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The Solemn Opening of an intensive house-to-house campaign, de signed to crown with success the drive for the building of the Fall River Catholic Memorial High School for Boys, will be held next Thursday night, Nov. 7, at 8 o'clock in the Durfee Theatre, Fall River. Rev. Michael J. Pierce, S.J., of the Jesuit Seminary Guild, Boston, will.address the workers. Bishop Connolly, who is now in Rome participating in the Ecumenical Council, will return for this meeting of the Gen eral Phase of the campaign being con ducted in the 36 parishes of the Greater Fall River Area. Attending, in addition to the Most Reverend Ordinary, will be Most Rev. James J. Gerrard, D.D., V.G., Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese, the priests of the 36 parishes, Atty. John T. Farrell, Sr., lay chairman, vice-chairmen and the Memorial Gifts and General Phase men. Father Pierce, the main speaker, en tered the Society of Jesus in August, 1928 and was ordained to the priesthood in June, -1940.
From 1942 to 1947, he served as Dean of Admissions and of the Freshmen and Sophomores at Boston College. The next eight years were spent at Holy Cross College, Worcester, where he first taught Philosophy and then was appointed assistant to the President of the College. Father Pierce is not a novice as far as Fund Raising Drives are concerned for in 1955 he was selected to head the campaign for a new Jesuit Novitiate at Shadowbrook. The campaign he 'headed was a tremendous success and thus all attending the Nov. 7th meeting will certainly be prepared by the speaker to make the General Phase of the Fall River Drive an overwhelming success.
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REV. MICHAEL J. lPIERCE, S.J.
There was nobody to play band music at the general phase session when the Bishop Stang High School building fund campaign was being held in Greater New Bedford six years ago. But, there was band music at the general phase session in Fall River Tues-
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Life of Good Pope John Modern Saint Example It was only five years ago that we thrilled at the an nouncement of the election of Pope John XXIII. It was then quoted of him from the Gospel of St. John, "and there was a man sent from God ... and his name was John •••H Little did any of us reaUse that sucn words would be come so real and meaningful. During their debates con eerning the holiness of the Church, the Fathers took time off on Mortday to celebrate this 5th Anniversary of the Election of the beloved Pontiff who had called them all together. For the occasion, Pope Paul bimself celebrated the Mass and Cardina~ Suenens gave the o:ra
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In all debates concerning 'the Church, mention of the Church's deficiencies and faults is not enough. A loyal look at the l.ri 1I1llphs of sanctity in her midst ill also necessary. And in his oration, the Cardinal interpreted the conviction of his brethren in the episcopate that this was pre- Turn to Page Sixteen
Council Decrees Will Become Canon Law
By Rev. Dr. R.M. Wiltgen Divine Word Society
Archbishop Pietro Palaz zini, Secretary of the Sacred Congregation of the Council .and author of a four-volume work titled 'Dictionary of the Councils", told reporters here in Rome today how the decrees of the Second Vatican Council in the light of existing church law could be put into effect. . The Italian Curia member said "it is not difficult to fore see what will happen." In reTurD. to Page Twelve
day night. The music was offered by the Bishop Stang High School band. "We like what we have and we want you to have the same, too," commented a Stang musician as he filed into the general session with his justly proud
Greater New Bedford colleagues.
Sanctity Is Normal Life, Council Fathers Insist Christians Be .Holy By Rev. John R. FoIster st. Anthony of Padua - New Bedford With half of the second session already a matter of history the Bishops, after having discussed the place· of the la y man in the Church, now turned to an exposition of the holiness that is to characterize the Church of Christ. The Bishops are re-af firming the ideals of the universal call given to all who wish to follow Christ. In Chapter IV now under scrutiny, the Bishops say, "Christ, Our Lord, is the source of all holiness and through His commandment of love, He sum monded all men to the fullness of Christian life in the fullness of grace, I.e., in the fullness of His ••• love." This call extends to all men all who glory in their Sainted Head. There are bishops, priests, laymen - married and single all are called to sanctity. And in the measure in which their own lives reflect the very character istic trait of Christ, they will be living witnesses to Him be-· fore the world. This holiness - always pre sent in the Church - is the pri mary work of all Christians in the world'no matter what their status. A simple explanation, ex
position, a mere exhortation or
even a solemn decree of an ecu menical council can not make it effective. It is for the clergy and the laity to make the ideal known to the world, to give it a taste of this all-delightful union with _Christ, even while
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living here in the world. Oh, there is no room for pharisaism. We all recognise that there is . sin in the world and even that we are ourselves re sponsible for much of it. This does not lessen our work but make it that much more important. Even in the Councn, the Church has wanted Turn to Page Eighteen
Holyday Tomorrow is the Feast of All Saints. a holyday of obligation. All Catholics are obliged to at tend Mass. Bishop Connolly has dis pensed Catholics in the Fall River Diocese from the obli gation to fast and abstain on Thursday, the day before the feast, and meat may be eaten on Friday.
Council Lauds Appeals' Of Ameri~an Prelates By Rev. Edward J. Mitchell .o'clock This was "A mer i ca each
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custom of the siesta. But while floor to plead for Christian equ Rome sleeps, a wide-awake ality, Christian freedom and group of newsmen gather daily Christian hope. Acting as spokesman for 141 at a building near St. Peter's for their council briefing in English. American bishops, Bishop Robert Emmett Tracy of Baton Rouge, By any standard, this news con La., called for a council state ference is one of the mo!,'t inter ment indicating that there exista esting facets of council life. When one recalls that at the no racial inequality in the Vatican Council I a solitary Church. He proposed this amendment to the third chapter English-speaking reporter cov Df the draft which deala ered the event (and this with the laity in the in an oten negative and Church. The passage ill critical vein), the phe nomenon of over 100 re its original form statea porters, representing that "there is no ineqra every shade of news lity in Christ and in the media, is a banner Church arising from na headline tribute to a tionality, social condi revived f r e e d 0 m of tions, or sex." speech in the Church It then quotes the and journalism at its words or St. Paul to the very best. At the press Galatians to back up its conference set up by the American bishops to aid atatement: "T her e ill Turn to Page Fifteen TurD to Page Five