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The Chancery Office has announced the appointment of 'three new members to the Diocesan School Board.
They are Rev. Luiz G. Mendon ca, pastor of St. Michael's Par ish, Fall River; Rev. John J. Brennan, SS.CC. pastor of St. Joseph's Parish, Fairhaven; and Mt·s, Joseph C. Murray, a mem ber 'of St. Joseph's Parish, No. Dighton. The new appointees will re place Rt. Rev. Msgr. John A. Silvia, pastor of St. John the
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Baptist, New Bedford, who re signed; Rt. Rev. Msgr. Patrick H. Hurley, late pastor of St. Jo seph's, Taunton, who died on Feb. 1, 1968; and Mrs. Eva Marie Dane of Orleans, who tendered her resignation. Father Mendonca was born in New Bedford on Sept. 26, 1919, the son of the late Luiz G. and Marie Almeida Mendonca, Fol lowing graduation from Holy Family High school, New Bed ford, he studied philosophy and theology at the Seminary of Angra, Terceira, Azores. The new School Board mem ber was ordained on June 10, 1944 in Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, New Bedford by the late Bishop Cassidy,' , Following ordination, he was appointed assistant at Santo Christo Parish, Fall River and then he served as a curate at the Immaculate Conception Church, and Mt. Carmel, both in New BedfoI:d. On Sept.' 26, 1962 lie was
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Bishop Sheen said, for three
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1. To give children the mean ing and purpose of life because ""the children who inherit the· oonfused world we bequeathed them must be given a radar, 11 ehart, a lighthouse and 11 tar-
get." 2. To preserve the rights aoo of all by teaching that those rlghts and liberties come from God and not from the state cmd. that "democracy is ~ ~,bCl"ties
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Catholic Schools lence by teaching an inner vio lence (> ¢ ¢ di,rected against our own 'gUilt, our egoism, our lusts, oU,r cynicism, ouJ; qishonest;r." 'Discussing ,the third reason, Bishop Sheen said: ,"Surrounded by destruction and violence in the mass media, the child needs a training which makes him see, that as a knife needs to be sharpened, and as a sculptor knocks off huge chunks of marble to produce the form, Turn to Page Nineteen
East Falmouth, where he serv~ as pastor from 1964 to 1966, On Oct, 27, 1966 Father Mendonca was named to his present pas torate at St. Michael's Church, . Fall River. On Dec. 12, 1967, he WaD named a member of the Boarcll of Examiners of the Clel"gy. Father Brennan was born in County Monaghan, Ireland, the son of the late Frank and Saratn Brennan. Following his school years at the National School in Ireland and St. McCarthen's School, Ireland, he came to New York City. Before entering St. Mary'o Seminary, Kentucky, Fatheli' Brennan was a superintendent of construction for the City clr New York. Following training at St. Mary's, he joined the Sacred Hearts community. Ordained in 1950 at the Im maculate Conception Shrine". Washington, he was assigned W establish a new seminary ~ Turn to Page Fiv~
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"The hour has struck," he said, "when our schools must render to God not only the things'that are God's, but also to Caesar the things that are Caesar's. Nine reen out of 21 civilizations which vanished from history Perished lfrom within. Lincoln said he never feared that America would fall by an attack from without, but rather from within. "In a word, our schools of morality and religion must be ~reserved not only for the sake of the parish and the Church, but also for, the sake.of the oountry." Catholic schools, the bishop said, must be preserved not only 00 teach Catholics but also "for parents who knock at our doors and ask that we take their non:' Catholic children; for inner-city children would fill our build ings tenfold if we could accept .
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ROCHESTER (NC)-The preservation of the Catholic school system is essential to the preservation of the United States, according to 'Bishop Fulton J. Sheen of Rochester. Bis'hop Sheen maintained, in' a recent pastoral' letter ~ the people of the Rochest on the divine right of kings er diocese, that "the state of not but on the divine right of per the nation" requires schools sons." 9£ morality and religion. .3. To "cut down on outer vio
named administrator of Our Lady of IiJealth, Fall River, and was transferred to St. Anthony's
RJ!;V. LUIZ G. MJ!;NDONCA Fall River
vorite event of Bishop James L. Connolly for the exceptional and underprivileged children. Co-sponsors are the Confer ences of St. Vincent de Paul in every parish and all affiliates C1f the Council of Catholic Women ir the diocese. Rt: Rev. Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, diocesan co-ordinator of , this outstanding social event of Turn to Page Two
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REV. JOHN BRENNAN
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.(ape Cod ,(CD Workshop on 'I'he third in a series of Religious Education work-. shops will be held this. Saturday for parents and
home. Seminars will bEl given on Prayer, Formation of Conscience, Psychology' and Teaching the Trinity.. '
The Cape area session is teachers of CCD elementary school=children of the Cape area. scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 21 Previous sessions in Fall River at Holy Trinity Parish, West HarwiCh. The program will and Taunton have been attend open with registration at 9:30 ed by more than 160 persons. Sponsored py the Fall River A.M. From 10 A.M. to noon and Diocesan CCD, the one-day from 1 to 3 P.M., registrallts will workshop is designed to provide participate in seminars. Rev. a summary of the new religious Philip Davignon, Cape area CCD co-director will celebrate education concepts now em ployed' in CCD classes and the . the Mass that concludes the pro gram at 3:30 P.M.
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STIR UP ZEAL FOR GOOD WORKS: Part of the GJradual for the 16th Sunday after Penteost-next Sunday says "Sing to the Lord !l new song, for the Lord has done wondrous deeds." We are new creatures~ a new creation, because we all'e baptized in Christ. Hence, our song is ,a lllew song, the song of the redeemed who s-ing "Amen 1"
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areas of the Diocese will enroll more than 40,000 students this year and will be staffed by more than 2,000 catechists, both lay and religious.
Pharmacists Hold Annual Meeting The Sixth Annual Conven tion of the National Catholic Pharmacists ,Guild. of the . United States and Canada
will be held in Boston, Friday, Instructors for the seminars Saturday and Sunday,' Oct. 4, 5 include members of the Dioc and 6, preceding the 1968 Na esan CCD staff, the CCD Teach tional Association of Retail ing Sisters and Brothers, Com Druggists Convention. mittee and the Diocesan Execu Timothy P. Keating of New tive Board of the CCD. ,Bedford is executive secretary. Registration fee" for the Reli The three-day program will gious Education workshop is commence Friday with a meet $1.00. Those attending are re ing of officerS followed by quested to bring their own reports of the various commit lunch, but beverages will be tees. Saturday the Annual Guild served by the workshop com Meeting will be held with the mittee. Further information on election of officers for the com· the Parent-Teacher workshop ing year ol< • • Guest membeJ may be obtained from the CCDo and speaker at the 7 P.M. din· priest-director in any Cape nero will b~ .Roger W. Cain, ex· parish or from the Diocesan ecutive secretary of American CCD office in Fall River, ~ele..: College of Apothecaries. His phone 676-3036. subject will be "Professional Survival," The Diocesan CCD organiza A Guild Mass and Communion tion plans to hold similar work shops at Bishop Stang High on Breakfast will be held Sunday Sept. 28 and at Bishop Feehan morning and the speakel wiD be Rev. Joseph E. Manton, High on Oct. 5. C.sS.R., well-known Redemp' eCD Schools of Religion in an torist radio priest.