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Fall River, Mass., Thursday, Aug. 22, 1963
Vol. 7 , No. 35 ©
1963 The Anchor
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Bishops Ask Faithful
Seek Race
Harmo~y
WASHINGTON (NC) - The nation's Catholic Bishops have urged members of the Church and its agencies to get personally involved in the quest for harmony during the present racial crisis. Individual Catholics and Church groups should sponsor biracial dis cussions of mutual problems peal in a historic joint pastoral letter addressed to the nation's and concerns, the Bishops' 43 million Catholics. said. They urged similar
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action by civic associations. "It' is only by open and free exchange of ideas that we can understand the rights and obligations that prevail on both sides. Such knowledge is a prelude to action that will remove artifi cial barriers of race," they said. The Bishops - from the heads of small. almost-missionary dio ceses to the five U.S. Princes ot the Chlll'ch - issued their ap-
It bluntly. says that the nation must l' e m 0 v e in e qui tie s stemming from race, that public authorities must help correct the evils of discrimination, that no Turn to Page Sixteen
New Assignments For Four Priests
Bishop Connolly today an nounced the transfer of Rev Robert W. Dowling from as sistant at St. Stephen's,
With the approval of Most Rev. James L .. Connolly, D.D., Bishop of the Diocese, the fol. lowing appointments have been made by Very Rev. Daniel ~. McCarthy, SS.CC., provincial of the Sacred Hearts Fathers. Rev, Paul Price, SS.CC., ad aninistrator, and Rev. John Shanley, SS.CC:, assistant at ()ur Lady of Lourdes, Wellfleet; Rev. William Dillon, SS.CC., ad_ ministrator, and Rev. Stephen Cordeiro, SS.CC., assistant, at St. Mary, North Fairhaven. The appointments are effective tlMnOl'l'ow.
Bis,hop AS'signs Dodgeville Priest To No. Westport
Dodgeville, to assistant at Our Lady of Grace, North Westport, effective Wednesday, Aug. 28. Fabher Dowling was ordained in St. Mary's Cathedral by Bish_ op Connolly April 25, 1959. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Reginald E. Dowling, 21 Notre Dame Street, Fall River, he was graduated from Notre Dame grammar school, Prevost high school and Assumption College, Worcester, completing his studies for the priesthood at Grand Seminary, Montreal. T""a to Pa,ae Sixteea
PAVLA VOLUNTEER FROM NEW BEDFORD: Bishop Connolly, left, and Rt. Rev. Raymond T. Considine, Diocesan Director of PAVLA, right, rejoice with Lucille Lebeau of New Be'tiford, as she prepares t<> leave for Salvador Bahia area, Brazil, and work as a PAVLA volunteer. Miss Lebeau is a graduate of Holy Family School, New Bedford.
Award Contracts for New Fairhaven Parish School Bishop Connolly announced today the awarding of contracts for the construction of a new elementary school for St. Joseph's pariRh, Fairhaven. F.L. Collins and Sons, Inc. of Fall River was awarded the general contraet on a bid of $416,843. Architect is Israel T. Almy of Fall Ri'l!r. Located at the corner of Spring and Delano Streets, the new school will provide 12 class van-Foster Inc., $434,747; Joseph A,D. St. Aubin Co., New Bedford, rooms with large aluminum P, Flynn, $450,342. glazing and aluminum entrances, frame windows in the two Sub-contracts h a v e bee n Guido's Plate Glass Service, New Bedford; heating and ventilating, story wing, with a multi awarded as follows: purpose room and administra tive offices of single story con struction. The multi-purpose room with small kitchen adjoining may be used as a cafeteria, audio torium with seating capacity of approximately 575, or as a gym. nasium. The administrative suite includes principal's office, a fac
ulty room and a health room ..
A large recreation field ad joins the site.· . Other bids o'n the general con tract were Loranger Construc tion, $424,942; Gerald McNally Construction, $426,850; Paul G. Cleary and Co., $429,495; Sulli-
Miscellaneous, steel and iron to John E. Cox Co., Fall River; roofing and sheet metal to Uni versal Roofil)g and Sheetmetal, New Bedford; painting; George
Anticipate 6,000 Missioners In Latin America by 1970
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DAVENPORT (lW) - The Catholic Church in the United States will have some 5,000 priests, Brothers and nuns plus more than 1,000 volunte.ers from the laity working in the mission fields of Latin America before the close ot the 1960s. This estimate nuns and lay volunteers workin, came from Father John J. in Latin America. Considine, M.M., director of "It has assumed responsibility ,the Latin America Bureau, for two special projects, the na National Catholic Welfare Con ference, in a address yesterday at the annual Study Week of the Apostolate sponsored by the Davenport diocese. , Father Considine'!l topic was "North America's Hesponse to Latin America's Needs." He said the Church is Canada now has some 1,500 priests, Brothers,
GROUNDBREAKING: Participating in groundbreaking ceremony Sunday for new !loly Trinity Church at West Harwich were, left to right, Sister Mary Noel, R.S.M.; Father Jeremiah Casey, SS.CC.; Mrs. Russell Collinge; Le Roy Long; Father FinbalT McAloon, SS.CC., pastor.
Eugene A. Lemieux, New Bed ford; electrical work, Seguin Caron, Inc., New Bedford: plumbing, J. Arthur Lagasse and Sons, Somerset.
tional major seminary at Tegu cigalpa, Honduras, and the minor seminary. in the Diocese of Marilia in Brazil," the NCWC offkial continued.· "Its public pledges in finan cial assistance for. 1962 sur passed $2,500,000, to which should be added from three t. Turn to Page Sixteen
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