Charities Spe~ker Asks Greater Use of Laity TOLEDO (NC) - The joint convention of America's St. Vincent de Paul ,Society the National Conference of Catholic Ch-arities was launched here with a plea to the hierarchy to make full use of the laity's talent. The speaker, George E. Heneghan, eillphasized the basic responsibility of the Bishops to teach and govern. And he cited the abuse of the responsibility which the Church vested in lay trustees in this country early in the last century. ~nd
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"Those attempts to usurp power have long disappeared from the pastoral scene in America and many pr-efound- and saintly clerical leaders have reasoned that the pendulum may have swung too far the other way and that thereby the Church has suffered," he said. Heneghan, a St. Louis lawyer, is president of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul's superior coun. cil of the United States. His talk on "Foundations of Personal Responsibility" was given at the first Session of the five-day conference, attended by more than 1,200 delegates from the United States and Canada. The conference revolved around the theme of "Personal Responsibility-An Invitation to Personal Excellence.". Heneghan Turn to Page Eighteen
Vatican Paper Hits Distortion Of Pope's Words by Red· Boss
VATICAN CITY (NC) - The Vatican City daily has· told Premier Nikita Khrushchev that the Church is not promoting peace on his par~icular terms. L'Osservatore Romano commented in reply to Khrushchev's unwarranted twist to the peace appeal made by Pope John to the world early this month. The Pope pointed out: "It is truly on wise men that . the issue depends: that force . St. PaLO! Prelate shall not .pr~vail, but right; New Bedford Nun Ailing in Rome through free and sincere New Provincial negotiations that truth and Reverend Mother Virginia . Most Rev. William O. justice shall be vindicated by Brady, Archbishop of St. safeguarding the 'essential lib- Bento, R.S.D., for 16 years a Paul, is being treated for a erties and the insuppressible teacher, then superior' and . SaI- values every nation and prI'ncI'pal at Our Lady of Mt. coronary con d1't'Ion' IR human of person." . every v8dor Mundi Hospital in Rome. Born in Fall River and a student for the Fall River Diocese, the Archbishop v()lunteeredon ordination to teach in the St. Paul Archdiocesan Seminary. The Archbishop was" stricken Saturday while enroute to R<>me to take par.t in a meeting of prelates making plans for the forthcoming Ecumenical Council. Prayers are asked "for the speedy reoovery of the prelate who is Episoopal Treasurer of the NCWC Administrative Board.
'.l'he Soviet Premier referred to the Po p e's address in ns er aw to a request by the Sovl'et . Uni()n's two top newspapers,,' Pravda' and Izvestia. He credited the Pope with "talking oommon sense" and called the appeal "a good sign," but used the peace plea to support his own call for negotiations t<> "n()rmaJize". such East-West conflicts' as the Berlin situation. L'Osservatore's rep1;y made three points: Turn to Page Twelve
Carmel School, New Bedford, kt new United States provincial ()f the Sisters of St. Dorothy. ' With headquarters at Villa Fat i m a, Taunton, provincial house of the community, she will direct the 95 Sisters, nine convents and seven schools of the Dorotheans in this country. Mother Bento is the first American to hold the office of United States provincial. A native of Bristol, R.I., she was first assigned 00 the New Bedford Turn to Page Twelve
DONOR OF CONVENT: Frank A. Days, 85 and blind, with.Bishop Connolly at dedication of Convent of St. Anne, PrOVincetown, the formEOr Days .home. The octogenarian gave it to the· parish after his wife's death. His daughter. Sister Mary Leander, R.S.M., was also present for the dedicati~n.
Cardinal 'Asserts Church Will Adapt for: Unity' BERN (NC) - The Church will have the courage to drop what is outmoded wherever possible if it serves the cause of Christian 'Unity, the Vatican's spokesman on r~ligious reunion has declared here. Augustin Cardinal Bea, head of the preparatory Sec- gians have already clarified retariat for Christian Unity many misunderstandings that for the forthcoming Vatican block the road to unity, the Council, made this statement Cardinal reported. He promised before an audience that included Swiss President Friedrich T. Wahlen, and other top officials of Church and government. The Cardinal is touring this country to talk on the ecumenical council and its relation to the unity problem. .Cardinal Bea explained again, as he has before in articles and addresses, that the upcoming Vatican Council is oot an "ecumenical" meeting in the Protestant sense and thus will not directly take up the unity question. But he said the council will definitely promote the spirit of union. . "Dogmatic prineiples will not be discussed," . the Cardinal stressed, "since articles of faith cannot be altered . . . and the road leading toward a peaceful meeting between Rome and Wittenber~ (a Protestant center) cannot be shortened by inadmissible concessions." Discussions between tbeolo-
Fall River Nuns Illustrate Diversity of -_ . Two nuns. One a poet, the other a scientist. Both, in' prize-winning words of the' poet, "know how to stand
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still / And to divine the lovely . springs in hidden places / On desert mountains." "When you're dealing with biology, you're dealing with life and thus wHh G<>d - that's the wonderful thing about it." Thus, with eyes aglow, Sister Mary AIb~rtus, teacher of algebra, biology and chemistry at Mt. St. M.ary Academy, Fall River, and recently elected member of Sigma Xi, honorary society for the encouragement of original scientific investigation. 'Sister M. Antanina of the . Franciscan Missionaries of Mary, on her first teaching assignment in second grade .at Espirito Santo school, Fall River, lets her poems speak for her. They breathe of the way she finds God, no less surely than do Sister Albertus'· research projects. The lines quoted above are from Sister Antanina's "Men on a High Rock," which took first place in a national poetry contest for Catholic colleges and universities sponsored by the Sister Madeleva Poetry Association. Her entry, in free verse, was one of 1,089 submitted in the annual competition. Sistet An~UI'n to Page Twent,.
that the council would clarify still others as it makes clear true Catholic teaching on the Scriptures and in the fields of can011 law, liturgy and worship. "The Church has already adapted itself to the needs of our TUrn to Page Twen~,.
Fr. Regan Heads· Large . Mission MARYKNOLL (NC) The huge Maryknoll mission territory in the Province of Davao, Philippines, is 86 per eent Catholic. The 32,000 square miles of undeveloped territory, assigned to Maryknoll in 1958, is under the direction of Father Joseph W. Regan, M.M.; of Fairhaven. 'J;he report shows that 330,300 of the 380,200 people in this mission are Catholic wIth 29 Maryknollers to serve them-an average of orie priest for every 11,389"
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