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WELl WORTH READING

Nuns and Television Our Lady of V'ictory Missionary directors of North Easton . eatechetical center, begin sec~md year of television series over New Bedford Television Station WTEV­ Channel 6: Page 11. ~igters,

Americans Out Front Teacher'and Student Fire' Tower to Church The United States hierarchy play­ ed a. 'leading role in the Vatican Council II decision to acknowledge the right of freedom of religious worship. It was the first fourth ses­ .sion major vote. Page 1..

Miss Ann Turner of No. Dighton, Sacred Hearts Academy, Fall River, graduate, teaches Latin at Trinity College in Washington as she pur­ sues a degree at the same institu­ tion. Page 15.

. A discarded tower bell from a Fall River fire engine house nQW sounds the call for the next mass at a Bryant, South Dakota church, where a Fall Riverite, Rev. Thomas W. Connolly. is pastor. Page 3.

Council Favors Freedom ofWorship

. "Freedom of Worship"­ ·just what does it mean? It is the various interpretations that Catholics, non-Catho­ 'lics, religious and atheists may give it that has the world's bish­ ops worried. Thus a wide varia­ tion of criticisms has faced the schema, based especially on "how someone might" erroneous­ 'ly interpret it." Some bishops feel that the danger of misinterpretation is so

great that it would be better to shelve the whole thing. Others have found the schema to be a basic and necessary pronounce­ inent by the Church to a trou­ bled world. They feel that much of what has already come from the Council, like ecumenism, would become only double-talk without a clear pronouncement concerning religious liberty. The majority of speakers fa­ vored a statement and basically the statement as presented to

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Providence College to Hold Installation of President PROVIDENCE-The Very Rev. William Paul Haas, .O.P., will be formally installed ~s eighth president of Prov­ idence College at inaugural ceremonies on Saturday, Oct­ ober 9. The Most Rev. John J. Dougherty, Auxiliary Bishop of Newark and president of Seton "Hall University, South OrangE', N.J., will deliver the inaugllral address. at the 10:30 A.M.•exercises in Alumni Hall. The inauguration ceremony will be followed by a buffet luncheon in Raymond Hall and ·tours of the campus. An Inaug­ ural Concert by the Rhode Island Philharmonic . Orchestra under the direction of Francis Madeira will be held at The Veterans Memorial Auditorium, Provi­ dence; at 8:15 P.M. to conclude the day's activities. The 38-year-old' Father Haas, the youngest man ever to be named president of the college, took office on July 1 succeed.ing the Very Rev. Vincent C. Dore, O.P., now chancellor. The Oct. 9 ceremonies will mark the first time that a Providence College president has been formally in­ stalled. A native. of Newark and a close personal friend of Bishop Dougherty, Father Haas was graduated from Providence Col­ lege in 1948 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1953. He re­ ceived a Doctorate of Philosophy from the Umversity of Fribourg, Switzerland. in 1962. Turn to Page T~ent,

the Fathers by the Commission on the schema. Its 'importance for the Promotion of Christian could be gauged by the re­ Unity. The minority bitterly at- . nowned leaders that approached tacked the document and elab- the rostrum: Ameriean Cardi­ orated on the possible misinter- nals Shehan, Spellman, Cushing pretations. Finally, by a 1997 and Ritter; the Primates of EIl­ to 224 vote, the Vatican Council gland and Ireland; Curia Offi­ said that the document would be ciaIs Octaviani and Browne; used as a basis for a declaration. Eastern Rite Patriarchs; the long It was now a certainty that there persecuted Cardinal Beran and will be a declaration; there can tQe youth interested Cardinal be no shelving. Applause and Cardijn.

.cheers rocked St. Peter's Basil-" The council document was

ica as the vote was announced. mainly interested in saying that For nearly a .week now, one' each and every one must be free 'prelate after another rose to "to believe as his conscience die­ give his own personal comments tated. No outside power-Church

or State-can coerce an individ­ ual to believe or reject a certain religious truth. Now this does not mean that man can believe or reject God this does not mean that all religions are equal be­ fore God; this does not mean that the Catholic Church is not the one and only true Church founded by Jesus Christ. One must obey God and be subject to Him in all things-man is not equal to God. God has created one true Church and the others -as good, charitable and laud­ ible as they may be-are not Turn to Page Five

Fr. McMahon Is Cape Pastor

1he Most Reverend James L. Connolly, Bishop of the Diocese "of Fall River, an­ nounced today, the assign­

an,' the transfer, of two assist­ ants. " Hev. William J. McMahon, as­ sistant at St. Kilian's Church, New Bedford, and Director of ment 0:': one administrator, ap­ Calhedral Camp, East Freetown, pointment of a& clfmp director has been appointed administrator or ~t. Joan of Arc Church, Or­ leans, succeeding the late Rev. James E. Lynch who died July 7. Rev. Walter A. Sullivan, as­ sistant at St. Mary's Cathedral, Fa',l River and Diocesan Director of the CYO, will also serve as the . r.ew Director of Cathedral Camp, Ellst Freetown. Rev. Jorge de J .. Sousa, assist­ ant at St. Anthony's Church, Taunton, is transferred to Our Lady of Angels Church, Fall Fall River. Rev. George Almeida, assistant' at . St. Michael ChurcD, Fall Ri ver, has been named to suc­ ceed Father Sousa at St. An­ thony Church, Taunton, as assist­ ant. Rev. William J. McMahon, son of the late James J. Mc­ Mahon and the late Rose Anna Smith McMahon, was born in REV. WILLIAM J. McMAHON Taunton, Sept. 20, 1911. Follow-

ing courses at Providenee Col­ lege and St. Michael's College. the new administrator of St. Joan of Arc Church, Orleans, completed his studies at St.· Mary's Seminary, Baltimore. Ordained May 18, 1940 by the late Most Rev. Bishop James E. Cassidy in St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River, he has been assistant at St. Killian's Parish for .25 years and director of Cathedral Camp, East Freetown, for the past 17 years• In addition to his duties M camp director, Father McMahon hall served as Director of Our Turn to Page Two

Ozanam Sunday Commemorates'Chief Founder

.Of St. Villcen't de Paul Work of Cha~ity.'

Sunday, Sept. 26 is Oza­ nam Sunday throughout the Fall River Diocese. Churches will distribute a holy' card with a prayer for the beatifica­ tion of Frederic Ozanam, and many priests will accompany the distribution with a brief talk on this remarkable man of 19th century France, chief founder of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. The son of a doctor, Ozanam" saw charity put into practice in the lives of his parents, who knelt together at deathbeds in the slums of Lyons, where about one-third of Dr. Ozanam's prac­ tice was carried on free of charge. Mrs. Ozanam was indefati­ gable in practicing the works of mercy amopg the slum dwellers, and her son wrote of her: "It is at her knees that I learned to fear You, 0 Lord, and from her looks to love You." As a youth, Ozanam went te Faris to study, where he becllDW

a leader among his fellow stu­ dents, whom he tried to lead to Christianity. On one occasion an

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unbeliever taunted him, saying, '.'You, who pride yourself on be­ ing a Catholic, what are you doing·for the poor?" . The words stung Ozanam' so sharply that he and a few of :his fellows banded together to help the poor of Paris, naming their group in honor of St. Vincent de Paul. Ozanam was but 20 when he formed the first Vin­ centian conference, which had a membership of seven. But al­ most immediately the idea spread, until "the membership jumped from the original seven, to hundreds, thEm to thousands. Only an angel using some mar­ velous heavenly adding machine , could possibly figure up all the deeds of charity done since 1833 because Frederic Ozanam started the Vincention society." Ozanam lived to see his so­ ciety spread and grow, possibly nourished by his own self-sacri­ fice. Never strong, he sacrified health to his work among the Turn to Pa&e Twenty, A

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BE-Y. WALTE& A. SULLIVAllf

Seeking Maturity As CYAO Goal The AttlebOro Area Catho­ lic Young Adult Organiza­ tion announces as its goal for the year "to offer greater opportunity for maturity ba society and in the Church." Translated. into the orgal)iza­ tion's four-fold program, it wIll be the objective of the members to wor}!; upon the "new role" of the laity in accordance with principles to be formulated by the present sessions of the ecu­ ,menical council in Rome; a con­ centrated study on the problems of young adulthood will be ini­ tiated; a reawakening of interest ill the federal, state, and local Turn ~ Paee Twenty


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