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Bishop Reports Regional HighSchool Building Fund· Over $500,000
More than $500,000 has already been subscribed to the building fund campaign for the first regional high school which will be constructed in the Greater New Bedford area, Most Rev. James L. Connolly, D.D., Bishop of Fall River, announced today. "The extremely generous response is a clear indication that the campaign will be An Ancllor of the Soul, Sure and Firm - ST: PAUL a complete success," Bishop Connolly said. The Bishop is honorary chairman of the River, Mass. Thursday, Oct. 17, 1957 . fund campaign.
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The Most Reverend BishoP' noted that the $500,000 subscrip tion has been realized after only one week of solicitation by the, combined memorial gifts corn mittes 'in 30 participating pa.r Ishes. The campaign is being conducted in parishes from West port in Bristol County to Ware ham on Cape Cod for a minimum' of $1,500,000 to help defray cost, of the new stmcture which will be in excess of $2.000,000. The' 900' - member memorial gifts committee is working in advance of the official opening of the drive under the direction of Joseph P, Duchaine, The com mitteemen are offering parish ioners and' organizations and businesses an opportunity to par ticipate In the memorial plan by Turn to Page Twenty
Say White M~s$ For) Physicians 'On Saturday Most Rev. James L. Con nolly D.D., Bishop of Fall River, will offer the second anmi&l White Mass under
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Satellite Answer
By Rev. Edward J. MitcheU
Sacred Heart Church,' Taunton
Russia launches earth satellite, scream the headlines of the world. And the world's citizens are terrified at its' im plications. Russia's conquest of outer space means at least this: a short-range scientific vic ever, was not really news at all.. tory, coupled with the It bee-arne news (by way of pro brooding threat of a Rus phesy) 40 yea,rs ago to this very sian intercontinental ballis m'onth,. when the Queen of Heav
tic missile. "Whei'c do we go from here?" people nre asking, Others say, "This is the bcgin ninR of the end." Last week's jolting news, how
the sponsorship of Sk Luke's Physicians' Guild. The Mass, honoring St, Luke the Evang'elist and Patron of all Physicians. will be celebrated in the new Chapel of St. Anne's Hospital at 8 next \ Saturday morning.' , The sermon will be preached by the Rev, Edward H, Nowl~nd S.J, oCthe faculty of Boston Col lege. Father Nowland, formerly in the PI:e-Medical Department, is now Professor of Clinical Psy choJog'Y in the Graduate. School. Dr. Francis J. D'Errico, Presi dent of the Guild, has extended an im;itation to all doctors, den tists, nurses and pharmacists to attend. In oreler tlfat a large group will be able to receive Holy Communion, confessions wiil be. heard before the Mass. Music will be supplied by the Nurses of St. Anne's Glee Club. In addition to Dr. D'Errico, the Turn to Page Sixteen
FROM IDLEWILD TO SAIGON: Msgr. Edward E. Swanstrom, executive director of Catholic Relief Services National Catholic Welfare Conference bids good bye to Miss Jeanne Kay, former Fall River resident, as sl1e re turns to her post via Air Saigon after six weeks home leave.
Fall River Woman Returns To Viet Nam Relief Work By Patricia M. McGowan
Around the world in sixty days"-that's the story of Jeanne Kay, Fall River native, graduate of Sacred Heart,,; Academy, and granddaug'hter of' former Mayor James H. Kay. She is now stationed in Saigon, Viet Nam with Catholic Relief Services, Na- a Family" and "Adopt a Priest" tional qatholic Welfare Con- programs sponsored by the Cath ference. oIlc Daughters of America. In the United States for the past month, In Fall River last week on Miss Kay has visited .her parent8, home leave from a two-year Mr. and Mrs. Harold B. Kay, tour of duty in Saigon, Miss Kay Turn to Page Sixteen described her relief activitie~ to' The Anchor. As administrative assistant to Rt. Rev. Msgr, Joseph J. Harnett, Far East director of Catholic Relief Services, she supervises details in connection with the building of churches. schools, leprosaria and retreat WASHINGTON (NC) houses throughout Viet Nam. She also administers the "Feed The cam13ai~ being waged
en appeared for the final ,time to three POI"tuguese shepherd chil dren. At a place near the vlI1age Turn to Page Ten
Fall River Parish to MQrk' Anniversary of Founding The parish of SS. Peter and Paul in Fall River will observ'e the 75th anniversary of its founding on. Sunday next. The Most Reverepd Bishop will preside and preach at the 11 o'clock Solemn Mass of Thanksgiving to be cele brated by,the Rev. John J. .,' \ Kelly. pastor, assisted by the It was In Apnl, 1882, that .the · II d Most Rev. Thomas F. Hendnck . R cv, J 0 h n P . D rISCO a n , 'll' F O'C son, Bishop of the PrOVidence ttIe R ev. W.1 lam. on D' f h' h F II R' nell, assistants. a .lver was lOcese, 0 w IC At 8 o'cloek on Monday morn , . .' ina lhete Will be a Solemn Re qlllE'm Mass for all the deceased, priests and Pllrishioners, and at 8 o'colck Tuesdav morning a Mass at which all the children of the parish will assist,
a part until 1904, e~tabhshed SS. Peter and Paul pansh on "Rattle Snake Hill," with the Rev. PatSSt PETER AND PAUL CLERGY: Rev. John J. . k D I fi t .t F th Kelly, pastor, with his assistants, Rev. John P. Driscoll, left, ~coY,e. I oy ~dasM rs ~as or. al er and Rev. WI'Ill'am F. O'Connell, l'I'ght, al'e makI'ng plans sa ~ss or. near y a yeal 111 a la1ge stOle on. the for obset ving the 75th anniversary of the founding of the' :rU;l'Il! ~ !'a.Il,e.. l.'~ent.v, .F.aH. ~ry~r p?-~i~~ ._ ~. _:. . .'
St. Paul Prelatfe Attacks Rising Sunday Sales
all over the nation to halt the practice of business-as usual on Sunday has had little effect. Archbishop William O. Brady of St. Paul, Minn" has observed that despite the "expressed con cern of bishops everywhere," the modern "desecration of Sunday has neither ceased nor lessened," l\foney Changers Truly,' "bishops everywhere" have expressed con'cern, and in emphatic terms, over the practice of making the Lord's Day one of carnival for the money-cbangers - Cardinal Spellman in New York. Archbishop O'Boyle in Washington, Archbishop Schulte in Indianapolis, Archbishop Bo land in Newark, Bishop Topel in Spokane, to name just a few in widely separated Sees. From the fact that the busi ness-as-usual Sunday practices have neither ceased nor lessened, Archbishop B l' a d y concludes: "We may guess that secularIza tion of the day Is on the in crease." The at. Paul prelate observed Turn W Page Twenty