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World Hunge'r Week Asks Fast, Action Women Religious in the Fall River diocese have been asked to join communities throughout the nation in observing this week as World Hunger Week and in fasting as an expression of concern for the undernourished in every country. Representing Fall River communities at the four-day National Assembly 'Of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) at which the fasting action was called for were Sister M. Noel and Si~ter Mary Mercy McAuliffe of the Sisters of Mercy, Sister Almerinda Costa of the Sisters of St. Dorothy and Sister Marilyn Spellman of the Holy Union of the Sacred Hearts. They were among 550 major superiors of women's congregations who spent four days in Houston, Tex. in "reflection, deliberation and decision." At a concluding business ses~ sion participants resolved that LCWR proclaim its leadership role in celebrating International Women's Year as a consciousness-raising and liberating event. Assembly participants also passed the resolution that
"I was hungry. You gave me food."
LCWR support the principle that all Church ministries be open to men and women, and affirm the principle that women have active participation in the Church decision-making hodies. 'Sociologist Sister Marie Au-. gusta Neal of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur gave the conference's keynote address. She called women religious "the most effective agents for transformation of the world" because of their commitment to service and their degree of organization. Religion, she stated, should be a prophetic force which stands in judgment on the social injustice of the past. We should not "celebrate" that past; we need rather to revise it. One change is a redistribution of the world's goods to include the two-thirds of humanity who now have no share in what is rightfully theirs. The call today is to political action on the international level to 'bring about justice, the speaker continued. "We need to be Turn to Page Two
Vatican Official Boosts Annual CU Collection WASHING-TON' (NC) - Cardinal Gahriel Garrone, prefect of the Vatican Congregation for Catholic Education, has become a booster for the Catholic University of America here. The collection this year will be held Sept. 28-29. In a letter to Archbishop William Baum of Washington, chancellor of the university, Cardinal Garrone expressed the hope that the "well-known generosity of American Catholics tow'ards the university will continue and grow. Cardinal Garrone continued: "It is our special hope that this university, founded by the American bishops and erected by the Holy See, always be a beacon of intellectual and spiritual direction in your land and elsewhere, keeping as a distinct and unique treasure its precious bonds with the See of Peter and with the successors of the Apostles." , Started in 1903 by Cardinal James Gibbons of Baltimore, first chancellor of the university, the Turn to Page Two
NEW PRELATES: Papal honors were bestowed upon five priests of the Diocese of Fall River in ceremonies at the Cathedral on Monday evening. Pictured, left to right, Rev. Msgr. John J. Regan, Rev. Msgr. Henry T. Monroe, Rev. Msgr. Thomas J. Harrington, Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, Rev. Msgr. Patrick J. O'Neill, Rev. Msgr. Luiz G. Mendonca, V.G. Monsignors Munroe and Mendonca were elevated to the rank of Prelates of Honor to the Holy Father; Monsignors Regan, Harrington and O'Neill were made Chamberlains to the, Pope.
Pope Says Power of Bishops· Confers Mission· of Service VA11ICAJN CITY (NC)-Pope Paul VI, concelebrating Mass Sept. 22 with 77 American bishops, said that the authority and power invested in the bishop is not a power of domination, but a "power of service" for the good of the community. In his homily during the Mass· in the Sistine Chapel, the Pope
Representatives From Diocese At Convention The National Council of Catholic Women held an Executive Committee Meeting and General Assembly in Omaha, Nebraska recently. Mrs. Richard M. Paulson, Diocesan Council of Catholic Women president, Immaculate Concep-' tion Parish, Taunton and Mrs. Michael J. McMahon, Director of the Province of Boston, St. Mary's Cathedral Parish, Fall River, attended these meetings. The General Assembly members are the National officers, Province Directors and Diocesan presidents. Mrs. G. Sam Zilly, President of the N.C.C.W. presided. On Friday Mrs. Zilly was called to Washington to attend a meeting of presidents of National women's organizations with President Gerald Ford. She was given the Turn to Page .Four
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also strongly defended the institutional and visible Church which, he said, is "much challenged" by Christiaris "yesterday and still today." He sa,id that 'bishops as shepherds should adopt a "true Gospel figure" of "provident and strong" goodness and an "inexhaustible spirit of sacrifice." Most of the 77 American bishops concelebrated the Mass as part of their five-year ad Iimina visits to the' Holy See at the tombs of Sts. Peter and Paul. The Mass took the place of the private papal audience which is usually .part of a bishop's ad Iimina visit. About 70 of the bishops are also attending a month-long Theological consultation or discussion'session with theologians
and Scripture scholars at the graduate house of the North American College in Rome. Among concelebrants were Cardinal Terence Cooke of New York and Cardinal Humberto Medeiros of Boston. Also concelebrating were Bishops James Rausch, general secreatry of the U. S. Catholic Conference, Archbishop Joseph Bernardin of Cincinnati and. Archbishop John Quinn of Oklahoma City, who are in Rome for the upcoming world Synod of Bishops, and Archbishop William Baum of Washington, D. C. The Pope told the bishops and about 200 American pirests and seminarians assigned to Rome: "Our power is not a power of domination. It is a power of serTurn to Page Eight
Cardinal Thinks Church Not Ready For Women Pri'ests, American Pope CRA:FTON (NC)-The Church is not ready for women priests or an American Pope in the near future, according to Cardinal John Wright, former bishop of Pittsburgh. and currently prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy in Rome. Noting that the Church has over 2,000 "solid years" of tradition behind it, Cardinal Wright said he did not see "any solid trend" developing which would overturn Church tradition in favor of the ordination of women priests. He did not want to comment on the recent ordination of several women in the Episcopal Church. "I try to stay in my own backyard," he said with a grin. Speaking at a wide-ranging .press conference at St. Paul's Seminary; here in Pennsylvania, Cardinal Wright praised Church
tradition ("with a capital "T") through the years. "We are all still Jews," he said, heeause "we still see Abraham as our patriarch." The traditions of the past 2,000 years will also play a major role in keeping an American from the Papacy, according to Cardinal Wright. He said that an American will not he chosen as Pope for at least another 50 years because the Italians are a much more cosmopolitan people and Americans are less fluent with foreign languages. "It has nothing to do with theology or with the Italians keeping it in their own hands," Cardinal Wright noted. - "The Pope is the head of the universal Catholic Church and also the bishop of Rome. There has always been a conscious, Turn to Page Two