Fall Meeting of Bishops
The ANCHOR An Anchor oj the Soul, Sure and Firm-St. Paul
Fall River, Mass., Thursday, Nov. 8, 1973 $4.00 per year Vol. 17, No. 4S © 1973 The Anchor PRICE 10¢
Schedul(e Clothing. Drive Last Week of November The Thanksgiving Clothing Appeal will again be held this year in the Diocese of Fall River. with collection of clothing in parishes beginning on Sunday, November 25, and ending on Saturday, December 1. Trucks will pick up the clothing from parishes beginning on Monday, December 3, with the exception of the Taunton Area where pickup will begin on Thursday, December 6. As in past years, parishes in the Cape Cod Area and Attleboro Area will bring their clothing to' the area depots. . The heavy toll resulting from earthquakes and floods during the past year all over the world has virtually eJ!:haust.ed the clothing reserves of the Catholic Relief Services under whose auspices clothing is collected, processed and distributed. The need of clothing is especially acute this year. Lightweight clothing of all types is the greatest need, with
men's clothing in urgent need. Children's and infant's clothing is always in demand. Light and heavy blankets, piece goods, remnants and sewing materials are in need. Donations of new shoes' are welcome but used shoes can no longer be accepted as the problem of matching and processing them for reshipment is simply overwhelming. Ol')ce again the faithful of the Dipcese are asked to extend themselves in this needed work of charity. The clothing once collected is taken to distribution cent~rs and there processed and baled for delivery overseas. Rep-' resentatives of Catholic Relief Services take charge of the clothing and distribute it to those in need without regard to race or creed. The only standard is that of need.
To Treat Pastoral Issues WASHINGTON-The 1974 in- The discussions will be incor- bishops have sought and received ternational Synod of Bishops, a porated into a .position paper authorization from the Holy See proposed new method of admin- 'which will be sent to the Vatican for Communion in the hand. istering Holy Communion, and as the American hierarchy's reUnder the proposal to be conseveral key elections are items on sponse to the Synod theme. sidered next month, it would be the agenda of the.anJ:lual general The bishops will also elect four up to local bishops in the U. S. meeting of the National Confer- delegates and two alternates as to decide whether or not to inence of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) their reprsentatives at the Synod. troduce the practice in their dioand United States Catholic ConA much discussed liturgical cese. In addition, the individual ference (USCC). innovation - the reception of communiicant would be free to Some 250, members of the Holy Communion in the hand- receive Communion in the tradiCatholic hierarchy are expected will appear on the bishops' agen- tional manner or in the hand, to attend the meeting, which will da in November. In a vote at according to his or her preferbe held November 12 to 16 at the their meeting in November, 1970, ence. The proposal originates Statler Hilton Hotel here. a majority of the bishops (117 with the NCCB Liturgy CommitThe bishops will also consider for, 107 against) favored asking tee, whose chairman is Bishop proposed policy statements on the Vatican for authorization to Walter W. Curtis of Brid'geport, the 1974 Population Year and on introduce the practice, on an op- Connecticut. prison reform. tional basis, in the United States. The international Synod of But because a two-thirds vote is Bishops, which will be held in required, the proposal failed to . October, 1974, at the Vatican, pass. For centuries in Roman Cawill occupy much of the bishops' ,tholicism, the usual method of attention. Pope Paul VI announced earlier administerinng Holy CommuWASHINGTON (NC) - When this year that the theme of the nion. has been for the priest or the U.S. bishops meet here Nov. Synod will be "The Evangeliza- minister of Communion to place 12-16, a spirited debate over tion of the Modern World." The the consecrated Host on the Communion in the hand is in the bishops will spend a morning communicant's tongue. Since the making. during their meeting discussing Second Vatican Council, howThree weeks before the meetthis subject in regional groups. ever, about 15 conferences of ing Cardinal John J. Carberry of St. Louis circulated a report to 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111\1. the U.S. ,bishops opposing the practice . The report, released to NC News with the cardinal's 'permission, includes reprints or excerpts from Vatican documents opposNovember 17 -18 Weekend ing the practice and' cites other evidence indicating that introduction of Communion in the hand in the United States would not be HELp"OTHERS HELP THEMSELVES pastorally sound. But in the past, when the topic has been brought up before the 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 American bishops a majority of Tum to Page Three
Communion In Hand
Human Development Collection
Rose Hawthorne Home Draws 'High Praise
Supreme Court To Hear Sc:hool Aid Cas'e WASHINGTON (NC) - The U. S. Supreme Court agreed Oct. 15 to decide whether federal funds for .educationally deprived children must be spent on nonpublic school children in Missouri at a rate comparable to that for public school children. At issue are Title I funds of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). Under a 1968 provision of the act, local programs "designed to meet the special educational needs of educationally deprived children" in nonpublic schools must be comparable to those for public school children "with needs of equally high priority." The Missouri case was started by a group of students and their parents in Kansas City where $50 from Title I funds was being spent for each nonpublic school student while public school students were being helped at the rate of $275 per pupil. State education officials ar-' gued that the Missouri Constitution prohibits the sharing of personnel that would be required to bring aid to nonpublic school Turn to Page Three
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CAMPAIGN FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: Three scenes show some of the different kinds of projects funded by the upcoming Campaign for Human Development collection Nov. 18. Top left: Children in rural Vermont open wide for teeth inspection when a mobile dentistry unit arrives in town. Bottom left: A farmer on one of the Sea Islands in South Carolina inspects peanuts grown on a cooperative farm. Right: A young man in Philadelphia's inner city takes part in a neighborhood cleanup effort. The three projects are among .149 grassroots programs which received $4.6 million in CHD funds this year. NC Photo.
Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, world renowned psychiatrist and authority on death and the dying, had words of high praise for the Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Home in Fall River which she visited while in the city for a lecture. She described the home, which cares for patients suffering from terminal cancer, during an appearance on a Boston television program two days later, saying "It was Qne of the most beautiful places I've ever seen. I would have liked to put on a white coat and stay there the rest of the day. "The patients were happy, the nuns were so open and cheerful and the place looked so beautiful, with flowers and colored sheets on the bed." The home, at 1600 Bay Street, opened in 1932 and since then has cared for cancer patients from all parts of New England without regard to their circumstances, absolutely refusing any recompense for what may be years of care. It is staffed by the community of Dominican Servants of Relief for Incurable Cancer, founded by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, convert daughter of famed author Nath~lliel Hawthorne.
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