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Curia and Taunton Clergy Assignments Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, S:t.D., Bishop of Fall River, today announced appointments and assignments affecting three priests. Named Secretary to the Bishop and assistant pastor at St. Mary's Cathedral is Rev. John J. Oliveira of Taunton.
FR. JOHN J. OLIVEIRA
Rev. Timothy J. Goldrick is transferred to Immaculate Conception Parish, Taunton, and Rev. Richard W. Beaulieu will assume the post of PriestInstructor at Coyle-Cassidy High School along with his duties as assistant pastor at St. Jacques Parish, Taunton. Fr. Oliveira Born in New Bedford on Sept. 28, 1942, Rev. John J. Oliveira is the son of John and Celina (Amarello) Oliveira. After graduating from Our Lady of' Mt. Carmel Parish School and Holy Family High School in New Bedford, Father Oliveira attended Our Lady of Providence Seminary in Warwick. He prepared for the priesthood at St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore and was ordained by the Most Rev. James L. Connolly at the Cathedral on May 20, 1~67. Father Oliveira has served as assistant pastor at St. John of God Parish in Somerset, Our Laqy of Mt.· Carmel Parish in Seekonk, St. John the Baptist Parish in New Bedford and St. Anthony Parish in Taunton. He has also worked as Notary , Tum to Page Three
Conference Assails Anti-Busing Bills WASHINGTON (NC)-The U.S. Catholic Conference "strongly opposes" three anti-busing measures the U.S. House of Representatives will soon consider, according to a letter sent to each House member. Noting that the issue of race relations "is fundamentally a moral one," Bishop Joseph L. Bernardin, USCC general secretary, said one aspect of that issue "is the right of all children to equal educational opportunity." "To secure that right," Bishop Bernardin said, "busing, while certainly not a total solution, may in some instances. be helpful and indeed a necessary instrument." The bishop said USCC "strongly opposes:" -A proposed constitutional amendment which would ban fu· ture busing. -Anti-busing measures includ-
cd in an Equal Educational Op.portunities Act. -A Student Transportation Moratorium Act which would freeze current court-ordered busing. "Enactment of any' of these measures would be a serious setback to the quest for racial justice and equal opportunity," Bishop Bernardin wrote. "It is our ardent hope that the Congress will recognize the inconsistency of these proposals with the constitutional mandate to desegregate the nation's schools and with the good faith efforts being made to implement these man· dates. Bishop Bernardin urged each Congressman "to vote against each of these bills, should they reach the floor of the House." The Equal Educational Opportunities Act was approved by the House Education and Labor Committee recently and will probab-
ly be up for a vote of the full House in mid-August. The other two bills are still awaiting final committee action. Father James Rausch, USCC associate general secretary, said in a June 5 letter to members of Congress that the conference opposed anti-busing provisions included in a proposed Higher Education Act. "We view these provisions as a drastic and unwarranted retreat from the moral obligation and the affirmative constitutional duty to desegregate," he said. When President Nixon proposed a moratorium on busing programs in March, Bishop Bernardin issued a statement saying that while "one cannot give a simple yes or no answer to the question of busing," in some cases it "may be the only effective instrument by which justice in education can be secured for children of all races."
Urban Renewal Affects White, Sisters At a meeting Monday evening of the Bishop Stang Day Nursery Corporation, the decisjon was made to discontinue the day nursery program for children although nursing services to the sick in their homes would continue. The difficult decision was brought about' by two factors: the Fall River Redevelopment Program and the impossibility of relocating because of prohibitive costs and the inability to provide religious personnel for the future. The Fall River Redevelopment Program is in the process of ap-
propriating property on Second and Third Streets. It seemed wise to suspend day nursery care before the new school year began rather than to begin a, school year and have parents and children undergo the uncertainty of attending a day-to-day operation that could terminate with a min· imum of notice. The Daughters of the Holy Spirit staff the nursery. Their provincial, Sister Lucille Labelle, D.H.S., in discussing the matter with diocesan authorities, has indicated that the Sisters have been forced to give priority to their expanding teaching apostol-
ate on the high school level. She added that, "the Sisters 'will not have the trained people to staff a new facility in the foreseeable future." Without the presence of the Daughters, of" the Holy Spirit and their leadership in child care programs, such a project would no longer be religiously orientated and would become a mere duplication of publicly financed services. The' provincial announced, however, that the Sisters who do nursing of the sick in their homes will continue the apostolate and will live in the Rose HawTurn to Page Seven
Rome Should Handle. Conscience Cases' PHILADELPHIA (NC)-A Vatican tribunal, not a diocesan agency, is the proper forum for "good conscience" marriage cases, according to a Philadelphia archdiocesan official. Father James McGrath, head of the archdiocesan tribunal here, said that the "good conscience" procedure established recently in Baton Rouge, La. "would 'be inapplicable" in his archdiocese. "This, however, is not to say that no remedy is available for those who, in good faith, are con. vinced in conscience that a previous marriage was invalid but whose invalidity for one reason or another cannot be proved befor a Church marriage tribunal," Father McGrath wrote in the Catholic Standard and Times; the official archdiocesan newspaper here. While these cases cannot be . resolved on the diocesan level, Father McGrath said, "The ulti-
mate recourse for solution of these pastoral problems is taken directly to the Sacred Peniten. tiary." The tribunal of the Penitentiary in Rome, he said, "has jurisdiction in those matters pertaining to the internal forum, which is the private arena of conscience and the confessional." He said that the tribunal had been established "centuries ago". because of the Church's pastoral concern for any souls who are anxiety stricken due to this difficulty of conscience. In Baton Rouge, the "good conscience" procedure is intended to help Catholics who have been divorced and remarried. If they are judged to believe in "good conscience" that the first marriage is invalid-but cannot prove it-they are allowed to return to the sacraments. It does ~ot involve a judgment on the Tum to Page Three
BLESS NEW BEDFORD FLEET: Rev. John F. Hogan, pastor of St. Julie's Parish, No. Dartmouth and director of the Apostleship of the Sea blesses the fishing boat "Shamrock" which was judged the' winner. Right,: One of the gaily decorated boats sails up to the blessing platform.