School Building Drive Opens Tonight
Bishop Connolly to Meet With 600 Greater Fall River Men
Attorney John T.Farrell of Holy Name parish and Rev. Daniel F. Shalloo, administrator of St. Louis parish and general man ager of The Anchor, will serve as lay and clerical chairmen respectively of the minimum $1,750,000 Fall River new boys' regional high school fund raising campaign which will open shortly in the 36 Greater Fall River parishes. Most Rev. James· L. Connolly, ,.ow directing the erection of the fourth diocesan regional secondary educational institution, will meet with the pastors and lay .eommittees at 7:30 tonight at the opening drive session in the Sacred Heart parish school auditorium in Fall River.
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The appointment of Atty. Farrell, among the most widely known and respected mem bers of the Bar throughout the Common wealth, was announced today by the Most Reverend Bishop. The Fall River lawyer, who also headed the successful Holy Name parish school drive in Fall River, gained his prominence as a member of the legal profession by his achieve ments in the appelate divisions of the courts as well as in the various lower trial tribunals. 4\tty. Farrell, who has wide experience in all Turn to Page Five
Casual Drinking, Bad Films Harm Family Life CINCINNATI (NC) - A former j uri s t condemned movies "which preach mixed .p morality" and the "more" than casual" drinking among teenagers in the principal ad dress at the 15th biennial con vention of the Catholic Kopling Society of America here. John W. Keefe, former Ap peals Court judge here, told .ome 500 delegates there are "'many eroding and harmful in fluences which threaten the in stitution of wholesome and well ordered family life." A chief harmful influence, he laid, is "bad films." He said many families "have been torn assunder by exposure to bad films, those which pre a c h mixed-up morality, those selting false values and trying to pass off sick, abnormal, disordered livinl{ for what is right and good." Keefe said "much juvenile de linquency is traceable to teen age drinking." He stressed that recent survey shows "between 50 and 75 per cent of high school students drink more than casu ally." A convention highlight was the presentation of the 1963 Kopling Award to Charles H. Keating, Jr., Cincinnati attor Iley who founded and is presi dent of the nationwide Citizena Turn to Paie Ten
Close to 600 men and 36 pastors will meet with Bishop James L. Connolly tonight for the kick-off session of the Greater Fall River regional high school building drive. Heartened by the enthuRiastic acceptance of the announce ment of the plan to construct the fourth diocesan regional chairmen of the Fall River drive, both commented today: "This is secondary educational insti something Fall River has been tution in Fall River, the waiting for. We are certain it Ordinary begins the fund cam will be a success." paign with the assurance that "Bishop Connolly has pro the people of Greater Fall River cured the world's greatest reli are as pleased with the school gious teaching order for the Fall program as the faithful in the River boys' school," Attorney three other cities of the Diocese Farrell said as he expressed his where high schools today are a conviction that families with and reality. without boys eagerly await the Rev. Daniel F. Shalloo and Fall of 1966 when the school will Attorney John T. Farrell co open.
1~.~\l~ ..IJd\NlIU,... .14~t.'SliJ-\tl~Q" Designation of Father Shalloo as religions head of the regional high school fund raising campaign was made today by the Diocesan Ordinary, Most Rev. James L. Connolly. The South End administrator, who also serves as chaplain to the Fall River Serra Club and the Fall River chapter of St. 'Luke's Guild for physicians, stUdied as a college student under the Jesuits who will staff the boys' secondary educational institution in the See City. Father Shalloo, who served as an assistant at Turn to Page Five
Msgr. Antonio P. Vieira Marks 75 Years On Sunday As Priestly Laborer for God Ninety-eight year old, 75 years a priest and nearly 56 years a pastor, Rt. Rev. Msgr. Antonio P. Vieira, of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church in New Bedford, will be feted this Sunday at a solemn Mass and following banquet. Cardinal Cushing will preach at" t?e Ma~s, and invited gues.ts for the day's festivities also include Bishop Connolly, Auxi hary BIshop Gerrard, PresI priest was I" was his simple dent Kennedy, Senators Sal reason for leaving home and tonstall and Kennedy of country and journeying to the Massachusetts, Go v ern 0 r United Sta~es. He arrived in Peabody an'i Mayor Harrington Boston in March of 1903 and of New Bedford. shortly afterwards was assigned The banquet program, to be by Bishop Harkins of Provi held at Lincoln Park will include dence as a curate of St. John a biographical sketch of Mon. the Baptist Church, New Bed. signor Vieira's life. In charge of ford. arrangements is Augustus Silva, Four years later he was named heading a large committee of pastor of Our Lady of Mt. Car. parishioners that has been plan mel, His years in the New Bed ning the event for months. ford parish have been fruitful The still-active nonagenarian spiritually and materially. Mate was born at Feteira d'Achada rial landmarks include construc St. Michael, Azores, the son of tion of the parochial school in Antonio P. Vieira and Francisca 1941 and a convent for the da Conceicao Vieira. In 1880 at Dorotheans who staff it in 1953. the age of 14, he entered the The parish itself is debt-free. seminary at Angra, Terceira In 1924 Msgr. Vieira was ap Island, Azores. pointed to the Ecclesiastical Ordained in 1888, he cele Council of the Diocese by the brated his first Mass Sept. 20 of late Bishop Feehan. He is now that year at the Church of Santa a Diocesan Consultor. In 1936 he Ana, Feteira d'Achada. He was named a Domestic Prelate served as pastor of the Church and he still chuckles as he, re of Nossa Senhora da Graca in calls the Sunday morning he re Fayal da Terra, St. Michael and ceived a phone call from the late Nossa Senhora Mae de Deus, Bishop Cassidy notifying him of the honor. It came just before Povoacao, St. Michael before re sponding to an appeal for priests Mass. to minister to the Portuguese "I was more than trembling population in what was then the as I started Mass," he admits; Providence Diocese. He is the last living member "They asked for priests and a MSGR. ANTONIO P. VIEIRA. Turn to Paie Tell'
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Diocese to offer prayers and acts of sacrifice that the Holy Spirit may guide the Fathers of Vati can Council II as they prepare to enter into the second session which will open in St. Peter'. in Rome on Sept. 29. The faithful are encouraged to make a triduum of devo tion from Sept. 29 to Oct. 2 as the Council opens, and they are urged to continu.e devotions in Church, school and home during the period of the second session. Aft~r each pUbli~ ma~s and exerCIse of devotIon m all churches and chapels of the DioTurn to Page Ten
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Most Reverend Bishop will
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every Sunday morning there
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attend Sunday Mass in this
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