Clothing Drive Begins on Sunday The Diocese of Fan River
will be striving again next Sunday to maintain a record
ft has long cherished in asGisting the world needy when it oommcnccs the annual Thanks(Jiving Clothing Drive.
DIOCESE SEEKS, TO MAINTAIN HIGH RATING IN' ANNUAL CORPORATE WORK OF CHARITY The diocesan faithful last year gave almost twice the national avet'age in the weight and value
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NEW FRIENDS: On his first day in the United States, Mak Koo Lim 'of Korea gets acquainted with two r11f his'10 new brothers and sisters, children of ,Mr. and Mrs, Edward Caron, South Swansea. From left, Robert, 11.; Mak, eight; Susan, eight.
of discarded old warm clothing for the American Bishops' collection. "A total of 233,000 pounds of usable clothirtg was contributed in the 110 parishes of the diocese last year," said Rev. Francis McCarthy, Somerset pastor who heads up the program in the Fall River Diocese. "The value of this clothing was placed at $332,510," Father McCarthy reported as he expressed the hope that the
parishes will again demonstrate their concern for their less-fortunate brethren in all parts of the world. "Our realization of 233,000 pounds compares most favorably with the national diocesan average of 122,302 pounds," Father McCarthy ~mphasized. "And, th~ $332,510 value of our diocesan collection last year compares with the national'diocesan aver_ age value of $175,865 last year," said the pastor of St. Patrick's
parish in Somerset. "It is most heartening to us who are closely associated with the annual Thanksgiving Clothing Collection to see so many kind and considerate people who are ready to discard warm articles really before they originally intended so as to help the needy under-clothed individuals scattered throughout the four corners of the world," the Somerset pastor declflred. The annual Clothing Drive will commence in diocesan parishes on Sunday. The exact schedule in each parish will be announced at the Masses 011 Turn 'to Page Twelve
'Worldwide Church Gain Catholics throughout the world total some 558,221,000, about 18.2 per cent of the global· population,according to the Catholic Studentll' Mission Crusade. While this figure is a numeri_ cal increase' of nearly eight mil_ lion over last year, It represents a percentage decline of about one-tenth of one per cen·t. The population figures are contained in the 1962 World Mission Map, U. S. Cathoiics number 42,876,665 or 23.4 per cent of the nation's total population of 186,500,000. U. S. ranks third among the world nations in total Cath_ olic population. Brazil has the world's largest Catholic population with 64,171,400-93.4 per cent of the total. Other leading countries are: Italy, 50,211,443 (99.5 per cent) France, 38,398,960 (82.6 per cent) Mexico, 33,984,000 (94.4 per cent) Spain, 30,293,000 (99.7. per cent) Poland, 29,266,854 (96.5 pel!' cent) West Germany, 26,618,935 (47.3 per cent) Philippines, 21,639,181 (87.7 per cent). Turn to Page Sixteen
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FALL RIVER ORDINARY AT COUNCIL: Rev. James L. Connolly, Bishop of Fall River, Peter's Basilica with other members of world after attending morning session of Ecumenical Rome.
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.Most Rev.' James J. Gerrard. D.D.• Vicar General of the Diocese of Fall River, in virtue of special faculties from the Sacred Congregation of the Cou'neil, grants a dispensation from the law of abstinence for I Friday, Nov. 23, the day after , Thanksi:"lving Day. Catholics ~I By Patricia ,M~GowaR " may eat meat on that day but I~ex "How far that little candle throws his beams! So are asked to express the spirit VATICAN CITY ,(NO) - The Second Va:tican Ecuof penance by prayers, slicrishines a good deed in a naughty world." The truth as well fices, almsgiving' or other good menical Council will be in recess from two and a half weeks as poetry in Shakespeare's lines' was proved this week in works. ' b e f o r e Christmas until four weeks after Easter. The second South Swansea as an action • ~ session of the Council will bethree ago in California gin May 12 after a 22-week found ltS echo here. The , i n t e r v a l , and 'will last seven action was the adoption of weeks, until June 29, the a K?rean 0l1?han ~Y a Califeast of SS. Peter and Paul. forman famIly wlth seven . . The dates were announced ehildren. They wrote of it in to the Council Fathers by Archa Catholic magazine, which was By JamesM. Johnson. By Rev. Edward. J. Mitchell bishop Pericle ,Felici at the 17th read by Edward and Beatrice general congregatio11 of the Caron of St. Michael's parish, Although 'the fathera Gf' the Second The bishops of' the Coun~i1, despite Council. Ocean Grove. At that time, the Vatican Council' are mos-t concerned with their intensive hours' of work in bringing' The curre!1t sessioJ! concludes Cal'ons too had seven childdren. those internal changes which will enable .the' Church up to date, are able now and Dee. 8,' after eight weeks of (The number has grown to 10). the Church to more effectively ,meet the then to catch their breath with a well- meetings. :For a long time' they'd been demands of the present age, earned rest. Just such a break During t'he five-month absence wanting to increase their family . from Rome of the bl'shops and they also are reminded, almost came last. week, When the by adoption, but they'd assumed . ' 'other Council Fa'thers, however, dally, 0f anoth er importan t Counci' 1 adJourned for th . e 0 bthey wouldn't be considered bereason for the convocation of servance of All-Saints, Allthe special Council commissions cause of their own brood's size. will continue to work, it was this, the largest Ecumenical SOUls weekend, many of the "But when we saw that arCouncil in history. bishops departed the cl,ty for revealed. ' tide, we thought, if they can do This purpose is the reunion a short holiday. Some went to At the 18th general meeting, it, why can't we," recounted of all bodies of people throughLouvain, Belgium, to renew the Fathers of the Council were Edward. The Carons wrote to out the_f1?rld who worship the_ memories of the i r student informed that Pope John has the National Catholic Welfare same liO<l and who proudly days; others t r a veIl e d to ordered the name of St. Joseph, Conference in New York City, bear the name Christian. And Lourdes, southern Italy, the foster father of Jesus, inserted in which referred' their request to the reminder is the presence monastery of Padre Pio, Gerthe Canon of ,the Mass following the Fall River Catholic Welfare of the Protestant and Orthomany, and similar historic and that of the Blessed Virgin Mary Bureau. Wheels started turning. dox observer-delegates at the religious places. in the Communicantes, the third First step was interview , private congregations of the Bishop ,James Connolly, In prayer after .the Sanctus. Thus with Miss Helen Burns of the ta'bel'S m. the basilica of St. Peter. The observers the compall¥ of Bishop Edward Fitzgerald of St. Joseph's name will precede FIl1l River bureau. Too CarOM those of'the Apostles and early Turu to Page Se~ Tum ~ Pale Two Tum 10 Page Fifteen Turn to Page Sixteen
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