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Am.rican Hierarchy Asserts Conversion of Communists First Step to World Peace
WASHINGTON (NC)-Communism co~tinues today as the No.1 obstacle'in the path of world pea~e, the U.S. Catholic Bishops asserted in'their 1959 statement titled "Freedom and Peace." The essential ingredient for peace is:"freedom under'God !.or every man and every nation," but fundamentally "that peace depends on' the acceptance by men and nations of a fixed, unchange' able, universal moral law," An Anchor of the Soul, Sur; and Firm-ST. PAUL the Bishops said in their statement drawn up at their River, Mass. Thursday, Nov. 26, 1959 annual meeting in the nation's capital. /:lee.ond CIa•• Mail Privilec.. PRICE lOe The Bishops acknowledged Authorized ai Fall River. Ma.... $4.00 per Year that there are' other obstacles in the path of freedom and peaceon the world scene, excessive nationalism and inhuman conditions; on the home front, racial injustice, laxity in home life and, discipline, preoccupation with the sensual, selfishness and selfseeking in econpmic life, an4, the excessive desire for wealth and ease. , But foremost "among the main obstacles to peace- and freedom \ in our present world is obviously world communism," the Bishops declared. " "Ultimately, the problem of. communism as a threat to peace , and .freedom. will ,be met only' wlYen w~ exemplify· the principles that we proclaim as Christian 'members of a nation dedi, cated to God's law," the Bishops stressed. . "There must be a searching reap'praisal of our' devotion to , Turnoto' Page Eighteen '
Advent Wreath Prepares' Home For Christmas
'CHR:ISTMAS PREPARATION: Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. McClellan of Sacred Heart parish, Taunton, watch the preparation<;>f the Advent Wreath by their children, left to right, Jeffrey, Mark and Peter.'
The custom of the Advent . Wreath has spread so rapidly in the United States that J it has' already. become a PRIESTS OF JUBILEE PARISH: Rev. John Ziel,inski, cherished ,part of Advent in the O.F.M. Conv., pastor of the Holy Rosary Church, Taunton, home. , The Advent Wreath is a wreath The world famous Glenn Miller Orchestra, under the receives the first Jubilee badge from his assistant, Rev. 'made of evergr'eens that is either BeI1venute Gorczyca, O.F.M. Conv.; as the parish completes suspended from the' ceiling or direCtion of Ray McKinley, has been engaged to play the years of existence~' , placed on a table, usually be- 1960 Bishop's. Charity Ball, H. Frank Reilly, president of fore a family shrine or in some the'Diocesan Council of St. Vincent de Paul and Mrs. Rose o other place of honor in the horna. Mullaney, President of, the area, will be held at Lincoln Fastened fo the wreath are four candles, standing upright at '. J;:>iocesan Council of Catholic Park's Million Dollar Ballroom, equal distance. These candles Women announced today. Thursday, Jan., 7. represent the' four weeks of The. ,fifth, annual affair, McKinley was' featured in the Advent. which has become the outstand- Glenn Miller Orchestra during On the First Sunday of Advent, ing .social event of the Diocesan Turn to Page Twelve Most Rev. James L. Connolly will preside Thanksgiving usually in the evehing, the room Day at the golden jubilee Mass at Holy Rosary Church, i's darkened and the first candle Taunton. Very Rev. George Rosk~italski, Provincial of the is lit. The, candle shining in the darkness is a reminder of the Order of Friars Minor Conventuals, will celebrate the High time whe,n humanity was ','sitMass and preach. Friends Taunto~ to work at a mill in the ting. in darkness. and in the imd parishioners of the 50 north end of the city, and in shadow of death" when the , VATICAN, CITY (NC)-Five' men 'working quietly. in of the Redeemer came, year old church will attend a stove factories in the sollthern promise Turn .to Page Fifteen a 10-room office are laying the important foundations of the ju~ilee banquet at Roseland part. , ' Second Va'tic~m Council. The five men form the secretariat Language Barrier Ballroom at 6 p. m. At, first the newcomers at- . I~ op,' .of -th~ .Pontifical .Antepreparator~· Commission of the The event is sponsored by ,CouncIl. They are headed by .. " . members of 'parish societies. tended6ther Catholic churches : un s' M P - . 1 . F l' . . ThIS monumental ~ask is bemg with the Children of· Mary in in the area but experienced ,dif... , . , . sgr. erIC ~. e I~I,. ~.ec- . performed with incredibly simcharge . of advertising' for -a ' ' ficulties because of the language CItmg the great work be- ret~ry, of . tp.e ,commI.SSlOn,. pie ·means. Invitations are sent jubilee album to be published barrier. In 1899 the new Amei-- 'ing .done at Catholic Univer-_ who -wor.ks in constant and' Qut by Cardinil1 Tardini to the at a later date. Catholic Charities ican' citizens founded the St. 'sity to. Ilr"epare '<;ompetent . Close cOI.lilb.ora,tion ·.~itii· Dome~ bis~ops .'a. s~ing:lhem to.express wor!<:ers are soliciting tickets Stanislaus ~ociety, which was" th t th replaced two years later by the 'Catholic: lay'meIi: .and lay-: nic~ '':ar,dipal T.a!din~"V.atican: elr .0pmlOns on ql;les IOns e and .patron subscriptions.. councIl should conSIder.· There , t wor k b 'd b thOers . Secretary of State. Holy Rosary was' fOllnc;led half John '3rd Sobieski Society,' ~otmen o'd . .et.SI eM' ~tO R , ... Basically the function· of this are 'no questionnaires. 'l:he bish,SIS ers an prIes s" os ev. . " " ' . -., ,'. 't f - I Th b' h • a century ago to serve Polish which still exists, Turn to Page'Thirteen 'James L, Cormolly; D,D, Bishop - secretariat .is to :do', the ~pade oPS;.WrI e r~e t t ~ t~S ~p: immigrants who had cOl11e. to of the Diocese, urges continued" work' in gathering,. classifying- ~ep les a;~ ~ ~hoS \ e t' t ~ eand, even increased suppo~t for': a?d ,syth,esizing th~ re~~m~e~d.aers are 'tlhe , Ie ~f? dOS a s adre d '· I 'ms t·t· bIshops cut an th e grea t e d uca t IOna I ,u t'IOn ,. hons of the.world's '.. . ·for '.' . t b'en t c assl tt Ie accor.at Washington. in the- annual . platters t~ be consIdered ,durmg' mg 0 su lec rna er. offe,ring' to be ta,ken -up at ·all the .councll. '. .. Turn to' Page Four churches next Sunday:, " The ~ishop"s'api:>eal for.gen-· , Cardinals whose native tongue is Engltsh will outerosity as a proof of "loyalty to" ' . \ . , M" , ' number for the first time thOse of all other languages the 'ideals of CatQolic'edu~ation". P~i~ciples, except Italian when ,His Holiness Pope John XXIII adds eight . STEUBENVILLE (NG)-Abortion and sterilization are members to the Sacred College of Cardinals on Monday, ~~rc~::~~n:~ ~~lt~!~;~~w~2~J:~~ : "Catholic 'University: is much: "cr~dal. problems' that cOhfront every neighborhood, every Dec. 14. The addition of two before the Protestant Reformain the news these days. 'This is' community, and especially every medical man," Father Americans' and a Scotsman tion-French-speaking cardinals especially due' fo' the 'fact that ·FrancisJ. Conpell, .C.SS.R., .said in an address here. The ~ Archbishop Alois.ius J. had traditionally predominated ,our' National -Shrine . of . the Red~mptbrist the 01 og ian. . . ' ·in line' with current medical Muench, Bishop of Fargo and over all except Italians. But with Immaculate Concep'tion,' situ-, the creation of 32 new cardinals ated on the grounds 'of the UiIi-: conceded tliqt.,, "it has.' been practice~" Apostolic Nuncio to Germany; Father Connell described' soArchbishop Albert G. Meyer of in 1946, the Spanish-speaking versify, has recently been dedi- 'exeremely difficult. for the moralist, to keep pace' with· saIled therapeutic abortion as the Chicago, and Msgr. William T. members of the college were cated. Heard, Edinburgh-born Dean of second in number only to the "Our Un'iversity, center of re-' the'tremendous strides. m;;lde in "direct taking of the, life of a ligious and scientffic instruction,: the 'fieldof'medicine" in recent· child in order to save the life or the: Sacred Roman Rota':'-gives Italians. . 'health of the mother.'~ Now a new cycle begins. With has' continued to grow in num-' y e a t s . ' the 'college a total 'of 12 cardinals ~ In such a situation, he said, an whose primary language is Eng- , the Dec. 14 consistory there will bers and influence. So inuch so be 31 Italian cardinals, 12 Eng- that new' and greater 'facilities : Nevertheless, he added; "the evil action-taking the life of a lish; Prior to the. radical_ charges lisl!-speaking, 11 Sp~nish-speak .for housing of students, advance- basic principles that guide. us child-is performed for a good ma4e by Pope Pius 'XII in 1946, ing, eight French-speaking, and ment in the; sciences, with addi- however remaIned .the' same:: It· 'effect. "Rudimentary knowledge when Italian cardinals became a five each for the German and 'tional laboratory' an'd class- is our .job to 'make the:proper'" of Christian morality tells you . Turn to Page 'Five Turn to Page Fifteen applications of ·these principles :Turn to' Page Fourteen minority for the first time since
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