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.Bishop Tanner CiJes Youth Role in Current . Crisis
ADVENT STARTS SUNDAY: The whole theme of Advent can be summed up in this song of the Church. As we await the coming of Christ at Christmas, we cry out, "Com~ Lord, come and save us 1" NC Photo.
MIAMI BEACH (NC)-A bishop' counseled some 5;000' People here that the Gospeloof Ohrist is the source of ~wer through which today's youth can exert .important Anfluence among themselves, within the Church and illi.
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lOCiety. Pope Paul VI sent ltte youths a message and Vice-President Hubert H. ll-umphrey urged delegates
different," Bi8hop , "Admitted youth is a baffling time in life, a time of moods "
lilt the ninth annual National eatholic Youth Organization ~deration convention to "take
and mysteries, of new emotions and strange of mad ad venture and conflicts; ()f troubled wistful
hand in building a better America' by becoming involved iln the war against poverty. Bishop 'Paul F. Tanner, gen @!'al secretary, National Confer once of Catholic B ish 0 p s, preaching at a concelebrated Mass, told the delegates: "Some ti!ow or other you are different icom the youth that walk in and out of the sensational headlines of today's paper." Bishop Coleman F. Carroll 9£ Miami, convention host, and 14 Pl'iests, diocesan CYO modera.,. '!Jors, concelebrated the Mass. "Many young people today not only befuddle their elders but ttbemselves as well. In your case,
looks into the future - yet de . spite it all, you people seem to know where you are going and . MIAMI (NC)-Four U. S. prelates left here by plane on an historic trip to Latin what you are doing, America, during which they will participate in the Second Inter-American Bishops' meet "Not only do you have mean-, iog for yourselves but you make ing in Santiago, Chile. The four who left Sunday will join a delegation of bishops who left here a week earlier to visit SOuth American countries while em-oute to the meeting sense - terribly good sense'- to with the Latin American representatives of the United man F. Carroll of Miami, acting your elders as well. You are in deed - 'to use· St. Paul's ph'ra~e Bishops. Included in the ad.,. States hierarchy have traveled chairman of the U. S. Bishops' - 'a model for all believE~rs.' N vanoe group was Most Rev. to Latin America to discuss Committee on Latin America. Bishop Tanner said at iliis ,Humberto S. Medeiros, Bish. problems of the Church in Latin said. time When' many young, people He left with Archbishop Joha America with leading South op of Brownsville, Texas. say "they want'out,". nationwide' Turn to Page Sixteen "This is 'the first time that American prelates," Bishop Colegroups .such as the CYO "insis-' tently ask in." He said CaJtholic young people speak and act as theY' do because they have lis tened to Chrhrt, aceepted His Turn to Page Eleven
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Ordinary Requests Support . . . For Catholic University I'll announcing the annual collection for Catholic Uni versity, Washingt~n, Bishop Connoll~r in a letter to the people of the Diocese expresses a deep satisfaction that Uhe University in its 78 years of existence has accomplis'hed wha,t the founding fathers intended. "It was designed sure, to our having need to pro vide education on lower levels ~ train leaders and guides of parish and linguistic schools. for future generations. It We had first to adjust our people
liM done that exceedingly well," are the words of the Bishop in. his appeal to the faithful of tire diocese. 'I1he text of the Bishop's let ter £.olIows: . November 27, 1961 Beloved People of God: Since seven centuries ago, the Catholic Church has fostered '01iversities. All the great names: Bologna, Paris, Oxford, Sala m.anca, Prague, trace back their origins to the Faith that Wll!J _versal. Even in the new :world, the first foundation was III Mexico City in 1553. CJ lit took us a long time to set up our University in Washington. Bttfl that was due, in great mea-
Senate Meeting The Senate of Priests of the Diocese wlll meet at 1:30 on Monday afternoon, Dec. 11, ae • Bisho)) Cassidy High (Sclbool Library Jln Taunton. lPlI"iestG of the Diocese are ma ~eed to 1be presellll~ at this and! IldI SeDate meetiDp.
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FR. R., W. DOWLING
FR. T. E. MORRISSEY
Kenn~dy.Fa,!,~ly Nur~e
Talk Highlights IFK Memorial, Tribute in Falmouth By Eva Marie Dane
For 30 years she shared the joys and sorrows of the Kennedy family. Now,. at the
Jate President's request, she works for the special children of God and their relatives. She is Miss Louella Hennessey of Wrentham State Hospital, who shared memories of her association with the Kennedys with members of St. Patrick's Women's Guild, Fal She stressed that mental re mouth, at a special program int~ menta~ retardation came commemorating the fourth when she was asked to accom tardation is not a disease but a anniversary of the assassin pany Ambassador Joseph P. condition, and that like all health ation of John F. Kennedy. . Kennedy to, England as nurse conditions it is relatiVE!. Books about Kennedy, photo graphs, documents of his admin istration were displayed amidst eandles on a patriotically decked table. And he was vividly pres ent in Miss Hennessey's recol lections, preceded ~y a report 0lI1 the work he had steered her
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and companion to his daughter Rosemary. There she learned firsthand of the problems of a family with an exceptional child in its midst. "The hope and frustrations are the same in all classes of society and I found that the home is the precious foundation for the growth of all children."
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New Assignm~nts Are Announced By Chancery Appointment .of four as sistants and the designation of five to diocesan chaplain cy posts is announced today by Most Rev. James L. Connolly, Bishop of Fall River. ' The four appointments as as sistants are: Rev. Thomas E. Morrissey, from, st. Jean Baptiste, Fall River; to st. Mathieu, Fall River. Rev. Robert W. Dowling, from Our Lady of Grace, Westport, to st. Jean Baptiste, Fall River. Rev. Agostinho S. Pacheco, !from Immacul'8te Conception, New Bedford, to St. John the Baptist, New Bedford. Rev. Luis A. Cardoso, from St. John the Baptist, New Bedford, Turn to Page Three