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Fall River, Mass. Vol. 1, No. 25
ST. PAUL
ORDINARY TO BLESS- NEW DIOCESAN BUILDING ON SATURDAY: The Most 'Reverend Bishop will bless the 'new Catholic Youth ComI..TIunity Center in New Bedford Thursday,' Sept. 26, 1957 at 2 Saturday afternoon. Open hoqse will be held Sunday. the Center is named in honor of Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. whose family contributed substantially to its construction.
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World Catholic Population Set at One Half Billion
CINCINNATI (NC)-There are about one"half bil lion Catholics in the world today representing about 18.5 pet: cent of the total population.. <~ The Catholic total is about 496,512,000, ,an increase of about 12,435,000 over last other countries outrank it in the. year. The new total repre- percentage of C~tholi.cs in the total population. . sents a percentage g'ain of First in absolute nu'mber is two-tenths of one pel: cent Brazil, with 54,405,000 Catholics; .
Volunte'ersto 'Conduct
School Fund Campaign
A building. fund campaign with a minimum goal of $1,500,000 will be launched in the Greater New Be.dford area in' the immediate future to help defray. part of the cost of the first regional high school. . . Announcement of the ,building fund campaign was made today by Most Rev. James L. Connolly, D.D., Bishop of Wareham. This area comprises work involved. The volunteer Fall River. 30 parishes. workers will be notified of their The first official announce- organizational meeting In the The new regional high ment of the campaign was' made near future and their part in the school, which will be located at Masses at the various church- campaign will then be outlined.
from last year's 18,a,per cent. These estimates are from the 1957 edition of thL "World Misslon Map" published annually by the national center of the Catholic Students' Mission Crusade here.... . United Sh\tes Fourth United States ranks fourth in t.he world in the absolute num bel' of Catholics. though many
second is Italy with 47.775.920; third is France with 36.418.740 and the United States .is fourth with 34.386,351, according to the map and the estimates appended to it. Percentage-wise. the little European country of Andorra leads the world, as.it has done for a
New Bedfo.rd Native N~med To Monsignori
FB I Head Scores Court Attitude 'Three Dioce$Qn In Smut Cases' ATLANTIC CITY (NC) Men Studyi'ng FBI Director J. Edgar Hoov er struck out here at the Now in Rome
Rev. John S. Dziok, a·na tive of New Bedford, who is now pastor of St. Hedwig's Church in Cambridge, has
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on a IS-acre tract of land in Dartmouth, close to the New Bedford city line, Is the first o'f several contemplated in various sections of the diocese. 3,300 Offer Help The intensive fund ralsmg campaign will be conducted only in those areas which the new regional high school will serve. They are New Bedford, Fairhaven, Westport, Dartmouth. Acushnet; Mattapoisett and
es of the area last Sunday. Since The pledge system of giving ex the dl:ive is to be conducted on tending over 24 months will be a personal basis-with parishion- used.
er volunteers contacting their Enthusiasm High
fellow parishioners-an appeal
The announcement stressed was made for men to .give their the desirability of a complete services for this work. , diocesan education plan fOl' the More than 3.300 men respond youth of the diocese and noted ed to the request and filled out that existing facilities can ac cards in church signifying their commodate only a very small willingness to cooperate in this percentage of the boys and girls important endeavor.· Women will
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be asked to do the secretarial
Schedule Church Eight francisc~n M~sic Workshop Missionary NMrilS .Make Professaon In Fall River
Eight you n g religious A workshop on Liturgical "wrist slaps" given by state . Joseph P. Delaney. son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Delaney. 124 Music will be conducted this have taken a step forward been named a Domestic Prelate and local 'courts to "muck mer 'with the title of Right Reverend chants" who dist~1bute obscene Linden Street, Fall River, sailed Saturday under the spon in their consecrated lives as Monday on the Italian liner S.S. Monsignor by Pope Pius XiI. printed matter. Franciscan Missionaries of sorshipof the Diocesan Augustus to continue his studies Announcement of, Fat her Speaking at the closjng session for the priesthood at the North Mary at Holy Family Novitiate" School Office. It will be held in Dziok's elevation was made by of the American Legion"':'; 39th the Sacred Heart Parochial Fruit Hill Convent. North Provi Archbishop Cushing of Boston. annual convention, Mr. Hoover American College in Rome. Scheduled to arrive in Naples School Auditorium. corner of Lin dence. Eleven other priests in the called for "stiffer legal penalties" Oct. 2, Mr. Delaney will attend den and Pine Streets, Fall River, 'Four of the Nuns made Perpet Boston Archdiocese were also for smut dealers. at Gregorian University . at 1:30 P.M. ual Vows. receiving a symbol of 'designated as monsignorI. He also said "a secure. happy, . classes beginning Oct. 15. Approximately 600 elementary their permanent dedication. the Father Dziok was born on May religious home" is the source of A graduate of Monsignoi' Coyle school sisters will attend this slIver ring and crown of thorns; 3. 1900. He pUt'sued his clerical corrective steps for juvenile de three made First Vows. and re program which is under the di studies at SS. Cyril and Meth9 linquency and he warned against High School, the seminarian be dius Semlnal·y. Michigan, and St. "national suicide" by "dismissing gan his college studies at Cardl-'" rection of Peguy Sullivan Lyder, ceived the missionary crucifixes nal O'Connell_Seminary, Boston, Ph.D., of the Plus X School of and crowns of roses, and one pos~ John's Seminary, Brighton. He lightly the existence of the sub was ordained in December 1923. versive threat to the United lind received bachelor and mas Turn to Page Thirteen Turn to Page Nine ter of arts degrees at Catholic
He was appointed past'or of St. States."
University, Washington, where
Family Life
Hedwig's Church on Jan. 23, he studied philosophy on a Bas
1940. Prior to his present assign
.Mr. Hoover said that. "one can selin Foundation scholarship for ment. he served as pasto I' of St.
three ye,ars. '
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Casimir Church in Maynard. At North American College he
will join two other Fall River
seminarians, Mr. John Foister
By Rev. Raymond W. McCarthy of Blessed Sacrament Parish and
Diocesan Family Life Bureau Director
Mr. David Medeiros of Espirito Santo Parish.
"My father and mother didn't attend a Pre-Cana ~on
To Ordain Fairhaven Native As Sacred Hearts Fat~er
Rev. Benedict (Frank) FOlger, SS.CC., son of Mr. a~d Mrs. Frank" S. Folger, 83 Spring Street, F~irhaven, wlll be ordained Sunday in Queen of Peace .Semm~ry Chapel, Jaffrey Center, N. H., by Most Rev. Matthew F. Brady, D.D., Bishop of Manchester. ~.~:-.: :.'.'~.:.',::.~" Father Benedict will cele brate his First SolemJ;l Mass ,.. at 11 A.M. Sunday, Oct. 6,
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in st. Joseph's Church, l"air . haven. A graduate of St. Joseph's Parochial School il1 Fairhaven was an active member of the par Ish troor of Boy Scouts. attain ing Life Scout rank and receiv ing the Ad Altare Award. He attended Sacred Hearts Seminary in Wareham, made his philosophical studies at the NOVi tiate in Fairhaven. and com pleted his theological studies at Queen of Peace Mission Semin ary.
Pre-Cana Confere'nces Gain In Popularity in Dioc.ese
ference. They didn't attend any conference on marnage. And they have been happily married for thirty-five years. Why should we attend Conferences. We are not that much different from our parents. "What? Listen to a group 'of priests talk 'about mar riage? What do they know about this deal?" "You've just got. to live to gether and work out your own formula for happiness. No one can tell you how to be happy:' If you have ever discussed Pre Cana you have heard some friend make one of these remarks. Successful Program Six years ago, when Pre-Cana came on the diocesan scene, these attitudes were popular. To day. they have almost disap peared. If the proof of the pud ding Is In the t~sting, the proof of the success of Pre-Cana is In the enthusiasm of Its four thousand couples. Tum to )Page Nine v