Changes Affect Nine Priests Ordinary Appoints Adrrtinistrator, Transfers Three Diocesan Pastors
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Appointment of a new administrator, the transfer' of three pastors and the re-assignment of five curates in the Dio,cese is announced today by Most Rev. James L. Connolly, Bishop of Fall River. The, changes are effect.ive next Tuesday, Sept. 25. They are:
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Fr., John J... Galvin Served . . -
for' Y;ears .as 'Professor 'l'he Most Reverend' Bishop' celebrated a Pontifical lRequiemMass last Saturday' morning in SS. Peter and . Paul Church, Fall River, for R.ev. John J. Galvin, S.T.D., , IAssistant ~pastor of the Church, who suffered a fatal heart ~ttack the previous Wednesprofessor of Dogm~tic Theology . illlay.The eulogis't, Re,v. AI- and a director of young men' lfred 'J. Gendreau, pastor of , studying for the. priesthood: . ,For almost 20 years, Father Blessed Sacrament ChurCh,
lF~1l River, signalled out Father Galvin's work ali a seminary
,Galvin taught in' seminaries on the West and East coast 'as a ,Sulpician Father, a member of a' group of diocesan priests al- . lowed by their bishops to devote themselves to the exclusive work of training young men for . the diocesan priesthood. Father Galvin, son of the late 'Michael P. and Elizabeth Riley . Galvin, was born in Fall River , in ,1907. He graduated from the Cathedral School, Durfee High School, and attended St. Charles College, CatoI].sville, Md. He studied Philosophy at the Basselin Foundation of the Catholic University of A,merica 'in Washington from which he received his M,A. degree. Father studied theology at the Sulpician Seminary of the Catholic' Turn to Page Eighteen
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Bishop Connolly At New England C,CD Session JFATHER CURRY
FATHER MENDONOA
Never Min'd Heavenly ~ Mansion, ,These People A,re Heading Towards Celestial Igloo FA'fHER GALYIN
Some people are' pointing for heavenly mansions, but there's a group of Fall River area mission supporters who prefer celestial igloos. They're members ,of the Celestial Igloo Club and their purpose is to aid the Jesuit missions of Alaska. They're spurred on from time to time by a visit from Rev. Paul C. O'Connor, ~. J., Director of Alaskan' , Missions for the Jesuits. One 'such occasion took place last week, when the Iglooites foregathered at Holy Name
Head of 'New York Seminary Is Acushnet White 'Father '
Rev. Paul Sorelle, W.F., son of Mrs. Clara Sorelle, of 24 Slocum Street, Acushnet, has been named superior of St. Joseph's Seminary, conducted by the White Fathers near Onchiota, N.Y. Father Sorelle, who assumes his duties with the opening of the new S,J., is stationed in the Far East. term this month, will also Father Ernest left the States in supervise the other activi- August, 1961, for the language ties on the grounds, in- school at Taiwan, Formosa. cluding the retreats for priests 7 ---"""":"" and the family camping at Cape Lavigerie during the Summer.
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For the past two years, Father Sorelle has been at the White Fathers' NovitIate in Franklin, Fa. Ordained in 1953, he was proiessor in the White Fathers' seriiimiry two yearS before going' to Rome to continue his studies in philosophy at Gregorian University. He received his licentiate in 1957 and left for the African missions, spending three years in Tanganyika and Ugan-
da. The new superior of seph's Seminary has a teaching in the foreign meld. Rev. Ernest A.
St. Jobrother Mission Sorellep
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- 'Rev. Maurice Souza, adminIstrator: at, Our Lady of Health, Fall' River, 'to pastor- of St, Anthony's Church, Taunton. Rev. Francis A. McCarthy, pastor at St. Joseph's Church, North Dighton, to pastor of St. Patrick's Church, Somerset. Rev. Leo M. Curry, administrator at St. Augustine~s, Church, Vineyard Haven, to pastor at St. Joseph's 'Church, North Dighton. ,Rev. Luiz G. Mendonca, assistant at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, New Bedford to admin_ istrator at Our Lady of Health Church, Fall River. Rev. Raymond W. McCarthy, from St. Patrick's Church, Somerset, to assistant at St. Patrick'a Church, Fall- River. Rev. Joseph Oliveira, a(lsistaM at St. Anthony's Church, Taunton, to assistant at, St. Michael'D Church, Fall River. Rev. Mantlel P. Ferreira, asistant at St. Elizabeth's Church, Fall Rver, to assistant at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church. New Bedford. . Rev. Philip A. Davignon, assistant at St. Pius X Church, South Yarmouth, to assistant at Sa,cred Heart Church, Oak Bluffs. Rev. Ernesto R, Borges, from assistant ,at Our Lady of the Angels Church, Fall River, to assistant at St. Elizabeth's Church, Fall River. ,Turn to P;;tge Twenty
parish hall,' Fall River. They saw slides of "their mission" and heard an accompanying commentary from Father O'Connor., In Alaska for 29 years, Father O'Connor was' appoip.ted mission director three years ago. In his' new post he has headquarters in Portland, Ore., and goes to Alaska several times a year to chec~ on needs of the farflung Jesuit ou~posts at the Turn to Page' Eighteen
one of the sessions of the 16th New England Regional Congress of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine held here. Bishop Connolly presided at the session on "Audio-Visual Training Tools," which took place in South Catholic High School. On the same afternoon, Most Rev. James J. Gerrard, D.D." Turn to Page Eighteen 0
Taunton Prelate to Observe Half-Century Labor for God Plans are nearing completion for a golden jubilee reception honoring Rt. Rev. Msgr. James Dolan, pastor' of St: Mary's Church in Taunton. The public reception will be held at 4 Sunday afternoon, Sept. 30 at Lincoln Park, Dartmouth. Ordained in 1912, Msgr. Dolan was first ass i g ned to Sacred Heart Church, Fall River. During
Orata@ Impera,ta 'The Chancery 'Office announced on Sept. 17: that a special prayer, the collect from the 12th Sunday路 after Pentecost, will be recited in every Mass in all Churches and Convents of , the Diocese. This "oratio imperata" is to be . recited on every ferial and ,feast day from day of notifica-' tion until the morning of Oct. 11,路 the day the Council opens. The c'ongregation is asked 'to' join the celebrant of the Mass in the recitation of this .prayer. :. ,This Pray~r to the Holy Spirit will continue to be recited at aU' pUblic services.- ,
HARTFORD - Most Rev. James L. Connolly, D.D., Bishop of Fall River, pre,sided Saturday afternoon at
MONSIGNOR DOLAN
World War I Msgr. Dolan served with unusual distinction as a chaplain and, for many years afterwards, was chaplain of Taunton Post, American Legion. At the end of the war Father Dolan became chaplain of Bethlehem Home in Taunton, head of 'Diocesan charities in Taun~on, chaplain of Taunton State Hospital and, ori Sundays, assistant at St. Mary's Church" Taunton. In 1926 Father Dolan was made pastor of Holy Family Church, East Taunton, and in 1935 was appointed pastor of his native parish, St. Mary's. He was accorded the rank of ,Domestic Prelate in 1952, with the rank of Monsignor. Turn to Page Twenty