Diocesan Priest Wins Korean Honor Fr. Francis Wallace' Gains High' Commendation Lt. Col. Francis X. Wallace, diocesan priest serving as a chaplain in the United States Army, has gained the high commendation of the Most Rev. Paul M. Ro, Archbishop of Seoul, Korea, in recog nition of his sublime Christian Charity and out standing international coop'eration while on Korean duty for the past 13 months. Father Wallace £lIS{) has been singled out for his tremendous contribution, both spiritual and material, in connection with the construction of a memorial chapel being erected in Seoul in memory of the Centenary of the Korean Martyrs of 1886, anel, particularly for the less fortunate childl~en of St. Paul's Orphanage. In a personal letter to Bishop Connolly, the Korean Archbishop praised Father Wallace for "his outstanding ,spiritu'al character and personal warmth," Archbishop Ro closed his letter' to the Fall River Ordinary with the eommen4 "Your Ex~ celleney can certainly be:pt'olHl of Fath~r Wallace." , , The New Bedford priest has just completed
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Jo'llt. Jo'RANCIS X. WALLACE
a tour 'of duty, in the Fat East and is, now statio~ed
~t Headquarters II, U.S. Army Corps, Fort Wads worth, Staten Island, New York. Ordained in 1947, Father Wallace's first and only assignment in the Diocese was as curate at Corpus Christi Church, Sandwich. In 1950 he replaced 'his pastor; Rev. George E. Sullivan, now pastor of St. Joseph's Church, Fall River,. as chaplain to the Cape Cod National Guard. In 1951, the Cape 'Cod unit was activated and Father Wallace accompanied it to service in the Korean conflict. He followed this assignment with tours of duty in Colorado Springs, Germany, Geor gia's Fort Benning, Hawaii, Edgewood, Arsenal, ' Maryland, and -again in Korea. Now in the regular army, Father Wallace, a native of New Bedford, was educated at St. Allselm's College, Manchester,' N. H., and St. Mary's Sem inary, Baltimore..He'was ordained by the ,late Bishop St. Mary's Cathedral, 'Fall Rhrer, on May Cassidy 31,. 1947. ' ,
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Papal Enclosure At Carme'lite Monastery
So. Easton Laity Over-Subscribe Building Fund
The ceremony of Papal Enclosure of the Monastery of Our Lady and St. Joseph, formerly the Sol-E-Mar Hos
Catholic families new II' 0 I y C r 0 s s South Easton, have more than $90,000
pital, South' Dartmouth, will be conducted by :t:3ishop Connolly at 2 Saturday afternoon, Dec. 10. Solemn Benediction will be offered by the Bishop, who will also deliver the sermon. An open house will be held over the weekend of Dec. 10 and It from 9 to 5. Thereafter, the only place that outsiders may visit in the first Carmel founded in the Diocese will be the "Speak Rooms" two rooms in which visitors may stay and talk to members of the mon astery. The purpose of an Enclo~ure
first three weeks of their build ing fund drive. Their minimum: goal was $80,000 to be raised from some 400 families. This an nouncement was made today by Rev. Joseph F. Hanna, C.S.C., pastor and Louis A. Lyne, vol unteer director of the fund drive. "We are overwhelmed by the response to date," stated Father Hanna," and with more than lOlll families yet to be contacted. we expect still better re'sults. Volun teers ',in 'the next week will re double their efforts to contact the rest of the parishioners. The minimum goal of $80,000 Turn to Page Fourteen
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COM MEN D ED: Rev. James F. Greene, Ch.C. U.S. Air Force, former assistant at St. Joseph's Church, Taun ton, has been commended for leadership and service fos tering morale in camp.
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The recent action by the bishops of the U.S. to change mitigate the laws of fast anel· abstinence for the Ameri can dioceses is only anothet' in a )ong series of such actions. ]From the founding of the Thirteen Colonies, U.S. bishops lhave. been petitioning Rome ror various changes. For the stinence during Advent. He does except for Fridays. ~nrst time in hi::>tory, how 1840: The bishops ask the Pope @lver, .the bishops on their to continue his..dispensation from M
own authority-as recognized by abstinence on, Saturdays (except f;he Vatican Council-have made during Lent) forever and not (;he latest decisions in regard to only for 10 -years as the docuWriday abstinence. Turn to Page Six The following is a history of
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v ATICAN CITY (NC) 5aturdays of each week. Pope Paul VI has described 1829: The 'abstinence and fast the weekly Catholic news Baws for Fridays and Saturdays t.lJre confirmed as "part of the paper as "a formula that (ilarliest, the most necessary, and desel'ves all possible support."
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He pl'aised the weekly news tJThe. Chul'ch '" 0 0" paper "for diffusion of current' Jl833: The U. S. bishops ask Catholic thought, for the popu 'pope Gregory XVI to dispense lar style that usually character American Catholics from absti izes it-and wisely so." He also IAence on Fridays and Saturdays. spoke of its "more .readily acces He permits U. S.Catholics to eat sible administrative possibili !beat on Saturdays (except dur ties," presumably referring to Jlog L,ent), but nev.er on Fridays. the low' cost of running a weekly ],837: The bishops ask the Pope newspapel'. Turn to Page Five, lit. fO'elax: the laws of f~t and -ab-
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DIOCESAN CHAPLAIN IN VIETNAl\'l:Lt. John W. Pegnam, member of the USN Chaplain Corps who served as an assistant ~t St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, offera the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in Vietnam. Father Pegnam, serving with the Marines, has received a Navy commendation 'for hi~ leadership and conduct'in Vietnam.