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Special Gifts Phase in Progress Mm'\t Rev. James J. Gerrard, D.D., V.G., Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Fall River, announced at the meeting of Sp.ecial Gifts Committee men that Bishop Connolly has opened the
Fall River Catholic Memorial Boys' High School Fund Raising Campaign with a personal contribution of $50,000. Following his custom in the campaigns in New Bedford, Attleboro, and TauntOn, 1lhe Ordmary has spearheaded the fund raisinl{ campaign with a most generous and pace-setting gift. Mure than 40 workers representing the 3ft participating parishes in the Fall River campail{n for the planned Jesuit-staffed high school are expending themselves on the special gifts phase of the drive that has as its floor $2,000. All gifts of this amount and up are being. received at this time. Bishop Gerrard told the gathering, ""the spirit of generosity that will be preachea from all the pulpits in the area will cause the faithful to realize the .piritual benefits from contributing to IUch a worthy cause."
AREA VICE·CHAIRMEN: Participating in the Boys' High School Building Campaign are. left to right: Dr. John C. Corrigan, John Travis and John DeNadal.
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The CHOR 'A lifetime filled with extra work and the priest who anticipated the present day movement of Ecumenism by many years constituted the priesthood of Rev. JohnJ. Griffin." Such was the theme of the eulogy preached py *he Very Rev. Thomas F. garet Malone Griffin, was born ' Wahlh, pastor of St. John S in Fall River, April 14, 1904. He Church, Attleboro, at the lolemn Pontifical Mass this morning at St. Mary's Church, Taunton, for the widely-loved and respected departed pastor of St. Paul's Church, Taunton, who died on Monday morning at the' I'ectory. At the conclusion of the Pon tifical Mass of Requiem cele brated by the Most Rev. James :S. Gerrard, D.D., V.G., Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Fall River, the eulogist· enumerated the manner in which Father Griffin influenced the entire city of Taunton. • "As chaplain at Morton Hos pital, Father Griffin was the perfect example of the priest hood to the sick and their wor ried families. As CYO leader the idea and ideal of the priest bood was exemplified by this other Christ. As an auxiliary chaplain at Camp Miles Standish - midnight confessions were commonplace, but time meant nothinl{ as long as Father Grif flu could send the boys from aU parts of the United States to the fighting fronts with God in their patriotic souls."
By Rev. Edward J. Mitchell Like coIl e g e boys re turning to a familiar cam pus, the bishops came back to Rome this week to open the second session of the Vatican Cd'uncil. Their textbooks were in their bags: twelve new, stream-
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AKRON (NC) - The Society of Jesus, more commonly known as the Jesuits, will receive one and one-half million dollaN from the estate of Mrs. Jane Walsh to build a new high school here in Ohio. The 89-year old woman left an estate valued at more than four million dollars. Her will provid~d that the Jesuits are to receive 75 per cent· of the rest and residue after the payment of specific bequests to other reli gious and charitable institutions. Mrs. Walsh, Ohio widow of an industrialist, also provided for grandchildren and grand niece.. and grand nephews in the dis tribution of her $4,023,332 estate.
Bishop Approves Changes Made By Provincial The Most Reverend Bishop has a p pro v e d· s eve r a I changes made by Very Rev. Daniel J. McCarthy, SS.CC.,
REV. JOHN J. GRIFFIN
graduated from B. M. C. Durfee High School, Fall River, and re ceived an AB. degree from Holy Cross College, Worcester, in 1927. The. late Taunton pastor at tended St. Bernard's Seminary, Rochester, and was ordained May 30, 1931, in St'. Mary's Ca thedral, Fali River, by the late Bishop Cassidy. . Turn to Page Twelve
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Asks Council To· Build
Moder'n World Bridge
Fall River, Mass., Thursday, Oct. 3, 1963 Akron Widow Leaves
Jesuits $1.5 Million
PRICE lOc Vol. 7, No. 41 © 1963 The Anchor $4.00 per Ve.., For High School
Father Griffin, Requiem Todoy in Tounton
The Fall River Auxiliary Bishop also listed experiences of the New Bedford Drive as a means of developing confidence In the approach of the Fall River solici tors. Atty. Richard K. Martin, chairman for St. .J.oseph's Parish, No. Dighton, during the Taunton Drive, traced the history of . the Jesuit Order and showed all the ex cellenc,,: that will be had in this school staffed by members of the Society al Jesus. Inspiring the committeemen to a degree that almost sent them out soliciting after the meeting, Rev. William D. Thomson, pastor of St. Mary's Church, Norton, and director of the Attleboro Drive, declared that this school is really God's Will. . Praising the people of this area for the past generosities, the Norton pastor was in_ terrupted by tremendous applause during this tribute the faith and charity of the Catholics of the past. These were the men 'md women responsible for so many crossell pointing heavenwards from so many edi fices of faith and charity in this area.
Provincial of the Sacred Hearts Fathers in the United States. Rev. Thaddeus Bquhuysen, SS.CC., 'administrator of Sacred Hearts Church, Fairhaven, re tires from that position and is being succeeded by Rev. Alexis Wygers, SS.CC. Father Alexis, who has been serving as ad ministrator of St. Francis Xavier Church, Acushnet, is succeeded by Rev. AurelePepin, SS.CC. , Rev. Rene GaUdin, SS.CC. and Rev. Nicholas Gomes, SS.CC. are assigned to St. Francis Xavier Church, Acushnet, as assistants. Rev. John Fee, SS.CC. has been assigned as an assistant to Holy Trinity Church, West Har , wiche
}ir,ed drafts to be discussed and voted -on in the weeks ahead. Their arrival in Rome this year was by comparison quiet and sophisticated. Gone from the scene were the be wi I d .. r e d Easter p a l' a des of prelates marching up and down the Via della Conciliazione looking for copes, council seat numbers and accomodations. This time the "old council pros" immediately checked into their hotels and be gan to brush up on the draft concerning the Church, which they will begin to thrash out on Monday. On his arrival at the· Rome airport on Friday morning, Bish op Connolly expressed· a keen· anticipation for getting down to the work of the second session. He noted that it was built upon • solid foundation, the introduc tory session of last year. Despite the critic" of last year's session (some' called it ·"much ado about nothing"), the fact remains that a great ,deal
has already been accomplished. For one thing the b ish 0 p • learned how a council works. and they came face-to-face with problems confronting the Church in its far-flung mission. More over, a giant step of progre~ was taken when the bishor voted to discard the old, conser vative, textbook-like drafts that bad been prepared in advance of their arrival, and to substitute new pastoral and scriptural ap peals to the world. The first session of the councn ·changed the atmosphere in the Church, opening a window of fresh ideas and new contacts. Built on that groundwork, the second sessions holds out the promise of the Church's true re newal as the 'spotless bride ol Christ." On Sunday morning at nine o'clock, the second session got underway with the rich splendor of an opening ceremony. A crowded basilica, which includN Turn to Page Sixteen
Second Se~sion To ,Discuss Nature of the Church VATICAN CITY (NC) - The draft proposal "On the Nature of the Church" was accepted as a whole for detailed discussion by the second session of the ecumenical council by an overwhelming majority of council Fathers. The action was taken Tuesday at the Catholic teaching is that a-ft. second session's second gen eral meeting, with only 46 . men are called to salvation through Jesus Christ and, there_ dissenting votes out of 2,301 fore, through His Church which
Fathers present. The vote meant that the Fathers agreed to go on to a dis cussion of the parts of the proj ect. Technically, it could still be scrapped. But comments on the project taken as a whole were favorable without exception. This seems to guarantee that, when certain details are amended after discussion of the project's parts, it will be given final ap proval. Many of the Council Fathers feel that this topic will occupy the entire second session of the Council. The discussions must treat not only the place of the Bishops and the laity in the Church, but the relationship of non-Catholic Christiana an cl nonoChriBt'ianlt
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is the Mystical or Social Body of Christ. What the Fathers of the Council are asked to determine is the precise nature of the re lationship of non-Catholic Chris tians and non-Christians to the Church. For salvation these must be and are attached "in some way." It was pointed out to the Council Fathers on Monday that the Council rule of secrecy ex tended to the work of the indi vidual conciliar commissions and to the actual text of the schema. Since nothing was said about the speeches of the Fathers in the general meetings, the public may expect to read not only the names of the Fathers who spoke on any given dq but ·,their· ~ marka u welL· .