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WASHINGTON (NC)-Vigorous growth is.reflected in the activities the Catholie Church in the United States. • . Th.is growth, cpuple.d with t!'te nation's leadership in the Free World, bi'i~gs ste~dily mcreasmg requests for mformatIOn and ser vice. not only at home but also from abroad. Reports made by, depart
An Anchor of the S01A.l•.Sure and Firm-ST. PAUL m~nts and bureaus of the
National Catholic' Welfare
Conference to the annual River, general meeting of the archbish ops and bishops of the country PRICE lOe Second Clas. Mail Priviletreo V~I. here show that many diverse Aathorized at Fall River. M•••. $4.00 per Yea' ,------~----------- .problems were studied and dealt with in the course of the year. An observation made a year ago by Archbishop Francis P. Keough of Baltimore, chairman of the NCWC Administrative Board, was amply borne out this year. It is that, as the NCWC becomes more widely ,known, t, th~ conference receives more and more inquiries and requests for the aid of its facilities· and services, Education Program Interests and preoccupations of .the NCWC Department of Education ranged 'widely over the, entire m~ld of. education dur Turn to Page Fourteen
Fall
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Thursday, Nov. 13, 1958
2, No. 46
Arctic Missioner Credits Prayer For Rescue
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You Must Have Some Old Discards For Diocesan Clothing Drive NEW YORK (NC)-Expressions of thanks pour in throughout the year to headquarters of Catholic I Relief . Services-National.Catholic Welfare Conference from home- . less, hungry and needy peoples .all over the world for the . generosity of American American aid both military and Catholics to the annual econorriic. We can hardly find Thanksgiving Clothing Cam words to thank you enough for the great assistance from the paign. The 11158 campaign for warm United States in rehabilitating our war-torn country. The Cath clothing will be conducted na tionwide during the week of olic Relief Services-NCWC has been most friendly and generous Nf '. 23-29. Tt will be the 10th annual drive for usable used in sending clothes and food." Ten thousand pounds of used clothing, blankets, shoes, bed ding and other materials which clothing distributed last week to 1,187 needy families by Catholic Clan be sent to the needy over seas, regardless of race, creed or Relief Services represented 'the biggest single distribution this national origin. Won Hwan Cho, on behalf of year in Korea. the "poorer people of the Myung The used clothing was donated Dong church area in Seoul, to a total of 6,33i refugees, vic Korea" writes, "We have been time of a flood which drove them able to defend ourselves from from their homes an ,a sand bank eommunist aggression with in the Han River.
WASHINGTON (NC) "All our prayers were an swered by the rescue." These are the words of Father Thomas P. Cunningham, a' Jes uit missionary and one of the world's top experts on Arctic pack-ice, after a rescue plane scooped the priest and 19 other men from an ice floe on which they were stranded near .th~ North Pole. Father Cunningham's words were relayed here by Air Force officials who reported after the arrival of the men in Greenland Turn to Page Nineteen
C'a Iiforn iaVotes .Against . Pri~ate' School Taxes SAN FRANCISCO (NC) The. proposal to' tax this' state's private 'grade and high schools sUffered a big ger defeat in this month's vot ing than even the sagest political expert predicted. And the plurality by which exemption from a disabling state property tax was supported was much larger than that of 1952; the last time the question was on the ballot. With all but 518 of California's 26,896 precincts reported, the unofficial tally .was 3,237,714 " Turn to Page Nineteen 0
Rules Nuns in Religious Habits May Teach in Public S~hools COLUMBUS (NC)-A religious habit is no impediment to teaching in a public school. While "sectarian teaching" is forbidden in public schools, "wearing a distinctive garb does not amount to a teaching of religious doctrine'" Ohio At torney General William Saxasked: "Can mein~e~s of reli~ be has ruled. gious order teach in the pUblic Persons of "any religious schools wearing the religious faith or of no faith" may habit required by said order, lawfully be employed to teach and be compensated from public funds?" in public schools, Mr. S a x b e ' " added. The question apparently arose The attorney general's statewhen a local school district, ment was made in reply to a which had been beset by finan questio~ from Randall Metcalf, ciaI problems, leased 'a Catholic Washington County Prosecuting. school from the Diocese of Steu AttorneY,:. Mr. Metcalf's query TUfn to Page Eightee~
GOSPEL NARRATOR: Joseph A. Parks, retired Fall River attorney who was a Sunday School teacher at age 14 in England, reads the Gospel in English while Rev. William A. Galvin reads the Latin narrative at Mass in Catholic Memorial Home chapel, Fall River.
Catholic Memorial Home Residents Participate. in Prayers of Mass. The Catholic Memorial Home, Fall River, has joined the growing number of Diocesan parishes and institutions encouraging congregational participation in Mass. Lesd by 84-year-old Joseph Parks, residents joined last Sunday in °the brief responses resuits of this first effort,' said of the Mass. Mr. Parks, reFather Galvin. Residents and tired lawyer, and for 20 Si~ters of the Home will make years a member of th ori _ brIef responses at weekday . . e ~ Masses as well,although the Eng mal. Massachusetts Indus~rIal lish reading of. Epistle and Gos . ACCIdent Boa.r~, rea~ the EpIstle pel will take place only on Sun and Gospel mEnghsh as, Rev. d W!l1iam. A.Galvi~,Ho~e chap~rir. Parks, former member of lam reCIted them m Latm. St. Louis parish, Fall River, was Widening, of participation to instrumental. in enactment of the include the longer responses' of . Workmen's .; Compensation Law the Mass will ,depend upon· the of 191L
New York Radio Panelists Note Religious Resurgence in Russia NEW YORK (NC)-A resurgence of religion in the Soviet Union has led to a Kremlin counter-offensive intended to spread atheism among the people. "The religions upsurge has even infiltrated communist ranks," a radio program be- ' of the USSR, in cooperation with lieves. "Sovjet newspapers the news and special events de are filled with censures of partment of radio station WOR. The institute, whose headquar party and Komsomol (Young ters are in Munich, consists of Communist League), members former Soviet scholars and sci who are marrying in church, entists who fled Red tyranny having theIr children baptized, and are now producing studies or displaying verses from the dealing with life in the USSR. Koran in their homes." One panelist was Father Leopold The program was presented Turn to' Page Eighteen by the Institute for the Study
Retain· Famous Lester Lanin Band For Annual Charity Ball Jan. 7
REV. WILLIAM D. THOMSON
Bishop ~Connolly's Annual Ball for' Underprivileged Children will be held Wednesday evening, January 7, 1959 at Linc.oln Park's Million Dollar Ballroom, Rev. William D. Thomson Spiritual Director, Diocesan Central Council So ciety of St. Vincent de·Paul Last year's affair attracted aimounced. today. more than 4000 people from Father Thomson also alJ, every parish in the Diocese and all the newspapers in the area nounced that Lester Lanin hailed the event as a fabulous and his internationally famous success. dance band have again been re The Charity Ball will again be tained to provide the music for under the co-sponsorship of the the Chilrity Ball which has be SoCiety of St. Vincent de Paul come the top social event of Southel'n New England. , Turn to Page Eighteen
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