Youth of Diocese To Join National Catholic Program
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. J?ining seven million young people throughout the nation in observing National Catholic Youth Week from' Oct. 30 to Nov. 6, boys and girls in the Fall River Diocese will participate in programs and ceremonies on parish and . area levels, Rev. Walter A. Sullivan, Diocesan CYO Director; said today. All areas
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, Sixty-eight Boy Scouts and Explorer Scouts of the Diocese will receive Ad Altare Dei Awards, highest
Parish in Fall River
Marks 75th Jubilee
Memories of 75 years will cluster around St. Louis Church, Fall River, on Sunday, Oct: 23, as parishioners of the' pa:;t and present join to celebrate its diamond jubilee. Under direction of Rev. Thomas F. Walsh, pastor, and Rev. Erlward J. Burns, cur- tion for it, and today fond memat~, the obser"ance will in- . ories linger on." chide a Solerim High Mass of Father Walsh will be celeThankRg"iving at 10 :30 Sun- brant at the jubilee Mass, with day moming, followed at 2 0'- 'Rev. James A. Benson, S.J. of Fairfield University as deacon c1~ck by a reunion program in and Rev. John P. Cronin, St. the ChUl'ch hall. All former parishioners are Patrick's Church, Fall River, as imdted to attend the day of ju- subdeacon. Father Burns will be and bilee, said Father W~lsh. "II St. , master of ceremonies Louis Church carries your name preachel·. Both Father Benson on its book of Baptisms or First and Father Cronin are from St. ' Communion, or Confirmation. or Louis parish. The afternoon program, with Ma1Tia~es, or in the School files, the theme of "Memories," will or in the census cards of fOI'mer pai'ishioners, we are interested feature a skit by the schoolchildren re-creating scenes from in ,you," he emphasized. the past of the parish. Sister "No one ever left this parish Turn to Page Twenty without a deep feeling of affec-
Asserts u.s. Must Preserve Traditions to Win Cold War WASHINGTON (NC)-A miRsion expert warns the. United States risks 'defeat in the cold war by fai1il~g to Dive up to its democratic traditions. Fath~r Frederick A. McGuire, C.M., has told the 33rd annual conference of the
Catholic Association for In- fiber while millions of fellow ternational Peace: "In the men went hungry and illintereRts of political exped- clothed. We have not prepal'ed . h t . dt f t o,ur people to understalld the Jency we ave rle 0 ,or~e ' cultural difference between our, the high principles embodied in s~lves, our Latin' American our own freedom documents. We have assisted dictators to ,re- neighbors, the bulging population of Asia and the awakening main in power. We have been silelH in the face of colonial despeoples of Africa. "History has called us and our potism. "We have thrown up barriers allies to speak courageously against the entrance of immi- against the tyrannical theories grants from certain countries of modern materialism. We have and ccrtain races to such an exagain and again defied material tent one would think we be- progress. lieved,in the Aryan race theory "We have to a great extent reof Hillel'. . mained, at least in our thinking, "We have stored our food and Turn to Page Twelve
South Attleboro Mi~sion~r Reports Fan of Lac~ Town VIENTIANE (NC)-A U.S. missiol)ary has arrived here with the first eyewitness report of the fall of a Laotian provincial capital to pro-Red troops. Father Lucien Bouchard, O.M.!., of South Attleboro, left Sam Neua in northern Laos only twp hours before it was captured by the communiHt-hid Pathet Lao guerrilla fighters. He led 'five other missioners and six Laotians hel'e aIter a five-day march of more than 100 miles in monsoon rains across mountains and through dense jungles. The group h'aveled the last miles by jeep and plane. The fall of Sam Neua was' part of this ,southeast Asian nation's three-sided civil war. Contending forces ani the neutralist government that took power in August, the Pathet Lao movement which gives it qualified support, and pro-Western rebels who oppose it. Sam Neua - capital of the province of the same name, which is the country's most flourishing Catholic area-had been occupied by pro-Westerlt torc:es before its fall.
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FATHER BOUCHARD
MONSIGNOR DOLAN
Taunton Prelate Marks 25 Years At St. Mary's Rt. Rev. Msgr. James J. Dolan has observed his silver jubilee as pastor of St. Mary's Church, Taunton, with a Mass attended by the pupils of'St. Mary's Grammar and High Schools. Msgr. Dolan spoke briefly to the student body and to the adults, during Mass, thanking them for Masses and Communions which had been offered for. him that day. Following Mass, ,he was presented with a spiritual bouquet from St. Mary's students. Created a Monsignor Sept. 6, 1952, the St. Mary's pastor was Turn to Page Eighteen
Auxiliary' Bishop To Be Celebrant Of White Masses Most Rev.: James J. Gerrard', D.D., V.G:, Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese, will be, celebrant and preacher at the fifth annual "White Mass" at: 8 next Wednesday morning in St. Lawrence Church, New Bedford, and at a similar Mass in St. Anne's Hospital Chapel at 8 A.M. Saturday, Oct. 22. The Masses will be sponsored by St. Luke's Physician's Guild of the two cities. Catholic physicians, dentists, nurses and others in the health field have been invited to attend. Adopted by the 75 guilds of Catholic doctors comprising the Turn to Page Eighteen;
recognition in Catholic Scouting, from His Excelency, the Most Reverend James J. Gerrard, at ceremonies Sunday. Oct. 30 in St.,.Lawrence Churc.h, New Bedford. The award recognizes outstanding service to the Church rendered by boys through the Scout program. Girls of the Diocese will receive the Marian Award at the same ceremony. The Marian Award, 'similar in requirements to the Ad Altare Dei, is offered to members of the, Girl Scouts, Campfire Girls, Daughters of Isabella, Catholic Daughters and ,similar yo..i.th organizations. Names of recipients ,will be annou'nced shortly. Turn 10 Page Fourteen
will participate in National (' )~munion Sunday for Youth on Oct. 30" also the Feast of chi'ist the King. Programs througout the week wil: implement this year's theme: Responsible Youth-Americ's Strength. In Fall Rive' , urea and parish eyo officer~ will be installed at c 'emonics scheduled . . 7 Sun_ Cathedral. AI'ea officers include Michel Methot, Blessed SacraCathedral. Aear ,officers include meilt par'ish, president; Rita Castanho, Sal'to Christo, vi resident; . ·'lter Nichipor 't. Joseph, treasurer; Florence Soares, St. -l'{och, secretary. Following the Cathedral ceremony" ol.tgoing officers will be recognized at a program planned 'for' the Anawan Street CYO at 8 o'clock.' . Week-Long Program During Youth Week, Fall River area CYO activities will include a semi-formal dance from 8 to 12 Friday night, Nov. 4, open to all CYO members, and an .awards night at which parishes and individual clergy and : Turn to Page Thirteen
New Bedford Priest ~Ians Native Sisterhood in Lima . The founder of the first parochial school in the country of Peru says that recent world-wide interest in the political and spiritual trends in South America has had an attendant "and most welcome" upsurge in migration of Catholic foreign clergy to those Spain." Pcru did not gam its countries. DiscuRsing current independence untiJ 1824. "Then religious and social patterns fewer Spanish priests came to the country and there were few in South America, especially native clergy." those in his home parish in Father Lawler has completed Lima, Peru. was the Rev. John' J. Lawler M.M., who has just a tremendous building project made a flying, surprise visit to and now hopes "to start a native his former New Bedford home. sisterhood in Lima. dedicat.ed t.o in the parochial Father Lawler, hrother of teaching New Bedford Mayor Francis J. schools." He said many stuLawler, accompanied a criti- dents enrolled ill' his St'. Rose of cally ill priest by air from Lima Lima School have show~ great Friday en route to Maryknoll, interest in a nativesist~rhood. In the nine short years since New York. Father Lawler visited New Bedford for two days Maryknoll assigned Father Law'before returning to Maryknoll. ler· to a poor section of Lima, His last trip home was in 1955 here is what the "priest and his parishioners have accomplished: and he is due to return' for a BuUding of a six-year primary vacation next April. "Today the church in Latin school,· a three-year secondary America is placing its emphasis school, an auditorium, churcb, rectory, and convent. on the building up of the native The school is staffed by 11 clergy," Father Lawler said. "The Spanish conquistadors Maryknoll nuns -and four Mary., Turn to Page Eighteen brought their own clergy from
Consider Closi~g Canadian Shrine To Guided Tours MONTREAL (NC) - A spokesman for St. Joseph's Oratory has warned that the world famous shrine may be put off limits to secular guided tours. Father Henry Bernard, C.S.C., has complained in The Oratory, monthly publication of the Shrine, about tourists who "approach these hallowed surroundings with a preconditioning no different from that with which 'they visit Niagara Falls." Father Bernard said sccular guided tours "often distract from the reverence and prayer. 'ful attitude" pro'per in the shrine. S·t. .Joseph's 'Oratory is visited, by more than a million pilgrims and tourists each year.
MISSIONER TO PERU: Rev. John J. Lawler, M.M shows souvenir'booklet from his Peruvian parish of St. Rosfl of Lima to his sister-in-law, Mrs. Francis:J. Lawler. .