The ANCHOR An Anchor of the Soul,
Sur, and Pirm-ST. PAUL
Foil River, Mas5., Thursday,Oet@~er 19, 1961
Vol. 5, No. 43 ©
1961 The Anchor
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Publ~c School Monopoly Idea Doomed to Slow FQ1i~ure NEW YORK (NC) - Bitterness over Catholic requests for Federal education aid will, fade eventually and the genuine needs of Catholic schools will be .recognized, a priegt-editor predicted here. Father Thurston N. Davis, S.J., editor-in-chief of America, . mltional weekly review, de- and "do not ask for privifeges." ,iWe ask simply," he continclared that "unhealthy ten- ued, "that the law of the land sions over the school issue, should not in its immediate efborn mostly of misunderstand- fect nullify the real' rights of lng, will be relaxed." Catholic or of other 'parents to The Jesuit editor stated that choose the kind of education that "Catholic parents of the United they wish their children to have, States do not argue for Federal anc;l to choose it without econ·' support as for some undeserved omic sanction. handout." "We are not opposed to the "They ask it in the name of public school. Your relatives and ordinary, every-day justice," he mine, thousands and thousands added. "We have argued firmly of loyal American Catholics, and patiently and with some have dedicated their lives to the success, we are beginning to be public schools of' the United beard." States. We merely demand that Father Davis stated that Cath- the public school should not olics "did not initiate the move become, as the sole beneficiary for. Federal aid to education" , Turn to Page E~hteeD
New Version of Education Prelate's Last Concern
Movie Attitude Now 'Decency Be Damned' .
LOS ANGELES (NC -
Lifting of the ban on the perversion theme in Hollywood films
~s one of the most dangerous changes since the industry's Production Code was drawn up
1932, a movie columnist has charged. Dick Williams, entertainment editor of the Los Angeles Mirror, says he suspects the "public's patience may reach the breaking point one of these days." Th.e Produc.,---::..: ,..__'_ _.. _. _ __.. .. _ __ _ tion Code is the U.S. movie industry's self - censoring guide. Critics, iricluding the u.s. Catholic' Bishops' Committee on Movies, have charged it is being weakened to the point where it is meaningless. Lifting of the prohibition against portrayal of perversion was reported several weeks before it was formally carried out. The basis for these reports were private comments from spokesmen of companies which already had begun making films involv-· ing perversion. Worst Nonsen!*l In August, code administrators reversed an eight-year-old stand and gave a seal of approval to a film which' it had denied 'in 1953; because it deals in a friv.olous manner with adultery. No Turn to Page Seventeen In
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Aw@rd L0$\r The Most ,Reverend Bishop will preside at ceremonies on the Feast of Christ the King, Sunday, Oct. 29, in St. John's 'Church, Attleboro, ,honoring 172 young men and women from all areas of the Diocese with the Ad Altare Dei cross and the Marian Medal. These' Catholic Scout awards will be made at 3 in the afternoon. They are given to those. who successfully completed the written, oral and practical requirements' ·for this highest award granted to Cath<)lic Boy Scouts 'and Girl Scouts. Those receiving the honor are:
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, YOUTH WEEK: Acting Superintendent of Schools -Rey. Patrick O'Neill signs 'Catholic Youth Week proclamation as students of Dominican Academy, Fall River, look on. Left to right, Barbara Hart, sodality prefect; Elizabeth Donnelly, school president; Olivia Paiva, yearbook editor.
Bishop Stang High Presents F'irst .College Day Sunday
AD ALTARE 'DEI AWARD , Sister Anne Cyril, S,N.D., Ph.D., of the English DepartST. PAUL (NC) - "A completely new version of the Fall River ment.of Emmanuel College, Boston, will be the main speaker future of education" was on the mind of Archbishop William P a u 1 McConnell, Richard O. Brady of St. Paul just before he was taken fatally ill. . Pierce, William Biello, Timothy at the first College Day to be held Sunday afternoon at 2 :30 .9.t Bishop Stang High School, No. Dartmouth. Following Turn to Page Eleven . This is revealed with the publication of an unusual question. the keynote address entitled, and-answer session in which the prelate candidly dis"Catholic Education and B Western Dynamics", reprecussed the problems and trends in his archdiocese. sentatives of 13 Catholic Colleges will be present in the Archbishop Brady's comments various classrooms to discuss enwere made in a tape-recorded By Patricia McGowan trance requirements and courses interview with Bernard Casserly, It was a big day at St. Joseph's Orphanage, Fall River - for Sisters, children, and offered at their respective editor of the Catholic Bulletin, for Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Donat Milot. Bishop Gerrard was there, together with a dozen or schools. Time will be alloted so St. Paul archdiocesan weekly, so other members of the clergy. All the Grey Nuns were there, smiling broadly. And some that parents and students might and publishe=d in that paper. consult with three different col"In some ways, we are still '200"children were there, scrubbed, shiny, and in their Sunday best. Backing. them up were. leges of their choice. teachinr. as if we were living 50 scores of St. Joseph "alumni" . Although Stang will not grad)'ears ago," the Archbishop ob': -men and women who had uate a class until 1963; school served, "I say that not only of spent some time within its officials believe it is not too early our own Catholic schools but of for students to plan for their care. All were there for one the whole school system. college careers. "We're now just coming into purpose-to pay tribute to Dr. The 13 colleges to be reprethe spacp. age, and we have not Milot, who for 30 years served sented will be: Assumption. without thought of comthem, f{)und it possible to take adBoston College, Cardinal CushNow retired, he still vantage of the techniques -of the pensation. ing College, Fairfield, Holy' holds the institution close to his scientific discoveries that have heart, and the feeling is recipCross, Merrimack, Providence College, Salve Regina, St. Anbeen made. , rocated by everytme associated Turn to Page Seventeen selin, Stonehill, Emmanuel, with St. Joseph's. Trinity, and Newton College of So a spedal program was the Sacred Heart. planned. Bishop Gerrard comTurn to Page Eighteen mended Dr. Milot. The children sang and danced for him. The alumni presented the home with an oil painting of th~ir benefactor, and Dr. Milot received a BATON ROUGE (NC) colored photograph of him$el£, Dangers from exposure to framed together with a poem of En9~gsh radioactive fallout dictate thanksgiving, composed by one CINCINNATI (NC) - A that Catholics should live in of the Sisters and beautifully total of 922 persons of St. illuminated by another. The the state of grace, a radiologist Clare's parish in nearby Col. poem was recited by two little said here. . lege Hill have signed petiJ. P. Tomsula, the scientist, boys in the course of the testi-' tions asking the Liturgical Com. told members of the 7-in-1 Club monial program. missioll in Rome to grant perThe afternoon was crowned by . of St. Joseph's parish the dangers mission for use of English in the range from minor to immediate .benediction, offered in St. JoMa~s. death as a result of such ex- seph's chapel by Bishop Gerrard. The signatures represent about posure. Cancer and other ail- Then there was a festive buffet 60 per cent of the parish adults. ments, and various degrees of for the doctor, his wife and the The petitioners called for use of burns can be contracted, he said. clergy. the English in the parts of the There is enough fallout alBut possibly the high point of Mass appropriate to the people ready throughout the world, to the afternoon came for the doc- , themselves, not the prayers warrant grave concern, Tomsula tor when four children, reprewhich belong particularly to the said. He estimated that without sentative of the hundreds he had. priest.. civil defense 75 million Amer- served in the course of 30 'years, Priests explained at Sunday icans would be doomed to die in clambered over him, hugging Ma·ss in the church that use of 11 nuclear war, but said with' the him, crowding onto his knees, HE'S OUR DOCTOR: Children at St. Joseph's Orphan- . Latin was not an essential restepped-up civil defense pro- calling him "Daddy." A happy day for a follower of age; Fall River, express affection for Dr. Joseph D. Milot, quirement of the Mass and that gram the number of deaths could bt' rcdu('('d to one-tenth. Tomthe Great Physician-one who, for 30 years ph.ysician to the institution. Left to rigJ:1t, prelates preparing for the comluia contcnded that complete like Him, has always said, ing ecumenical council had asked IJllilt"·.l-~r(Jlllld shelter pl'lltl'L'tion "Suffer the little children to Sharon Messenger, 2!; Nickie Carreiro, 3 j Debbie Carreiro, for opinions on the subject from 2 j James Carr, 4; Mrs. Milot j Dr. Milot. UI iIMI'""ihle in the Gulf Slatell. the laity.· come to me."
St. Joseph's Orph, anaIY€ Honors Dr. ~fi,lot Fo' r 30 Years· of Servii'e to Children
Scientist Labels State of Grace Fa lIout Answer
Cincinnati Laity Petitioll1 To Use at Mass