The ANCHOR Fall River, Mass., Thursday, Aug. '15, 1963
Vol. 7, No. 34 ©
1963 The Anchor
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Fall River Pastor Receives Legion of Merit Award l\IHg'r. Henri A. Hamel, pastor of St. Jean Baptiste PariHh, Fall River, has been awarded the Legion of Merit, one of the highest military honors given in peacetime, on . the oeeaRion of his retirement as Command Chaplain of the Milital'.\' Air Transport Ser Msgr. Hamel served as a chap vil'l The presentation was lain with the armed forces from nH((!f' hy Gen. Joe 'V. Kelly, '1942, until appointed :M ATS (·ommander, at a staff February, pastor of the Fall River parish
eel'l~IIl"IIY. The citation accom ftlanying the award said in part: "By his personal inspiration and guidance to the thousands oi military personnel and their dependents stationed in all parts of tht' world, Chaplain Hamel eUedively enhanced the inter national prestige of the United States."
bY Bishop Connolly last May 16. The award recipient's career as a chaplain included service with the Army in the European theatre during World War II, followed by assignment to Alas ka and the Aleutian Islands. Transferring to the Air Force
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New York Legislator· Urges Ecumenism in Education DETROIT (NC)-A U. S. Congoressman has sounded • call for an ecumenism in education that will benefit private a-s well as public school children. Rep. Hugh L. Carey of New York, citing the ecumenical approach of the late Pope John XXIII, has suggested American, the Negro, and the ~ Citizens for Educational child in every seventh school not Freedom that "the theme of receiving public support. ~umeniRm in education" be promoted during American Edu. cation Week starting next Nov. )0.
"We need ecumenism in edu eation," Congressman Carey de elared, "so that as individuals 'We can see our differences, min ~ize them and rejoice in our 1lI1ity in diversity." CEF seeks 10 promote fair treatment for pupils in all 8Chools in the distribution of tax tunds for education. A consistent supporter of equal Federal aid for all school ehildren, Rep. Carey drew a parallel between every tenth
Predicts Eastern Orthodox to Send Council Observer
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Regional Christian Doctrine .. Confraternity Congress Interest Runs High
Enthusiasm is high in the Diocese of Fall River over the forthcoming 17th N'ew En gland Regional Congress of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine which opens at Bos ton College next Thursday and continues th~ough Sunday, August 25. Both Bishop Con nolly and Bishop Gerrard will take part in the sessions, and Rev. Joseph L. Powers, Fall River Diocesan CCD Direc. tor, will head a large group of priests, Sisters and lay members of the CCD from the Diocese who will participate in the various sessions which will cover every aspect of the CCD apostolate. Among the nationally prom. inent figures who will speak at the Congress are Most Rev. Char.les P. Greco, D.D., of Alex_ andria, La., Episcopal Chairman of the CCD; Mother Maria de la Cruz, H.H.S., of San Francisco, who is recognized as one of the leaders in introducing a more positive and Christ-centered ap· proach into the teaching of religion; Rt. Rev. George A. Levasseur of Lafayette, La., who has done much on the spiritual development behind CCD; and Rev. Theodore C. Stone -of Chi cago, a moving figure in the Chicago Series of CCD textbooks. Indicative of the wide range of topics to be discussed are sessions on Audio-Visual Aids, Adult Discussion Clubs, Summer School of Religion, A Hospital CCD Unit, The Mentally Retard ed, Teaching Religion to the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, In forming and Guiding Youth with Regard to the Facts of Life, The Layman Helps with the Instruc. tion of Converts, The Liturgy as Teacher of Faith and Morals. Six hours of class instruction on Saturday afternoon, Sunday morning and Sunday afternoon will be given to train lay leaders for the parish CCD unit. These will cover the eight groups in a CCD unit - Parish Executive Board, Parish Elementary School of Religion, Parish High School of Religion, Confraternity Fish ers, Confraternity Helpers, Reli. gious Discussion Clubs, ParentTurn to Page Eighteen
CONGRESS BOUND: Among the many CCD workers in the Diocese who will attend the Regional Congress in Boston are these St. Michael'S, Ocean Grove, members. Left to right, Treasurer Claire Burke, Apostles of Good Will Chairman Roger Lamonde, Helpers Chairman Evelyn Me Durman and Fishers Chairman Conrad Pineault. , .
Prelates Discuss Religious • Liberty Issue at Briefing CHICAGO (NC)-The Bishops of the United States, meeting here for briefings before the second session of the Vatican Council II, generally felt that a council statement on religious liberty would be opportune. A spokesman said the Bishops among other theological bases of religiolU items had discussed the use liberty. fulness of a statement by There . was agreement, the the Council setting forth the spokesman said, that the key
Neu' Holy Trinity Church With 130Q Capacity To Rise on' Same W est Harwich Site By John T. Crowley Bi:,;hop Connolly has given his consent for rebuilding and has approved the plans ~or the new Holy Trinity Church at West Harwich to replace the structure destroyed by fIre March 30, Rev. Finbarr B. McAloon, SS.CC., pastor, announces. Groundbreaking ceremon ies will follow the 11 o'clock Mass Sunday and construction will start next month. The event will coincide with Features of the new church, ly 1300; a Baptistry; a Ohapel reaching the one-third mark designed by Shields Associates, Wing, self-contained, which can in a rebuilding fund drive. Inc., of Quincy, include a dis be used for daily Mass in the LeRoy Long, chairman, an tinctive facade dominated by a Winter with its own altar, Com nounces that $100,000 of the needed $300,000 has been con tributed or pledged.
sculptured symbol of the Holy Trinity in polychromed wood; seating c'apacity of approximate
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Orthodox Cburch wi! be repre eented at the second session of the Second Vatican Council which opens Sept. 29 in Vatican City. Metropolitan Archbishop An tony Bashir, Archbishop of the Ityrian Antiochian Orthodox Archdipcese of New York and All North America, says he would like to be sent by his Church as an observer at the Council. Unity among Christian ehurches must start with the Roman Catholic and the Ortho dox Churches, Archbishop Ba .hir asserted, adding "If Protes tants are in from the beginning, then nothing will happen. There ere too many differences at pres
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Liturgical Week In Philadelphia Opens Monday PHILADELPHIA (NC) More than 8,000 persons are expected to attend the 24th ann u a I North American
WASHINGTON (NC) A leading prelate of the Syrian Antiochian Orthodox Chureh predicts the Eastern
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point in a theology of religious liberty is the necessity that the individual's acceptance of faith be free and voluntary. Attending the two-day meet ing were 149 Bishops from all over the country. They were meeting to hear reports and dis cuss schemata that will be voted OIi during the second session of the Vatican Council, which open.t Sunday, Sept. 29 in Rome. Bishops who· are members of the various commissions of the Turn 10 Page Six.teen
NEW HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, WEST HARWICH·
Liturgical Week starting here next Monday. The Liturgical Week will bring together bishops, priests, Religious and laity from all part, of the United States and Canada for four days of worship and study of the Church's liturgy. Theme of the Week is "The Re newal of Christian Education." General sessions and Masses wil be held in Philadelphia's huge air-conditioned Convention Hall; additional meetings will take place in the Sheraton and Benjamin Franklin hotels. The four-day program consists of seven general sessions, 19 study groups and 18 regional meetings. More than 100 experts in liturgy, Scripture and cate chetics wilL staff the sessions. The local committee will furnish about 600 volunteer workers. Turn ~o Paie Seventeen