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Program To Help
CeD Coordinators
The 'reaching Sisters and Brothers Committee of the CCD' will hold a Leadership Day for coordinators of PariS'h Roeligjous Education programs on Sunday, December. 8, at Coyle High Sehool in Taunton. The Day will open with »egistration at 12 :45 and . witt close with Mass and 1:20-"Co-ordinating the Total 't 5 I . Parish Program" supper a . t IS open to . 2:00-"What Should' We Ex priests, sistera, brothers ~nd pect of Our CeD Teaching loy .persgns, iUld will give Yaluable.help on how ·to pc a eoordinator lind' the problems ~d areas of improvement' of those who are coordinators. Secretary of the TSBC, Sister Martha Wordeman, outlines the Leadership Day as follows: 12:4S-Registration . 1:0()-..,"Goals of Religious Edu tatton"
Staff?" ... 2:4S-Small group "Coffee. Conferences" with resource per sons 3:30-"Possibilities in Adult Education" . 4:30-Holy Mass 5:0O-Supper There will be a fee of $1.50 to cover cost of coffee and hot supper.
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MEET IN WASHINGTON: F'all Riv~r Diocese lends a·tinge to the semi-.·mnual Bish ops' Oonferenci! being held in Washington as three friends ~eet; Most Rev. Thomas K. Gorman, Bishop of Dallas, and a :frequent visitor to Fall River; Bishop COJmolly, Most Rev. Humberto S. Medeiros, Bishop of Brownsville, and foi'mer Chancellor of Fall River..·
Conference ,M'eets,
Prepares Pastoral
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WASHINGTON (NC) The proposed pastoral of the U.S. bishops on the "Church in World Today" highlighted
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ton Hilton hotel here-and COIJl . Vitae, Pope: Paul's encyclical MI' ' ::: peied with dissident Washington birth' control, 161 yes; 17 no. Vietnam war, 121" yes; 64 no. priests for. headline billing at a press conference. Selective conscientious objec4 :The pastoral' draft was pre tion, 142 yes; 51 no. the first day's meeting of ·the· 'sented by Pittsburgh's Bishop Question '. of conscience and' U. S'. h.ienirchy 'at :,the Wash.ihg- . John' J: Wright, who had sent a morality of. s~cific wars, 143 questionnaiJ:-e to all bishops yes; 44 no. about its content. He said 219 The bishops· were given a draft MONTREAL (NC) - ·Paul veil of an· unknown llllogua'ge, of the pastoral and asked to sub4 bill~ops. h~d. r-eplied with these ~l1e Cardinal: Leger, former behind custoins I ,that'. ~ . back votes on whether a wanted topic mit written suggestions or Archbishop of Montreal, says several milleniums." . ~.I is to .. be .eJ!:plicltly treated ~n c~anges and the pastoral was to patience and constancy are the . be' .considered by· th~ body of 1'1IIIIIIII document: . Fame Pereo . ......:.. from a Latin virtues he has learned as a phrase meaning. ~'I am dying, of . S ' . 'd b .' t t' Contraception and· .abortion, bishops. 1'esult of his missionary work in . ~urre. .' y. ree.en ~on~ ... 194 yes; 19. no. . , . ~t was reported at the evening hunger" last. year distributed Oameroon, west cenlral Africa.', versles whIch have arIsen m Pastoral guidance on Humanae press briefing that the pastoral . . Cardinal' Leger,' who resigned 18. tons. of medical supplies and the Church in .this oountry' will be about half the length of . clothing contributed. byCana,. .. Mon trelll Archbishop iri No the '23,000-word document pub dians' to people of 18 Afr-iean two Catholic newspaperS' ··.·K··. vember 1967 to' work among llshed last January and will be countries. have published policy statements lepers in Africa, sent a special a~dressed to all the ~people of .Cardinal Le'ger spent· the firSt ~:~:.ining how they handle. Ileport to Fame Pereo, a charHy the Church, not just the clergy. OI'ganization here which he. three months of his stay' in It begins with stress on the basic .The Intermountain Catholic Africa learning, from observa llaelped found in 1962. He said: .value of ,human life, and also Register of the Salt Lake· City,· tions, how' African city dweilers "My fi·rst experience with tbe role of conscience in humaa utah, diocese in its Nov. 15 issue' NEW H.AVEN (NC)-The conduct. missionary activity has taught lived and how that mode of liv It will relate a discus published a statement. by Father ae that the two virtues' (pa;' ing differed from life in the Lawrence F. Sweeney, editor. Knlghta ()f Columbus have sion ·.of the sacredness of life tlence and constancy) 'are always African bush. . , Turn to Page Seventeen The Monitor, newspaper of the updated their initiation cere necessary in transmitting to the He listened attentively so as San Francisco .archdiocese and monies to give new emphasis nativeS the Gospel of salvation. to understand better what prior the Santa Rosa, Calif., diocese, to the role of Christian laymen They still retain their power to ities demanded his' immediate published a column. labeled in the modern world, Supreme educate, arid it takes time, much attention "in a ·human milieu so "How to Read This Newspaper:" Knight John W. McDevitt has time, to learn to understand a different from the one in which "The press these days, and announced. people, to come to discover the he had been accustomed to' live many of the clergy and 'laity' The actual nature of the ritual, buman values hidden behind the while in Canada." along with it, think that the however, is still a secret. A purpose of the press is to expose spokesman for. the 1,200,000' OT!'AWA (NC) - Bishol' all the' controversial· happenings member society of Catholic men that occur, whether they be explained that elaboration. of Alexander .Carter of Sault within or without the Church," the ritual would "take away Ste.Marie,· president of the Schoo~s Father Sweeney wrote. from the anticipation, the inter Canadian Catholic Confer "Those who hold .such a stance est and the d·rama" of the cere . ence," reports the receipt of a let4 CHICAGO (NC) - Collective with collective bargaining pro 'bargaining with lay teachers cedures "as soon as possible," forget that to report events and mony for the new candidate. ter from Archbishop Emanuele The new ritual will go into ef "cannot be avoided" in Catholic Father Reicher said one of the happenings out of context in the Clarizio, Apostolic Delegate to total life of the Church'is an' in- . feet on March 29, 1969, the 87th Canada, who said he was noti4 .ebools and will ultimately be chief problems in collEictive bar "'beneficial to the school sys gaining in Catholic schools is direct form o~ editor~~lizing. To anniversary of th..e receipt of a fied by Amleto Cardinal Cic04 whether or not non-administra ~. Father Robert A. Reicher Turn to Page Six charter by the association. gnani, Papal Secretary of State, told a meeting of school officials tive teaching members of at re The change was decided after that "Pope Paul VI has taken ligious order should participate. ' '-&ere. • three-year 'study and revision cognizance, of the (Canadian for . . . Bishops' document on birth con 4 The Chicago priest, a staff of the. sOciety's initiation .cere '"No one has reaiIy ~lved this trol) with satisfaction." member of the Catholic council entire difficulty,'" he said. "I ,Rev. Thomas ,Delisle, M.S., m~mies by an ll-man commi.s on Working Life, discussed the have written about the problem public .relaiions director of·La sion...The new rituals. have re , ·"As far· as· I ain concerned, it -Role of' Sisters· in Unionism more' than anyone else; but have Salette Shrine has announced' ceived the ur.animous approval means the ~ope has read it· and and Negotiation" at the fourth not come up with the ideal so that. due to .the. inclement ' of the society's board of direc- . approved it and accepted it 'and lution."· . ." llnnual meeting of superinten . found nothing wrong with·.it," . weather of Sunday, '''T'he Pray tors.·· dents of schoois and Supe'riors Another speaker, Sister Mary for Pea~ Day" has' been re The revised rites ~or the first Bishop Carterasserkrl. "I think ef Religious orders teachig in Catherine Homic of Livonia.. scheduled for 2:30 Sunday after three' degrees will be' known as it's a g~eral approval." Michigan Catholic schools. . "I don't. :want . to. -=..;aggerat~ discussed the procedures used noon, Nov. 17·at the La $aiette the admis,sion: degree,. the fer or mininti~~".the.in'!~rtance 9! ,," lA!l~Qt( <!egree': and the knight., 'Be urged" the adminlstrlltors to assign memberS of religious Shrine '00' Route '118 'in AttIe '001"0. . -, ' _., Turn to ·Page Seventeen Turn to .Page· Tg,irteen IIIild 8uperiori ~ become ~a~li. ' .. Tu~ to Page Thirteen":
Cardinal Leger Sees Need
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Canadian Bishops Aver Encyclical View Approval
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