diocese of fall river
t eanc 0 VOL. 23, NO. 36
FALL RIVER, MASS., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1979
THE WHALING
Cardinal BOSTON (NC) Cardinal Humberto Medeiros of Boston has rejected a fundamentalist approach to biblical scholarship. The church "cannot be fundamentalist in her approach to the word that God has inspired and revealed," the cardinal said in a homily at a general meeting of the Catholic Biblical Association of America, held at 路Boston College. "Those who are nervous or frightened by the work of serious biblical scholarship," the cardinal said, "betray their failTum to Page Seven
Happy
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150th to the Pilot!
Yesterday The Pilot of Boston, America's oldest Catholic news weekly, was 150 years old. Next Wednesday comes the celebra: tion, when well-wishers路 from throughout the commonwealth will gather at a banquet at the Park Plaza Hotel in Boston to give the grande dame of the Catholic press a sendoff for her next 150 years. The Anchor will be there with a unque birthday present, to be presented to Cardinal Humberto S. Medeiros, The Pilot pUbl1sher, by Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, The
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Anchor publisher. It is a specially commissioned painting of the "Gazelle," a whaling ship that sailed out of New Bedford from the 1850s until 1885, when it was lost in the Arctic Ocean. The gift symbolizes the link that has always existed between the archdiocese of Boston and the diocese of Fall River. In 1876 the Gazelle was off the coast of Australia, then an Irish penal colony to which many political radicals were banished. While there, the whaler aided imprisoned activist John Boyle
O'Reilly to escape from imprisonment. . He made his way to Boston, where he quickly established himself as novelist, orator, poet, civic leader - and editor of The Pilot. Later, mindful of his own rescue, he financed a voyage of another New Bedford whaler, the "Catalpa," to Australia to aid the escape of fellow penal colonists: The birthday painting is by Leo Amaral, a New Bedford artist specializing in seascapes. AmTurn to Page Seven
Pope "This is Tuesday, so it must be New York," may well be Pope John Paul U's reaction to. the crammed schedule planned for his U.S. trip next month. Of a heavy agenda originally planned for Boston, his first stopping point, little remains, however. There he will meet with priests of the archdiocese at Holy Cross Cathedral at about 3 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 1. An outdoor Mass .on Boston Common will folloW at 4:30 p.m. and a papal motorcade will then travel around the Common Turn to Page Seven