn to Page Twelve
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Cardinal Says Makes Priest's Consecration Total MILAN (NC) - "Priestly celibacy is an absolute essential to the total consecration the priest must make and which the world has a right to expect of him," said John Joseph Cardinal Wright in a definitive interview with Milan's prestigious daily "Avvenire." The prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy, who recently moved from Pittsburgh to take up residence in Rome, Cardinal Wright had stern things to say about the current clerical critics and some nice things to say about them as well. The interview served as a sounding board for him to expound on the experimentation in the Church, the priest in politics and how he as a pastor would try to handle the "crisis of identity" which turns so many young priests away from their vocations. On celibacy, the cardinal offered as his stand the contention that a man in love with his wife and devoted to his children could not have the same totality of generosity in his heart for his priestly work. Further, the prelate felt that there is now becom·
ing vibrant in the Church the sense of co-responsibility with the lay people in the ordinary functions of parish life. "This should free the priest more to do what only a priest can do and ought to do, allowing him to devote his entire heart to his work," stressed the cardinal.
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As for the clerical critics of the day, especially those demanding a change in the structure of the Church, he observed that they are always inventing structures to put in the place of the ones removed. "I do not know if these cries for change have been sufficiently thought out. In fact, their contention that change is necessary still rests with them for the burden of proof. Let them contest, never deny that, but let them be logical, convincing, and, in the final analysis, let them give way to the judgment of the people of God." In responding to the value of "experimentation;" the American cardinal stated simply that the Church for centuries had been an experimenter' and would continue to be so. He seemed to draw the line, though, with priests becoming involved in politics. Careful to avoid speaking of Italian affairs because, as he said, he is a guest in this country, Cardinal Wright cited the examples we have in Europe and Latin America where the involvement of the priest could Turn to Page Six
CapeCodder ,Active in Lunojr Research Among microbiologists examining lunar specimens brought to earth by Astronauts Aldrin and Armstrong is a native of St. Margaret's parish, Buzzards Bay. He is Air Force Captain Frederick J. Mitchell, son of Mrs. George H. Mitchell, and the late Mr. Mitchell. "He didn't tell me what he was doing," said his mother. "He just told me to look for a surprise in the newspapers." She said he
had been at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston for a month, previously serving at an Ohio Air Force station. As well as working with the lunar specimens, eapt. Mitchell is involved in studies of health problems connected with extended manned space flights. He was a longtime altar ,boy at St. Margaret's,' recalled his mother. A graduate of the University of Massachusetts, he holds a master's degree in science from the same institution.
The space scientist is one of 10 children. Another son is in the Air Force at Laredo, Tex. and a third is in California. Three sisters are Buzzards Bay residents and one lives in Sandwich, while the other three are in California, Ohio and Michigan. Capt. Mitchell is one of 150 Air Force members assigned to duty with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. He will shortly be promoted to the rank of major.