1965 Mission Style: Folk Siuying' & °Guitar
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,, By Patricia McGowan I . ~ Write a feature story about a mission? "Ohhhh, Dullsville," thought I, borrowing a phrase from one' of the mad mob continually. circu mung around' ou,-" house. Not that missions aren't worthwhile and 'a vital stimulus to parish life-but l).ow t() say anything about a particular mission that wouldn't be interchangeable with an account of any other mission? ., Full of such inspiring thoughts, I took daughters One and Two by the hands and trudged up to St. .fean Baptiste Church, Fall River. A few priestly admonitions wouldn't,do them a bit of harm, I firm ly wId them, tearing them from the delights oJ the U inch screen. ' Surprise number one. What s()rt of a mission Was held in the parish hall instead of the church? Surprise num}}er two. Why were those leather jacketed, Beatl~-banged types of adolescents lurkTurn to Page
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The ANCHOR Fall River, Mass., Thursday, Oct.. 21, 1965
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1965 The Anchor
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Spirit ,of 'Love Marks
Ecumenical Council·
BY MSGR. HUMBERTO S. MEDEIROS
Diocesan Chancellor - Council Peritus
This fourth session of V ~tican Council II is daily being marked as the council of love. The opening allocu tion of Pope Paul VI to all attending this session was his lyrie hymn to love and it inauguarated the spirit of love, love for God, love for the Copin of "La Croix" that, "Love, Church, and love for man presented by Paul' VI as the kind. This love must come essential activity of the Church from the Holy Spirit who is in our time manifests the true the very life of the Church. This sublime thought of the Holy Father inspired Brother Roger Schutz, of the Protes tant community of Taize, to send to Paul VI a telegram in which be said that the Pope's inaugu ral discourse was the most pro found ever h ear d -under tHe vault of St. Peter. "It is a light shining brigpt on the, en tire Session." The "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" commented that in the Holy Father's allo cution "was clearly heard the voice of a new Pentecost." ''Le Figaro" of Paris reflected that the theme of love gave the discourse an exceptional' clarity which invites us to read it rath er than to comment upon it. The "Osservatore Romano" re marked that the whole discourse .. Jike a ~eology of ecclesial
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Cites Many World Areas of Lower Density BELGRADE (NC)-How oan succeeding generations, each larger than the one be fore, achieve living standards worthy of man's dignity. The' challenging question, pre sented in many forms at the United Nations World Population Conference here, provoked spirited controversies between those who would give major stress w development of economic and natural re sources. Many conference ob pense of giving' adequate atten chemical resources would pro '_ servers agree that: 1. Popu tion "to the important subject of vide enough for trillions of the relationship between' food people, he said. lation c()ntrol sentiment pre supply and population." Except for Western Europe, vailed. 2. -The leading proponents of population limitation are Amer- . icans. 3. The conference itself was U. S.-dominated. ,Father Henri de Riedmatten, O.P., the Holy See's observer at the meeting, stressed the danger of the conference "falling into a ' unilateral, one-sided conception of all population problems." He declined to single out the U. S. as the main source of the alleged :"one-sidedness." But the priest said it seems "a tragedy that . those who represent the great :hope of the, world of tomorrow in terms of development" be cause of their human and scien tific resources would take "a 'very negative" approach to the :populatiou problem. 'Advocating an intensified' 'world program to bring more land under cultivation and to apply modern methods of tech nology to already existing farm acreage, Dr. Sean O'Heideain of Ireland, lashed out against what he termed an "emotional cam paign" for world-wide birth con trol'at the conference at the ex
the "carrying capacity" for pop. O'Heidain then focused re ulation in areas throughout the newed attention on the confer ence's most optimistic presenta world is far higher than the ac· tion, Ii paper on "Food Resources tual number of inhabitants, ac· of the Earth," given earlier by cording to Wilhelm Winkler of K.M. Malin 'of the Soviet Union. the University of Vienna. For The Moscow research expert example, South America is uti~' claimed that the food potential izing only six per cent of its of ,the earth is "really limitless." actual carrying capacity, he Malin held that it is possible, claimed. Western Europe is in a without capital expenditures, to favorable position because of its economic techniques and or· extend cultivated areas to pro vide normal food for more than ganization, he said. seven billion people, more than He proposed that stres~ be twice the world's present,popu placed throughout the worI<i on lation. With capital expenditures,O development of the successful planted acreage can be expanded 'European formula. to care for up to 130 billion peo Father Jacques G. Denis, S.J.. ple, he' claimed. Use 'of solar who teaches social geography at energy, the tapping of oceans the state-operated university at Turn to Page Ten and regulation and utilization of
More Simple Mass Structure Liturgy Commission Aim , ROME (NC)-The Comissi()n for Implementation of the Q()nstitution on the Liturgy met w study proposals to make the Mass and the administration of the other sacra ments simpler and more readily understood by the poople.' The commission, headed . _ by Giacomo Cardinal Ler. caro of Bol()gna, began a week-long sessi()n this week
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Specialists..in CCD Work Now in JOth Year in U.S. LO~
ANGELES (NC) - The o Kplain clothes" Sisters celebrate the silver jubilee of their com munity this month. ' Sisters Devoted to the Sacred Heart, who wear contemporary dress and use a badge as their only religious symbol, were founded in Kocise, Hungary in 1940. Today their motherhouse is in Los Angeles where Auxiliary Bishop John Ward has blessed a new novitiate provided for them by James Francis Cardinal Mc Intyre. The Sisters' also are celebrat ing the silver jubilee of their And Father Scrima, the per superior general, Sister Ida . . .al representative of the Or Peterfy, who was part of the thodox Patriarch Athenagoras original community, in Hungary. III Constantinople. told Noel· The communityia, in ita lOUa
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year in Los Ailgeles, specializing in Confraternity of Christian Doctrine work. Members conduct teacher training classes, teach religion to children, engage in home visitation and give lel3,dership. courses to teenage girls. The foundation grew out of a sodality in Kocise. Its members often risked their lives to try to save Jewish .friends from the nazis. Nazi efforts to alienate people from' the clergy and Religious contributed partially to the deci sion of the new foundation to , wear no distin.ctive habit. ,The Sisters - now have three -convents in Los Angeles, another in Reno. There are 23 members.
since the ecumenical council is recess. The 43-member' body includes Joseph Cardinal Ritter of St. Louis and Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan of Atlanta. High on the agenda for the meeting was a demonstration of a "new look" for the Ordinary of the Mass submitted by Msgr. Johannes Wagner, chairman of the committee on the Mass and ,director of fhe ll'turgical insti· tute at Trier, Germany. The plan developed by Msgr. Wagner's body would seek to restore "the noble simplicity" in the rite of !\jass called for in the Constitution on the Liturgy, which was enacted by the coun cil in 1963. If the commission approves it, Pope Paul may permit its exper"; ime'ntal use in a limited number Tum to Paie ~venteeA
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