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REGIONAL DIOCESAN HIGH SCHOOL FOR BOYS IN FALL RIVER
·Boys' Educational Institution To Open in Fall of 1966 The Diocese of Fall River will build a two and one-half million dollar regional boys
high school in Fall River, the Most Rev. James L. Connolly, D.D., Bishop of Fall River
announced today. Construction of the secondary institution - the fourth. in a plan of
five - will begin next Spring. The new school will accomodate 1,000 boys. The first
Freshman Class will start . tary classrooms, a visual educa high school. Bishop Connoll,. in the Fall of 1966 according tion room, language laboratory, then directed the construction of to present plans. The new gymnasium, auditorium, cafe Bishop Feehan High in Attleboro educational plant will consist teria and kitchen. A large athle and then Bishop Cassidy High
of the classroom building, a tic field will adjoin the new gymnaisium and auditorium multi-million dollar structure. The resident faculty house building, a' resident faculty will provide living quarters for house, and a Chapel. Bishop Connolly announced more than 30 togeth~r with a Sept. tbat the Fall River structure libral'y, recreation room, dining 'will be built in the northeast room, associate dining room -and section of the city on 70 acres kitchen. "RICE tOe bounded by Elsbree Street, Pres. The fund raising campaign 7, © 1963 The Anchor $4.00 p.r Year ident Avenue and Route 24 Ex will be conducted in 35 Greater
tension. Fall River parishes. All Swan
Bishop C1>imolly will meet sea, Assonet, Somerset parishes
with the pastors of all Greater and two Westport parishes will Fall River parishes within the join in the campaign. The two next fortnight to arrange for Westport parishes are Our Lady the building fund campaign. of Grace and St. John the Bap
Fifteen laymen from each parish tist. The third Westport parish will also attend, the opening ---:. St. George's - participated
campaign session. in, the Bishop Stang High School The new Fall River school will drive. for Greater New Bedford. MORt Rev. James L. Connolly, D.D., Bishop of Fall Bishop Stang High in North River, has announced that the Sacrifice of the Mass will , have 22 classrooms, three science , I a b ,0 rat 0 r i e s, suppleJ:I1en- Dartmouth was the first regional
Fall Rive" ,Mass.; Thursday,
Vol.
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No. 37
Channel 6 To Televise 'Mass Every .Sunday
be televi8ed over New Bedford television station WTEV Channel 6 every Sunday morning at 10 beginning on Sep tember 22. The Mass will be ' the obligation to' assist televised live directly from ,at. While Mass on Sunday can not be • chapel set up in the New 'fuifilfed by watching a televi Bedford studios of WTEV sion Mass, stiilthose who are end the program is under the direction of Rev. John F. Hogan, New Bedford Catholic Welfare bead. The Bishop will celebrate the first Mass on Sept. 22 with members of the New Bedford Serra Club in attendance. The Holy Family High School Choir will sing and Miss Mary E.
Sullivan will be organist.
legitimately impeded from' at tending Mass-shut-ins, the sick, the aged, those in rest homes and hospitals-will receive the con solation of following the Mass in this way. The televised Mass will reach every section of the Diocese and beyond. Turn to Page Eighteen
Availability of clergy, to meet the Church's pressing needs throughout the world] is a crucial question in the mindH of many bishops preparing for the second session of Vatican Council II. For a shortage of priests, though not universal, is common enough ,Adherents of Eastern Ortho to occasion concern. Looking doxy number perhaps 150 mil at the world in its entirety, lions, although this figure may several things about reli be low. since religious statistics in Iron Curtain countries are hard to check. The same can be said of statistics for other faiths. Protestant Christians number approximately 22 5 millions. However, the reported data often is regarded as incomplete. Thus, about 33 per cent, or one out of three persons, is Christian. Turn to Page Eighteea
DistrictSerrans To Mee't Sept. 14 In 'New Bedford
The Serra Club of New
Bedford-a group of laymen whose work is thepromotioll of v9Cations to the priest hood-will be host to the Di.. trict Serra Convention on Sept. 14 .and 15 at Bishop Stang HigIl School in No. Dartmouth. Present at the Convention will be Serra Clubs of Provide~ Fall River and Attleboro. A feature of this Convention. wilL be the special program planned for the wives of Serra Club members. On Sept. 14 the officers and trustees of the various Se.rtI'& groups will meet. The meetings for Serra members and their wives will take place on Sept. 15, with a Mass at noon, panel discussions'in the afternoon, and a dinner and speaking program in the evening, Main speaker at the dinner will be Dr. Paul vanK, Thomson. Director of the Arts Honors Pro gram at Providence College.
Number of World Clergy Crucial Council Concern
gious commitment quickly be comes evident. First is that Catholicism, and Christianity generally, accounts for appre ciably less than one-half man kind's numbers. In a world pop ulation of 3.2 billions (1963), approximately 570 millions are baptized Catholics. This is not quite one.fifth of the totaL
in T'aunton. The fifth regional school is planned on Cape Cod. The Fall River school has been designed by Maginnis, Walsh &c Kennedy, among the foremost architects for churohes and al lied 'structures in this country. The Boston architectural firm
designed many diocesan strue
tures.
St. Anne's Nurses Graduate Sunday Bishop Connolly will pre side at graduation exercises for St. Anne's H 0 S pit a 1 School of Nursing, Fall GLAD PLAIDS: With gay new uniforms to match their new school, youngsters begin first day at Our Lady of Lourdes, Taunton. Rev. Edward A. Oliveira, curate, together with Sister Mary Angela and Sister Marie Roselle of the Sisters of Mercy who will staff the school, greet, from left, Deborah Wilson, Mary Elizabeth O'Neil, Timothy Landers, Joyce ~ouza, Kathleen Landers, Diane Souza.
River, at 2 Sunday afternoon.
Sept. 8 in the school auditorium.
Forty gradliates and their
friends and relatives will hear Rev. Daniel F. Shalloo, admin. istrator of St. Louis parish, FaU River, and general manager of
The Anchor, deliver the princi-
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