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, ORDINARY MAKES AD LIMINA VISIT: The Most Rever~nd Bishop is shown after his private audience' with the Holy Father last Wednesday. Left to right, Rt. Rev. Humberto S. Medeiros, Chancellor of ·the Diocese, the Holy Father; the Bishop, and !\ir. Joseph -P .. De'laney,sOn of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Delaney of 424 . . ..Linden Street, :Fall River, a ~
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. A training session for the Special Gifts·'.workers for Attleboro's Bishop Feehan Regional High School heard praise from the Holy. Father and the announcement of a $25,000 and a $10,000. gift even before their phase of the drive begins. In a letter sent by BishopConrtolly from Rome' to Rev. William D. Thomson, episcopal chairman of the $l,225,000 drive for t h e · · ' I
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student at the North American College. The Holy Father . .expressed his deep affection 'for the faithful of the Diocese and his thanks for the wonderful Spiri(ual Bouquet and Peter's Pence offering. He sent his . blessing to the clergy, religiou~' and faiifful of the Diocese, and special blessings to all working for. the Attleboro Regional High School.
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th.e cordial and special blessing sent .bY the Pontif~ to those workmg to. assure Its success. The Bishop spoke of the school to the.Holy Father. at his private aJdience with the Pope held on th~ third' of the month. . The Special GiftS phase of the Dr.ivl;! will open on Sunday in all: 12 parishes that the new school will.serve. , Robert V. McGowan a chairm:lU of the campaign a'nnounced at: the meeting that Mr. Barney Doyle, publicity chairman of the drive, and a member of St. Mary's Parish in North Attleboro, hasdo,nated $25,000 in' honor of his wife, Mary Baldyga DoyIe, for the altar in the chapel of Bishop Feehan High. Mr,. and Turn to Page' Eighteen
"A great and evident door lies open, and strong forces oppose." , 1st Corinthians 16:9 October 15, 19Q9 Dearly Beloved in Christ,These are words of a great missionary,-St. Paul the Apostle. He labored in the face of bitter opposition. He suffered persecution of the worst sort. But he persevered because he was conscious of the hunger men have always had for the true Faith. And he knew, too, that he' did not WASHINGTON (NC) work alone, but the Spirit of God was in ·and with him. More than half of the U. S. So too the missionary of our time. War and want have governors have issued procbrought· distress to many hearts' and homes. Many reach lamations for National Cathout for a,better and surer way of life than the· one renewing olic Youth Week, Oct. 25 to Nov. the passions and evils of the jungle, which seems. so . 1, the founder of the observance . . apparent to-day. So they open the door wide to the ministers said. Msgr. Joseph E, Schieder, of peace and justice, and those that hold aloft the be,acon director of the Youth Departof faith and hope in Christ. , ment of the National Catholic .But strong' forces oppose. They stir up enmities and Welfare Conference, said he has suspicions. They talk hypocritically of free.dQm the while high hopes that the remaining
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Century' of. 'Growth Marks ." ""orth Amer.·c a n College .~
ROME (NC) _ The North American College's first h d d' .' "Et I C't .. th t k . ~n r~ yea~s .are, m a.n. erna I y a rec ons In mI11emums, lIke an evenmg gone. But the college that has train~d well over a thousand young Americans for the priesthood has been singled . ' .: , . t f ' ~ th' t' t b' tli . run PontIfIcal Gregorian Unf.. ou rom e s ~r ~ e versity. encouragement' gIven It by 'Today's college plant is sua the popes. The North Amer- . spanking new, a showplace on
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World's, Problem Underproduction Rather Than Overpopulation WASHINGTON (NC)-That morally and political1~ disastrous argument of solving poverty by eliminating tlle poor has been recommended to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by the influential Stanford Research Instituttl. The' MEmJo Park, C·alif., in- tives, abortion and sterilzastitute, one of several agen- tion. Apart from the shocking ladt cies working with the committee on a study of factors of morality Catholics and man;( that may affect U, S. foreign policy, was asked to relate what it sees as the potential impact of nonm.ilitary scientific developments." . The best the group could do iniildicating what it sees as the most promising answer science has' to meet the, challenge of an increasing world population was' to' echo. the Hne of the professional birth. controllers: greater. us.e of contracep-
others see reflected in the Stan.· ford propos,als, there are othe.r serious faults with the reCOIn·. mendations. Many feel, for example, that the report fails to mirror faith.· . fully the complexity and man.1 apparent contradictions corn.· mon to population studies. Nee does it deal with the politicll-L liability many think a government-promoted birth control Turn to Page Eichteen