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SKETCH OF ENLARGED MISSION AT DENNISPORT
Work of" Expanding Dennisport Mission to Begin Next Week
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Vol. 4, No. 36
Thursday, Sept. ·8, 1960 © 1960 The Anchor '.
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Plan Mo!)ses in November In New Raynham Chur~h'
High School Site for the third diocesan regional high school in Taunton is now being readied with the demolition of the Old Colony Mill in that city. The eIght-acre site upon which the secondary school, will be erect,ed is located at the corner 'of Adams and Hamilton Streets near .Hopewell Park. It is expected the demolition Turn to Page Eighteen
Accommodations for the offering of the'Holy Sacrifice of the Mass will be ready in November at St. -Ann's Church jn Raynham, Rev. L~o T. Sullivan, pastor anndunced today. Steel columns for the, new church ed~fice' are being de. . livered . and 'ereetea . this . . Father Sullivan expressed 'his' , Auxiliary Bishop 'James J. week: . 'l~he ~ment ,for the satisfaction today with the prog": Gerr.ard~ :V.G" represented ehul'l'h.. basement has already ress of construction, comment· the Diocese' of Fall River 'at , 'l:~ ing, "we'll have accommodabeeR poured. .Cyril Tucker tions for daily mass in the new' .the 'solenm pontifical re~
A"xiliary Bishop 'Attends Funeral
faea<hl the general committee oonducting a parish-wide campaign for funds to help pal'. tiaUy finance the new 'Colonial type edifice. Mrs. Richard A. White is secretary of the fun'd. raising committee which has reeeived pledges totalling $75,000.. ,
church' in November if every- quiem of John Cardinal O'Hara, thing contilmes t6' move as, it . C.S.C., Archbishop of Philadelphia,_on Monday last. has on schedu,le." , Franci,s Cardinal Spellman, Meanwhile, members of' the newly established parish' al'e Archpishop of New York, of-' atten'ding l11ass and the sacra- fered the pontifical requiem in ments in temporary quarters the 'Philadelphi,a Cathedral of until their church' is completed. S8. Peter .& PauL , Rev. Richard :8;. Sullivan, C,S.C., president, represented Stonehill College at the funeral services for the 72-year old former president of Notre Dame University; ,
Enlargement of Our Lady of the Annunciation mission in Dennisport WIll be started within the next few days, Most Rev. James L. Connolly, Bishop of Fall River, announced today. The alteration and renovation' of the Cape Cod .. mission to Holy Trin- Bass River-mission to St, Pius ity Church in West Harwich X Church in South Yarmouthis designed to increase the were doubled this year to accomseating capacity of the Den- modate Summer visitors on Cape nisport structure from 500 to 850, ' The enlargement of the Dennisport mission has been directed by the Most Reverend Bishop in order to provide adequate accommodations Ior an everexpanding Summer population in tHe densely populated Cape area. It will be the third Cape Cod church to be enlarged within the last 'few months, The seating capacities of St.. Margjlret's Church at'· Buzzards Bay and Our LadY'!)f the Highway, 1M
:'As,serts L'abor's: Program Attuned to Church Aims . "Long. ag9 Pope Leo warned: that better wages an" working conditions. were not a complete solution' to the social problem. He ,said that a return to religion and morality was also necessary-that, in fact, without such a' retur.n the social problem Mary's . Cathedral. could not be solved." Rev. . Most Rev. James L. Connolly, Benjamin t. N:asse, S.J., D.D., Bishop of the Diocese; prenoted Jesuit .author, told a sided. Rev. Arthur V'. Tansey,
congregation ,of United Labor Holy See Grants Ordinaries Council of Greater 'Fall River representatives at the third anMore Freedom in Liturgy, nual Labor Day. Mass in St. 'l'he new code of rubrics issued by ,the Holy See, makOp~ration of Diocesa.n Schools' Represents ing changes in the Roman ~}I1d breviary, gives $5,701'Cl380 Annual Savi,ng. to Taxpayers Missal Bishops more freedom to deal __ with liturgical matters in their Sees.' 'The changes, announced by His Holiness Pope John XXIII last July 25, have been published here and go into effect Jan. 1, 1961. In an' authoritative article published in the Vatican City daity, L'Ossel'vatore Romano to coincide with the issuing of the new code, Father Joseph Loew, C.SS.R., an official o~ the Sacred" Congl"egation of Rites' section on revision of liturgical books, said . that the code's provisions show the "part gl'anted to Bishops in the organization of the liturgy in their respective Dioceslils." "The greater rule being given to bishops in the liturgical field began with the reforms carried bu' in recent years and finds a eonsiderable vaster field in the DeW eo~e of rubrics. Tura W Page Flfteea
Operation of Fall River Diocesan parochial schools . . s~ve~ taxl;'::w ers m commUllltIes m whIch they are located a total of' $5,701,380, which rep:" resents the cost of educating nearly 23,000 boys' and girls on the basis of each community's cost> per pupil on the elementary and secondary school levels. The savings to the city of Fall River with its 22 elementary and. five high schools amounts to $2,013,094.12. New Bedford and Taunton follow with savings amounting to more than $1,661,000 and $798,000, respectively. In addition to ttIe ta~ savings. all cities and towns receive from the State Income Tax as based on Chapter 70 of the School aid General Laws of the State of Massachusetts a refund for every child between the agea
of seven and 16. The pupils of that age bracket in the parochial
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Cod. . Rev. Finbarr McAloon, SS.CC.. administrator of the West Harwich parish, said today that the Dennisport church will be widened,on both sides, Two new side altars will be erected and a new spire will be added to the exter.ior. Father McAloon "estimates Holy Trinity and Our Lady of the Annunciation serve approximately 4,000 additional weekI,. comlllunicants ,in the Summer season as 'conttasted with the nonnal year-round congregation..
schools are 'Counted and the community receiv~s payment ev~n for those bemg educated 'In parochial schools. Fall River with 5397 between seven and 16 enrolied last year in the Catholic schools received from the State an average of TurlJ to Page Sixteen
rector of the Cathedral and Diocesan Director of Social Ac_ ' tion, was celebrant of the Solemn High Mass. Hc was assisted by. Rev. Walter A. Sullivan, deacon, and Rev. James Buckley, sub-deacon. Rev. Paul F. McOarrick was master of ceremonies. Referring to a broadcast he had given three months ago over Vatican Radio when. invited by a Vatican official to explain why American trade unions are well disposed toward the Church and the Chur~h toward them, Father Masse traced the history of the American 1 abo r movement" Turn to Page Ten
Four-Day Work Week In~vitable, Jesuit Magazine' Editor Says Exemplifying the varied interest!'! of their community., two Jesuit priests who visited Fall River during the past week represent widely different spheres of action. Rev. Benjamin L: Milsse, S.J., teacher, writer, lecturer and associate editor of America Rev. Herman S. Hughes, S.J., magazin~ was in the See Director of Cultural Activities City to preach' at the third and member of the ~nglish.de annual Labor Day Mas~' partment of John Carroll Unisponsored by the Greater Fall River. United Labor CounciL
versity, . Cleveland, used Fall Turn io Page Eighteea