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FALL RIVER DIOCESAN NEWSpAPER FORSOUTHEASTMASSACHUSETT$ CAPE COD &THE ISLANDS
VOL. 45, NO.35 • Friday, September 14,2001
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Acts of terrorism felt across diocese
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Many parishes opened their doors for prayers for our country.
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EDITOR - Dave Jolivet, the new editor of The Anchor, is congratulated by Bishop Sean P. O'Malley, OFM, as Msgr. John F. Moore looks on. Jolivet was appointed to the post by the bishop this week. Msgr. Moore, the former editor, becomes the diocesan newspaper's executive editor. (AnchodGordon photo)
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Msgr. John F. Moore becomes the executive editor.
recent interview.. "Certainly a layman's perspective will enrich the paper .and Dave Jolivet has shown himself a fine journalist and a man with a deep By DEACON JAMES N. DUNBAR Catholic sense. This will contribFALL RIVER - Dave Jolivet, ute to our ongoing efforts to make an award-winning sports writer and The Anchor a very fine journal for editor and the production manager the Diocese of Fall River," the of The Anchor, official newspaper bishop added. Bishop O'Malley noted that the of the Fall River diocese, has been diocese is caught between two named its editor. The appointment was an- newsmedia areas - ofProvidence nounced this week by Bishop Sean and Boston. "So our diocese really needs a P. O'Malley, OFM Cap., who is the newspaper that will reach all our newspaper's publisher. Jolivet, 45, a native ofFall River, Catholics and help them to have a has been married to the former deeper understanding. of the Denise Belanger for 23 years. They Church's teaching and a sense of have four children and are mem- Church family so that they will know what's going on in various bers of Notre Dame Parish. Msgr. John F. Moore, editor of areas of our diocese," Bishop The Anchor and its editorial writer, O'Malley said. "Dave has been so good in the becomes the executive editor. The appointment ofa layman as past in getting across the good news editor ofthe newspaper revisits the about wonderful activities being original staff structure at The An- carried out in our Catholic parishes chor when it was established in and various organizations of the April, 1957. At that time Attorney diocese," the bishop added. Msgr. Moore recalled the many Hugh Golden was the editor and Father Daniel A. Shalloo, .later to modernizations, including color be made a monsignor, was general pages and new formats that have manager and Father John P. been realized in the diocesan paper Driscoll was assistant general man- in recent months, many of which were planned by the late general ager. "So we've returned to the manager Rosemary Dussault. original paradigm with a lay ediTurn to page 13 - Editor tor," Bishop O'Malley said in a
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NEW YORK - The rippling waves of aircraft hijackings and horrible acts of terrorism here, Washington and Pittsburgh moved across the Fall River diocese on Tuesday morning shocking early risers and causing in-. stant worry - and prayers - for family members and friends. . Within hours the reports of the many thousands dead and many more injured in brutal attacks on the United States, drew throngs to their parish churches. I heard the first radio bulletin at 8:55 a.m., after having completed a Communion service at a church in Newport, R.I., and while driving to The Anchor to get out this week's edition by the I p.m. deadline. At the Office of Communications I watched first reports on TV news along with John E. Keams Jr., assistant director of Communications, Anchor Editor Dave Jolivet and staffer Mike Gordon. As witnesses were being interTurn to page 13 - Terrorism
SMOKE BILLOWS as one of two World Trade Center towers collapses in Manhattan on Tuesday. (CNS photo)
Mass marks consecration
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Mass and reception recall the 1901 solemn consecration of the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption in Fall River. ANCHOR REPORTS
WITH SEVERAL former rectors of St. Mary's Cathedral Parish among concelebrants, Bishop Sean P. O'Malley, OFM Cap., begins Mass marking the centennial of the cathedral's solemn consecration in 1901. (Photo by Victor Nobrega)
FALL RIVER - Hundreds of people from across the Fall River diocese joined with clergy and the proud parishioners of St. Mary's Cathedral in liturgy, song and praise, as the diocese's first church marked its anniversary of consecration. Bishop Sean P. O'Malley, OFM Cap., was joined by hundreds of priests and deacons at a Mass September 7 in the refurTurn to page 16 - Cathedral
Bishop O'Malley's statement on public housing - Page three