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Friday, September 3,1993
FALL RIVER DIOCESAN NEWSPAPEIt FOR SOUTHEAST MASSACHUSEnS CAPE COD & THE ISLANDS
F ALL RIVER, MASS.
Southeastern Massachusetts' Largest Weekly
Four (]liocesan schools plan middl~e school components Sister Micha.elinda Plante, RSM, associate superintendent of diocesan schools, has announced plans for a new venture in middle school education. She said that during the past academic year 12 diocesan schools have studied the 4;oncept of a middle school component within an elementary school. They have werked with representatives of Taunton Catholk Middle School, . at present the only such diocesan school, and with ':he New England League of Middle Schools and have used discussions and readings to familiarize themselves with middle school procedures.
This fall SS. Peter and Paul, St. Anne, St. Stanislaus and St. Jean Baptiste schools, all in Fall River, will introduce middle school teaching modes in grades 6 through 8. Involved will be changes in discipline, team structures and social interactions designed to meet the unique needs of this age group. The New England League has listed basic assumptions that should be incorporated in middle school planning. They include the principle that all students are capable of learning and should be held to high expectations. Other assumptions are that the Turn to Page 13
The annual Religious Education Day for diocesan catechists will be held Sept. 25 at St. Julie Billiart Church and Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth. Registration opens at 8 a.m. in the church, followed by a 9 a.m. liturgy celebrated by Bishop'Sean O'Malley and keynote address on the theme"Generous Beyond Measure" by Dr. Thomas Groome, professor of theology and religious education at Boston College. Three workshop sessions and lunch will be held between II a.m. and 3:05 p.m. in the school. Workshop topics and presenters are as follows. .
ing Catechesis and Creativity for an Hour, Sister Ann Boland, St. John Evangelist parish, Attleboro. Methodology, Michaela Burke, Sadlier consultant. Dysfunctional Families, Rev. Joseph Costa, St. Vincent's Home, Fall River. This Is Holy Ground, Sister Mary Dumond, CP, St. Anne's School, Fall River. Creative Activities, Anne T. Gauthier, religious education coordinator. Health Care Reform: No Such Thing without the Common Good, Rev. Mark Hession, St. Mary's parish, New Bedford. Is It Still A Sin'!, Rev. Douglas Sousa, Espirito Santo parish, Fall River. Preparing Young Peoplefor the Big Decisions, Sister Ann P. Stankiewicz, OP, Providence College. Spirituality and Creativity for the Catechist, Irene Murphy, Benziger Publishing. Confirmation Retreats, 'Christopher Tanguay, Office for Youth Ministry. Laughter: The Key to Intimacy, Source
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Workshop I (I i a.m.-noon) Legal Issues in Religious Education Programs, Rev. Richard W. Beaulieu, diocesan director of{:ducation. Condens-
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West Falmouth man cousi][1 of sainthood candidate With eNS reports
Father Samuel Mazzuchelli, a 19th-century Dominican missionary who worked among settlers and Indians in the American Midwest, has taken a step towards sainthood. Last July 6 Pope John Paul II approved a decree declaring that he manifested heroic virtue. The next step would be beatification, which would follow certification of a miracle attributed to his intercessIOn.
MSGR. ANNUNZIATO
Msgr. Annunziato dies at age 63 Msgr. Armando A. Annunziato, VF, died Aug. 31 after a long illness. The pastor of St. Mary's parish, Mansfield, lay in state at his church yesterday. His funeral Mass takes place at II this morning with Bishop Sean O'Malley as principal celebrant. Among concelebrants will be Msgr. Annunziato's brother, Father Michael Annunziato, SS.Ce., pastor of Sacred Heart parish, Edinburg, Tex. A cousin, Rev. Lucio B. Phillipino, pastor of Immaculate Conception parish, North Easton, will be homilist. Another cousin, Father Michael Phillipino, parochial vicar at St. Michael's parish, Pawcatuck, Conn., and an uncle, Pallottine Father Amalio Greco, who serves Turn to Page 13
Father MazlUchelli was a "third or fourth cousin" of Joseph Mazzucchelli of West Falmouth, who is a member ofSt. Elizabeth Seton parish, North Falmouth. The potential saint has but one "c" in his name, while his West Falmouth relative has 2; but the Cape man said that his own branch of the family added a "c" over the years. "They were so poor they needed everything they could get," he explained. Joseph Mazzucchelli said that Father Mazzuchelli was known as a builder of the West and was on friendly terms with the U.S. presidents of his time. He founded the Dominican Sisters of the Sinsinawa Congregation of the Most Holy Rosary, a 1,017-member community headquartered in Sinsinawa, Wisc., helped design several public buildings in Iowa, including the old state capitol, built 'over 20 churches, including the first church in Wisconsin, and himself constructed a small house in Benton, Mich., where he died in 1864. It was restored and was
A 19th-CENTURY tintype of Father Mazzuchelli (top); bottom, the house in Benton, Wise., which he built and in which he died. (Mazzuchelli Bulletin photos)
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"]Labor priest" exemplifies social justice tradition
WASHINGTON (CNS)-Bishop John H. Ricard has urged U.S. Catholics observing Labor Day to take up the challenge of Msgr. George G. Higgins and "recommit ourselves to the Catholic tradition of defending the dignity and rights of workers." Msgr. Higgins. - known for half a century simply as "the labor priest" - is "a' symbol of what is best in our s<?cial justice tradition," said Bishop Ricard, an auxiliary of Baltimore and chairman of the U.S. Catholic Conference Domestic Policy Committee. Writing the USCe's annual Labor Day statement on behalf of the committee,- Bishop Ricard limited his comments to a brief introduction and conclusion. He filled out the body of the statement with excerpts from Msgr. Higgins' own reflections on the church and the labor movement today. Among quotes :from Msgr. Higgins were: - A caB to the labor movement to focus its efforts on organizing low-paid female ang immigrant workers: "Without female and im-
migrant workers, the labor movement has no future in this country." - A critique of the "many upwardly mobile Catholics" who have abandoned the worker solidarity ideals of their parents and grandparents and have come to consider unions passe: "Their own relative affluence has blinded them to the fact that, like their immigrant forebears, millions of today's workers struggle to maintain a minimum standard of living." - His blunt condemnation of Catholic institutions that obstruct organizing by their own workers: "Church leaders and administrators of church-related institutions must unequivocally recognize the right of their employees to organize.... This is simply another way of saying, in the words of the Synod of Bishops, that 'anyone who ventures to speak to people about justice must first be just in their eyes,''' Msgr. Higgins, 77, who was ordained a priest in 1940, joined the U.S. bishops' Social Action Department in 1944 and headed it .fromI954.to 1972.. ln 1972 he was
made secretary for research - a post that essentiaBy let him set his own agenda until his retirement from the U.S. Catholic Conference in 1980. Since then he has been an adjunct lecturer in theology at The Catholic University of America. For most of those years Msgr.
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MSGR. GEORGE HIGGINS
Higgins wrote the annual Labor there. 'Twenty years; she said. I Day statements of the bishops. asked if she would mind tellingne "For more than half a century," how much she earned. 'Minimum Bishop Ricard wrote, "Msgr. Hig- wage' was her reply. gins has been the bridge between "I am often asked: Why are the church and the labor move- unions needed in this day and age? ment and a' pre-eminent analyst People should not ask me. n ey and articulator of Catholic social should ask the maid af Disneyland teaching. In the conference and and other low-wage workers." Also quoted are Msgr. Higgins' across the country, he has challenged our church to take our comments on the paradox thOlt, despite the Second Vatican COl.nsocial tradition seriously," The reflections by Msgr. Hig- cil's emphasis on the role of 1he gins that Bishop Ricard repro- laity in the world, Catholic just ce duced as part of the 1993 Labor and peace work seems to ha ve Day statement were excerpted become more institutionalized or from "Organized Labor and the "churchy" now than it was before Church: Reflections of a Labor .the council. Priest," which Msgr. Higgins co"Not everyone will agree w th wrote with religion writer William Msgr. Higgins' analysis or agend,l," Bole. The book was published ear- Bishop Ricard said, "but no seric us lier this year by Paulist Press. student of the Catholic social t'aIn one of the reflections quoted dition can dismiss it.. .. It is still c ur by Bishop Ricard, Msgr. Higgins task to insure that people can find recalled a stay at a Disneyland decent work, that the rights and hotel during a two-week confer- dignity of workers are respected, ence in California. that workers are not 'replaced' ror "I got to know some ofthe hotel exercising their rights, that cur workers, including the woman who church practices what'.it preact .es cleaned my room," he wrote. "I on participation and econonlic asked her how long she had worked justice."
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