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Extension' Volunteers Expand
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©ol1ege and universi,ty stu.;. ~nts of this area, as well rM others who may be inter _ed, will have an opportu lliUy to learn about the Extension 8vciety Volunteer movement of ehe Catholic Church on Tuesday. Kov.28. .At that time, a team of "re ~iters" from .the VOlunteers lIIll veterans of the field program =-will be at Stonehill College. l3lorth Easton. The Extension Society Volun iPaer movement, now in its sev enth year, has provided more ~sn ...1 400 young people for one til> two years of field work virtu ally throughout the nation. The ~rk encompasses areas of ef-
fort as aides in parishes, in trou bled and needy inner city neigh borhoods, as Newman center workers, teaching in both grade and high schools, and as nurses, both registered and practical. The recruiting gro~p which will visit here is made up of Rev. Wally Ellinger, of the Spring field-Cape Girardeau, Mo., dio cese; Mary Supple of Wrentham, Mass.; who last year was a par ish worker in Violet, La.; Judy Colvin, of Buffalo, N. Y., former teacher in Durango, Colo.; and Betsy Cronin, of Troy, N. Y., a teacher in Caruthersville, Mo. Those who join the Volunteers receive an intensive six-week training course in all aspects of their work as well as "practice" .
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REV. WALLY ELLINGER
]UDY COLVIN
work in the field prior to going interested in the Volunteer to their assignments. They are movement will have an oppor paid $50 a month and provided tunity to hear the complete story with suitable living accommoda of the program, what the indi tions and an allowance for food, viduals do in the field, and can plus health and life insurance get answers to ~any question they and necessary travel expenses. ,.may have about the Volunteer At the sessions here, anyone effort. Those eligible must be at .
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WASHING'JfoN (NCh-The bishops of the' United lbates have said they cannot recommend the new Dutch @mtechism for the teaching df. religion. This action was taken at a meeting here of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. The bisn .'8 action with regard to the Dutch catechism came through the adoption of " atatement read to the NCeR meeting by Bishop Alexander M. Zaleski of Lansing, chairman oi the Bishops' Committee on Doc tPne. The statement. said: "The bishops of the United States have been asked to com ment on the recently published book entitled: 'The New Cate-' chism, Catholic Faith for Adults.' :With the collaboration of the Dutch hierarchy this book is now being reviewed In Rome for More precise formulation regard ing Catholic doctrine. GEJBecause the book is being preo rsented to the American publle os an 'authorized edition,' al • fIDough it does not In fact have CJlllch approval, we cannot recom mend its adoption as a text foi' ~e teaching of religion. "We call attention to the state-. ment: (L'Osservatore' Romano, Nov. 2-3, 1967): 'Cardinal Ber brei Alfrink,' llll"chbishop ol Utrecht, deplored the publlcatiOQ, ~ English of the "new cate-. dlism" which has been earned out without biB responsibility :.mel before eventual modifica tion of ute text, on which the :--ork has not yet been conclude~ lIOwd be approved. "'Moreover, tile EngUsb edl<> -.., 'A New Catechlsm-Catho-o ~ to J'Qce )Jine&eea
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and will be a source 'of great advantage to the Church partic ularly in the United States," and that it would be "irresponsible on our part to hold out any hope that this. discipline will be changed.":
New Column The Anchor today publ\shes a new column, written by Rev. John F. Moore, an assistant to the pastor of St. Joseph's Church in Taunton. Fr. Moore's initial writing concerns The Model Cities Program.' It is' 'on Page Six, Column Five.
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"0. GEORGE LEMOINE,
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WASHINGTON (NC)-A program of relief and de velopment valued at $157.3. million was operated in 70 countries by Catholic Relief Services, United States Cath olic Conference, during the fiscal.year which ended June 30. Expenditures and sources of funds were detailed in all aimual report made by CRS to- t)Ie annual meeting 01
Being a ~ligious,' for 60 years is looked upon by most people as ~~mewhat unusual. and an event that ealls for recognition. But, Brother George Lemoine,' SSS, formerly of Fall River' and a member of the Congregation .of the Blessed Sacrament since 1907 °feels otherwise. He was somewhat distressed that· his congregation arranged a special mass and anniversary dinner fur him to note the anniver aall1' recently. "Why all the fuss '/" he' asked. when a pic
g'reater determination and actioll in the cause of negotlation." They said they wished it "un derstood that we are not plead ing for peace at any price," but for a peace described by Pope Paul VI as "never to be sepa rated from justice for nations nor from freedom for citizeDli and-people."
Catholic Services Dispense $157 Minion .in Foreign Aid
Fall· River· Broth'er Observes ·60 Years As Blessed Sacrament Broth'er·. .
rather reluctantly. He !fled after the dinner to resume his nonnal chores rather than hear himself eulogized. The brother, Who Is stationed at the provincilate of the con grega.tiolll in New York City, fa a native of WlckhaDl West, Drummond, P.Q: He came to Fall River witill his parents when he WlUl a child IIii. two. He attended the grade sehool operated by the Sisters of st. Joseph and bas the distine {aon of being the first altar boy flD. tllle parish of St. Roch. After leaving school, he W'aB enrolled in the first class or the lllew" minor seminary of the Blessed Sacrament Fathers in 18tH at SuHern, N.Y. III Septem 1'l»er, llOO5, he left the seminary to _ ~ Che DOviUate Ja Montreal
least 21 years of age and have no dependents. Rev. James W. Clark of St Mary's parish, Taunton, is Exten sion Volunteer Diocesan director. and the Stonehill campus rep.. resentative is Rev. John E. Me> Carthy, C,S.C.
Over 200 bishops of th~ United States at their annual meeting in Washington last week approved a collective pastoral "on the Nature of the Church" which Arch bishop John F. Dearden of Detroit, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, described as "a new venture of the AmeriCan hierarchy." ID'length appproxi mately 20,000 words, the' . . pastoral is to be released Said, "with a single voice;" VIetnam) and urged the govern early next. year. The Pl'.el that priestly celibacy "has been ment" to continue with eVeD
• .. Called Catholic 'elemental'J' a'nd !lecondary schools"indisp~ns-' able," and said- "we will do our part to continue, improve and strengthen these schools." Said PRICE lOa officially for the 'first time that Acknowledged "gratE~fully" the $4.00 per Year . teachers should interest tliein "repeated efforts of. the U. S. ";....-_ selves actively in the homes and government to negotiate a ter neighborhoods of their pupils. mination of the conflict" (-ill
Hierarchy Cannot Approve Controversial Catechism
MARY SUPPLE
A/New American: Ven.ture
Fall River, Mass.; Th~rsday, Nov. 23, 1967 Yol. 11, No. 47
BETSY CRONIN
where he remained until 1911: Brother George Wall" assigned to the New York house and spent seven years there before he was transferred to Chicago. He stayed in the Illinois city until 1918 when he returned to New York for 19 years. Later. he re turned to Chicago for a stint of nine years. He came back once again to New York and has been there since that time. Brother George is never idle. When he is not working at odd jobs, he can be found kneeling before the exposed Blessed Sac rament in St. Jean Baptiste Church which is operated by the Blessed Sacrament Fathers. It adjoins the provincialate and rectory of the parish. The brother, who will be 80 on Dec. 8, is always gay and jovial. He is willing to enter into a brief conversation provided the subject is not himself. "I'm nobody," he asserts. His superiors, however, think other wise. They are certain the hum ble brother is truly a saint.
bishops here. The report' noted that the bishops had allocated $1;2 mil lion to eRS·to make the program possible. Turn to Page Ten
~sgr.B.J.Fenton
Is Administrator In No. Dighton
Rt. Rev. Msgr. Bernard J. Fenton will assume the duties of administrator of. St. Joseph's Church in North
Dighton on Friday ~ext; Nov. 24. Msgr. Fenton, recently retired as a -Colonel in 'the U. S. Army Chaplains' Corps, ,will replace Rev. Leo F. Curry, who is.tem porarily on sick leave at the Priests' Hostel in Fall River. The Taunton native who as sumes the administrator's dutieS! retired from the Army last May after 24 years' of service. During World War II, Chaplain Fenton served with the 36th In fantry Division in campaign! through Africa, Italy, France ano. Germa'ny, including participatio. in the invasions of Italy and France. His first Legion of Merit Turni to Page Twenty
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