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PROPOSED LA SALETTE SHR:D:NE MASTER PLAN A $2 million development program at La Salette Shrine, 'Attleboro, will begin in January, Rev. Rene Sauve, M.S., Shrine superior, announced today. The project will include a retreat...house, monastery, religious articles store, cafeteria and Sisters' novitiate. To come later are a new church and a guesthouse. Bids will be opened in January and construction will start as soon thereafter single rooms with connecting housed in temporary accommoas possible. Father Sauve baths and will house a retreat- dations. Sflid he expects the buildings, ants' refectory. The facility will When the new buildings are with the exception of the be available for days of recollec- completed, the Sisters will care

DEDICATES ST. HEDWIG'S: Bishop Connolly blesses eornerstone at dedIcation of new St. Hedwig's Church, New Benford. Assisting the Bishop is Rev. Adolph Szelagowski, O.F.M.. Conv., of the New Bedford Church.

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The seventh annual Bishop's Charity Ball for underprivileged children will be held Wednesday, Jan. 10, 1962, at Lincoln Park's Million lDollar Ballroom, it has been anmounced by Rev. William D. Thomson, diocesan director of the St. Vincent de Paul Society. Plans for participation of the women of the diocese in the affair were discussed at a board meeting in Fall River Sunday of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women, co-sponsors with the St. Vincent de Paul Society. At the meeting presided over by Mrs. Gilbert Noonan, Diocesan Council president, tickets for the ball were distributed to district pl·esidents. Miss Margaret M. Lahey, District One chairman, is diocesan ehairman of cooperation with the Vincentians. Members of the ball committee will meet again Sunday, Dec. 10, at Nazareth Hall, Fall River, .. make reports. A tour of the IIChool and a tea will follow the meeting.

church and guesthouse, to be finished by late 1962. Rev. Brother Cajetan Baumann, noted Franciscan architect, has drawn up the new Shrine plans. Construction, on the present Shrine site, will be of a monastic style and Will include sheltered courtyards and walks for priests and retreatants. The first phase of the development program has already been completed, said Father Sauve. A warehouse has been erected on the Shrine grounds and drainage and sewerage systems have been installed. Our Lady's Rosary Walk, to 1?e situated near a pond on the property, will be finished early in the Spring. T.he new retreat house, which will be the second in the Fall River Diocese, will have 70

Wellare Conference Reports to Bishops

Stress Vitality of Church WASHINGTON (NC) Vitality and growth mark the work of the Church in the United States. Reports of the departments and bureaus of the National Catholic Welfare Conference to the Bishops of the country show that problems are being dealt with in ever-increasing number and diversity; that the work of the conference is constantly better known around the world; and that it is being used as a pattern for cooperative action in many places. The NCWC is a voluntary agency through which the Bishops of the' United States deal with matters of common interest on a national level. Highlights of NCWC reports made to the Bishops include these: The Department of Education reported that its "greatest challengt:" was to explain Catholic education to an audience created by the Federal aid to education debate. The NCWC Legal Department

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"uniquely significant" becausi! it !'probed the nature of the whole Church-State relationship." The Press Department reported that the U. S. Catholic press reached an all-time high circulation of 27,560,781 and that the NCWC News. Service was distributed to Church publicaApproximately 10Q guests tions in 65 countries. will be accommodated at . The Social Action Department Marian Manor, the former war ned of anti - communist Taunton Inn, purchased last groups which divert attention Spring by the Diocese for use all from critical Red gains outside of the United States. a home for the aged. The' Family Life Bureau reRenovations include transformation of the ballroom into an ported expansion in its efforts to strengthen family life, but also infirmary with modern equipment; construction or" a chapel warned of a drive to "liberalize" with a seating capacity of 125, abortion laws. The Bureau of Health and and the installation of two elevators and a sprinkler system for Hospitals pointed to a "real the safety and convenience of service" to the Church from the twice-yearly meetings of the' the aged. Dominican Sisters of Charity Bishops' Representatives for of the Presentation will staff the, Catholic Hospitals. The National Council of Cathnew Diocesan home. These nuns have been caring for the sick at olic Men reported that it'sent to St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, its affiliated organizations in the Turn to Page Sixteen ' for many years.

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tion as well as closed retreats, and there will be special retreats for married couples'. The projected monastery will accommodate 20 priests and 20 brothers. Presently seven priests and two brothers staff the Shrine, which was opened in 1953. The cafeteria, for groups and individual pilgrims, will seat. 300. Isolated from the Qther buildings, the Sisters' novitiate will have facilities for 20 professed nuns and 20 postulants and will also have a chapel. Two Sisters, one from Poland and one from France, the first La Salette Sisters in the United States, arrived at the Attleboro Shrine two years ago. They are now in charge of one novice and four postulants, at present

for the retreat house, help with the office work and care 'for sick pilgrims. The famous stations of the cross and outdoor shrine of La Salette will remain as they are, said Father Sauve. He added that the Shrine's traditional Christmas light display will be held as usual this year beginning Sunday, Dec. 3 and continuing until Sunday, Jan. 7. The story of La Salette began in 1846 with an apparition of Our Lady to two children near the town of Salette, France. She bade the children warn mankind of the .need for repentance and turning to God. The Missionaries of La Salette came to Attleboro in 1942 and established the college and provincial house in East Brewster in 1945. ,

Papal Awards On Dece 21 Investiture of Domestic Prelates of His Holiness, Knights of St. Gregory and the award Pro' Ecclesia et Pontifice will take place in St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River, on Thursday evening, Dec. 21, at 8 o'clo.::k. The Most Reverend Bishop will preside at ceremonies at which four diocesan pastors will receive the prelatial robes of their new distinction. They are Rt. Rev. Leonard J. Daley, Rt. Rev. E. S.'deMello, Rt. Rev. William H. Harrington and Rt. Rev. Francis E. McKeon. Receiving the Papal award Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice will be Miss Helen F. Burns, official social , worker in the Fall River Catholic Welfare Office for 32 years. Invested as Papal Knights of St. Gregory will be Dr. John C. Corrigan, Joseph E. Fernandes, Philip Hemingway Sr., Norman F. Hochu, Dr. Clement C. Maxwell, George M. Montle and Eugene F. Phelan. A limited number of formal invitations will be mailed shortq.

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