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Fall River, Mass., Thursday, Sept. 10, 1970 Vol. 14, No. 37
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Bishop Connolly's Statement "Clergy and faithful of the Fall River Diocese rejoice in knowing that Archbishop Medeiros is coming home to New England. He brings with him rare talent and a long tradition of service for the faithful. His career in Texas was marked by concern not alone in word, but in deeds for social justice and the needs of underprivileged Mexicans, forming seventy per cent of the Brownsville Diocese. "He was always most at home in the I houses of the poor and ,afflicted. Texas will be poor without his example of Christlike charity. "Confident that the great Cardinal of Boston had much to do with a choice of successor, I can foresee happy and successful years for the new Archbishop, under the example of a man possessed of spiritual ideals like Cheverus, administrative genius like O'Connell, and the simplicity of a man of the people like the well-beloved Cardinal' Cushing. "May God prosper the Archdiocese of Boston in the new administration. May God bless Archbishop Medeiros."
Cardinal Cushing's Statement I have completed' almost 26 years as Archbishop of Boston and I think it appropriate now to yield that office to other hands. The uncertain health with which I have lived for years makes it impossibl~ for me to carryon with the energy andefficiEmcy required for the leadership of so large an Archdiocese. I have communicated to Pope Paul, and I am pleased that he has seen fit to act upon it without delay. To His Holiness, and to his two saintly predecessors who are with God, I offer my affectionate gratitude for their years of gracious collaboration and brotherly support. They will be always in my prayers. I must use the occasion also to thank all of thoseclergy, religious, and faithful- who during this quarter Turn to Page Two
Bishop Gerrard/s Statement We rejoice at the news of the appointment of Bishop Medeiros as Archbishop of Boston: He is a proven shepherd . of the flock, a kind devoted father to all his children in Christ. A leader in the causes of justice based on God's laws, he is a true son of the Church~
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To his Eminence, the Cardinal, he comes as a brother in Christ with a heart full of love, loyalty and devotion. ' All of us in this portion of the Lord's vineyard have been specially blessed by the Holy Spirit in having Cardinal Cushing with us and now in welcoming the new Archbishop of Boston. We pray God's abundant graces an~ blessings upon Archbishop Medeiros.
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Most Rev. Humberto S. Medeiros, S.T.D. Archbishop of Boston
Former Chancellor Now Archbishop In April 193 I, before he was His Holiness Pope Paul VI, announced Tuesday that Most 16 years of age, his mother Rev. Humberto S. Medeiros, brought him, his brothers Lionel S.T.D." Bishop of Brownsville, and Manuel and his sister NaTexas, has been appointed Arch- talia to Fall River, where their bishop of Boston to succeed father awaited them. He attendRichard. Cardinal Cushing whose ed the Border City and Danforth resignation had been accepted. Street Schools in Fall River and Archbishop Medeiros is the for- the Swan Sch~ol of Design in mer chancellor of the Diocese .of New Bedford, prior to seeking Fall River and former pastor of St. Michael's Parish, Fall River. The new Archbishop of Boston was consecrated by Most Rev. James L. Connolly, whom he had served as episcopal secre· Richard Cardinal Cushing, 75, tary,. vice-chancellor, chancellor • sixth Archbishop of Boston, has and pastor. been a priest 49 years; a bishop The archbishop was born in 31 years; the shepherd of Boston Arrifes, Sao Miguel, Azores, on 26 years; a cardinal 12 years. October 6, 1915. His parents Now, recognizing the burden of were Antonio Sousa Medeiros the cross of illness the famed and Maria de Jesus Sousa Massa Cardinal is bearing, the Holy Flor. His father passed away on Father has relieved him of the February 9, 1950 and his mother responsibility of the Archdiocese on September 26, 1963. and accepted his resignation. He at'tended Candido Alfonso Born in South Boston on Auelementary school in his native gust 24, 1895, the second oldest town. After graduation, he of five children of Patrick and worked in a wholesale store and Mary (Dahill) Cushing, emi. in the law office of Attorney grants of Ireland, the future CarJose Oliveira San-Bento in dinal was baptized a Christian Ponta Delgada, Sao Miguel. Turn to Page Five
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employment as a sweeper in the Sagamore Mills in the Fall of 1932. On January 8, 1935, he en- tered B. M. C. Durfee High School, from which he graduated in June 1937. In the Fall of the same year, Bishop James E. Cassidy sent him to prepare for the priesthood at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D. C. After completing two years of college there he was given a scholarship to the Basselin Foundation of the same University, with residence at the Theological College. He received a Master of Arts Degree in Philosophy in June 1942. He was awarded a Licentiate in Sacred, Theology in June 1946 and ordained to the Priesthood in St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River on June 15 of the same year by Bishop Cassidy. After ordination he was sent to assist Rev. Augusto L. Furtado at St. John of God Parish in Somerset. In November of the same year, he was assigned to the Rev. Joseph M. Silvia, St. Michael Parish in Fall River Turn to Page Five