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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall, River-Yhurs . .A.ug.<27, :1.970 " I
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Co.ntinued from Page One of priests and Religious. Only eight of the 72 diocesan boards reporting had more clergy than lay members. '
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A similar NCEA stlrvey, conducted in 1967, indicated such diocesan boards were only 43 per cent laymen, with 16 per cent Religious and 41 per· cent clergy members. But by 1970, the percentage had grown to 54 per cent lay members, with the the percentage of clergymen diminishing to 30 per cent and that of Religious remaining the same.
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ASSIGNMENTS Rev. William P. Blottman, assistant at St. Mary Church, ; No. Attleboro to St. Joseph .Church, Fall River as assistant. ~ Rev. William F. O'Neill, assistant at, Stc Joseph Church, Fall River, to St. Mary Church, No. Attleboro, as assistant. Assignments effective on Thursday, September 3; 1970. FIRST ASSIGNMENTS Rev. Edward J. Byington to St. John the Evangelist, : ,Attleboro as assistant. Rev. William T. Babbitt to Holy Ghost Church, Attleboro, as assistant. .
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Assignments effective on Thursday, September 3, 1970.
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Reunion With Sister Is Priest's Reward for" Yea rs of Torture DETROIT (NC)-The 75-yearold priest from Spain who has ,endured ample shares of tortures and persecutions said here he now has been 'rewarded amply.
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Father Theodore Lopez Soto from Marbella, Spain, had are: union with his 95-year-old sister in St. Louis, whom he had not seen for 50 years. His trip to this country was financed by a number of sympathetic American friends. His travels in this country took him also to New York City and Albany. Father Soto has given 37 years to the priesthood. As a child he came to this country with his sister, but returned to Spain to study for the priesthood: Shortly after his ordination, ,the Spanish civil war broke out in the 1930s. The communists, the prie~t charged "inflamed the people against the Church; slaughtered bishops" priests and , nuns; burned churches." "It's hard to believe now that it all happened," Father Soto said. He recalled the years 'of fleeing for his life from communist pursuers, hiding in caves and attics; forced to subsist on grass and top shoots of black,berry bushes. He remembered that he lived for a month in a hollow-out haystack on a farm of friends, and for three months in the attic of a house for the poor. "Priests and bishops were condemned to death after brief mock trials at which sometimes they were not even present. I was ~ondemned to be killed, so I
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took to hiding in the hills,:' h,e said. ' • I After liberation by the Fran<io forces, Father Soto said he took over 10 parishes-his' own an'd nine others where all the priests had been killed. I, "All the churches had been burned, so with the help of parishioners ,we laid bricks for seven churches. My 'hands were constantly bloody from cuts ana bruises. I spent 18 years rebuilding churches," he recalled. i i
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Schedu,le Discussion: On Pastoral Council i CHICAGO (NC)-Fact'-gathert ing on the feasibility of ana" tionaI pastoral council for th~ U. S. Catholic' Church will be acl celerated during an upcoming meeting at Mundelein College here. Representatives from 75 dioceses and over 25 national or~, . ganizations will contribute ideas to the "interdisciplinary -consul~ tation.", I I
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Day of Prayer <\ug. 30-0ur Lady of Assump. tion, New Bedford. Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Seekonk. Sept. ~St. Anne, Fall River. St. Dominic, Swansea.
Mass Ordo \ FRIDAY-St. Augustine of Hippo, Bishop: Doctor of the Church. Memorial. White. SATURDAY - Passion of St. John the Baptist. Memorial. Red.
Frater Gerald R. Piva, son of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Piva o'f St. Mary's Parish, New Bedford and a 1964 graduate of Bisho~' Stang High 'School; No. Dartmouth 'will profess simple vows in the Norbertine Community: Daylesford Priory, Paoli, Pa. at ~eremonies Friday afternoon, Aug. 28. Frater Piva is now studying at Villanova College. :
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Word has been received in, ,the diocese of the death of Rev. Ernest E. Mailhot, M.M., a native of New Bedford and a teacher at the' Maryknoll College, Glen Ellyn, Ill. The 68~year old Maryknoller was ordained on Feb. I, 1931 and 'assigned immediately to teach French at the Maryknoll Seminary, Mountain View, Cal. In 1938, Father Mailhot w'as assigned, to serve in Japan and remained there until his repatriation during World War II. His survivors include Mrs. James Pettey and Alfred Mailhot, both of New Bedford.
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AUG. 29 i Rev. Joseph DeVillandre, D.D.,' 1921, Founder, Sacred Heart} North Attleboro. ! I
SEPT. 3 I Rev. Thomas J. McGee, D.D.,I 1912, Pastor, Sacred Heart,i Taunton.
SUNDAY..,-Fifteenth Sunday After' Pentecost. Green., Mass ,Proper; Glory; Creed; Preface of Sunday. MONDAY---Mass (Choice of Celebrant). Weekday. TUESDAY-Mass (Choice of Celebrant). Weekday. , WEDNESDAY - St. Stephen, King of Hungary. Optional. White.
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This call for involvement is a change from earlier days when parents' obligation to provide a Catholic education for their children was the main thing stressed.
Modern Catholic education Boards of education on the , should "make the best possibleparish level are aiso multiplying. use of meaningful, representaComposed almost entirely of lay tive boards of education, with people, parish boards nearly real, ,jurisdictional power to doubled from October 1967 to formulate educational policies," June 1968, when the number said Father John Meyers, execureached 4,000.' Msgr. Raymond tive secretary of NCEA's superLucker, head of the U. S. Cath- intendents' department. olic Conference' Department of These boards are "essential Education estimated that at least components" of the Catholic edhalf the 10,000 U. S., parishes ucational .effort, Father Meyers with schoo)s now have such said, "since they provide a boards. ' needed channel for effective paFather Murdick's 1970 survey rental influence upon the school indicates that 40 per cent of di- program and a' means whereby the, entire people of God will o~esan schoolboards make policy d!:!cisions which are immediately have ~ say in educational probinding on schools and parishes grams.~ in a given diocese without any The NCEA official said a deformal action' by the bishop. cision-making process' for edu,Only 15 per cent of diocesan cational policy that would igboards had this kind of auton- nore the contribution of an inomy in 1966. formed and interested laity "is In addition, 58 per cent of su- both unwise and unjust." Father Murdick, who surveyed perintendents polled evaluated their boards as making signifi- the nation's superintendents -for cant policy decisions. The 42 NCEA, thinks the future school per cent who responded nega- board, trend will be a consolitively said the most serious lim- dation of parish boards, with an iting factor on their board's ef- increasing number of area fectiveness was "lack of recog- boards to replace them.' '" "We're realizing, 'more and nition in the Cathlic comrilUriity that the board is the proper more that an efficient educasource of educational policy for tional system has to transcend the parish level," said Father the diocese." Murdick, who has written sevLay involvement in policy deeral articles on Catholic educacisions for Catholic schools has tion, including a 1967 NCEA grown'dramatically since a few paper on the parish school board. years ago, when a model Home In 1967, one-fourth of U. S. and School Association constidioceses had area boards of edtution, circulated nationally, ucation to serve schools in s~v warned that the purpose of such eral parishes throughout a given groups was not to criticize or region. This number has grown Change "established school poliand will continue to grow, cies and practices as set forth Father Murdick said. by the pastor and by the schOol Diocesan school boards will al,prillcipai." ways be important because of The Second Vatican Council's the need for broad school polinew emphasis on the special cies at the diocesan level, contribution's laymen can make Father Murdick said. But more in the modern Church is one of area boards will be needed to the reasons for a change in atti- handle "nuts and bolts probtude on the question. lems" on the local level.
THURSDAY-St. Pius X, Pope, Memorial. White.
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In ,their Declaration on Chris· tian Education, the council Fathers exhorted Catholics "to offer their services generously to the work of finding suitablt:> methQds of education and programs of study, and of' forming teachers who can provide young, people with an authentic education,"
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