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By Msgr. Humberto S. Medeiros. ROME-Bishop Gerrard and I have just returned from a pilgrimage to As sisi. I feel that a visit to Italy without seeing the hometown of St. Francis is like a visit ,to Rome without seeing the Pope. I remember that in early Novem ber of 1962 Bishop Connolly, Bishop Fitzgerald of Winona, Father Edward Mitchell and I went to the tomb of the "Povel>ello" to pray for the Council. We merely followed the example of Pope John XXIII, who on the previous October 4, the Feast of St. Francis of
Assisi, stopped at the Basilica to im plore the intercession and the blessing of the Saint of universal love and peace for the great Ecumenical Council he had convoked and was going to open only a week later, on October 11th. To day an inscription on the wall of the Auxiliary Bishop James J. Gerrard and Msgr. Humberto S.· Medeiros, diocesan repre sentatives at the fourth session of Vatican Council II, this week are visiting the Holy Land. They are in company with Bishops· and Council Periti. After arriving in Beirut, they are touring the holy· places, and, from Nazareth, will proceed to Tel Aviv for their return to the Eternal City.
lower Piazza, near the gate of the mon astery, commemorates this extraordi .nary visit of the Vicar of Christ to the tomb of Francis. This year,also on the Feast Day of St. Francis of Assisi, Pope Paul VI left the Vatican Council to bring his message of Christian love and peace to the nations of the world represent ed in New York ·at the General Assem bly of the United Nations. It would seem, then, that Popes John and Paul had Francis in mind Turn to Page Ten /
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Fall River, Mass., Thursday, Nov. 4, 1965
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DIOCESAN NATiVE GREETS NEW HOLY LAN]) BISHOPS: Brother Daniel Sullivan, O.F.M., left, brother of Rev. Leo .T. Sullivan, Raynham pastor, meets newly conse crated Bishop Joseph Beltritti, Auxiljary to Jordan Patriarch Albert Gori of Jerusalem, second fr9m left, and Auxiliary Bishop John Simaan of Amman, Jordan, second from right, at Terra Sancta College, Amman, Jordan. At the. right is Archbishop Asaf.
Tremendous ·Parental Response
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Bids for New Fall River School Today
There is no doubt that 11here is a demand for Bishop tonnolly High School which wjll Jesuit-educate Fall Riv
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boys, This was apparent when the dio\lese conducted a finan dal campaign two years ago to raise funds for the new second My institution.
The proof became even more manifest this week when school authorities, the Jesuits and the Diocesan school office, were flooded with inquiries concern ing the opening of Connolly ·High. Parents w~re inquiring as to an entrance examination, the chances of their son gai~ing
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curriculum. . The' new Jesuit post office box was over-crowded with.1et-
Holy Father Expresses T·hanks ,The Holy. Father, Pope Paul VI, hasexpresed his gratitude to Bishop ('-onnolly and· and his flock for the
contribution of the. Diocese "to the Holy See's ·universal chari table and missionary apostolate By Rev. John R. FoIster
in a letter from Amleto G. Card St. AnthoDY's Church - New Bedford
inal Cicognani, Vatican Secre tary of State. The Vatican Council has again recessed temporarily The Pope's letter: "The praiseworthy traditional to allow the various commissions to draw up the final or by which local Ordinaries near final decrees on which the assembled Fathers may usage and their flocks contribute an vo~e. But the final approval or promulgation is not the nually to the central administra end of the GOuncil's work. tion of the Church\ and to the It is actually the beginning vised. But the Bishops must re- . Holy See's universal charitable and the Post-Conciliar Com~ main nearby so as to be available and missionary apostolate, ,has been generously observed during mission on Implementing the ~or these important votes. the year 1965 by Your Excel With .ten schemata already Liturgy Commission gave us approved only six remain in the lency and the Diocese of Fall another example o~ this. River, through the Peter's Pence 'All debate has ceased and final stages of preparation; Re cfffering which you have recent ligious Freedom, The ·Lay Apos-· should not resume again unless ly deposited at the Apostolic tolate, The Missions, Priestly a revision is not accepted by the Delegation. Fathers or is only conditionally Life and Ministry, Divine Reve "When instructing me· to ac accepted. This is possible for lation, and The Church in the knowledge this thoughtful do Modern World. the schema on the Church in the nation, the Holy Father bade me Council meetings will resume also assure Your Excellency of Modern World which contains some hotly debated subjects, e.g., on Nov. 9, with a public session His appreciative thankfulness, scheduled for Nov. 18 during and of His insistent prayer that nuclear deterrent war, etc. The sessions that have been which the Holy Father is ex Our Lord may richly reward held were short-one hour-and pected to promulgate those de such devotion tQ His Vicar oa eonsisted in the bishops voting crees ,that are ready bT ibM earth and to the See of Peter. - parts of Ichemaa beina re . Turn to Page Sevea Turn to Page Seventeea
ters from interested parents in the Greater Fall. River area. It was necessary for the authori ties to make several trips to the post office· to pick up mail w h i c h was overwhelmingly large. and too great for the rented space. Today at 2, nine companies will submit bids for the con-
struction of the new school. It is expected that the work im mediately· will commence. Inas much as the school will not be completed in time for next Sep tember's entering F res h man class, classes wil begin in the newly planned CCD building at St. William's Church in FaD River.
St. Anselm's President Replies
Knowledge ~r Support Of . Pacifists: Denied'
MANCHESTER (NC)-Catholic spokesmen have dis claimed any knowledge or support of a visit here by a group of young pacifists. The group's visit to St. Anselm's College was "made without our knowledge," said Father , Placidus Riley, O.S.B., pres represent an official organ of ident of the college and the Roman Catholic Church. Coadjutor Abbot Gerald F. McCarthy, O.S.B., 'of St. An
Piocese to Host Charity Leaders
selm's Abbey, and chancellor of the college. Referring to the arrest of David Miller for burning his Rev. John E. Boyd, pastor. draft card while the group was of St. Patrick's Church Fall in Manchester, the joint state River, and Diocesan Director ment of the college officials con of the Charities Bureau an tinued: "We deplare the unfortunate nounced today that Diocesaq. association of the good name of Directors of the Catholic Chari-.. the college with a person who ties Bureaus of Boston, Spring has defied our laws and the field, Worcester, Fall River, and Burlington, Vt., will meet Mon embarrassment which this en tire incident has caused to our day afternoon at' 2 o'clock in St. community, students, faculty, Patrick's Rectory, Fall River. The meeting will be under the alumni and friends." Meanwhile, a spokesman· for· direction of Rt. Rev. Charles F. Dewey of Boston who q the Catholic diocese of Man chester emphasized that the chairman of the standing com pacifists from the" Catholic mittee and priests'directors of Worker Movement who visited . Catholic Charities of the United. the St. Anselm's campus did not States.