09.14.61

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The ANCHOR

Diocesan Nativcas to Play -" Leading Role at Mission Secretariat Convention

Fall River, Mass., Thursday, Sept. 14, 1961 Vol. S,No. 3.8

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Schools in Diocese Save Taxpaye~s Six Million

Operation of Fall River Diocesan parochial schools ~R. FERREIRA, T.O.R. FR. EAGAN, C.SS.R. SR. WM. MARY, M.S.B.T. FR. CONSIDINE, M.M.. represents a saving of $6,780,454 to the taxpayers in Three prie~ts who are natives of the Fall River Diocese and a nun who spent 13 years communities in which the schools are located. This total is determined by each community's cost per pupil on the teaching at the Holy Ghost Missionary Cenacle in Attleboro will play leading roles at elementary and secondary Chapter 70 of the, School aid the three-day Mission Secretariat meeting which opens next Monday in Washington. The "new age" in the secular world and the religious world will be stressed at Secretariat school levels. The savings to General Laws of the State of the city of Fall River with Massachusetts, a refund for every discussions. Rev. John J. its 23 elementary and five child between the ages of seven ,Considine, M.M., a native of Ihigh schools amount to $2,480,- and sixteen. The pupils of that New Bedford, will participate age bracket in the parochi'al 023 - a savings increase to the schools are counted and the com- in the Missionary educators' taxpayer of $366,929 over last conference. He 'is at present diTurn to Page Five year. New Bedford and Taunton rector of the Latin American fo}low with savings amounting Bureau of NCWC, with headThe author of the following analysis of the new foreign aid to more 'than $1,812,528 and Sugge~l1'~ Pinb~k: quarters in the nation's capital. law is chairman of the American Council of Voluntary AgenCieS! $893,580 respectively. The infor Foreign Service and executive director of Catholic Reliefl Rev. Leo J. Ferreira, T.O.R., crease in savings over 1960 to Schoo~s Services-National Catholic Welfare Conference, the largest of Provincetown, vocation direcNew Bedford and Taunton are voluntary U.S. overseas relief agency.- He is also an Auxiliary tor for the Franciscan order at $151,528 and $95,580 respecBishop of New York. tively. ALBANY (NC) The Loretto, Pa., will participate in By Bishop Edward E. Swanstrom In addition to tax savings, all State Commissioner of Edu- a oanel discussion in the vocation section. cities and towns receive from the The new foreign aid bill signed into law by President State Income Tax, as based on cation has called for revision Kennedy marks an historic. development in the collaboration taking part in the vocaAlso of the Education Law, intion conferences will be Rev. cluding an appeal for planned Francis J. Eagan, C.SS.R., who of voluntary agencies and the U.S. government. Yet, during programs in public schools for comes from Taunton, and is the months of discussion over this continuation of American moral and spiritual values. The law specifies that the In-o presently the vocation director responsibility as leader of Dr. James E. Allen, Jr., made for the Redemptorists, with the Free World, this importternational Cooperation AdminPORTLAND (NC) -..:. Richard the call in a "working paper" to Cardinal Cushing, Archbishop of the State Board. of Regents in headquarters in New York City. ant feature of the legislation ish'ation and. its foreign aid missions shall use the services and Boston, will preach at a Sblemn which he suggested changes in The Secretariat program is di- s~ems ,to, h ave esc~perl no- facilities of voluntary agenciea Pontifical Mass offered in this New York schools. tlce. Turn ·to Page Sixteen Turn to Pa4re Sideea Maine city Sunday, Oct. 15 durPersonal RespODsibili~y ing a four-day regional con"Throughout the entire school gress of the Confraternity of curriculum," he. said, "there ____ Catholic Family Life·------------------~ Christian Doctrine. should be planned programs and The four-day meeting of the activities designed to develop in CCD, which promotes religious young people a strong commiteducation for persons not in ment to moral and spiritual valI....-~~----.;"""'-----:.---..,;,,;,-----by Audrey' P. Riker--Catholic schools, will begin Fri- ues: commitment to honesty~, acday, Oct. 13. curacy and personal responsibil, The Anchor toda., introduce3 • ne'N1 weekly Family' Life column,. 1rr Bishops Robert". Joyce 01. ity; respect for the intellect and Audrey Palm. Riker, • Catholic mother of two, who has .• Master's Degre6 Burlington, Vt., and Daniel J. intellectual- life; respect for ,the Feeney of Portland will speak dignity of honest work, etc. . i'n, ed'Mcat'tonal psychology from Im'maculate Heart College in Los Angeles and at a Sunday session. Archbishop "Knowledge and understand, '(J, Doctorate in psychology !'rom, Columbia, -University. ',Her h'usband is· 'a Henry J. O'Brien of Hartford, ing of facts and prQcesses are· .- 'Profes8Or- of' ohild aml-family. psychology at Purdue Urn-i'Versit1l. Conn., will preside. useless in a free, societ,y unless Modesty -"1 mean regard healthy," coJrtmonsense respect . bodies ..is another part 01 normal Father, Armand'E. Cyr, Port- -they can' be' relli'ted to ..values...· land diocesan CCD director and . Allen's other recommendations' fo'.., 'dt!cerit behavior' _ :is a for, individual privacy in family sexual· development. supel'intendent of schools, i. InCluded offering every major' ood, old fasli.ioned virtue. living. A commonsense middle path, genCI'al chairman for the meet-. foreign language to all high g , The popular rediscovery 01. coupled wit li sympathetie ing, whose theme will be· "That school students by 1970, and a . And it's back.in style.TQday'a modesty is a reaction to a dis- diversion, is far better tharl Christ May Dwell in Your more intensive effort to improve brand is not the stiff; false prud- ; turbing modern trend.' Attempt- either complete license or grim Hearts." erT 01. the Victorians, but a ing to be free and forthright prUdery. Adults who lilugh at .~ .. _ about se,x, some well-meaning exhibitionism and open sex pIa)' parents make a 'determined ef- as' ."cute" or harmless simpl)' fort to hide nothing and tell don't remember their own early everything. Nudity, the "open years and the highly stimulating bathroom policy" and long, de- nature of these activities. tailed discussion of sex-all are A forbidding puritanism tb. part of this supposedly enlightTurn to Page Eighteen ened approach. . And what happens? Are children brought up in such a liberated atmosphere healthily free of inhibitions, 'altogether well A total of 212 Freshmen have adjust,ed? No, quite the opposite. Such children, in fact, are enrolled at Bishop Feehan High anxious and resentful-they may School, Attleboro, which opened harbor a deep anger toward last week. Work on the school their parents. Not, only do they and adjoining convent is not fail to make a superior adult complete but all classroom faci)'" sexual adjustment, but they ities are available. Sixteen parishes arerepreo sometimes develop disturbed, sented on the school rolls: even defiant behavior. They are Our Lady of SOf'oa The e~tire point of erlCouraging modesty in family living is rows, Sharon, 1; St. Mary's, Foxboro, 9; St. Mary's, Mansfield, 18; this: all children, from birth, have sexual feelings. And these St. Mary's, Seekonk, 5. St. Paul's, Taunton, 3; Immacfeelings are best guided and diverted by parents who under- ulate Conception, North' Easton, stand and accept them as a nat- 6; St. Stephen's, Dodgeville, St. Theresa, South Attleboro, 6•. ural, essential part of growth. St. Joseph, Attleboro, 14; St, Children don't experience tho Mary's, Norton, 10; Sacred Heart, _ same kind of specific erotic im- North Attleboro, 25; St. John'a, -pulses that adults know, of Attleboro, 36. St. Mary's, North Attleboro, WHY OUR SCHOOLS ARE FILLED: Sister Edwards, R.S.M., principal of St. Millry's course. But they do feel pleasure through their 'senses-in eating, School of St. James Parish, New Bedford, conducts a small assembly with the Kennedy seeing, touching. Curiosity about 58; St. Martha's Plainville, 2; Holy Ghost, Attleboro, 6; Our lJisters and brothers, Left to right: David, Thpmas, Daniel, Mary" Joseph, and Therest!, their own and other children'Q Lad~ of Mt•..~armel. S~konk. a,

Relief Director Praises New Foreign Aid law

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Moral Values

Cardinal Cushing To .Address CCD

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Teaching Your ChiMren Modesty

Feehan Freshman Class Totals 212

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