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In the next two weeks, the Diocese will have 53 candi dates returning to major seminaries to continue or complete their training for the priesthood. During the summer months, the seminarians worked or attended seminary villas. inary _ he enters a major sem . or acted as counsellors at inary where he specializes in St. Vincent de Paul Camp philosophy for two years and
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theology for four years. . Entering fourth theology, the Cathedral Camp in East Lake-. last year before ordination, are ville. 12 men. Five are studying at St. John's Seminary in Brighton, After the seminarian has three at St. Mary's in Baltimore, taken his classicatstudies in I three in Montreal, and one is at the first two years o'f college ~ the North American College ia either a .Catholic college or _ Rome.
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in South Westport or at
Fall River, Mass. Thursday, Sept. 11, 1956 PRICE lOc 1 37 Authorized Seeond Clan Mail Pr;vilelf'" I 2, ....1"1110. $4.00 per Yeo, .V.0. at F.II River. M....
('Eight Diocesan Postu'lants Join Holy Union Religious Five postulants from Taunton and three from Fan { River have entered the Novitiate of the Religious of the
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Miss Donna G: MacLean, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William P. Mac~an, 19 General Cobb Street, Taun
. too, is a graduate of Taunton :. Higtl School. She belonged to the National Honor Society, Le Cercle Francais, the Student Council, History Club, and J'unior Classical League, and was alSo active in the fields of jour Dalism and sports. Also a graduate of Taunton High School is Miss Beverly Ann Menice, a member of St. Joseph's parish, Taunton, and the daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Men ice, 33 Shores Avenue. An honor student, Miss Menice was on the yearbook and school paper staffs, and an officer in the Spanish Club. She belonged to the Glee Club, Girls' League and Commercial Club. Active in her parish, she was recording secretary of the Con "aternity of Christian Doctrine
SACRAMENTO (NC) The note of anti-Catholic ism has been introduced . further into a campaign being waged here to reimpose taxation on California's private 'nonprofit schools. Five new pamphlets, just is sued, are calculated to persuade Californians to vote to make private schools liable to taxa tion. Only limited distribution has been given to the pamphlets so far, but reportedly there are plans to disseminate them Turn to Page Twelve
to provide transportation for Street, Fall River.
paroChial sc,hool students to and . Miss Agnes Teresa Doyle i.
from Saratoga Springs. a member of St. Patrick's parish, At an earlier special meeting,' Fall River. Her parents are Mr. the board decided to transport and Mrs. James L. Doyle, 382 pupils to St. Peter's Academy in Birch Street.
Saratoga. Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wil A group headed by Dr. Lucien' liam J. Lomax, 72 Snell Street,
Pastore appealed to the state Fall River, Miss Mary Margaret
cOJ11mission to overrule a Ball-' Lomax was senior class presi ston Spa residents' vote refus- dent. She is a member of ss. Turn to-Page Eighteen Pet~r and Paul parish.
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Pamphlets Make Bigotry Weapon In Tax Fight
.Women Religious Slowly Changing Garb to Meet Papal Suggestion VATICAN CITY (NC)-Although the modification ef the habits worn by Religious women as recommended by Pope Pius XII is proceeding slowly, officials of the Congregation of Religious say that there is a definite movement in many orders cannot be ac~used of disobedi and societies to comply with ence. If some religious society tile Pope's wishes. freely agrees by majority vote Father Agostino Pugliese on t.he ~u!ta~ility of _. change 01. the Roman congregation dedined to say how many had already effl!t:ted changes, but he did reveal that "many religious
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KEYNOTER: Dr.' Arthur Four June graduates from Mt. St. Mary's Academy, S. Flemming, secretary of the Department of Health, Fall River, are among 39 postulants entering the Sisters of Welfare and Education, will Mercy, Mother of Mercy Novitiate, Cumberland. Other be the principal speaker at dioc~san entrants are from Attle~oro and Hyannis. • Miss Eleanor Elizabeth the.·annual National Confer . Bedard, a scholarship stu ence of Catholic Charities dent at Mt. St. Mary's, is and St.. Vincent de Paul . the daughter of Mr. and Society convention starting Mrs. Omer Bedard, 670 Plymouth Sept. 19 in Columbus. NC Avenue, Fall River, and a memPhoto. ALBANY (NC)-The New ber of SS. Peter and Paul parish. York State Education ComFrom St. Mary's Cathedral CI mission has ordered the Ball- parish is Miss Honora Martha Coyne, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ston Spa Board of Education James W. Coyne, 74 Ridge
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Reta "II M en W nt ebe Law to Pro h I It Sunday Sales +WINNEAPOLIS (NC)
The Minnesota Retail Federation hopes the 1959 State Legislature will "put teeth" . into an old law prohibiting unnecessary Sunday ·selling. "The guy who commercializes Sunday to make a fast buck .should remember he can't take it with him," the Federation said in a letter to members of the next .legislature and other busi ness associations. "Sunday is a day of religious observance for a vast majority of our people. It is and should be a day of rest for everybody, for those religiously inclined and for those not so inclined," the letter stated. National Shame "We've said before and we say it again-employers who persist in opening their establishmentll on Sunday for commercial purTurn to Page Twelve
Recognize 55th Miraculous Cure In 100, Years of Lourdes Shrine LOURDES (NC)-The 28-year-old cure of a tube1\ culosis-stricken pilgrim to Lourdes has officially been recognized as miraculous by the Church and entered aa such in the archives of the medical b.ureau here. The case, which becam~ old bedridden pilgrim who suf the 55th cure proclaimed fered from intestinal tubercu as miraculous by 'ecclesia~ losis and tuberculosis of the tical authorities in the bone. She made a pilgrimage shrine's 100-years existence, dates back to Oct. 10, 1930. . Lydie Brosse was a 41-year-
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to Lourdes from her home in St. Raphael on the southeast coast of France. Doctors judged her condition desperate. Owing to her state of weakness, nurses. at the shrine decided against the customary immersion in Lourdes .water. They merely appplied compress es soaked in the water to the sores that covered her body. On the ·train on her way home Miss Brosse's condition improved .Turn to 'Palre Eighteen
. By Patricia McGowan . , God bless yoU! That's the heart-warming farewell you wiD receive at.the end of a phone ·call· or visit to the Missionary Servants of the Most Blessed Trinity. And you know it's not a formality, that the Sisters' really· mean it, for it's nothing more than putting into . . """ords of their life workbringing' God's blessing wherever they go. 0 Theirs is an' unusual, but Led by Fairhaven's Father Joseph W. Regan, M.M., Rev. Gerald E. Lachance,' a native of Fall River, who much needed apostolate - the has 8'pent the past 20 years in Africa and Italy as secretary 'preservation rather than' the 11 veteran ·and newly ordained Maryknoll Missioners have to the Superior General of the Society of Missionaries- of propagation of the faith. Fallen begun taking over an undeveloped area of some 3,200 square Africa, White Fathers, is back in the States on leave, visit- away Catholics and uninstructed miles of the Province of Davao on Mindanao Island. ing with relatives and children are the particular obA veteran of 20 years in friends. jects of their efforts and to reach the missions of South China, them ·they conduct settlement
Father Regan, the son of Father Lachance started h 0 use s, recreation programs,
Mrs. Mary M. Regan, of 120 his training in commercial Catholic Charity bureaus, and
:Every reference of the Pope • regard to the change and sim plification of religious habits has been in the form of counsel and IUggestion. Therefore, Father Pugliese said, "Sisters and nuns
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subjects in grammar school in Fall River and since his ordination has been personal secretary to the Superior General, who directs the work of the international society. For many years the Mother Bouse of the White Fathers was in Algiers, where in 1868 Cardinal Lavigerie first laid the plans for a missionary organizatWn devoted exclusively to work
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BEV.JOSEPH W.REGAN
Chestnut Street, Fairhaven, is presently serving as Regional Superior of all Maryknollen in the Philippine Islands. Stationed on the largest' is land, Luzon, since 1952, Father Regan moved to the Province of Davao an Mindanao earlier this year to supervise Mary knoll's acceptance of the area from the Quebec Foreign Mis sion Fathers. Pioneer Territory Mountains and jungle, Father Regan's new mission area is a pi oneer territory where the Gov ernment is encouraging settlers to move from overcrowded northern islands. Turn to Pace Ei&,hteen