Church Growing
The ANCHOR Fall River, Mass., Thursday, August 16, 1962
Vol. "6, No. 34
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Name Sister John Elizabeth Taunton School' Principal Mother Mary William, S.U.S.C., provincial of the Holy Union of the Sacred Hearts, has announced the appointment of Sister John Elizabeth, S.U.S.C. as principal of the new Taunton memorial high scnool for girls. SiSter has b~n prilwipal of Sacred Hearts Academy, Fall .River, since 1953. A member of' the standing com mit tee on evaluation for independent secondary schools of the New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, Sister John Elizabeth is a former secretary and present member. of the board of directors of the secondary school department of the New England Regional AssOciation of the National Catholie Education Association: Following graduation from Sacred Hearts Academy Sister. majored in Latin and Greek at Trinity College, Washington to attain a bachelor of arts degree. She did graduate work. at Columbia and Harvard and received her master of arts degree from Catholic University, where she majored in EnglIsh, with minor in French. She made her novitiate' studies in Belgium and France•
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ROME (NC)-The Church's missionary effort is advancing in Africa and Asia despite . political and social upheavals on these continents, according to a mission report issued here. The report was published by Fides, mission news service, as part of preparations for the observance of Mission Sunday, October 21. For the most part, it covers the period from 1959 to 1961 and deals principally with mission statistics in Africa and Asia. The report notes that in some places in Africa "disturbances wrought havoc in missionary work," and it m~ntions specifically "the massacre of 20 . Holy Ghost Missionaries in Kon_ golo, the Congo, at the very be- . ginning of the year 1962." The following statistics on Africa are given: On June 30, 1961, Catholics in African territories ecclesiastically dependent upon the Sacred Congregation for the 'Propagation of the Faith numbered about 22 milion against 17,740,000 in 1959. There were 12,500 priests in these territories, compared to 12,000 in 1959; 4,800 Brothers, 120 more than in 1959; and 22,000 nuns, compared to 21,400 in 1959. The report mentions as a bright spot in an area of serious difficulty the growth of the .Louvanium University in LeopoldvilIe, the Congo. It notes that the university, the' only Catholic higher Turn to Page Ten
Training courses will be a feature of the 16th New England Regional Confraternity of Christian Doctrine Con-
,African' See. ·.Adminis.ters. Sacraments in E~glish
Transfer Sisters Of St. Jos'eph In ,Dioc,ese
been announced by Mother Jeanne Therese, S.S;J., Provincial. ,Transfer of Sisters from the Provincial House staffing Blessed Sacrament Sch901, Fall River, is aa follows: Sister Marie Celine to St. Jean Baptiste Convent, as principal and grade eight teacher at St.. Jean Baptiste School, Fall River; Sister st. Emile to St. Jean Baptiste School, first grade. From St. Jean Baptiste Convent, Fall River: Mother Francoise Therese to St. Louis de' ·France Convent, Swansea, as superior, principal, and grade six' teacher at St. Louis de France School; Sister Marie, Cecile to St. Matthew School, Fall River, as grade' three teacher; Sister Marie Ange to St. Matthew School as grade seven, teacher. From St. Matthew Convent, J'a1l River: Sister Mari du SL " Turn\ to Page, Eighteen . 0
Father D~nehy To Direct Assignment of Chaplains
The Rev. John F. Denehy, a priest of this Diocese and a cl1.aplain with the rank of major in the US Air Force, has been reassigned for the second time within a year. Eight months ago Father Denehy was reassigned from a tour of duty in the Bermuda isles to assistant staff chaplain at (MATS) located at McGuire headquarters of the Eastern AFB, New Jersey. While in thio position he assisted in the superTransport Air For c e vision of seven air force baseB
Confraternity To, Feature ·Training
gress to' be held in Hartford Thursday through Sunday, Sept. 13 to 16. ' . Francis G. Mar~mdett of Worcester, will c.onduct a traIning course on the Executive Board. The pqrpose of the executive board is to act as an over'_ all committee for advising, plan_ ning, and executing the Confraternity work,in the parish. Mr. Marandett is active in parish and diocesan CCD work in Worcester ahdis president of St. Luke's ·parish 'executive· board. . SISTER JOHN ELIZABETH David'Graham, also of Worcester will conduct a training sesSion on the ..Model High School of Religion. One Of the most im. . portant phases of Confraternity work is with public high school , youth: some 80 per ceil't of all· Catholic youth· attend high school. . I '; CAP~ TOWN (NC) ' - The 'Cape Town archdiocese ,A hjgh school of. religion ,. i•. marked the feast of Our Lady's Assumption .by beginning · composed ·of organized classes the use o:£> English in the admip.istration of the sacraments. conducted. weekly during the The new English ritual' published by the South African school year over a period of four' Bishops' Conference was in- years for all Catholic youth entroduced here yesterday. It rolled in public p:igh school. The program. includes all the ele. provides' for the use of Eng- ments of personal,. educational lish in nearly everything the and vocational guidance. priest says in administering Teacher Training Courses for Turn to Page Eighteep Turn to Page Seventeen
Appointments and assignments of Sisters of St. Joseph affecting faculties. of schools in the Diocese have
Africa, Asia
FATHER DENEHY
Couple Talks Over Religion WithChi.ldren .Every Day" ST. PAUL (NC)-One of the world's smallest schools is in the St. Louis suburb of Roseville. It has two teachers three students; and one subject: relIgion. 'I.'he teachers a~ Mr. and Mrs. John Judge. The students are their three children, Steve, 9, Shaun, 8 , ' . and Cindy, 5. Mr.' and Mrs. ."children's hour" before bed. Judge; Minneapolis and St. Most family talk centers OIl Paul" area chairmen of' the the liturgy for the ·day. The
Christian Family ~ Movement, have set aside some time for religion teachirig ever since Steve started' to talk. They' .don't consider . it • . special ac.tivity. ~s Judge ~ys, "we've -always taken it for granted that all parents should give their children whatever ti!ey can." . Nor do tbe J4dge childr~n see anything unusual in a family. discussion of such a subject as the. Eucharist or the Mystical Body.. "Classes" are usually' conducted at. the breakfast or dinner table and. during the
Leaflet Discusses Anti··Birth Pill WASHINGTON (NC) A leaflet published under Catholic auspices sets forth the moral ground rules governing the use of the "contraceptive pill.." The leaflet 'states that the drug may never be used as a. contraceptive. It may, however, be used as a medicine under certain circumstan,ces to correct mal£un'ction or disease." The leaflet was published by the· Cana Conference of Chicago and was prepared in consultation with moral theologians and doctors. Copies are available from the publishers and from the Family Life Bureau, National Catholic Welfare Conference, at 1312 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington 5, D.C. The leaflet notes that the technical name of the new pills is "progestational steroids." The brand names of the two most eommonly used ·are· "Enovid"
and "Norlutin." ,It says the pills have s~veral uses. They can prevent conception by suppressing ovulation, · but 'also can aid in correcting a number of gynecological disorders. . . . The leaflet stresses that the use of the pills for directly contraceptive purposes is never moral. It says use of the pills in this way amounts to "direct sterilization . . . the deliberate intentional suppression of the reprod~ctive function." After quoting the late Pope Pius XII on this point, the leaflet states: "In summary, ifl these drugs are used for the precise purpose of suppressing ovulation in order to prevent conception, we have a case of direct sterilization and this ifj morally wrong." On the other hand, the leaf. let notes, the· pills may· be used
and their 34 chaplains. Father Deneby has now been reassigned to the Office, Chief of Air Force Chaplains, Head-· quarters-US Air Force, Washington, D.C., where he will function in the Personnel Section responsible for the world-wide assignments and reassignmentli of all Air Force chaplains on the numerous Air Force installationa .assisting in the defense of the western world. In his new position he win be guiding the assignments of. over 1000 active duty Air Force chaplains. Father Denehy was ordained in 1945 in St. Mary;s Cathedral by the late Most Reverend James E. Cassidy and served in parishes on Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard before entering the Air Force in 1950. He haG served at bases in Michigan, Germany, California and Japan as well as at Otio Air Force Base on Cape Cod;
in some circumstances to correct .malfunction or disease, and a woman using them for such a purpose may continue to have marital relations with her husband. "If there is a physiological malfunction or a pathological c~ndition which (the pill) can remedy, it may be taken on sound medical advice, and the second effect, klmporary sterility, may be tolerated," the leaflet says. The leaflet· states that many moralists believe it is permissible for a woman to take the pills' to regularize ovulation, provided that the purpose is not "to prevent conception." . The U.S. Food and Drug Ad-. ministratio~ announced August 3 that it is investigating whether there is a causal relationship' between the use of Enovid and '1'Ul'lll 10 Pale Eighteen
Judges often bone up beforehand by reading various books. -Some discussions are planned with care, especially catechiSlll lessOns. Others arise spontaneously from a casual question ow after Sunday Mass. All this is in addition to the regular schooling in religioll that Steve and Shaun receive at Corpus Christi School. Mrs. Judge says she believeil that "the primary thing you can give your own children" is "your own know1ledge and love of God." Turn to Page Eighteen
List Transfe"rs For Fa II River Dominicans Changes and transfers an~ nounced from their Fall River motherhouse b~' the Dominican Sisters of the Congregation of St. Catherine of Siena include Sister· Claire Marie from St. Anne's School" Fall River, to st. Peter's, Plattllo burg, N.Y.. Sister· GertrUde from StAnne's to St. Francis Xavier School, Acushnet. Sister Miriam from Dominican Academy, Fall River, to St. Augustine's .School, Peru, N.Y. Sister Mary Agnes from St. Anne's to Dominican Academy. Sis t e r Bartholomew from Dominican Academy to St. Peter's, Plattsburg. Sister Dominica from Plattsburg to Dominican Academy. Sister Mary of the Trinity from St. Francis Xavier'a to st, Anne's,